Lahore:
Even as areas completed near the Indian border, where increased security measures were deployed to consolidate national defense, residents are not discouraged.
Although they were under the missile fire the previous night, the inhabitants of these front -line villages stood on the ground, with nerves of steel and uninterrupted spirits, ready to look at the barrel and go on foot with the country’s rival.
“Four missiles from India landed a few hundred meters from the place where I was in my fields in the space of eight minutes in Markaz Taiba, Muridke – a complex that houses colleges for boys and girls, a university, a hospital, a mosque and living compounds,” said lawyer Sheikh Tamoir, a local chief and a farmer.
The first missile, he remembers, shook the ground like an earthquake and sent villagers to Nangar Sadain rushing from their houses.
Later, three other missiles followed. One tore the palatial mosque, another Safa academy, while the other two hit the accommodation.
The assault eliminated the safety arrangements from the Gates of Markaz, opening the valves so that the nearby residents rush for rescue efforts.
Sheikh Tamoir said the local community alone saved the women from Markaz and had moved to neighboring houses for security reasons. He added that instead of running for coverage, the whole area converged at La Markaz to show solidarity, because it is a very appreciated place where children receive an education and where people from other areas come for subsidized treatment.
He said he was in the advanced years of his life and hated any form of terrorism, and had never seen any kind of training taking place in Markaz, not to mention the training of ammunition.
“Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is an ardent speaker, and that is almost everything,” he said, adding that the whole area could guarantee this.
A complete electricity failure was observed after attack and rescue. However, by Fajr, morale was high, the spirits unwavering and are always resolved like never before. The atmosphere was so accused that an almost upset broke out when the law enforcement organizations completed the mosque, with the exception of residents to offer morning prayers.
He said that under pressure from the inhabitants, the police finally sold and that the residents offered prayers in the destroyed mosque – which denounced their land, both literally and in spirit.
Those who lost their lives understood the chief of prayer of the mosque, Haji Abdul Malik, who also served Markaz as manager of video surveillance cameras.
Whenever a flight occurred in the region, the inhabitants turned to him for images of the cameras parked around the Markaz to help find the culprits. The other two martyrs were the guardian of the mosque, Khadim, and the muezzin, the one who calls the faithful to prayer.
