India’s BSF shells border villages again

SIALKOT: After a week-long silence along the Sialkot working boundary (WB) here, India’s Border Security Force (BSF) once again opened fire on border villages in the Chaprar sector, senior officials of the Punjab Rangers said.

According to them, the Indian BSF started ‘unprovoked’ firing with small and heavy weapons on border villages at 2:15 am to 02: 30 am late Thursday night. The shelling continued for fifteen minutes, they said.

The BSF targeted the civilian population and damaged several houses in Chaprar sector, the officials said. The firing created a panic among residents, the said, adding that no loss of life was reported.

According to locals, some mortar shells fired by the Indian troops landed in fields of the Nandpur-Chaprar village and did not explode.

Recently, a civilian was killed after Indian Border Security Force (BSF) resorted to unprovoked heavy shelling of a village Thathi Khurd in Sucheetgarh Sector along the Working Boundary in Sialkot. 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 5^th, 2015.