Militants Block Road Linking Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan; Demand Release of Accomplices

Zealots demanding the release of their jugged cohorts set up leaguers on one of the major highways linking Pakistan’s restive businesses of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa( KP) with Gilgit- Baltistan( GB), leaving a elderly minister and several excursionists stranded, a media report said on Saturday. A voice clip participated on social media on Friday purportedly features elderly GB Minister Abaidullah Baig as saying that he was on his way from Islamabad to Gilgit when zealots blocked the road to press authorities for the release of their cohorts from jail.

Habibur Rahman, GB’s most wanted militant commander who was indicted of killing 10 nonnatives in Nanga Parbat, and his cohorts blocked the road in Thak vill of Chilas in Diamer on Friday around 4 pm, leaving trippers

on both sides stranded, the Dawn review quoted a source as saying. Sources said the zealots were demanding the release of their cohorts, including those involved in the horrible murder of nonnatives in the Nanga Parbat area and other terrorist incidents in Diamer.

Sources said political leaders and officers from the quarter were engaged in accommodations with the zealots. There was no response from the police so far. latterly, an audio clip said to be of the GB minister that surfaced on social media showed a man saying that accommodations with the commanders were underway who had two introductory demands.

They’ve sought the release of their cohorts from jails and duty of Islamic laws, with no women sports conditioning, he said. The incident surfaced as Pakistan legislators from both sides of the aisle on Friday sounded an alarm over the swell in terrorist conditioning by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan( TTP), while a assemblyman sought a briefing over a recent trouble alert issued by the interior ministry about the heightened threat of terrorist attacks by the banned outfit.

Pakistan Peoples Party( PPP) Senator Raza Rabbani, on a point of public concern, asked Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani to direct the innards minister to take congress and the public at large into confidence about the present status of peace addresses with the TTP. The interior ministry had lately issued an alert over the adding trouble of terrorist attacks by the group or its coalitions after addresses with the TTP broke down.

Rabbani refocused out that a call had been made to take congress on board when the exposure about dialogue with the TTP was made for the first time. He, still, rued that the demand about a matter linked with the future of coming generations fell on deaf cognizance.

Rabbani said nothing knew about the conditions of the ceasefire with the group and the status of the addresses. It’s the right of the people to know under what conditions dialogue with the group was held and on which point it ended and what pitfalls the country is facing that the ministry is forced to issue the alert, he said.

He said adding terrorist conditioning in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the quondam Federally Administered ethnical Areas( Fata) were claiming the lives of army labor force and other law enforcement agencies for the last couple of months. moment, the state itself is saying that terrorism is adding , he deplored.

Before, during the question hour, Legislators Seemee Ezdi and Azam Swati from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf expressed concern over the increase in terrorist attacks and said terrorists had reached Swat. Senator Swati called for an in- camera briefing to the house on the issue.

State Minister for Law Shahadat Hussain conceded that terror conditioning had witnessed a sharp increase, but members of security forces were geared up to check the imminence and they were laying down their lives for the purpose, according to Dawn.