Police open investigations into wall chalking in Skardu
Police has expands its investigations into who is responsible for walking chalking against a particular sect.
GILGIT:
Police has expanded its investigations into who is responsible for walking chalking against a particular sect in Skardu, officials said on Sunday.
The wall chalking had sparked widespread protests in the town. All business activities came to a halt in Skardu on Saturday after hundreds of people took to the streets in protest as some unidentified people painted walls with slogans against a sect. Reacting to the wall chalking, clerics demanded the arrest of the plotters.
“Initially we had arrested four suspects but released them today after investigation,” the official said.
Meanwhile, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Mehdi Shah, who belongs to Skardu, told reporters that the culprits will be nabbed.
Last week, hundreds of people had staged a sit-in in the town to protest against ‘derogatory statements’ against religious leaders of a sect by members of another sect. The matter had hardly cooled down when the chalking appeared.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 11th, 2011.
Police has expanded its investigations into who is responsible for walking chalking against a particular sect in Skardu, officials said on Sunday.
The wall chalking had sparked widespread protests in the town. All business activities came to a halt in Skardu on Saturday after hundreds of people took to the streets in protest as some unidentified people painted walls with slogans against a sect. Reacting to the wall chalking, clerics demanded the arrest of the plotters.
“Initially we had arrested four suspects but released them today after investigation,” the official said.
Meanwhile, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Mehdi Shah, who belongs to Skardu, told reporters that the culprits will be nabbed.
Last week, hundreds of people had staged a sit-in in the town to protest against ‘derogatory statements’ against religious leaders of a sect by members of another sect. The matter had hardly cooled down when the chalking appeared.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 11th, 2011.