Past in Perspective.

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

-Maya Angelou

Baba Jan is an activist, politician from Gilgit Baltistan who is currently serving a life time sentence in Jail on the charges of various concocted political cases. He was arrested in 2011 under Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act. As a result of a massive land sliding in Hunza River in 2010, many villages were swept along. When some of the dispossessed families were denied compensation, they organized a protest in Aliabad during a visit of then Chief Minister of Gilgit Baltistan. The police used violent means to disperse the protestors and killed a father and a son in the process. Baba Jan was not a part of the protest, but when he came to know of the incident, he vowed to organize peaceful protests to demand an investigation of the killings. The culprit police, deeming the threat Baba Jan could pose, arrested him under the false charges of 'ransacking and vandalizing police property.' Baba Jan was an immensely popular figure in Gilgit Baltistan...