Prabhash K Dutta
The British Parliament has condemned Pakistan's move to declare Gilgit-Baltistan as its fifth province. The British Parliament passed a resolution rejecting Pakistan's position on the region in PoK.
A motion was passed by the British parliamentarians announcing Gilgit-Baltistan as a legal and constitutional part of Jammu and Kashmir illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947.
The motion had been tabled in the British Parliament on March 23 by Bob Blackman of the Conservative Party. It says that Pakistan is attempting to annex an area that does not belong to it.
The British Parliament motion reads, "Gilgit-Baltistan is a legal and constitutional part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India, which is illegally occupied by Pakistan since 1947, and where people are denied their fundamental rights including the right of freedom of expression."
The British parliamentarians accused Pakistan of adopting a policy to change the demography of Gilgit-Baltistan region in violation of State Subject Ordinance. They called the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as illegal.
The 'forced and illegal construction' of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has interfered with the disputed territory, the motion said.
The Gilgit-Baltistan area is under Pakistan's control since it invaded Jammu and Kashmir soon after partition of India. It forms the northernmost administrative territory under Pakistan's control just beyond the Kashmir region - a part of which is illegally occupied by Islamabad.
Recently, a committee headed by Sartaj Aziz, the Foreign Affairs Advisor to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recommended converting the Gilgit-Baltistan region into its fifth province.
Pakistan has four provinces - Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North West Frontier Province).
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