June 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Pakistani authorities have denounced the death of two Kashmiri herdsmen shot by Indian military forces in the Line of Control that separates the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir from Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
A third civilian would be “critically injured” by “indiscriminate shooting” by Indian soldiers, according to a statement from the Pakistani Armed Forces collected by the Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’.
“Today the Indian Army, in yet another example of its usual inhumane practices towards innocent Kasmiris, has opened fire indiscriminately against a group of herdsmen in the Sattwal sector,” he explained.
The Pakistani Army has thus denounced the “unprovoked fire” that has caused the death of Obaid Qayum, 22, and Muhammad Qasim, 55, both residents of Bari Dara Tetrionte, in Tehsil Hayira, Punch district, in the part of Kashmir controlled by India.
Pakistan has transferred a formal protest to India and reserves the right “to respond in any way it sees fit to protect Kashmiri lives and in the Line of Control.”
Pakistan and India have disputed the region of historic Kashmir since 1947 and have fought over it in two of the three wars they have waged since their independence from the United Kingdom. In 1999 there was a brief but intense military confrontation between both nuclear powers and since 2003 a fragile truce has been maintained.
