FEAR AND RECOIL IN KASHMIR
It has been over a fortnight that Abdul Ahad has been holed up in a hotel in Gulmarg under high security. Married just a year ago, the 35-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker is worried about his family—his elderly parents and wife—back home in Baramulla in north Kashmir. He and several other BJP workers were moved to Gulmarg in July after a targeted attack by militants earlier in the month. Five BJP members have been killed in the past month in north, south and central Kashmir. Abdul Hameed Najar, the district president of the Budgam Other Backward Class Morcha, was only the latest to fall prey to terrorists’ bullets when he succumbed to
