Posted on 05/20/2002 2:50:15 PM PDT by AM2000
Expanding the front, Pakistani troops on Monday rained mortar shells on border areas of Gurdaspur district, Punjab, drawing retaliatory action from the Indian Army, defence sources said.
No one was injured in the shelling on villages Kotli Jawahar, Bilalpur and Tilotra in Narot Jaimal sector in Pathankot subdivision adjoining Jammu and Kashmir.
Thirty-two mortar shells were found in the villages, the sources said, adding two cattle heads perished in the Pakistani firing that lasted for about an hour.
Indian Army personnel returned the fire but the loss on Pakistani side was not known, the sources added.
In Chandigarh, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said the people in villages along the International Border were "not disturbed" in the wake of escalation of tension between India and Pakistan.
"The deputy commissioners of border districts -- Amritsar, Gurdaspur and Ferozepur -- have been directed to visit the villages along the border to find out the situation," he said.
That does it; dead cows! Now the Hindus are pissed. Children and women are OK to murder....but cows! Hindus don't like their sacred cows to be messed with.
Punjab is flatland. Very nice tank territory for all those Indian tanks to cut through and team up with the British marines in "East" afghanistan.
Yeap. And more so, by firing across the border in Punjab, Pakistan is really spelling out its intentions. The border in Punjab is not in dispute by either side. This is Pakistans way of telling India to can any illusions of a "limited war", i.e. limited to the disputed LoC. If India initiates a war, Pakistans response will be across the LoC and the International Border.
I find most people I talk to on the street haven't a clue about 99 percent of what is going on anywhere in the world. Most are in that "Head in the sand" mode hoping it will all go away. Years of liberal media brainwashing will do that to you.
I was told back in 1960, by a Russian immigrant who was still excessively proud of his motherland [they might do a lot wrong, but they are a strong people and cannot be stopped, he said], that when the next war comes it won't be a matter of armies clashing on the battlefield. He said we would all be in it. Even in Canada: nowhere to run.
I doubt whether Pakistan could make too much of an offensive move across either line. They are greatly outmanned and outgunned.
I'm not sure why they would have lobbed mortars at the cows. Maybe they looked like pigs from a distance?
It's an insult to Hindus. Muslims have been killing cows and leaving their remains on Hindu temple grounds at night, for centuries. It's an old practice. Hindus kill pigs, and leave the remains on mosque grounds. The difference is, Hindus are saddened by the dead cow while Muslims are digusted by the dead pig. Both ways, they end up angry and they end up fighting. Different year, same old story.
Oh well, it makes for interesting drama. When they start lobbing nukes at each other, it's going to be really interesting. Every day, I am thankful I live in this country and not some hellhole in South Asia.
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