Pakistan to hold Election in Gilgit Baltistan (PoK) for the first time, might see retaliation by India in UN and armed front

A summary regarding the assembly election has been approved by President Arif Alvi and sent to Prime Minister Imran Khan for the final go-ahead, reports said. Analysts have said that once the elections are held, the government will move towards making GB a full province.

The election date was announced after a meeting on Tuesday between opposition parliamentary leaders and the army high command, in which Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and Inter-Services Intelligence director general Lt Gen Faiz Hameed discussed the prospects of giving GB the status of a province.

New Delhi has time and again clearly conveyed to Pakistan that the entire Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, including the areas of Gilgit and Baltistan, are an integral part of the country.

Earlier in May, the Ministry of External Affairs had said that the Pakistan government on its judiciary has no locus standi on territories illegally and forcibly occupied by it and rejected continued attempts to bring material changes in Pakistan occupied areas of the Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

“Instead, Pakistan should immediately vacate all areas under its illegal occupation,” the MEA had said in a statement after the Pakistan Supreme Court allowed the Imran Khan government to hold elections in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

After this action of Pakistan authorities, certain revelations are being made if PM Narendra Modi will move one step ahead in order to regain power in Gilgit Baltistan which has remained a disputed territory ever since and due no action taken by the UN or international committees, it might become another source of border tension.