Junaid Kathju Bashir Ahmad Darzi, a daily wager, had lost all hope. On May 19, his two-story house in a densely populated area in downtown Srinagar had been severely damaged after an encounter. Two Hizbul Mujahideen militants, one of whom was Junaid Ashraf Khan ‘Sehrai’, whose father is the chairman of the separatist conglomerate Tehreek-e-Hurriyat (a part of the composite All Parties Hurriyat Conference), were killed on the morning of May 19 after a 15-hour-long gun battle with security forces. For Darzi, the encounter had meant an expensive reconstruction effort.…
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