Introduction
Wage delays and nonpayment are still a problem in Pakistani territory that has been captured illegally. Anti-government sit-ins have become a common occurrence. The personnel of one or more ministries are occasionally the victims—one day, it’s the teachers, and the next, it’s the physicians. Documents and history books indicate that these territories’ citizens achieved independence in 1947. But the reality is that they were reduced to second-class socioeconomic citizens. With a population of 1.5 million, the area lacks the infrastructure, financial allocations, employment possibilities, industries, and other amenities that the rest of Pakistan takes for granted.
Now that the nation has experienced recent floods that have impacted more than 33 million people, it is impossible to predict what will happen to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Tens of thousands of animals have died, and 2 million acres of crops have been devastated. Uzair Younus of the Atlantic Council and economist Ammar Khan estimated the approximate cost of direct damage to roads, homes, animals, and crops at around $3 billion, a staggering sum for a developing nation like Pakistan.
Issues in Hand
Pakistan has significant climatic issues. n spite of being one of the countries with the lowest carbon emissions worldwide, Pakistan was listed as one of the most vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events in the Global Climate Risk Index for 2021. The nation first suffered a record temperature in spring, and they were inundated just a few months later. The city of Jacobabad, where temperatures spiked to 50 Celsius/122 Fahrenheit, is currently underwater.
Many people in Pakistan and abroad have used this catastrophe as the best illustration of climate justice, arguing that the Paris Agreement, which was signed in 2015 and currently has 175 signatories, including the European Union, should require the Global North to compensate the Global South for losses and damage.
Situation
As winter draws near, millions of Pakistanis remain without a place to call home. Jill McGivering of the BBC has just returned from one of the worst-affected areas. According to McGivering, many victims claim that unscrupulous government officials deny them access to services like shelter, money, and blankets. However, McGivering is informed by Pakistan’s interior minister Rehman Malik that “this is dishonesty on the side of the people.”
Corruption
According to local media, Pakistani government employees are suspected of using bribes to distribute flood relief supplies in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir. According to reports from the authorities, Sabir Hussain, the chief minister of Gilgit-coordinator, Baltistan’s, charged the deputy commissioner of Hunza (DC) with stealing two truckloads of aid supplies delivered by the Chinese embassy in Xinjiang. regional media
Sabir said that Hunza DC crossed the Sost Pakistan-China border and then kidnapped vehicles carrying aid supplies delivered by China’s Xinjiang foreign office. He said Hunza DC conspired with DC customs at the edge to take the relief vehicles away. The aid was supplied by China’s Xinjiang foreign office at the acting governor of Gilgit-request. Baltistan’s
Local media claimed interim governor Syed Amjad Ali Zaidi was handling the disastrous continuing flooding scenario.
Sabir provided cargo receipts and documentation from China’s Foreign Affairs Office as proof of the alleged bribes. According to the document attached, two aid trucks have been supplied by China to Gilgit Baltistan. But after entering the UK from the southern Chinese border, they appear to have vanished. Sabir Hussain asserted that Hunza DC had to have known about it for it to have happened.
Hunza DC had already faced accusations of corruption. During the building of the Hassanabad Bridge in Hunza, he was charged with a
Crime. Millions allegedly went down the drain in commissions and kickbacks during the building process.
Local media claimed interim governor Syed Amjad Ali Zaidi was handling the disastrous continuing flooding scenario.
On Wednesday, citizens of Gilgit Baltistan
protested against state-sponsored discrimination and corruption in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir. They regretted the Pakistani government’s intentional deprivation of their rights and compensation. They are left with no alternative but to take to the streets because of the corrupt system.
The natives are not treated equally with citizens or employees from other regions of mainland Pakistan by Islamabad stooges, who have been predominantly employed in government departments to police and marginalise them. The ruling class is corrupt, and they never show even the tiniest sign of wanting to change the situation.
Problems; knee Jerk Reaction
Wage delays and nonpayment are still a problem in Pakistani territory that has been captured illegally. Anti-government sit-ins have become a common occurrence. The personnel of one or more ministries are occasionally the victims—one day, it’s the teachers, and the next, it’s the physicians. Documents and history books indicate that these territories’ citizens achieved independence in 1947. But the reality is that they were reduced to second-class socioeconomic citizens. With a population of 1.5 million, the area lacks the infrastructure, financial allocations, employment possibilities, industries, and other amenities that the rest of Pakistan takes for granted.
Future
Now that the nation has experienced recent floods that have impacted more than 33 million people, it is impossible to predict what will happen to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Conclusion
A country which has repeatedly failed from its inception to uphold the dignity of its stature and is mired with unscrupulous backhand dealing, cronyism, misappropriation of relief, funds, and food for the worst suffers of the catastrophic flood speaks volumes of its longevity and viability to remain as a nation-state or will it disintegrate like a house of cards one fine morning?
