Gilgit Baltistan, Senge Sering in Geneva to Shed Light on Atrocities
Committed by Pakistani Authorities
Senge
H. Sering – director of the Gilgit-Baltistan National Congress – aims to draw
attention to the urgent situation in Gilgit Baltistan as he visits Geneva
during the thirty-third Human Rights Council, specifically highlighting the
issue of land grabbing and displacement. Gilgit-Baltisan is in a constitutional
limbo since Pakistan
seized control over the region in 1949, granting it no mechanisms to defend
itself as Islamabad ruthlessly
implements the China-Pakistan
Economic and Defence Cooperation (CPEC). In addition to highlighting these
injustices, Mr Sering urges the UN to look into Pakistan’s suspected ties with
Islamic terrorist groups like ISIS.
Geneva [Switzerland],
Sept. 13 : Maintaining that people of Gilgit-Baltistan are deprived of their
basis rights, Senge H Sering, Director of Gilgit-Baltistan National Congress
said that he would try his best to inform the United Nations about the human rights
violation and atrocities carried out by Pakistan in the region.
"We will try to
tell the member states of the UN that how the people in Gilgit Baltistan are
deprived of their rights and no Constitutional institutions are being given to
them by Pakistan. It is done so that the lands can be grabbed, the identity be
reduced to minority or attack be made on their identity," Sering told ANI.
Pointing out that in
Gilgit-Baltistan there is mass land grabbing going on and people are being
displaced on a large level, Sering said that in the next two years the density
will only increase, adding the issue of land rights and water issues in Gilgit
Baltistan and the rights that they have on it will be raised before the UN. He
was also of the opinion that the issue of Gilgit-Baltistan gets overshadowed by
Pakistan raising the issue of Kashmir.
" We will try to
best to give all the information to the UN about the the human rights violation
and atrocities in Gilgit Baltistan which gets shadowed by Kashmir issue and by
which Pakistan continues their atrocities in Gilgit Baltistan," he added.
Taking a jibe at
Pakistan for having a very weak case on Kashmir, he said that day by day the
world is getting to know their weakness about Kashmir and are being exposed.
Talking about Pakistan
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's step of nominating 22 senators to raise the
Kashmir dispute during the United Nation General Assembly session, Sering said
that international community should understand that Islamabad has no support from
people of Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Muzaffarabad in representing the issue.
"International
community should understand that Pakistan has no people from Kashmir, Gilgit
Baltistan, Muzaffarabad in representing the issue and that is why they are
using their senators to lobby for Kashmir," he added.
Sering said that the UN
should see that if Pakistan has favourable opinion with Jamaat-e-Islami and
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, then this only shows that it is not serious to curb
militancy in the region, adding that there should be an investigation on
Islamabad's role in association with these groups including ISIS.
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