Extract: Civil Society Learning Material on Gender equity

Context: Public statement by RC Gilgit

The ethical values that are important to the AKDN agencies are:

5. Gender equity

Wherever an AKDN agency finds that local CSOs do not exhibit these ethical values, it is the agencies’ role to help them, just as much as making sure that their governance and management practices are in place. The following pages suggest how the AKDN agency could investigate these subjects, and decide on action.

In many societies women are marginalised, exploited, and given few chances to acquire education, experience or the chance to show their strengths. The CSO should demonstrate that it has a different opinion and is prepared to put such opinions into practice.

Gender refers to the social differences between women and men that are learned through socialisation, and which are not intrinsic characteristics of each sex. In nearly all societies women are discriminated against, and in some countries such discrimination is underpinned by tradition, custom, laws and religious observances.

An enormous amount is lost to a society when women do not have access to education, jobs, decision making and responsibility. Even more is lost if this is underpinned by domestic physical and sexual violence.

What can an AKDN agency do encourage gender equity?

1. The AKDN agency can make sure that staff and volunteer positions are accessible to women as much as men, and when traditions and culture block this, can work to break down such practices and be a model as a fair employer with regard to gender balance.

2. Look for ways in which the agency and the CSOs with which it associates can overcome some of the difficulties that women have in overcoming structural problems – such as making sure crêches exist for nursing mothers, and that transport (or security) is provided for women to come and go on CSO business.

3. Think of ways in which the usual imbalance of power between men and women can be re-aligned – e.g. by making evening classes available to women, giving them access to literacy materials, or making sure that they have access to credit.

4. As mentioned before, ascertain what organisations already work on gender equity issues and see if they can be helpful to your organisation.

5. Look for agencies, organisations, firms and government departments that are practising what you consider to be good gender relations, and hold them up as a model.

6. Have clear rules and regulations against abuse of women in your organisation, and practice zero tolerance for infractions.

7. Have services in place to help women connected to your organisation who may suffer from domestic violence or other physical and sexual violence.

RELATED: UCA CURRICULUM- 7.   Rhythm and Movement

The rhythm and Movement course will explore the great influence music has had on shaping human society and history. The main purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to dance and music as important disciplines within the humanities and to debate basic ideas related to the art's aesthetics. All the materials presented in this course are selected from different cultures and civilizations (Europe, America, Russia, some Muslim countries, and India, among others) that gave had direct or indirect links to the history and contemporary life of Central Asia. This course will allow the participants to freely question existing musical forms, groups, and ensembles and to challenge the ruling cultural, traditional and political attitudes concerning issues of professional or local musical performance, self expression, and the responsibilities of musicians to society.
Also read the concept of HCF.

State of art education and skill centers in GB and their potential

UNESCO REPORT

State of art centers:

GOOGLE IN EDUCATION, EXAMPLE: A lesson about every single element on the periodic table, ADDITIONAL PLATEFORM
TEACHING, LEARNING, NETWORKING, PEOPLE's UNIVERSITY, EXPLORE THE WORLD OF HIGHER EDUCATION, LIVING DOCUMENT,
PhD Welcome development, Chinese establish six state of the art lifelong learning centers and open universities in GB towards development of HR in the global world. Propose the LSOs in the area must motivate populations to avail these Facilities.
Recall the fourteen facilities established by AKDN in 2010 through the Education department as well.

INTEGRATION WITH POPULAR PLATFORMS

Home Classroom
Manage teaching and learning with Classroom
Classroom helps students and teachers organize assignments, boost collaboration, and foster better communication.

Note to Minister of Education GB and VC KIU:
As a start I request you to get a report as to how many of these twenty centers are functional and delivering to the schools, colleges, University campus and the general population. Then integrate these to provide free of cost knowledge and skills to every household thereby developing a innovative human resource throughout the region.

Education and skills for 21st century that you can acquire FREE OF COST through Lifelong Learning Centers in our region

 TELEMEDICINE

RESPONSE:

Ibrahim Sanai 

Salam sir, I read it and will bring soon as addenda for discussion in the fourth coming Review Meeting of the Education Department Gilgit Baltistan.

