ISLAMABAD:
Chairman Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement (GBUM) Manzoor Hussain Parwana has
alleged that the incidents of terrorism in Gilgit-Baltistan are being carried
out with consent of the security establishment. "It's out of question to
carry out any in1cident of terrorism in Gilgit-Baltistan without node from the
military establishment" he added. He said the military and civil
bureaucracy of Pakistan
and the local provincial government of Gilgit-Baltistan were misinterpreting
incidents of terrorism as sectarianism to hide their own incompetence.
"Had the massacres in Kohistan, Chilas, Babusar and Lolasar been sectarian
in nature, the Sunnis of Chilas won't have saved lives of hundreds of people in
during Gunar farm fiasco and the Shias of Baltistan won't have acted to save
lives of Sunnis in Skardu in the aftermath of the terrorist incidents" he
observed. He said terrorists were running rampage on the KKH and writ of the
state existed nowhere. "The agencies are but watching spill of innocent
blood on the highways" he added. He blew upon the provincial
administration of Gilgit Baltistan and the Chief Minister Gilgit Baltistan hot
and cold accusing them of turning a blind eye to the real issues of the region.
"All the chief minister was interested in was his own protocol and status
quo" he added.
He said the highways linking Pakistan
with its neighbors were deliberately being made insecure just to invite
economic misery in the region and to push the people back to the Stone Age.
"This so called sectarian bout is staged just to divert attention of the
indigenous population from the real issues" he added. Responding to a
query about the recent rise in terrorist incidents in the region, he said the establishment of Pakistan
was viewing the rising nationalism in the region as a threat and it was
sponsoring such incidents to counter the rising opposition to the illegal
suppression of Pakistan.
"The establishment views Gilgit Baltistan as its backwater like
Afghanistan and it is this reason that there is a sharp rise in incidents of
terrorism in the region" he added.
He accused the
military and civil bureaucracy of Gilgit Baltistan of patronizing terrorism in
Gilgit Baltistan for what he termed 'to create troubles for its neighbors and
instigate a proxy'. "The establishment of Pakistan
has a history of renting out the country to other people so that they can fight
their wars here and this is a major source of income for the security
establishment" he added. He said the recent incidents of terrorism in
Gilgit Baltistan were also a continuity of the proxy wars so that the security
establishment can make a few bucks. Responding to a query about the political
and constitutional status of the region, he said the presidential ordinance was
violation of the UNCIP resolutions. "According to the UNCIP resolutions,
Pakistan is bound to form a local authority government in the region while the
so called Gilgit Baltistan empowerment and self governance ordinance was a
dummy setup with no legislation rights to the local representatives" he
added.
Talking about the roadmap of GBUM which he termed as the
roadmap to independence, he said the movement was aimed at freeing Gilgit
Baltistan from Pakistan control. "You need a genuine movement to achieve this goal and the GBUM
is a platform of the region, for the region and by the masses of the region and
I feel proud in claiming that it's the only national political party of the
region" he added. Concluding his thoughts, he said he was still hopeful
and saw light at the end of the tunnel. "I am very much optimistic and its
my firm faith that the minds of Pakistan's establishment and
their nefarious designs to turn Gilgit Baltistan into a war zone is bound to
fail as the local population have found the hands behind the curtain and they
were now pointing fingers at the establishment" he added. He said
Gilgit Baltistan was historically and economically an independent state and the
international community and the United Nation had stood with masses of the
region at times of adversity.
