Often used to woo foreign tourists to its mountains, Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), which is also called Pakistan’s "soft face" is a neglected region where all-around shortages have reduced its people to "begging" before the federal government, the Pak Military Monitor reported. From fuel to food to power, the shortages have triggered street protests in recent weeks by the local people. They have little by way of political power, share in the administration and no way out of the "anomalous" situation in Pakistan’s polity.
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