Residents of Gul Kada in Swat on Friday announced a hunger strike against the seven-month closure of Gul Kada Road by security forces.Elders of Gul Kada, including former tehsil nazim Rafiul Mulk Kamran, naib nazim Rashid Iqbal, and Syed Khuda Bakhsh, announced the decision to carry out hunger strike during a large public meeting. They said the security forces closed the road for the last seven months, which caused enormous problems for thousands residents of the area.
They said residents could not wait anymore and gave a three days ultimatum to the security forces to re-open the road otherwise they would continue their hunger strike till death, and security forces would be held responsible of it.