India imposed undeclared war at LoC: AJK President.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- :Azad Jammu Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan vehemently condemning shelling on civilian population by Indian Army from across the Line of Control in different sectors of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has termed it a cowardly act.

'I condemn in the strongest possible terms the egregious act of aggression that has killed at least six civilian, injured several others and caused huge loss to the properties in Azad Kashmir,' the president said in an official statement issued from London on Sunday.

He said India had imposed an undeclared war on the liberated territory by pounding over a dozen villages from Noseeri to Nagdar in Neelum valley, Leepa and Khuairatta sectors of Kotli district.

"We have been stressing since long that after declaring occupied Kashmir as its colony, India had set to attack on Azad Kashmir as its next target," he said adding the international community including United Nations should take strict notice of this naked Indian aggression in which long range artillery guns had been used on the night between Saturday and Sunday.

The AJK president said these cowardly acts were designed to divert attention of the international community from the Indian crimes against humanity in occupied Kashmir, and to prevent Pakistan and the people of Azad Kashmir from supporting liberation struggle of their brethren in the occupied territory.

"India is intentionally creating a war-like situation at the Line of Control, and is escalating tension which may ignite a large scale war between Pakistan and India at anytime," he said.

Khan warned that if Indian shelling on the civilian population of Azad Kashmir continued, the people of liberated territory will have no option but to pick weapons against fast growing Indian...

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