SKARDU: Efforts to achieve domicile certificates from non-locals have increased .

SKARDU: Efforts to achieve domicile certificates from non-locals have increased after the European Union (EU) announced 10,000 scholarships for the students of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB).

Political leadership and bureaucrats from Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are trying to secure scholarships of western educational institutions for their children on the GB quota. Recommendations have piled up with non-local government officers and local political leadership in this connection.

Baltistan Student Federation President Afzal Darseng has told this correspondent that they would resist any effort to grant illegal GB domiciles to anyone. He asked the provincial government and chief secretary GB to ensure a transparent system for granting 10,000 scholarships being awarded by the EU to deserving students of GB on merit and restore the State Subject Rules to stop the grant of domiciles to non-locals.