The verbatim text of the Balawaristan
National Front's letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan
October 4, 1998
His Excellency
Mr Kofi Annan
Secretary General,
United Nations, New York
Subject: SOS message
I, on behalf of the Balawaristan
National Front (BNF), have the honour to inform you that the government
of Pakistan has decided to act upon the intrigue to conquer Balawaristan
(Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan (POGB)) with the help of Taliban fanatics.
This conspiracy has become an open secret of the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence),
in which the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state had
to turn into ashes before invasion of J&K and Ladakh on the Indian
side, due to which deteriorating situation and unrest occurred among the
people.
The central committee of the BNF
warns governs of Pakistan to abstain from these vicious plans to perish
(destroy) its occupied territory of Jammu and Kashmir (PoK) and Balawaristan,
so as to consolidate its illegal occupation by violating UNCIP (United
Nations Commission for India and Pakistan) resolutions in this regard.
The patriotic youth of Balawaristan are well aware about the ambiguity
among the people created by the Intelligence Agency of Pakistan (ISI),
and youths are being pushed into Afghanistan and J&K treacherously
in the name of the Islamic tradition jihad (to fight against non-Muslims),
although they are involved in looting properties and raping girls and women,
by ruining the whole humanity and animals.
The same example could be given
in case of dozen youths of Hanzel village some 15 kms to the north of Gilgit
city. They were killed by ISI and Jamaat-e-Islami when they refused to
cross the LoC (Line of Control). When their parents approached the local
police, headed by a Pakistani Pathan to register a case against the ISI
and Jamaat-e-Islami, they were flatly refused, and the kin were warned
of dire consequences if they blamed the ISI again.
No case could be filed against Pakistani
occupants, and their notorious agency, the ISI. The occupants are not content
with it, but are continuously involved in making differences between the
different ethnic groups, who are living in a unique and exemplary civilisation
for centuries. Moreover, the innocent unemployed youth and teenagers are
being trained in different training centres of Balawaristan viz. Darel
Yashote, Astore, Skardu and Gilgit, besides Hazara district of Pakistan
and Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Afghanistan, and ISI headquarters in
Hamza Camp, Murre Road, Rawalpindi, and ISI headquarters near CDA, Islamabad,
in which immature teenagers are brainwashed against other Muslim sects,
besides non-Muslims. They are provided sophisticated arms, including bombs,
rocket launchers, anti-aircraft guns and misiles etc. At last they are
pushed forcibly across the borders of Astore and Baltistan under the shelter
of cannon and machine gunfire.
A secret building (costing) billions
of rupees has been constructed near Soni Kote Helipad for ISI, consisting
of 30 canals (four acres) to command the terrorism within, as well as across,
the border and underground torture cells have been established to crush
the nationalist political party leaders and workers, who are struggling
against the illegal occupation of Pakistan by violating UNCIP resolutions,
to establish their own independent sovereign state. BNF warned the occupants
(to not use) the borders of Baltistan and Astore for penetration of its
terrorists. As a result, the vast area and population of Baltistan and
Ladakh-Kargil was badly affected, and hundreds became homeless, and many
innocent civilians lost their lives for nothing. The Government of Pakistan
and her intelligence agency should abstain from coercions against the nationalists
patriotic to their own homeland, and they should also take a lesson from
the former KGB of USSR and SAWAK of the King of Iran. Due to the role of
both the defunct agencies, the people were harassed continuously. As a
result, the USSR was split into pieces, while the King of Iran perished
forever. (This is the) exercise the ISI (carries out) against the local
nationalist parties of Balawaristan.
As far as the intrigue of Pakistan
to conquer the disputed territory of Balawaristan with the help of Taliban,
who are the personnel of the Pakistan Army and citizens of its own, are
concerned, of whom BNF and the other patriots of our motherland are well
aware. The rapid settlement of Pathans in the NWFP (North West Frontier
Province) of Pakistan, unveils itself the nefarious designs of Pakistan
against this disputed part of state of Jammu and Kashmir. They are involved
in storing sophisticated arms in Pakistan Army Camps. NLI market, ISI Head
Quarter Gilgit, FC and Khyber Rifles camps and other secret places terrorist
camps and non-locals position under the supervision Pakistan Army and ISI
deployed in Balawaristan (Occupied Gilgit Baltistan). These non-locals
have premeditated by distributing the properties of the locals among themselves
after the proposed invasion of Taliban in the coming future. Meanwhile
the Pakistan Army has also managed the plan to disarm the locals before
the aggression of Pakistan and its puppet Taliban is started. The occupier
regime of Pakistan has also managed and sponsored some religious and pro-Pakistan
political parties by financing them to make differences among the locals
and planned to misguide them by saying that the Taliban are invited to
conquer the Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IoK) via Astore and Skardu.
According to the Pakistani plan,
the Taliban will enter through the border areas of Ishkomen, Yasen and
Goopis and Misgar of Hunza, where the Ismaili population is in majority.
The same practice of genocide the locals would be repeated as they had
done in Northern Afghanistan. To facilitate the Taliban attack, all possible
steps have been taken by Pakistan to restrain the local people from resistance.
The border with China and India would be tightly locked to hamper the fleeing
people, as well as foreign interference. Besides, all professional and
darbari mullas (Pakistan-sponsored religious leaders) of different sects
would be purchased to create sectarian clashes among the locals.
BNF warns and appeals to the patriotic
people of Balawaristan (POGB) for not playing as puppet in to the hands
of foreign (Pakistani) agents against their motherland and its inhabitants.
BNF would resist and defend its territory from Pakistan occupied Shinaki
Kohistan to Chitral against foreign (Pakistani and Taliban) aggression.
BNF appeals to the UN, UNSC (United Nations Security Council) and sympathetic
countries to take necessary steps against Taliban fanatics, and their master,
the ISI, who are planning to genocide the opposite sects in Balawaristan.
In this critical situation, huge number of ISI-sponsored and trained Afghani
and Pakistani Taliban Kashmiri and other terrorists have already been deputed
in different parts of Balawaristan so far, who have disguised themselves
as traders and employees. UN, UNSC and peace loving countries should take
premeditate action to prevent Pakistan and Taliban's barbarism, who are
the real threat for peace and tranquillity of Balawaristan particularly,
and for the region generally.
In the light of the abovementioned
apprehensions and continuous violation of UNCIP resolution by the government
of Pakistan for the last half-century, the UN and UNSC should take over
the disputed territory of Balawaristan (POGB) as complying with their own
resolution of August 13, 1948.
Abdul Hamid Khan
Chairman
Balawaristan National Front (BNF)
NOTE: The above letter caused a
threat to my life, when the government of China officially asked Pakistan
about its involvement to destabilise it's Sinkiang province in the beginning
of 1999.