Between shelling & floods, Jammu’s Border villages plead for safer future

Border villages in Jammu, long battered by cross-border shelling, are now reeling from devastating floods that have washed away homes, farmlands and infrastructure, leaving residents desperate for relocation and relief.

- NL CORRESPONDENT

In Pallanwala sector along the Line of Control (LoC), flash floods caused by the swollen Chenab on August 26 submerged villages up to the first floor of houses, destroyed livestock and roads, and displaced nearly 4,000 people. “I have never seen such devastation. Everything is gone—homes, farmlands, livelihoods,” said 71-year-old Santok Singh of Gigrial, who