SIALKOT: Indian Border Security Forces shot dead a Pakistani citizen near zero line in the Shakargarh sector on Wednesday.

According to senior officials of Chenab Rangers, local farmers were working in their fields near zero line, close to Ajlaala village.

Tauqeer Ahmed, 30, had gone to the area inadvertently. The Indian forces fired at him without any warning.

He received serious bullet injuries. The BSF soldiers dragged him into the Indian territory and shot him dead.

Chenab Rangers said efforts were being made to bring back the body.

Pakistan strongly protested against the brutality and dragging and killing of its citizen by Indian troops.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office protested to India over the death of a civilian in the latest incident of ceasefire violation on the Line of Control on Tuesday.

“The government of Pakistan, today, has lodged protest with the government of India through diplomatic channels over the casualty of a 70-year-old civilian in the Rawlakot sector, caused due to indiscriminate firing by the Indian forces, on 28 October,” a Foreign Office spokesperson said.

Mohammad Din, a shepherd, was killed on Tuesday evening in Chirikot village in Indian shelling. He was reportedly grazing goats in fields near the LoC.

According to the ISPR, Pakistani military “effectively responded” to the Indian firing.

The demarche given to the Indian government condemned the incident and called upon Delhi to restrain its security forces from firing on the civilians, and stop the ceasefire violations across the LoC and the Working Boundary.

Thirteen Pakistani civilians have been killed in the latest phase of LoC violations that have virtually continued unabated since the first week of this month.

Published in Dawn, October 30th, 2014