ISLAMABAD. Vice President Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court Bar Association Wazir Farman Ali Advocate has urged to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Choudary to take the judicial notice of the matter pertaining to the un-constitutional and illegal appointment of a former Ad hoc Judge of Lahore High Court Rana Muhammad Arshad as Chief Judge of Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court by ignoring the sitting senior judges of the Supreme Appellate Court. The status of the Supreme Appellate Court is equal to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, but the appointments of the Chief Judge and judges are not being made according to the procedure of the Constitution of Pakistan, he maintained.

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had stopped Balawaristan National Front (BNF) chief, Abdul Hamid’s wife Zaibul Nigar at Benazir Bhutto International Airport last week when she was about to leave for Bangkok. She was later informed that her name had been put on the Exit Control List (ECL).

Nationalist parties and human rights activists in Gilgit-Baltistan have reacted over the government’s move to bar the wife of nationalist leader Abdul Hamid from travelling abroad putting her name on the Exit Control List (ECL).
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) last week bared Ms Zaibul Nigar, wife of chief of Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Abdul Hamid Khan at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport Islamabad from
leaving abroad and told her to go back on the ground that her name has been put on the ECL due to the activities of her spouse. She was leaving for Bangkok along with his brother on a private tour.

Introduction

According to a report published by an Urdu-language newspaper, Pakistan is considering a proposal to lease the strategic region of Gilgit Baltistan to China. The Pakistani move is aimed at fortifying its strategic relations with China amid the irreparable rupture in U.S.-Pakistan relations over the past year. Gilgit Baltistan, previously known as the Northern Areas, shares the international border with China.

Like Pakistani-occupied Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan – which had been part of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir during the British rule – is not formally part of Pakistan and is not under the jurisdiction of Pakistani constitution. There are no representatives from Gilgit Baltistan in the Pakistani parliament or federal government institutions.

The lawyers community,youth and students of gilgit baltistan from gilgit Islamabad to Karachi have started agitation against the appointment of an incompetent of an incompetent in ineligible retired judge as chef judge gilgit baltistan by prime minister gillani. Diffrent youth and students organizations have staged protest rally at gb house Islamabad on the occasion of oath taking ceremony of controversial judge .

ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has put the name of exiled Chairman Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Abdul Hamid Khan's wife on the Exit Control List (ECL) and stopped her from leaving the country for Thailand along with her brother. Mr Khan is the head of the hardline nationalist party of Gilgit-Baltistan and is living in Belgium for the last over four years on political asylum.

He has been demanding that the issue of Kashmir, including Gilgit-Baltistan, should be resolved under the United Nations resolutions. Pakistan has been perturbed over efforts Mr Khan has been making in highlighting the issue of Gilgit-Baltistan at the international level and especially in European Parliament, which also passed a landmark resolution in favour of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan in 2007.

As revenge, the government of Pakistan has now put the name of Mr Khan's wife Zaibul Nigar on the Exit Control List (ECL). It is indeed shameful that a woman has been deprived of her right to freedom of movement for no fault of hers.

This move of the so-called democratic government of Pakistan is not only illegal but is also against the very principals of Islam under which no one can stop a woman from meeting her husband or other family members without any tangible reasons.

Even if she was punished for her husband's struggle, it is also a fact that Mr Khan has neither committed any murder nor ever taken up guns and launched armed struggle against anyone and is only working for the emancipation of his people by peaceful democratic means. On the contrary, there are scores of elements involved in murders and other crimes within Pakistan who are free to move out of the country and come back without any restrictions.

This highhandedness also shows how the people of Gilgit-Baltistan, especially those raising voice for their rights, are being victimized at the hands of Pakistan and its agencies. The nationalist parties of the region have rejected the move of the interior ministry of Pakistan and called upon international organizations to take notice of the matter and put pressure on Islamabad to stop such unilateral steps against the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.

They said it was blatant violations of human rights and international laws to stop a peaceful citizen, that too a woman, from visiting any country with proper visa and other documents. It should be noted that Mr Khan's wife had booked a room in the Parkway Inn of Bangkok in Thailand on Jan 30 along with her brother. But she was told by FIA immigration staff at the Islamabad airport that she would not be allowed to fly out of the country only because she was the wife of BNF chief Abdul Hamid Khan. Even she was not given any reason for the ban by the immigration authorities.

The lawyers community, youth n students of GB from gilgit  Islamabad to karachi have started agitation against the appointment of an incompetent n ineligible retired judge as chief judge GilgitBaltistan
by prime minister gillani.different youth n students organizations have staged protest rally at GB house islamabad on the occasion of oath taking ceremony of cotrovertial judge.they chanted slogans
against the gillani,manzoor watto minister kashmir affairs,governor n chief minister GB for their colaboration in imposing an incompetent person as chief judge GB .the lawyers,youth n students  have vowed to
continue their struggle till withdrawal of  notification for appointment of new chief judge GB.The president GB high court bar association Ehsan ali  n Gen. sec. kamal hussain have  demanded for immidiate abolishment of rotten colonial judicial system from GB n establishment of an independent  constitutional judicial system and for transparent system for ensuring appointment of eligible, honest and competent judges in superior judiciary of GB.

