Nawaz Sharif's Plea for Peace in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

Nawaz Sharif , President of the PML-N , basically threw an urgent plea out there about the whole messed up situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir . He called for peace, seriously.
He held this big party meeting in Lahore on Wednesday, June 17th. And what he did was call out both the protesters down there and the security forces to just stop everything right now. Stop those sit-ins and protests. He wanted them to sit down and actually talk about the constitution stuff instead of just fighting.
This move comes after things got really deadly. A wave of civil unrest, violent clashes it happened across the region ten days before this appeal. People died. Law enforcement officers and civilians alike.
The tension wasn't some abstract thing. It was tied to real pain: high inflation. Skyrocketing utility bills. And a massive argument over those twelve refugee seats in the regional assembly. All of it just piled up, threatening to blow the whole territory apart before the big assembly elections next month.
Sharif said something heavy during that meeting. “This country belongs to all of us,” he insisted. “We have to sort out our problems as brothers.” Then he stressed that any fight for rights public or administrative stuff has to stay inside what the constitution says. Keep it confined.
During that session, you could feel the grief. Sharif was clearly upset about the loss of life. A source close to the party told reporters that the leadership sees all this internal violence and disruption as seriously damaging to the bigger Kashmir cause on the world stage. It matters internationally.
He wasn't just talking internally, though. He pushed for action from everyone involved. The PoK government. Federal authorities. All the big political players needed to step in immediately. They had to restore order. Make sure local resources were actually being used for people’s welfare. And keep that whole electoral process running safely.
Still, underneath all that internal friction, the PML-N stuck to its core position on the main issue. They issued a formal statement reaffirming their commitment. Self-determination for the Kashmiri people. This had to align with what the UN Security Council resolutions already established. That part was firm.
Sharif wrapped up by asking everyone to find some brotherhood, some harmony, some tolerance across the country. Especially after hearing about Pakistan’s defense institutions managing their operations and achieving things. He vowed they would work with all democratic forces to finally bring peace back to PoK. But he also told the local people the residents to keep that deep emotional and ideological link to Pakistan. Don't do anything that just makes the lawlessness worse.
Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board
Gree News Team covers international news and global affairs at Gree News. Our collective of senior editors is dedicated to providing independent, accurate, and responsible journalism for a global audience.
More from World
View All
Donald Trump's Personal Dynamics in Meetings with Prime Minister Modi
Donald Trump seemed to really lean into the personal stuff during his meeting with Prime Minister Modi in France, especially while they were both hanging around the G7 Summit. It wasn’t just about trade or defense talks, though those things were definitely on the table regional security, cooperation
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

India's Growing Importance in Global Geopolitics and US-India Relations
Ian Bremmer, the guy who started Eurasia Group, he was talking about India today. He said its importance in global platforms? That’s gonna jump up over the next couple years. It felt like a shift. This followed something Trump said back there at the G7 summit in Evian, France. A kind of acknowledgme
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding Released
US officials finally put out the paperwork today. A memorandum of understanding with Iran. It’s supposed to end the war, but there’s more hanging over it stuff about diluting that enriched uranium stockpile. This agreement, which they released on Wednesday, came after a lot of criticism about how se
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Sam Altman on AI Control and Global Governance
Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, was talking to world leaders at that G7 summit. He basically pushed them, didn't he? He argued you can’t just hand over control of artificial intelligence to the companies building it. He told everyone, “Don’t cede your responsibilities to AI labs like mine.” It felt
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team
Latest Headlines

Donald Trump's Personal Dynamics in Meetings with Prime Minister Modi
Donald Trump seemed to really lean into the personal stuff during his meeting with Prime Minister Modi in France, especially while they were both hanging around the G7 Summit. It wasn’t just about trade or defense talks, though those things were definitely on the table regional security, cooperation
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

