Summary The protest rally was led by Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed.
MUZAFFARAD (Dunya News) - In Azad Kashmir‚ protest rallies are being taken out in all the major cities and towns to express strong indignation over unprovoked Indian firing on the Line of Control‚ which has claimed several lives.
The people staged a big protest rally in Muzaffarabad today against the Indian firing on the Line of Control as well as state terrorism against the Kashmiris in occupied Kashmir.
The protest rally‚ led by Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed and attended by people from all walks of life‚ marched up to the United Nations Military Observers Mission for India and Pakistan in Muzaffarabad and delivered a memorandum against the violations of the Line of Control by Indian forces.
The memorandum demanded the United Nations and international community to take notice of the Indian firing as well as atrocities being committed against the unarmed Kashmiris by Indian forces and army-backed village defence committees in occupied Kashmir.
Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel were firing across the Line of Control (LoC) in Rawalakot’s Battal sector in the early hours of Monday morning, said a report published by Reuters.
A Pakistani army official said a civilian was killed as a result of “unprovoked Indian shelling” in the Battal, Chirikot and Satwal sectors, according to the Reuters report. A mortar shell fired by the Indian army exploded on a house in Battal sector’s Donga Gambhir area, killing a young man and severely injuring his sister.
The army official added that Pakistani Rangers responded with retaliatory firing. The exchange of fire between the two armies continued for several hours.
Earlier on Sunday, Pakistan accused Indian forces of violating the ceasefire agreement between the countries on two counts, said a report published by AFP. However, no casualties were reported in either incident.
Indian troops opened fire at a Rangers checkpost situated in Nakiyal sector on Sunday afternoon, Pakistani military sources claimed.
Pakistani military sources had earlier accused India of opening unprovoked fire on a Pakistani Rangers’ check post in the Sialkot sector on Sunday morning.
