RAWALPINDI: An eight-year-old boy Ayan was killed in Indian firing along the Line of Control (LoC), said the Inter-Services Public Relations statement on Monday.
According to military’s media cell, the eight-year-old boy belonged to Jajot village. ISPR denounced Indian brutality, condemning the use of pellet guns in Indian-occupied Kashmir.
Indian brutality takes life of an eight year old boy Ayan of Jajot village along LOC. Use of Pellet guns in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and blatant targeting of innocent unarmed civilians across LOC exposes true Indian face.#IndianTerrorism pic.twitter.com/7tRpyY5TKx
— Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor (@OfficialDGISPR) February 19, 2018
DG ISPR Major General Asif Ghafoor said that the blatant targeting of innocent unarmed civilians across the LoC ‘exposes the true Indian face’.
Government forces in Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK) have been using pellet guns since 2010 as a “non-lethal” weapon following widescale civilian protests against Indian rule.
After a spate of gruesome injuries last year that earned the title “epidemic of dead eyes”, Amnesty and other rights groups called for a complete ban on the use of the shotguns.
