ONCE again it is down to the leaders at the top. It is for Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Manmohan Singh to find a way out of uncertainty. Precious lives have been lost in border firing incidents this month — with each side blaming the other. All these lives could have been saved provided there was in place a corrective system which swung into action at the first sign of tensions. Then again, that system…
Posts published in “Day: August 26, 2013”
The line of control, where at places, it is just a barbed fence separating the two armies pointing guns at each other eyeball to eyeball, at times it takes either a small exchange of fire — sometimes resulting from misunderstanding — or a completely unexpected spoiler to trigger wider clashes. With the outbreak of hostilities, it is before some time that they are patched up and worse, sometimes they can take their own course. The…
Skirmishes between Pakistan and Indian forces on Sunday took another deadly turn when Indian Army resorted to intermittent shelling on villages in Nakyal sector, some 200 kilometres south of Muzaffarabad that left a woman dead and several others injured. Panic triggered amongst the civil population that evoked evacuation of over 50,000 from the areas. The woman is 5th Pakistani reported to have been killed in unprovoked Indian firing across the Line of Control since five…
MUZAFFARABAD: Amidst continuous unprovoked firing from the Indian Army across the Line of Control, Pakistan ordered complete shutdown of government offices near the area, Express News reported on Sunday. All the offices within 3 kilometres of the Line of control were ordered to be shut for an indefinite period. Earlier in the day, firing from Indian Army allegedly killed two women and wounded seven civilians in Kashmir, Pakistan authorities claimed. The two sides agreed to…