Protests erupt over Pakistan’s plan to alter GB status, imprisonment of activists
Oct 13, 2020
Hunza, Gilgit Baltistan, 13 October 2020: - A wave of anger has swept towns and villages across the illegally occupied Gilgit Baltistan after the administration launched a crackdown against activists, dissenters and everybody who hasn’t fallen in line with the arbitrary orders of the government. People from this illegally occupied region are carrying out massive demonstrations against what they call a systematic clampdown on their civil and political liberties. While they demand the immediate release of the political activists who have been sentenced on trumped-up charges, they also plan to launch a resistance drive against Islamabad’s attempts to change the political status of occupied Gilgit Baltistan to make it as the fifth province of Pakistan. They say they will sacrifice themselves but will not let Pakistan alter the status of the region. People from Gilgit Baltistan, who have been living in other Pakistani towns, have also taken to the streets against Islamabad’s arbitrary decision.
