A Kashmiri youth went for arms training to PoK returns without legs

Srinagar, May 12 (UNI) Farooq Ahmad Mir, one of the thousands of Kashmiri youths, who crossed over to Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) in 1990 for receiving arms training, returned back here without legs.

Mir, who is being helped by his father and other relatives to move, surrendered before the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Kupwara after his return via Delhi on May 10, a police spokesman said.

He crossed over to POK in 1990 for receiving arms training alongwith other Kashmiri youths when he was young. Associated with Al-Jehad outfit, he was trained in a camp set up across the Line of Control (LoC).

But after receiving training he did not returned to Kashmir instead married to a local girl. However, luck had something else in store for him as on the ill-fated day of October 8, 2005 when the killer quake hit the both parts of Kashmir, he lost both of his legs.

The killer quake killed more than one lac people and rendered lakhs of people homeless on boths sides of the LoC. The capital of PoK, Muzaffarabad was most affected.

The father of Mir, after receiving the news about his son, went to POK and brought him and his wife back here via Delhi on May 7.

Mir and his wife surrendered after reaching here.

About 60 militants, some of them alongwith their families, surrendered before security forces immediately after their return from PoK since the earthquake.

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