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Pakistan: Killing Of Protesters Enrage People Of Gilgit-Baltistan

Written byRezwan
Posted 17 August 2011 23:47 GMT

Habib R. Sulemani at The Terrorland reports that police indiscriminately fired on the protesters demanding for basic rights in Gilgit-Baltistan. An ex-soldier and his son were killed and many more got injured, which sparked more protests in this northernmost administrative unit of Pakistan.

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