BNF Chief Abdul Hamid Khan strongly condemn this inhuman attitude of a group of people who did show their inhuman behaviour against a teenager and their fellow country men. This type of behaviour against minority religious people throughout Pakistan is encouraged by the state in almost all the cases. The encouragement of subversive activities against non-Muslims in Sindh, Kalash in Chitral and others areas is a state policy as a result thousands have either abandoned their faith and converted in to Islam by force or lost thier lives, dignity and property. There is no equal justice for all in Pakistan, which has undermined the very existance of the country itself.
BRUSSELES: The chairman of Balawaristan National Front (BNF), Mr Abdul Hamid Khan has called upon the international community to extend its assistance to the affected people of the debris lake in Attabad but stressed that the aid should be given directly to the people instead of the government of Pakistan."By keeping in mind the past experience and culture of the Pakistani rulers, world community should help the effected people directly," he said in a letter to Baroness Catherine Ashton, High Representative Foreign Affairs and Security Policy European Commission.He said the people of Gilgit-Baltistan were helplessly witnessing the desperate residents of Attabad,
Though this is not abnormal in Balawaristan, we the people of Gilgit Baltistan are always proud of our unique culture, tradition and hospitality. Mr. Essa Khan is not a Pakistani citizen, becasue he belongs to a disputed region Gilgit Baltistan which is under occupation of Pakistan for the last 62 years. This is the culture of our Motherland, that the doors of our houses are never closed, because our people do not fear of theft. 50000 Dollars or pounds are nothing for even a poor person with compare to his tradition and honour in our society.
This is bitter truth, whenever our people from Gilgit Baltistan visit Rawalpindi or any other city of Pakistan first time, they are cheated and robbed or theft by Pakistanis, because our people are careless due to their traditional habits and they never think of any theft or cheating because of their own tradition. By knowing them as innocent and simpleton, Pakistanis try to cheat them. Had Essa Khan been a Pakistani Punjabi or Pathan he would have calmly transfer 50000 dollars to another place, so nobody could found it even after search of his location. Be sure, Essa Khan is not a Pakistani face, what some Pakistanis suggest. We the people of Gilgit Baltistan are proud of Essa Khan and all our people who have the world best and unique tradition and culture, which is not compareable with the rest of the world. Its also a fact, that being citizens of a resourcesful regions, our people are poor, becasue all our resources are in the hands of colonial master Pakistan, whos job is to plunder our resources.
In Choporsan, Gojal, Hunza of Gilgit, 80 Sq Kilo area of mine which is being used in space
technology has been given to China by Pakistan.
In Shimshal of Hunza near China border (this is the area where 2500 Sq Miles area has already
been ceded to China by Pakistan in 1963 by violating UNCIP resolution.). Pakistani goverment
has given about 1200 sq km (30% total area) leased out for Pakistani forces.
On high pasture of Chhalt Nagar a strayed missile has hit Chinese work mining area recently.
In Gandai of Yasen, 4000 Blast were done by Chinese Military Engineers in 2008, as result glacier
burst and local people climbed up the mountain and kicked them out Chinese. Pakistani forces
arrested local people, tortured and put 22 local leaders behind bars.
Terming it as a great tragedy and loss of Baloch nation, World Sindhi Congress (WSC) has expressed its deep shock and sadness on the murder of another great Baloch leader, Habib Jalib Baloch. In a press release issued today, WSC strongly condemned the heinous crime of target killing this great son of Baloch nation. Habib Jalib paid the ultimate price for his steadfast lifelong struggle for the rights of his oppressed nation and other suppressed
nations in Pakistan.
Different non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have demanded immediate halt to the construction of community halls in the Kalash valleys in Chitral as they felt it would harm the local culture.
Kalash Environmental Protection Society (KEPS), Frontier Heritage Trust (FHT), Institute of Architects of Pakistan (IAP), Civic Awareness Promotion Society (CAPS), Zareef Khan Foundation (ZKF) and Sarhad Conservation Network (SCN) in a joint statement urged the government to immediately stop the construction of new community centres in the three valleys inhabited by the minority Kalash community as the Kalash people resented the decision and considered it harmful for their culture.
Gilgit: Taking advantage of the apathy of Gilgit-Baltistan administration, anti-social elements are once more attempting at creating sectarian strife in Ghizer valley.
