Gilgit Baltistan: Demands relief package for the snow-affected areas.

Skardu Baltistan:3rd January 2009

“The masses of Gilgit Baltistan are living a miserable life due to sever cold and record snowfall but the government has done nothing to help them resolve their miseries.”
These views were expressed by Manzoor Hussain Parwana chairman Gilgit Baltistan United Movement while talking to the journalists here at Skardu.

He said that the masses of the region were dying of severe cold as there was no fuel available in the region except timber which too was not available in a sufficient amount.
The condition of the basic health units established in various rural areas of the region was abysmal as they lacked medicine and other health care facilities.

Heavy snowfall had disrupted the transport system so the people living in the far-flung rural areas did not even have to option to access to secondary health care facilities established in the district headquarters. Food and other basic utilities too were going to unavailable.

He demanded of the government to announce a relief package for the masses of Gilgit Baltistan. If Pakistan is not capable to running the affairs of the region, why it is clinging on to the region? He asked.

Parwana slammed the bureaucracy and said the non-local officers were the root cause of these miseries of the masses. Non- locals are given the reins of the region who have not even visited the region before being bestowed with key posts. How will they serve the region as they don’t have the slightest idea of the problems of the masses?


Issued By
Manzoor Hussain Parwana
Chairman GBUM
Skardu Baltistan
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Gilgit Baltistan: SAC Appointment Angers

Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Recent appointment to SAC angers local population.

Below is an article published by UNPO

In reaction to the recent appointment of former Supreme Court of Pakistan judge to the Supreme Appellate Court, or SAC, or Gilit Baltistan, the Chairman of the Gilgit Baltistan United Movement stated:

“The rulers of Pakistan are hell-bent on strengthening the roots of colonial system of governance in Gilgit Baltistan but the voice for self-rule rising against the unjust and cruel means of the rulers is indicative of a big nationalist revolution in the region.”

The leaders of the Gilgit Baltistan community have deemed this appointment “illegal” and “an extension of the de-facto rule” of Pakistani authorities over the region. The move has also been viewed as an insult to the Giligt Baltistan and a false front for democratic legitimacy.

They are calling for the local population to speak out against this move with the hopes of moving for an indigenous judge to fill the seat.

Reference: http://www.unpo.org/content/view/9151/254/

Gilgit Baltistan:The miseries of people increasing day by day

Appointment of SAC chief aimed to suppress people’s voice: GBUM

Skardu: 27 January 2008

“The rulers of Pakistan are hell-bent on strengthening the roots of colonial system of governance in Gilgit Baltistan but the voice for self-rule rising against the unjust and cruel means of the rulers is indicative of a big nationalist revolution in the region.”

These views were expressed by Chairman Gilgit Baltistan United Movement while reacting to the appointment of an ex-Supreme Court of Pakistan judge as the chief of the Supreme Appellate Court (SAC) of Gilgit Baltistan.

Manzoor Hussain Parwana said the appointment of a non-local, retired and above all a PCO judge as chief of the SAC was a joke with the people of Gilgit Baltistan.
Such steps illustrates the intention of colonial masters to safeguard the imposing system in the region and suppress the rising voice of the masses for their basic legitimate rights and prolong the de-facto control.

The appointment of the outsider and a retired judge on the post ignoring the adequate and indigenous judge had also exposed the hollow claims of government to give the local people a democratic setup. He added

He announced to launch a movement for attaining the basic rights of the local people and call the masses to join hand with nationalist movement to resist against the illegal appointment of the non-local judge in the region.


Issued By
Gilgit Baltistan United Movement
Skardu Baltistan

Govt accused of injustice in Gilgit Baltistan

23 January 2009


Govt accused of injustice in Gilgit Baltistan

SKARDU, Jan 22: GilgitBaltistan is fast slipping into poverty, joblessness, social injustice and backwardness due to the illplanned policies and coloniallike system of government, an activist said.
Talking to a delegation of youth in Islamabad, GilgitBaltistan United Movement Manzoor Hussain Parwana said: “The major reason behind the economic decline in GilgitBaltistan is ‘conspiracies’ by Pakistani ruling class due to which no industry was set up in the region during the last six decades and the locals were also not allowed to set up small-scale industries.” Mr Parwana said it was an irony that the graduating students of Gilgit-Baltistan failed to get jobs in their region despite having the required qualifications. Outsiders are given priority over the local residents in bureaucracy, judiciary and administration. A large number of locals are now jobless, he added.
“Gilgit-Baltistan, the last colony of the world, has become heaven for the retired civil and military bureaucracy of Pakistan. All administrative and key posts are reserved for non-locals to strengthen the control on the region,” he remarked.
Mr Parwana asked the government to change its “discriminatory attitude” towards the region otherwise “the continuing the suppression will not be as easy as it had been in the past.”—Correspondent

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Gilgit Baltistan:Appoinment of non-local judge condemned

Gilgit Baltistan leader offers Congratulation to Obama

Gilgit Baltistan United Movement a pro-democracy and pro-independent organization based in Skardu, Pakistan control part of Kashmir has congratulated President Barack Hussain Obama on his assumption of office as the 44th President of the United States.
This is contained in a statement by Manzoor Hussain Parwana, Chairman of the movement. Parwana expressed the hope that Obama would use his influences to restore the sovereignty of small nations of the world such as Palestine, Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.
The issue of Gilgit Baltistan needed due concentration of the world body because the 2 million people of the region is facing wrath colonization last six decades. Gilgit Baltistan not existed at the map of any country in the world nor it has its constitutional assembly nor comprised in any state assembly.


Issued by
Gilgit Baltistan United Movement
Skardu Baltistan
Date 21/1/2009