Pakistan Occupied kashmir: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2012

The Government of Gilgit Baltistan Province has suspended 48 Shia government officials to punish them for a visit of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) Chief Allama Nasir Abbas Jaffri, as reported on July 26, by abna.ir. Allama Aijaz Behishti, chief of MWM Youth Affairs has said that the government was trying to intimidate Shia officials but he warned the government that Shias were aware of the government conspiracies. Read less...

Activists of progressive political parties, trade unions, youth and student organisations staged protest rallies in Islamabad and the Hunza valley of Gilgit Baltistan (GB) against the incarceration of a youth leader and his comrades in Gilgit jail and trade union leaders in Punjab jails, according to The Express Tribune. They demanded their release and withdrawal of false cases against them. They also expressed their concern over the retrenchment of thousands of workers from various organisations. In Hunza in GB, over 1,000 people, including 300 women, gathered at Nasirabad to vent their anger at the highhandedness and brutalities of the security agencies against Baba Jan, chief organiser of Progressive Youth Front (PYF), activists Iftikhar Hussain and others in Gilgit Jail who have been detained for about a year. Jan, along with other comrades, was arrested in August 2011 for protesting against the killing of a disaster-affected youth and his father at the hands of Police during a protest rally demanding payment of compensation to the families displaced by Attabad Lake in Hunza. Jan’s lawyer, Advocate Ehsan Ali, said that his client’s bail plea had been accepted and he was expected to be released earlier this month, but was implicated in yet another case by the anti-terrorism court for “inciting sectarian hatred and promoting anti-government sentiments among prisoners”, a charge he termed another tool to incarcerate the leader. Read less...