Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan in Limbo: Extraction, Exclusion, and Rising Anger

Pakistan’s handling of dissent in Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) has increasingly exposed the structural contradictions in its governance model in the region. Despite exercising administrative control since 1948, Islamabad has avoided granting GB full constitutional status, leaving the territory in prolonged political limbo. This ambiguity has enabled the federal government and military-linked entities to exercise decisive authority over GB’s resources and political institutions while limiting meaningful local representation.