Srinagar, May 10 -- Residents of villages located near the Line of Control (LoC) in three districts of Kashmir are leaving their homes in droves as Pakistan has intensified its shelling of civilian areas over the last four days.
Nearly 1.1 lakh people living along the LoC in Baramulla, Bandipora and Kupwara districts have moved to safer places as dozens of houses and government buildings have been hit by Pakistani shells.
"It is not easy to leave behind a place where you have spent all your life. I would not leave my home if the threat to my life and that of my family was not so high," Irshad Ahmad Khwaja, a resident of a border village, said.
Khwaja has shifted to a relative's house in Baramulla and does not expect to face much difficul...