Why a captured militant's family in Kashmir say they'd be better off if their son had been killed
Why a captured militant’s family in Kashmir say they’d be better off if their son had been killed Tariq Ahmad Pandit’s family faces accusations that their son was a coward – and a collaborator. Tariq Pandit. If Muneera Bano’s militant son had been killed in a gunfight with the armed forces, life would have been easier for her and her family, she said. Bano, 52, is the mother of Tariq Ahmad Pandit, the only surviving militant in the widely-circulated photograph of a group of 11 local militants led by Burhan Wani. As Kashmir experienced a new wave of militancy in the middle o...