School playing fields in Azad Jammu-et-Cachemire (AJK) are transformed into first aid camps so that children learn to react if war broke out with India.
Wearing a protective helmet and a fluorescent vest, Konain Bibi, 13, listened carefully to his first aid lesson.
“India threatening us, there is a possibility of war, so all must support each other,” she said AFP.
Pakistan warned that it had “credible information” that India provided an imminent military strike.
Already freezing relations between nuclear neighbors, has dropped from a deadly assault against tourists in Pahalgam illegally occupied Jammu-et-Cachemire (IIOJK) last week.
India reproaches Pakistan for the attack on firearms who killed 26 people on April 22, Prime Minister Narendra Modi giving his soldier “complete operational freedom”, although Islamabad denied any involvement and proposed to cooperate in a transparent and credible investigation on the attack.
There are more than 6,000 schools, colleges and universities on the Pakistani side of the border – including 1,195 along the control line (LOC).
Local authorities have launched first aid training this week, teacher to students how to jump from a window, use a infacutable evacuation slide or wear an injured person.
‘Come directly to the house’
In Muzaffarabad, the largest city in AJK, training sessions have already taken place in 13 schools, according to emergency workers.
“In an emergency, schools are the first to be affected, which is why we are starting to evacuation training with schoolchildren,” Basit Mughal, coach of the Civil Defense of Pakistan, told Abdul Basit Basit Moughal Coach of Pakistan Defense AFP.
The agency will deploy its rescuers to schools bordering the loc in the coming days.
“We learn to help our friends and provide first aid in case India attacks us,” said Faizan Ahmed, 12, the students were looking at a instructor manage a fire extinguisher.
Ali Raza, eleven, added: “We learned to dress a wounded, to transport someone on a stretcher and to turn off a fire.”
About 1.5 million people live near the control line on the Pakistani side, where residents were preparing for violence by preparing simple underground bunkers and concrete mud wall if they could afford it.
“For a week, we are constantly experiencing fear,” said Iftikhar Ahmad Mir, a 44 -year -old trader in Chakothi.
“We are extremely worried about their security on the way to school because the region was targeted by the Indian army in the past,” he said about the village children.
“We make sure they don’t walk after having finished their school and returned directly home.”