Early Times Report
Srinagar, Feb 11: The families of two deceased soldiers who hail from the Kashmir valley's border district of Kupwara, on Sunday asked the Centre "to resume dialogue with Pakistan to bring an end to the bloodshed".
Hundreds of locals converged on the house of deceased Subedar Mohammed Ashraf Mir, a resident of Kupwara's Lolab area and a solider with the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, to console the family.
After burying his son in the local grave, Mir's father made an appeal: "Both India and Pakistan should amicably resolve the Kashmir issue. People die every day here. This [bloodshed] should stop."
Another deceased jawan, Havaldar Habib-Ullah Qurashi, 42, was the oldest of seven siblings. Qurashi and a resident of Kupwara's Batpora. "India should also start a dialogue with people of Kashmir. Shells won't resolve the Kashmir issue. Both countries need to talk," said Qurashi's father.
As the tragedy unfolded at the 36 Brigade of J&K Light Infantry on Saturday, the pregnant wife of Rifleman Nazir Ahmad, hit by a bullet, "delivered a healthy baby" on Sunday. Jammu-based Army Public Relations Officer Lt. Col. Devender Anand said that Army doctors had worked through the night to save the life of the severely injured pregnant woman at the military hospital in Satwari in Jammu. |
