Government of Gilgit-Baltistan
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Chief Minister | Gulbar Khan (PTI) |
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Judiciary | |
High Court | Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court |
Chief justice of High Court | Arshad Hussain Shah[1] |
Website | gilgitbaltistan |
The Government of Gilgit-Baltistan (
History
In 1970, the
Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order 2009
While administratively controlled by
The 26th Amendment for the Provisional Provincial status
In November 2020, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan announced that Gilgit-Baltistan would attain Interim Semi-Provincial status after the 2020 Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly election.
The Law Ministry of Pakistan recently finalised the draft of the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, submitting it to the prime minister for review. The proposed legislation is aimed at awarding GB provisional provincial status, and is expected to be presented in parliament for debate. If passed by a two-thirds majority in parliament, Gilgit-Baltistan would likely be given the status of province through an amendment in Article 1 of the Constitution. The 26th Amendment would empower Gilgit-Baltistan as per the other provinces of the Pakistan without jeopardizing Pakistan's stance about the Kashmir conflict.
As of now the work on the legislation about the provisional provincial status has been slowed down due to the recent political unrest in Pakistan.
Executive
The government of Gilgit Baltistan consists of democratically elected body with the Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan as the constitutional head. The Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan is elected by the Provincial Assembly of the Gilgit-Baltistan to serve as the head of the provincial government in Gilgit-Baltistan. Whereas, the Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan is usually an officer of grade BPS-21 or 22 from the Pakistan Administrative Service acts as an administrative head of the Gilgit-Baltistan.
Departments
The Executive Consists of the following departments.[7] Each or two of these departments mix up to form a Ministry. Each of the ministry is headed by the elected minister or a technocrat appointed by the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan and a provincial secretary of BPS-20 grade officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service.
- Home & Prisons Department
- Finance Department
- Law and Prosecution Department
- Services and General Administration, Information and Cabinet Department
- Revenue, Usher and Zakat, Excise and Taxation and Cooperative Department
- Food and Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry Department
- Forest, Wildlife and Environment Department
- Education, Social Welfare and Women Development
- Health and Population Welfare Department
- Works Department
- Local Government, Rural Development and Census Department
- Water and Power Department
- Tourism, Sports, Culture and Youth Department
- Mineral Development, Industries, Commerce & Labour Department
- Planning and Development Department
Cabinet
As of the current update, the newly formed government in Gilgit Baltistan, led by Chief Minister Gulbar Khan, is yet to announce the members of the cabinet and their respective portfolios.
Name | Portfolio | Party | Constituency | From |
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Gulbar Khan | Chief Minister | PTI | GBA-18 Diamer-IV | 13 July 2023 |
Fatehullah Khan | Ministry of Planning and Development | PTI | GBA-2 (Gilgit-II) | |
Muhammad Ismail | Ministry of Finance | PPP | ||
Shams-ul-Haq Lone | Ministry of Home and Prisons | PTI | GBA-14 (Astore-II) | |
Haji Shah Baig | Ministry of Forest, Wild Life and Environment | PTI | Technocrat | |
Mohammad Anwar | Ministry of Agriculture, Livestorck and Fisheries | PML(N) | ||
Syed Amjad Ali Zaidi | Ministry of Works | PTI | GBA-11 (Kharmang-I)
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Ghulam Shehzad Agha | Ministry of Education | PPP | ||
Rehmat Khaliq | Ministry of Excise and Taxation, Zakat & Ushar | JUI(F) | GBA-17 (Tangir-I) | |
Syed Suhail Abbas | Ministry of Health
Ministry of Law and Parliamentary Affairs |
PTI | GBA-3 (Gilgit-III) | |
Mushtaq Hussain | Ministry of Water and Power | PTI | GBA-22 (Ghanche-I) | |
Haji Abdul Hameed | Ministry of Local Government | PTI | ||
Vacant | Ministry of Board of Revenue, and Prosecution | |||
Ghulam Muhammad | Ministry of Food
Ministry of Tourism, Sports, Culture, Archeology and Youth affairs |
PML(N) | ||
Vacant | Ministry of Population welfare | |||
Dilshad Bano | Ministry of Women and Child Development and Human Rights and Social Welfare | PTI | ||
Surya Zaman | Ministry of Information Technology | PTI | ||
Zabiullah Mujahid | Special Assistant to Chief Minister (SACM) on Commerce and Youth Affairs | Technocrat | ||
Maulana Sarwar Shah | Special Assistant to Chief Minister (SACM) on Minerals | Technocrat | ||
Hussain Shah | Special Assistant to Chief Minister (SACM) on Irrigation | Technocrat | ||
Eman Shah | Special Assistant to Chief Minister (SACM) on Information and Broadcasting | Technocrat |
Legislature
The
Since the proclaimation Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self Governance Order there were two assemblies that successfully completed their constitutional tenures. First Assembly lasted from 2009 to 2015 in which PPP was in power. The Second Gilgit Baltistan Assembly lasted from 2015 to 2020 in which PMLN government was in power.
Gilgit-Baltistan Council
The Gilgit-Baltistan Council has been established as per Article 33 of Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment & Self Governance) Order, 2009. Its Chairman is the Prime Minister of Pakistan and Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan is the Vice-Chairman. It can legislate on 53 subjects as provided in Schedule III of the Order. Other members include
Judiciary
In light of a verdict by Supreme Court of Pakistan in the case filed by Wahab Al Kahiri, Justice Shehbaz Khan and others through Al-Jehad Trust Versus Federation of Pakistan, as per orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan, Government of Pakistan established Northern Areas Court of Appeals at Gilgit vide Gazette of Pakistan, extraordinary, part II dated 8 November 1999 with Appellate Jurisdiction, The Court started function on 27 September 2005, when the Chairman and members were appointed. on 15 December 2007 by virtue of amendments in the Northern Areas Governance order 1994, the nomenclature of the Court was re-designated as Northern Areas Supreme Appellate Court and its jurisdiction was also enlarged by conferring Original and Appellate jurisdiction, It was also given the Status equal to the Supreme Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.[citation needed]
Supreme Appellate Court Gilgit-Baltistan
On 9 September 2009, the Supreme Appellate Court was conferred the similar jurisdiction equal to the Supreme Court of Pakistan by promulgating Gilgit-Baltistan (Empowerment and Self Governance Order) 2009. The Supreme Appellate Court is consisting of a Chief Judge and two Judges. The Permanent Seat of the Court is at Gilgit, but the Court also sits from time to time at Skardu Branch Registry.[citation needed]
Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
See also
- Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan
- Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan
- Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly
- Gilgit-Baltistan Council
References
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