Little son’ of four sisters is no more

Baramulla, July 3: In Baramulla, people who were consoling Abdul Rashid Mir of Tawheed Gunj  over the death of his only son Amir Rashid  said that the heaviest burden on his shoulders was the coffin of his son.

Abdul Rashid carried his heaviest burden on Wednesday when he shouldered the coffin of his son, Amir Mir, shot dead by CRPF troopers on June 29.“The last words he told me were ‘I am going to college’. These words still reverberate in my ears,” Rashid said.

Amir, who had just joined college for his B.A. course, was the only son in all five children said victims mother “His sisters were to him what a mother is to a little child,” said Amir’s visibly shattered mother, intermittently wailing and cursing the cop.

Amir’s father, Abdul Rashid Mir, who has already lost on his brothers in an incident of custodial killing, said. “The government of Indian and its authorities could not kill the sentiment in Kashmir now they are killing the people. I think we shall have to suffer till the presence of armed forces here.” 

Nineteen years ago when Amir was born, Abdul Rashid thanked Allah in almost every big shrine of the Valley where he and his wife had tied votive threads, seeking a son after the birth of four daughters.“ Allah blessed us with him. He was the most precious being of our lives. You can’t imagine the care with which we brought him up, but these killers have killed our hope,” Rashid said.

Four young girls lost their only brother, whom his mother would call the ‘little son’ of his sisters, on Monday evening when the police shot straight into his head. The sisters, Nazia, Nelofar, Afia and Rubeena, who treated him like a prince, say they would have taken the bullet that killed him on their chests if only they could. “His killers should be hanged,” said Nazia.Abdul Aziz Bhat, a neighbour, said, “We don’t know how to console the family. For two days when he was in the hospital, we prayed for his safety, but his delicate body couldn’t bear wounds.” Amir succumbed in the Intensive Care Unit of Soura Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura on Wednesday. Around the same time Amir was born, Indian army had murdered his uncle, Abdul Jabbar, an activist of Jama’at-e-Islami. The family told Greater Kashmir it would go to any extent to punish the killers. (GK-RK)