Pulwama Terror Attack: JeM Suicide Bomber Adil Ahmad Dar’s Parents Wanted Him to Quit Militancy

Dar rammed an explosive-laden SUV into a CRPF truck leading to the death of 40 jawans and leaving many injured.

Updated: February 16, 2019 11:53 AM IST

By India.com News Desk | Edited by Smriti Sinha

Pulwama Terror Attack: JeM Suicide Bomber Adil Ahmad Dar's Parents Wanted Him to Quit Militancy
पाकिस्तान के आतंकी संगठन जैश-ए-मोहम्मद ने घटना की जिम्मेदारी ली थी. आतंकी आदिल अहमद डार ने जवानों पर हमला किया था.

New Delhi: They didn’t get his body to bury but that’s not the only regret of the parents of Adil Ahmad Dar, the suspected suicide bomber who rammed an explosive-laden car into a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) bus on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Pulwama on Thursday. (Also read: US, India Likely to Hold Meeting Over Pulwama)

They recall how an incident back in the 22-year-old’s school days may have transformed him into what he became. “Once he was returning from school when was detained by the police and asked to rub his nose on the ground. It was humiliating for him and he couldn’t forget that incident ever, ” Dar’s father Ghulam Hassan Dar, a door-to-door fabric salesman, was quoted as saying.

The family performed Dar’s funeral in their village in the Kakapora area of Pulwama district. “We did not get the body or body parts. Police said there is nothing to give,” Dar’s cousin Sameer Ahmad said.

The family couldn’t believe what had happened, even when the news came out. Then the Station House Officer called to tell them, says Ghulam.

Dar’s mother Fahmeeda laments, “I desperately wanted him to quit militancy. We made many efforts but we were not successful.”

Dar, a school dropout, had joined a course in religious studies in 2017. He also worked for a bandsaw mill for a while. The last his family saw of him was in March 2018 when he left on a cycle.

In 2016, one of his other cousins left home to join militancy and was killed in an encounter within 11 days. Another cousin who joined militancy and returned home was booked under the Public Safety Act.

After Dar left home in 2018, the family looked for him for months until some social media posts announced his joining militancy.

Fahmeeda also talks about Dar’s bitter encounter with the police. “He was beaten by troops a few years back when he was returning from school,” she said. “This led to his resentment against troops.”

Unaware of Dar’s plans, his parents say they wanted him to quit militancy. “But we were not successful,” Fahmeeda rues.

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