Recently an NGO had distributed offensive pamphlets against the majority sect of Ghizer valley who latter were arrested while a large number of offensive literature was taken into the custody by the police but tension still dominates the atmosphere although leaders and notables of both sects had condemned the incident and both sides had played a pivotal role in arrest of the perpetrators who had taken shelter in the valley in the guise of aid workers.
BNS Chief Hamid Khan condemned the spreading of hetred material by a Lahore based banned organization in Ishkoman the peacful Tehsil of Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit) from a government School. The permission given by the Zardari government of Pakistan to settle a terrorist camp in a School of this far flang and disputed region itself clears the intention of the present government about its approach towards the terrorism. On the pressure of the local people Ghazer Police has arrested these terrorists, but theer are confirm reports that a serving colonel of Pakistan Army in Gilgit and ISI is very active to release these terrorists by giving them impunity in the same manner they have been doing in the past. These terrorists are the soldiers of Pakistan Army and doing whatever task they are given.The presence of Lahore based banned organization in Ishkoman is not mere an incident, its an intrigue of ISI to destablise the whole Gilgit Baltistan by terming it as terrorist hub after some ISI staged terrorist attracks. I appeal the people of Gilgit Baltistahn and religious leadersto be careful of foreigners conspiracy against our people, be ubited and don't allow any stranger to come and use your motherland.
BNF Chief condemned teh appelat Court of Gilgit Baltistan Decision and said it is a childesh desire not real one.
Its the habit of some people whose aim is only to write something infavour or critisim not to present the true picture.For the kind information of some misleading that the Supreme Apelate Court has declared Gilgit Baltistan a part of Pakistan. There is no Supreme Court or even High Court in Gilgit Baltistan.The name of "Supreme Appellate Court" is confusing some people but not all. Mr. Abbasi the head of this kangaroo Court is a Pakistani national and presented his loyal views in favour of Pakistan after the so-called Legislative Assembly which is powerless and has no right to legislate against the wishes of its Pakistani masters. Gilgit Baltistan is a disputed territory according to UNCIP resolutions and its out side of Pakistani territory legallay and constitutionally.If this has become part of Pakistan what Mr. Abbasi the imposed head of Appelate Court describes, then he should order the Parliament of Pakistan to make necessary amendments in its constitution and he should also give direction to Supreme Court of Pakistan to declare null and void of its previous judgements, because Abbasi is Supreme. This bragging of Mr. Abbasi the Hazarwal is nothing but an attempt to misguide the masses . If hes has powers even like Hight Court then whay he does not hear the cases of writ petitions against Human Rights violation and why he is here on the mercy of Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan Ministry and why his court and the so-called Assembly have not been given protection of any law and constition.His order is like an order of a king in a film series not a real one.
Gilgit-Baltistan is a disputed territory and Pakistan has no right to exploit local natural resources
The members and supporters of Gilgit Baltistan National Congress (GBNC) gathered at Baltimore, Maryland on July 4, 2010 to appreciate World Bank’s recent decision to refuse funds for Diamer Dam. The dam was going to be constructed in the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan; which is a region of the Princely State of Jammu & Kashmir under Pakistani occupation.
GILGIT: Hundreds of people displaced by the Attabad “landslide” lake on Wednesday came out of their camps in desperation and marched towards their houses located in a zone marked as dangerous by the authorities. They also rejected a relief package announced by the government for them.
“More than 200 people, mostly young men, left their camps in Hunza and marched towards the villages of Attabad and Sarat which have been declared ‘extremely dangerous’ by experts,” sources told The Express Tribune by telephone from Hunza.
The lake was created in January when a massive landslide blocked the flow of the Hunza river, killing 20 people and displacing thousands of others from their villages. The lake submerged four villages upstream besides part of Attabad village. However, experts have warned that the remaining part of Attabad and neighbouring Sarat village are extremely dangerous for living.
The authorities have shifted more than 25,000 people from villages downstream to higher grounds after experts warned last month that several villages would be swept away by a flash flood if the lake burst its banks under mounting pressure.
Earlier desperate villagers had marched towards the spillway dug in the lake, defying all warnings and removing police barricades. They had staged a sit-in there for several hours, threatening to remain there until their demands were accepted by the Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister. Subsequently, the authorities imposed Section 144, banning rallies and gathering of people in Hunza town.
Phandar: Gilgit-Baltistan government has officially announced to boycott Shandur festival as the dialogue between Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government hit a dead lock here the other day.
