Gilgit-Baltistan Burns as Pakistan Denies Basic Human Rights: Report

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Updated: April 28, 2023 03:51 IS

Gilgit-Baltistan (PoK), April 28 (ANI): While Muslim nations around the world were practicing Zakat (charity to the needy) and multiplying your acts of kindness, Pakistan has vowed to make it impossible to allow its citizens to breathe. Especially those who oppose the oppression of the ruling institutions, reported the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS).
Gilgit-Baltistan stands on turbulent terrain facing the abandonment of Pakistanwhile CPEC (Porcelain) is creating pathways that take people’s livelihoods from the bottom of the pyramid. In recent months, a social uprising demanding unity with India has sparked more trouble with the government.
Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) civil society demonstrates every day to demand economic and political rights for local people who are deprived of their basic human rights.
The protesters seek ordinary demands like jobs, electricity, wheat, education, basically a life above the misery that Pakistan has been unable to deliver since the region was illegally captured by them in October 1947.
Now the government is trying to add a political angle to the issue because residents have moved to criticize state policies regarding CPEC and Chinese workers, IFFRAS reported.
A new series of protests began in December 2022 after government bodies began to crush the movement using extreme force. This was met with the same rebellion from people who are exhausted with PakistanLaid back attitude when it comes to them.
Today they affirm that Pakistan he separated them from the freedom they enjoyed in Jammu & Kashmir to lock them up forever in a prison. The illegal occupation was not heroic, but simply a political move to enjoy control of some of the best mineral and water resources in the world. It was an act purely out of necessity, not out of feelings for the Kashmiris.
The issue of land grabbing in the region is not news. But since last year, the Pakistan The government is hell-bent on changing the demographics of the region, only this time publicly.

Acquiring land in GB is difficult due to obligations arising from the UN Security Council Resolution on Kashmir and some guarantees given to the people of GB by the state of Pakistan. Under the guise of development works, Pakistan little by little it made its way into the region and invited Porcelain for a permanent stay, IFFRAS reported.
According to the law, the land can only be used for the construction of military infrastructure. But the government has been using local politicians and thugs for the acquisition of land for the National Highway Authority and for the redesign of the Karakorum highway.
Pakistan‘s corporate giants have also taken over the tourism sector, which served as the main source of income for locals. Companies buy land on behalf of locals and build huge hotels and infrastructure that cannot be compared to the humble offers of UK residents.
These mocking tactics of the government and business don’t go down well with the people. There is a rumor that the government intends to build residential accommodation for ex-servicemen from the mainland. Pakistan.
This has further fueled the sentiments of locals who have accused Pakistan of diluting GB’s demographics by trying to make inroads into their areas, IFFRAS reported.
Another big problem is electricity. GB is the largest producer of electricity, but their hydroelectric plants deliver to everyone in the nation besides themselves. The locals have denounced that the government has stolen their goods and resources. This winter, the federal government cut off electricity to GB for nearly 20 hours a day.
In peak winters, GB relied on burning scrap metal to keep its houses warm. Later, the government even raised electricity prices.
Chinese workers hide all the big projects and even receive cuts while the locals, the real owners of the land, live in misery. The people of Punjab and other provinces make a quick debut by performing poor work, earning interim dividends and then fleeing home leaving the GB population floating in incomplete projects, health risks like open mines etc.
In other words, Pakistan he will not allow GB to run on its own, nor will he develop the region, unless it is for his personal benefit. Pakistan has pushed all boundaries and tested the patience of GB natives for over seven decades. Their oppression has been tolerated for too long, the report noted. (ME TOO)