SIALKOT - Eight cattle heads were killed and more than two dozen houses and cattle sheds were badly damaged by unprovoked intensified shelling on bordering villages by Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) in Charwah Sector of Sialkot Working Boundary here on Friday.
According to senior officials of the Chenab Rangers, the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) started heavy firing on Sialkot bordering villages in wee hours of Friday which continued for four hours till 4:00am, creating harassment and panic among locals.
The BSF shelling killed eight cattle heads and damaged more than two dozen houses in bordering villages including Chamat, Naseera, Nandpur, Jarwal, Rangpur Jattan and Charwah. Indian shelling created harassment and panics among locals.
The Indian BSF again targeted civilian population when people were asleep on rooftops and in courtyards of their houses, damaging houses and cattle sheds, added senior officials of Chenab Rangers added.
They informed that the Indian BSF used light machine guns (LMGs) and also fired several mortar shells, adding that most of the mortar shells fell in fields and could not explode. The Chenab Rangers retaliated in a befitting manner and made the Indian guns silent.
It was 16 major incidents of unprovoked firing and shelling by India on villages along the Sialkot Working Boundary in the current month.
On August 18, 2014, two Jawans of the Chenab Rangers namely Muhammad Shamas and Javaid Ahmed (in Harpal Sector) and a civilian person Muhammad Aslam were injured seriously by the unprovoked Indian shelling, the senior Chenab Rangers’ officials confirmed and added that the injured were admitted to Combine Military Hospital (CMH) Sialkot in critical condition.
Pakistan has expressed grave concern over the incidents of unprovoked shelling on bordering villages by Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) and has also lodged a strong protest against the Indian aggression, senior officials of Chenab Rangers elaborated.