Vice Chancellor KIU Thanks Baig sb. As akways appreciate your sharing wonderful resources. 

INTERNET:
Free high speed internet in Hunza, part of Cross Border Optical Fiber Cable Project:
The infrastructure has been provided by the Chinese and also tested. Will be available to populations only when GOP (SCO) issues NOC. We request GOP to facilitate establishment of KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY in the region by issuing the NOC.

https://hisamullahbeg.blogspot.com/2017/08/knowledge-society-initiative.html

Features of Red spider software

Red Spider educational software, developed by Guangzhou Chuangxun Software Co., Ltd.

Development, runs the TCP / IP Windows2000/XP/2003/Vista/Windows7 network loaded with TCP/IP protocol, it supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems, it mainly realizes multimedia information network teaching and broadcasting on the LAN for its excellent quality, it is a very good software product with the integration of synchronous teaching, control, management, audio and video broadcast, on-line exam in computer classrooms, and it can achieve the purposes of network management such as simultaneous screen monitoring and remote control[2].

Easy software installation:

Traditional computer classroom, in the general sense, is such a system implemented with projector or hardware network. However, a general classroom cannot be equipped with such a system for its high cost or some other reasons, such as large hardware depletion, troublesome maintenance and difficult updating. But for Red Spider software, a pure software solution, it completely avoid these hardware problems to enable teachers to put theory of teaching into practice, teachers can make a variety of teaching demonstrations on the computer, and any teachers’ step of the procedure is in real-time transmission to the student's computer screen.

Powerful functions and flexible interaction:

A variety of multimedia courseware information, optical disk teaching resources, experimental demonstration system, teaching methods and experiences can be realized by integrating voice, images, text, animation as one through the use of this software to achieve modern interactive teaching mode.

Texts, images, voice and video resources can be shared throughout the multimedia classroom. In this way, interactive communication environment can be realized by constructing a text, voice, video, images, and students can share on their computer screens a variety of teaching resources, it does not only greatly reduce the workload of teachers, but also significantly improve the efficiency of teaching, and the teaching content is extremely lively and the students are willing to accept.

Main functions of the Red Spider educational software

The main functions of the Red Spider educational software are as follows:

Teacher demonstration: to perform real-time synchronous broadcasting of the screen of the teacher’s machine to individual or all the students with teaching demonstrations. It can also be broadcasting the image screen in the form of animated images recorded to make into courseware or teaching materials for re-use or shared with other teachers. Moreover, it can use pre-recorded screen to back play the demo directly to the students’ computers through the network, with this feature, the teaching of automation and standardization can be realized.

Student demonstration: easily to specify any of the students to demonstrate the operation to other groups of students to conduct mutual exchanges and learning while supporting the demonstration of the window or full screen mode.

Black silence: to lock the keyboard and mouse of one or all of the students of the local computer to make the screen display black so that the students’ lectures seriously.

Voice teaching: to conduct voice broadcasting by microphone and headset, and to realize free voice chat and discussion between teachers and students including online voice broadcasting, one-to-one talk, multilateral debate or voice listening.

Screen monitoring: to conduct real-time (looping) monitoring on computer screens of one or more students, teachers do not need to leave the seat to understand students' learning on the student machines across the network monitoring and management.

Remote counseling: Teachers can directly conduct remote control and operation of a student's computers to realized two-way communication with remote students by "hands-on" interactive remedial teaching.

Screen playback: to save the screen recorded in the form of animated images, then playback the screen when recorded, which can either facilitate the teachers ahead of lesson planning, the production of teaching materials related to teaching content, but also to solve the problem of students not keep up with the progress of teaching, and allow students in their spare time to review the contents of the class to improve the quality of teaching.

E-Responder: race to be the first to answer a question to help students learn in fun competitions, and to assist teachers in a timely manner to test the learning outcomes in order to identify problems and solve the problem.

File transfer: to perform a one-time transmission of one or more files to the specified student computer and specify to automatically open or run the file transferred after the end of transmission, do online software installation, distribute papers or demonstrate courseware, which greatly improved work efficiency.

