The leader of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, Amanullah
Khan, has urged Pakistan Prime Minister to desist from taking any decision
regarding Gilgit Baltistan's merger with Pakistan, saying that any attempt to
convert the region into a province would be a blunder.
In a letter to PM
Nawaz Sharif the JKLF founder has maintained that any such move by the
incumbent government ‘will bring Pakistan at par with India in many ways.’
Besides annoying a big number of Kashmiris, Khan observed, any attempt to
change the status of the region would also adversely affect the world opinion
about Kashmir issue.
"It is for these
sound reasons that the people and political parties of Azad Kashmir (AK) do not
make such demands," he said. So far as the question of granting rights to
the people of the region is concerned, he pointed out, there were many other
ways of meeting the genuine demands of the people of the region.
He said, "GB and
AK be merged into each other as two equal units, giving similar status to GB as
of AK and granting rights to the people of GB in any legal form but without
merging it with Pakistan as it may affect its world-recognized disputed
nature."
Regarding his joint
communiqué to prime ministers of India and Pakistan, Khan while highlighting
the vulnerability of the Kashmir issue said that the continued tensions between
the two nuclear neighbours make it more dangerous for regional and world peace
as well.
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