Early Times Report
Jammu, Aug 4: Indeed, it is a major development. It is a tight slap on the face of terrorists and who describe India army as "occupation forces in J&K". How else would one describe the 50 people hailing from Jammu's Poonch district leaving their well-paid jobs in the Gulf and returning to the village from which they hail and to which armyman Aurangzeb belonged? They have reportedly left their jobs to "avenge his killing at the hands of terrorists in Kashmir on June 14".
It is reported that the "youth who left their jobs in Saudi Arabia plan to join the Jammu and Kashmir Police and the Indian Army". "When we heard about the killing of brother Aurangzeb, we left Saudi Arabia the same day, and forcibly got ourselves relieved from the job," Mohammad Kiramat, who also left his job and returned to Mendhar, was quoted as saying.
They have also, according to sources, conveyed to the security officials that "they wish to join the forces to seek revenge for the death of their fellow villager".
Aurangzeb, it bears recalling, was with 4 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry. He was posted at the 44 Rashtriya Rifles camp at Shadimarg in Shopian. He was also part of that team that was reportedly involved in the encounter of dreaded Hizbul Mujahideen militant Sameer Tiger.
It was on 14 June that Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists abducted and killed Aurangzeb. That day, he was on his way home in Poonch district for Eid celebrations. His bullet-riddled body was found by a team of police and army at Gussu village, about 10 kilometres away from Kalampora, in Pulwama district.
Aurangzeb was cremated with full state honours. Thousands had attended his funeral. They had raised slogans of "Shaheed Aurangzeb amar rahe"', outside his house in Mendhar in Poonch district.
After the funeral, Aurangzeb's father, Mohammad Hanif, had urged the government to "find the killers and eliminate militancy" from the Valley. "When the Narendra Modi government came to power, we thought that the situation (in Kashmir) would improve, but not much has been done. I demand that the separatists and others doing politics be kicked out of Kashmir. The army and other security agencies should launch an all-out offensive against the terror groups active in the Kashmir Valley," he had said.
Aurangzeb's family is known in the area as the one that has been serving the armed forces since long. |