Submit assignment: students can submit multiple files and directory assignment by cooperation with the teacher to realize student-teacher "file transfer", thus fully realizing file interaction between students and teachers through the distribution and submission of students' work online.

Online discussion: through chat by voice and text chat between teacher and students, all the texts will be automatically saved form history and can be readily available when needed.

Far-end message: teachers can acquire on teacher’s computer the machine configuration information of all the students to facilitate management. The information obtained includes: operating system, memory usage, disk allocation and spatial properties of the network / protocol / service, the IP address allocation, parameter settings, seating arrangements.

Process Information: to instantly view each student on the already open applications, and running processes information. If they are found in the class secretly playing games or chatting online, or should any exception process occur, students can always be remotely terminated.

On-line situation: all the students on the line, not on the line, quitting, quitting unexpectedly or escape, network disconnection can be on real-time detection and discovery through details for the teacher’s inquiries and immediately submitted to the teacher for the latest situation so as to make real-time processing. This mechanism plays a more active role in preventing students to freely escape control.

Electronic show of hands: should any students have problems to consult the teacher, they can always call the teacher, the teacher can answer those students at any time for those shows of hands via voice or text response.

Remote command: this software provides remote unified switch-on and switch-off program and computer-restarting instructions, and enables / disables students to send online messages, to submit jobs, and provide synchronization system parameter setting, synchronous upgrade services, and synchronizes system time and other functions. Also, the software can synchronize directly to open the application programs on students’ computers to ensure a unified interface you want to teach in the course.

Class Management: this software provides a very powerful class, group, and student and computer management system. It does not need to be configured to begin the task of teaching. And it introduces the concept of "class, students" to make more than one class configuration management, to arrange the seating of students, to conduct the current state of the group management and teaching demonstration by monitoring students computer.

Problems should be noted

Properly handle the relationships between the teaching instruction and students’ practice:

Teaching practice with students is a dialectical unity. Questions teachers explain should be consistent with those of the students’. Two problems are likely to occur if not properly controlled:

In the first place, teachers speak too much, which leads to the fact that students do not have enough time to practice. With limited class time, that a teacher simply completes the task of teaching in an unbroken time will results in the too long presentation time with teaching taking too much content, which makes students feel learning boring without digesting the content.

In the second place, the demonstration of the teachers’ is synchronous with the students’ practice, which leads to unexpected bad effect. If students themselves are allowed to operate in learning, students will forget certain key steps. This is because the students focus only on the form of imitation in the learning process, but ignore the cognitive improvement.

Desirable practice: First, the teachers demonstrate complete the steps to enable students to watch, not to operate but understanding the overall teaching task, then teachers operate, students follow, meanwhile teachers explain the problems that may occur in steps and procedure, and answer all the problems; in the final, the students independently complete the task or similar task of teaching, in order to achieve the purpose of the flexible application.

Grasp the necessary timing of a good teacher-student interaction:

Classroom teaching is not a process of teachers’ continuous flow of instruction, not is it the practice of the students themselves, but rather it should be an interaction. Teachers’ rational use of interactive in the classroom with students can grasp the extent of knowledge. “Student demonstration”, “Online communication” and “remote counseling” can be used in the Red Spider educational software. Classroom interaction can be prepared in advance and improvising can be carried out by pre-prepared teachers through pre-arranged exchange programs in the teaching process, for example, when a problem is finished by way of discussion or problems, let everyone speak out their own achievement. Spot to play is a temporary problem; teachers in the teaching process should discuss the problem in a timely manner, to study the questions which have arisen due to the solution.

Flexible use of instructional interaction can improve classroom teaching and stimulate students' interest in learning.

Take into account students' individual differences in the ability:

Differences between students, such as intelligence, personality, etc. are an objective reality, teachers cannot deny or ignore the existence of individual differences. In multimedia network teaching, teachers should take into account students' individual differences in the ability to timely adjust the progress of teaching. Teachers can use screen monitor function of the Red Spider educational software to keep abreast of students' understanding of the situation and differences, and discern those who have learned a little better or not, and should be fully aware of whoever has mastered the teaching objective in order to achieve in the classroom counseling targeted. In addition, teachers can promptly adjust the student seat, arranging seats of good students to sit together with poor student in learning. This is not only to promote the progress of poor students, but also to help build the sense of accomplishment of good students who offer helps, which can also reduce the burden on teachers.

