Gilgit Baltistan: Corrupt system wreaks havoc on the masses
SKARDU
18 February 2013
Chairman of the
Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement (GBUM) Manzoor Hussain Parwana has said that
due to incompetency and lack of vision on part of the so-called political leaders
and rulers of the region, the lives of the residents have become miserable.
These corrupt elements occupying key government posts are wreaking havoc with
the system of governance that was already disputed and fraught with hollowness.
The prominent nationalist leader of the region dwelt at length on the poor
socio-economic situation, lack of peace, unemployment and backwardness of the
area.
He said that when
the provincial government was established, there was a ray of hope among the
masses that now their issues lingering for the last so many decades may be
resolved. However, just four years down the lane the reality on the ground has
dawned upon the people and they have become more hopeless and disgruntled than
ever before. Rising unemployment, lack of peace, backwardness and above all
rampant corruption by the rulers have broken the back of the masses. The
so-called package given to the region in 2009 has worked like rubbing of salt
to the wound of the people while the rulers were exploiting the citizens for
their own vested interests. Parwana said that in order to continue their
king-like lifestyles and corruption, the rulers had divided the people of the
region on the lines of sectarianism and ethnicity. They are also giving the
people the gifts of suicides and income taxes instead of introducing some types
of relief’s for them.
The GBUM chief said that Pakistan Islamabad Pakistan
Mr Parwana
claimed that his party, the GBUM, was the real and true representative party
which had been struggling for achievement of all the basic rights of the people
of the region. He said the leaders of the party had already suffered
imprisonment and harassment because of its unflinching resolve to work for
achievement of the basic rights of the people of the area.
Mr Parwana
demanded that the autonomy order of 2009 should be abolished without any delay
because it had failed to ensure the rights of the people and instead created
more problems for the people of the region. He said Gilgit-Baltistan was a
disputed region and Pakistan
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