Pakistan plans to make Gilgit-Baltistan fifth province amid massive PoK protests

In a bid to tighten its grip on the illegally occupied territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan’s military establishment has successfully installed a puppet administration. Following the heavily rigged sham elections on June 7 which were marred by widespread manipulation and public outrage Bilawal Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was forced into power.

Amjad Hussain was placed as the Chief Minister of the Shia-majority occupied region. To ensure total control, the Pakistani military deep state brokered a backroom power-sharing deal between Shehbaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the PPP, dividing the top administrative spoils to keep local voices entirely suppressed.

Stepping up its expansionist agenda, Islamabad has initiated a brazen and illegal process to formally annex Gilgit-Baltistan, a region it has held under heavy-handed military occupation for 78 years.