Three Tibetans were killed and several injured when police opened fire on Tibetans who gathered to protest in Drango, Kardze (the Tibetan area of Kham) today, the first day of Chinese New Year.  The escalating crackdown in Drango follows the circulation of leaflets in the area saying that Tibetans should not celebrate the New Year in 2012 because of the self-immolations, and declaring an intention by the unnamed author of the leaflets to set fire to themselves at the time of Tibetan New Year (Losar, which falls on February 22).

Courageous young Journalist, Bat their journalistic duties, fear is risky to perform. Concerns in Kashmir and to expose the enemy of Kashmiri's, who are playing a mischievous game. The worst ones to enslave our Azad Kashmir peoples.That Pakistan's Army the enemy of Kashmir, ISI, Warning the administration of (FM) Radio Voice of Kashmir, That should fire the Shahzad there host, and threatened him, that we'll straighten you. Then you and your forfather will forget the Kashmir and our roll in Kashmir.assure Shahzad, do not step back, But two more voices echo, Push falling walls, Kick out ISI, from Azad Kashmir. United State of America, european union, UNO, and all over the world living Kashmiri, peoples behind you, and Azad Kashmir peoples are ready to riots against the ISI decision. We Azad Kashmir peoples, will arena base of ISI, from there.

NOTE: BNF condems the the terrorist regime of Gilgit Baltistan and thier masters in Pakistan whose blood painted hands will be cut down as and when this last colony of 21st century comes to an end. The culprit of Hunza and Chilas have comitted terrorist act by turturing the victims in spite of punishing the killers. Its sham for those who control Gilgit Baltistan, who term the innocent youth of Hunza including Baba Jan as terrorist and given impunity to DSP Babar and other terrorists.

New Year message by Hunza’s Prisoners of Conscience-Asiran e Hunza:

Dear Sir,

Baloch are not interested in your mainstream politics.

Too much water passed under the bridge in 64 years.

Baloch hate all these nonsense of Pakistani leaders'

apologies and sweet talk of economic development.

Baloch want to become the master of their own destiny.

Once they are free they know how to develop themselves.

If you really sympathise with Baloch then ask

your army and security to cease bloodshed in Balochistan.

STOP drama of East Pakistan in Balochistan.

Ameeri

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Tufail Ahmad < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote:

I think media can be pivotal in exposing the realities in Balochistan ,,, unfortunately no serious efforts by renowned anchors have been seen as of now ,,, There is no doubt that Balochistan needs to be developed, given true independence of speech, extending EEO to its natives in public as well as private sector at national level & setting up a sound industrial base. There are numerous steps which can be taken to reduce the reservations of public at large. There is dire need to include the Balochis in maistream at national level ,,, war footing development in remote areas is badly needed ,,, all political forces (in whatever form these are present in Balochi society) must be taken on board ... lest it is too late for us to realize and mourn the after effects in the years to follow ,,,,

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Ameeri Baloch < This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote:

Sir,

For army all was fair and balmy in East Pakistan

in 1971. Now, all is fair for army to repeat the same drama of bloodshed in Balochistan. What was the result of army action in East Pakistan.

Genocide of Baloch by army will not bring a different result.

PAKISTAN: The head of the ISI must be prosecuted for hatching conspiracy against democracy

Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the Director General of the Inter Services Intelligence Agency, the country's foremost intelligence agency, has hatched a conspiracy to overthrow the democratically elected government and parliament by taking help from some Arab monarchies who have strong influence in the affairs of the country. The Pakistan Army has been trying for two years to overthrow the civilian government and it is alleged that in the month of May 2011, Lieutenant General Shuja Pasha, the chief of the ISI, visited several Arab monarchies in a personal capacity and sought clearance for the army to take over the country. It is also alleged that he was given the 'OK' by these monarchies. He also visited China, without taking permission from the prime minister, but apparently did not get any formal assistance.

General Pasha also submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court accusing the civilian government's former ambassador of writing a memo to the USA government in which he made charges against the armed forces and the ISI.

New Delhi, Dec 4: Former Sadar-e-Riyast of Jammu and Kashmir, Dr Karan Singh, has said that awareness should be created among students and youth for the protection of the state’s rich heritage which was on the verge of destruction. All the five regions of the state including Gilgit-Baltistan and Mirpur-Muzzafarabad are culturally rich and every plan to protect heritage should not lose sight of these areas also, he said.

Human rights violations, sectarian targeted killings and state-led terrorism continue in Gilgit under government patronage. After one hundred days of the tragedy of Hunza, where a father and his son were killed by law enforcement agents, government has failed to arrest the murderers. It has rather resorted to arresting and torturing political leader Babajan Hunzai and twelve other activists, which shows absence of law and justice in the region. This was stated by chairperson of Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement, Engineer Manzoor Parwana. He claimed that Gilgit-Baltistan ranked top in South Asia when counting the number of incidents of human rights violations in the year 2011. He accused the so-called provincial government for not only failing to control but intentionally supporting and promoting state-led terrorism, sectarianism, lawlessness, targeted killings and corruption which has engulfed Gilgit-Baltistan. He said that GBUM will issue white paper in this regard and details will be sent to the international human rights organizations including the UNO.

