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| ‘Courage proved devastating for her’ | | | Vaibhavi Chnadel
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Mar 28: Marriages are made in heaven and solemnized on earth, that is what all we believe, but this does not holds true in all the cases. In the militancy infested areas such incidences have come into fore, where the battle for survivability becomes the reason for a girl to accept the marriage proposal.
Same holds true for Rubia Kousar, 18 year old girl from Rajouri, who was first kidnapped by terrorist who later on he forcibly married her.
All her dreams were shattered at the very early teenage, when even she was not even as what is marriage. She was only class 4th student of government school when she was kidnapped. Being a little child, she did not even knew as what is happening to her, but those memories still haunts Rubia as that incidence changed her whole life.
She is still living under constant fear and the dreaded memories of her kidnapping and forced marriage have left traumatic impressions on her mind. To her life came as a bitter dream.
Where she was living comfortably with her family nurturing the dreams of her career and future, there only after her kidnapping she became a wanderer, and was made to trek from one hideout to the other in the mountainous tracks of Rajouri district along (PoK)
Rubia always wanted to get educated but all her dreams were shattered in October 2005 when she was kidnapped by Zulfikar Ali, a Lashkar-e-Toiba ultra who later on married her forcibly.
“My life passed through many traumatic phases. The militant who kidnapped me forcibly married me when I was just 13 years old. We shifted three hide-outs in three weeks and even I was forced to shift with him. Being a child it was so scared that I used to be mum most of the times”, says Rubia.
She was carried by eight armed militants from her home in the Bakori village.She was made to cook food for them and also was forced to perform other routine works.
“I used to cook food for them. I was supposed to cook food for all of them. My husband, used to remain most of the times in the hide out and rarely used to move out and when so ever he moved out he used to tell his associates to keep a vigil on me”, she says.
“ The militants told me that they will be sending me to Pakistan for some special training so that even I could be inducted into the women wing of LeT”, she claimed
The fate was a bit benevolent on me so that one fine day, atlesat two months after my kidnapping, my husband went out leaving me alone in the hide-out which was located in the upper Pir Panchal ranges . I tried my luck and escaped form that place”, says Rubia.
As she narrated the incident, her family members rushed to the nearby police station and told the whole incidence. The officers on duty immediately conveyed this message to their seniors and soon after Personal Security officer (PSO) was deployed near Rubia’s house.
“Only after a week when I ran from the hideout in came to know that the ultra who kidnapped me was also arrested from the nearby forests. For me it was the end of the trouble but Soon my family received a threat from the militants saying that if I will tell anything to police about them, they will take revenge”, says Rubia.
“My father was running a shop there and that was the only income source of our family but now we are living in miserly. Now my brother is driving taxi to maintain the family expenses, ” she adds.
Even her bravery, that she showed by escaping from the militant captivity, could not prove fruitful for her as because of threats her whole family which includes two sisters, two brothers, mother and father are living in Rajouri town with no permanent source of income.
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