Conclusions

The Red Spider software is a very powerful teaching management software, and the rational use of the Red Spider software in the multimedia network classroom can stimulate students' interest, reduce teachers' burden and promote classroom interaction so as to improve teaching effectiveness.

REORIENTATION - Key to BETTER TOMORROW

PRESENTATION
Constitution gives a unifying structure of governance to all Nizaris and their religiously-based institutions, who are established in more than 25 countries and territories around the globe. Due to the differing social, economic, and political realities faced by the Nizari diaspora, the constitution has built-in flexibility, allowing various communities the ability to propose rules and regulations unique to individual communities, while retaining the overall unity of framework with all other communities, through detailed provisions within the constitution.

Appointment Meeting Guidance:

The governance structure of the Jamat in Pakistan was established under the Ismaili Constitution ordained in 1986. Changes since then in the Jamat’s needs and priorities call for an in-depth review of the present structure with a view to considering such changes and amendments as would render the institutions more responsive to current and projected Jamati and national circumstances, more effective in their performance and easier to manage.

We have to build a better functional system, it’s the collegiate responsibility of the National Council, and the Jamati leadership in Pakistan is more than qualified to do so. Keep in mind that I am searching for a fully functional system, it wasn’t possible before, but now I think we can get there. I would ask you to move it forward on the premise of reality, not on the premise of wishful thinking.

.....The realities are many different levels of needs and demographic presence in Pakistan and yet there is a single National Council that is addressing the whole set of different issues in different areas of the country, and it has to be responsible and sensitive to them. There are too many differentiated needs and these are massive. There are many matters which can be dealt uniformly countrywide. Look at this responsibility as being collegiate no matter what part of Pakistan you come from. There is collegiate responsibility for the whole of Pakistan. I would like you to accept the mandate to put this right progressively. We improve the system and the goal is to serve all the Jamat of Pakistan.

We have a system in Pakistan of Jamati governance and AKDN activities which is actually dysfunctional. What I have said to the leaders is that I have been aware of this dysfunctionality for a long time, but I have never put it on the table because it was not the right time. I put it to you now because at that time the environment was unpredictable. That is not the responsibility of any individual; it is the responsibility of the National Council as a collegiate body to function in the interest of all the Jamat throughout Pakistan.

I was seeking to place more responsibility at the regional council to monitor what is happening in their areas, so that the regional councils have a better understanding of what is happening in their region. I am trying to strengthen the capacity of the regional councils to do their work, and even correct or improve as time goes by.

I think what we need is a field driven system, and our organisation has to respond. If the field makes irrational requests then the system will collapse. So they have to function within certain parameters, and those parameters can be set during the policy and strategy discussion.

It would give much more focused monitoring to the National and Regional Councils. Judgments will have to be made. If you have a national education or health programme, you are not going to be able to cut it into little areas. We could do it with the financial Institutions - how much credit is going into which province, what is the deposit pattern from different provinces . We could look at health and education access on provincial basis. It would give us much more sophisticated monitoring devices than we have now. We could do it with financial institutions –. We could have more sophisticated monitoring devices than we have now ........."

Constitutional obligations of voluntary leadership applicable to all tiers (including LC):

5.6©   Analyze fundamental problems confronting the Jamat and their relationship to underlying trends in the national and international development process, and set short range and long range goals for the Jamat.

Reminder: "His Highness the Aga Khan's advices for leaders which enable sound national and community progress and development

"Development is only possible when the community is engaged at the grassroots level and is given the ways and the means to take responsibility for its own future." His Highness the Aga Khan's 2006 Address to the Conference on Afghanistan (London, UK)"

WEBCAST:

"Societies can best strengthen themselves by mobilizing their own dynamic forces rather than relying on external support and direction." Imam has desired REORIENTATION since 2002; I have so far not succeeded in influencing the mindset of local leadership as well as institutions towards this direction, read and listen to this in the DJ webcast:

 https://soundcloud.com/hisamullah7/new-recording-file5, Read the speech on 19^th January 2019 as well.

