Uri, Sept. 17 -- Last time, 60-year-old Ghulam Muhammad Hajam of Thajal thought of building a new house was in September 2019. When he was about to start the construction, the area witnessed intense cross border shelling.
Panicky, Hajam shelved his plan and is waiting for government's help to build an underground bunker to save his family from shelling.
Hajam is not an isolated case. This is almost a story of every household in Thajal, a hamlet barely four kilometers away from Uri town.
People living in the village are reluctant to build new or renovate old houses given the cross border firing and shelling.
"Many houses have suffered damages in the shelling. People are reluctant to build new houses," Hajam said.
Thajal village lies in ...