In Minawar village of Gilgit, the locals confronted the Gilgit Scouts and Pakistan Army personnel when they came to demolish properties of local residents.
Human rights activist and chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has raised concerns over the deprivation of basic rights of people in Gilgit Baltistan.
The Pakistani newspaper said of the 417 people, 152 were men and 265 were women. Around 152 incidents of honour killings were reported in Punjab province. Sindh stood second with 96 cases.
Thousands of people and leaders and activists belonging to Awami Action Committee, Anjuman-e-Tajiran, transporters associations, Gilgit-Pakhtun Welfare Organisation, Karakoram National Movement, Balawaristan National Front, Hotel Association, Shopping Malls Association and various political
The spokesperson of UNKNP, Sardar Nasir Aziz Khan, said the people of the illegally occupied Gilgit Baltistan region were being denied their basic human rights.
The occupied region of Gilgit-Baltistan, which has been the victim of exploitation of its legitimate rights, natural resources, and land by successive Pakistani governments over the last decades, is virtually starving and shivering with unbearable cold because of acute shortage of wheat flou
Pakistan Army was recently sent to Gilgit Baltistan under the pretext of protecting locals but on the contrary, it is actually facilitating the Chinese in the over-exploitation of natural resources and this is causing anger among the locals, reported IFFRAS.
Earlier, on Tuesday, the Assistant Commissioner of Gilgit ordered the local administration to demolish the houses with the help of bulldozers. The Shiite organisation "Anjuman Hussainia Nagar Welfare" were building the houses at Gilgit Square.
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.