RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: A team of UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) has visited the villages which have been badly hit by Indian firing in Charwah, Chaprar and Pukhlian sectors on the working boundary near Sialkot, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Tuesday.
The team of UN observers met the villagers, witnessed and gathered firsthand account of damage caused to human lives and property due to recent Indian hostility on the Working Boundary.
As many as 12 innocent Pakistani citizens have lost their lives due to Indian unprovoked Indian firing, 11 out of 12 on the working boundary while one embraced shahadat at the Line of Control (LoC).
The ISPR said that 64 civilians have been badly wounded due to recent Indian Shelling.
The Indians have committed 24 ceasefire violations on working boundary and 26 on the LoC since October 1 and have been targeting civil population living in villages all along the working boundary.
The ISPR said that day to day living of civil population all along working is badly affected. People have almost fled their homes and taken refuge in nearest safe places.
The observers team also visited the Combined Military Hospital Sialkot and met civilians who are injured due to unprovoked firing by the Indians.
It may be mentioned here that Pakistan on October 9 lodged a strong protest with the UNMOGIP over unprovoked Indian firing/shelling on working boundary and the LoC and offered UN team to visit the Working boundary and LoC to have firsthand account of Indian hostilities.
It is pertinent to mention that as per UN resolution Pakistan fully utilizes the good office of UNMOGIP which is in place on both side along the LoC and working boundary to investigate such incidents or violations by either side. It is also relevant to highlight that Pakistan offers full access to UNMOGIP observers to investigate and bring the facts in front of the world, however Indians have always been reluctant and deny access to UNMOGIP observers on their side.