Well placed sources told this scribe that the meeting took place in a charged atmosphere that was dominated by abusive words being hurled by both sides at each other.
Addressing a press conference after five hours of laborious talks between representatives of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltsitan, the representatives of Gilgit-Baltistan announced failure of the dialogue among the two stake holders and announced to boycott the festival while the polo teams of Gilgit-Baltistan that had already arrived in Shandur were called back.
American Friends of Balochistan -- Liberty is a fundamental right of all nations
Press release
June, 20, 2010
WASHINGTON DC, June 20, 2010: The pro-independence American Friends of Balochistan has lauded the statement of Balochistan national hero Hyrbyair Marri in which he castigated his elder brother Jangyz Marri for becoming a tout of the Pakistani establishment.
The youth of Hunza are protesting under the leadership of Baba Jan against the Pakistani regime evil design to destyroy the whole Hunza by submerging it under water intentionally.
Call to Action by the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) regarding the 1st Anniversary of the Chinese Authorities’ Brutal Killing of an Untold Number of Uyghur Protesters in Urumqi
Dear Mr. Abdul Hakim khan,
As an organisation concerning on the Uyghur cause, we would like to draw your attention to the upcoming first anniversary of the events of 5 July 2009 in Urumqi, the regional capital of East Turkestan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China), when peaceful demonstrations of Uyghur people against government inaction on the killing of at least two Uyghur migrant workers by Han Chinese workers in a toy factory in Guangdong province, were brutally suppressed by Chinese security forces, killing an untold number of Uyghurs.
RAWALPINDI: Continuing his crusade to highlight the plight of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan at the world level, the exiled Chairman of the Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Abdul Hamid Khan called upon the international community to take note of what he said rampant violations by Pakistan of the ethnic, cultural, constitutional and economic rights of the people of the region.Addressing the 14th session of the UN Human Rights Council at Geneva, Khan enumerated the ethno, cultural and economic dimensions of Gilgit-Baltistan and of UN resolutions, says a press released received here. "I am taking this opportunity to introduce my country Balawaristan (Gilgit-Baltistan, Chitral and Shenaki Kohistan) and enlighten you about these regions of great geographic and strategic significance.
GENEVA, June 16, 2010: A young Baloch human rights activist in London and Geneva accused Islamabad and Teheran of carrying out a genocide of the Baloch people.
Noordin Mengal, a grandson of Balochistan independence leader Baba-i-Azadi Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, who is also a grandson of former chief minister and nationalist leader Sardar Ataullah Mengal,
said Balochistan was once a unified and independent country is today divided between three countries -- Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Mengal was speaking at a Press conference at the Geneva Press Club on Wednesday morning, in the presence of aloch people's representative at the U.N. Human Rights Council and general secretary of the Interfaith International, Dr. Charles Graves.
Following is the full text of Mengal's speech:
The oppressed people of Pakistani occupied Balochistan have been victims of five intense military operations by the Pakistan army, since Islamabad invaded Balochistan on the 27th of March 1948 and forcibly incorporated it into Pakistan.
The rogue states of Pakistan and Iran have repeatedly attempted to subdue the Baloch movement for their rights and independence and have been usurping the wealth and natural resources of the Baloch soil.
Pakistan would be unable to sustain its artificial existence without the resources of Balochistan. The Punjabi-Pakistanis and the Iranians have been systematically carrying out what can be called the social, political, economic, cultural, and physical genocide of the Baloch people.
Heinous crimes against humanity are still happening in Balochistan despite Pakistan's ostensible transition to civilian rule.
The fifth and ongoing military operation in Balochistan has resulted in the brutal massacre of thousands of Baloch people including defenseless women and children, resulting in the mass displacements of the people of the districts of Kohlu and Dera Bugti, mainly women and children, due to unabated aerial bombing and ground offensives by the Pakistan army.
Over 7,000 Baloch including politicians, students, teachers, journalists, doctors, writers, intellectuals and human rights defenders have been subjected to enforced and involuntary disappearances whereas many have been victims of targeted killings by the military and the intelligence agencies.
Mutilated corpses of Baloch patriots struggling for the salvation of their motherland have been found after being thrown off from helicopters, hanging off trees, burnt alive in barrels of hot coal tar, or dumped in the desert to rot after inexplicable brutal torture. Peaceful protestors have been suppressed, political representatives arbitrarily detained and the freedom of expression and assembly totally restricted.
