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Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 4: Even as life has limped back to normal in Kashmir after the recent standoff between India and Pakistan, the Jammu province continues to bear with the hostilities from the enemy country.
While four civilians were recently killed in the Jammu region due to shelling by the Pakistani forces, after a daylong lull, the attacks along borders and LoC in Jammu have only intensified.
A defence spokesman said Pakistan violated ceasefire by targeting forward posts and villages along the Line of Control in Akhnoor adding that the Pakistani army fired mortar shells and used small arms to target forward posts and the villages.
Barring two-hour cross-border firing in Nowshera sector of Rajouri district Saturday afternoon, the guns had fallen silent all along the LoC since Friday night.
The lull in the Pakistani shelling had come as a major relief to the border residents, especially in the twin districts of Poonch and Rajouri, where four persons including three members of a family were killed and several others injured in cross-border shelling.
But the borders districts are again facing the hostilities.
With elections round the corner, while the hostilities from Pakistan are likely to escalate, it is mainly the people of Jammu region including the winter capital which have to bear the brunt.
Thousands of people of Jammu region have been living their lives in bunkers away from their homes due to shelling.
Interestingly some of the senior leaders from BJP who had been speaking of giving a befitting reply to Pakistan and hail from the border district, as per the locals, have largely been missing from the scene.
The Kashmir's mainstream politicians who support Pakistan have been equally silent as their own province and vote bank are safe. "If you look at the hostilities from Pakistan, it is mainly the people of Jammu region alone who suffer. Politics being played at the cost of Jammu," said a teacher of political science at Jammu University.
Officials said the normal life has been disrupted mainly in Jammu in border districts including Rajouri, Samba and Poonch.
Pertinently apart from frequent closure of educational institutions, the agricultural activities, which are the backbone of economic activities in area, are also affected due to Pakistan hostilities.
"There's a need for the government to consolidate a report on how much Jammu suffers due to Pakistani hostilities," said a senior official on the condition of anonymity. |
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