BRUSSELES: Balawaristan National Front (BNF) has appealed to the international community to come to the help of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan which has been ravaged by the recent rains and floods and where hundreds of people have been killed and property worth billions of rupees lost.In a statement, BNF Chairman Abdul Hamid Khan asked the world to provide relief items like food, medicines, clothing and materials used for reconstruction of houses. He said the aid should be given to the affected people directly instead of being channeled though the government of Pakistan. Mr khan also announced Rs one million for the affected people and asked the world to generously help the victims who have lost

Gilgit Baltistan United Movement - Appeal for Funds for Flood Victims of Gilgit Baltistan‏
Kargil-Skardo and Astore-Srinagar Road Should be Opened Immediately to Provide Relief

International community is requested to play greater role in providing relief to the flood victims of Gilgit Baltistan (GB). The region is cut off from rest of the world for the last twenty days due to flashfloods and landslides. Commodity and food prices have skyrocketed and causing famine like situation. Many villages have been flattened. Lack of medicines have caused endemic diseases to impact large parts of the region. Manzoor Parwana, the Chairman of GBUM said, "GB is a disputed territory under Pakistani occupation. The people of GB have no hope from Pakistani government since the country itself is in crisis and the regime lacks the capacity and the will to provide for the millions of flood victims in rest of the country. While the rulers look towards the international community for help, the relief is coming at much slower pace due to lack of credibility of the Pakistani authorities, who embezzled billions of rupees of relief funds during the 2005 earthqauke in Pakistani occupied Kashmir. Given the circumstances, international community and especially neighboring countries of GB have to enhance their direct influence in the relief work."

Kargil-Skardo and Astore-Srinagar Road Should be Opened Immediately to Provide Relief

International community is requested to play greater role in providing relief to the flood victims of Gilgit Baltistan (GB). The region is
cut off from rest of the world for the last twenty days due to flashfloods and landslides. Commodity and food prices have skyrocketed
and causing famine like situation. Many villages have been flattened.

CHITRAL: Residents of the entire Chitral valley even at town area facing great problems due to non availability of edible things like Ghee, Flour and Sugar. These things also not available at Utility stores of Chitral. A number of consumers complained that local hoarders of Chitral have concealed and hidden these food items before coming of the Holy Month of Ramzan so as to raise their prices. They complained that local administration have kept silent spectator and taking no action against these hoarders. Murad Ali from Mastuj told this scribe that he is walking in Chitral market searching for Ghee, cooking oil and Sugar but he failed as well as main road of Mastuj also blocked and he will shift these things by back if he success to get these essential items. Supply of electricity and drinking water still suspended and people facing great hardships. A number of consumers complained that local hoarders have took edible things under ground they want to carry some goods via Bajawar and they will raise prices of different items already they have hidden on the pretext that they carried these goods from Peshawar and they faced huge expenditure despite that they have hidden these things only for raising its prices. People of Chitral have appeal provincial as well federal government to take action against these hoarders and arrange for supplying of essential edible things to Chitral so as to save the people from Starvation.

Appeal for Humanitarian Aid for Gilgit-Baltistan

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Brussels: Balawaristan National Front (BNF) has expressed shock over widespread devastations brought by the recent rains and floods in Gilgit-Baltistan, Kohistan and Chitral and condoled loses of so many precious lives during the tragedy.

We announce with painful grief that 52 people have died and 160 rendered homeless in the village Qamrah of occupied Gilgit Baltistan region, and  22 have died, 40 rendered homeless in village Talas, 45 died and 70 injured in Giyes of Diamar. Similarly, in Talas 22 people were killed and 40 houses destroyed while in Hotoo, Rondu, Darel, Tangir, Botogah, Khinar, Thor, Hoodoor,Babusar,  Gini,  Hunza Nagir, Chhamoogardh Colony of Konodas and Skarkooi, Gilgit,  Ghowadi Baltistan, Yasen,  Gulaper, Isshqaman, Damas, Ginday, Sandhi,  Hondoor, Dahrkoot, Mastuj, Booni, Garam Chashma, Yarkhoon in Chitral, and Koli and Pattan in Kohistan over 500 people have lost their lives whereas, more than half a million have become homeless and nearly 50,000 families have completely lost everything, including land, shelter, livestock and all means of living. This is initial information which chages with the passage of every hour. In such a situation of crisis we can no longer hook our expectations to seeking action from the Govt. of Pakistan National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) or its occupant agencies, due to the obvious role they played in the 2005 earthquake in Kashmir under General Musharraf's established organization during the rule of his marshal law. In the 2005 earthquake, under the leadership of Gen. Nadeem (he is heading NDMA even today), the NDMA not only extensively embezzled foreign aid but also in the name of Islamic brotherhood innocent and helpless young girls were deceived and sold in the brothels across Pakistan.
The foreign aid, instead, was directed to further consolidate the Pakistan Army camps in Pak occupied Kashmir.

