In an overnight encounter at Noorpora, Tral, the residential neighbourhood of the most prominent neutralised militants Zakir Musa and Burhan Wani, one unidentified militant was killed late in the night on October 26.
His associate, Saquib Akbar Waza (21) of Gulshanpora, listened to the appeals from the officers of Rashtriya Rifles 42 battalion and the Senior Superintendent of Police of Awantipora, Tahir Saleem. He laid down his arms and came out.
South Kashmir has been a hub of militancy after Burhan Wani`s emergence as Hizbul Mujahideen’s poster boy and his killing in an encounter in July 2016.
Saquib`s surrender before the security forces was in sharp contrast to the videos that went viral in social media in the last three years.
Those videos, showing the holed up militants turn down passionate appeals from their parents? and in some cases mothers themselves…
