Story: Farhan Tariq
Lives snatched at gunpoint, stories of Kashmiri victims
A public movement of unarmed citizens has been ongoing in Pakistan-administered Kashmir for the past two and a half months, protesting for their basic human and economic rights. In response to this demand for rights, a complete blockade has been imposed across the state. Despite the shutdown of the internet, severe shortage of food and medicines, crackdowns and shutter-downs, central sit-ins are being held in various areas including Rawalakot.
During this public movement, hundreds of citizens have been killed, hundreds injured due to direct firing by Pakistani forces, and countless people have been forcibly disappeared or arrested and imprisoned in various jails, where their families are not even allowed to meet them.
Kashgil News is presenting the true stories of these unarmed citizens who have been victims of violent acts and their bereaved families in the form of a video and written series. Kashgil News.
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Faheem Afzal: “Death is better than a life of slavery”
Faheem Afzal, 31, from Dhan Chota Gula, a suburb of Rawalakot district in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, was killed by Pakistani forces during a long march of the JKJAC on July 27.
Faheem was the sole breadwinner of his family and the only brother of four sisters.
Faheem’s mother, Hamida Bibi, says that Faheem used to go to the sit-in during the day. She was also present at the sit-in when someone came and told her that Faheem had been shot in the ankle.
Hamida Bibi says that she was heading towards the medical camp, but on the way she saw people carrying Faheem’s body coming towards her.
Fahim used to tell his mother:
“Death is better than a life of slavery.”
The grief-stricken mother says that we have no enmity with the people of Pakistan, the only regret is that our rulers wrote it down, yet our children were killed.
With Fahim’s death, a mother’s son,
the only brother of four sisters
and the sole breadwinner of a family were forever separated.
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