Villager shot dead in Azad Kashmir in cross-border firing by Indian forces

Indian troops on Tuesday shot dead a resident of a border village of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) within the brand new incident of unprovoked ceasefire violation, residents and officers said.

Muhammad Shakil Qureshi, a resident of Taroti Dharamsal village in Abbaspur tehsil of Poonch district, have become the sufferer of “focused killing”, seeing that he became sniped via Indian forces, in an obvious violation of the two-week-vintage expertise among pinnacle navy officers of Pakistan and India to “completely enforce a 15-12 months vintage truce settlement in letter and in spirit”, the officers said.

“The 45-year old sufferer changed into grazing livestock close to his domestic whilst he turned into hit from throughout the divide with a unmarried gunshot at approximately three:30pm without any provocation, leaving him lifeless immediate,” stated police professional Hassan Wazir Afridi.

On may additionally 29, the directors fashionable of navy Operations of India and Pakistan had hooked up a special hotline contact and agreed to undertake honest measures to improve the prevailing state of affairs, making sure peace and avoidance of hardships to the civilians along the LoC and operating Boundary.