The recent killings of members of the Baloch Students Organization in Khuzdar and the unprovoked attacks on cultural events, demonstrations and processions of political parties is another example of the Pakistani state terrorism and justifies the Baloch struggle against the oppressor. A senior Pakistani police official in Balochistan also recently said that they would resort to targeted killings in Balochistan.
Pakistan has also exploited the recent cyclone that has hit Balochistan as an opportunity to deploy additional troops in the coastal areas, not to provide relief, but to further suppress the Baloch at a critical time.
Pakistan's eagerness to establish Gwadar port in collaboration with the Chinese along the coast of Balochistan and unjustifiably construct military garrisons all over occupied Balochistan is part of a conspiracy against the Baloch nation in which Pakistan plans to penetrate into and weaken the Baloch political, social and cultural system, loot and plunder the Baloch nation's natural resources, further marginalize the Baloch by encouraging the immigration and settlement of Punjabi and Muhajir settlers from the excessively populated Punjab and Karachi and consequently convert the Baloch people into a minority in their own homeland.
Military garrisons will give Pakistan and its despotic army the potential to further promote and facilitate the growth of fundamentalism and ensure the construction of madrassahs or religious schools in sensitive and secular Baloch areas, providing a harbor and breeding ground to radical religious elements through the state's notorious and malicious intelligence agencies, with the intention to undermine the secular Baloch movement and reap the rewards of the instability in Afghanistan and the region from foreign concerned parties as it has been, therefore endangering regional and global peace and stability.
he Pakistan army's increasing presence all over occupied Balochistan and its atrocities including repeated full-fledged military operations is also a sign of its weakness and fear of the Baloch becoming the masters of their own destiny and proof that the unwavering Baloch movement for independence is strengthening further.
Pakistan is desperately struggling to suppress the voice of the Baloch people at all costs and has resorted to cowardly acts such as enforced disappearances and assassinations of Baloch patriots in hope of impeding political consciousness among the Baloch and to repress the irreversible united struggle for an independent Balochistan.
Pakistan is not only a threat to the Baloch national identity, but also a strong impediment to peace, security, stability and genuine development in the region.
Pakistan's intense violence against the Baloch people and the martyrdom of Baloch national leaders and patriots Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Mir Balach Marri along with Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, Sher Mohammad Baloch, Lala Munir Baloch, Rasool Baksh Mengal, Majeed Baloch, Dr. Khalid Baloch, Diljan Baloch, Meer Jan Meeral and thousands more at the hands of the cowardly and tyrannical Pakistani army has taken the situation to a point of no- return and has only strengthened the Baloch nation's resolve to win its rights and independence from the illegal occupiers of Balochistan.
The Baloch have never accepted the illegal occupation of their land from day one and will resist it till the liberation of the Baloch nation.
We have repeatedly attempted to draw the attention of the international community towards the inhumane atrocities and barbaric terrorism of the Pakistani army in occupied Balochistan and their sinister agendas, but all our efforts have gone in vain. The situation in Balochistan will have dire implications on regional and global peace and stability and for the international community to further ignore will be no less than a crime in itself.
The occupying Punjabi-Pakistan army must leave Baloch soil and Balochistan's independence must be restored again.
HUNZA: Section 144 was imposed as hundreds of local people took upon themselves a much-awaited task of widening the spillway of the Hunza lake amid protests in Aliabad town against police torture of volunteers leaving for the site.
Meanwhile, more homes in the Gojal area could be inundated as water outflow from the Attabad lake spillway rose to 6700 cusecs.
The volunteers broke police barriers and reached the spillway, where they were joined by about 200 people from Gojal, who had arrived by boats.
The protesters condemned the police action against volunteers and blocked the Karakoram Highway for two hours.
They raised slogans against the Gilgit-Baltistan government, former chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, Gen (retd) Farooq Ahmed Khan and former governor Qamar Zaman Kaira and accused them of destroying four settlements in Gojal. They called for a judicial inquiry against the authorities for lack of timely action.
They urged the government to facilitate volunteers in widening the spillway.
“We don’t have any political agenda and we are here to save our villages from further submersion, as the government is following a policy of wait and see, which is detrimental for Gojal tehsil,” a volunteer said.
They warned the government to stop international trade through the lake formed after submersion of their houses and belongings.
They alleged that the government had refused to run ferries for stranded people but was allowing it to Chinese smugglers.
