GILGIT, April 14: Police claimed on Saturday to have traced the man who had thrown a hand-grenade on protesting activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat at Etehad Chowk on April 3. “We have traced the culprit who threw a hand-grenade on the protesters and conducted raids to arrest him, but he has changed his hideout,” SP Gilgit Wasil Khan told Dawn, adding that the man was also wanted in some other cases. He declined…
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ISLAMABAD – Majlis Wahdat-ul-Muslimeen (MWM) ended the eight-day long sit-in in Islamabad after talks with Interior Minister Rehman Malik late Friday night. The interior minister assured the MWM leaders that a judicial commission would be constituted to investigate the sectarian killings in Chilas and Gilgit. Dialogue between Rehman Malik and the religious leaders of the MWM lasted for four hours, during which the minister agreed to meet all demands and promised a strict action against…
GILGIT, April 14: Police claimed on Saturday to have traced the man who had thrown a hand-grenade on protesting activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat at Etehad Chowk on April 3. “We have traced the culprit who threw a hand-grenade on the protesters and conducted raids to arrest him, but he has changed his hideout,” SP Gilgit Wasil Khan told Dawn, adding that the man was also wanted in some other cases. He declined…
ISLAMABAD: Even eleven days after the worst ever violence hit the once peaceful Gilgit-Baltistan following the massacre of at least 23 men and women at Chilas on April 3, there is no one in the regional government to come up with accurate figures of how many are still missing and what exactly the death toll is. The Governor Pir Karam Ali Shah and Chief Minister Mehdi Shah have stayed away from their people as well…