Mir Irfan
A teenager whose family made an emotional appeal asking him to return home and joined militancy a fortnight ago and a 22-year-old youth who had blamed police atrocities for picking up the gun were among eight militants killed in Kashmir on Friday.
Shakir Shah, one of the slain Militant, 17 years old, had joined militancy just 15 days ago, refusing to heed to his family’s passionate video appeal to return for the sake of his aged parents.
Earlier in a video appeal issued by the family, they had even went on to request the militant outfits to stop him from joining militancy, considering was suffering from a kidney ailment, after he went missing from his home at Nazneenpora village.
One of his family member speaking to The Kashmiriyat said, “Shakir was playing with his friends in the nearby village when he did not return home.”
The family got worried after Shakir could not be found anywhere. The family soon file a complaint in the nearby Police Station. A Police official confirmed this to The Kashmiriyat, adding, “We tried our best to locate hom and soon it came to be known soon that Shakir had joined a Militant group.
“He was not even remotely linked to any Militant, or showed any sort of inclination towards Militancy. He hardly went to any funerals, or ever participated in any stone throwing protests,” the family member told The Kashmiriyat.
Shakir was among the five Militants killed in a 24 Hour long encounter in Shopian district where more than 19 militants have been killed in the past few weeks. The other slain in the encounter including Jehangir Malik, he had been active with Militants for more than two-and-a-half years.
Jammu Kashmir Police Director General Dilbag Singh said that over 100 militants have been killed out of whom 50 belonged to the Hizbul Mujahideen.
According to Shakir’s members, Shakir was buried late on Friday evening in Baramulla.
Another Slain Militant, Nadeem Zaman Malik, 22 from Heffkuri in Shopian’s Zainpora belt. Nadeem had circulated a video on social media, alleging he was forced to join militancy due to atrocities committed by a deputy superintendent of police.
“Many youth have been harassed by the DSP, I am joining militancy because DSP Wajahat Hussian had made my life miserable.Civil authorities knew this, but they prefer to keep quiet,” he said in the video circulated widely on Social media.