ISLAMABAD: Director General South Asia and SAARC Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri summoned the Indian Charge d’Affaires Gaurav Ahluwalia here today to register Pakistan’s strong protest over the ceasefire violations by the Indian occupation forces along LoC in Jandrot and Khuiratta.
Condemning the targeting of innocent civilians by the Indian occupation forces, Director General South Asia and SAARC underscored that such senseless acts, in clear violation of the 2003 Ceasefire Understanding further vitiate the tense atmosphere along the LoC and are a threat to regional peace and security.
Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri stated that by augmenting tensions along the LoC India would not be able to divert the global attention from atrocities being committed by the Indian forces against the populace of the IoJ&K. Indian government had been asked to respect the 2003 Ceasefire Understanding; investigate this and other such incidents of deliberate ceasefire violations and maintain peace along the LoC and the WB.
Earlier, Indian Army troops resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations in Jandrot and Khuiratta Sectors along LOC deliberately targeting civilian population this morning.
According to ISPR, a woman embraced shahadat while an 8 year old girl sustained injuries.
It is pertinent to mention here that forty-three male and sixteen female Pakistani civilians lost their lives (while 157 male and 124 female civilians got wounded) along the restive Line of Control (LoC, in Azad Jammu and Kashmir) as a result of ceasefire violations by Indian troops in the year 2019.
According to details three civilians died in Jehlum Valley, thirteen lost their lives in Kotli, twelve were killed in Neelum, eleven were slain in Haveli, eight in Muzaffarabad, another eight in Poonch and four in Bhimber.
Moreover, nineteen civilians from Jehlum Valley, sixty-one people from Kotli district, fifty-two from Neelum, fifty-one from Poonch, forty-nine from Haveli, twenty-nine from Bhimber and twenty from Muzaffarabad got injured.
Indian troops’ shelling also damaged properties including Mosque, school buildings, private houses, shops and vehicles. People also lost a large number of livestock.
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