New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- India on Friday denounced a crackdown by Pakistani authorities on protesters in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) that has claimed at least 10 lives and injured scores of people, and said the neighbouring nation must be held accountable for "horrific human rights violations". PoK witnessed widespread protests and violent clashes between demonstrators and security forces late last month after the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee, which represents civil society groups and traders, demanded an end to "elite privileges" for government officials and ministers and the scrapping of 12 assembly seats reserved for refugees from J&K. "We believe that it is a natural consequence of Pakistan's oppressive approach and its systemic plundering of resources from these territories, which remain under its forcible and illegal occupation," EAM spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at a weekly media briefing.P9...