India's Growing Importance in Global Geopolitics and US-India Relations
Ian Bremmer, the guy who started Eurasia Group, he was talking about India today. He said its importance in global platforms? That’s gonna jump up over the next couple years. It felt like a shift. This followed something Trump said back there at the G7 summit in Evian, France. A kind of acknowledgme
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Modi-Zelenskyy Talks and G7 Support for Ukraine
Modi met Zelenskyy during the G7 summit in Évian, France. It wasn’t just a formality though. They talked about cooperation. Trade ties. And trying to find some peace amidst all that mess happening over in Ukraine and Russia. S. Jaishankar and Ajit Doval were there too. External Affairs Minister and
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Elye Wahi Arrested Over Match-Fixing Allegations
Elye Wahi, that Ivory Coast forward who’s representing his country at the 2026 World Cup he got arrested less than two weeks before the tournament. The reason? Allegations of match-fixing. That came out in *The Athletic* on Wednesday. Sources say he's now the subject of this whole ongoing probe. Inv
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Bhagwant Mann on Sacrilege, Justice, and the Future of Punjab
Bhagwant Mann hammered home his government’s stance on those 2015 sacrilege incidents. He insisted that the people responsible for those acts would face serious punishment and be brought to justice. He spoke about this during a public meeting in Hoshiarpur, talking about how those events the beadbi
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding Released
US officials finally put out the paperwork today. A memorandum of understanding with Iran. It’s supposed to end the war, but there’s more hanging over it stuff about diluting that enriched uranium stockpile. This agreement, which they released on Wednesday, came after a lot of criticism about how se
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Sam Altman on AI Control and Global Governance
Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, was talking to world leaders at that G7 summit. He basically pushed them, didn't he? He argued you can’t just hand over control of artificial intelligence to the companies building it. He told everyone, “Don’t cede your responsibilities to AI labs like mine.” It felt
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Rahul Gandhi on the Competitive Exam System: An "Extortion Machine"
Rahul Gandhi used that platform the first stop in this whole series of student conventions to really hammer home something about how messed up the system is. He called it a "rejection system," not a selection one, when talking about all the competitive exams out there. He was at the “Chhatron Ki Goo
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Shubman Gill's Performance and the Challenge of the ODI
The whole thing just happened, you know? That second ODI in Lucknow against Afghanistan. Shubman Gill, the skipper, he admitted something pretty specific about what was going on. He said he was aiming for a double hundred, that big milestone against the Afghans. But it wasn't just about hitting that
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Systemic Abuse and Legal Reckoning in Grooming Gang Scandals
In that packed session, Rupert Lowe really pushed things. It was a massive parliamentary session, and he brought all this stuff out the actual testimonies from survivors of those grooming gang scandals in the UK. It wasn't abstract policy; it was raw, graphic evidence forced right into the middle of
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Supreme Court Decision on NEET-UG 2026 Exam Challenge and Legal Proceedings
The Supreme Court didn’t grant an urgent hearing on that Public Interest Litigation. It declined it. The challenge against the National Testing Agency’s decision to scrap the NEET-UG 2026 exam. That was the call. It was supposed to be listed before a vacation bench, maybe even Chief Justice of India
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

The Unscripted Narrative of the World Cup: Momentum, History, and Reaction
The whole thing started, you know? It wasn't what anyone was expecting when Portugal met DR Congo for that opening group match at the World Cup 2026. There were expectations, huge ones maybe, but nothing really lining up on the pitch right from the jump. It felt like a slow build, honestly. Just thi
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

Defense Production Act and Military Manufacturing Strategy
Trump brought in the Defense Production Act DPA to push for faster weapons manufacturing. It was all about dealing with those worries about military stockpiles running low, especially after everything that went down with Iran and how the US keeps backing allies globally. The order itself came with a
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

BJP Organizational Exercise and Political Strategy
Something big was happening inside the BJP this week. A real organizational exercise, it seems, kicked off after a coordination meeting in Delhi on Monday. Top leaders met up with senior RSS functionaries. Nothing official has been announced yet, of course. But you could tell something was brewing t
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team

India's Global Ambition: Technology, Diplomacy, and Geopolitical Realities in Paris
The air in Paris felt different that day. Not just the usual Parisian chill there’s always a certain weight to the city, heavy history mixed with relentless modernity but there was an electric hum beneath the surface. A real crowd spilling out from the hotel lobby, waving flags the saffron, white, g
Jun 18, 2026 by Gree News Team