Islamabad has barred foreign media from reporting across most of Pakistan and curbed local journalists, the Guardian and the New York Times report, soon after dozens of protesters were killed in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, where the movement challenges its authority.
Kashmir is split into parts administered by Pakistan and India. The Pakistan-administered portion is governed under Islamabad's authority, and that authority is contested by residents of the region. The scale of the current confrontation is so far described only in outside reporting.
Pakistani authorities imposed restrictions barring foreign media from reporting across most of the country and curbing local journalists, the Guardian and the New York Times reported. The Guardian says the rules came soon after dozens of protesters were killed, news of which was reported only by overseas outlets, as a protest movement in Kashmir challenges Islamabad's authority.
The New York Times reported on Tuesday that a wave of protests in Pakistan-administered Kashmir is posing the most significant challenge in years to Islamabad's authority in the region. The report did not detail the protesters' demands or the government's response.