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Villager shot dead in Azad Kashmir in cross-border firing by Indian forces
[DAWN] Indian troops on Tuesday rubbed out a resident of a border village of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) in the latest incident of unprovoked ceasefire violation, residents and officials said.Muhammad Shakil Qureshi, a resident of Taroti Dharamsal village in Abbaspur tehsil of Poonch district, became the victim of "assassination", since he was sniped by Indian forces, in an apparent violation of the two-week-old understanding between top military officials of Pakistain and India to "fully implement a 15-year old truce agreement in letter and in spirit", the officials said. "The 45-year old victim was grazing cattle near his home when he was hit from across the divide with a single gunshot at about 3:30pm without any provocation, leaving him dead on the spot," said police official Hassan Wazir Afridi. Posted by: Fred 2018-06-13 |
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