Pakistan can also additionally cede Gilgit Baltistan (GB), a Pakistan-occupied Kashmir area (PoK) to China on hire to repay its mounting debt. Chairman of Karakoram National Movement, Mumtaz Nagri additionally expressed worry that the remoted and neglected, Gilgit Baltistan should end up a destiny battleground for the arena powers to compete, pronounced Al Arabiya Post. The northern-maximum a part of Kashmir borders China and Nagri expressed worry that Pakistan can also additionally cede GB to China. Nagri is arousing humans and has requested them “now no longer to be terrified of ISI and be organized to visit jail,” Pakistani media reviews have stated.
Pakistan ceding GB that it illegally occupies could be a boon for China’s South Asian enlargement. It has made use of territory withinside the area that Pakistan ceded in advance and would love GB because the Karakorum is proper at the path of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Any such circulate should earn Pakistan hefty hire cash that would assist tide over its present day monetary woes. But this may additionally annoy americaA to disclaim or put off the USD 3 billion bailouts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). But, this may additionally blacklist Pakistan for the foreseeable destiny from getting price range from the IMF, World Bank and different worldwide agencies, pronounced Al Arabiya Post.
A circulate on GB could now no longer be easy, no matter whole civil and army manipulate from the federal authorities and extraordinarily constrained powers given to the nearby administration. For, it is able to cause nearby protests because the populace already feels short-modified through the manner CPEC has bypassed GB at Islamabad’s behest with regards to improvement projects. Pakistani media reviews stated that GB has a dwindling populace, able-bodied humans migrating with their households anywhere they get paintings and bad dwelling situations. One document alarmingly states that 9 in step with cent of all suicides in Pakistan arise in GB.
Despite imparting electricity to the relaxation of the country, Gilgit-Baltistan has simply hours of electricity available, due to the fact the area isn’t a part of Pakistan’s country wide grid. In addition to this, it suffers meals shortages and has no manipulate over its hydropower or different resources. With such socio-monetary situations triumphing in GB, there might be hassle from a determined populace. On the alternative hand, americaA, smarting beneathneath a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan final year, and in no temper to end the area, desires to save you this in all likelihood Chinese enlargement into South Asia and instead, can also additionally need an outpost of its own, pronounced Al Arabiya Post.
Bob Lancia, a US Congress candidate for Rhode Island, stated, “The US should have benefited in Afghanistan if Gilgit-Baltistan become in India and Balochistan become unbiased,” pronounced Al Arabiya Post. (An) “Indian managed Gilgit Baltistan could additionally be a first-rate blow to America’s primary rival, China, and China’s belts & roads initiative, through denying China direct get admission to to ports at the Arabian Sea,” Lancia stated in a June eight document extensively carried withinside the US.
Lancia stated that americaA did not go out from Afghanistan had tons to do with now no longer having India as a partner, pronounced Al Arabiya Post. Lancia is a former member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. He additionally took to Twitter to recognition on India’s strategic place and geopolitical prowess as a participant in making sure the pastimes of South Asia on the worldwide map. He stated that if Balochistan become an unbiased country, americaA should have used it for providing US forces in Afghanistan in place of relying on Pakistan, pronounced Al Arabiya Post.