All the political, religious, social and nationalist parties and traders' organisations gathered at Yadgar Chowk and protested against the government's decision to increase the price of wheat and end the subsidy.
In response to the increase in wheat prices, the Awami Action Committee and the All-Party Alliance started region-wide protests in Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan on December 21.
Ever since the illegal occupation of Gilgit-Baltistan by Pakistan, the people of the region have been facing difficulties. The people of Gilgit-Baltistan have never been granted the rights they deserve, as successive governments in Islamabad have continued to treat them unfairly.
The poor students of Gilgit Baltistan are unable to pay the excessive increase in the semester fees. The unreasonable raise in the university fees has disgruntled the students and their parents as administration has allegedly increased the fees by 25 percent two times in a semester.
Sheikh Baqir Al-Hussaini, a prominent Islamic expert living in Skardu, is reported to have sparked protests with his sacrilegious comments. He has been charged with making disparaging statements about religious and historical figures, as reported by Pamir Times.
For weeks, public protests have reverberated across Gilgit city over 22-hour power shortages. A new wave of protests is likely to hit the region from March 10.
This comes as Pakistan faces an economic crisis. Citizens hit by floods and the country's food crisis have long remained silent witnesses to the failure of leadership at all levels.
All Pakistan provinces except Punjab have some time in the past, wanted to get separated from Pakistan. None have, however, desired to go with India. Gilgit-Baltistan has now demanded to get united with India.
The protesting sub-engineers claim that they have not received promotions for years while engineers in other provinces of Pakistan have been recruited at an already superior grade 14.
Protests by flood-affected people in Gilgit-Baltistan continue to escalate as they blamed the authorities for not paying heed to disaster-hit families in the region, according to the vernacular media reports.
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], September 21 (ANI): The people of Gilgit Baltistan protested against state-backed exclusion and corruption in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and demanded the civil government resolve their issues.
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 21 (ANI): The locals in Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) are planning to hold a protest against the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) and Pak Army on the occasion of the Baba Ghundi festival, for forceful land grabbing near the Chiporsun valley.