Abdul Hamid Khan (Gilgit-Baltistan activist)

For other people with the same name, see Abdul Hamid Khan (disambiguation).

Abdul Hamid Khan is chairman of the Balawaristan National Front (BNF), a nationalist political party of Gilgit-Baltistan, the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Along with his friends Nawaz Khan Naji, Mohammad Rafiq and Shujaat Ali, Khan established BNF on July 30, 1992.

“I was mentally shocked and my conscious shook when Pakistani and Afghan terrorists attacked our brothers (Shia Muslims) by using the name of religion in 1988 during General Zia’s regime, otherwise I was sympathizer and worker of Pakistani parties like Tehrik-e-Istiqlal. I was supporter of Nizam-e-Mustafa campaign in 1977 against Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto."

Khan was born on July 10, 1953, in Bahrkohlti, a small village of Yasin in the Ghizer district.

External links

• Khalid Hamid Khan's homepage
• Balawaristan National Front*South Asia Analysis Group
• The Changing Northern Areas at the Wayback Machine (archived March 8, 2005)
• Pakistan's Northern Areas dilemma
• Northern Areas Development Gateway
• Pakistan's Northern Areas
• Northern Pakistan's Karakoram & Hindukush Mountains
• The Mountain Areas Conservancy Project
• Gilgit Map (Archived 2009-10-24)