Martyred on LoC: Astore buries the dauntless son
Jumma Khan. PHOTO: FILE
GILGIT: The mood was staid and a atmosphere was filled with grief as Astore Friday laid to rest Havaldar Jumma Khan – who was among dual soldiers killed along a Line of control by Indian cross-broader shelling on Thursday.
His sibling, Azhar Mehmood, pronounced that he wants to follow in his elder brother’s footsteps.
Khan, a member of a Northern Light Infantry (NLI) ordain of a army, was laid to rest in his local encampment of Faqir Kot in Astore Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan. He along with Naik Imtiaz were killed after Indian army rained artillery shells nearby their positions in Bhimber, Kel and Lipa sectors on Thursday in a array of unprovoked firing, violating a ceasefire.
“We are unapproachable of a scapegoat that a hermit rendered for his homeland,” Mehmood said.
Mehmood is also enlisted in a Pakistan army and is now posted in Azad Kashmir.
“Now I’m prepared to give my life for my nation and that is something that everybody here is prepared for,” he admitted before a media after a funeral.
Force commander FCNA Major General Saqib Mehmood, Brigadier Kamran Nazir and several comparison supervision and troops officials along with a vast series of people attended a wake prayers. Locals pronounced a wake was presumably a biggest assemblage in a area’s history.
Speaking to a media, Maj Gen Mehmood paid abounding reverence to Havaldar Khan for a courage he showed while fighting a nation’s enemies.
“We will urge each in. of a dirt like Khan did. He was a dauntless son of dirt and he will be remembered,” Maj Gen Mehmood said.
He combined that a municipal and troops care were on same page to urge a nation and a people.
Havaldar Khan, who is survived by one son and dual daughters, had assimilated a NLI in 1996.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 1st, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1191541/martyred-loc-astore-buries-brave-son/