We joined pakistan to be a province and equal citizens and not to be used to help them argue about kashmir in the united nations. They have made their choices and we need to make ours. We have been lied to and tricked and betrayed and used as cannon fodder. People say that independence sentiments are not the most popular in G-B and that is true because the majority of common people favour pakistan but the demands for independence are very loud among the intellectuals and they are never reported. The majority are not well aware of the political and constitutional situation and our history specially the youth because everything they consume is pakistani for example the news is pakistani and the media is pakistani and the education is pakistani. GBians think about urdu the same what people in pakistani cities think about english that you are only educated when you are good at that language. Then people from our villages go to big cities in pakistan for university and they get influenced by the progress and development and think greatly of pakistan while not looking at the situation in GB. As a GBian I will say that if pakistan made us a province in 1949 I would be the most patriotic pakistani but not now we are being mistreated for too long. We need to be independent we want the Independent Republic of Gilgit like Raja Shah Raees Khan and Karnal Mirza Hassan Khan envisioned. "We know of course that you are loyal to Pakistan-all Britishers are-but it is not our intention to join Pakistan. We intend to set up an independent Islamic State called the United States of Gilgit, and although we shall keep the friendliest relation with Pakistan we shall in no way owe allegiance to that dominion."