The school game fields are transforming into first aid camps so that children learn to answer if the war explodes with India.
Using a protective helmet and a fluorescent vest, Konain Bibi, 13, listened carefully to his first aid lesson.
“With India threatening us, there is the possibility of war, so we will all have to support us,” she said AFP.
The federal government warned that it has “credible intelligence” that India was planning an imminent military strike.
The most frozen relationships between neighbors with nuclear weapons have collapsed from a mortal assault against tourists in Pahalgam in Kashmir controlled by India last week.
India blames Pakistan for the attack with weapons that killed 26 people on April 22, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving his military “complete operational freedom”, although Islamabad has denied any participation.
There are more than 6,000 schools, schools and universities on the Pakistan side of the border, including 1,195 along the control line (LOC), the very militarized de facto border that separates the territory into dispute.
Local authorities launched first aid training this week, showing students how to jump from a window, use an inflatable evacuation slide or take an injured person.
‘Come directly home’
Pakistan and India have exchanged fire on the border for several nights in a row, breaking a high fire agreement.
In Muzaffrabad, the largest city in Kashmir, the training sessions have already taken place in 13 schools, according to emergency workers.
“In an emergency, schools are the first to be affected, so we are starting evacuation training with schoolchildren,” Basit Moughal, a coach of the Pakistan Civil Defense Directorate, told Abdul. AFP.
The agency will display its rescue workers in the schools that border the LOC in the next few days.
“We are learning to help our friends and provide first aid in case India attacks us,” said Faizan Ahmed, 12 years old, while students saw an instructor handle a fire extinguisher.
Ali Raza, eleven years old, added: “We have learned to dress an injured person, how to take someone on a stretcher and how to turn off a fire.”
Around 1.5 million people live near the control line on the Pakistani side, where residents prepared for violence when preparing simple underground bunkers and mud walls reinforced with concrete if they could afford.
In the village of Chakothi, about three kilometers (two miles) of the control line, there are about 30 bunkers for a community of 60 families overlooked by the control stalls of the Indian army on the surrounding green mountains.
“For a week we lived under constant fear,” said Iftikhar Ahmad Mir, a 44 -year -old merchant in Chakothi.
“We are extremely concerned about their safety on the way to school because the area was attacked by the Indian army in the past,” he said about the children of the village.
“We make sure they don’t roam their school and come home.”
