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| Missing from Mahore,man killed in Kashmir | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 18: A Mahore youth, who was reported missing in police records for the past over seven years, had actually turned out to be a top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militant. The matter came to light yesterday when the identity of the militant killed by troops on Wednesday last in a gunbattle at Lalpora, Kupwara, was established.
Police sources said Ghulam Hussain had gone missing from his residence at Chhajroo in Mahore on January 13, 2002. Since then no one in Mahore had heard about him. The Mahore-based troops, or police also did not have any idea about him. A missing report was lodged by his father with Mahore Police Station. Sources said after he died in an encounter with security forces at Lalpora two days back, police could establish his identity a day after the incident on the basis of documents recovered from him. When police brought the matter to the notice of the slain militant's father Raj Mohammad Gujjar, he visited Lalpora yesterday, the sources added.Sources said when Hussain's body was shown to him, he confired to police that it was of his missing son. The body was then handed over to him.
Raj brought the body their home at Chhajroo and buried it in the village cemetery in the evening. Sources said Hussain's real uncle Makhna alias Mushtaq was also a top
Lashkar militant. He was active since 2001. Sources said about a dozen Mahore men were still active in militancy. Efforts were on for their surrender, the sources added.
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