For decades, Pakistan has projected Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir as a self-governed region, but voices from within PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan tell a different story. Activists allege Islamabad has systematically weakened local institutions, leaving elected bodies powerless while maintaining military and political control, exposing a growing gap between claims and ground reality.
00:00For decades, Pakistan has claimed that the people of Pakistan occupied Jammu and Kashmir, enjoy self-room.
00:08However, voices from within the region tell a very different story.
00:13Political structures in POJK function under strict supervision from Islamabad, leaving elected institutions powerless.
00:21Locals and activists alleged that Pakistan has deliberately weakened local governance to maintain absolute control over the region.
00:51They have no any say because Pakistan, POJK, and Golgotha-Baltastan is ruled by four powerful land officials.
01:01This land, which is known as Azad Kashmir, is used as a proxy land, as a launching pad, and there is a huge infrastructure in these areas.
01:14So, I can say that the people of POJK and Golgotha-Baltastan is facing worst kind of intimidations and facing discrimination on the basis of ethnicity.
01:31These allegations strike at the very core of Pakistan's narrative on Kashmir.
01:51POJK and POGB may be called regions, but they function as territories illegally controlled through coercion, surveillance, and military oversight.
02:03Legal rights remain severely restricted, and residents lack constitutional protection to challenge state actions in courts.
02:10In the Golgotha-Baltastan, all political activists, the leaders, is actually booked in schedule 4th, and they are not allowed to prior permissions move any area of Golgotha-Baltastan or come out.
02:33And in POJK, 400, above 400, people's name is in the control list, and majority, when try to go abroad, because, you know, in POJK, there is no any kind of facilities where the people can get the job.
02:57So, majority living in the Middle East is in the Gulf states, but now, if on the social media, they say anything against the wrongdoing of Pakistan, now they are offloads, and they are not allowed to go to their own duties.
03:17As these voices grow louder, the gap between Pakistan's claims and the lived reality of people in POJK and POGB continues to widen, raising serious questions about democracy, rights, and accountability in the region.
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