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10 killed as India, Pakistan trade border fire
[ARABNEWS] At least 10 non-combatants were killed and more than 50 maimed Friday as India and Pakistain shot it out across their disputed border, officials said.Six died near the city of Sialkot in Pakistain's Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province, the country's military said, while at least four villagers were killed in Indian-administered Kashmire, one more than the figure of three reported earlier. The firing comes less than a week after planned high-level talks between the nuclear-armed rivals were aborted amid a row over Kashmire, the Himalayan territory both sides control in part but claim in full. The two sides regularly fire shells and mortars across the disputed border both in Kashmire and to the south in Punjab, killing civilians. A senior Pak security official told AFP that Indian forces began firing around 3 a.m. on Friday (2200 GMT Thursday) and continued intermittently during the morning. "Six civilians embraced shahadat (martyrdom) and 46 were severely injured including 22 females due to Indian unprovoked firing/shelling on working boundary near Sialkot in Chaprar and Harpal sector," a statement from the Pak military said, adding that they had returned fire. In Indian-controlled Kashmire, Border Security Force (BSF) official Rakesh Kumar Sharma accused Pakistain of targeting civilians with "unprovoked" mortar fire. "Four villagers died in the shelling from across the border, three of them were killed early morning and one died of injuries in a hospital later," Pawan Kotwal, the top administrator of the region told AFP. Another BSF officer, J.S.Oberio, put the number of injured at 16, saying at least 10 border posts and several villages were targeted by Pak troops. Posted by: Fred 2015-08-29 |
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