Kashmiri leader demands bunkers in all J&K forward areas

Srinagar: Expressing deep shock and grief over the death of a civilian in mortar shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir’s Kupwara district, former Finance Minister Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Tuesday appealed the Centre to sanction funds for immediate construction of underground bunkers in forward areas where bunkers have not been constructed.

In a statement issued, Bukhari while echoing the concerns of former Legislators Raja Manzoor Khan and Javed Ahmad Mirchal, expressed solidarity with the bereaved family of Saleem Ahmed, a 60-year-old civilian, who was killed in the Tadd village of the Karnah sector in Kupwara district on Monday evening. The former Legislators, while expressing sympathies to the family of another civilian who sustained the injury in the incident, prayed for his early recovery. “It is unfortunate that there is no let-up in shelling even during the winters, causing more worries to the civilian population living in the border areas of Jammu and Kashmir,” they remarked. (IANS)

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