London: A UK-based Kashmiri group has accused Pakistan of never hesitating to fund militants in the Northern Areas and rejected that country’s move to give the Gilgit-Baltistan region a province-like status.
“Pakistani establishment has always exploited the people of Gilgit-Baltistan. It has never hesitated to fund jihadi and sectarian Taliban in the region for a long time,” Mujatba Ali Shah, Information Secretary of the United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP), told Kashmiris demonstrating in front of the High Commission of Pakistan here.
He said “thousands of indigenous Shia Muslims have been killed by sectarian groups, who are agents of Pakistan’s secret services, but Pakistan carried a blanket ban on Gilgit-Baltistan so that the world could not know about the genocide of local people.”
Shah said Pakistan’s move to give the Gilgit-Baltistan region a province-like status “is aimed at giving China an upper hand in the region by giving it full-fledged access to the area and its resources.”
The United States and other countries with influence on Pakistan must ask it questions in this regard, he said.
UKPNP leader Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmir, addressing the gathering telephonically from Geneva, said the organisation was “unequivocally” against Pakistan Government’s move to give Gilgit-Baltistan a province-like status and branded it as the colonisation of the area. http://www.zeenews.com/news566658.html
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