Abdul Hamid Khan is chairman of the Balawaristan National Front (BNF), a nationalist political party of Gilgit-Baltistan, the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Along with his friends, Nawaz Khan Naji, Mohammad Rafiq and Shujaat Ali, Abdul Hamid Khan established BNF on July 30 1992 and started a political struggle for the human and political rights of the deprived people of Gilgit-Baltistan. But, in the depoliticized region the bureaucratic establishment he faced many difficulties.