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| Pak firing: Migration picks up along Pak border area | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Aug 18 : The residents of bordering villages are living with fear psychosis and have started migrating to safer places due to continued violation of ceasefire truce between India and Pakistan. Ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan had come to force in November 2003.
The border residents of Abdullian village-situated along the Indo-Pak international border in Ranbir Singh Pura Sector-are living in fear and have started shifting to safer locations, according to local residents.
In the past two days, Pakistan had thrice violated the ceasefire agreement by firing small arms and mortar shells on forward posts along Abdullian village in which one BSF jawan was killed.
'It is not safe at the moment to live in the village as Pakistan is firing continuously on forward post, which is a few metres from the locality,' a villager told.
He said the locals have shifted women, children and elders to safety.
'About 150 villagers last night migrated to safer places in view of ceasefire violation by Pakistan,' a villager said, adding that some of them spent the night in bunkers constructed inside houses.
In case there was no respite from the firing, the residents would be forced to permanently migrate, he added.
Pakistan on August 15 fired on three Indian posts in Hiranagar sector and in Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district. On August 11, mortar shells were fired at Narayanpur Top-2 post in Ramgarh sector of Samba district.
On July 28, an 'underground' tunnel was also found along the international border.
Pakistan security personnel, on the night of August 6, targetted BSF's Border outpost (BOP) of Pansar in Hiranagar sector of Kathua district resulting in injuries to two BSF jawans.
On August 6, Pakistani troops had opened fire on the forward posts along the Line of Control (LoC) in Shahpur Kerni forward belt of Poonch sector and it continued intermittently for a few hours as Army troops also replied.
On August 5, Pakistan Rangers fired on Indian BOPs in Kote Kuba area along IB in R S Pura sector in Jammu district thereby violating ceasefire between India and Pakistan applicable since 2003.
There has been an increase in ceasefire violations along the Indo-Pak border after the detection of a Pakistani tunnel in the Indian territory in Samba forward belt on July 28 and a subsequent protest lodged by the BSF over it with Pakistan Rangers on July 31.
A similar situation had developed in Jammu and Kashmir in June this year in Poonch sector along the LoC when Pakistan violated the ceasefire five times by opening heavy small arms firing and rocket attacks on Indian posts in Poonch sector in which two jawans were killed and four others injured. There were five ceasefire violations between June 11 and 16 this year along the LoC in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
Finally, the Brigade Commanders flag meeting was held on June 23 last at Chakan-Da-Bagh LoC point in Poonch sector to bring a halt to the Pakistan firing and peace along the border line and resumption of the cross-border trade and travel between PoK and Jammu and Kashmir.
Nearly 25 ceasefire violations have taken place this year compared to 51 cases in 2011 along the international border while 44 cases of ceasefire violations along the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir were registered in 2010 and 28 in 2009. |
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