LONDON: A freelance Italian journalist has alleged that she was forced out of Pakistan on the instruction of Pakistan’s spy agencies because of her friendship with Baloch leader Mehran Baloch.

Francesca Marino, who has authored a book titled Apocalypse Pakistan, was issued a regular visa by the Pakistani embassy in Rome on October 25, but she found out she was put on the blacklist when she arrived in Karachi to interview Pakistani politicians, including former cricket star Imran Khan and Khair Bux Marri, and to meet some friends.

“The decision has been taken in view of G-B’s disputed constitutional status which had also forced suspension of tax imposition in the region,” sources told The Express Tribune on Wednesday.

By Our Correspondent
RAWALPINDI: The exiled Chairman of Balawaristan National Front (BNF), Mr Abdul Hamid Khan, has said by writing a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, he has presented the case of Gilgit-Baltistan in the court of one of the most just adjudicators of the country who has always stood for rule of law and people' rights.
Addressing his party workers on the phone from Brusseles, Mr Khan said the letter contained the details about the story of injustices and cruelties perpetrated on the two million people of Gilgit-Baltistan for the last over six decades.

SC last ray of hope for getting rights: BNF
By Our Correspondent
RAWALPINDI: The exiled Chairman of Balawaristan National Front (BNF),  Mr Abdul Hamid Khan, has said by writing a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, he has presented the case of
Gilgit-Baltistan in the court of one of the most just adjudicators of the country who has always stood for rule of law and people’ rights. Addressing his party workers on the phone from Brusseles, Mr Khan said
the letter contained the details about the story of injustices and cruelties perpetrated on the two million people of Gilgit-Baltistan for the last over six decades.
Through the letter, Mr Khan has prayed the court to take notice of the injustices and inhuman treatment meted out to the indigenous people as well as violations of human rights and international laws by the successive Pakistani regimes. The chief justice has been reminded that the case of Gilgit-Baltistan had been put into the cold storage under a well-hatched conspiracy to keep the people of the region deprived of their rights and plunder their resources.

Chairman Balawaristan National Front (BNF) has strongly condemned the terrorism managed by ISI for many decades. Some time Pakistani Army personals have been cought redhanded and some times FC (Frontier

Constabular) and some times ISI but they were never introgated. The recent bombing by ISI person near Shia mosque, Gilgit City, was the design of Pakistan Army to create sectarian tension by blaming this on Soonis

and to kill Soonis by showing the stage managed retaliation, which was long desing to divide and rule, so the brave people are not united againt the Pakistani rule.This is not individual act of ISI person, this is the

part of Pakistan occupation regime and its ISI. BNF was telling these type of terrorism to its indigenous people and condemning since 1992 after its establishment. The occupation regime has not been punishing any

one by blaming on external forces and we the people of BNF have been saying yes, these are the acts of exterla forces and their agencies and those external forces are getting orders to kill the indigenous poeple

of Gilgit Baltistan from Rawalpindi, Pakistan and BNF condemns this Pakistani terrorism in severe terms.(Note)

By Our Correspondent

GILGIT: After reports that one of the accused persons who hurled a grenade at a shop near the imamia mosque at Punyal road injuring two persons the other day belonged to a sensitive security agency, the role of the law enforcement agencies including the intelligence bodies has become very suspicious in the eyes of the public.

GIGLIT: To serve humanity and those in need has always been a motto of rights activists and kind-hearted people all over the world and we can see this in times of tragedies and trial and tribulations when people
come forward, give a helping hand to the distressed and then go away without seeking anything in return after winning nothing else but hearts of millions.
In our Gilgit-Baltistan we have seen in the recent past some of nature's worst calamities when people were wiped out of their hearths and homes and left shivering under the open sky. However, those who
were expected to come to their rescue in these times of tragedies were nowhere to be seen. However, humanity never remains short of kind and God fearing people whenever there is a tragedy in any part of the world. During the crises that we saw in Giglit-Baltistan, we saw even poor people coming to the help of those in need and sharing whatever they had in their possession.

LAHORE: While Pakistan wants China to build a naval base at its south-western seaport of Gwadar in Balochistan, Beijing is more interested in setting up military bases either in Fata or
Gilgit-Baltistan, which is closer to the troubled Chinese province of Xinjiang. According to well-informed diplomatic circles in Islamabad, the Chinese desire is meant to contain the growing terrorist activities of
the Chinese rebels belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM). The Chinese Muslim rebels want the creation of an independent Islamic state and are allegedly being trained in the
tribal areas of Pakistan.

Dear Halepoto,

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GILGIT: Existing tensions between Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) have increased over the controversy of the Diamer-Bhasha dam, with both sides claiming rights to the dam.