On February 4 when the Pakistani Army fired a laser-guided, anti-tank missile. Barood Post caved in, taking with it a team of four soldiers, headed by 22-year-old Captain Kapil Kundu. They had all been inside the post at the time of the shelling. Three personnel were killed immediately, while the fourth succumbed later in hospital.
The Indian Army’s twin posts, the
‘Barood Post’ and the ‘Cheer Post’, are well hidden under natural foliage on a slope with a dense tree line. From their perch, the soldiers could look straight into the Pakistani army posts manning a village in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (Azad Kashmir).
‘Barood Post’ was also near the revered mazaar (shrine) of Pir Allah Dittashah Tarkundi. No one knows much about the saint except that
his grave is reportedly over 200 years old. No liquor is consumed around the shrine as a mark of respect. The shrine survived unscathed in the shelling. “That blood was spilt here is not a good sign,” said Khursheeda Jan, 47, who lost her house in the shelling.
Located just behind the Army fence, the holy site is out of bounds for now. Earlier, the Army would open the drop gates of the fence on Thursdays to allow devotees into the
mazaar. But following the attack, even the road leading up to Tarkundi’s last village is closed to civilians and journalists.
The locals live in dread of the next round of shelling.
Four Pakistani soldiers were killed in Azad Kashmir’s Jandrot Sector on January 14. Since then, Pakistani troops had maintained “a dangerous silence”, as a local police officer put it. “We were expecting a backlash,” he added.
The casualties inflicted on the Pakistani Army in the Jandrot Sector in Azad Kashmir were again the result of casualties suffered by the Indian side on December 23, 2017, in Rajouri’s Keri Sector.
It’s an endless cycle of retaliatory violence that the locals have now grown all too familiar with.
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Sayed Ghulam Ali Shah Mashadi is known as Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah. His forefathers belonged to Mashad Iran that is why he was called Mashadi. His grandfather "
Peer Yar Ali Shah" (famously known as Tahir Prinda) migrated from Mashad (Iran) during mid fifties of 16th century
Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah remained for about 41 years at Shahdara Sharief between
1765 AD to 1806 AD and meditated in solitude, He left for his heavenly abode in January 1806 A.D i.e. 1226 Hijri
There is a large graveyard which tells the story of this important settlement of Mashadi Sayeds since 14th century AD periods till date.
SainNizam -Ud-Din, Popularly known as SainChalla belonged to Khatana clan of Gujjar community. In seventeenth century SainChalla become a servant with a Manyal Rajput family from Dalogra in Rajouri.
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