Pakistan: Indian Army target school van in AJK on Line of Control

Pakistan: Indian Army target school van in AJK on Line of Control

One civilian embraced Shahadat and four schoolchildren were injured when the Indian troops violating the ceasefire sanctity targeted an AJK school van at the Line of Control (LoC) in the Nakial sector on Friday morning.

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The van was targeted in Mohra Sharif village of Nakial sector along the Line of Control (LoC) and four of the eight injured children received serious wounds, according to local officials.

The Indians resorted to unprovoked firing at Dabsi and other forward villages too in Nakial sector of Kotli district.

According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistani troops effectively responded and targeted the Indian posts from where the fire was coming. The condition of three of the injured students was stated to be critical. The civilian who embraced Shahadat was the driver of the school van.

Months of tension between India and Pakistan have erupted into shelling and gunfire across the Kashmir frontier, claiming the lives of dozens of people. At least nine people were killed and seven others wounded late November in the Indian fire at a passenger van in the village of Nagdar in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Pakistan yesterday lodged strong protest to India on the unprovoked ceasefire violations and targeting of the school van. According to Foreign Office, Indian Deputy High Commissioner JP Singh was summoned to Foreign Office.

Pakistan conveyed to New Delhi on Friday that deliberate targeting of civilians, villages and civilian transport and a school van was condemnable. The move came on the same day when Pakistan was mourning the deadly attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School two years ago, when India had the audacity to violate the 2003 ceasefire agreement and firing a shell at a school van at the LoC, which claimed the life of the driver and injured four school children.