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	Hampshire Legislators Visit to PoK
		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).
		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.
		Finally, I appeal to you as well as to US Senators/Congressmen and other democratic people of the civilized world to concentrate and study all parts of J and K conflict particularly Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan), which has been facing the agony of SLAVERY at the hands of Pakistani fundamentalist Army/establishment.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0303/245.html

	Strategic Affairs - Prespectives
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.stratmag.com /page05.htm

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Gilgit, Baltistan demand end to Pak rule
		The chairman of Gilgit Thinkers Forum has also written a letter to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan stating that Pakistani rulers, with the help of their stooges in Gilgit and Baltistan, were indulging in all sort of atrocities against the locals.
		New Delhi: Resentment is growing in Gilgit and Baltistan, originally a part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) but annexed illegally by Pakistan, as a major forum comprising various political parties has demanded complete independence from Islamabad in order to protect their fundamental rights.
		"The Pakistani rule cannot be spread over Gilgit and Baltistan and these areas ought to be treated as a foreign country," chairman of the Gilgit-Baltistan Thinkers Forum Wajahat Hassan said in a statement here.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/09/10/10gilgit.html

	Feature Articles: A Letter From Balwaristan
		The Pakistan-Occupied areas are divided into 2: a) Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit Baltistan, which is 28,000 square miles in area and has a mixed population of Shias, Sunnis, Ismailis and Nurbakshi Muslims dominated area) and b) Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir, with an area of 4000 square miles and dominated by Sunni Muslims.
		The people of Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan demand for their own freedom.
		China should be asked to handover the 2500 square mile area of Shimshaal to Hunza, Gilgit, and the 14000 square mile area of Aksai Chin to Ladakh, so that a new agreement could be signed between China and the new government of Balawaristan (Gilgit Baltistan) and Ladakh to decide the future of the occupied areas.
	www.thesouthasian.org /archives/000209.html

	Southasia Talk
		Gilgit, Baltistan and all Azad Kashmir must be free of Pakistan control.
		Gilgit, Baltistan and Azad Kashmir will opt for Azadi from Pakistan.
		Azadi is the only motto for Gilgit, Baltistan and Azad Kashmir from Pakistan.
	southasia.net /talk/messages/8/1464.html

	World Affairs Board - Why don't people get banned for thread crapping?
		The ISI and Pakistan army were very grieved due to non-participation of youths of Jammu, Ladakh, Kargil, Astor, Baltistan and Gilgit in the so-called freedom war and Jehad (crusade) on ISI's instigation.
		I, however, firmly believe that Gilgit based BBC representative Saadat Ali Mujahid will have not turned a blank-eye to the incidents of arrival of dead bodies of NLI troops in the region, from the Kargil battle, in a large number, like Pakistani journalists.
		(2) To punish the people of Gilgit Baltistan and Ladakh, Kargil and Drass for not joining the terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir (because this is not a freedom movement but a conspiracy for earning dollars and making Jammu and Kashmir and occupied Gilgit Baltistan the slave of Pakistan (on ISI's instructions).
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?p=106386#post106386

	Balawaristan
		Except few local agents who do perform for ISI and Pakistani occupier regime against their motherland, the general masses are facing severe situation in Balawaristan (Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan) as well as in Pakistan, due to threat of Pakistani forces and agencies.
		Nine un-employed youths, of village Hanzel 15 Kilometer north of Gilgit city, were treacherously taken to the line of control (LOC) with India by ISI and it's puppet religious party Jamaat-e-Islami.
		This is the part of the world where the indeginous people are not allowed BY Pakistani occupier regime to file any case against Human rights violation.
	www.balawaristan.net /HR.html

	Gilgit’s Search for Identity & Freedom
		In fact, the Indian journalists were able to meet and interact with all shades of political opinion in Gilgit — pro-independence, pro-Pakistan, and even pro-India.
		Despite doubts and apprehensions being expressed by elements opposing Pakistan's occupation of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Jammu and Kashmir, the government of Pakistan did nothing to stop Indian journalists from flying into Gilgit, the capital of Northern Areas.
		Soon after we landed at Gilgit, the authorities organised a briefing by the Home Secretary, who gave details about the development activity being undertaken in the region.
	www.observerindia.com /cps/from_pak/pm041216.htm

