Two Gilgit-Baltist (GB) scout staff were martyrated and another wounded Friday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a common control post in Chilas’ Hudur area.
According to Deputy Commissioner A Atta-Ur-Rehman Kakar, the martyred scouts were identified as NAIB Subedar Khushdad, resident of Nagar, and Havaldar Ashraf, from Shigar.
They wounded, Lance naik sajid whose condition is now stableAt Was moved to the regional headquarters Hospital Chila.
After the attack, an emergency was declared in the hospital while the security forces were closed by the area and launched a search operation to track the attackers.
GB -government spokesman Faizullah Pharaq while condemning the incident called it “a feig and unforgivable terrorist act.”
He added that GB chief minister Haji Gulbar Khan had taken strict attention and ordered immediate action against the perpetrators.
“We want to make sure these handfuls of misunderstandings have nowhere to hide,” he added.
GB Interior Minister Shamsul Haq Lone also promised that they would be brought to trial behind the attack and emphasized that the pursuit of terrorists was already underway.
Who are GB scouts?
The Gilgit-Baltist Scouts are a federal civilian armed force responsible for maintaining security in the Gilgit-Baltist region. The strength, as it exists today, was formally renamed on January 17, 2011 after strengthening and self -control order 2009, which gave the region its current name.
Prior to this, they were known as the northern areas of scouts, raised on October 31, 2003 as Pakistan’s fifth civilian armed strength to meet the long -standing demand for such strength in the region.
The GB scouts track their descent to the Gilgit scouts, raised in 1889, playing a crucial role in the liberation war in 1947–48 against dogra and Indian forces and ensuring independence for the population of what is now Gilgit-Baltistan.
Over time, the Gilgit scouts were reinforced with the breeding of the northern scouts and the Karakorum scouts. These three corps were merged in 1974 to form the northern light infantry (NLI). After the Kargil conflict in 1999, NLI was admitted to the Pakistani army as a common infantry regiment.
