Pak driver’s ‘jihadi’ brother killed in Kashmir: Report

Shakil,the younger brother of Pakistani driver Mehar Mohammed Khalil praised for his quick thinking that saved Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore's terror attack,was a jihadi.

Shakil,the younger brother of Pakistani driver Mehar Mohammed Khalil praised for his quick thinking that saved Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore’s terror attack,was a jihadi 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 jihadist militant group in Indian-administered Kashmir, The Times newspaper 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.

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

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,the British daily said.

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