Title of the Seminar

United Nations, Global Standards, European Union, Focus on Gilgit

Baltistan, Role and Responsibilities of Pakistan 25th September-2009, Brussels

Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, Chair, UKPNP was chief guest

Jamil Maqsood, Ishaq Khan, Zafar Iqbal, Nasir Aziz and Yasir Navid, Khalil Ahmed Habib Addressing

At the end of the seminar following resolutions were passed.

1-We urge the Government of Pakistan to ensure effective and

honourable representation of the two million people of Gilgit
Baltistan in their own Legislative Assembly with full lawful
authority. An independent judiciary and civil services
 commission be created and Government of Pakistan ahs to
ensure that the people of Gilgit and Baltistan are not
discriminated against at Universities, Health care facilities,
interms of fundamental rights and freedoms and other centres of
learning in the region. We the representatives of different
political parties from the region, civil society and human rights
activists emphasize on Government of Pakistan to revisit its
package, which reflects old packages and policies. It is also
widely understood in the region that aims of policy makers has
always been to subjugate people, marginalise them in
fundamental rights, strengthen undemocratic forces promote
communalism, extremism and hatred to divide the people and
plunder the natural resources. We emphasize that in the
democratic Governance Chief Minister has the right to select the
cabinet, but in Gilgit Baltistan these powers would rest with the
Governor and Prime Minister of Pakistan through its councils. We
appreciate the change of name of this region as Gilgit Baltistan.

2-We also demand that in bureaucratic set up local people must be

given priority without any discrimination of caste, colour creed,
political opinion and social orientation.

3-We recall Government of Pakistan, and the world community not

to change the natural and geographic boundaries of this region, and
any act to change its demography and violation of State subject rule
of 27th April-1927, would not only rejected but shall be resisted
which would have dire consequences for the whole region.

4-The peace loving people of Gilgit Baltistan are having democratic

and human rights endeavour. Their aspirations should be supported
by the world community to have access to a transparent and
accountable system of Governance.

5-We call on world community under the umbrella of the United

Nations including Human Rights organizations, civil society
movement and European Union to support us in social, economical
and political emancipation, that our languages and culture must
protected and the plundering of natural resources must stop and
these resources should be properly exploited for the well-being of
our people and social and economical development of the region,
instead of filling the pockets of few greedy individuals.

We the participants of this august seminar warmly welcome and

vehemently appreciate the statement of Libyan president Mr.
Qaddafi that Jammu & Kashmir should recognised as an
independent state. To foster peace, prosperity, stability and
development in the entire south Asian region. We believe that it is
only tool to defeat the forces of fundamentalism, extremism and
fanaticism in our region.