Despite facing widespread rejection, Pakistan’s rulers so far remain adamant upon changing the legal status of Gilgit-Baltistan to a province, announcing general elections there on 15 November 2020. The rulers are hiding behind the flimsy claim

The power politics between the political opposition, the Pakistan Democratic Alliance, and the military leadership backed regime of PTI yields nothing for welfare of the people. It is the latest clash between political leaders and military leadership, when both opposing factions have the same master, America, and both abide by colonialist law. Certainly, both civilian and military supremacy leads to oppression of the people.

The Bajwa-Imran regime has exceeded all limits in treachery against Occupied Kashmir. Having refused to liberate Occupied Kashmir by mobilizing Pakistan’s willing and able armed forces, the neglectful regime has now announced the permanent burial of the issue of Kashmir by ensuring a surgical bilateral partition.

On 10 September 2020, the Punjab government spokesperson announced that police had arrested twelve men. They are suspected of involvement in the alleged gang-rape and robbery of a mother on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway the day before, when her car stalled, whilst she was travelling with her children.