Indian and Pakistani soldiers resume shelling in Kashmir, killing at least 6 civilians and wounding 6 others.
Kashmiri supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party shout slogans against banning of Jama'at-e-Islami, the largest political and religious group in Indian-controlled Kashmir, during a protest in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, March 2, 2019. India has banned the group in Kashmir in a sweeping and ongoing crackdown against activists seeking the end of Indian rule in the disputed region amid most serious confrontation between India and Pakistan in two decades.
Fighting resumed overnight into dawn Saturday, leaving two siblings and their mother dead in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The three died after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home in the Poonch region near the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between the nuclear-armed rivals, Indian police said. The children’s father was critically wounded.
Officials from both countries used the routine description for the military confrontations, saying their soldiers retaliated “befittingly,” and blamed each other for “unprovoked” violations of the 2003 cease-fire accord at several sectors along the Kashmir frontier, targeting army posts as well as villages.
The latest wave of tensions began after the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing by a Kashmiri militant on Indian paramilitary forces. India has long accused Pakistan of cultivating such militant groups to attack it. Pakistan has said it was not involved in that attack and that it was ready to help New Delhi in the investigation.
Sakina, a young woman who fled to a shelter with her two children, said the frequent shelling had made them “homeless in our own land.” “I don’t care whether the Indian pilot is gone or not, I don’t care who released him and why, but I want to know whether peace will return to us after his return to India,” said Mohammad Sadiq, a shopkeeper who also was among the displaced. He said the latest tensions between Pakistan and India rose so suddenly that some people sold their sheep, cows and buffaloes at throwaway prices in his native Chikothi town.
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