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Arrow Mirpur and Bhimbar. On May 24, protests were apparently lodged by Kashmiris at the Pakistani consultate in New York City and at the embassies in London and Brussels. On June 9, thousands demonstrated in Khaigala as the killings continued.

The last killing I am aware of occurred on June 10 in Gulpur. I was compelled to cut short my investigation when ISI agents began following me and interrogated my hosts about any interest I might have in the chura ("daggers" - meaning the recent killings) and "camps" (meaning jihadi activities).

While no direct evidence links ISI to the killings, many native Kashmiris I talked to and most nationalists (banned from elections as they advocate a Kashmir independent from Pakistan and India) believe ISI is behind the killings.

Two troubling facts lend credence to this argument: first, there have
Very little of the quake relief money has made its way to the people who need it

been no reports of the incidents in the mainstream Pakistani press; second, while the army initially promised the police and people of Rawalakot an investigation, they've done nothing. If there had been evidence to support the army's line that Indians were to blame, it would have made headlines in Pakistan.

Kashmiris I have interviewed believe the killings were intended to incite public turmoil. They cite three motives, which they believe are shared by ISI and the jihadi groups that the army supports:

1. To divert people's attention from the fact that very little of the earthquake relief money has made its way to the people who need it, and that most rests in the hands of the army, which dominates economic as well as political life in Azad Kashmir. I can testify that many basic services still await funds: for example, the Degree Boys