 S Tahir-ul Haq
Early Times Report
KUPWARA, Feb 4: The government has failed to fulfill its promises and the genuine demand which they had made with the people of border areas of JK union territory, so for there is no concrete or construct of underground bunkers so that people of border area could save their lives from Pakistani aggression.
Local residents of Tangdar said that, Pakistani troops resorted to unprovoked firing on Monday morning, after which we ran for safety under the hillocks.
“Though Indian army also retaliated and gave befitting reply to the aggression of Pakistani firing, but still threat was looming all over the area”, Nazir Ahmad from Tangdar area told early Times over the phone.
All the time we face the heat of this aggression and there are no let up in shelling even during the winters, and it causes more worries to the civilian populations that are living in the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir.
Mohammad Abdullah of Keran said, “we don’t want anything from the government, but if they are really concern about the safety of our lives then they should construct underground bunkers for the border areas, be it an area of Tangdar, Keran, Karnah, Gurez, Uri or any other areas, it is only we the people who are facing these ceasefire violations from the other side of LoC”.
It could be understood that we are the worst victims of hostilities on the India-Pakistan border and along LoC, and despite knowing the situation and problems of our areas, government seems less interested to save our lives including live stocks, said Abdullah.
Local residents of Karnah said that, if the government would have been sincere in their approaches they may have announced the work on underground bunkers should be made on speedy basis, but no they are living their luxurious lives like any other people, and we are dying like cattle’s and nobody bothers for our families including women and children.
We are living on the edge of border areas and there remains an escalation of tension between India and Pakistan, and ceasefire violation has become an order of the day from Pakistani side, locals observed.
It is pertinent to mention here that on the late evening of Feb 3, a civilian got killed and four others were injured in a ceasefire violation by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) in Tangdar sector of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.
The deceased was identified as Saleem Ahmed, a 60-year-old civilian, who was killed in the Tadd village of the Karnah sector in Kupwara district on Monday evening. |
