Gilgit-Baltistan is not a constitutional part of Pakistan, when Baba Jan says it on camera, it’s not rhetoric, it’s a reminder of the core fraud. No representation in Pakistan’s Parliament like a province. No constitutional equality like citizens. But full control by Islamabad

Pakistan says it has joined Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza. Fine. But here’s the credibility problem the world can’t ignore: A peace board cannot become a laundering machine for states that outsource violence and then audition for moral authority on global stages. What

SCO announces “5G for PoJK” and locals called it a joke for one simple reason: you can’t market the future while failing the present. Special Communications Organization (SCO) put out a shiny 5G promise for Pakistan occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoJK). What did people do? They

Dana Kachilli in PoJK is the kind of place Pakistan loves to mention and refuses to build. Breathtaking landscapes. Cool climate. Forests, orchards, fertile soil. The ingredients of a self-sustaining local economy are all there tourism, agriculture, horticulture. Yet Dana

Severe snowfall in PoJK didn’t create the power crisis, it simply exposed it. While roads remain blocked and villages get cut off for days, the electricity system collapses in a way locals already know too well: low voltage on normal days, total breakdown on crisis days. This

Pakistan’s aluminium ore exports to China reaching a record $14 million may register as short-term trade growth, but it also exposes deeper structural weaknesses in industrial policy. Exporting raw aluminium ore instead of processed aluminium highlights a persistent challenge:

Kashmir Solidarity Day is marketed as empathy. But if Pakistan truly believes in solidarity, here’s the uncomfortable question it keeps dodging: Where is the solidarity for the people of PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan, the very people living under Pakistan’s control? Because

PoJK’s biggest problem isn’t a small budget, it’s an invisible one. Every year, figures are announced, allocations are read out, and assurances are made. Yet on the ground, roads remain broken, power collapses with snowfall, healthcare limps and basic services barely function.

Why PoJK barely exists in Pakistan’s national data and why that’s not accidental. Scan Pakistan’s flagship reports on poverty, human development, labour, health, or planning priorities and a pattern emerges: PoJK appears vaguely, inconsistently, or not at all. No granular

Kashmir Solidarity Day is marketed as compassion. In reality, it often functions as a strategic cover. A way to project moral outrage outward while burying uncomfortable questions inside PoJK. Because solidarity isn’t a parade. Solidarity is what you do where you hold power.

Pakistan’s “Kashmir Solidarity Day” claims just collapsed in public. When Jaish-e-Mohammad can hold a rally in PoJK on the same day Islamabad sells solidarity to the world, it’s not activism, it’s state-enabled extremism. A terror outfit using PoJK as a stage. A propaganda

Pakistan loves lecturing the world on human rights. The problem is its own record keeps interrupting the speech. From PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan to Balochistan, from Pashtun belts to Shia communities, the pattern is grimly familiar: force over dialogue, coercion over consent,

In Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan, Shia and Ahmadi voices are again on the streets, with blunt chants like “Naakam hukumat, murdabad.” When multiple communities protest together, it’s not mismanagement anymore. It’s a legitimacy crisis: governance that fails to deliver

A shutter-down strike across Gilgit-Baltistan and a protest at Martyrs’ Memorial, Skardu isn’t routine politics, it’s a public verdict on Pakistan’s governance model in the region. When markets close voluntarily, livelihoods pause, and people gather at a symbolic site like a

PoJK: 21 years after the earthquake and rehabilitation is still a pending file. Pakistan loves grand slogans about Kashmir and solidarity. But in the territory it controls, a basic question remains unanswered after more than two decades: Where did the money go and why are

The Line of Control (LoC) is no longer just a military line. It has become a developmental fault line, a border that separates two governance outcomes. On one side: Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, where the argument is increasingly about infrastructure, investment, jobs, tourism,

Gilgit-Baltistan is water-rich, resource-rich and strategically priceless, yet large parts of it still live with 20+ hours of load-shedding, soaring wheat costs and a daily feeling that the region exists to serve everyone except its own people. If this isn’t extraction, what is?

The Chinese Coal Offer Pakistan Couldn’t Afford But Didn’t Refuse There is a pattern in Pakistan’s energy diplomacy that deserves scrutiny. When Beijing offers financing, Islamabad rarely says no. The question is not whether the offer is strategic. The question is whether it is

A map moment just exposed Pakistan & China’s biggest insecurity: cartography is politics. The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) shared (and then deleted) an official graphic/map that depicted the entire Jammu & Kashmir region, including PoJK and Gilgit-Baltistan within India’s

Foreign women, not Pakistanis: ISI’s suicide bomber outsourcing is deniability by design. When sponsor-ecosystems come under pressure, they don’t abandon the tactic they refine the optics. The alleged shift toward foreign women as suicide attackers isn’t just operational; it’s