I am taking this opportunity to introduce my country Balawaristan (Pakistan occupied Gilgit Baltistan, Chitral and Shenaki Kohistan) and enlighten the readers about these regions of great geographic and strategic significance. They are referred to as Northern Areas/sparsely populated mountainous region etc, in the UN documents, but now this area has been introduced by one of its name Gilgit Baltistan. Historically it is known as Brooshaal, Bloristan/Balawaristan and Dardistan.
BNF Chairman Abdul Hamid Khan addressed the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, drawing attention to violations of free speech and expressions.
The Chairman of the Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Abdul Hamid Khan has drawn the attention of the international community towards what he said rampant violation of freedom of speech and expression in Gilgit-Baltistan. He said under the 'colonial' rule of Pakistan, people in general and nationalists in particular in the disputed region, which is recognized as such under UNCIP resolution of 13 August 1948, even cannot dream of freedom of expression and speech.
ROME: The Radical Party in the Italian parliament has given membership to Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Chairman Abdul Hamid Khan in recognition of his services for highlighting the plight of the people of his region at the international level and suffering exile for it.
The Radical Party in the Italian parliament has given membership to BNF Chairman Abdul Hamid Khan in recognition of his services for highlighting the plight of the people of his region at the international level and suffering exile for it.
Noting the climatically impact which the region of Gilgit Baltistan is witnessing (mountain sliding and heavy rain), loss of lives and properties due to the construction of different water dams, and the use of toxic material when exploring the mines in the Gilgit Baltistan mountain area;
Noting that the geography and weather of Gilgit Baltistan as well as of the neighboring central Asian countries (Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan) and even India will change dramatically due to the dam constructions in the area;
Noting the failure and apathy of the UN, in spite of the UNSC guarantee, regarding the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our land which is being violated by grapping Shandur, Baboosar, Kohistan, Chitral and ceding parts of Hunza to China;
Therefore we, the UNPO General Assembly:
Condemn the presence of Pakistani forces, which is posing threat to the life, dignity, fundamental economic, social and political rights and even the very existence of the indigenous people.
Condemn the construction of the Bhasha Dam, the Bunji Dam as well as other five mega dams which are destructing and submerging huge rare monuments and have caused grave consequences to the existence of the whole region;
Condemn the displacement of the indigenous people, which changes the demography as well as the geography of the disputed colony of Pakistan;
Condemn the leases for mining of precious metals (in 2000) given to Pakistani and Chinese companies by the Pakistani authorities without having right to this land;
Sub: Violation of UN Resolutions and Universal Declaration in Gilgit
I avail myself of the honour to bring to your kind notice, the present grave violations of UN charters and resolutions, for necessary record and action.
The arrest of leaders of Gilgit Baltistan and J&K, inflicting on them forceful Exile to Pakistan today at 03:30 hours in the darkness of night from Gilgit city, is a serious violation of UN charters and UNCIP resolutions.
I, on behalf of Gilgit Baltistan Democratic alliance(GBDA), condemn this Martial Law order of FCGB (Field Commander Gilgit Baltistan) in this last Colony in the hands of the so-called democratic government of Pakistan.
Baltistan Democratic Alliance (GBDA) based in Gilgit and All Parties National Alliance (APNA) which is based in Rawalpindi Pakistan are alliance. This is an alliance of the nationalist parties from Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu & Kashmir, while GBDA is based in Gilgit, which therefore demand for freedom from the colonial occupation of Pakistan.
On 27th April 2010. Mirza Wajahat Hassan, Presidnet Gilgit Baltistan Thinkers Forum (GBTF) and Chairman of APNA, Arif Shahid, Genral Secretary APNA, Prof. Mohammad Abdul Rzaq Khan Khalique, Ex President of JK NAP and Spokesman of APNA, Sardar Saghir Chairman JKLF, Mr. Sabir Kashmiri, Jammu & Kashmiri Liberation Front (JKLF) Rauf Kashmiri Group, Col. (Retd) Nadir Hassan, Mehmood Baig, Ex resident Bar Council Jammu & Kashmir Muzafarabad and Mr. Mohhad Farooq Advocate, Chairman Karakorum National Moment (KNM) were arrested and were forcibly sent to exile to Rawalpindi Pakistan by the orders of Pakistan Army. GBDA had organized a public gathering on 28th April and invited its Alliance, the APNA, to address the audience in Gilgit against the Karachi agreement of 28th April 1949. This is a total violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is quoted below .
