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	Balawaristan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Balawaristan is another name for the Pakistani controlled regions of Gilgit and Chitral(commonly called the Northern Areas).
		The Pakistan controlled region of Baltistan and Indian Kargil are sometimes also considered to be a part of Balawaristan by the nationalist parties of Gilgit.
		The name Balawaristan is used mainly by nationalists of Gilgit region, such as the Balawaristan National Front, who are seeking to define a separate identity for Gilgit, Baltistan and Ladakh regions from that of the Kashmir Valley and Jammu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balawaristan (159 words)

	Abdul Hamid Khan, Chairman of Balwaristan National Front: An Interview.
		ISI’s main role in Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan), PoK and even Pakistan and elsewhere is to brain wash the innocent Wahabi un-employeed youth for terrorism.
		Lack of clear motto and direction of the leadership of Sindh and Baluchistan were the main causes of their failure in the moments, otherwise they would have been freed from the clutches of Punjabi dominated Pakistan much earlier with the help of their dedicated workers.
		There is no option for Pakistan, except to quit Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan) and let the2 million people of this disputed region to choose their fate, who are distinct in character, Culture and history.
	www.saag.org /papers7/paper614.html (1991 words)

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		YOGINDER SIKAND Abdul Hamid Khan is the Chairman of the Balawaristan National Front, an organization struggling for the independence of Gilgit Baltistan, which he considers to be under the illegal occupation of Pakistan.
		Abdul Hamid Khan: Balawaristan is a term which we use to refer to that area of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir which is now under the illegal occupation of Pakistan, consisting of Gilgit Baltistan.
		The party has presented a manifesto for a sovereign and independent Republic of Balawaristan for the people of this region are treated by Pakistan as virtual slaves and have been deprived of all basic human rights.
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/soc.culture.bangladesh/msg01215.html (2283 words)

	Asia Times
		Balawaristan, or the Northern Areas, comprises five districts of Gilgit, Skardu, Ghezar, Diamar and Ganchhe, where basic human, political and civil rights have not been conferred on the people, and which are out of bounds to foreigners and journalists, except for occasional tightly controlled guided tours selectively organized by the army or the intelligence agencies.
		Under the existing frontier crime regulations, framed during the colonial era, every resident of Balawaristan has to report regularly to local intelligence personnel, and all movements from one village to another have to be reported to the authorities.
		Balawaristan is also a deprived region in terms of education and infrastructure, and there is only a negligible presence of daily newspapers, radio or TV stations.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/DH22Df03.html (1289 words)

	Public Affairs Magazine- Newsinsight.net
		While Pakistan calls it the Northern Areas, we call it Balawaristan, which is the disputed part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
		The people of Balawaristan are deprived of all their basic human rights, political and economic rights, and are subject to incessant oppression by Pakistan.
		Because the people of Balawaristan have been demonstrating their anger about, and rejection of, the Pakistani occupation, they continue to be targeted and eliminated silently.
	www.indiareacts.com /smallpages/thelastcolony.htm (419 words)

	Balawaristan National Front's letter to Indian prime minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		We also request your honour to invite the nationalists of Balawaristan and POK (Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir) to participate in the JandK dialogue to strengthen the Indian stand.
		We request your honour to invite the candidates of Balawaristan and POK to fill the 25 vacant seats in the JandK Assembly, which have been laying vacant for the last many years.
		Therefore, the elected representatives of Balawaristan and POK would represent their areas, and reveal the oppression of Pakistan before the civilised world on the one hand; on the other, India will automatically gain the favour of the people of these areas.
	www.hvk.org /hvk/articles/1101/199.html (432 words)

	Voices from Pakistan Occupied Balawaristan
		All copies of a local magazine, Balawaristan Times, were confiscated and banned in 1994; the Gilgit Digest was banned in 1998; Weekly K2 was banned and its editor, Raja Hussain Khan Maqpoon, was kidnapped by the ISI from his Rawalpindi office twice, and sent to prison.
		Skardu was the cultural centre to the east of Balawaristan, and Gilgit and Yasen states to the northwest.
		This was passed during the November 2000 session, and submitted to the PS to the CE.
	www.fisiusa.org /fisi_News_items/news249.htm (2252 words)

	Encyclopedia: Northern Areas, Pakistan
		The Northern Areas, or Gilgit and Baltistan Regions is the northernmost part of Jammu and Kashmir under the control of Pakistan, with a population of approximately 1.1 million.
		'Balawaristan' is the name given to the area by a regional nationalist movement (Balawaristan National Party) centred in Gilgit and is based on the belief that the Gilgit and Chitral areas were once known as Balawar.
		Balawaristan is another name, used mainly by nationalists, for the region comprising Gilgit and Baltistan-more commonly referred to as the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Northern-Areas,-Pakistan (961 words)

