{"id":182948,"date":"2022-10-11T22:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182948"},"modified":"2022-10-11T22:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T19:05:36","slug":"thousands-protest-increased-violence-in-pakistans-swat-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/thousands-protest-increased-violence-in-pakistans-swat-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest increased violence in Pakistan\u2019s Swat Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-182949\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/000_32L68CA.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/000_32L68CA.webp 770w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/000_32L68CA-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/000_32L68CA-768x512.webp 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/000_32L68CA-696x464.webp 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/000_32L68CA-630x420.webp 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people have rallied in Pakistan\u2019s Swat Valley to protest against growing insecurity following the killing of a local school bus driver who was shot by an unknown assailant on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Chanting slogans against the increasing number of killings in the area, protesters took to the streets on Tuesday afternoon in Nishat Chowk, demanding that the government do more to ensure the safety of residents there.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Shah, spokesperson for Swat Qaumi Jirga, a representative body of local residents, said more than 15,000 people had attended the protest \u2013 the sixth in the past two months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe held one protest last week but the one today is among the largest demonstrations ever in Swat,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n<p>Fawad Khan, an activist with Swat Olasi Pasoon (Swat People\u2019s Movement), who was at Tuesday\u2019s protest, told Al Jazeera that there had been a clear increase in violent incidents in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are demanding the government control the terrorist elements who are back and spreading terror here,\u201d he said. \u201cWe must be given protection, which is our constitutional right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to police officials, the latest incident of violence took place in Mingora on Monday morning when the school bus driver was shot dead by a man riding a motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Hussain Ahmed, 33, was driving two young students, one of whom was wounded and taken to hospital before being discharged.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials told Al Jazeera they have ruled out \u201cterrorism\u201d since this was a targeted attack on an individual, but they are continuing to investigate. They added that there has been no claim of responsibility for the attack so far.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s attack came a day after the 10th anniversary of the shooting of\u00a0Malala Yousafzai\u00a0by the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP or Pakistan Taliban) when she was a schoolgirl.<\/p>\n<p>Mohsin Dawar, a member of Pakistan\u2019s National Assembly, condemned the latest attack and said this should be a wake-up call for the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people have rallied in Pakistan\u2019s Swat Valley to protest against growing insecurity following the killing of a local school bus driver who was shot by an unknown assailant on Monday. Chanting slogans against the increasing number of killings in the area, protesters took to the streets on Tuesday afternoon in Nishat Chowk, demanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182950,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182948\/revisions\/182950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}