Pakistani jackboots in Gilgit-Baltistan

At least 15 people have died and 50 others injured as sectarian violence recently broke out in the Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, but the Government of India has virtually ignored the incident. For decades now, New Delhi has painstakingly cultivated a consistent disinterest in the happenings in what it has maintained is legally its territory. If Gilgit-Baltistan is legally a part of India, its residents are the responsibility of the Union Government and its sovereignty is to be guarded by the Indian state. Unfortunately, there is nothing in the conduct of India to show that it cares.

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