JAMMU: (May 26) As many as 18 civilians lost their lives and nearly 2000 structures, including residential houses and commercial buildings, were damaged in the indiscriminate shelling by Pakistan Army in four days from May 7 along the borders in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP said on Monday.
Leader of Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, Sunil Sharma, undertook a 10-day tour of the border areas along the Line of Control and International Border along with four MLAs — former ministers Sham Lal Sharma and Devinder Kumar Manyal, Narinder Singh and R S Pathania — on directions of the party’s central leadership and submitted a detailed report along with recommendations for rehabilitation of the affected families.
“Pakistan is famous for its cowardly acts and targeted our civilian areas after our armed forces carried out Operation Sindoor to destroy terror infrastructure on May 7 across the border in retaliation to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack,” Sharma told reporters at the party headquarters here. PTI
