Caught in the midst of conflict: Can’t get home to Denmark

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februari 28, 2019

We are very afraid that there will be war.

There is anxiety that the track in the voice on the 73-year-old Shamim Bundgaard. The words are not to be mistaken, as the Extra Blade late Wednesday night local time prisoners her over a bad telephone connection in Pakistan.

The last 12 hours has been deeply chaotic.

the First morning she sat in a plane on the way home from Copenhagen, where she for the past 40 years has lived with her husband. But since the aircraft was to facilitate, got the passengers suddenly an announcement that created panic among the passengers.

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the Captain announced over the radio that India had sent warplanes over the border to Pakistan, which had responded to the threat by opening fire.

– They said that all flights were suspended, because India had sent fighters into Pakistan, which was shot down by our army, tells Shamim Bundgaard.

the Tensions in the disputed Kashmir province, as both India and Pakistan claim, is at its highest, since the two nuclear powers last fought a bloody war for 48 years ago.

According to major general Asif Ghafoor, who is the spokesperson for the Pakistan armed forces, pakistani military took an indian pilot prisoner after shooting down the helicopter, while India only confirm that a pilot has missed. At least two pilots and six civilians died in Wednesday’s fighting.

There are reports of long queues in front of petrol stations and supermarkets on both sides of the border, while the fear of full-scale war between the major powers is growing.

Although Shamim Bundgaard located in the city of Lahore, several hundred kilometres south of the disputed Kashmir province, she explains, that the situation in general is untenable.

– We have only just come home to my family’s house again, because everything is chaos. There were long queues on the roads, because the military is everywhere. The situation is not safe here. Now we are waiting because we are afraid that the indian fighter will come again, says the 73-year-old retiree.

Shamim Bundgaard lives on a daily basis with her husband, Preben, Bundgaard, in the copenhagen suburb of Copenhagen. Private
She knows the area
so far the pakistani military suspended all flights for 72 hours. It means that Shamim Bundgaard does not come home to her husband, just preliminary.

She says that family and friends are aware that she is caught in a considerable political conflict.

I have spoken with my husband and my friends in Denmark, and they know how the situation is in Pakistan. They are all nervous, but they are happy that I am in good standing.

the Extra Leaf has also been in contact with Preben Bundgaard, who follows the situation in Pakistan by the hour. He says, however, that he is sure that his wife will cope.

– She knows the area, and she speaks the language, so I know that she will succeed, he says.

India and Pakistan have been at war with each other three times since the secession from great Britain in 1947, but this is the first time in history that the two nuclear powers have launched air strikes against each other.

Both countries manage their part of the disputed Kashmir province. A number of countries such as China and the UNITED states have appealed to Pakistan and India to de-escalate the conflict as soon as possible.

Kashmir has been disputed in the årtiier

India’s military shot down on Wednesday at least one of the Pakistan’s aircraft, and lost supposedly at the same time, even a fighter jet in an escalation of the conflict between the two neighbouring countries.

Including the facts about the Kashmir conflict:

* India and Pakistan since they gained independence in 1947 remained in the conflict on Kashmir. The area triggered the regular wars between the two countries in 1947, in 1965 and in 1999.

* The hindu India controls two-thirds of the mountainous area. Both in the indian and the pakistani part is a large majority of the inhabitants are muslims. Living in total of about 11 million people in the region.

* Since 1989, there has been a rebellion in the indian-controlled part of Kashmir.More than 47,000 people have lost their lives while about 10,000 have been abducted. India accuses Pakistan for supporting the uprising, and drive the training camps of muslim rebels.

* India and Pakistan was in 2003 agreed on a ceasefire, but the peace process has been deadlocked for years – especially after a bloody attack in Mumbai in 2008. Pakistani extremists have been blamed for the massacre of 164 people in the indian metropolis.

* The two nuclear powers both claim Kashmir. A UN resolution in 1948 stating that there should be a referendum on Kashmir’s future, but it has not yet taken place.

* Many want that Kashmir should be independent.

* A part of Kashmir, it is largely uninhabited area of Aksai Chin is controlled by China.

Source: Ritzau