Grief and pain choked Mohammed Hanief, a 46-year-old landless farmer from a Jammu and Kashmir frontier village, who is being treated for a Pakistani bullet in his left thigh. Who will look after my three children?” Hanief whispered in agony. People in villages along the LoC, the de facto border between the two nations, live under constant fear of mortar shelling and machine gun fire from the Pakistani side. “Before I could do anything, a bullet hit my left thigh.”Neighbours carried them to the nearest motor road dodging intense Pakistani shelling, but there was no car to take the wounded to a hospital. My wounds may heal but my heart will bleed till I die.

Source: Hindustan Times May 16, 2017 01:18 UTC