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Thursday, 26 May 2016
RIGHTS OF GILGIT-BALTISTAN
Since 1947 the people of Gligit Baltistan Have not given rights.mbiguous. While Pakistan recognizes residents as citizens, they still lack representation at the National Assembly and GilgitBaltistan remains undefined in Pakistan’s Constitution.
territory was composed of princely states ruled by Mirs and Rajas, controlled by British
and Kashmiri colonial powers, and then in the 1970s (depending on the area) directly
administered by Pakistan.
37 Although the 2009 Order expanded its powers, Gilgit-Baltistan is not a province:
In 1999,
The Supreme Court of Pakistan was called on to assess the constitutionalstatus of the Northern Areas in Al-Jehad Trust. The case shows the role of the formal
law in analyzing, describing and ultimately justifying this constitutional liminality. The
petition, brought by residents of Northern Areas, sought four remedies:
(1) the enforcement of fundamental rights found in the Constitution of Pakistan;
(2) a declaration of the Northern Areas’ constitutional status;
(3) a declaration that the people of the Northern Areas are full citizens of Pakistan with the right to fully participate in the affairs of the federation;
(4) granting of provincial status to the Northern Areas.
In 2007,
the former President General Pervez Musharraf presented a provisional legal
framework to address some of the issues raised in Al-Jehad Trust.56 This includedupgrading the representative body in the region to a “provincial legislature” and
empowering it to elect its own head and prepare its own budget.
57
It also provided for the transfer of administrative and financial powers to the Northern Areas from the Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas Ministry.
58While the 2009 Order also expands the
powers allocated to the region, Gilgit-Baltistan continues to be legally constructed as a
liminal place, with major consequences for residents.
59
First, the legislation still excludes the region from representation in the National
Assembly and other important federal bodies.
60
While democratic deficiency does not
necessarily imply liminality, the lack of representation in Gilgit-Baltistan is presented by
the Federal government as impermanent and transitory: a temporary state that will
change once the Kashmir conflict is resolved. Moreover, as discussed below, the
justification for the democratic deficiency is based on the liminality of the region itself. In
this way, the liminality is cyclical: the ambiguous status justifies further unclear,
transitory exclusions.
18th Amendment’s
new concurrent power over mineral oil and natural gas and
revenue-sharing is particularly murky for Gilgit-Baltistan.
Speak images
FROM SOCIAL MEDIA
Road Hazard due to dips in roads in 2009
The protester wants 5th province as Gilgitbaltistan
videos
Beauty of GilgitBaltistan
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Gilgit-Baltistan (Urdu:
گلگت بلتستان), formerly known as the Northern
Areas,is the northernmost administrative territory of Pakistan.
It borders Azad Kashmir to the south, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the north, Xinjiang, PR China, to the east and northeast and Jammu and Kashmir (India) to the southeast. The region, together with Azad Kashmir, Aksai Chin, Shakshagam Valley of China and Jammu and Kashmir, is disputed between India, China and Pakistan.
The territory of present-day Gilgit-Baltistan became a separate administrative unit in 1970 under the name "Northern Areas". It was formed by the amalgamation of the former Gilgit Agency, the Baltistan district and several small former princely states, the larger of which being Hunza and Nagar. In 2009, it was granted limited autonomy and renamed to Gilgit-Baltistan via the Self-Governance Order signed by Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari, which also aimed to empower the people of Gilgit Baltistan. However, scholars state that the real power rests with the governor and not with chief minister or elected assembly. The Pakistan government has rejected Gilgit-Baltistani calls for integration with Pakistan on the grounds that it would jeopardise its demands for the whole Kashmir issue to be resolved according to UN resolutions.
Gilgit-Baltistan covers an area of over 72,971 km² (28,174 sq mi)[6] and is highly mountainous. It had an estimated population of 1,800,000 in 2015.[2] Its capital city is Gilgit (population 216,760 est).
Gilgit-Baltistan is home to five of the "eight-thousanders" and to more than fifty peaks above 7,000 metres (23,000 ft). Three of the world's longest glaciers outside the polar regions are found in Gilgit-Baltistan. Tourism is mostly in trekking and mountaineering, and this industry is growing in importance.
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It borders Azad Kashmir to the south, the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the west, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the north, Xinjiang, PR China, to the east and northeast and Jammu and Kashmir (India) to the southeast. The region, together with Azad Kashmir, Aksai Chin, Shakshagam Valley of China and Jammu and Kashmir, is disputed between India, China and Pakistan.
The territory of present-day Gilgit-Baltistan became a separate administrative unit in 1970 under the name "Northern Areas". It was formed by the amalgamation of the former Gilgit Agency, the Baltistan district and several small former princely states, the larger of which being Hunza and Nagar. In 2009, it was granted limited autonomy and renamed to Gilgit-Baltistan via the Self-Governance Order signed by Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari, which also aimed to empower the people of Gilgit Baltistan. However, scholars state that the real power rests with the governor and not with chief minister or elected assembly. The Pakistan government has rejected Gilgit-Baltistani calls for integration with Pakistan on the grounds that it would jeopardise its demands for the whole Kashmir issue to be resolved according to UN resolutions.
