Kashmiris search desperately for their militant sons
SOPAT TANGPORA, India - On the eighth day after his son disappeared, Mohammad Munawar Dar's phone rang. It was an Indian army officer with news that Dar couldn't bring himself to believe.
The officer said he had information that Dar's son Shakoor, 21, had joined the anti-Indian insurgency in Kashmir, the long-disputed Himalayan territory enduring its worst outbreak of violence in years.
Dar never thought that Shakoor, who was studying to be an Islamic preacher, would take up arms. After Shakoor went missing, Dar had searched for him in seminaries and mosques, police stations and bus stops, markets and friends' houses. Still doubting the army officer's news, he later sent a friend to file a missing person's report with police.
A few days later, a boy from the neighborhood walked into Dar's kitchen in Sopat Tangpora, a village of apple orchards, brandishing his cellphone. He pulled up a photo showing Shakoor,
