Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers stand guard along fencing near the India-Pakistan border outpost. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
Indian firing and shelling occurred in Charwah, Bajwat and other sectors in the Sialkot region injuring three people.
This is the latest in the ongoing violations of the LoC between India and Pakistan. Both sides have carried out tit for tat attacks, and allegations continue to be exchanged over who began the ongoing conflict.
Earlier violations
On October 23 Pakistan had accused the Indian army of violating the LoC in Sialkot again.
Unprovoked firing and shelling had allegedly occurred in the Chaprar and Charwah sectors displacing many people from their homes.
India meanwhile had claimed that a paramilitary soldier was killed while three others were injured in firing on the night of October 22, BBC News had reported. The firing had continued till the next morning.
Unprovoked Indian firing in the Sialkot sector on October 21 had allegedly injured eight civilians in Pakistan.
On October 19, a Pakistani military official had said a civilian was killed and two others were injured in the same region.
Pakistan had accused India of killing a Punjab Rangers' official on October 17 in Sialkot's Chaprar sector.
On October 15, Indian troops had opened shelling from across the LoC, injuring a woman. The Indian shelling had hit the civilian population of Datoot village of Nakyal Tehsil of Kotli.
On October 11, Indian troops had fired mortars across the LoC, killing a child and wounding three other people.
Four people were injured because of Indian shelling on the Line of Control on October 4 in the Kotli area.
Furthermore, on September 2 the Indian Army had carried out unprovoked shelling in the Nakyal sector leaving numerous children stranded inside a local school.
On August 27, at least five people, including two women and a girl, were injured by heavy shelling and unprovoked firing in the same area. The continuous shelling and bombardment across the LoC had forced the natives to flee.
Moreover, on August 26 unprovoked firing from the Indian Army had injured six civilians.
Pakistani authorities, on August 25, had accused the Indian army of cross-border shelling that killed two women and wounded seven other civilians in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
On August 24, the Indian army had allegedly violated ceasefire in the Nakyal sector, by firing across the border and killing one Pakistani soldier besides injuring a woman.
Since the beginning of the year, Delhi and Islamabad have regularly accused each other of violating the ceasefire.
In September, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met in New York and had agreed to maintain peace on the border but their pledge seems to have made little difference according to correspondents.
On October 22, Nawaz, while on a trip to the US, had vowed to go the "extra mile" to make peace with India. He had said that through dialogue, the two countries can resolve all issues including Kashmir.
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@Zaid Hamid: India is messing with a Tiger. Beware India.
I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire ‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me MEOW
@Modified: You are obsessed with Pakistan and Muslims. The fact that you are commenting here proves it. Why don't you find a better hobby? Also, no one cares what an open enemy of Pakistan and Islam says here. Your words belie your own prejudice. Burn in your anger and jealousy.
Watch as Pakistan becames a greater nation due to our great leaders like Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan. Pakistan Zindabad!
Most Pakistanis are truth-blind as they have been fed lies all through their lives. As an outsider and a keen Pakistan watcher, I feel that Mian Sahab's government will be much bigger failure than of Zardari. Mian Sahab's appeasement policy towards Jihadis will bring his political end. Pakistan has too many problems to handle and Mian Sahab is nowhere near to address them. May be Mian Sahab has different agenda this time. Future does not look good my friends.
Why Indian soldiers are shown in this clip.... lol.. We pakistanis don't have guts to show our soldiers standing on loc or they may be sleeping... and hafiz saeed may be seen poking his nose near border... i am amazed....
Beyond All That Is Good and Bad"..........
While reality is universal, each one of us forms a different impression of it based on our psychological development. In the process, we forget that what we believe as our impressions may not be reality. These impressions are generally split into polar categories of ‘good’ and ‘bad.’ Thus, we see certain aspects of reality, the material world and humanity, as positive and others as negative. Interestingly, the categorisation of reality into good and bad is fluid. What is positive for one person is negative for another.
Two people working with the same boss can have a completely different perception -- one may think that the boss is encouraging and supportive, while the other may find him harsh and discouraging. Also, for the same individual, what is negative at one point can turn into something positive, later. A teenager who hates his parents for telling him to focus on studies may feel a sense of gratitude towards them later in life.
What we think is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, to what extent is it real or imagined? What gratifies and supports our point of view is seen as good and what frustrates us gets labelled as bad. Consequently, we embrace and attribute an exaggerated goodness to one aspect while ridiculing other attributes. The ‘idealised version’ of any aspect is nothing but a false veneration that refuses to take a critical look at both self and object. Extreme idealisations and exaggerations may be disconnected from reality. We also tend to hate and create an excessively devalued version of the other aspect, the counterpart of what we identify with.
Our mind is inherently programmed to split reality into ‘good’ and ‘bad.’ Fear and narcissism are responsible for this splitting. We are scared to encounter pain and wish to restrict ourselves to pleasure. Anything that fulfills our desires becomes good and the rest is considered bad. Secondly, we want people to admire us and fuel our self-love. Hence, anything that makes us feel good about ourselves is exalted and the rest is discarded.
The tendency to split impressions into good and bad becomes the root cause of individual, interpersonal, social and political problems. When we categorise a person, a group, a community, an ideology, a political party or a nation as bad, we are filled with rage. We refuse to understand or engage with it. We give up hope that the negative can also have a positive side. All we want is that the negative entity should either adopt our perspective or get destroyed. This paradoxically forms a vicious cycle of hatred and destruction. The entity we hate starts hating us back with similar intensity.
In order to liberate, we need to repeatedly remind ourselves that the impressions we form are tentative. Rather than accepting our negative feelings towards others as real, we need to put it through rigorous questioning. As a psychologist, I have often found that the ability to understand, accept and celebrate difference needs to be cultivated. Anything that is different from your perspective can also be interesting, genuine and wonderful. If this simple point can be internalised through repeated practice, there will be bliss. Mystic-poet Kabir said, “Bura jo dekhan main chala, bura na milaya koy./ Jo man khoja apna, to mujhse bura na koy.” -- I searched for the crooked, but met not a single one./ When I introspected myself, I realised that I was the crooked one.
India should send back all Pakistani Nationals living in India and call back the Indian Ambassador from Pakistan and at the same time should ask the Pakistan Ambassador to leave India ASAP. All Pakistanis are hungry for more and more Indian Land, you feel that by creating Independent J&K and Khalistan, you will take revenge of the fall of Dhaka ( East Pakistan ). Sorry, but that is never going to happen.
@saad:
Where are the proof of 26/11 provided by India ?? When you provide them they are proof and when India provide it's cooked up. You guys are really great buddy. :-P
India is messing with a Tiger. Beware India.
Use army to bully you neighbor to achieve political milage for electoral gains---happens only in India. sick mentality