Early in the morning on my way to airport on 10th December, I receive a heartbreaking message on my messenger, about two small kids, one football lover and one cricket fan, their lives cut short.

They were simply erased from the face of earth by some preachers, whom i request to send their own kids on next such mission, where death is a sure shot reward.

I wish Saqib and Mudasir were given fair chance to life, wish they were allowed to transform into adulthood. I am sure we would have had one more Sachin Tendulkar and Messie. What i most wonder, was this with the permission of their parents?

Sitting in this hotel room in my cozy bed I feel the pain deep in my heart since last three days, the pain worsens with passing time, as no one gives a damn about two minors. Wonder what parents of Saqib and Mudasir are doing in this bone chilling cold. Hope god gives them saber to go through this terrible loss.

What is most amazing in this bizarre episode, no one challenges these acts in our society; no one talks about these two kids. I think all are scared to say anything, even though they feel terrible about the unfair death of two minors.But boys and girls, we can’t keep quiet forever. We need to speak against evil.We have to change our thought process.

What is most amazing in this bizarre episode, no one challenges these acts in our society; no one talks about these two kids. I think all are scared to say anything, even though they feel terrible about the unfair death of two minors.But boys and girls, we can’t keep quiet forever. ‘

We need to speak against evil. We have to change our thought process. We have lost 41 officers only in 2018 and many more Kashmir people, we have become a DEATH MACHINE.

Please think where we Kashmir as a race are going to be after few decades. Will we survive all this death race? We as a society need to re-evaluate our emotions and action. Let us please leave our kids alone, let them grow, study, play,love, and then decide which side of the coin.

The author Sami Ara is Pilot (Commander at Indigo Airlines), hails from Sumbal area of north Kashmir and for feedback can be reached at Sami.Surury@goindigo.in

(The views expressed above are the author’s own. Kashmir Patriot is not responsible for the same.)

READ ABOUT HAJIN’S TWO SONS’ WHO LEFT HOME TO PLAY , RETURNED DEAD

The two young student-turned-militants were ambitious sportsmen, one a cricketer another a footballer, who left homes to local sports field and arrived dead after three months following a gunfight that broke at Mujgund on Saturday 09 December 2018 .

Saqib Ahmed, 18, an ambitious footballer and Mudasir Ahmed, 14, a cricket lover, both residents of Hajin were among the three militants killed during the 18-hour gunfight that broke at Mujgund on the outskirts of Srinagar city.
The families of both the deceased militants were searching for them after they left their respective homes to play at the local Eidgah.

“They surprised us. Both the boys were living life normally with their respective families and friends. We are still in doubt how they joined militant ranks,” said Mushtaq Ahmed, a neighbour of Mudasir according to a report of a local daily.

Locals said Saqib and Mudasir were neither influenced by any radicalized ideology nor were emotionally surcharged. Family members did not believe that Saqib and Mudasir had joined militants till Mudasir’s gun-wielding picture surfaced on social media.

“Everybody in the area knew about the simple attitude of both the boys. We were searching for them till Mudasir’s picture was uploaded on social media,” Nazir Ahmad, a local said as quoted by Rising Kashmir in a news report.

However, Saqib’s mother Mehbooba Begum said she talked to her son last week, who according her was happy after joining militant ranks. “Joining militant ranks was the fate of my child. He left home to play cricket and after months conveyed us about joining a militant group,” she said.

“I prayed for my son, for his honourable death. I am happy he got what he sought. I have no regrets. He chose the right path and it was not by his choice but by Allah’s will.”

However, Faeeda Begum, the mother for 14-year-old Mudasir Ahmed of Mir Mohalla is heartbroken and shell-shocked and is still waiting for her son to take meals.

“I am still waiting for his arrival. He was innocent. We were not expecting this at all. He left for playing cricket and didn’t return,” Fareeda said.
According to family members, Mudasir was a naughty boy, ambitious of becoming a cricketer who had least interest in militancy-related activities.
“He surprised us by joining militant ranks. He was an innocent child,” Fareeda said.

Mudasir was the second male child among five siblings. A day before the gunfight, Mudasir’s parents had made a fervent appeal asking their son Mudasir to shun militancy and return home for the sake of his elderly parents.

“When Mudasir left home in August, I was on way to Sopore and he come to me and sought permission for playing cricket in the local ground,” Fareeda said. “I saw him following me and asked him to accompany me to Sopore but he refused and silently left toward the playfield. It was the last time I saw him,” wailing Faeeda said. “We searched for him till we saw his gun-wielding picture on social media.”

As the death of Mudasir and Saqib reached Hajin, thousands of people took to streets while wailing women led by Mudasir’s mother sang mourning songs to praise the death of the two sons of the area.