SIALKOT(ENN) As many as four more Pakistani citizens were martyred and nineteen others injured seriously during the unprovoked intensified heavy mortar shelling by Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) on Sialkot border villages in Phookaliyaan-Bajwat, Chaprar, Sucheetgarh, Harpal, Bajra Garhi, Charwah and Zafarwal-Shakargarh Sectors of Working Boundary here on Saturday. The Punjab Rangers retaliated effectively as to make Indian guns silent, said the senior officials of the Punjab Rangers. According to the local senior officials of the Punjab Rangers, the several heavy mortar shells, fired by the Indian BSF badly hit the houses, killing four persons including Najaf Batool (27) wife of Nazar Shah and her minor son Ali Haider (3 years old) in village Pandhiyaali-Patoli (Bajwat Sector), Muhammad Bashir (70) son of Allah Rakha in village Chaprar and Muhammad Shabir (55) son of Maahi in village Panjwal (Phookaliyaan-Bajwat) Sector. The Indian mortar shells also injured seriously as many as nineteen persons namely Haider Shah(22) son of Nadir Shah in village Pandoli-Bajwat, Muhammad Rafaqat (14) son of Muhammad Tufail, Naveed Anwar (32) son of Muhammad Anwar in village Bajwat, Rukhsana Bibi (36) wife of Shamas, Mehran Bibi (75) wife of Muhammad Hanif , Muhammad Mushtaq (45) son of Bashir Ahmed in village Thool Malaana, Sakhawat Ali (50), Mafia (10) daughter of Rehmat Ali , Tayyuba Bibi (26) wife of Ghulam Ali in village Bajwat, Sadique Khatana (62) in village Diyaawara-Bajwat, Muhammad Ali son of Shadi Khan in village Chaprar, Inayat Ullah son of Bashir Ahmed in village Rangpur Jattan-Chaprar , Sughra Bibi(50) wife of Muhammad Shabir in village Bajwal-Phookaliyaan, Zainab Bibi (45) wife of Nazir Hussain, Shumaila Bibi(44) in village Bhatoli-Bajwat and Ghulam Sarwar (46) son of Muhammad Shafi in village Diyaawara-Bajwat. The red-alert rescuers of Rescue 1122 Sialkot shifted the injureds to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) Sialkot Cantt. The condition of six injured was stated to be critical there. Sialkot Deputy Commissioner Dr. Farrukh Naveed told that the Indian BSF also continued targeting the civilian population in Sialkot border villages for the third consecutive day. Indian shells also killed several buffaloes, cows, donkeys and goats, besides, badly damaging the dozens of the houses there as well. The Indian shelling victims Najaf Batool, her minor son Ali Haider, Muhammad Bashir and Muhammad Shabir were laid to rest in their native graveyards. MNA Ch. Armughan Subhani and Chairperson Sialkot District Council Hina Arshad Warraich visited the Sialkot CMH and inquire about the health of injured. All the private and government educational institutions on Saturday remained closed in Sialkot border villages for the third consecutive day due to the three-day long ongoing spell of unprovoked shelling. A large number of the students of the local private and government schools and colleges, participated in an anti-Indian war aggression rally, taken out by them in Chawinda, Pasrur tehsil.
