The face of the ongoing Baloch protests in Pakistan Mahrang Baloch has said the shutter-down strike in the province is a message to the state to take seriously the demands of the ongoing movement against the Baloch genocide.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), which has been organising these protests, voiced its dissatisfaction over the government's response in a statement shared on social media, according to The Balochistan Post report.
Baloch people carried out rallies and demonstrations against "state terrorism" and acts of forced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and fake encounters by the Pakistan government at multiple locations across the country.
During the strike, all the businesses remained closed and traffic crawled near Mangla Dam, one of the largest multipurpose water bodies used for irrigation and hydroelectric power in the country.
Shops in Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Rawalakot, Kotli and other major cities remained shut and trades and locals carried out protest marches with slogans against the Pakistan government.
Balochistan observed a nationwide "shutter down" strike in protest of the Mastung suicide blast that killed at least 59 people, ARY News reported on Sunday.
Amid increasing inflation and hiked power tariff, traders observed a shutter-down strike and took to the streets across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday.
Jammat-e-Islami (JI) leader Ameer Sirajul Haq announced that a shutter-down strike will be observed across the country on Saturday to protest against rising inflation in the country, ARY News reported.
Protest rallies were held against the massacre of Shiite teachers, which KPK authorities tried to prove a land dispute. The horrific incident took place after unidentified gunmen killed a person at Shalozan on Thursday.
Chairman of the Shinkiari Traders' Association Alamgir Shah, said: "Our businesses are already suffering from record inflation and are badly hit by the daylong load-shedding as well to our misery."
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