Yawar Hussain
SRINAGAR: The killing of Special Police Official (SPO) Fayaz Ahmad along with his wife Raja Begum, 48, and daughter Rafiya Jan, 22, on Sunday evening in Hariparigam village of Tral has left the locals perplexed and questioning. The only survivors are the slain man’s daughter-in-law and a minor granddaughter.
People offer funeral policeman in Hariparigam village in South Kashmir on June 28, 2021. The village witnessed the killing of three members of a family including father, mother and daughter in a June 27 night attack by suspected militants. KL Image: Bilal Bahadur
Detailing the events of Sunday evening, locals told
Kashmir Life that Fayaz’s daughter-in-law said there was a knock at the door at around 10.28 pm on Sunday when she was talking to her husband Liyaqat Fayaz, 26, a soldier, posted in Khrew area of Pulwama district.
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SRINAGAR: In the ongoing 5th phase of DDC elections, three journalists were beaten by security forces in Srigufwara area of south Kashmiri’s Anantnag district on Thursday.
Three TV freelancers Fayaz Lolu (ETV Bharat) Mudasir Qadri (News 18 Urdu) and Junaid Rafiq (TV 9) alleged that they were beaten in Srigufwara in presence of the SSP. They said their equipment was seized and they were taken to the local police post.
Fayaz Ahamd said “when I took byte of a local ‘PAGD’ candidate who alleges that he was not allowed to cast his vote. And when he contacted SSP Shopian for the official version, he along with other journalists Mudasir Qadri of news 18 and Juanid Ahmad of TV-9 were beaten and all the equipments were seized, he alleges.