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SIALKOT, Jan 13: Dozens of cattle have killed in border villages of both Sialkot and Narowal districts along 220km long working boundary due to chilly and foggy weather and acute shortage of fodder.
The people residing in border villages say they cannot sow fodder crops in their fields as Pakistan’s security forces have planted land mines there. They said the rising tension between Pakistan and India had put them in to a severe financial crisis.
They said chilly and foggy weather was also adding to the miseries of poor villagers. While Indian firing has forced them to stay inside their houses.
According to Rasulpur Bhalliyan union council Nazim Malik Raza Ali, there was shortage of fodder and medical and health facilities in all border villages. The poor villagers have been leading a miserable life, waiting for a relief package from the government.
Meanwhile, villagers have urged the government to ensure early implementation of relief packages announced during the 2002 Pakistan-India tension for the affected people of Sialkot and Narowal’s border areas.
INDIAN FIRING: Indian security forces continued firing on Pakistan’s border villages in Chhumb Joriyan, Bajwat and Zafarwal-Shakargarh-Narowal sectors on Monday.
No casualty or injury was reported.
INJURED: Over 36 passengers, including seven women, were injured when a bus rammed into a roadside tree near Pasrur due to fog on Monday.
The injured were taken to Sialkot, Pasrur and Gujranwala hospitals where the condition of Mushtaq, Bashir, Rasulan Bibi, Naeem, Razia and Arshad was stated to be critical.
