Gilgit-Baltistan legislative assembly adopts unanimously, on Tuesday, a joint resolution demanding Prime Minister Imran Khan and state institutions to grant the region provisional provincial status. They seek PM to provide GB with representation in Parliament and other constitutional bodies.
The resolution was presented jointly by GB Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan from the PTI, opposition leader Amjad Hussain Advocate from the PPP, PML-N’s Ghulam Muhammad, MWM member Muhammad Kazim, JUI-F’s Rehmat Khaliq and GB minister Raja Azam Khan.
The resolution stated that a bill to amend the Constitution to declare GB a provisional province of Pakistan should be passed by Parliament without causing any damage to the country’s stance on the Kashmir issue.
This house reiterated that the people of GB will continue their moral and political support to the people of occupied Kashmir in their struggle. The resolution was passed by the house unanimously.
GB Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid Khan took it to Twitter and announced the historic resolution demanding provision of constitutional rights to the region.
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— Muhammad Khalid Khurshid Khan (@AbdulKhalidPTI) March 9, 2021
Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly unanimously passed a historic resolution demanding provision of constitutional rights to the region. I myself presented the resolution in the assembly. I am thankful to the opposition leader for their support.. pic.twitter.com/xOoWAXqMWs
CM thanked the opposition and the government in the next Twitter post.
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— Muhammad Khalid Khurshid Khan (@AbdulKhalidPTI) March 9, 2021
And also the members of government for working their best to create consensus. The demand for constitutional rights is a uninamous demand of the people of GB, not of an individual/ party only. The unity we've shown on this issue needs to be repeated again at federal level.
Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry congratulated GB representatives on unanimously passing the resolution and termed the development a ‘historic day’.
Histrionic day for the people of #GilgitBaltistan all parties unanimously demand interim provincial status for GB to ensure constitutional rights for the people… truly a leap forward… kudoos to all who made it possible pic.twitter.com/V02Jf43K2y
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) March 9, 2021
In November last year, Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Ali Amin Gandapur had announced that the federal government had decided to elevate the status of GB to a province.
In December, Prime Minister Imran Khan constituted a 12-member committee to make recommendations in this regard.
