By Syed Shamsuddin Gilgit-Baltistan’s Exclusion from Federal Job Advertisements: A Persistent, Systemic, and Unaddressed Injustice The Gilgit-Baltistan Career Forum’s Facebook post of 27 November 2025 has once again brought into sharp focus a long-standing, deeply entrenched, and profoundly unsettling reality: the continuous omission of Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) quota from federal job advertisements issued by ministries, divisions, autonomous bodies, and state-owned organizations. Despite the constitutional spirit, administrative obligations, and moral imperative that mandate equitable—and now urgently enhanced—representation of GB in federal employment, the region remains persistently sidelined in national recruitment processes. This recurring exclusion represents not merely an administrative oversight but a structural and systemic injustice. It erodes foundational principles of equal opportunity, deepens institutional mistrust, and we...
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