Two staff of the Gilgit-Baltist (GB) explorers were martyred and another injured on Friday when unidentified gunmen opened fire in a joint control post in the Hudur de Chilas area.
According to the attached commissioner of Diamer Atta-Ur-Rehman Kakar, martyred explorers were identified as Naib Subedar Khushdad, a resident of Nagar, and Havaldar Ashraf, of Shigar.
The injured, Lance Naik Sajid whose condition is now stable, He was transferred to the regional headquarters of the Chilas Hospital.
After the attack, an emergency was declared in the hospital, while the security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to track the assailants.
GB government spokesman Faizullah Faraq, while condemning the incident, described him as “a cowardly and unforgivable act of terrorism.”
He added that GB Prime Minister Haji Gulbar Khan had taken a strict warning and ordered immediate measures against perpetrators.
“We will make sure that these delinquent stabs have no place to hide,” he added.
GB Interior Minister Shamsul Haq also promised that those behind the attack would be taken before justice, emphasizing that the search for terrorists was already underway.
Who are GB explorers?
Gilgit-Baltistan explorers are a federal civil armed force responsible for maintaining security in the Gilgit-Baltistan region. The force, as it exists today, was formally called on January 17, 2011, after the order of empowerment and self -set of 2009, which gave the region its current name.
Before this, they were known as the explorers in the areas of the North, collected on October 31, 2003 as the fifth Civil Armed Forces of Pakistan to address the long -standing demand for such force in the region.
GB explorers draw their lineage to Gilgit explorers, raised in 1889, who played a decisive role in the 1947-1948 liberation war against the forces of dogra and India, ensuring the independence of people of what is now Gilgit-Baltistan.
Over time, Gilgit’s explorers were reinforced with the elevation of northern explorers and Karakorum explorers. These three bodies merged in 1974 to form the Infantry of Light of the North (NLI). After Kargil’s conflict in 1999, the NLI was absorbed by Pakistan’s army as a regular infantry regiment.
