Villager shot dead by BSF
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SIALKOT: A Pakistani villager who mistakenly crossed the Sialkot Working Boundary into India on Friday was shot dead by Indian border forces, the Chenab Rangers (CR) said.
A CR spokesman told media that 40-year-old Amanat Ali, a resident of Sariya Kothey-Shakargarh village, was harvesting wheat crop in his field near Suniari-Shakargarh village along the Working Boundary when he inadvertently crossed into Indian side at about 1pm.
He said India’s Border Security Force (BSF) contacted the CR officials and informed them that a Pakistani national had tried to cross into Indian side. Later, they handed over the body of the villager to Pakistani officials, he added.
Sources said the BSF officials initially refused to hand over the body, but later officials of the two sides held a flag meeting where they handed over the body.
Published in Dawn, May 2nd, 2015
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May 02, 2015 07:30am
Now how can you say that he was only crossing the boundary by mistake and didn't have any other issues...
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May 02, 2015 07:32am
Why does Pakistan allow people to live so close to the boundary.
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May 02, 2015 07:50am
Are these people not aware of International boundary or just another conspiracy theory?
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May 02, 2015 08:01am
How did he not see fencing wire and crossed border or is there no fencing there??
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May 02, 2015 08:12am
Good...Boarded is fence so how can someone mistakenly cross it?
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May 02, 2015 08:21am
Cant believe a villager who lived there for decades doesn't know where the border is.
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May 02, 2015 08:22am
Definitely the 40 years old "Farmer / villager "must have been in the know about the limits if his land from the last 20 / 25 years .Hence" inadvertantly " crossed the border is not digestible.
What CR was doing at the time & failed to warn him in advance ?
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May 02, 2015 09:35am
How come he crossed over when Border is fenced?
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May 02, 2015 09:36am
Just wonder how can one cross a wired boundary inadvertently.
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May 02, 2015 10:04am
@Temo Shanko Border is NOT fenced at the exact border. The fence is a km or two inside the Indian Territory. So Pakistanis do cross the border and Indians do too. Most often they are allowed to cross back without incident. But this time something must have happened that spooked the BSF and he got shot.
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May 02, 2015 10:33am
If the way it has been reported is true, then its tragic... It portrays BSF as Trigger happy force. Which i seriously doubt
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May 02, 2015 10:35am
"was harvesting wheat crop in his field near Suniari-Shakargarh village along the Working Boundary when he inadvertently crossed into Indian side at about 1pm."
Unless his wheat field is on both sides of the border, Ali had no excuse for crossing the border in broad day light. Chenab Rangers must stop story telling and concentrate on guarding the border.
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May 02, 2015 10:46am
God Create the world with love so we human can learn what is love, but we created boundaries. Now these boundaries have more value than a human life.
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May 02, 2015 10:49am
@Anjaan same way Indian fishermen cross Pakistan Maritime border
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May 02, 2015 10:49am
How can someone inadvertently cross barbed wire fencing.
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May 02, 2015 11:20am
@Robert but killing is not only option
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May 02, 2015 11:29am
I hope he was armed with the farming implement alone. But the crop must've been sowed on his field and he must've been on the Pakistan side of the fence only. He surely wouldn't have sown his crop itself on Indian territory, which he went to harvest. And the land border is not maritime border which fishermen from both sides inadvertently transgress in search of a bigger catch. However, man made border can't be more important than the loss of an innocent's life, and if BSF boys forgot this rule, may they be taken to task...
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May 02, 2015 11:29am
Shame - a sad loss of human life! those of you who know not all the border is fenced and patrolled. animal and at time villagers do stray all the time. Some trigger happy soldiers picked up an easy prey.
Why wasn't he and unarmed person warned or arrested.
Life is cheap in indian subcontinent!
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May 02, 2015 11:32am
@Thinker Waters borders cannot be fenced my dear...but in this case it was a land one and fenced too !!
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May 02, 2015 11:37am
@Robert It is a statement or a question ? No logic or intellect....
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May 02, 2015 11:45am
@Irfan Because such boundaries also saves life.
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May 02, 2015 11:46am
@Thinker there is no fencing boundary in sea.
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May 02, 2015 11:55am
@Irfan ....I agree well said. Boundries should be made irrelevant or atleast follow what Europe is doing.
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May 02, 2015 12:08pm
This thoery of yours seem to have numerous loopholes. For example,
1) Farming so close to International Border
2)Villager so ignorant of the situation, a local who's living for probably a few years.
3) You'll have to cross the fence to 'inadvertly' cross the border.
He must be on a suicide mission to overlook the above facts.
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May 02, 2015 12:37pm
the militant infiltration is a problem at the border. the man must hv been mistaken as one.
but it is sad nonetheless.
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May 02, 2015 12:51pm
weird he doesn't even know where his field starts and where it ends.
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May 02, 2015 02:23pm
So sad man made boundaries have more worth than a human life. :(
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May 02, 2015 03:12pm
@ON LOOKER I don't know about Pakistan's side of border but Indian side of border is totally fenced along international boundary and LOC since 2004 onwards
thats why most infiltraters are reported to use underground tunnels, nallas and rivers, and that's why security were upgrade for those
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May 02, 2015 03:45pm
If the border is fenced how can mistakes happen.
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May 02, 2015 04:20pm
Farmer crossing LOC by mistake? We are familiar with the area where we live or work. It is impossible that he crossed border by mistake. Terrorist or drug mafia may use local people's to monitor the border security for their border crossing plans.
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May 03, 2015 01:36am
All those saying he was not a farmer should know that our agents are the ones you can catch like that, so just relax he was a farmer.....
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