Provisional provincial status for GB approved
gilgit — Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said that his government has decided to give Gilgit Baltistan a provisional provincial status following the elections in the region due on November 15.
Addressing the 73rd Independence Day Parade of Gilgit Baltistan at the FCNA helipad ground, the prime minister said the decision, which would fulfil a long-standing demand of the area people, had been made within the perimeters of the United Nations Security Council’s resolutions.
The prime minister declined to announce any development package for the region owing to the Election Commission’s restriction in view of the upcoming local elections.
However, he assured the people that his government would work to uplift backward areas, including GB, Balochistan, western districts of Punjab and interior Sindh.
Turning his attention to his political opponents, the prime minister said that after putting country’s economy on the right track, his next focus is to ensure the rule of law and take “powerful criminals” to task who had been blackmailing the state institutions.
“Now, I will personally oversee the state institutions to establish the rule of law in the country and bring under law powerful criminals who are trying to blackmail them. In the coming days, you will see whose legs shake and whose forehead sweats,” the prime minister said.
The prime minister said the reign of Muslim rulers came to an end when they were ditched by traitors like Mir Jafar and Mir Sadiq who sold their loyalty for personal gains.
“Today, we are seeing Pakistan’s Mir Jafar, Mir Sadiq and Mir Ayaz Sadiq. These are the people, who are speaking the language of country’s enemies,” he remarked.
He viewed that the sole objective of this tirade by the opposition was to pressure the government to get relief for their corruption.
“I want to tell my nation today, Imran Khan will never forgive these looters. The judiciary was good when they were acquitted in the Hudabiya case but when a five-member bench ruled against him in another cases it (judiciary) turned bad (for them),” he commented.
Imran Khan said a strong military was inevitable for the security of a nation and to avoid the chaos and bloodshed being suffered by countries like Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan and Iraq. —
I thank God that if they [opposition] are talking against them (COAS, DG ISI) then my decision to select them was right Imran Khan
Prime Minister