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Nation
		Favouring parleys between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir issue, founder of the JKLF and hijacker of an Indian Airlines plane Hashim Qureshi yesterday said the people of Gilgit and Baltistan (areas illegally annexed by Islamabad) should be taken into confidence before arriving at any solution to the vexed Kashmir issue.
		“New Delhi will have to hold talks with Pakistan as it is not an issue of Jammu and Kashmir only, but also of a population of nearly 65 lakh living in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit and Baltistan, illegally occupied by Islamabad,” Mr Qureshi, who surrendered in December last year, said.
		In a veiled attack on the pro-Pakistan lobby in Kashmir, Mr Qureshi said: “The issue is not only Kashmir as projected by some vested interests, but also the area from Gilgit to Lakhinpur in Jammu.”
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010514/nation.htm

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		Moreover, it cheated the UN so much at the time when the U.N. observers visited occupied Gilgit Baltistan in 1949, Sardar Alam, political agent, appointed by Pakistan, was presented in the disguise of head of local authority by giving him the cover of Gilgit cap and Chogha.
		It is the discretion of the people of Jammu & Kashmir (including Gilgit Baltistan) that they vote in favour of Pakistan or India, through right of self-determination or they vote in favour of their independent state.
		If India or the Maharaja had recaptured Gilgit Baltistan (Balawaristan), perhaps a few people would have been hanged on the charges of rebellion, but honourable personalities would have not been humiliated in a manner Pakistan did, nor the administrative status of this land would have been reduced in this way.
	www.geocities.com /balawaristani/backgb.html

	print.php?newsid=22829
		The newspaper quoted Naqi as saying in a meeting in Gilgit that "the Pakistani establishment kept Gilgit and Baltistan without any constitutional status with a pledge that if a plebiscite were held on the Kashmir issue they (Pakistanis) would use the votes of Gilgit-Baltistan in their favour".
		The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is reported to have formally set up its core group in Gilgit, the headquarters of Pakistan's Northern Areas, a part of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir.
		The Daily Times reported on Monday that the HRCP has set up its Gilgit group to "keep an eye on the violation of human rights in that region".
	www.expressindia.com /print.php?newsid=22829

	Center for Justpeace in Asia - Urgent Issues
		GILGIT, Pakistan-administered Kashmir - Surrounded by three famous mountain ranges, the Himalayas, the Karokorams and the Hindukush, Gilgit Valley is perhaps the most fascinating and spectacular part of Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
		A large number of protest rallies were organized in Gilgit and hundreds of primary and secondary school students boycotted classes.
		In their interaction with local journalists in Gilgit, Indian media asked about the level of freedom of the press in the NA.
	daga.dhs.org /justpeace/urgent/kashmir/divideidentity.html

	The Hindu : PoK forum demands freedom for Gilgit, Baltistan
		Resentment is growing in Gilgit and Baltistan, originally a part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, but now illegally annexed by Pakistan, even as a major forum comprising various political parties has demanded complete independence from Islamabad in order to protect their fundamental rights.
		Hassan said Pakistan never trusted the people of Gilgit and Baltistan ``though they (Islamabad) have been exploiting the areas time and again.'' He alleged that the Government was ``engineering'' blasts in Gilgit and arresting innocent citizens.
		``Pakistani rule cannot be spread over Gilgit and Baltistan and these areas ought to be treated as a foreign country,'' the chairman of the Gilgit-Baltistan Thinkers Forum, Mr.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/09/11/stories/0211000h.htm

	Question of Gilgit And Baltistan at the UN
		It is unfortunate that this vast area of Gilgit and Baltistan which is more than 72 thousand Sq Kilometres with population of around 2 million is administratively cut off from the other Kashmiri area under the Pakistan control known as Azad Kashmir.
		The area known, as Northern area of Pakistan is not a Pakistani territory, it is part of the State of Jammu and Kashmir and its real name is Gilgit and Baltistan.
		Kashmiri leaders hold press conferences, give interviews, and write in newspapers, hold public meetings and demonstrations; but the same is not allowed in Gilgit and Baltistan, area under Pakistani control.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0803/130.html

	Al-Qaeda active in Gilgit, Baltistan: BNF to Annan : HindustanTimes.com
		Pakistan's ISI has roped in the banned Al-Qaeda to weaken the "nationalist movement" for freedom against Pakistan in Gilgit and Baltistan and have been targeting respected leaders to foment trouble in this region, claims a local organisation.
		"Al-Qaeda is operative in Gilgit and Baltistan on the direction of ISI and have been involved in ruthless killings in the region," Chairman of the Balwaristan Nationalist Front (BNF) Abdul Hamid Khan said in a letter to the United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan.
		The Gilgit area was on fire recently after suspected terrorists of Al-Qaeda gunned down a prominent Shia leader Agha Zia-ud-din.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1200803,000600010001.htm

