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| Indian shelling leaves two dead, six hurt in AJK |
| 2017-06-03 |
| [DAWN] Pakistan on Thursday condemned India’s deliberate act of targeting civilians in Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK) as two people were killed and six others, including four women, suffered injuries in unprovoked and intense Indian firing from across the Line of Control (LoC). "India’s deliberate targeting of civilians is condemnable and contrary to human dignity and international human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... and humanitarian laws," said Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson M. Nafees Zakaria in a tweet after the casualties took place in different villages of AJK’s southern Poonch district. "The Indian troops started shelling in Battal sector at about 7am without any provocation, targeting civilian population with small arms and mortars," Poonch Deputy Commissioner Raja Tahir Mumtaz told Dawn. He said that two men, one in his late 20s and the other in mid-60s, bit the dust to "intense" shelling from across the divide. He identified the victims as Ghazar Ahmed of Kakuta village and Sardar Fazal Ahmed of Darra Sher Khan village. Those injured -- Malick Mohammad Jamil and Syeda Faria Kabir in Battal village, Qazi Mohammad Safeer and Jabeen Mehboob in Lachyal village, Taiba Hanif in Rakkar village and Nasreen Akhtar in Mandhol village -- had been hospitalised, he said. |
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