NAROWAL:
Heavy and unprovoked shelling by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) killed a teenage girl and injured a minor in Zafarwal and Shakargarh sectors along the Sialkot Working Boundary Saturday morning.
According to senior officials of the Chenab Rangers, heavy shelling by the BSF on Sialkot border villages in Zafarwal and Shakargarh sectors continued intermittently throughout Saturday. The officials confirmed that the BSF fired dozens of mortar shells at the civilian population and damaged dozens of houses.
The BSF fired several mortar shells on Chak Nehala village in Zafarwal sector. A 16-year-old girl, Sumera Bibi, d/o Manzur Ahmed, was hit by shrapnel and died on the spot. In Chak Bheka village, in Shakargarh sector, an eight-year-old child, Mursileen, s/o Muhammad Aslam, was critically injured when mortar shells fired by the BSF slammed into a house. He was admitted to the CMH Sialkot, where his condition was stated to be critical.
Residents of border villages in Zafarwal sector have started shifting to safer places. Around 35 villages threatened by the Indian firing include Sakhmal, Abyal Dogar, Derman, Chak Nehala, Chak Bheka, Sakror, Tada, Tawana, Tarapor Taba, Lehri and Chak Jaggu. A large number of residents from these villages have shifted to state-run schools in Lesser Kalan.
Meanwhile, Sector Commander Chenab Rangers Brig Waseem said the BSF was targeting innocent people in the border villages along the Sialkot Working Boundary.
The rangers were retaliating effectively, he added. In the night, the BSF once again resorted to intense unprovoked firing with heavy weapons, targeting civilian population. Chenab Rangers returned the fire in a befitting manner, reportedly causing Indian troops heavy losses.
In Islamabad, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said that apparently India did not understand the language of peace. Talking to reporters outside the Parliament House, he said Pakistan had been working hard trying to maintain peace for the past six months, but now it seemed India would have to be taught in their own language.
The minister said the issue of Indian aggressiveness has already been raised on multiple forums, and now the government was considering taking it up with the United Nations. “I believe, we will now communicate with India in the language they understand,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 4th, 2015.
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@Dr. Khan: Shane on you and your Pakistan, you killed people in india, attack people in.Mumbai, killed soldiers and take their heads, read about inhumane treatment to an army officer POW, Sauabh Kalia. Attack my country and we will retaliate. you are fools who don't listen to all the news.
Shame on India and the Indian Trolls...cut all ties with them.. thats the only way for Pakistan to move ahead... I'm surprised ET allows such comments to be posted... Pakistani readers want to hear their fellow countrymen voice their opinion.. not the enemy's.. we all know what they think...
@BCCI: We dont mind bleeding, neither do the Pakistanis. Youv lost thousands of soldiers already and the continuing of this conflict will mean that you lose more. We will be at you to till the end of time or till we are united with Pakistan.
Cheers.
@Wajahat: You have understood nothing!
That is because you don't make sense!
@Sumit:
Wow! It's so good to hear that there are so many sources of information available and you give time to all of them but alas! You have understood nothing!
@Wajahat: Leave my history books and media bro, i wish you would have read yours carefully. your government (Nawaz sharif) at that time in june 1999 accepted they were your army men. There is more to information than indian media- Wikipedia, International dailies, Foreign media. Try and give a time to history bro it serves good. below is the link in which pakistan accepted they were their men and vedio of taking back their bodies finally. and see who is speaking about ignorance, it is funny world we live in, no.!!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=edc_1365758055
@Srinagar, Pakistan: Lol we wont.. See what you can do about it :)
Cheers
@LS: Why dont you get out of MY side?
@Srinagar, Pakistan.: Thankless Srinagar resident. It's not that India is weeping its someone else running to UN writing letters to UN, India, asking US to mediate. All you have to do is stop whining and pay our dues with interest and step over to the other side that you like so much.
@Wajahat: Wow you can only expect such naivety from a brainwashed Pakistani. So you don't know that Pakistan attempts to send as many terrorists it can under their cover fire as it can into Kashmir before heavy snow blocks the Pathways. They are routinely killed on our side when they attack our military installations with sophisticated weapons and arms training. Hence since 1989 this ha been going on. It stopped when Musharraf dismantled the terror camps on your side in AJK, Punjab and GB. It has started again since last 3 years worse than before. The difference being we no longer fire token shots and respond in kind. So if one of our dies we make sure the count is double on your side because we have had enough of this non-sense since 1989 and it's payback time. Not that we enjoy this but like all our leaders have said all you have to do is stop firing on our posts. This time around also the first death was on our side when a BSF patrol was attacked and one died. Next day it was 4 of yours.