After the sliding of heavy mountain in Attaabad Hunza, the significant role which DMA played, in letting the lakes build and rise, culminated in the submerging of the whole of Gojal, whereas in the name of constructing a spill way the Pakistan Army swindled 350 million Rupees by just digging a thin shallow channel, instead. Apart from this the elements under the patronage of Zardari, who are busy in plundering and looting instead of providing aid, are actively engaged in bloodsheding and killing in Gilgit with the help of their intelligence agencies. Through the hands of such unscrupulous and corrupt organizations, which are working under such individuals, not even 1 percent of the aid is going to reach the affected people.


It should be remembered that, since Jan. 2010 all affected inhabitants of Gojal Hunza, whose homes, land, property and livestock have all drowned, are still awaiting aid. On one hand the whole of Gojal is submerged deep and on the other hand Pakistan Army is busy in stealing Uranium and gold in Shoomshaal Hunza. Whereas, in Choopoorsun Hunza, China is extracting minerals required in space technology. In addition to this, the indigenous people are being dragged into further poverty by leasing out gold and other mineral assets of this disputed region, worth tillions of dollars, to Pakistani and foreign companies. Whereas, the locally elected representatives have neither got any access to financial resources nor they have any administrative authority, to the extent that they cannot even have a right to speak on the matters related law and order situation in the region.

In such a critical time of devastation wreaked by these torrential rains, we appeal to the United Nations, European Union, United States, Canada, Japan and other developed nations and donor agencies that instead of handing out aid money to any Pakistani organization, food, especially wheat, clothings, blankets, bedding, and other necessary construction equipment for sheltering the disaster-struck people should be promptly delivered to the affected regions directly through the airports in Askardu, Gilgit and Chitral, in order to ensure that the aid is well out of the reach of unscrupulous individuals or village organizations. Meanwhile, Balawaristan National Front announces a meager aid of worth Rs 10 lack (one million Pakistani Rupees equal to 11,667 USD) goods, for those in extreme distress and need.

LEH: The toll in the devastating flash floods caused by Friday's cloudburst in Leh town of Jammu and Kashmir has risen to 165, even as 81 foreign tourists were rescued by the Indian Air Force from Zanskar Valley of Ladakh region, police said Tuesday.

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GILGIT: Torrential rains, floods and landsliding brought widespread destruction to Gilgit-Baltistan killing about 100 people and damaging properties worth billions of rupees on Saturday alone.
However, the exact figures of casualties and intensity of destructions to public and private properties could not be ascertained as communication links to far-off areas especially Ghizer and Skardu remained disconnected.
The rains triggered landslides that washed away scores of houses and buried 45 people in Qumara village, some 30km south of Skardu. The bodies of eight people had been recovered so far and the others were still missing.
Official sources said rescue and search operation for the missing had been stopped due to blocked roads and rainfall.

Even the idea, let alone passage, of the so-called 'condemnation resolution' bulldozed by Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) in its seventh sitting was farce and beyond the jurisdiction of the house. No country or even a part of it notwithstanding its size and standing in the world can think of passing a resolution challenging its own survival and legitimacy. The resolution moved by Muttabat Shah has condemned India for raising the Gilgit-Baltistan issue as a disputed region and stopping the World Bank from providing funds to Pakistan for the construction of Diammer-Bhasha Dam in the region. It said the objective of the Indian campaign was to keep Gilgit-Baltistan in perpetual poverty and backwardness and fulfill the conspiracies of international element. The resolution also asked Pakistan to take stringent action against the Indian designs and expose it at the international level. It also claimed that the people of Gilgit-Baltistan had seceded to India through consensus after getting freedom from the Dogra rule over six decades back and still followed their decision happily. The resolution was passed 'unanimously' without any debate in the house.

GILGIT: Over 20 people lost their lives when flash floods triggered by heavy rain battered Gilgit-Baltistan. Houses and bridges were damaged, farmland inundated, landslides blocked several roads and rivers continued to swell to alarming proportions.
According to official sources, five girls were among eight people killed on Wednesday night in Gilgit-Baltistan. The administration declared an emergency in Gilgit and called in troops for rescue and relief work.  Five people drowned when a bridge collapsed and their vehicle fell into a river in Baltistan, sources in the regional Disaster Management Authority said. The car was going from Skardu to Gultari. Two girls were swept away by hill torrents in Tangir valley of Diamer district. A boy was killed in Gahkooch area of Ghizer district. Landslides in Ghizer, Hunza-Nagar, Astore and Baltistan blocked roads linking the districts with the rest of the country. 
Gilgit River burst its banks and entered the premises of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly in Chinar Bagh, the Grand Continental Hotel and Canopy Nexus lawns. The flood inundated roads leading to the assembly and about 300 houses in Basin on the outskirts of the city.
Chief Minister Mehdi Shah suspended an assembly session, visited the affected areas in Basin and ordered the departments concerned to arrange relief for people.
Torrential rains damaged the Karakoram Highway at three points between Gilgit and Hunza-Nagar and the Gilgit-Skardu road at two places. Boat service in the Hunza lake was suspended, adding to the hardship of the people of Hunza-Gojal.

