{"id":13805,"date":"2018-12-25T09:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2018-12-25T09:45:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T04:15:23","slug":"tral-an-encounter-through-the-eyes-of-a-slain-militants-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=13805","title":{"rendered":"Tral: An encounter through the eyes of a slain militant\u2019s father"},"content":{"rendered":"

“They ordered me to go inside the hideout and ask the militants to surrender. I shivered but the barrel of gun on my shoulder forced me to go near the entrance of hideout,” Akhoon recalls.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n

Two days ago when six militants were killed in a gunfight at Arampora hamlet of Tral, father of a slain militant Sauliha Muhammad Akhoon recalled how his eyes captured the whole encounter.<\/i><\/p>\n

“It all started on Saturday morning when government forces entered our house and asked me to approach the militants hiding inside the hideout,” said Sauliha’s father Jan Mohammad Akhoon.<\/i><\/p>\n

The hideout was located barely yards away from Akhoon’s residence.<\/i><\/p>\n

“They ordered me to go inside the hideout and ask the militants to surrender. I shivered but the barrel of gun on my shoulder forced me to go near the entrance of hideout,” Akhoon recalls.<\/i><\/p>\n

The announcement was made by him before he fainted and fell on the ground.<\/i><\/p>\n

The announcement was like: “Your hideout is sealed by forces and there is no scope for your escape. Forces are asking me to inform you to surrender.” <\/i><\/p>\n

Following the announcement there was complete lull until, what he recalls, he lost the consciousness. <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cA few army soldiers came towards me and took me to the side. In no time guns start roaring when suddenly a group of militants came out of the hideout and shouted slogans.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Surrounded by army soldiers and policeman, Akhoon says he was lying flat on the ground when exchange of fire took place between militants and government forces. “Today I feel like if I am living a new life,\u201d he says while receiving the mourners who visit his residence. <\/i><\/p>\n

Thousands of people from various villages continue to throng his residence at Arampora here.<\/i><\/p>\n

“I was shocked when I saw my son Sauliha being killed in front of my eyes. May Almighty accept his martyrdom,” Akhoon smiled and said.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cIt all ended in 5-10 minutes before all militants were killed. Some militants were carrying guns while some youth were without any weapon in hands shouting pro-Islam slogans,\u201d he adds.<\/i><\/p>\n

For 10 minutes the entire Arampora village, Akhoon said, reverberated with Islamic slogans. \u201cMilitants were shouting Takbeer Takbeer, Allah u Akbar until they one by one they fell on ground.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

These slogans, he said, pumped up everyone including men, women, children who marched towards the gunfight site but not before all six militants were killed.<\/i><\/p>\n

Regarding his son Sauliha, Akhoon said on 13 March 2015 his son left home and joined militancy.<\/i><\/p>\n

“It was Friday and i had gone to office but when I returned home I didn’t find Sauliha. I asked my family about him, they said he embraced everyone and left,” Akhoon says.<\/i><\/p>\n

When a top police officer was asked why the militant’s father was taken as a hostage during the encounter, he said that he was asked to request militants for surrender following which militants opened fire, triggering the encounter.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Greater Kashmir<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“They ordered me to go inside the hideout and ask the militants to surrender. I shivered but the barrel of gun on my shoulder forced me to go near the entrance of hideout,” Akhoon recalls. Two days ago when six militants were killed in a gunfight at Arampora hamlet of Tral, father of a slain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}