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Pakistan: Bill in Senate seeking provisional province status for GB rejected

India Blooms News Service | @indiablooms | Mar 02, 2022, at 11:40 pm

#GB #Pakistan #Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit, Pakistan: A parliamentary committee of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly has rejected a private members’ bill that was submitted by four senators of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) in the Senate seeking provisional province status for GB, media reports said on Wednesday.

According to a joint statement issued by 12 members of the GB Legislative Assembly, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam condemned the move of the senators and announced their decision to oppose it, reports The Dawn.

The statement said a meeting of the parliamentary committee on GB provisional province draft was held in Islamabad on Monday. It said any move without consulting the GB people would be resisted, the newspaper reported.

It said the parliamentary committee members on GB provisional province were preparing recommendations for a draft of the amendment bill.

“The bill submitted by BAP members in the Senate in a dramatic way is not acceptable,” it said.

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