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Anger grows in Gilgit Baltistan over resource exploitation, power crisis
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
A senior journalist from Gilgit Baltistan, Yousuf Nashad has expressed his anger against the ruling dispensation in Pakistan and said that despite having abundant water, the people in the occupied region have neither received education nor electricity in the last 75 years.
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Load shedding, inflated electricity bills anger PoK residents
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The anger of locals in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is rising against those sitting in Islamabad. People reeling under high prices of essential items are left with no other option but to express their outrage on the streets.
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PoK: Residents protest soaring electricity bills by symbolically throwing
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Demonstrating their frustration with the recurrent hikes in electricity prices, locals have resorted to symbolic acts of resistance, such as discarding their power bills into water bodies.
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Gilgit Baltistan: Students and parents agitate against fee hike in schools
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The students have complained that their schools lack even the basic requirements, they do not have furniture, they have to sit in open classrooms and have no drinking water facility.
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PoK observes shutter-down strike against "sky-high power tariff"
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
During the strike, all the businesses remained closed and traffic crawled near Mangla Dam, one of the largest multipurpose water bodies used for irrigation and hydroelectric power in the country.
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PoK: Awami Action Committee demands subsidised electricity bills, accuses
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Blaming the government for being negligent and discriminatory, protesters demanded the government provide electricity and natural gas at subsidised rates to the people in the region.
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Children in PoK suffer due to fractured education infrastructure
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Poorly maintained school premises with no classrooms, no benches, no toilets and no blackboard - this is a harsh reality of school's infrastructure in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
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Anti-Pakistan protest rages in PoK, administration launches crackdown on s
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The illegally occupied PoK (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) region is echoing with massive protests against Pakistan and its stooge administration. Four months on, there have been continuous protests all across PoK against sky-high inflation and heavy electricity bills and taxes.
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Women in PoK hit the streets to raise issues of high inflation, load shedd
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are infuriated over their unending woes due to issues like high inflation, frequent load shedding, unemployment and other violations of human rights.
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Indian diaspora holds protest in France over Pakistan's failure to respect
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Members of the Indian community and friends of India in France observed Black Day on October 22 as on this day in 1947 Pakistani invaders illegally entered Jammu and Kashmir and plundered and committed atrocities.
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PoK: Gilgit-Baltistan leaders raise concerns over child marriage
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Civil society representatives including the head of the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) expressed concerns over the absence of laws and constitutional protections for women in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan region, especially underage marriage.
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Gilgit Baltistan: Locals protest arrest of activist, say Pakistan misusing
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Residents launched a protest against the local administration in the Skardu district of Gilgit Baltistan over the arrest of Shabbir Mayyar, a prominent activist who was demanding the opening of Skardu-Kargil Road.
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