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| Azad condemns Pak's unprovoked firing; visits GMC Jammu to meet injured | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Oct 7: Launching a blistering attack on Pakistani Army and Rangers for resorting to heavy firing and targeting poor villagers, their houses and live stocks, Leader of Opposition (LoP), Rajya Sabha and Former Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad today urged Prime Minister Narinder Modi to seriously take up border firing issue with neighbouring country. Condemning the Pakistan for targeting the innocent villagers including women and children and their cattle, Azad said, "It is abominable and inhumane on the part of Pakistan to target civilians, more so on the eve of Eid and this deserved to be condemned and deprecated unequivocally and strongly".
Azad said that heavy fire and shelling that is being witnessed for the past four five months has been witnessed in 1971 or during war times and that the intransigence of Pakistani forces is severely testing our patience. "At least 6 civilians got killed and scores have been left seriously injured in the last two days due to the Pakistani firing and shelling and that it is imperative for Government of India to view this grave situation with the earnestness it deserves and must ensure civilians are not targeted," he said. Azad also supported the demand of local populace of declaring the border belt especially that comes under firing range, as Backward Area so that special attention is paid towards the people living in such areas and their children are compensated for the disadvantage that they suffer from by standing guard to our borders. While having a whirlwind tour of number of villages in Arnia sector including Rehaal, Deoli, Salher and Arnia Town, that have come under heavy fire by Pakistan, Azad today interacted with number of people including women and elderly lot, who are forced to migrate to safer areas and are camping in School Buildings.
Azad said that UPA government became the popular whipping boy for Narindra Modi for the ceasefire violations before elections and the common refrain used to be "Hum Pakistan Se Nazar Mila Kar Baat Karenge", however, when Pakistan has unabatedly been resorting to heavy firing from across the border for the last for five months and killing innocent civilians, why BJP Government and its Prime Minister is maintaining an intriguing silence on this issue? He emphasized that Government should identify land at safer locations from border so that whenever any such situation arises, people can immediately shift to safer hamlets". Besides, Azad also favoured Insurance of Crops, Houses and Live stocks of the people living in border belts of the state. Earlier, after landing here today morning, Ghulam Nabi Azad straight away drove to Government Medical and Hospital, Jammu and met the people injured in border firing. |
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