Highly Qualified Government Official Dead as Militant in South Kashmir Encounter

Srinagar, Feb 25 (KMW): In continuance trend of educating youth joining militancy ranks and on occasion even being government officials, Ashiq Hussain Dar son of Ghulam Hassan Dar, a resident of Turkewangam village , a militant with MA English B. Ed qualification (besides a government official) from south Kashmir’s Shopian district was killed in an encounter on Wednesday.
Sources state that Ashiq was selected as VLW in May 2014 and he joined militant ranks in August 2014 after working for three months as a government official.
Highly qualified Ashiq, according to local sources had also applied for jobs in the departments of Education, Revenue, CAPD and Horticulture and he was selected in all the departments. But instead joining the services, he had joined militancy and could not join.