Pakistan takes journalists, diplomats on Kashmir tour after cross-border shelling
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1438033
Pakistan takes journalists, diplomats on Kashmir tour after cross-border shelling
- Title: Pakistan takes journalists, diplomats on Kashmir tour after cross-border shelling
- Date: 22nd October 2019
- Summary: JURA, PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR (OCTOBER 22, 2019) (REUTERS) ROAD LEADING TO LINE OF CONTROL (LOC), DE FACTO BORDER DIVIDING PAKISTANI AND INDIAN KASHMIR VARIOUS OF HOUSES DAMAGED BY INDIAN SHELLING HOLES FROM SHELLING ON HOUSE WALL MAJOR GENERAL ASIF GHAFOOR, DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF INTER-SERVICES PUBLIC RELATIONS (ISPR) AND SPOKESPERSON OF PAKISTAN ARMY (CARRYING MILITARY CANE), WITH JOURNALISTS AND DIPLOMATS WALKING IN JURA BAZAR VARIOUS OF DAMAGED SHOPS GHAFOOR AND VISITORS STANDING DAMAGED SHOPS AND CAR DAMAGED CAR DAMAGED SHOPS ALONG ROAD PEOPLE WALKING IN BAZAR (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) LOCAL RESIDENT, NASEER AWAN, SAYING: "India started firing at 10:30 (PM). Houses have been completely destroyed here. The damage at Jura Bazar is in front of your eyes. The firing continued until 4:00 in the morning. Three, four, five people have been martyred. There is no terrorist camp here but it is all civilian population here which has been the target of Indian shelling." PEOPLE INSIDE SHOP (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) LOCAL RESIDENT, CHAUDHRY MOHAMMAD SIDDIQUE, SAYING: "They used every kind of weapon and targeted the civilian population. Houses and shops were damaged that you are witnessing here. You can see with your own eyes whether it is a terrorist camp here. The Indian army is saying that they have destroyed three, four terrorist camps; you can see there are laundry, crockery, tailoring and retail shops are here. They have destroyed these shops." DAMAGED SHOPS PEOPLE GATHERED ON STREET JOURNALISTS AND DIPLOMATS VISITING DAMAGED HOUSE (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO PAKISTAN, YAO JING, SAYING: "I witnessed, saw theses damages, sufferings, injuries by the local people here. I am thinking is that, the people are suffering and that is why this Kashmir dispute, is more and more, I should say important for the international community to pay attention to, and also to find, find a peaceful solution by India and Pakistan." ARMY SPOKESMAN, MAJOR GENERAL ASIF GHAFOOR, GIVING BRIEFING TO VISITORS VARIOUS OF MORTAR SHELLS AND METAL PIECES ON DISPLAY TO VISITORS
- Embargoed: 5th November 2019 16:05
- Keywords: Pakistan kashmir Jumma India disputed territory
- Location: JURA, PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR
- City: JURA, PAKISTAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR
- Country: Pakistan
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA001B26J687
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Members of Pakistan's army took a group of journalists and international diplomats on a tour of Jura in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Tuesday (October 22) to observe damage caused by cross-border shelling.
The visitors were taken near the Line of Control (LoC), which has suffered severe damage from shelling including destroyed shop buildings and residential houses.
On Saturday (October 19) both countries blamed each other for cross-border shelling in the disputed region which killed and injured soldiers and civilians on both sides and made it one of the deadliest days since New Delhi revoked Kashmir's special status in August.
India said there was heavy shelling by Pakistan across the border in northern Kashmir's Tangdhar region late on Saturday night, killing two Indian soldiers and one civilian.
A spokesman for the Pakistani Armed Forces said one of its soldiers and three civilians had died and that India had violated the ceasefire.
Kashmir has been disputed by the two nuclear-armed neighbours since they both received independence in 1947. The two countries fought two of their three wars over the region.
Tensions between the two countries have flared and there has been intermittent cross-border firing since August 5, when New Delhi flooded Indian Kashmir with troops to quell unrest after it revoked the region's special autonomous status.
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