Surrounded by Kamla forests in Badipora village in this south Kashmir’s sub- division is a distraught family in mourning. On Saturday morning, their sole bread winner, Suhail Nabi Bhat, had left for his duty, but was killed on the same evening when unidentified gunman attacked a police party in Mirbazar on Srinagar-Jammu highway in Anantnag district of south Kashmir.
The 23-year-old Suhail, according to his brother Tajamul Nabi Bhat, was working in Ramky since two years.
“He was our lone bread-winner. We are completely shattered. Why doesn’t anyone resolve this Kashmir dispute once and for all? Today, it is my brother, tomorrow it could be someone else’s,” Tajamul laments.
Inside the small two-storey house is Suhail’s devastated mother Shareefa Bano, along with her neighbor women consoling her by saying “Keep patience, Suhail has gone to meet his Lord.” Nobody in the house is speaking amid the cries of Suhail’s parents and neighbors.