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Pakistan must not change demographics of PoK: United Kashmir People's Nati
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"We warn Pakistan that turning the local populations of PoK and Gilgit Baltistan into a minority will have disastrous effects not only on the peace and security of Jammu Kashmir but the entire region," he said.
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PoK: Talibanisation of oppressed people
Updated : 3 years ago IST
For almost three years now, protests against load shedding, shortages of wheat and water, increased progressive taxation and land grab by Pakistan military has been a daily occurrence.
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Anger, dissent growing in Gilgit Baltistan over continuous indifference of
Updated : 3 years ago IST
For weeks, public protests have reverberated across Gilgit city over 22-hour power shortages. A new wave of protests is likely to hit the region from March 10.
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Protests in Gilgit-Baltistan against shortage of fuel, food and power
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Often used to woo foreign tourists to its mountains, Gilgit-Baltistan, called Pakistan's "soft face" is a neglected region where all-around shortages have reduced its people to "begging" before the federal government, the Pak Military Monitor reported. From fuel to food to power, the shor
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PoK: Awami Action Committee to protest against govt if demands not met
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Gilgit-Baltistan Awami Action Committee demanded the end of load shedding, the revival of subsidies on flour, reversing the proposal of the revenue act and an end to land grab in the Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) by the Pakistan army and government.
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Land reforms in Gilgit-Baltistan force residents into destitution
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly had been constituted only under an Executive Order; it's not a Constituent Assembly and has limited legislative powers. In the scheme of things the biggest stakeholders of the lands, the local people, are not even being formally consulted. They are agitated beca
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Protests in PoK's Gilgit-Baltistan over wheat, electricity shortage
Updated : 3 years ago IST
In Gilgit Baltistan, many residents including women gathered at the intersection and blocked Shahrah-i-Quaid-i-Azam to protest up to 22 hours of daily power outages in their area.
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PoK: Media freedom still a dream for journalists in Gilgit-Baltistan
Updated : 3 years ago IST
A number of journalists present at the event underlined the denial they receive from the government authorities against any general query they have regarding public policies or schemes.
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Power shortage amid political power games in Pakistan
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Prolonged power cuts have led to frequent angry demonstrations in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. The provincial authorities are using police force and issuing stern warnings to the protestors. Skardu city has been left totally without electricity for the past three months.
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PoK: Sensitivity of oppressor and media of oppressed
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The print and digital media of the coloniser, the master, is also sensitised according to the demands of the interests of the oppressor: the coloniser. This is formally achieved through a constructed process of generalization of the oppressed, the colonised, people of being of a lesser deity
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Can Pakistan's worsening economic crisis lead to its balkanisation?
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Pakistanis have largely lost faith in the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, having failed to carry out any of the much-needed economic reforms in the country.
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Tourism in shambles in Gilgit-Baltistan
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The tourism industry in Gilgit-Baltistan is facing a downturn due to Pakistan's discriminatory policies.
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