Locals in Gilgit-Baltistan area of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir have intensified protests over land grabbing by the Pakistan Army in addition to for discount in energy costs and abolition of heavy taxes. They are additionally demanding the opening of Skardu-Kargil highway in addition to political empowerment and restoration of subsidies.

The protesters have been in motion for 9 days however the scenario turned tense after they blocked a highway utilizing electrical energy pylons and boulders, and stopped administration officers and their equipment’s motion.

Pakistan’s highly effective navy institution continues to exert coercive claims over the land and sources of poor areas of Gilgit-Baltistan.

The protesters have alleged that the administration is snatching their land by declaring them ‘Khalsa Sarkar’, a phrase used to establish lands that the federal government says belongs to Pakistan by way of its puppet authorities in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Locals throughout Gilgit-Baltistan have been opposing the Khalsa Sarkar regulation, a remnant of the time when the area was dominated by Dogra and Sikh rulers. Locals imagine the regulation is getting used to deprive them of their ancestral properties.

The name for strike was backed by Awami Action Committee of Gilgit-Baltistan, Anjuman-e-Imamia, Ahl-e-Sunnat wal Jammat and different organizations, stated a press launch issued by the merchants’ union.

Protests and rallies have been held in Skardu, Gilgit, Hunza and Ghizer, and have been attended by massive variety of folks regardless of the extreme chilly.

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