TALIM curriculum

 

I hope we become convinced about the relevant beliefs now available through the TALIM curriculum rather than the "DAS AVTAR" scripture compiled by Pir Saddruddin or Wajh-e-Din compiled by Pir Nasir-e-Khisraw.

Secondary curriculum is not available in Pakistan despite the unquestioned importance. I suggest it must be made available on line to overcome stated difficulties in importing hard copies. Adverse effects of national curriculum on students can be reduced only through making these TALIM curriculum/books available to every home and REC without further loss of time. 

CONCLUSION: Leadership and Institutions must follow the CIVIL SOCIETY LEARNING MATERIAL and the new SECONDARY TALIMAT CURRICULUM as the BEDROCK towards building a BETTER TOMORROW as part of REORIENTATION AND THE SIPIRIT OF 1998 CONSTITUTION

REORIENTATION – A VITAL STEP TOWARDS “BETER TOMORROW”

RELATED POSTS: ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, UNESCO REPORT

History:
1998 Constitution dated 11th July 1998 (16th Rabi-ul-Awal 1419AD)
Constitutional obligations of voluntary leadership applicable to all tiers (including LC):

5.6© Analyze fundamental problems confronting the Jamat and their relationship to underlying trends in the national and international development process, and set short range and long range goals for the Jamat.

Reminder: "His Highness the Aga Khan's advices for leaders which enable sound national and community progress and development

"[D]evelopment is only possible when the community is engaged at the grassroots level and is given the ways and the means to take responsibility for its own future." His Highness the Aga Khan's 2006 Address to the Conference on Afghanistan (London, UK)"

WEBCAST:"Societies can best strengthen themselves by mobilizing their own dynamic forces rather than relying on external support and direction." Imam has desired REORIENTATION since 2002; I have so far not succeeded in influencing the mindset of local leadership as well as institutions towards this direction, read and listen to this in the DJ webcast as well the succeeding paragraphs:
: "We have a system in Pakistan of Jamati governance and AKDN activities which is actually dysfunctional. What I have said to the leaders is that I have been aware of this functionality for a long time, but I have never put it on the table because it was not the right time. I put it to you now because at that time the environment was unpredictable"
Mawlana Hazar Imam defines what he means by civil society and discusses the contribution of private institutions to public goals at Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris on 15 June 2007.

Same year major policy change intimated to all institutions."CIVIL SOCIETYLEARNING MATERIAL" compiled and published as a solid step towards REORIENTATION introduced through constitution issued in 1998.

Putting local communities at the centre of their own development means that interventions will be directly relevant to their needs, and contribute to long-term sustainability. #AKDN currently supports 123 grasssroots Village Development Organisations in Cabo Delgado,

Self Reliance is a big part of the ethics on which #AKDN is built.
To help these organisations become effective and self-reliant, AKDN offers resources and training for essential administrative skills such as record-keeping, accounting and methods of good governance. It also helps communities to lobby for change by working in collaboration with other villages when liaising with the government.

Words of Wisdom from the Guide:

"A vast decentralisation of decision-making is already occurring in many countries; it has the advantage of placing new responsibilities in the hands of local communities.... For the key to future progress will lie less in traditional top-down systems of command and control -- and more in a broad, bottom-up spirit of coordination and cooperation."
"Social progress, in the long run, will not be found by delegating a dominant role to any one player- but rather through multi-sector partnerships. And within each sector of society, diversity should be a watchword. Healthy communities must respect a range of educational choices ... [The Ummah] must become full and even leading participants in the Knowledge Society of the 21st Century. That will mean embracing the values of collaboration and coordination, openness and partnership, choice and diversity -- which will under-gird the Knowledge Society, learning constantly to review and revise and renew what we think we know -- learning how to go on learning. In the age of the Internet, knowledge is universally shaped, universally accessible, and universally applied. And successful institutions of learning must be global institutions.... [I]n the Knowledge Society, productive research is most often partnership research ... sharing agendas and exchanging insights. New knowledge is a constantly unfolding gift of God -- but it is rarely something that is achieved in isolation."