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. Article 9
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Whereas, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.
Arbitrary arrest, torture, detention and exile is the daily routine of the occupying regime of Pakistan, because of no higher and independent judiciary system and representation in any Parliament. Human Rights organizations and independent media is out of question in this area. Hundreds and hundreds of local people were put behind bars for their religious and political differences and many political leaders including Mr. Wajahat Hassan, Ex member of NA Council and Col. Nadir Hassan were arrested and were forcibly sent to exile to Pakistan from their home in Gilgit on 1st Nov. 2009, when they tried to hold peaceful public gathering during election campaign. Indigenous people are given death sentences without giving them any right to justice in any High Court or Supreme Court.
Article 19:
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression, this right includes freedom to hold opinion without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
The people of Gilgit Baltistan cannot even dream of the freedom of expression. The fundamentalist religious groups, pro-Pakistani parties and terrorist groups have been given the freedom of expression and movement. It has already been mentioned that more than 200 people are facing sedition charges, when they only tried to peacefully express their views in the public. Many people had been sent behind bars when they tried to express themselves. Many have been tortured, kidnapped and thousands were killed by declaring them as Sooni or Shia
Article 20:
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
2. No one may be compelled to belong to an association.
Only the Pro-Pakistani and religious fundamentalist parties have the right to assembly. Even in the last so-called elections, hundreds of GBDA (Gilgit Baltistan democratic Alliance) workers and leaders were detained, tortured, threatened and exiled, when they announced for a peaceful assembly on 31st October 2009. People are compelled to join Pakistani parties and groups by threatening them with economical bars.
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification by General Assembly resolution 2200 A (XXI) of 16th December 1966. Entry in to force on 23rd March 1976 in accordance with Article 49 Preamble:
Considering that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the charter of the United Nations, recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Recognizing this, in accordance with Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ideal of free human beings enjoying freedom from fear and want can only be achieved if conditions are created whereby everyone may enjoy his economic, social and cultural rights, as well as his civil and political rights, as well as economical, considering the obligation of the States under the charter of the United Nations to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and freedom.
The 2 million indigenous people, except Pakistani settlers, are not even aware of UN guaranteed Economical, Social, Cultural, Civil and Political Rights. In spite of abundant Gold mines, Uranium, Aquamarine, Ruby, Emerald and other precious and Industrial mines, huge tourism potential, trade with China, water resources, the people of this area live below poverty line, because all their resources are plundered by Pakistanis and are spent in and sent to Pakistan. About 2000 Minerals leases have been given to Pakistani nationals and Chinese by ignoring this UN resolution. The people of this region do not yet know what Social rights in UN documents mean. The hospitality of this region was exemplary and the social character was so high that no other area of the world could be compared to it, but this was so before 1971. Late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, hatched a conspiracy to hold Pakistan’s iron grip over this area after 1971 by sending their immoral civil and Military force, not only to systematically disturb its social behavior but also the legal, economical and ethic values of Gilgit Baltistan. Due to Pakistani slow invasion, besides its high valued social behavior, the Unique Culture and economic independence of this region has also been disrupted by its Military and civil regime with the help of its corrupt nationals and media.
Pakistani occupant regime has been providing huge funds to promote their own culture and language and discouraging the unique culture and languages of Gilgit Baltistan and Chitral. The people of this region are not aware of Civil and Political Rights, because of this occupation since 16th November 1947.
On 28th April 1949 UNCIP had inked a TRUCE TERMS agreement between India and Pakistan. According to the Truce Terms Pakistan had to withdraw all its forces from Gilgit Baltistan and its occupied Jammu & Kashmir within the period of 3 months. The UN commission had notified that while India had to withdraw bulk of its forces, Pakistani nationals and their forces had to be withdrawn from this region. On the other side, government of Pakistan had made a fraudulent agreement with two leaders of its occupied J&K, Sardar Mohammad Ibrahim and Choudhry Ghulam Abbas by keeping the people of Gilgit Baltistan in the dark.
