Pakistan-Administered Jammu and Kashmir: JKHRO Documents 445 Reported Fourth Schedule Listings

The Jammu Kashmir Human Rights Observatory (JKHRO) has published a new briefing documenting the expanding use of Fourth Schedule listings and associated administrative controls in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

The briefing, Transnational Securitisation: Fourth Schedule and Passport Control Listings in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, records 445 Fourth Schedule notification entries as of 11 November 2026. This compares with the baseline allegation of 205 listed persons recorded by six United Nations Special Procedures mandates in their joint communication AL PAK 4/2026, issued on 4 September 2026.

The additional 240 recorded entries represent a material expansion in the documented scale of the listing programme. JKHRO cautions that the figures are not strictly equivalent: the UN communication referred to people reported to the mandate holders, whereas the updated archive contains notification entries and includes known or probable duplicates. The total should therefore not be interpreted as 445 definitively unique individuals.

Listings extend beyond AJK

The briefing identifies 15 entries recording overseas residence across seven countries, including nine in the United Kingdom and one each in Australia, Canada, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the United States.

The data also identify:

· 179 entries from Poonch, including Rawalakot, representing 40.2 per cent of the archive;

· 334 entries, or 75.1 per cent, concentrated across Poonch, Sudhnoti, Bagh, Muzaffarabad and Kotli;

· at least 15 advocates or solicitors;

· at least four journalists; and

· a family-wide listing reportedly involving six relatives, including a child aged approximately four years and two months.

A spokesperson for JKHRO said:

“The evidence indicates that Fourth Schedule designation is no longer confined to conventional police monitoring. It may operate through an interconnected administrative system affecting passports, immigration, identity records, banking, telecommunications and family life.”

“The presence of overseas residents in the notifications, combined with reported airport interventions and controls on departure, raises serious questions about transnational repression and the consequences of security classifications for lawful diaspora advocacy.”

Travel and administrative restrictions

The briefing distinguishes among the Passport Control List (PCL), the Provisional National Identification List (PNIL) and the Exit Control List (ECL). Although each mechanism may prevent international travel, they differ in legal basis, responsible authority, procedure and intended duration.

JKHRO stresses that Fourth Schedule placement should not automatically be treated as proof of inclusion on the PCL, PNIL or ECL without person-specific documentary evidence.

However, an official Home Department record dated 8 July 2026 requested the removal of nine people from the PCL and the unblocking of their identity documents, bank accounts and SIM cards. The record demonstrates the practical capacity of public authorities to activate and reverse restrictions through several administrative systems.

The briefing also records a reported figure of 802 people placed on the PCL in connection with the AJK situation. JKHRO states that this figure requires publication of the official register, independent verification, deduplication and reconciliation before it can be treated as a confirmed unique-person total.

Reported listing of a four-year-old child

The briefing highlights a notification dated 29 September 2026 that reportedly lists six members of one extended family, including a child aged approximately four years and two months.

JKHRO states that, if deliberate, the listing raises grave concerns about punishment by association, individual responsibility and the best interests of the child. If the listing resulted from an administrative error, it points to a serious failure of age verification, identity checks and data-quality protections before information was circulated across interconnected government systems.

Calls for transparency and independent review

The briefing calls on the Government of Pakistan and the Government of the Azad State of Jammu and Kashmir to:

· provide a full, public and itemised response to question 8 of the six United Nations Special Procedures mandates joint communication letter AL PAK 4/2026;

· disclose the legal and factual grounds, review status and consequences of each listing;

· publish deduplicated figures for the Fourth Schedule, PCL, ECL and other stop-list systems;

· suspend and independently review every listing involving a minor or based solely on family association;

· explain how information is shared among the AJK Home Department, Ministry of Interior, FIA, NADRA, NACTA, passport authorities, banks, telecommunications providers and police bodies; and

· provide effective notice, legal assistance, independent review, correction and delisting procedures for affected people.

The briefing also urges the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to maintain a confidential reporting and assistance mechanism for British citizens and residents affected by detention, stop lists, offloading or restrictions on departure in cases connected with lawful advocacy.

The Jammu Kashmir Human Rights Observatory is submitting the findings to relevant UN mechanisms, parliamentarians, diplomatic missions and international human-rights bodies. Read the Full JKHRO Briefing

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