"DAI" Implications of the term used by MHI in Portugal recently.(Page-30 Encounters in Muslim history student reader volume-1 of TALIMAT curriculum):"A teacher who promotes the message through direct teaching and through their moral conduct and model behavior." The webcast on 11th July 2017 provides a good opportunity to spread the message by every mureed. Kindly go to para (F) of the preamble to the Constitution 11th July 1998 as well.
Read the speech on 19^th January 2019 as well.

Objectionable contents of the GOP order-2018 - Requiring wide consultation with populations and Intellectuals in GB

UPDATE, JUDGMENT
3. Elimination of exploitation.- The Government shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual fulfilment of the fundamental principle, from each according to his ability to each according to his work.

5. Obedience to this Order.- Obedience to this Order and law is the inviolable obligation of every citizen, wherever he may be, and of every other person for the time being within Gilgit-Baltistan.

7 Laws inconsistent with or in derogation of Fundamental Rights to be void.-(1) Any law, or any custom or usage having the force of law, in so far as it is inconsistent with the rights conferred by this Chapter, shall, to the extent of such inconsistency, be void.

(2) The Government shall not make any law which takes away or abridges the rights so conferred and any law made in contravention of this clause shall,to the extent of such contravention, be void.

(3) The Provisions of this section shall not apply to any law relating to members of the Armed Forces, or of the Police or of such other forces as are charged with the maintenance of public order, for the purpose of ensuring the proper discharge of their duties or the maintenance of discipline among them and no such law nor any provision thereof shall be void on the ground that such law or provision is inconsistent with, or repugnant to, any provision of this Chapter.

(4) The rights conferred by this Chapter shall not be suspended except as expressly provided by this Order.

33. The Governor.- (1) There shall be a Governor of the Gilgit-Baltistan who shall be appointed by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister.

43. Conduct of business of Government. (1) All executive actions of the Government shall be expressed to be taken in the name of the Governor.

46. Exer cise of Powers by the Prime Minister.- The Prime Minister shall perform his functions and exercise his powers in such manner as may be prescribed by rules made by the President

60. Legislative Powers.- (1) Subject to this Order, both the Prime Minister and the Assembly shall have the power to make laws,-

(3) The Prime Minister shall have the powers to adopt any amendment in the existing laws or any new law in force in Pakistan subject to the legislative competence under sub-section (2).

61. Obligation of the Prime Minister and the Government.- (1) The executive authority of the Government shall be so exercised as to secure compliance with the laws made by the Prime Minister which apply thereon.

62. Directions to Government in certain cas es. (1) The executive authority of the Government shall be so exercised as not to impede or prejudice the exercise of the executive authority of the Prime Minister, and the executive authority of the Prime Minister shall extend to the giving of such directions to the Government as may appear to the Prime Minister to be necessary for that purpose.

(2) The executive authority of the Prime Minister shall also extend to the giving of directions to the Government as to the construction and maintenance of means of communication declared in the direction to be of national or strategic importance.

(3) The executive authority of the Prime Minister shall also extend to the giving of directions to the Government as to the manner in which the executive authority thereof is to be exercised for the purpose of preventing any grave menace to the peace or tranquility or economic life of Gilgit-Baltistan or any part there

64. Acquisition of land.- The Government of Pakistan may, if it deems necessary to acquire any land situate in Gilgit-Baltistan for any purpose, require the Government to acquire the land on behalf, and at the expense, of the Government of Pakistan or, if the land belongs to the Government, to transfer it to the Government of Pakistan on such terms as may be agreed mutually.

102. Power to issue proclamation.- (1) If the Prime Minister, on receipt of a report fromGovernor or otherwise, is satisfiedthat grave emergency exists in whichthe security of Gilgit -Baltistan is threatened by war or external aggression or by internal disturbances, in which the Government cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of this Order, the Prime Minister shall issue Proclamation of Emergency, hereinafter referredto as the Proclamation.

