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Waqar Ahmed
Strategic location of the Northern Areas of Pakistan is of great geo-political importance because it links major parts of South Asia, Central Asia and South East Asia. The region is the backbone of our country’s economy and trade with China entailing future partnership with the Central Asian States.
Pakistan imports almost all kinds of items from China via Karakuram Highway. These areas are significant in terms of natural resources containing precious minerals such as gold, ruby, emerald, iron ore and Uranium. Water is another major source. Pakistan’s major source of water is River Indus which flows through this region. It was also due to the ideal strategic location of this region that India occupied the Siachen Glacier, deputing her forces below 50 and 60 degree freezing point peaks and compelled Pakistan to defend its Northern Areas. Actually RAW has played key role in the Northern Areas in organizing a number of nationalist groups such as Gilgit-Baltistan Democratic Alliance (GBDA), Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement (GBUM), Gilgit-Baltistan United Movement (GBUM) and particularly Balawaristan National Front (BNF) which plays a leading role, claiming that Chitral and Kohistan are inseparable parts of Gilgit-Baltistan, known as Balawaristan.
India and Afghanistan with the covert support of the US have already been creating lawlessness in various regions of Pakistan by fuelling sectarianism. They are also converting our Northern Areas into another volatile place where they have been exploiting grievances of sub nationalist forces in Pakistan to achieve their secret strategic goals. RAW has become very active in supporting the separatist elements with a view to weakening the federation of Pakistan. So far as the Northern Areas of the country are concerned, RAW had performed a major role in forming Balawaristan National Front (BNF) in 1992 and has been providing it with material and financial support including arms and ammunition. The sole aim is to promote the agenda of an independent Republic of Balawaristan from Kohistan to Chitral and Khunjrab to Skardu which also includes Ladakh.
New Delhi’s backing to the BNF could be judged from the fact that its leader Abdul Hameed Khan held meetings with Emma Nicholson, the Vice Chairperson of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the European Union and member of the European Parliament with the covert help of RAW. Abdul Hameed blamed Pakistan for human rights violations in Gilgit and Baltistan, exaggerating regional disparities which are very common in the less developed countries due to a number of problems like lack of resources, finance, high population growth etc.
Ms Emma Nicholson visited Islamabad in February 2008 and had meetings with Mr. Shafaqat Inqalabi of BNF and advocate Muhammad Iqbal of Karakuram National Movement (KNM). Both the leaders admired her favour in filing a successful resolution in the European Parliament on Kashmir issue and requested her to initiate a similar resolution in relation to Gilgit and Baltistan. They also submitted details on current political, economic, social and constitutional disparities, including alleged human rights violations in connection with those areas to Ms. Nicholson.
Nevertheless with the guidance of Indian RAW and help of Ms. Nicholson, so-called leaders of the Indian-held Kashmir and Balawaristan succeeded in their nefarious designs and in April, 2008, several members of the European Parliament expressed concern over human rights violations in Gilgit and Baltistan, urging the Pakistan government to establish democratic institutions and the rule of law in those areas. Apart from providing diplomatic and political assistance to the sub nationalists elements of the Northern Areas, Indian media also leaves no stone unturned in giving undue coverage to the news of separatist elements of that region. In an exclusive interview with Indian Hindu Sitah (india.indymedia.org), Mr. Abdul Hameed Khan blamed Pakistan for many problems regarding Gilgit and Baltistan. He demanded freedom from Pakistani occupied Balawaristan and was in favor of political and economic integration with India.
While advocating independence, sovereignty and integrity as the main mottos of Balawaristan, in reply to a question, he requested New Delhi for more political, diplomatic and media help for his movement. Indian hidden hands in the nationalist movement of the Northern Areas could be witnessed from this self-contradictory statement of Abdul Hameed Khan. It is astonishing that in most of the speeches or statements, he advocated total independence of Gilgit-Baltistan (Balawaristan), but in this interview, he wanted integration with India. So besides RAW’s physical aid, Indian media has also been misleading the masses of the Northern Areas by promoting anti-Pakistan struggles.
It is of particular attention that on the direction of RAW, nationalist elements of the Northern Areas of Pakistan have been making hectic efforts for opening of Kargil-Ladakh road. It is part of Indian conspiracy to fulfill its covert agenda. For this purpose, refugees from Indian-held Turtuk, Tiaqshi, Nabar and other towns of Baltistan are being exploited through various tactics. Kargil-Ladakh Refugee Committee of Skardu has already been formed to propagate the issue. Moreover, BNF is also mobilizing and organizing student’s community at college and university level to instigate the sentiments of separatism among them.
For this aim, on July 29, 2008, BNF has formally created Karakuram Students Organization (KSO) at Karakuram University Gilgit. It also decided to form Balwaristan National Students Org (BNSO). Being a frontline state of American war on terror, Pakistan has become a continuous target of terrorist attacks. It is unfortunate that while our security forces are engaged in fighting insurgency in the Frontier Province and Balochistan where RAW and Khad are fully supporting the separatist groups, India, with the material support of some external powers, has become pro-active in inciting sentiments of sub-nationalism in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
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Dear freinds the above artical was published by Pakistan Observer on September 10, 2008 a engish daily news paper of pakistan .The publisher Zahid Malik is workig under the dicatation of ISI and all of the civil society is familier that ISI is the sponser of Pakistan observer from the first day.I am going to warn ISI and zahid malik that stop these cheep activities now the game is over.
Shafqat Inqalabi
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