• Six lost lives in AJK, including a 40 -day baby; Many houses, hospitals and schools damaged by Indian fires
• The concerned residents of India, Kashmir, flee from URI; Omar Abdullah reports that they listen to heavy artillery fires in Jammu occupied
Muzaffrabad: In the midst of the growing tensions between the two nuclear armed neighbors, the intense exchanges continued along the control line on Thursday night and until Friday, with the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) PM that describes the Indian bombing as “some of the heaviest in recent times.”
Both Pakistan and India have accused of violating the high fire, and on Friday conflicting reports of blackberries and intense bombardments controlled by India also emerged.
The Prime Minister of the Occupied Territory, Omar Abdullah, published in X on Friday night, saying that he could hear “intermittent sounds of explosions, probably heavy artillery”, and added that there was also a blackout in the JAMMU.
Although he did not mention Pakistan or accused him of carrying out the attacks, he called the people who stayed away from the streets and ignore the rumors and information not verified.
On the side of Pakistan, the locals said that the Indian aggression, which resumed after the sunset on Friday, claimed the lives of six civilians, including a 40 -day baby, and left more than 30 injured, the authorities confirmed.
“This was the heaviest artillery bombardment in recent times, even affecting those areas that had remained intact in previous rapes of high fire,” said AJK prime minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq, at a press conference in his office on Friday afternoon.
“However, the resilience shown by our people and the appropriate response by our armed forces to the enemy’s aggression is really commendable,” he added.
Early in the day, the officials of the Divisions of Poonch, Muzaffrabad and Mirpur shared details of the generalized damage and victims as the bombing intensified after midnight.
In the village of Kotehri Najam Khan, from the Bagh district, Usama Ishrat, 22, who had married only 10 days before, lost his life when an artillery shell, according to the reports, shot from the URI sector, crossed the tin roof of his house around 3:50 am.
His sisters, Anoob Shahzadi, 19, and Kashaf Ishrat, 17, along with a neighbor, Basharat Hussain, 52, suffered wounds.
In the district of Haveli, several people were injured by the bombing between midnight and 2 in the morning on Friday.
The Kotli district suffered some of the heaviest losses.
In the town of Gora, Khuiratta Tehsil, a shell that hit a house, charged the life of Samra Asif, 20, and her 40 -day daughter Ziman Fatima.
In Bolyal Bharot Village, Raja Shahpal, 58, and in the village of Bandli, Usman Khalid, 32, were killed after being hit by fragments of shells within their homes. The locals said Khalid had returned from Libya just a week on vacation.
In addition to the victims, numerous houses and buildings of the public sector, including medical care facilities, were also damaged in the bombing of Cross-Loc.
All educational institutions in the region remained closed on Friday. The prime minister said that the review of the school reopening and the exams of the Board would take place on Monday.
“People are not willing to leave their homes, which reflects their extraordinary courage,” said Prime Minister. “We had to evacuate them by force by their own security.”
Meanwhile, on Friday, the Government announced the suspension of weekend holidays in all departments classified as essential services under the AJK essential services law, 2016.
According to a statement from the State Disaster Management Authority, at least 17 lives have been lost 53 people injured in AJK since Tuesday night due to missile and bombing attacks along the loc.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the LOC, artillery fire destroyed or damaged dozens of houses in Uri, which forced many to flee to safer areas in cities like Baramulla.
Sajad Shafi, a local legislator, said AFP That about 10 percent of the population of URI, about 22,000 people, fled since the last fighting began.
On Friday, many more fled by buses and trucks provided by the government or driving in their own cars.
“How can we stay here?” Rubina Begum said out of her destroyed house. “The Government should stay somewhere safe.”
Posted in Dawn, May 10, 2025