This is an irony, in spite of clear UNCIP resolution for withdrawal of Pakistani forces, Pakistan multiplied its forces by 1000 folds and settled its fundamentalist nationals on the soil of Gilgit Baltistan. The presence of Pakistani forces is posing a grave threat to the life, dignity, fundamental economic, social, political and the very existence of the indigenous people. It may be called a failure or apathy from the part of the UN that, in spite of the UNSC guarantee, the territorial integrity and sovereignty of this land is being violated by engulfing Shandur, Baboosar, Kohistan, Chitral and ceding parts of Hunza to China and now in the shape of Bhasha Dam, Bunji Dam and 5 other mega dams, destroying and submerging huge rare monuments, and displacement of the indigenous people, which obviously changes the demography as well as geography of this disputed colony under Pakistan. Three people were killed and many were injured by Pakistani occupying regime in Chilas, when they protested against the forceful occupation of their lands for Bhasha Diamar dam. It is a total apathy that the right to freedom for the 2 million people, as guaranteed by UN, according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is openly dishonoured.
Abdul Hamid Khan
Chairman
Balawaristan National Front (BNF)
Head Office: Majini Mahla, Gilgit, Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan)
ISLAMABAD: The secretary general of Gilgit-Baltistan Democratic Alliance (GDBA), Mr Burhanullah, has said those who are branding the nationalist parties as agents will soon realize that who work against the interests of the nation.We are not agents of anyone, we are the agent of the nation," he said in a statement. He said their struggle was based on long-run interests of the region and it would bring fruits soon. He said that the package given by Pakistan was a fraud and did not meet the aspirations of the people of the region. The powers being enjoyed by the local rulers under the new package has made it very clear that they are working for the interest of others, he added.He said the performance of the government formed under the Self Governance Order 2009 has become clear in the wake of the Atabad crisis.
Baang Report
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Abdul Hamid Khan has condemned the criminal negligence and apathy of the government of Pakistan towards the calamity-hit people of Attabad. He said the colonial rulers and military establishment of Pakistan deliberately let the situation to reach such a disastrous level so that the people of the region are eliminated at the hands of the disaster.In a statement issued from Brussels, Mr. Khan said this was not for the first time that the rulers of Pakistan had meted out such an inhuman treatment to the masses in distress. He cited the experience of 2005 earthquake when there were misuse and abuse of billions of aid given by donor agencies. "We should not forget the plight of poor women displaced by the 2005 earthquake who ended up in the brothels of Pakistan. This mafia led many Kashimiri girls into forced prostitution. The people of this region are witnessing another disastrous Pakistani regime's apathy towards human beings in distress.
NEW DELHI: Cocking a snook at Pakistan yet again, India is planning to organise another civilian trekking expedition to the forbidding SiachenGlacier-Saltoro Ridge region in September-October this year. The first edition of this civilian trek to Siachen in 2007 had riledPakistan no end, which had held that opening the "disputed territory'' for tourism would lead to "serious consequences'' and "vitiate the atmosphere for the peace process''.
Date: 14th May 2010
His Excellency
Mr. Ban-Ki-Moon
Secretary General
UNO, New York
Sub:Urgent Help the peopole of Hunza
I would like to your kind notice an urgent matter of the concerned area; as a result of criminal negligence of Pakistani occupying regime ,particularly the Military Engineering Corps, the artificial lake in Attaabad Hunza will burst shortly.This will destroy more than 100 villages on the route and cause displacement of thousands people forever, on Hunza and Nagir river bank up to Chilas of Diamar district on Karakorum Highway.
I request you to please take this issue as most serious to save the life and property of the villagers. Pakistan Army Engineers have stationed some of their cranes, which are engaged high there up to the level of Water, and left many as villages in front of that blocked water mass which can explode anytime and can wash away all the fertile agricultural lands and everything in its way upto Diamar and Kohistan. This catastrophe has already consumed 19 lives of villagers and has already submerged 7 whole villages with great loss to livestock as well.
Irony of situation is instead of helping local affected people there , Pakistanis have found this as opportunity to sell basic amenities to helpless people blocked there and those people are simply looted as they been already shredded of their land , livestock homes and shelter. Those people have absolutely no buying power and Pakistanis are making it business point there, I appeal for urgent International aid for affected people and request for direct distributions of food and amenities as I fear if Pakistani Army will be chosen for this purpose , it will all go into their pockets and personal use as they been doing in the past POK earthquake in 2005.
On the other hand Pakistani colonial power is abusing Military power to crush the local indigenous people of Diamar Chilas for the construction a mega dam "Basha Diamar" of Gilgit Baltistan. Two people were killed and many were injured when they protested against the construction of the dam in Chilas, which is disputed part of J&K.The colonial regime of Pakistan wants to build Meda Dams by force, which should not be allowed.
