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Chief Minister, Gilgit Baltistan, Hafiz Hafizur Rehman while chairing a high-level meeting here on border management has said that political leadership and security forces played a pivotal role in eliminating the curse of terrorism from the motherland.
Now, he said tourism was flourishing in GB region adding the number of Chinese tourists was highest in the world and we have to make concentrated efforts to lure Chinese tourists to our region for promoting this important sector related to economic uplift.
He asked the federal government and Ministry of Interior to take steps for bringing those Chinese tourists to GB and other parts of the country who go back from Khunjarab Top.
To frustrate the negative propaganda of our opponents, he said we have promote the soft image of our country through brining sufficient number of international tourists to our land. These tourists will promote our image and culture when they return to their countries.
Hafiz further said that there was a need to install big scanners at Pak-China border for facilitation of tourists and asked the federal government to provide these scanners as pledged in the past.
To clean the GB region from weapons, he said a deweaponization policy was under consideration and it would be made mandatory that GB people sale their automatic weapons to the government.
He said steps taken by the GB government for maintenance of peace have bone positive results and since last four years no incident of terrorism has occurred in this region.
He said there was need to make the Pak-China economic activities bilateral on sound footing to take full advantage of this important sector adding the business activity between Pak-China should continue round the year that would enhance the volume of trade between the two important neighbors.
The GB CM further said that a comprehensive plan with regard to border management was necessary for enhancing business activity with China adding it was also necessary with respect to the gigantic CPEC project.
The CM also asked the federal government to form counter terrorism department in Gilgit Baltistan to further improve the security situation.
