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| Shias in Pak Northern Areas demand separate state |
| 2005-01-16 |
| Pakistani leaders in the Northern Areas (NA), Gilgit-Baltistan region, have raised a banner of revolt against the Pakistani government demanding a separate Bolor state. Describing their demand as "legitimate", the leaders at a seminar "Great Bolor State and Kashmir Issue" said the Gilgit-Baltistan region was being governed by the Kashmir Affairs and NA Ministry based in Islamabad and the elected representatives of the NA Legislative Council did not enjoy the same power as the district assembly despite the entire region being liberated in 1947. The seminar, organised by the Bolor Thinker Forum, was held at the Rawalpindi Press Club in the first week of this month to discuss the NA issue, which is also known as Bolor with reference to the Kashmir issue. The speakers at the seminar, including JKLF chairman Amanullah Khan, APNA chairman Wajahat Hassan Khan, APNA general secretary Sardar Arif Shahid, Bolor Research Forum chairman Amanullah Khan, and Boloristan chairman Nawaz Khan, said the people of Gilgit-Baltistan region were an essential component of the Kashmir issue but were currently being ignored. They said that due to the Kashmir conflict, the region's people were being deprived of their rights, and people from both Kashmir and PoK enjoyed their own legislative, administrative and judicial set-ups. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #5 One is obliged to wonder just how supportive the Arab street will be of these newly minted "freedom fighters" as they set about slaughtering their Sunni brethern. Just another sterling example of how Islam's embrace of violent jihad comes back to bite them on the @ss, bigtime. The weirdest thing of all is how I don't even feel pessimistic when I predict that Islam will never, ever understand the need to abandon its concept of holy war no matter how much it fragments and decimates their own followers. Sigh ... those who live by the sword. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-01-16 2:10:06 PM |
| #4 Would they support a separate state for Kashmir too? |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2005-01-16 11:52:00 AM |
| #3 Boloristan! Back to the 7th century with a separate little state for every tribe. It would work for me if they would stay there, but eventually some Khan or Mohammed or Osama gets bored and goes off on a conquering rampage. This is Tom in Tomistan, signing off. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-01-16 10:25:52 AM |
| #2 :) Hey, if two nutjobs decide they wanna be a separate state, then it should be so - no questions asked - cuz it's like a fundamental human left. The Heiress said so. And that's the unchallengeable voice of deep worldly experience and fantastic wisdom gleaned first-hand, y'know. So, here's to Bolor, Home of the Free Thinkers, and a bunch more Khans. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-01-16 1:59:01 AM |
| #1 How interesting. If this is the start of a trend, .com's 40 km wide strip of Saudi coastline may become a reality without any effort on the part of our armored boyz'n'girlz. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-01-16 1:06:37 AM |