The picture is from May 1, 2025. People from Gagariyan Gali village in Poonch, severely affected by Pakistani shelling, had shifted to underground animal shelters.

We cannot forget the night of May 8-9. To escape Pakistan's shelling, we had to evacuate the village overnight with our wives, children, and selected belongings. If there were bunkers, we would have hidden in them. We wouldn't have had to leave the village.' Saying this much, Rafiq Madni, the Sarpanch of Mandi village in Poonch, started crying. He said that we need 70 bunkers. Four months have passed since the survey. But, the work on new bunkers has not started. Now, talks of war are circulating again. If shelling occurs, we will have to leave the village again.

About 500 villages in 8 districts of Jammu and Kashmir are withi

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