	STOP PAKISTANI ISI TERRORISM IN GILGIT BALTISTAN (Balawaristan) -- BNF Balawaristan National Front http://www.Balawaristan.net
		Balawaristan (Pakistan occupied Gilgit Baltistan) and Pakistan, which is
		Kofi Annan Secretary General UNO New York USA Regarding Human Rights Violation by Pakistan's ISI in Gilgit Baltistan
		I have the honour to write you about the Pakistani ISI victimization.
	www.prweb.com /releases/2004/2/prweb105540.htm

	Homepage of Dr. Martin Sökefeld
		These are, first, the opposition between peole of Gilgit and people from outside, second, the opposition between Shiites and Sunnis, and third, the opposition between the Northern Areas and Pakistan due to the special political status of the region in the wake of the Kashmir dispute.
		Stereotypes and Boundaries: Pathan in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan.
		Migration and Society in Gilgit, Northern Areas of Pakistan.
	www.uni-hamburg.de /Wiss/FB/09/EthnoloI/Personal/esoekhom.html (1564 words)

	Feature Articles: A Letter From Balwaristan
		All the 5 parts in the disputed J & K (including, PoK, Pakistan occupied Gilgit Baltistan, Chinese occupied part of Shimshaal in Hunza and Chinese -Occupied part of Aksai Chin in Ladakh, Kashmir, Ladakh and Jammu) must be controlled by the UNO OR by both Pakistan and India at least for 5 years.
		On the other hand, Pakistan has to withdraw all its forces and civilians, who have entered the state (Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir) after 1947.
		Kashmir (Valley), Jammu, Ladakh, POK and Gilgit Baltistan} as per the guidelines of UN and democratic norms and values of the world.
	www.thesouthasian.org /archives/000209.html (1987 words)

	gilgit baltistan
		Gilgit and Baltistan are situated in Pakistan over which are strewn some of the world's highest mountains-the Karakoram Range and across which pour some of the longest glaciers outside the polar regions.At glance at the map will show that Gilgit and Baltistan is situated in the center of the most mountainous region of the Himalayas.
		The town of gilgit is dominated by the 25.550 foot(7,788) Rakaposhi while Nanga par bat, 26,660 feet (8,125 meters) high, towers over nearby juglot.Gilgit itself stands on narrow,fertile plain entirely ringed around by mountains, and enjoys a generally pleasant climate except of about two months in the summer when it becomes oppressively hot.
		Baltistan is the north east of Pakistan.Skardu, its capital, is the starting point for some of the best trekking and mountaineering in the world.
	www.geocities.com /sheraz_ahd (1987 words)

	Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Civilization!!!: Unrest in Gilgit-Baltistan by B Raman
		According to an agreement dated 28th April 1949, with the government of the POK, the subjects of defence, foreign affairs, security, currency and the control of Gilgit and Baltistan were transferred to the Government of Pakistan.
		"Saturdayâs killing in Gilgit is a big incident recalling the 1988 massacre which accounted for 44 deaths after âlashkarsâ sent in by a politician nicknamed the âdevil of Hazaraâ entered the Shia city after travelling the Karakoram Highway which was supposed to be guarded closely by the Pakistan Army.
		It was clear to the Gilgit civil administration that the raiders, who were tribals and mujahideen elements, could not have reached this remote place from Peshawar without someoneâs blessing.
	gooty.blogspot.com /2005/02/unrest-in-gilgit-baltistan-by-b-raman.html (1987 words)

	Gilgit-Baltistan Definition / Gilgit-Baltistan Research
		The entire area including Gilgit Gilgit is a region in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, bordering the Chinese region of Xinjiang.
		[click for more] and Baltistan was known as the Gilgit Agency Gilgit-Baltistan or the Northern Areas of Pakistan was an occupied province of the Maharaja of Kashmir before November 1, 1947 and was known as the Gilgit Agency.
		After a revolt of the local people against the Kashmiri regime, Gilgit-Baltistan was liberated and Brigadier Ghansara Singh, the last Kashmiri governor in the provincial capital, Gilgit, was arrested.
	www.elresearch.com /Gilgit-Baltistan (1987 words)

