Indian Media Quotes MEMRI Reports On Pakistan's Human Rights Abuses Of People Of Gilgit-Baltistan

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[{"type":"text","content":"WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / July 31, 2025 / The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has published a new report: "Indian Media Quotes MEMRI Reports On Pakistan's Human Rights Abuses Of People Of Gilgit-Baltistan."","length":242,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"Several Indian media outlets, including Zee News, quoted MEMRI's recent analysis, titled "Pakistan Considers Gilgit-Baltistan A Burdensome Part Of Its Periphery - The Enduring Fallout Of The Karachi Agreement."","length":224,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"For example, Zee News wrote on July 26: "According to a report published by the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), people regularly hold protests in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan, with residents usually braving freezing temperatures to demand land rights, oppose unjust taxation, long power outages, and encroachment of projects like the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) that seize local land without providing compensation."","length":475,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"It is worth noting that in 2011, MEMRI was quoted by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organizations (UNPO) for warning that Chinese mining companies were making inroads into Gilgit-Baltistan, an ethnically distinct region that has traditionally been part of Jammu & Kashmir. MEMRI revealed that China stationed more than 11,000 Chinese troops in Gilgit-Baltistan at the invitation of Pakistan as Pakistan built up a Chinese-Pakistani military alliance to undercut Western influence in South Asia.","length":505,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The 2011 MEMRI report also noted the growing importance of Gilgit-Baltistan, stating: "First, China uses transit routes of Gilgit-Baltistan to reach Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and the ports along the coastline of the Arabian Sea; and second, Chinese mining companies [want to] control the region's highly valued mineral deposits of uranium, gold, copper, marble, and precious stones."","length":400,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"MEMRI launched the Balochistan Studies Project in June 2025. Balochistan has a strategic geographical position and is an important economic gateway, with trillions of dollars' worth of underground natural resources such as oil, gas, uranium...

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