Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts published in “Day: September 27, 2009

Hunza people continue protest for two seats in GBLA

By Zulfiqar Ali Khan in The Dawn, Sept 27 HUNZA, Sept 26: People of Hunza as part of their ongoing protest drive organised a big rally under the aegis of All Hunza Action Committee (AHAC) here on Friday for acceptance of their demands. They were demanding an additional seat in Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) before the forthcoming election. This was the third major public protest after the successful events in Aliabad and Nasirabad Hunza. The…

Four killed in Gilgit bomb blast, protests: The Dawn, Sept 27

GILGIT, Sept 26: Four people were killed and several others injured on Saturday in a bomb blast and violent protests that followed, police said. The bomb went off in a bookshop in a busy market on the Airport Road, injuring four people. They were taken to the DHQ hospital where one of them died. Gilgit police chief Khurshid Alam said it was a locally-made device. After the blast, protesters took to the streets and pelted…