@Civilian killing monsters: Sending terrorists is the biggest motive for Pakistan. It always has been since 1947. So please don't project your country as the victim here...
@zara shahjahan and Indians :
Their media thrives on hatred for Pakistan, its a means of ratings. Open any Indian news channel any day and you'll see an anti-Pakistan news. While we barely ever have any except for fights started by Indians. These people are fooled by their own media and military so well that they honestly don't have their own thoughts valued. Many a times these lies and stories are caught, pretty much destroying their credibility. This boat story and earlier that Planet/drone story, you have to take an listen to that one if you haven't already its hilarious and a little shameful for the mighty IA.
I just have to say look at all the comments in thisreport and other cross border firing news here, indians are so full of hate for us. Doesnt common sense tell a nation just two weeks through a heartwrenching tragedy ,fighting on western border will engage in shooting adventures disrupting own civilians life. We havent grown out of peshawar shock yet and here their government and hate spitting nationalist posters are prodding into our raw wound. So much hate you indians have so much hate. Amyways i have relatives in one of the villages where bsf is doing firing.
@ Summit
Ok man, have a great life believing in your history books and media like you guys always have. It will be very peaceful for you that way. Couldn't agree more with the person who said that ignorance is such a bliss!!!!
@Sumit:
Ok man, live believing whatever your history books and media say like you guys always have. It will be very peaceful for you that way. Couldn't agree more with the person who said that ignorance is such a bliss!
Why our nation is so lazy in replying to Indian bullets and bombs and spying activities terrorism inside and both from Eastern and Western sides of the border. Are the lives of our citizen are less cheaper then their or do we have less arms and legsoxidation that we usually remain sidentify to Indian aggression or our leadership is compromised and they penetrative inside them like they did in private medis from last decade, should not we ask them to hand over ajit doval like terrorist who openly admitted their terrorism activitit's onside Pakistani territory when they ask for Having said and Zaki Lakhvi.Our foreign policy direction seriously needs right attitude and will to fight the covert and overt operational tactics as lies and deception are their main weaponry.
@Gaurav: Dear Indian friend, your country is controlled by Hindu extremists who want provocation and a reason to fight with Muslims, whether it is with Pakistan or within India.
Dear India no mater what you do we will kill all of your strategic asets Like TTP BLA etc if your are in pain coz of that dont wary its your turn after we dell with them.
Why would Pakistan want to open one more front at Wagah border when it is already tackling with Indian sponsored millitants through out the country but alas! Ignorance is such a bliss. Could never make Indians understand anything logical.
Pakistan have to understand media and army making fool to us.our army is responsible for all injury.
If firing between India and Pakistan, then India is the problem.If Firing between Iran and Pakistan then Iran is the problem.If firing between Pakistan and afghanistan then Afghanistan is the problem.Pakistan always acts like a victim of every ones trouble rather than a trouble maker.
@Indian: Kargil? Everything atarts and ends there for you lot. You stared this cross border infiltration business when you crossed into Siachen. Now you weep when the other follows suit.
If Pakistanis expected India to roll over and die like we did during the congress rule. Sorry. Attack and suffer.
@ Indians
Why would Pakistan want to open another front on Wagah border if it is already dealing with Indian sponsored millitants throughout the country. I know its common sense but that is too much for you Indians to comprehend!!!
When a nation tries to be too clever things can go pear-shaped.
Who want to provoke to make an LOC as an international issue,is it India or pakistan ! There is an answer and that is the basic problem and even a child know the answer.ET pls publish
Wow! Now the Pakistani public has been convinced that Indians control the TTP also!! No wonder Pakistani establishment is still trying to find good-vs-bad-terrorists. As long as you keep fooling your own people, the terrorists will stay alive and keep up charging a hefty price. It your choice! What my Pakistani friends cannot see is the lack of any interest in India to engage with Pakistan, except to keep things peaceful. Despite the burning example of Kargil, Pakistani public can still be misled into believing that Indians provoke all the time!! Would be laughable were it not costing human lives...
@Indian:
Oh really, what happened in Kargil? What did they tell you?
Freaking boycott them already. We have an IDENTITY. Learn to embrace it.
Each and every time since 1947 aggression started from Pak end only and India giving answers only ,your country is ruled by Military so they will continue the same things hereafter also !
