<p>The report, “Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: Changing the Discourse”, by New Delhi-based Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, recasts the demand of students of Gilgit-Baltistan to have quotas in the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and law colleges of India. <br /><br />The demand was made by residents of Pakistani Kashmir during their visit to India in 2006.<br /><br />“Not very long ago, in 2006, students from Gilgit-Baltistan demanded reservation of seats in top Indian institutions. This should not be very difficult for the Indian government to implement,” the IDSA report recommends.<br /><br />The Gilgit-Baltistan residents, who were in Delhi for a conference, had passed a resolution that stated: “The Government of India should provide openings in higher, professional and technical educational institutions to deserving students from Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, who are denied necessary facilities for such education.”<br /><br />Interestingly, the Jammu and Kashmir assembly has 25 seats reserved for members from the areas under Pakistani control since 1947.<br /><br />The report alleges that Pakistan has forced demographic changes in the territory since its occupation.<br /><br />“Chinese and jihadi influences are on the rise. Against this backdrop, India's response to the developments in PoK, which is legally its own territory, has been rather lukewarm,” it laments. <br /><br />“There is hardly any effort in India to clearly define its objective on PoK which is regarded as an integral part of its territory. There is a greater need for India to clearly define its strategic objectives with regard to PoK and also elucidate how it intends to fulfil those objectives. <br /><br />On the human rights violations in the region, it points out that the "proponents of human rights worldwide have largely ignored the atrocities in PoK committed by the Pakistani state".<br /><br />It states that the region "is fundamentally backward and comprises areas with little or nothing in terms of infrastructural development that presents a dismal picture of deprivation both in socio-economic and political terms".<br /></p>
<p>The report, “Pakistan Occupied Kashmir: Changing the Discourse”, by New Delhi-based Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, recasts the demand of students of Gilgit-Baltistan to have quotas in the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and law colleges of India. <br /><br />The demand was made by residents of Pakistani Kashmir during their visit to India in 2006.<br /><br />“Not very long ago, in 2006, students from Gilgit-Baltistan demanded reservation of seats in top Indian institutions. This should not be very difficult for the Indian government to implement,” the IDSA report recommends.<br /><br />The Gilgit-Baltistan residents, who were in Delhi for a conference, had passed a resolution that stated: “The Government of India should provide openings in higher, professional and technical educational institutions to deserving students from Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, who are denied necessary facilities for such education.”<br /><br />Interestingly, the Jammu and Kashmir assembly has 25 seats reserved for members from the areas under Pakistani control since 1947.<br /><br />The report alleges that Pakistan has forced demographic changes in the territory since its occupation.<br /><br />“Chinese and jihadi influences are on the rise. Against this backdrop, India's response to the developments in PoK, which is legally its own territory, has been rather lukewarm,” it laments. <br /><br />“There is hardly any effort in India to clearly define its objective on PoK which is regarded as an integral part of its territory. There is a greater need for India to clearly define its strategic objectives with regard to PoK and also elucidate how it intends to fulfil those objectives. <br /><br />On the human rights violations in the region, it points out that the "proponents of human rights worldwide have largely ignored the atrocities in PoK committed by the Pakistani state".<br /><br />It states that the region "is fundamentally backward and comprises areas with little or nothing in terms of infrastructural development that presents a dismal picture of deprivation both in socio-economic and political terms".<br /></p>