Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister on Monday urged India and Pakistan to “show mercy and be kind” to people of the state by respecting the ceasefire agreement.
Talking to reporters in Mendhar area of Poonch where five members of a family were killed in cross-border shelling yesterday, Mehbooba said: I want to appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and rulers of Pakistan to stop this shelling.”
She said that Kashmiri people on both sides of the Line of Control were bearing the maximum brunt of the Partition of the sub-continent. “I appeal the two countries to show mercy on Kashmiris,” she said.
Expressing sorrow over the killing of five civilians in shelling in Balakote yesterday, Mehbooba said that the two countries should respect the ceasefire agreement so that people living in border areas could live in peace.
Mehbooba rued that the two countries were not able to build roads, “yet we were spending money on buying ammunition”.