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Man who lost parents, got hurt in drone attack recounts struggles of Operation Sindoor: ‘My parents are gone, I am all alone in world… Govt should not forget us’

The Indian Express·Raakhi Jagga·26 days ago
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For a long time after Operation Sindoor ended and ceasefire was declared, death followed Jaswant Singh, 33. A drone attack that hit his village Khai Phemeki in the border district of Ferozepur in Punjab on May 9 evening left his parents with serious injuries. His mother succumbed to them on May 13 last year, and his father after a long, painful two-month battle on July 1. “I was left all alone in the world,” says Jaswant. With pieces of the drone hitting him in the legs, Jaswant says he has been left with wounds that still hurt, with the pain excruciating when he tries to walk fast. After the incident, he moved out of the family home where the drone struck, and now lives with his paternal uncles in nearby Varyamwala village. With India hitting terror bases in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir as part of Operation Sindoor, in response to the killing of tourists in Pahalgam, the border areas had been in Pakistan’s line of fire at the time.…

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