Mobile internet services suspended in Gilgit-Baltistan amid sectarian tensions

Pakistan’s interim Information Minister Murtaza Solangi said on Sunday that the situation in Gilgit-Baltistan was “completely peaceful”, amid reports of sectarian tensions in the region that forced authorities to indefinitely suspend mobile int­er­net services.

“The situation in Gilgit-Baltistan is completely peaceful and the news and speculations circulating in media regarding the deployment of Pakistan Army are completely baseless,” Solangi said in a post on platform X, citing a statement released by the region’s home department.