Local people
attack hostel of GBian students in Rawlakot, Azad Kashmir
Islamabad, March 22: Local goons in Rawlakot, Azad Kashmir, have
attacked a hostel housing around 80 university students hailing from different
parts of Gilgit-Baltistan. The hostel had been established by the students
themselves to facilitate their colleagues from Gilgit-Baltistan. The attack was organized by local
influential people who entered their hostel, thrashed a number of GBian
students and threatened to put the hostel on fire if the students did not vacate
the building.
The
Azad Kashmir police, reportedly, acted in a partisan manner and arrested four
GBian students, instead of stopping the attackers and filing cases against them
for damaging belongings of the students. There are reports that an assistant
commissioner (AC) was present on the scene when the hostel was being attacked
with stones and when firing was going on outside the hostel.
Later,
the besieged students were shifted to the university campus where they spent
the entire night in miserable condition. The students and youth of
Gilgit-Baltistan across Pakistan
and in various parts of the world have condemned the attack and expressed
solidarity with the students who have become victims of hooligans, brutality
and police torture in Azad Kashmir. Opposition leader Haji Janbaz Khan has
termed it an act of grave injustice and demanded action against the attackers.
Source: http://pamirtimes.net/2013/03/23/local-peoplle-attack-hostel-of-gbian-students-in-rawlakot-azad-kashmir/
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