ISLAMABAD: In a tit-for-tat action, Pakistan Army on Monday destroyed an Indian army post across the Line of Control and killed two soldiers, hours after a Pak
istani minor boy lost his life in Indian firing on a border village.
“Pakistan Army troops neutralised [an] Indian post which targeted a minor along [the] LoC, killing two soldiers,” the military’s media wing said in a brief statement. Nearly two hours earlier, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor had said in a tweet that an eight-year-old boy named Ayan was killed in Indian firing in Janjot Bahadar village of Azad Jammu and Kashm
irR17;s Kotli district
. R20;Use of Pellet guns in Indian Occupied Kashmir and blatant targe
ting of innocent unarmed civilians across LoC exposes [the] true Indian face,” he wrot
e along with a photo of the deceased boy.
Published in Daily Times, February 20th 2018.