	World Affairs Board - Shias of Balawaristan
		In Balawaristan, local people should enjoy the status of a powerful and decisive factor in the field of politics, government and religion by emancipating Pakistan.
		Iranians can be sympathetic to Shias of Balawaristan, but Iran never asked Pakistan that why the Shias of this region were deprived of their rights for such a long period.
		Abdul Hamid Khan Chairman of BNF (Balawaristan National Front), gives some insight into their problems of the people of Gilgit Baltistan and their movement, which wants freedom from Pakistan occupied Gilgit and Baltistan (Balawaristan) and are in favour political and economic integration with India.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /printthread.php?t=6133 (3457 words)

	IMC India - Free Balawaristan from Pakistani Occupation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Balawaristan has a population of 2 million, about the same as POk that has been designated as "Azad Kashmir", but the people live over an area of about 28,000 square miles seven times larger than so-called Azad Kashmir.
		Balawaristan is divided into six districts called Hunza-Nagar, Gilgit, Koh-e-Ghizer, Ghanche, Diamir and Skardu, which in turn, are grouped into three agencies or divisions call Diamir with headquarters at Chilas, Gilgit with headquarters in Gilgit Town and Baltistan with headquarters in Skardu Town.
		Balawaristan continues to be ruled directly from Islamabad by minister of state for Kashmir and Northern Areas (Pakistan) Affairs with the help of six officers, all non-natives, deputed from outside.
	india.indymedia.org /en/2003/02/3306.shtml (6128 words)

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		With the commencement of the publication of “Balawaristan Times” in 1994 for the first time, Pakistani agents (who apparently claim to be the rulers) seized all of its copies and imposed a ban on its publication.
		In this way Balawaristan remained independent only for 15 days from November 1st,1947 to November 15th, 1947, while on November 16th, 1947, the dark day with the rise of slavehood sun.
		And today the whole Balawaristan would have not be presenting the scene of a Pathan colony.
	www.geocities.com /balawaristani/backgb.html (2844 words)

	Article
		Abdul Hamid Khan, whose Balawaristan National Front (BNF) is spearheading a campaign to secede the Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, says the drug cartels smuggle narcotics to Europe, North America and parts of Asia via China.
		In his book Balawaristan: The Last Colony of the 21st Century, Khan writes that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) "is fully involved" in supporting the activities of the groups involved running drugs and arms.
		Balawaristan is the name used by locals to refer to the area comprising the Brooshaal, Baltistan and Dardistan provinces in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
	www.rantburg.com /poparticle.php?ID=3538&D=2002-04-09&HC=1 (682 words)

	KashmirTelegraph: Cries from PoK: Heart beats for India?
		In this context this is not a debatable subject, whether Balawaristan was a part of J and K. The important thing is that whether we have joint benefits or interests or not.
		Whether one accepts or not, but this is the fact that the people of Balawaristan are not Kashmiri in race, but Balawaristan is the disputed part of J and K State which was existed before Ist Nov. 1947 according UN resolutions and Pakistan and Indian stand.
		This is a moral duty of our large populace Kashmir (Valley) to accommodate all 4 parts of J and K (Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan), PoK, Ladakh and Jammu) by endorsing their demands and apprehensions as far as the future fate is concerned; otherwise this conflict will not be resolved forever.
	www.kashmirtelegraph.com /0803/one.htm (2154 words)

	Musharraf’s Proposals for J&K
		To divide any part or all parts of J and K including Balawaristan on religious or sectarian lines is not acceptable, because it will lead towards hatred and create gaps among the people of common interest, common culture and history.
		The design of Pakistan to divide Balawaristan can be seen in the maps, prepared by Survey of Pakistan, which is nothing but a part of ISI administration.
		The people of J and K including Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan) are the most important party to this vexed issue, who deserve to be taken into confidence by both the countries India and Pakistan.
	www.saag.org /papers12/paper1153.html (802 words)

	Pakistan settling terrorists in PoK to convert locals into Minority
		Balawaristan National Front (BNF) and Karakoram National Movement (KNM) have said that Pakistan was violating un Security Council resolutions which call for establishment of local authority after complete withdrawal of Pakistani forces and civilians from the region.
		They were being settled in Balawaristan to turn the local people into minority, Abdul Hamid Khan, Chairman of BNF said in a communication to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
		ISI was threatening political leaders and workers within Balawaristan as well as those who were in Pakistan, Khan said in his communication.
	www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives2000/kashmir20001114a.html (364 words)

	Human Rights in Pak-Occupied Kashmir: Screams of the Oppressed
		Following ferocious crackdowns, mass arrests and torture of nationalists who took to the streets, prestigious Pakistani magazine Herald wrote that the Northern Areas were the “last colony” in the eyes of the establishment in Islamabad.
		As the vicious cycle of state strangulation of Kashmiri entreaties for democracy, development and human rights is proving unbreakable, more and more conscious residents of POK are resorting to armed underground secession, spearheaded by the Balawaristan National Front.
		It behooves of the noble libertarian principles of the Indian constitution as well as the ideals set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that India and other freedom-loving nations extend wholehearted support for the benighted Kashmiris of POK in overthrowing Pakistan’s satanic occupation.
	www.kashmirherald.com /featuredarticle/humanrightsinPOK.html (1526 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		Since 1999, there have been demands by dissidents for an independent republic of Balawaristan, including the NA regions of Gilgit, Baltistan, Chitral, Shhenaki Kohistan, and Indian Kashmir areas such as Ladakh and Kargil.
		Asked why so little public support has been demonstrated for their position, they said that there was a climate of fear created by what they called "agencies", referring to the myriad intelligence organizations monitoring their activities.
		Pakistan maintains an ambivalent stand over the status of the NA in the context of its demand for the resolution of the Kashmir issue through a plebiscite, as per United Nations resolutions of 1948.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FL18Df03.html (2704 words)

