Islamabad May 5 (TNS): Youth of Gilgit Baltistan on Saturday slammed the GB Order 2018, proposed by the federal government to upraise the constitutional status of the region and termed it as “lollypop” of the government.
Amid the revelation of GB order, the students of GB living in twin cities were gathered before national press club Islamabad on Saturday to demonstrate their protest against the order. They were holding banners and play cards which mentioned their demands to withdraw the order.
Addressing the protest speakers said the order will give absolute power to the Prime minister which is against the basics of democracy. The GB order 2018 is a black law, they added. The order will send back the GB to Monarch and PM will be the king, they said.
Students of GB said that the government has made them deprived of their basics rights of ownership and rule and they demanded that the right of ownership and rule in their region should be give3n to the locals. The government has grabbed their land without giving them compensation on the name of “Khalsa e Sarkar”. The protectors warned of consequences if the so-called order not reversed.
It is pertinent to mention here that GB is deprived of the constitutional rights since its independence. To resolve this matter former PM has made a single member committee of Sartaj Aziz. Under recommendations of this committee the Pakistan Muslim league Nawaz government has designed an order named Gilgit Baltistan Order 2018. According to the order which is yet to be implemented, the PM Pakistan has legislative powers to make laws for GB. This order has triggered protests in GB and outside GB including social media.
