Mentally-challenged AJK resident martyred in Indian army custody

Tabarak Hussain, a mentally-challenged resident of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) who recently inadvertently crossed the Line of Control in Rajouri district of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), was martyred in the custody of the Indian army on Saturday.

Hussain was shot at and arrested in injured condition by the Indian troops after he unintentionally crossed the LoC in the Naushera area of Rajouri district in August, the Kashmir Media Service (KMS) reported.

Indian army claimed that he died of cardiac arrest.

Soon after his arrest in August, the Indian army and media had trained their guns at Pakistan and unleashed their propaganda to prove that Hussain was a terrorist sent by Pakistani authorities to carry out an attack on an Indian army post.

However, some videos of Hussain had emerged on social media in which he didn’t seem to be a normal person and even a layman can judge that he was mentally unsound. In some of these videos, he was seen tied with ropes and chains so that he could not leave his home or harm himself or other people.

As part of India’s nefarious attempts to defame Pakistan and its intelligence agencies at the international level, Indian officials had claimed that Hussain was paid a meager amount of Rs30,000 by a colonel of the Pakistan intelligence agency to attack the Indian army post.

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As he was a mentally-challenged person, the Indian authorities couldn’t present Tabarak Hussain before the world to malign Pakistan, so they killed him in custody.

It is worth mentioning here that Hussain was also arrested on April 25, 2016, by the Indian authorities when he accidentally crossed the LoC and had to spend 26 months in imprisonment before being repatriated via the Attari-Wagah border due to his mental condition.

India is attempting to defame Pakistan and the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle by resorting to malicious propaganda as the fascist Modi regime can resort to any wicked tactic to malign Pakistan and the Kashmiris’ indigenous resistance movement.