Gilgit Baltistan: Demonstrators threaten rebellion if demands remain unfulfilled

Jan 23, 2023

Gilgit Baltistan, 23 January, 2023: - Vehicles were off the roads and shops shut as the massive wave of sweeping protests in Pakistan reached the illegally occupied region of Gilgit Baltistan, where people took to the streets to demand their rights. Demonstrators urged the government to roll back its decisions that have snatched their wheat subsidies and increased taxes disproportionately. The government of Gilgit Baltistan, which, by and large is an Islamabad stooge and acts as per its instructions, has raised the regional taxes without any comprehensible reasoning or rationale. Although the locals had already been complaining about it since the tax imposition, the simmering anger has now translated into a full scale anti-government demonstration.