The Joint Awami Action Committee shut it down in Azad Kashmir. Joint Awami Action Committee has announced the shutdown call in entire Azad Jammu and Kashmir state on 9th of June 2026 to fulfill their demands from the federal and state of Azad government. The major demand of the Awami Action Committee Azad Kashmir is end of 12 refugee seats from the legislative assembly of Azad Kashmir. These 12 seats of refugees are the main reason of clash between the Joint Awami Action Committee and government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The Joint Awami Action Committee has demanded earlier that these seats are not acceptable in Azad Kashmir and provided reason for end of these seats. First of all, the representatives of Rajammu and Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee stated that These seats are the loss of the sector of Azad Kashmir and burden on the budget of Azad Kashmir because these refugee candidates are not using the fund properly for the welfare of the refugees who are settled in Pakistan. Moreover, these refugees who are already settled in Pakistan, Pakistan’s various cities, and they are enjoying best civic facilities like education, health, infrastructure, etc. Therefore, they do not need any fund or developmental scheme from the Azad Kashmir government. So, there is a malpractice of fund and embezzlement of fund received from Azad Kashmir government by these refugee candidates or refugee MLAs for the welfare of the refugees who are settled in Pakistan. Similarly, these refugees are settled in scattered form. Therefore, their collective benefit is impossible. For example, Azad Kashmir refugees who are settled in Lahore, there is one seat of MLA of Azad Kashmir from refugees who are settled in Lahore. So for example one family is settled in one town of Lahore and the other family is settled in the other town. In this way, the refugee MLA who has received a heavy amount of budget from other Kashmir for the welfare of the refugees settled in Lahore cannot provide road facility, health facility and education facility as well as other civic facilities to these refugees because they are settled in scattered form. Moreover, these refugees who are settled in such a developed city of Punjab, that is Lahore, are enjoying the better facilities of education, infrastructure, health and other civic facilities. Therefore, they do not need any further budget or development projects from other Kashmir. These are the valid reasons provided by Section 20 per end of the refugee seat from the Assembly of other Kashmir.