PPP organises rally in GB against centre`s `apathy`
By Our Correspondent
2016-11-02
GILGIT: Pakistan People`s Party, GilgitBaltistan chapter, has threatened to not allow China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project through the region until the constitutional status of GB is determined.
They made the demand during a protest procession organised by the PPP on GB`s 68th Independence Day on the Karakoram Highway at Danyor here on Tuesday.
The party claimed that about seven to 10,000 activists of political parties participated in the protest rally. Through a resolution, the participants paid tribute to the martyrs of the GB war of independence in 1948.
The resolution said the gathering rejected Northern Areas Nautor Rules, 1978, under which ownership of GB lands had been given to federal ministry of Kashmir affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan.
It termed the rules as the black law and demanded its repeal to protect ownership of land by the local people.
The resolution demanded of all opposition parties` members in the GilgitBaltistan Legislative Assembly to table a bill in the assembly seeking repeal of therules.
The resolution also demanded compensation for the affected people of KKH, CPEC and other projects.
Speaking on the occasion, PPP GB president Amjad Hussain Advocate said GB people had been denied their rights for last 68 years. He said GB was declared a disputed territory when the people demanded equal rights like other parts of the country.
He questioned why CPE C was being constructed through GB if the region was a disputed territory.
He declared that the people would resist CPEC if they were not given their constitutional rights.
On the occasion, JUI-F Gilgit-Baltistan emir Maulana Sarwar Khan said that GB had been ignored in the CPEC project.
PPP leader Jamil Ahmed said GB people had been deprived of their land ownership right.
Aftab Haider of PPP said the movement for right of governance and ownership of land would continue.
Former chief minister Syed Mehdi Shah, former GB information minister Sadia Danish, Maulana Sultan Raees, Ehsan Advocate and other parties leaders also spoke on the occasion.
