Indian forces open 'unprovoked fire' on Forward Kahuta border village
12 innocent Pakistani citizens have lost their lives due to unprovoked Indian firing since Oct 2.
HAVELI (Web Desk) – In latest violation of ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC), Indian forces have targeted bordering village Karni in Forward Kahuta on Wednesday morning, Dunya News reported.
Day to day living of civil population all along working is badly affected. People have almost fled their homes and taken refuge in nearest safe places.
On Tuesday night, Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing at the Line of Control in Nakial sector near Kotli. Indian fire injured four children in village Kanthi Gala. The injured were taken to a military hospital.
On the other hand, Pakistani troops effectively responded to Indian firing.
Situation at Charwa Sector of Sialkot remains tense. One hundred and twenty schools and three health centers in the area remain closed. Also, rice crops in forty villages have been affected due to evacuation of citizens.
Skirmishes have flared across the heavily-militarised Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border in Kashmir, in recent weeks, with both sides blaming each other for having violated the 2003 ceasefire agreement along the LoC.
Earlier, a team of UN Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan visited the villages which have been badly hit by Indian firing in Charwah, Chaprar and Pukhlian sectors on the working boundary near Sialkot.
Team of UN observers met the villagers, witnessed and gathered first hand account of damage caused to human lives and property due to recent Indian hostility on the Working Boundary.
As many as 12 innocent Pakistani citizens have lost their lives due to unprovoked Indian firing, 11 out of 12 on the working boundary, while 1 embraced martyrdom at LoC. 64 civilians have also been badly wounded due to recent Indian shelling. Indian forces have committed 24 ceasefire violations on working boundary and 26 on Line of Control since October 1st, 2014 and have been targeting civil population living in villages all along the working boundary.
The observers team also visited the Combined Military Hospital Sialkot and met civilians who are injured due to unprovoked firing by the Indians.
It may be mentioned here that Pakistan on 9th October lodged a strong protest with the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) over unprovoked Indian firing/shelling on working boundary and Line of Control (LoC) and offered UN team to visit the Working boundary and Loc to have first hand account of Indian hostilities, however, Indians have denied access to UNMOGIP observers on their side.
