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. People belonging to both Shia Imami Ismaili and Sunni sect have been coexisting peacefully in Ghizer valley for hundreds of years and both the sects are interlocked with blood relations that have been a major force promoting peace and mutual respect.
No incident of sectarian violence has ever taken place in the district but non-local people who first came as businessmen and lately occupied the commercial areas of the districts are thought of as fanning sectarianism.
Journalists and people having a keen eye on the developments taking place in the district view the settlement of non-local businessmen in the district as a pre planned conspiracy to convert the majority sect into a minority and see it as a ploy aided and abated by the state machinery. Incidents of sectarian violence in Gilgit-Baltistan follow a similar pattern as inflow of people from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Punjab as businessmen who latter settle in the region and thus the majority sect is converted into minority. “Wherever these non-local businessmen settle, an abrupt surge in drug usage is seen and many a time reported too particularly among the youth” a local journalist covering the district for over a decade observed. 
After the 1988 macabre of Jalalabad valley, eye brows had started to rise on the role of state machinery and it is largely assumed that the establishment has ‘behind-the-scene’ involvement in incidents of sectarian strife. The grotesque indifference as some locals call it and inaction of the Gilgit-Baltistan administration towards the accused NGO has once more strengthened this notion and aided to the lost faith of the local people in the Gilgit-Baltistan administration