GENOCIDE  WATCH

Pakistan-administered Kashmir: Since the 1947 partition, Pakistan-administered Kashmir has experienced systemic repression under tight federal control. Political activists, journalists, and human rights defenders face arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and anti-terror charges for advocating autonomy or exposing abuses. Religious minorities, particularly Ahmadis and Shia Muslims, suffer from targeted violence, discriminatory laws, and state-backed persecution. In Gilgit-Baltistan, indigenous communities are forcibly displaced for CPEC-related projects, often without compensation. Media and civil society operate under severe restrictions, with dissent criminalized and self-determination movements harshly suppressed.