Pak bus hero's brother was a jihadi in J-K: report

Press Trust Of India
IBNLIVE

London: Pakistani driver Mehar Mohammed Khalil whose quick thinking saved Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore has an altogether different story to tell.

Khalil’s younger brother, Shakil, was a jhadi killed by Indian security forces in Kashmir in anti-militancy operation in 1995, a news report has said.

“In 1995 his younger brother, Shakil, was killed fighting for a jihadi militant group in Kashmir," The Times reported.

According to the report, Khalil welcomed his well wishers in the backdrop of “a photograph of his dead brother, with a Kalashnikov rifle over his shoulder, a camouflage cap on his head and a radio in one hand".

Printed in Urdu across the photograph were the words ‘Mujahid martyred in Kashmir. Died in Udampur, India, August 25, 1995. Codename Abdullah.' the report added.

As he spoke, a relative whisked away the photograph of his dead brother.

"He is also a supporter of Jamaat-e-Islami - the Islamist political party - that wants to impose Sharia across Pakistan and to use the army to kick India out of Kashmir", a British daily said.