State-backed exclusion, corruption push people in Pak’s occupied regions on edge

Sep 13, 2022

PoK/Gilgit Baltistan, 13 September, 2022: - The deferral and non-payment of salaries continue to remain an issue of concern in the illegally occupied regions of Pakistan. Anti-government sit-ins have become a recurring phenomenon. One day it is the teachers, the next the doctors, and on other occasions, the employees of one or the other government department. They lament that the government deliberately deprives them of their rights and remunerations. And with a corrupt system in place, they have no option but to take to the streets. These employees in this picture are from the electricity department, who allege that their employers—in this case, the government—haven’t paid them their full salary even once in the last two years.