GILGIT:
Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) should be made a provisional constitutional province of Pakistan, with a joint Upper House between Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the region. This demand was made by Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday.
“The arrangement will help curb the constitutional ambiguity and lend people greater access to power and financial resources,” said Hafizur Rehman, the regional president of PML-N while addressing a press conference.
He read out main points of the “white sheet” issued against the regional government of PPP, highlighting the failures of the government in sectors including power, education, law and order and taxation during its three years in power.
He said that the Governance Order 2009, under which the status of the region was made equivalent to a province, was a presidential order that could be revoked anytime as it is not backed by a legal cover.
Rehman said that G-B should be given share in NFC award and the Council of Common Interests, which will ensure much higher budget to the G-B government.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2012.
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I want GB to be given AJK like status...it should be a self-governing state-like body with its own flag, supreme court, PM and president
PML-N is the only hope for Pakistan!
We gilgities welcome this move! The upper house will ensure more rights of Gilgiti.
Great Decision. PML N is the only real party that understands problems of ALL pakistanis.
Corruption is at its peak after giving an assembly status while all the power rests with ministry of Kashmir affairs that enjoys all fruit of corruption through their appointed Chief Secretary like now a days,They are ruling us and the so called ministers can not contol neither themselves nor these corrupt mafia.Instead they side line all the honest and competent officers of GB to loot and plunder to their best.We expect the same situation from the Kashmiri's and not allow them to occupy our independence.
The brave GBians have got independence at their own while Kashmir is still under siege. A Joint Upper House between Azad Kashmir is not acceptable to the people of Gilgit Baltistan in any case at any cost as it will further consolidate the wrong notion of Gilgit Baltistan part of Kashmir. Lt the people of Gilgit Baltistan decide their fate, respect the will of people it is democracy, tradition and in our religion.