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Indian military continued its aggression against Pakistan when it opened the unprovoked fire at a civil chopper carrying AJK Prime Minister (PM) Raja Farooq Haider and some members of his cabinet across the Line of Control (LoC). The AJK premier came under fire at Tarori village near the LoC in Haveli District of Azad Kashmir and luckily escaped unhurt.
Indian media spearheaded the campaign to malign Pakistan and spread the propaganda that helicopter from across the border had actually violated the Indian airspace in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch sector. The footage of the incident shows that the premier was well within the Pakistani boundary when it came under attack from cowardly forces of Indian.
The new-age freedom fighters have challenged the hegemony of the Indian forces, and India is responding by making the modes of communication ineffective and launching operations to kill the insurgents.
India has continued its aggressive attitude at the Line of Control and randomly attacks the civilian population in violation of the Geneva Convention & ceasefire understanding of 2003. After showing some restraint prior to the general elections, India has violated the ceasefire commitment.
Earlier, both sides had agreed to “undertake sincere measures to improve the existing situation ensuring peace and avoidance of hardships to the civilians along the borders”. Moreover, in May, a special hotline contact was established between the Director Generals of Military Operations (DGMO) of Pakistan and India that looked like a serious effort to defuse the volatile situation along the Line of Control (LoC) and Working Boundary (WB).
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In 2018, as many as 25 people, seven of them women, have lost their lives and another 139, including 67 women, have sustained injuries due to Indian shelling in different areas of AJK. Similarly, in 2017, 46 civilians were killed and another 262 wounded in similar attacks. Furthermore, in 2016, 41 civilians were martyred and 142 were injured due to the aggression of occupying forces.
Overall, more than one hundred people have died in the last two years in the exchange of fire between the bitter enemies. Pakistani authorities have summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner many a time to condemn the continuous ceasefire violations (CFVs) by the Indian army along the (LOC), but it did not neutralize the situation. Rather, Indian forces still continue terrorizing the civilians living along the region.
Modi Sarkar can go to any limits to win the elections and hitting dignitaries chopper is the least one could expect from undiplomatic India.
Indian Army purposely targets the civilians along the border, and despite the befitting response of the Pakistani Army, Indian aggression remains untenable. According to Foreign Office, India committed more than1400 ceasefire violations along the LOC and the WB this year so far. Similarly, “In the year 2016 number of ceasefire violations reported were 449 (228 at LoC, 221 at IB) and in the year 2017, the number reached 971 (860 at LoC and 111 at IB).
Indian forces have also continued its atrocities against the innocent Kashmiri people. Since, independence from Britain, Kashmir is claimed by both countries and has been the primary cause of two of their three wars between the warring nations. CFVs have become routine along the LOC and despite the ‘2003 ceasefire agreement’ between the two countries to halt the firing along the LOC, regular firing incidents have killed hundreds of people.
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After India’s decision to turn down Pakistan’s repeated efforts to hold peace talks and Prime Minister Khan’s verbal onslaught, Indian Army chief threatened to attack Pakistan. To his warmongering antics, Pakistan government has responded well at all forums including the UNGA. Eying the 2019 general elections in India, Modi Sarkar is reluctant to engage Pakistan at this juncture.
Recently, the violence in the Kashmir valley is on the rise; strikes and massive protests are taking place. Moreover, the counterinsurgency operations are targeting the freedom fighters. The new-age freedom fighters have challenged the hegemony of the Indian forces, and India is responding by making the modes of communication ineffective and launching operations to kill the insurgents.
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Apparently, after the killing of freedom fighter Burhan Wani and the election of the Hindutva fundamentalist BJP to power, the renewed resistance to Indian occupation is challenging the Indian Occupation more than ever and it is only going to flare up more. The cross-border firing on innocent civilians and now even on AJK’s chopper reflect the Indian mindset. Modi Sarkar can go to any limits to win the elections and hitting dignitaries chopper is the least one could expect from undiplomatic India.