In anticipation of the war .. Pakistanis are preparing modest shelters in Kashmir

Pakistanis began cleaning and preparing shelters in Shakuti near the monitoring line that divides Kashmir into two parts, which is the Pakistani town that will be in the range of exchange in the event of the resumption of hostilities between India and Pakistan.

The attack, which occurred in Kashmir, recently prompted the two neighboring countries to exchange diplomatic sanctions and threats of war.
A week ago, New Delhi and Islamabad intensified threats and diplomatic penalties, and the citizens of each of the two countries are now unwanted in the other country.

Thousands of heavily armed soldiers and hills are spread in the valleys and hills, and in some places, dozens of meters are separated between the advanced sites of the two army.

Dhon refuge in concrete walls

To establish their refuge, Riad and Jabir Awan were forced to spend 300,000 rupees (about 1,000 euros), a small wealth in a town that lives in agriculture since the cross -border trade stopped years ago.

The refuge with concrete walls, which is 13 square meters, has turned at a depth of less than two and a half meters under the ground, into an animal straw store, which is a small source of income.

Today, the two men are busy allocating an area behind a metal door in the center of a garden, if they are forced to go to the shelter quickly with members of the twenty families.

Shooting

Along the monitoring line, the Indian army reported a light weapons exchange at night, and Pakistan refuses to comment, while Pakistani residents of Kashmir say they witnessed this twice.

On the other side of the area with a Muslim majority under Indian control, the authorities are intensifying arrests and interrogation and detonating homes belonging to suspects in launching the attack and colluding with them.

“Every day, India condenses its threats: they say they will do this or that.”

Walls of clay

In Shakuti, about 30 refugees for weak number of families, while some were able to pour concrete to build a refuge, others are satisfied with setting up the walls of clay less expensive.

Salima Bibi (40 years old) says that in 2017, gunfire took place over the houses, and that if the hostile works are renewed, it will descend with her four children to one of the shelters covered by the mats because there are no shelters or places to take shelter by the state of the state to civilians along the 740 km monitoring line.

She added that it is necessary to protect children in the event of a shooting, and she continued: “They will feel panic and worry about them.”