	INDOlink - Editorial Analysis - Pakistan And United Nations On Kashmir
		The important clauses of this resolution gives right to the people of Balawaristan (OGB) that they should either vote for Pakistan or for India or for their independent state through a fair, free and impartial plebiscite, like other parts of Jammu & Kashmir.
		Pakistan had accepted the resolution for complete withdrawal of its all forces and armed civilians within 7 weeks, according the UN resolution, but later through a formal request, Pakistan gave assurance to complete the process of withdrawal within 12 weeks instead of 7 weeks.
		Now the people of occupied Balawaristan and Pakistan should decide themselves, that to how much extent Pakistan had complied with the U.N. resolution, while accusing India of non implementation of the U.N. resolution.
	www.indolink.com /Analysis/a031403-093748.php (836 words)

	The Kashmir T E L E G R A P H
		Many Wahabi youth of Balawaristan had reportedly been recruited by the ISI to join the jehad, earlier in Afghanistan and subsequently in IhK.
		Balawaristan, or the Northern Areas, comprises five districts of Gilgit, Skardu, Ghezar, Diamar and Ganchhe, where basic human, political and civil rights have not been conferred on the people, and which are out of bounds to foreigners and journalists, except for occasional tightly controlled guided tours selectively organised by the Army or the intelligence agencies.
		Under the existing Frontier Crime Regulations (FCR), framed during the colonial era, every resident of Balawaristan has to report regularly to local intelligence personnel, and all movements from one village to another have to be reported to the authorities.
	kashmirtelegraph.com /balawar.htm (1346 words)

	Letter to N.H. Representatives from Balawaristan
		Secondly, we the indigenous people of Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan) were extremely disappointed by the one sided visit and one sided views of your delegation by ignoring the big (7 times bigger than PoK) portion of disputed part of J and K, Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan).
		As a result we may be awarded death sentence by the Pakistani imposed Court (which has been established on contract basis), to terrorize the local people, whereas not a single case has been registered against APHC and other people in their armed struggle against India.
		Hyder Shah Rezvi an ex student and prominent political leader of Baltistan, Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan) was arrested, tortured and then sent to a torture cell in Chilas, when he peacefully protested against the occupation of Pakistan on 1st Nov. 2002.
	www.indiacause.com /columns/OL_030415.htm (1523 words)

	Unrest in Gilgit-Baltistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Before 1948, this area, which the then Maharajah of Jammu and Kashmir had given on lease to the British since 1935 in order to enable the British to keep a watch on the developments in Xinjiang and Afghanistan, used to be known as the Northern Areas of JandK.
		Prominent amongst them are the Jammu and Kashmir People’s National Party, which is active in the POK as well as the NA, and the Balawaristan National Front (BNF), which is active only in the NA, the Gilgit Baltistan United Action Forum for Self Rule, and the Gilgit-Baltistan National Alliance (GBNA).
		Balawaristan, it is said, is derived from Bolor.
	www.observerindia.com /analysis/A365.htm (4910 words)

	Balawaristan
		In this context this is not a debatable subject, whether Balawaristan was a part of J & K or not.
		Whether one accepts or not, but this is the fact that the people of Balawaristan are not Kashmiri in race, but Balawaristan is the disputed part of J & K State, according UNCIP resolutions and Pakistan and Indian stand, which was separated from J & K on 1st Nov. 1947.
		As far as Human Rights matter is concerned, Balawaristan (Occupied Gilgit Baltistan) is a unique place of the world, where local indigenous people have no right to file a writ petition in Balawaristan or any where of the world against Human Rights violation.
	www.balawaristan.net /Mir.html (5992 words)

	Sectarian Violence Rooted in Pakistan
		This was followed by a string of deadly riots, which included random street killings, in the towns of Gilgit and Skardu in the Northern Areas region.
		For this attack no one claimed responsibility, but Abdul Hamid Khan, leader of the Balawaristan Nationalist Front, which campaigns for independence from Pakistan, pointed the finger at al-Qaeda.
		The implications of this incident were spelled out by a January 11 editorial in the Dawn, as "Symptoms of a Deeper Malaise." The violent riots touched off by the attempt on the life of the religious leader, it explained, "points to the poison spread by religious fanatics.
	www.jamestown.org /terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369291&printthis=1 (433 words)

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