KARACHI: Over 50 people … became victims of Indian aggression and lost their lives here when an enemy plane bombed the shanty town, Agra Taj Colony, at about 11-15 last night [Dec 6]. About 100 received injuries. The enemy plane dropped one right on the cluster of the semi-pucca residential quarters, another on adjoining Mirza Adam Road and the third one exploded in … Lyari. … [I]ndiscriminate strafing and bombing by Indian war planes [on] civilian population all over Pakistan caused at least 183 fatalities while 229 persons were injured… . The nine areas which became the targets of the wanton Indian action included Adamjeenagar (Dacca), Sialkot, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Rahimyarkhan, Bhawalnagar, Lodhran, Pakpattan and Hyderabad. — Staff correspondent

[Meanwhile, as reported by the newspaper’s staff correspondent from Rawalpindi,] The Pakistan Army has penetrated 15 miles into Indian-held Kashmir, where heavy fighting is going on beyond the Cease-fire line. An official spokesman said … our troops have captured more posts in Husseiniwala sector in areas southwest of Mamdot.

[News agencies add from United Nations,] Rus­sia, with its second veto in less than 24 hours, last night [Dec 6] paralysed Security Council efforts to get a cease-fire between India and Pakistan.

Published in Dawn, December 7th, 2021

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