Peoples of GB don’t accept any package or order: PTI GB

Islamabad (Mountain Pass)The PTI leaders, including PTI GB General Secretary Fattah Ullah, PTI spokesperson Sabir Hussain, Alam Noor Haider and others spoke at a joint press conference, making it clear to the Kashmiri leadership to stay away from their hackneyed position vis-à-vis GB and stop laying claim on the area as being a de-facto part of the Kashmir State.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Gilgit Baltistan leaders made no bones in expressing their revulsion against the Kashmiri leadership and urged them to refrain from interfering in the affairs of GB as the federal government was working on a draft to give the area a new status in the shape of a provisional province.
They said that at a time, when the federal government led by Prime Minister and the leadership was considering giving the area a permanent status, the Kashmiri leaders have started making hue and cry to make the area controversial, as they had been doing for the last 70 years, to keep the area under a perpetual subjugation in terms of its constitutional status.
They said that the PTI will give the GB its basic and constitutional rights as a new committee has been working under Minister for Kashmir and GB affairs to give the area a constitutional status in the shape of an interim province to ameliorate the rising deprivations of the subjects.
They said that it was time the federal government gave the area a permanent status through a constitutional change. “Now is the time to give something to the GB people, whose basic and constitutional status has been hanging in the balance due to various bottlenecks including the opposition of the Kashmiri leadership, who have stabbed the GB people for the last several years for their own vested interests and for the sake of status quo,” they said.
The PTI leaders said that now they don’t accept any package or order, as, according to them, without making changes in the constitution, no incentive or a package contained anything substantial to give the subjects anything concrete in terms of their constitutional rights, which have been denied to them under one pretext or the other.
Sabir Hussain said that the Kashmiri leaders always kept a mysterious mum over the constitutional rights of the GB and rather they always created hurdles whenever the federal government talked about giving the subjects their basic rights.
Fattah Ullah said that when FATA could be merged with the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, why can’t the GB made part of Pakistan through a constitutional amendment. He said that the PTI GB will continue to lobbying at every forum to give the GB a permanent status. “Its time to break the status quo and unshackle the current status of GB through a constitutional amendment to give the area a new status in the shape of a provisional province,” he said.
The PTI GB leaders said that the Sartaj Azizled committee recommendations have now become the relic of past and GB Chief Minister Hafis Hafeezur Rehman and his politics have been buried forever due to his dual standards.
They alleged that Rehman has broken all records of corruption by awarding contracts to his favorites and blue-eyed persons.
The PTI leaders expressed their resolve to get their basic and constitutions rights through a meaningful struggle and strong lobbying, as according to them, their constitutional status could no more be kept in a limbo.