Home turned to ashes: 60-year-old labourer loses home in Pakistan attack

Watch this harrowing ground report from the frontlines, where homes, dreams, and lives continue to be shattered by unprovoked Pakistani shelling.

Transcript

00:00At 9pm, this family of age sat together to eat a meal.

00:16But before they could take a bite, a shell struck and everything was gone.

00:26This wasn't just bricks and mortar, it was Chunni Lal's home.

00:29A poor labourer's life-long dream turned to ash in seconds.

00:55It was a matter of seconds.

00:57Had the family not stepped out when they did, they might not be alive to tell their story.

01:01Now this family of eight lives under makeshift sheets, displaced and scared.

01:20Chunni Lal's house was one of 11 destroyed by Pakistan shelling on the intervening night

01:25of 8-9 May 2025.

01:27In whom I was known, the remains of a dream.

01:32I have seen these people.

01:33This one is stuck, this one is taken in front of the bed, the doors are closed, the tract,

01:36all worlds are cut.

01:37I have been exposed to this building.

01:38But I have the most recognized people.

01:41I have the most recognized people in the background.

01:43This family of Each Island, in which they had a city like this,

01:46they had a smile.

01:47I have the most recognized people who have seen it like this day.