	Geo-Strategic Importance
		The Gilgit Agency is at the northern tip of the country, the Baltistan Agency to its southeast and along the cease-fire line.
		In the far north and the northeast of the country a number of small feudatory states in the Jammu and Kashmir region acceded to Pakistan at the time of independence and were held in whole or in part during the subsequent hostilities.
		It is neither a province nor an agency but has a government of its own that is regarded by Pakistan as independent.
	www.pakistanidefence.com /Info/GeoStrategic.html (1987 words)

	YesPakistan.com --- Organization Info
		Within Northern Areas, Baltistan is the least developed part of the region as Gilgit being the capital of Northern Areas and a conduit between china and Pakistan through the Karakorum highway has become the commercial hub of the region.
		Recent statistics indicate that Baltistan trail behind the rest of Pakistan in terms of all human development indicators - literacy rate being the lowest.
		The percentage of school-age girls in school at the primary level is estimated to be 60 percent lower than those of boys.
	www.yespakistan.com /directory/display.asp?ID=234 (1987 words)

	cars - Northern Light Infantry
		Its Regimental Centre is located at Bunji near Gilgit, in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
		The majority of this regiment's personnel come from the native Gilgitis, Baltis, Brushos, Wakhis and Khuwars etc. It was formed in 1973 with the amalgamation of the Northern Scouts along with its Scout wings: the Karakoram Scouts, Northern Scouts and Gilgit Scouts.
		Lalak Jan of NLI is the first native of Gilgit-Baltistan to receive the highest millitry award, Nishan-i-Haider, for bravery.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/NLI (1987 words)

	!! Welcome to the Voice of Millions !!
		Sir, I, Shafqat Ali Inqalabi Ex-Chairman Karakorum Students Organization in Pakistan occupied Gilgit Baltistan there are only two nationalist who are struggling for the freedom of the mother land Gilgit Baltistan and we also support independent Kashmir for valley Jammu and Poonch.
		Sir, Gilgit Baltistan is facing more problems then other disputed regions.
		Bhim Singh on the issue of election of real representatives of Gilgit, Baltistan for talks.
	www.thevoiceofmillions.com /VOM-9-2003/gilgit_student.htm (1987 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Pak says Gilgit, Baltistan are not part of its territory
		The Pakistan government has agreed that Gilgit and Baltistan are not part of its territory.
		The court has been hearing a petition, filed in June 1994, challenging imposition of taxes, setting up of customs checkposts and regulating imports/ exports by the Pakistan government in Northern Areas while denying the local population fundamental human rights granted by the United Nations and the right to self-government.
		Pak says Gilgit, Baltistan are not part of its territory
	inhome.rediff.com /news/sep/04pak.htm (1987 words)

	Free Balawaristan movement gains momentum
		The television pictures of these burials on Indian soil of Balawari soldiers that pakistan has refused to take remained the talk of the town in Gilgit and Baltistan for days on end and appear to have destroyed the very raison d'etre of the conflict with India in their minds.
		He had said then: "The people of Gilgit and Baltistan have been betrayed by pakistan and made slaves in their own land.
		The Gilgit scouts, a locally raised para-military unit with a history of over a hundred years refused to open fire on the agitators.
	www.jammu-kashmir.com /insights/insight20000206b.html (1987 words)

	News Headings
		JAMMU, May 14 — Pakistan is said to have enrolled many youths of Gilgit and Baltistan for arms training camps set up in the northern areas of Pakistan.
		According to these recent reports, the Pakistani armed attack on Indian border villages and pickets in the Kargil sector had been carried out by men of Gilgit Scouts, who are part of Pakistani Army.
		Men of Gilgit Scouts and those of Baltis and Pakhtoon origin were given training in handling of artillery guns and other sophisticated weapons.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99may15/head5.htm (1987 words)

	TIMEasia.com: News -- Political Limbo
		The Northern Region, known under British rule as the Gilgit Agency and governed loosely from Srinagar, the Kashmir capital, opted for Pakistan in 1947 after a mutiny in the local barracks that was encouraged by British commanding officers.
		Among young people in Gilgit, the administrative and military center of the region, the issue is not who owns Kashmir.
		This collection of disparate regions whose people are mostly cut off from each other by culture and religion is Kashmir-- a balkanised territory that India and Pakistan have fought two full-scale wars over since they went their separate ways at independence from Britain in 1947.
	www.time.com /time/asia/news/daily/0,9754,167449,00.html (1987 words)

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