Provincial status for Gilgit-Baltistan
Provincial status for Northern Areas, published in The Muslim in 1991 (By late Wazir.G. Abbas ) THE mountainous region presently known as “N.As) is situated amidst three of the world’s most famous mountain ranges, the Himalayas, the Karakoram and the Hindukush. This backward and far flung area is little known to the outer world and some of our Pakistani brethren may not be familiar even with its name. It is the place where the borders of China, USSR, India and Afghanistan touch the Pakistan frontiers. The strategic importance of the area demands that every patriotic Pakistani takes active interest in its affairs and endeavors remove the consternation prevailing among the people due to the so far unidentified constitutional status of the area and the peculiar autocratic and oppressive set up of the administration. There is a difference of opinion in the constitutional status demanded for the area. One section of people demands the status of a province for the area, while anoth...