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.
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
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.
Police and rescue officials reached the site after they were informed about the incident. The police shifted the injured and the bodies to the hospital.
According to the Gilgit-Baltistan's Diamer Superintendent of Police (SP) Sher Khan, their team pulled out 25 bodies from the vehicles, while 15 injured have been shifted to a hospital in Chilas. The bus was traveling from Gilgit to Rawalpindi on the Karakoram Highway.
According to Pakistan's vernacular media, people in many areas in Gilgit City are forced to live in darkness for the past one week due to no electricity.
Even the ongoing economic crisis of the country has made the situation of the locals worse. As the costs of essential foodstuffs have increased exponentially. The shortage of grains has hit hard the people of the region who have taken to the streets to ask for essential foodstuffs.
Pakistan government officials and the army have been involved in suppressing public protests, blaming each other and looting the land's resources when the country's general suffers from an economic and food crisis.
According to Inside Over, as people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan suffer from atrocities against their basic human and political rights, and it is important that the world takes note of these atrocities.
The residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) Gilgit-Baltistan region are now asserting themselves against the hegemony of Pakistan with mass protests against electricity shortages, reduction in the wheat quota, taxation, and land grabbing, however, their cries are unheard beyond the moun
Pakistan rules the illegally occupied areas with an iron grip through the all-powerful council of Kashmir headed by the prime minister of Pakistan and treats the people of the region as second-rate citizens.