PESHAWAR: Several folks had been injured in Pakistan in clashes between police and protesters during an indication against the so-called Gilgit-Baltistan order, media studies said on Sunday.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has seized extra authority from the local council to handle the affairs of the disputed area through the Gilgit-Baltistan Order 2018 which was once passed on May 21.
The order is noticed as Islamabad's efforts in opposition to incorporating the disputed area as its fifth province.
Police fired tear gasoline shells and resorted to aerial firing in Gilgit the day before today to forestall protesters drawing near in opposition to Gilgit-Baltistan assembly for a scheduled sit-in against the newly offered order, The Express Tribune reported.
Politicians, reducing across party lines, held protest rallies across Gilgit-Baltistan hard constitutional rights for the area.
The Gilgit-Baltistan govt has promulgated the Gilgit-Baltistan Order-2018, which replaced the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order of 2009.
However, the new order has failed to impress local politicians who announced region-wide protests.
"We will continue our sit-in outside the assembly till this package is revoked and we are given constitutional rights," said Awami Action Committee (AAC) Chairman Sultan Raees.
Civil rights groups in Pakistan have also criticised the order.
In New Delhi, Pakistan's deputy prime commissioner Syed Haider Shah was once summoned over Islamabad's so-called Gilgit-Baltistan order.
He was once informed by means of India that any action to vary the standing of any a part of the territory underneath his nation's forcible profession has no legal basis.
In a observation, the ministry of external affairs said it conveyed to Shah that all of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which also comprises the so-called 'Gilgit-Baltistan' areas, is an integral a part of India by means of distinctive feature of its accession in 1947.
Pakistan has bifurcated occupied Kashmir into two administrative portions - Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Gilgit-Baltistan was once handled as a separate geographical entity by means of Pakistan untill now.
Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh are the 4 provinces of Pakistan.
A Cabinet assembly, chaired by means of Prime Minister Abbasi on Tuesday, was once informed that Gilgit-Baltistan Council will be retained as advisory frame in opposition to the functions of the Federal Government.
China's debatable $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through the disputed area.
It is thought that China's considerations concerning the unsettled standing of Gilgit-Baltistan precipitated Pakistan to modify its standing.
Dawn reported that underneath the new order, all powers exercised by means of the Gilgit Baltistan council, including passing law regarding mineral, hydropower and tourism sectors, had been shifted to the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has seized extra authority from the local council to handle the affairs of the disputed area through the Gilgit-Baltistan Order 2018 which was once passed on May 21.
The order is noticed as Islamabad's efforts in opposition to incorporating the disputed area as its fifth province.
Police fired tear gasoline shells and resorted to aerial firing in Gilgit the day before today to forestall protesters drawing near in opposition to Gilgit-Baltistan assembly for a scheduled sit-in against the newly offered order, The Express Tribune reported.
Politicians, reducing across party lines, held protest rallies across Gilgit-Baltistan hard constitutional rights for the area.
The Gilgit-Baltistan govt has promulgated the Gilgit-Baltistan Order-2018, which replaced the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order of 2009.
However, the new order has failed to impress local politicians who announced region-wide protests.
"We will continue our sit-in outside the assembly till this package is revoked and we are given constitutional rights," said Awami Action Committee (AAC) Chairman Sultan Raees.
Civil rights groups in Pakistan have also criticised the order.
In New Delhi, Pakistan's deputy prime commissioner Syed Haider Shah was once summoned over Islamabad's so-called Gilgit-Baltistan order.
He was once informed by means of India that any action to vary the standing of any a part of the territory underneath his nation's forcible profession has no legal basis.
In a observation, the ministry of external affairs said it conveyed to Shah that all of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, which also comprises the so-called 'Gilgit-Baltistan' areas, is an integral a part of India by means of distinctive feature of its accession in 1947.
Pakistan has bifurcated occupied Kashmir into two administrative portions - Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Gilgit-Baltistan was once handled as a separate geographical entity by means of Pakistan untill now.
Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh are the 4 provinces of Pakistan.
A Cabinet assembly, chaired by means of Prime Minister Abbasi on Tuesday, was once informed that Gilgit-Baltistan Council will be retained as advisory frame in opposition to the functions of the Federal Government.
China's debatable $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through the disputed area.
It is thought that China's considerations concerning the unsettled standing of Gilgit-Baltistan precipitated Pakistan to modify its standing.
Dawn reported that underneath the new order, all powers exercised by means of the Gilgit Baltistan council, including passing law regarding mineral, hydropower and tourism sectors, had been shifted to the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly.
Protest in Pakistan over Gilgit-Baltistan order
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