Mir Ehsan
A few months after Ghulam Ahmad Rather's son Nissar, a college-goer, went missing in 1991, he was told that Nissar got killed in a landmine blast. But when Ahmad went to identify the mutilated body, he failed to recognise it.
Ahmad says he is not sure that the body was of Nissar and demands an inquiry to know whereabouts of his missing son.
"An inquiry should be set up to look into this case as we are facing a mental torture. I want to know exactly what happened to my son 16 years ago," says Ghulam Ahmad.
After 16 years of wait, frail and aging Ghulam Ahmad, a resident of north Kashmir's picturesque village Malpora, is in search of "truth". "I want to know the truth about my college-going son who went missing when turmoil was at its peak."
Recalling the day when his son went missing, Ahmad said, "My son was good at studies and would take his class regularly at the college." He does'nt know who exactly picked up his son and neither wants to blame anybody. "The only fact is that my teenaged son had left for his college and never returned."
For first few days we though that Nissar might have stayed with his friends in Baramulla or in any neighbouring village. But when he failed to reach home for the next two days we enquired from all his friends, but nobody could provide us any clue, Ahmad added.
Since then, Rather and his relatives started an unending search of his son. "We searched him everywhere, at nearby army camps. We also contacted the deputy commissioner Baramulla and senior police officials, but failed to trace him."
When the message of his death in a landmine blast came in, the news brought a pall of gloom to the entire Malpora village where everybody knew Nissar as an energetic student.
"We went to see the body but the face was badly mutilated and could not be identified it. Some clothes matched with our missing son," says Ahmad. "I did not have the courage to go to that place. My elder son went there. Only Almighty knows the truth,” said Rather.
After years of search, this frail man is eager to know what exactly had happened with his young son 16 years back when he left his house to attend the college.
A few months after Ghulam Ahmad Rather's son Nissar, a college-goer, went missing in 1991, he was told that Nissar got killed in a landmine blast. But when Ahmad went to identify the mutilated body, he failed to recognise it.
Ahmad says he is not sure that the body was of Nissar and demands an inquiry to know whereabouts of his missing son.
"An inquiry should be set up to look into this case as we are facing a mental torture. I want to know exactly what happened to my son 16 years ago," says Ghulam Ahmad.
After 16 years of wait, frail and aging Ghulam Ahmad, a resident of north Kashmir's picturesque village Malpora, is in search of "truth". "I want to know the truth about my college-going son who went missing when turmoil was at its peak."
Recalling the day when his son went missing, Ahmad said, "My son was good at studies and would take his class regularly at the college." He does'nt know who exactly picked up his son and neither wants to blame anybody. "The only fact is that my teenaged son had left for his college and never returned."
For first few days we though that Nissar might have stayed with his friends in Baramulla or in any neighbouring village. But when he failed to reach home for the next two days we enquired from all his friends, but nobody could provide us any clue, Ahmad added.
Since then, Rather and his relatives started an unending search of his son. "We searched him everywhere, at nearby army camps. We also contacted the deputy commissioner Baramulla and senior police officials, but failed to trace him."
When the message of his death in a landmine blast came in, the news brought a pall of gloom to the entire Malpora village where everybody knew Nissar as an energetic student.
"We went to see the body but the face was badly mutilated and could not be identified it. Some clothes matched with our missing son," says Ahmad. "I did not have the courage to go to that place. My elder son went there. Only Almighty knows the truth,” said Rather.
After years of search, this frail man is eager to know what exactly had happened with his young son 16 years back when he left his house to attend the college.
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Brother I have included this blog in my list of kashmiri bloggers. Do check the list on my blog and see how more kashmiris are into this.The sole aim is to connect all kashmiri bloggers and create big blogger community. And I aim to come up with a bloggers meet on 14 August 2009 in Srinagar.
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