It was a usual militant funeral for Shariq Ahmad Bhat, killed in a night-long gunfight with security forces this week. Hundreds of mourning men and women had gathered at Braw-Bandina village of Pulwama, slogans were raised and mobile phone cameras were put on record mode. Bhat, a young and tall man, was killed at Naina village of Pulwama, one of the four districts that make up south Kashmir. At Bhat’s funeral, an unusual event unfolded — one that is helping create an aura around the militant lives and their deaths.…
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