13 houses damaged in Indian firing

Published November 24, 2001

SIALKOT, Nov 23: Thirteen more houses were ruined and two cows killed late Thursday night in firing by Indian troops on bordering Thathi Laakhi village in the Sialkot working boundary’s Sucheetgarh sector.

Official sources told Dawn that cows owned by villagers Faqir Saeen and Muhammad Ilyas had been killed. The unprovoked firing also badly damaged the houses of Ashraf, Nazir Ahmad, Qamar, Asmat, Ishaque, Baqar, Younas, Rehmat Ali, Naziran, Sufi Muhammad Siddique, Hasan Din, Rafique, and Ghulam Muhammad Gujjar.

Meanwhile, the Indian troops continued firing on bordering villages in Joriyaan, Chhumb, Sucheetgarh, Jammu and Shakargarh sectors of the working boundary.

RAMAZAN BAZAAR: The local chamber of commerce and industry has set up a Ramazan bazaar on Paris Road to provide essential items to labourers and industrial workers at subsidized rates.

SCCI president Daud Ahmad Chattha and group leader Riazuddin Shaikh inaugurated the Ramazan bazaar on Friday.

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