KULGAM: Father of a youth, one among four killed in CRPF firing in Shopian district of south Kashmir on Saturday, says he fails to understand why the security forces shot dead his son.
Ghulam Nabi Mir, a resident of Okey village in nearby Kulgam district, says 27-year-old Tariq Ahmed was a walnut merchant who had left home only to buy stock.
He rues why his son left home.
“I told him to go some other day but he refused,” Mir told a local news agency, CNS.
Mir says Tariq was married last year and his wife bore him a baby girl only two months ago.
“Now who would take care of his baby,” says Mir, who became an unfortunate father for the second time.
His elder son, Aijaz Ahmed, was a militant and was killed during an encounter with security forces in 2007. Tariq was the sole bread earner, Mir says.
“We are simply finished now.”
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