Pakistan

Security woes: Chilas blasts termed a plot against Diamer dam

PML-N threatens to launch protest campaign across the region if the hidden hands behind the blast aren't exposed.

Express January 26, 2011

GILGIT: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has threatened to launch a protest campaign across the region if the ‘hidden hands’ behind recent blasts in Chilas, headquarter of the Diamer District aren’t exposed.

“It is the responsibility of the government to apprehend the terrorists involved in the attacks,” said the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly’s Standing Committee on Works Chairman Janbaz Khan on Monday. Khan, who belongs to Chilas, where a series of blasts ripped through two girls’ schools and a mosque two week ago.

The PML-N parliamentarian calling it a test case for the government, said that if it failed to unmask the hidden hands the PML-N will stage demonstrations.

The blasts triggered a strong reaction in the region as 12,000 people gathered in Chilas two days after the blasts, calling them a conspiracy against the proposed Diamer-Bhasha Dam.

Khan said that people of Diamer were peaceful and that it was the responsibility of the government to expose the conspiracy hatched against the region and avoid eruption of a situation such as
that of Swat.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 26^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (1)

Abdul Hamid Khan | 13 years ago | Reply Chilast blast has not been organized to hamper Diamar Dam but to make it sure that there is no protest or hindrance against Diamar Dam. This is the handwork of Pakistani inteligence agencie to create harrasment among the local people, so nobody could dare to protest against this dam. If anybody dares he will be declared as Talibaan. The main reason behind this crime is1. To depute more Pakistani troops (Rangers, FC and Army etc) with the intention to deal the so-called Talibaan 2. To bag USA for more dollars, becasue of the so-called threat of Talibaan on this new front. Our people are innocent, who can be deceived easily by Pakistani agencies, which have been successfully deceiving USA and its allies, in spite of the fact that Al-Qaida and Talibaan can not survive for one week with ISI support. The declaring of Chilas blast as the conspiracy to hamper Diamar Dam by members and some people, shows their inocence and simpleton nature.

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