POK Liberation Front: 

Was the partition of India in 1947 a terrible mistake?

what Pakistan have been better off as a part of United India these are not my questions these are questions the people of Pakistan are asking themselves and we don't blame them for doing that just have a look at some recent  developments as India hosted world leaders for the G20 Summit last week and displayed its  growing significance on the global stage there was a meltdown in cash-strapped Pakistan the country's citizens were protesting for Freedom reminding the leaders of how far behind India has left them even threatening them about a merger with India I'm not making this up have a look at the kind of statements that they have been making ask Modi to get us freed from Pakistan yes these are the kind of please that are now going viral on the ground and on the internet and according to activists in Pakistan occupied Kashmir shabir Chaudhary is one such activist he has been posting a series of videos online voicing the concerns of the General Public and he says thousands of people residing  in villages near the line of control are  raising pro-India slogans and requesting  the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to free them from Pakistan's illegal occupation let me just quote the exact statement for you  Pakistan is perturbed over the State of Affairs but the most astonishing thing I got to hear is that the people residing near the line of control in Pok are raising slogans asking Modi to get them freedom from Pakistan's illegal  occupation and saving their souls that are dying from Hunger now what is all this about and why are  they making these statements  the answer is why won't they when their  country's economy is in the ICU when the  prices of fuel and basic needs have shot up to astronomical levels when the currency is in free fall and when  foreign Forex reserves have all but disappeared  but you see this is the State of Affairs in the country to be honest if we speak of POC specifically the people are fed up with the government exploiting their resources they are fed  up of paying heavy taxes on wheat flour and other basic necessities and also being forced to pay high electricity bills despite the region producing the maximum electricity and there's also a political aspect to  this  the targeting of pok's Shia community you see it is the Shia Muslims that form a sizable chunk of the population in the region and Pakistan's political leaders have been trying to bring their population down  there have been attempts by a successive Pakistan governments to change the demographic composition of this region and they have tried to do so by moving Sunni Muslims into the region and to make things worse in January this year.

Pakistan strengthened its already strict blasphemy laws  a move that many say was aimed at  targeting the beliefs of Shia Muslims in fact just two days back authorities in Pok filed an fir against a prominent  Shia cleric his name is he was booked for saying that the blasphemy laws have been made stricter to Target the shias and soon enough thousands of husseini's followers staging a protest on the streets of skardu and threatened to merge with India if their leader was arrested. two weeks back over the weekend meanwhile India hosted the G20 Summit and announced a slew of deals with countries across Europe and West  Asia and one such deal is the India  middle east Europe economic corridor a corridor that many believe would become an alternative to China's belt and Route initiative in Pakistan the announcement of this deal came as a shock for many people  they are angry that their leaders are  not acknowledging the magnitude of this ambitious project many of them in fact are venting their frustration on the platform X formerly known as Twitter one user said that being a Pakistani citizen he feels ashamed because the leadership in Islamabad is not accountable and has not done anything of significance to develop  Pakistan a Pakistani businessman took 2x to say that Pakistan should rethink its stance on India and try to join the land route he said if their leaders cannot do this that they are just blind and what's only adding to the Meltdown is the fact that the Saudi Crown Prince  is also on a state visit to India he was  also expected to go to Pakistan for a state visit but Saudi officials are yet to confirm the dates  and this has triggered a meltdown in  Islamabad’s corridors of power the country's caretaker government was spinning its hopes on the visit  expecting the Saudis to share the burden of their financial Wars  the hopes now lie mired in uncertainty  and given all these developments one cannot help but sympathize with ordinary Pakistanis maybe the creation of Pakistan was not such a good idea after all.