...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(AJK) on Monday in heavy Indian shelling from across the restive Line of Control (LoC), officials said.
The casualties occurred in Gujjar Morr village of Samahni tehsil, in the southernmost Bhimber district, after Indian troops resorted to ceasefire violations at about 2:30am, using both small and big arms.
"The shelling lasted for one and a half hours without any pause and it was intense," Bhimber SP Sultan Awan said, adding that Indian troops targeted the civilian population "intentionally".
"Even now, firing with small arms continues intermittently," he told Dawn in the evening.