Muzaffarabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Raja Farooq Haider has cautioned against alleged land grabbing in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).

He also called for the “restoration of the state-subject rule (SSR)” in the territory.

“I want to ask the government of Pakistan not to evict the people of Gilgit-Baltistan from the Khalsa (Crown’s) land they have been living on since the times of Dogra rule [in the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir,” Haider at a public meeting in Hajira subdivision of Poonch district was quoted as saying by Dawn News.

He made this demand in the context of mass demonstrations in GB under the banner of the Awami Action Committee — an alliance of various political, religious and trade associations - against electricity shortages, reduction in the wheat quota, taxation and alleged land grabbing by the state.

“The people of Gilgit-Baltistan had defeated Dogra forces by offering great sacrifices. They should not be ridiculed and instead should be given their land ownership rights,” Haider said.