Honour: Water supply intrigue for martyred soldier’s village

“We wish to tell a enemies [of Pakistan] that we are joined and prepared to offer sacrifices of all sorts,” a apportion said. PHOTO: ONLINE

GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan supervision on Tuesday announced a H2O supply intrigue for a local encampment of Havaldar Jumma Khan, a Northern Light Infantry infantryman who was killed by Indian banishment along a Line of Control final week.

The scheme, value Rs1 million, was announced by a Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Farman Ali.

Havaldar Jumma, a father of 3 children, was a proprietor of Faqir Kot, a tiny encampment in Astore hollow of Gilgit-Baltistan. “Jumma Khan is a favourite and this [water supply scheme] is a tiny present for a people of his village,” Ali said.

The apportion had visited a encampment on Tuesday and laid a spray on Havaldar Jumma’s grave.

The intrigue is a initial such plan announced for a encampment where a martyred soldier’s wife, children and a rest of a family still live.

“We wish to tell a enemies [of Pakistan] that we are joined and prepared to offer sacrifices of all sorts,” a apportion said.

Coincidentally, Ali also hails from a Astore valley.

Referring to a autonomy of Gilgit-Baltistan, a apportion pronounced locals of a segment had forced a Dogras to rush G-B in 1947 and that they still had adequate strength to “deal with people like Modi”.

Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 5^th, 2016.

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