Gilgit-Baltistan covers an area of over 72,971 km² (28,174 sq mi)[6] and is highly mountainous. It had an estimated population of 1,800,000 in 2015.[2] Its capital city is Gilgit (population 216,760 est).
Gilgit-Baltistan is home to five of the "eight-thousanders" and to more than fifty peaks above 7,000 metres (23,000 ft). Three of the world's longest glaciers outside the polar regions are found in Gilgit-Baltistan. Tourism is mostly in trekking and mountaineering, and this industry is growing in importance.
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Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Gilgit Baltistan
Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan borders province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to
the west, Azad Kashmir to
the southwest, Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan to the northwest,
the Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region of China to
the north, and the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to the southeast.
Rock
art and petroglyphs
There
are more than 50,000 pieces of rock art (petroglyphs) and inscriptions all along
the Karakoram Highway in Gilgit Baltistan,
concentrated at ten major sites between Hunza and Shatial. The carvings were left by
various invaders, traders, and pilgrims who passed along the trade
route, as well as by locals. The earliest date back to between 5000 and
1000 BCE, showing single animals, triangular men
and hunting scenes in which the animals are larger than the hunters.
These carvings were
packed into the rock with stone tools and are covered with a thick patina that proves their age. The
ethnologist Karl
Jettmar has pieced together the history of the area from
various inscriptions and recorded his findings in Rock Carvings and
Inscriptions in the Northern Areas of Pakistan[1] and the later released Between
Gandhara and the Silk Roads - Rock Carvings Along the Karakoram Highway.[2] Many of these carvings and
inscriptions will be inundated and/or destroyed when the planned Basha-Diamir
dam is built and the Karakoram Highway widened.
British
Raj
Before
the independence of Pakistan and
the partition of India, Maharaja Hari Singh, the Hindu Dogra ruler
of Jammu, extended his rule to Gilgit and Baltistan with the help of British. In
1935 he leased the region to British for an amount of 75,000Rs. After WW II British influence started
declining. British despite decline in its rule, handled the situation cleverly
and gave two options to the states in British Raj under their rule to join
any of the two emerging states, India and Pakistan. Taking advantage of the
situation the populace of Gilgit-Baltistan started revolting, the people of
Ghizer were first to raise the flag of revolution, and gradually the masses of
entire region stood up against the rule of Mahraja, again British played an
important role in war of independence of Gilgit-Baltistan.[3]
End
of the princely state
On
26 October 1947, Maharaja Hari Singh of
Jammu and Kashmir, faced with a tribal invasion from Pakistan, signed the Instrument of
Accession, joining India. Gilgit's population did not favour the
State's accession to India. Sensing their discontent, Major William Brown, the
Maharaja's commander of the Gilgit Scouts, mutinied on 1 November 1947,
overthrowing the Governor Ghansara Singh. The bloodless coup d'etat was
planned by Brown to the last detail under the code name `Datta Khel'. A
provisional government (Aburi Hakoomat) was established by the Gilgit
locals with Raja Shah Rais Khan as the president and Mirza Hassan Khan as the
commander-in-chief. However, Major Brown had already telegraphed Khan Abdul Qayyum
Khan asking Pakistan to take over. The Pakistani political
agent, Khan Mohammad Alam Khan, arrived on 16 November and took over the
administration of Gilgit.[4] According to Brown,[5]
Alam replied [to the
locals],: `you are a crowd of fools led astray by a madman. I shall not
tolerate this nonsense for one instance... And when the Indian Army starts
invading you there will be no use screaming to Pakistan for help, because you
won't get it.'... The provisional government faded away after this encounter
with Alam Khan...[5]
Part
of Pakistan
1947
to 1970 Government of Pakistan established Gilgit Agency and Baltistan Agency.
In 1970 Northern areas council established by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and Gilgit
Baltistan was directly administrated by federal government and it was called FANA
(Federal administrated northern areas). In 1963, Pakistan ceded a part of
Hunza-Gilgit called Raskam and
the Shaksgam Valley of Baltistan region to the China pending
settlement of the dispute over Kashmir. This ceded area is also known as
the Trans-Karakoram
Tract. The Pakistani
parts of Kashmir to the north and west of the cease-fire line
established at the end of the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1947, or the Line of Control as it later came to be
called, were divided into the Northern Areas (72,971 km²) in the north and
the Pakistani state of Azad Kashmir (13,297 km²)
in the south. The name "Northern Areas" was first used by the United Nations to refer to the
northern areas of Kashmir.[citation
needed]
Gilgit
Baltistan, which was most recently known as the Northern Areas, presently
consists of seven districts, has a population approaching one million, has an
area of approximately 28,000 square miles (73,000 km2), and shares borders
with China, Afghanistan, and India.
The
local Northern Light
Infantry is the army unit that participated in the 1999 Kargil conflict. More than 500 soldiers
were believed to have been killed and buried in the Northern Areas in that
action.[6] Lalak Jan, a soldier from Yasin Valley, was awarded Pakistan's most
prestigious medal, the Nishan-e-Haider, for his courageous
actions during the Kargil conflict.
(Heaven on Earth), Gilgit Baltistan
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