India bans Kashmir rebel funeral gatherings

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 11, 2023 12:21 am

WADDUR, India: Three weeks after he laid down his tools and took up arms, Kashmiri carpenter Mukhtar Ahmed was killed in a firefight with Indian government forces, who buried his remains in an unmarked grave hours from his family home.

Mukhtar is among hundreds of militants killed in combat and hastily interred by police in remote parts of Kashmir, the picturesque Himalayan region home to a long insurgency.

UNFORGOTTEN In this picture taken on Dec. 4, 2022, Nazir Ahmad Koka (left) and his wife Haseena Bano (center) touch the grave of their slain militant son at a graveyard in Waddur village, in northern Kashmir near the Line of Control (LOC) — the de facto border between India and Pakistan, some 120 kilometers (74 miles) from Srinagar. AFP PHOTO

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