November 1, 2001	Thursday	Shaba’an 14, 1422

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GILGIT, Oct 31: An official of the Northern Areas Education Project (NAEP) on Wednesday told Dawn that work on the various NAEP projects had suffered due to the uncertain law-and-order situation in the Northern Areas in the wake of the US airstrikes on Afghanistan.

The official said that the NAEP is a subsidiary project run directly under the supervision of the British Council due to which the international consultants and VSOs could not visit the project sites.

Sources in the NAEP said that they had to stop their vehicles moving to the field stations in Darel and Tangeer of Diamer district following the ransack of Northern Areas Development Project (NADP) that is being run in collaboration with the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD).

Obviously, the sources said the NAEP had to suspend operations in Diamer district and one of the British Council offices in Gilgit had been shifted to Islamabad to avoid any mishap because it did come under attack by some unknown hooligans in the past.

However, the official said that the NAEP’s local consultants operated their projects with ease in Ghizer and Gilgit districts at a sub-office in Gilgit.

RALLY: Balawaristan National Front (BNF) and Hasan Khan Memorial Society will hold a joint rally on Thursday (today) at Hunza Chowk Gilgit on the eve of the 54th Independence Day of Gilgit-Baltistan.

Intellectuals, veteran freedom-fighters of the Gilgit-Baltistan Liberation Movement, and politicians would address the rally.

The deputy chief executive of the Northern Areas Fida Muhammad Nashad will lay a floral wreath at the Mazaars of freedom-fighters.

Besides, sports events, seminars, discussions, cultural programmes and sword dance, quiz competitions would also be held in various parts of the Northern Areas.

Police guards and schoolchildren will parade guard of honour at Chinar Bagh, Gilgit, at 8am on the day.