SURGICAL PEACE ..WE MUST MAKE PROOF PUBLIC BECAUSE THIS MAN IS BEING DESCRIBED AS `THE ONLY CONFIRMED VICTIM OF INDIA'S AIR STRIKE'

Nooran Shah

TT, 1 March 2019: On Thursday night, Reuters reported from Jaba village, near the northeastern town of Balakot in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, that "the only confirmed victim of India's air strike against Pakistan is still unsure why he was shaken awake in the early hours of Tuesday by an explosion that rocked his mud brick house and left him with a cut above his right eye". He was identified as Nooran Shah, 62. 

in the area said the Jaish-e Mohammed did have a presence, running not an active training camp but a madarsa, or religious school, about 1km from where the bombs fell. "It is Taleem ul Quran madarsa. The kids from the village study there. There is no training," Nooran Shah told Reuters.

A sign which had been up earlier in the week identifying the madarsa's affiliation to the Jaish-e-Mohammed had been removed by Thursday and soldiers prevented reporters from gaining access.

But it was possible to see the structure (above) from the back. It appeared intact, like the trees surrounding it, with no sign of any damage of the kind seen near the bomb craters. Reuters 

`'No one died.

Only some pine trees died, they were cut down. A crow also died ABDUR RASHEED who drives a pickup van around the area They say they wanted to hit some terrorists. What terrorists ` can you see here? We are here. Are we terrorists? 'NOORAN SHAH, seen in Reuters picture outside his home at Jaba village in Pakistan's Balakot on Thursday..