DISTANT BURIALS
Kashmir Life|January 10, 2021
Families whose members were buried by authorities in distant graveyards citing pandemic want the restrictions must be eased now for all, reports Farzana Nisar
Farzana Nisar
DISTANT BURIALS

Dressed in black pheran and white skull cap, Mohammad Maqbool Malik, 60, sits on the window of his living room in Mohamadpora village in Kulgam. His wrinkly forehead puckers and eyes get moist as he stares at his ancestral graveyard, located at a short distance from his home.

“Only if my son would have been buried in this graveyard, I could visit him multiple times a day,” Malik said, as he gulped back his tears.

On the afternoon of June 4, 2020, Malik’s son, Hilal Ahmad, 24,, was busy in loading his truck with peas and cherries, that were to be transported outside Kashmir. The same day Ahmad had promised his grandmother to accompany her to a doctor, and to do so he travelled to a neighbouring village to borrow car from his uncle.

At around 3:30 pm Malik heard that militants in a vehicle had fired at a police party in main market Yaripora. Three hours passed and Ahmad didn’t return. The family then became anxious and tried to call him, but couldn’t contact. An hour later, forces descended on Malik’s house and searched every corner of his house.

“I couldn’t understand what was going on. They kept destroying everything that came in their way,” Malik said. “It was then that we came to know that the car in which the militants were travelling was driven by Hilal.”

The next thing the father could think of was filing a missing FIR in Police station Kulgam.

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