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 allege 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 terrorist infrastructure in these areas.
01:14So, I can say that the people of POJK and Golgotha-Baltastan is facing worse 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.
01:52POJK and POGB may be called regions, but they function as territories illegally controlled
01:58through coercion, surveillance, and military oversight.
02:03Legal rights remain severely restricted, and residents lack constitutional protection to challenge state actions in courts.
02:12In the Golgotha-Baltastan, all political activists, the leaders, is actually booked in Schedule 4th,
02:24and they are not allowed to provide permission to 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 trying to go abroad,
02:48because, you know, in POJK, there is no any kind of facilities where the people can get the job.
02:58So, majority living in the Middle East, Gulf states, but now, if on the social media,
03:06they say anything against the wrongdoing of Pakistan, now they are offloads, and they are not allowed to go to their own duties.
03:16As these voices grow louder, the gap between Pakistan's claims and the lived reality of people in POJK and POGB continues to widen,
03:28raising serious questions about democracy, rights, and accountability in the region.
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