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Hapatnar, Anantnag (J&K): Sitting in the corner of a dimly lit room, 55-year-old Baby Jan, sheds silent tears as she waits for the body of Syed Adil Hussain, her eldest son who was among 26 victims of the Pahalgam attack.

Adil, whose only newborn daughter passed away recently, was the lone Kashmiri civilian who was killed in the attack in the south Kashmir resort on Tuesday (April 22), and the circumstances in which he was killed perhaps hold the key to understanding the motivation of the attackers.

“We are not mourning the demise of Adil alone,” Khalida Parveen, Adil’s aunt, told The Wire, weeping incessantly, “We are crying for all those tourists who were killed in Pahalgam. The whole of Kashmir is in mourning. The government should not rest till the perpetrators are punished”.

Adil’s mother Jan, who speaks only in the Gojri language, said that her son left home – Hapatnar village of Anantnag district – on Tuesday morning for Pahalgam where he worked for daily wages. Adil offered tourists horse rides to Baisaran and other places in the south Kashmir health resort.

Baby Jan shedding silent tears at her home while waiting for her son’s body.........

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