(2) On the issuance of the Proclamation the Prime Minister may assume to himself, or direct the Governor to assume on behalf of the Prime Minister, all or any of the functions of the Government, and all or any of the powers vested in, or exercisable by, any body or authority in the Gilgit-Baltistan, other than the Assembly
GOP order 2018 on GB
IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE POLICY and DECISION MAKERS: GB is not a captured territory to be treated as a colony. We acceded to Pakistan and as such we have the legal option to REVOKE if we are not integrated constitutionally through democratic dispensation and our natural resources protected from plunder by sharks.

LATEST: The federal government on Monday sought time to implement Proposed Order pertaining to the status, authority and powers of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and the rights available to its people. “Time frame prescribed in the January 17, 2019 judgement may kindly be extended,” said the application filed by Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit and Baltistan. A seven-member larger bench, headed by Justice Gulzar Ahmed heard the case related to implementation of the judgement. The bench issued notices to the Supreme Appellate Court GB and others.

The apex court in its judgement on January 17, 2019 had directed the federal government to promulgate the Proposed Order forthwith or within fortnight. “The Proposed Order (modified in the manner as noted in the judgement), shall be forthwith promulgated by the President on the advice of the federal government, and in any case within a fortnight.”

“No amendment shall be made to the order as so promulgated except in terms of the procedure provided in Article 124 of the same, nor shall it be repealed or substituted without the instrument amending, repealing or substituting the same being placed before this Court by the federal through an application that will be treated as a petition under Article 184(3) of Constitution. Nothing in this judgement shall be construed to limit the jurisdiction conferred on this court by the Proposed Order itself.”

“If the Order so promulgated is repealed or substituted by an Act of Parliament the validity thereof, it challenged, shall be examined on the touchstone of Constitution.” Attorney General for Pakistan, representing the ministry, submitted that the federation informed that in compliance with the apex court’s directions the Proposed Order was placed for approval before the federal cabinet. Some discontentment expressed by people and the government of GB were reported.

The people of GB demanded that instead of governing Gilgit-Baltistan through presidential orders, the areas should be governed through an Act of Parliament of Pakistan. The government of GB also raised certain observations that their viewpoints were not addressed. A meeting of the stakeholders was held on 06-02-2019, and consensus was reached that the Gilgit-Baltistan Governance Reforms, 2019 may be enacted through the Parliament as per aspiration of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.

Accordingly, some amendments in the Proposed Order of the Gilgit-Baltistan Governance Reforms, 2019 were made in consultation with all the stakeholders including the government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Ministry of Law and Justice and the office of the Attorney General for Pakistan. It said that as per the outcome of the said meetings, it is proposed that a bill be tabled before the Parliament with the proposed amendments. The substantial compliance with the directions of the Supreme Court has been done and it would also fulfil the demands of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan.

For full and complete compliance with the directions of the apex court, time is granted for the enactment of the Gilgit-Baltistan Governance Reforms 2019 such that the federal government may table the bill before the Parliament with the amendments. In June 2018, the President of Pakistan approved the promulgation of “The Government of Gilgit-Baltistan Order, 2018,” which was challenged in Supreme Appellate Court GB. The GB Court set aside the Order 2018 on 13th July 2018 being not approved by the federal cabinet and restored the Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment & Self Governance) Order, 2009.

The judgement of the Supreme Appellate Court was challenged before the Supreme Court through a constitutional petition. On 8th August, 2018 the Supreme Court of Pakistan suspended the decision of the Supreme Appellate Court Gilgit-Baltistan. The apex court on 3rd December, 2018, ordered the federation to prepare a fresh draft for the governance of Gilgit-Baltistan of the amendments on the basis of the recommendations of the Sartaj Aziz Committee and a high-level committee constituted by the federal cabinet.

Legislation Proposal

NOTE:  We can use this order to evolve a law reflecting the democratic aspirations by asking GB assembly to consult populations and pass a law thus rejecting this dubious order as LAW for GB. I think this proposal as a practical strategy instead of resorting to FASAD. HisamullahHYPERLINK "https://www.facebook.com/hisamullah?fref=ufi" Beg I have shared my proposal with assembly through FB wall and telephone call to speaker and urge fellow citizens to follow in large numbers

Preamble:   After the successful rebellion of Gilgit scouts on 31^st October- 01^st November 1947, some elements of Kashmir infantry and above all strong feelings of the populations the governor sent from Kashmir in August 1947 was overthrown. Subsequent military campaigns in 1948 under express approval of the newly established government in Pakistan resulted in the total freedom of the territory initially designated as NORTHERN AREAS.

