Residents of the frontier belt of Arnia situated five km from the International Border (IB), which bore the maximum brunt of the ongoing cross border shelling say, "it is better if India decides to finally end the conflict once and for all."
They said that earlier the shelling used to take place during night, but now Pakistani side resort to firing in the daytime as well.
Hundreds of resident of the Arnia frontier belt have taken shelter at the Government High School in Deoli, where the administration along with the Army has set up a relief camp for the victims of the cross border shelling.
The villagers are in distress as they are bound to live in camps in their own village due to shelling that continued for the fourth consecutive day today.
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"We had to leave our houses in the dead of the night as we had to save our lives and had no time to save anything else," said Kuldeep Kumar a resident of Arnia.
"How would someone feel when he has to live like a refugee in his own land, in his own village? We are now fed up with all this, we request our Indian government to settle this conflict once and for all," said Girdhari Lal who has taken shelter at the relief camp.
He says that even though nobody was hurt but his son fainted after hearing the thud. "We somehow managed to flee the area, saving our lives" he said.