Used by the armed forces in the war on militancy and then dumped once the job was done, Kashmir’s socially ostra-cised counter-insurgents and their...

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Despite their militant past, the government allowed them to operate as counter-insurgents. They were largely controlled by their own commanders. The government paid them 1,500 rupees a month. Ikhwan commanders promised them assimilation in the state’s police force once the counter-insurgency was over. Insurgency survived. Bashir did not.

At the family’s ancestral home – a mud and brick structure – at Hajan township in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, Hajra now brings up Bashir’s two sons – Hilal (12) and Yasir (11). Her daughter-in-law, Sharifa, whom Bashir married in 1995, doesn’t live with them anymore. She married another man after Bashir's death. Bashir’s younger brother Manzoor now has the responsibility of bringing up the children.

“My younger son has five children. With Bashir's two children, he now has the responsibility of seven. He works in the fields and rears sheep,” says Hajra. “The government has never cared to find out whether Bashir’s children even survived or not, let alone do anything for their welfare.” Hajra says that Hilal stands in front of his father’s photo and speaks to him. “This morning while leaving for his aunt’s home in the neighbouring village, he told his father that he would come back by the evening. He even sought his permission. That traumatises me,” she says.

Neglected by the government and ostracised by society, Hajra and her family now live a life of poverty. Thousands of other families across Kashmir suffer the same fate despite the fact that their male members paid with their lives to fight a war that the armed forces found difficult to handle. A sketchy record maintained by Kuka Parray’s personal assistant, Fayaz Ahmad Dar, at Hajan reveals that the number of men who fought as counter-insurgents across Kashmir was around 4000. “Almost 2500 of them were killed. Many died in encounters. Some died in ambushes. In the cases of a few commanders, we are not certain who the assassin was,” says Dar.


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