Four bridges have also been swept away by the rising flood in various parts of the region, isolating it from the rest of the country.
In district Diamer, seven people were killed in flood related incidents, Home Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan Asif Lodhi told The News by phone. He said three girls died after a bridge was swept away by floods in Chilas. “We are collecting data from different districts and fear that the losses can go much higher,” Lodhi said. He said that the damage to the infrastructure could be very high but the complete picture of devastation caused by the rains would be clear once they received data from various district heads.

BRUSSELES: Chairman Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Abdul Hamid Khan has rejected the resignation of Syed Haider Shah Rizvi from basic membership of the party and the post of vice chairman and directed him to continue work.

GILGIT: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led federal government has tried to mislead the national as well as the international community about the status of Gilgit-Baltistan by illegally introducing the so-called self-empowerment and good governance order of 2009.Speaking at the third annual convention of Balawaristan National Students Organization (BNSO) here, nationalist and student leaders said bids and conspiracies to eliminate the separate and unique identity of Gilgit-Baltistan started in 1840 which reached its climax in 1947.

Chitral besieged due to havoc rian and flash flood. Communication system compounded.

CHITRAL: Due to continue rain and havoc flood and land sliding people of Chitral besieged in the valley. Some 22 houses were damaged in Bumborate of Kalsh valley while main road to Bumborate and Rumbor valley have been blocked for all type of vehicular traffic at Dobash. Similarly Garamchishma, Tehsil Lutko, Tehsil Mulko, Torkoh, Booni, Madaglasht, Mastuj and Peshawar roads are still blocked for traffic. So many shops and stores and some houses also damaged by heavy flood at Garamchishama, Booni, Karimabad etc. 

Brussels: The United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), has
strongly reacted on this news and called upon world community to come
forward to save Kashmiri people and specially the young school going
girls which are vulnerable and at the target of the personnels of
secret agencies of Pakistan freely and independently and with dominant
authority residing in the Pakistani Occupied Kashmir.

Chitral --:All the four tributaries of Garam Chashma river are in high floods for some time causing huge destruction in the low land areas specially Garam Chashma town. At least nine shops have been washed away . The occupants were able to save some valuables while structures and less valuable items have been washed away. Embankments constructed by the Government or on self help basis have been destroyed. The total loss is worth millions of rupees . In the upland areas pastures ,plantation ,standing crops and fruit gardens have been washed away. There are reports of loss of livestock which are yet to be confirmed, because the cattle are now in the very high altitude which are still inaccessible due to inclement weather. Garam Chashma remains cut off from Chitral town for the last 48 hours and students desiring to appear in entry tests are stranded in Garam Chashma, and their careers are at risk.
 

The losses have been aggravated by encroachments in river banks and uncontrolled grazing in upland areas which the Government has so far failed to regulate. Under the law of the land the Government is responsible to regulate the use of these lands and grant user rights to people which it has not done despite the people having brought it to the notice of the Government in the background of the earlier floods in 2005. The people hold government apathy or collusion with land grabbers responsible for their woes year after year.
 

The present floods are yet another eye opener for the Government. If it still fails to discharge its duty the people’s patience would run out or the Government would continue repairing the damages year after year at huge cost to public exchequer.
 

We hope that the government would wake up to its responsibilities before it is too late by managing the glaciers, regulating use of pasture lands , removing encroachments on river banks and widening them to allowing floods to pass, apart from constructing protective walls on both sides of the river specially in vulnerable areas.-- (Report by Islamuddin , 29 July 10)

WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s obsession with India is leading it to “dig its own grave” as the ISI’s “destructive role” now stands exposed in the wake of the revelations by classified intelligence documents, a leading US lawmaker has said.

Its a new attempt by the so-called Assembly of GB which demands that “service structure of the judges of the Supreme Appellate Court be modified to bring it in line with that of the rest of the judges in Pakistan and AJK”.
It should be noted before any such demand, that the whole system of Gilgit Baltistan including GB Assembly, Council and Appelant Court or Chief Court is illegal and unconstitutional. The resolutions of GB Assembly are not binding, because there is no law or constitution to protect the resolutions of GB and verdicts of Appelant Court. The legislation of Pakistani Parliament has the backing og its constitution and the limited legislation of AJK Assembly is also protected by its constitution. But this is the only disputed terriotory which is controled by illegal and unconstitutional orders of Pakistanis by direction of its forces.
Its the moral duty and duty of thier Motherland of GB Assemby to demand for its own independent constitution and control the resources of the land. This is the last chance for the members of of this so-called Assembly to represent of thier motherland and not become the puppets of foreigners, otherwise the coming generation will not tolerate of their betrayal.

GILGIT: Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Mehdi Shah on Monday said that the degrees of all government officials serving in various departments in Gilgit-Baltistan would be sent for verification.

CHITRAL: The members of the Chitral Mines Association and leaders of different political parties on Tuesday urged Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti to order probe into irregularities in the award of lease of mines.

Educational and Economic Measures must be taken to Preserve and Protect the Fona and Wildlife of the Mountainous Regions of Gilgit Baltistan, before its to Late.

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.