The Mirs and the Governors of the Political Districts exercised their option to accede to Pakistan [obviously in consonance with the wishes of the populations] their territories and communicated the same either in writing or verbally to Major William Brown, Commandant GILGIT SCOUTS - obvious authority in Gilgit at that time - who in turn communicated it through wireless messages to Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan, the Prime Minister [CM] NWFP Peshawar as well as Col Bacon PA Khyber [the last British Political Agent in Gilgit] with an additional request to post a Pakistan Government Political Agent expeditiously. Further parleys with the delegations from the region in 1950 resulted in continuation of the administrative structure of an Agency which continued till 1974. Ever since different options have been instituted by GOP. On 29 August 2009 the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan announced the creation of Gilgit–Baltistan, a new province-like autonomous region with Gilgit city as its capital and Skardu as the largest city. The most recent being Gilgit-Baltistan Order 2018.

A sizable number of young generation activists are however not satisfied and raise their voices for a vigorous constitutional status – some even demanding cessation and independence.

CONTEXTS FOR CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS/GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES IN THE MODERN WORLD

·         Federalism, Human Rights and Peace within the State

·          The main constitutional Principles:

a.      History

b.      Rule of Law

c.       Protection of Minorities

d.      Democracy

·         Built and driven by the society and the sub-national societies.

·         Democracy and freedom are results from the French Revolution. Other people in Europe tried also to free themselves from feudal powers. The 1848 “Peoples Spring” were economically and politically - “we want to be our own masters of our life” - reasonable.

·         The way it was achieved and its societal diversity marked the political design of the new Federations.

·         Strong Decentralization and Sharing of Powers:

·         Bicameral Parliament as the U.S.A.

·         Collegial Federal Government (No strong President)

·         Double majorities for Constitutional Powers

·         Power sharing - vertical and horizontal - helps you to integrate a diverse society and produces stability by high legitimacy. Real participatory rights transform a primarily representative, indirect democracy into a direct democracy.

·         Nobody has so much power that he has the ambivalent privilege, not to have to learn. When the democratic power is really shared with the people, political progress and social change have to be understood as collective learning processes. Every citizen has the right to propose where he or she thinks progress and change are necessary!

·         Inside the infrastructure of a democracy has to be modernized in order to remake its direct democracy serve the people best.

·         The region has some natural resources such as minerals, glaciers etc. which can be utilized towards development of this region and indigenous populations as such need to be safeguarded through legislation against exploitation by other regions.

·           United Nations in its Universal Declaration (Agenda 21: Chapter 26) titled "Recognizing and Strengthening the Role of Indigenous People and their Communities" has called on Governments to recognize that the lands of indigenous people and their communities should be protected from activities that the indigenous people consider to be socially and culturally inappropriate through adoption or strengthening of appropriate policies and /or legal instruments at the national level (or intergovernmental organizations) . Government of Pakistan being a signatory to this declaration has the moral responsibility to harmonize the customary laws (and rights of indigenous people) to evolve indigenous population friendly rules.

·         Customary laws, established by communal practice and usage for generations and passed down through oral tradition, are familiar, effective and continue to be practiced to a greater or lesser extent throughout the Gilgit and Baltistan. And yet few of them have been documented so far. There are many opportunities for reforming statutory laws governing natural resources in Gilgit and Baltistan to converge with elements of customary law, thus adding greater legitimacy and efficacy to the State's efforts towards conservation of natural resources in the region. The objective of this draft law and analysis is to draw out and evolve an interface of customary laws governing the use and management of mineral resources in the Gilgit and Baltistan and modification in the statutory laws so that the spirit of UN universal declaration on the rights of indigenous people applied for the same purpose is also actualized in this field.

In view of these principles, the legislative assembly of Gilgit-Baltistan has drafted this law towards governance and constitutional affiliation with Pakistan.