Since the evening of August 25, Naseema Bano’s house in Hakripora village in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district has seen a steady flow of vis...
Since the evening of August 25, Naseema Bano’s house in Hakripora village in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district has seen a steady flow of visitors. That was the day the National Investigation Agency filed a 13,800-page chargesheet on the 2019 Pulwama suicide attack which left 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel dead.
The chargesheet said the attack had been planned by the Pakistan-based leadership of the Jaish-e-Mohammad. It listed 19 names accused of involvement in the conspiracy. Two of the names were 50-year-old Peer Tariq Ahmad Shah, Bano’s husband, and 23-year-old Insha Jan, their daughter.
Bano, whose house is in Pulwama district, knew nothing about the chargesheet until visitors started pouring in. “We don’t have a television, nor do we have a big mobile,” explained Bano, a housewife and a mother of three. “Besides, I don’t want to see anything.”
What Bano was referring to but refusing to name was a photograph of her daughter released by the National Investigation Agency on August 25. In the photograph, Jan is wearing a military vest, holding a pistol and an assault rifle, sitting next to a Pakistani militant. “People have seen it. I have heard them talking about it but I don’t want to see it,”...
