Porcupines wreak havoc on IIOJK orchards
Officials advise farmers to wrap trees with gunnysacks and mesh wire as rodents feed on bark
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SRINAGAR:
Manzoor Ahmad, a farmer in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), will helplessly watch dozens of fruit trees in his orchard, planted by his father 40 years ago, wither away in the next few months.
Ravenous porcupines have stripped the outer bark of these trees and ate the softer inner bark, exposing it to diseases and elements of nature.
“I have seen it in the past, too. It is like watching a family member die. I have grown up with these trees,” Manzoor, 50, said.
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that India s inhuman military siege of occupied Jammu and Kashmir has caused $3.5 billion in economic loss to the.
Kashmiris suffer huge losses under Indian military siege, Pakistan tells UNSC
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March 13, 2021
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Thursday that India s inhuman military siege of occupied Jammu and Kashmir has caused $3.5 billion in economic loss to the civilian population, saying the coercive actions of Indian troops in the disputed territory violated UN resolutions.
In a statement submitted to 15-member Council that debated the link between conflict and food security, Ambassador Munir Akram said that situations of conflict as well as foreign occupation remained one of the principal sources of global hunger and starvation. The complete communications blackout, imposition of shoot-at-sight curfews, and severing of all transport links, imposed now for nearly 600 days, has prevented Kashmiri farmers from reaching their farmlands and resulting in acute food shortages, the Pakistani envoy said. Thousands of acres of farmland rema
India is openly committing state terrorism in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir
Brig. (Retd.) Harris Nawaz (Defense Analyst): The decision of fascist Indian government to install Indian flag in the background of the signboards in schools will cause violent reaction from Muslims in Kashmir. India is openly committing state terrorism in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The crops in the valley were ruined by the Indian government. The young Kashmiris are being arrested and taken to undisclosed places. India is using every tactic to pressurize the Kashmiris. Pakistan needs to highlight the Indian atrocities and enormity of the situation at all international forums.