I on behalf of the people of Hunza apppeal the UN to send urgent experts for accessment and necessary aid for the affected people of the natural lake which has submerged all the houses, crop fields, orchards and lifestalks of 7 villages in Hunza. Its our appeal to the world community, give aid dirctly to the affected people, otherwise aid will go in to pockets of Military and civil regime of Pakistan and their local puppets.
The latest update of today tells that Ata Abad’s devil lake in Hunza has risen more than 320 feet high and 18 kms upstream with an approximate volume of 1.2 million acre feet water. There is about 45 feet height left or overtopping of water. FWO has excavated only about 43 feet deep spillway in four months period. Initially in winter season water was rising at the rate of 1.4 feet per day which has now risen to 4.5 – 5 feet per day. Every day water intake is increasing. 20 kms of KKH along with its longest bridge have already submerged. After submerging the village of Ayeenabad, Shishkat village’s lower half has also drowned in water. The rest of the village is cut off from both sides with only access by boat. Dam has now hit Gulmit, Ghulkin and Hussani villages’ low laying areas. In the next few days Gulmit bazaar’s 120 shops, 38 houses, one community centre, thousands of kanals of lands and domesticated plants along with 5 kilometer of the strategic Karakoram Highway and 3 bridges, the largest hotel (Silk Route Lodge) will be under water. This will cut KKH at the point Ghulkin Glacier snout disconnecting Gulmit and Ghulkin villages from rest of the world as these villages are already disconnected from downstream.
The Press Freedom Day was recently observed in the world including Gilgit-Baltistan. The day is observed worldwide every year to highlight issues confronting media persons and organizations and the states’ responsibilities to resolve them and provide a safe and congenial atmosphere to the journalists. However, media persons as well as publishers in almost every country today are faced with serious issues. This has become more formidable in the wake of the so-called war on terrorism. Those engaged with the profession of journalism are not only facing life threats but also suffering financial constraints to perform their duties in a free atmosphere. Today the region of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral remains safe from the menace of terrorism because it neither harbors any terrorist nor promotes elements of terror. However, it is also a fact that Gilgit-Baltistan is the only colony of the world even in the 21st century where ominous clouds of another type of worst and horrible terrorism still refuse to subside. For the last about 63 years, this region while in search of its basic rights has been suffering from all types of intimidations and injustices at the hands of the rulers of Pakistan and the international community.
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Though this is not abnormal in Balawaristan, we the people of Gilgit Baltistan are always proud of our unique culture, tradition and hospitality. Mr. Essa Khan is not a Pakistani citizen, becasue he belongs to a disputed region Gilgit Baltistan which is under occupation of Pakistan for the last 62 years. This is the culture of our Motherland, that the doors of our houses are never closed, because our people do not fear of theft. 50000 Dollars or pounds are nothing for even a poor person with compare to his tradition and honour in our society.
GILGIT: Hundreds of people displaced by the Attabad “landslide” lake on Wednesday came out of their camps in desperation and marched towards their houses located in a zone marked as dangerous by the authorities. They also rejected a relief package announced by the government for them.
The volunteers broke police barriers and reached the spillway, where they were joined by about 200 people from Gojal, who had arrived by boats.
The latest update of today tells that Ata Abad’s devil lake in Hunza has risen more than 320 feet high and 18 kms upstream with an approximate volume of 1.2 million acre feet water. There is about 45 feet height left or overtopping of water. FWO has excavated only about 43 feet deep spillway in four months period. Initially in winter season water was rising at the rate of 1.4 feet per day which has now risen to 4.5 – 5 feet per day. Every day water intake is increasing. 20 kms of KKH along with its longest bridge have already submerged. After submerging the village of Ayeenabad, Shishkat village’s lower half has also drowned in water. The rest of the village is cut off from both sides with only access by boat. Dam has now hit Gulmit, Ghulkin and Hussani villages’ low laying areas. In the next few days Gulmit bazaar’s 120 shops, 38 houses, one community centre, thousands of kanals of lands and domesticated plants along with 5 kilometer of the strategic Karakoram Highway and 3 bridges, the largest hotel (Silk Route Lodge) will be under water. This will cut KKH at the point Ghulkin Glacier snout disconnecting Gulmit and Ghulkin villages from rest of the world as these villages are already disconnected from downstream.