Modi with his extremist thinking, what else is expected!
verry nice post thankss http://newsshowtime.blogspot.com/2015/01/imran-khan-will-soon-start-another.html
@Asad Malik: kargil? did you forget kargil? et please publish my comment to mr asad malik.
After reading both side stories, it seems fight between governments prices innocent's life and their livelihood. There's nothing different in Indian side, people are dying and evicting from their home. Please refer timesofindia.indiatimes.com I've stayed in Germany and UK, people from Pakistan and India call themselves as Desi, living in harmony and love. Please stand against Biggest threat of 21st century - Terrorism.
Sack Khawaja Asif.
Our law enforcement agencies and armed forces are fully engaged in combating terrorism and militancy across the country, haw can a country in this situation can even imagine to open another front with several times larger country ?? but these Indians will never understand this,no doubts they are the most ignorant people on this planet.
@Asad Malik: Not many happened then because you were not given appropriate reply for your army training themselves on innocent civilians on Indian side. Had this be done then only, you would have known reality better today. Now when you are getting in your face you start running around- UN, parliament resolution etc. Remember Pakistan army is not firing feathers to Indian side and innocent civilian are killed here too, and i can provide much more such images because our media has much more presence in those area than what you have. So don't be naive. It all boils down to who started first, to which you may have your own narrative and i have my own. Had seen enough of infiltration under this shelling into our side over the years so don't run around when you are paid back with the toys that your army loves the most. Hope sanity prevails.
If you come and read Indian newspapers it's opposite, we have houses destroyed on Indian side due to Pakistan shelling and our media says it'd unprovoked shelling from Pakistan side - don't know it's whose mistake, but both the army are making the life misserable for the poor people those who are staying in the border area...!! because yesterday a woman in Indian side got killed by Pakistan army shelling...!!
@Asad Malik:
Well, for the benefit of you Pakistani trolls, you should know that 2011-12-13 saw lots of cross border firing. What is different now is that Modi govt is giving it back
My dear pakistani friends is it not Afghanistan and Iran brotherly muslim nations are shelling your border areas, it cannot be without a reason. India is also having dispute with China also but no fire is happening. Your army is not Doodh ki Dhuli. Your nation is controlled by army , ours is not.
Why is everybody provoking Pakistan?? Iran, Afghanistan and India are constantly firing on Pakistan without any provocation !! They are all jealous.
@Asad Malik:
These incidents have flared up especially after govt. decision on action against TTP. Naive people dont understand it but India is worried about seeing its investment hanged by military since civilian courts were spineless. Flag meeting back stabbing, firing on civilians, making up boat stories later debunked by their media, all of them are attempts to divert attention in hopes of saving/ delaying execution of their investments as long as possible.
"but now it seemed India would have to be taught in their own language"
Didn't expect emotions taking over the sanity of such a highly placed official. This is exactly what India wants -- to distract us hunting down their stooges in TTP and Baloch terrorist outfits. We can defeat India by not coming into their trap, and finish first the threat from inside. India could be taken care of later. Meanwhile use the Foreign Office effectively to expose the Indian machinations and brutalities to the world and in the UN forums.
Before the Indian trolls flock here to blame our border patrol they might want to go back and look at how many incidents like this happened before Modi came into power.
Well considering India routinely commits atrocities against it's minority populations and also elected a man with a history of doing the same
This is different style of world’s biggest poverty of ‘aman ki asha’.
Indira Gandhi took full advantage of BD genocide to disintegrate Pakistan who however did not learn any lessons, continues grave provocations against India which is a perfect recipe for Modi to annex Pak occupied Kashmir and create history.
"India would have to be taught in their own language" ... enough of words just do it already!
" “I believe, we will now communicate with India in the language they understand,” " ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sign Language? Arabic? Heiloglyphics? Mandarin? Pashto? Wonder what language Mr Asif knows except that of a spineless politician.
Shame on you India
India does not know anything about peace, never will. But the weirdest part of this scenario is when Indians claim "Pakistanis started it." Really? Unless we are threatened, why would we start a fight with a country 5 times bigger? Use some common sense Indians. And shame on India for firing at mortars at villages and civilians. If its army has any guts, it should meet our army face to face and fight us in the battlefield, not kill innocent civilians and children. But then again, who am I kidding? India has a habit of cowardice and playing dirty; they cheat even in Kabbadi tournaments -_- That's literally all they can do; play dirty.
ET if you can publish the comments of Indian trolls who openly celebrate these killings on here, then surely you can publish mine as well. It's time to show that you're not a full blown Indian media house
What can you say, cowards do think they are hitting the right/ intended targets.