The Awami Action Committee and the All-Party Alliance have announced a protest movement in the entire Gilgit-Baltistan from December 21 against the surge in the price of wheat and reduction in subsidies, a local Urdu newspaper, DailyK2 reported.
The infrastructure of the local towns has suffered significant damage due to flash floods, landslides and other calamities that have occurred in the past few years.
Contingent employees in the education department of PoK's Gilgit Baltistan staged a protest outside the office of the chief secretary recently, demanding the 'promised' hike in their minimum wages.
Amid high inflation, when essential commodities have become more expensive than ever before, contractual employees are finding it hard to run their normal livelihoods. They lambasted the Gilgit Baltistan assembly for dropping a 'bomb of inflation' and hiking the salaries of ministers and off
The courageous woman sustained four gunshot wounds to her spinal cord and two lodged in her liver and stomach during the unidentified gunmen's attack on a bus in Chilas in PoK.
There is anger and resentment among the people of Gilgit Baltistan, as at least 10 people were killed and 21 passengers were wounded on December 2 when a Rawalpindi-bound bus from nearby hills was attacked by unknown terrorists, causing a vehicle to collide with a goods truck.
In a video released by terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Gilgit-Baltistan, the outfit has appeared to deny any involvement in the bus attack that occurred in the Chilas area of the Diamer district of Gilgit Baltistan.
The death toll from the terrorist attack on a passenger bus in Gilgit Baltistan's Chilas rose to 10 as another man, who sustained bullet injuries, died on Tuesday, ARY News reported.
Women and children in Skardu, Chilas, and Gilgit blocked the roads and blamed the government and security agencies for their failure to act against terrorists.
Six suspects have been arrested for allegedly connected with an attack on an Islamabad-bound bus in Gilgit-Baltistan's (GB) Chilas on Saturday, Dawn reported.
At least eight people lost their lives and 26 others were injured in a firing incident on a passenger bus at Gilgit Baltistan in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's (PoK), ARY News reported on Saturday.