A ponywallah ” ’30 -year -old was part of 26 people, mainly tourists, who lost their lives in the deadly terrorist attack on this southern cashmere complex with the chief minister Omar Abdullah who presents himself to offer him “ Fatiha’ ‘and greet his courage to stand against the armed attackers.
The ponywallah ” (pony driving operator), Syed Adil Hussain Shah, was buried in the ancestral cemetery of his village from Hapatnard to Pahalgam with hundreds of people in mourning offering him a farewell in tears and greeting his sacrifice.
“I visited Pahalgam today to offer” Fatiha “(prayer after burial) for the courageous to heart Shah, who was shot down while trying to tear a weapon from one of the terrorists in a courageous attempt to protect the tourists whom he had transported on horseback from the parking area to the Baisaran meadow.
“Met his family in mourning and assured them full support – Adil (Shah) was the only support for the parent, and his bravery and his extraordinary sacrifice will remain in the memories,” wrote the chief minister in a position shared by his office on X.
After making prayers to the deceased, Abdullah, speaking to journalists, expressed his condolences to all the victims and condemned the incident.
“The tourists had come to have a good time here and they were sent back to coffins. A poor worker had left the house to win but died. I heard that he had tried to confront the activists and tried to seize the weapon before being attacked,” he said.
He assured the family of the deceased that his government would take care of them. “We are with them and will help them as much as possible.”
Earlier, Ghumam Hassan, a local, who led Shah’s funeral prayers, praised the sacrifice of youth and said: “We must always be ready to die for others, whether Sikh, Pandit or Muslim. This is what our religion teaches us. ”
Conviving the loose attack on tourists, he said that women crying in Baisaran, the scene of the attack, are “our sisters and our hearts feel their pain”.
“We greet our brother who sacrificed his life by trying to save tourists. He will be rewarded by Allah for his actions. I pray that nobody sees their loved ones die like that,” he said in his sermon before the burial.
Syed Naushad, Shah’s younger brother, said he went to Pahalgam to work.
“He used to take tourists to Pony walks in Baisaran. On Tuesday, when terrorists attacked tourists, my brother tried to stop them. A tourist whose father was killed in the attack on my brother’s heroic act in SMHS hospital,” he said, adding that the terrorists struck Sheh Thrice with the balls.
He described the sacrifice of his brother as a “moment of pride” for family and friends, but said “there is also sadness everywhere”. Shah’s sister Asma said they had learned her murder around 10 p.m. on Tuesday.
“In the morning, I told him not to go there as if I knew that something bad was going to happen. But he did not listen to me and left,” she said, describing her brother as a daring man always ready to support others.
Shah’s father Syed Haider Shah said he was devastated by the murder of his son.
“He was young and kind among all the brothers and sisters. He left at 8 am and did not come back. Many boys in this village go to Pahalgam to find work but who knew that it was going to happen. The terrorists killed my son only because he had confronted them and told them not to harm tourists,” said the father in mourning.
He said there was no mobile connectivity in Baisaran. “When he didn’t come back in the evening, we started calling him but no one won the phone.”
