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Reacting very strongly to the statement of Pakistani prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, in which he had said that Gilgit-Baltistan is part of Kashmir, the students of Gilgit-Baltistan staged a demonstration in front of National Press Club, Islamabad. They demanded apology from the prime minister for making ‘such baseless statements, contradicting his own past speeches and statements’. They also chanted slogans against the government for ‘playing with emotions of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan’. ( … ) The students said that people of GilgitBaltistan had fought a war of liberation and won it against a superior force of the Maharaja of Kashmir, also supported by Indian government. ‘The Kashmiris were invaders in our lands’, said a demonstrator. He further said, ‘we fought with them and made them flee the region but now the Pakistani political, civilian and military establishment is trying to murder our history of liberation.
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