Perhaps all this is just what the attackers in Poonch wanted.In Pakistan, the public reaction to the border incident has been muted.
Sixty-four-year-old Mohammad Ayub, who left India in 1965 and lives in Rawalpindi, arrived in Poonch on 29 July to visit his sister and her family.
Various clones of the triploid onion are grown locally in different regions, such as 'Ljutika' in Croatia, and 'Pran', 'Poonch' and 'Srinagar' in the India-Kashmir region.
Fat Tuesday is our Mardi Gras, a sort of Polish St. Patrick's Day, with Hamtramck in place of the French Quarter and paczki (pronounced POONCH-kee) in place of green beer.
Killings on August 6th in Poonch along the "line of control", the disputed high-altitude border in Jammu and Kashmir, threaten a new chill in relations (see article).
Shamsher Hussain, the senior-most police official in Poonch, says ceasefire violations by Pakistan have "gone up a lot in the area, some people have been injured, there has been damage to property and cattle".
"One of our post was attacked in Poonch area," said S.N.
THE ambush came a few hundred metres behind the Indian line of control, in Poonch, part of Indian-run Jammu and Kashmir.
The firing took place in Poonch sector, about 110 miles southwest of Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir.
"Indian and Pakistani troops have been firing at each other almost every day for the two months in Poonch area," said Aijaz Ahmad Jan, a lawmaker from Poonch area of Indian-administered-Kashmir, who lives in a village close to the disputed border.
