‘By the time you see this video, I will be in Jannah’

Srinagar, Jan 01: While the third militant’s body was recovered from the attack site at Lethpora, Pulwama, on Monday, a video featuring one of the slain attackers went viral on social media in Kashmir.
Seventeen-year-old Fardeen Ahmad Khanday, of Tral, is seen in the video surrounded by assault rifles, grenades, and communication devices, as he goes ahead with the chilling message of his own death while urging youth to “join the fight against India”.
“I will be touring the gardens of Jannah by the time this video reaches you,” Fardeen says, pronouncing his own death.
In a calm tone, he asserts that the government’s narrative of unemployment as one of the reason for youth joining militancy was “mere propaganda”.
“Youth are joining militant ranks because they want to fight for their people and against the brutalities unleashed by the Indian government.
“The tyrants have left no stone unturned in killing and maiming innocent people, outraging the modesty of our women, and looting our precious resources,” he says in the eight-minute video.
He warns youth about how their “life and faith are at stake” and insists them to “come forward and join militant ranks at the earliest”.
Refuting the “claims” of central government that they were “successful in eliminating every militant of JEM” from Kashmir, he challenges them by saying “it’s impossible to defeat us”.
Fardeen while giving a fleeting reference to Babri Masjid demolition, attacks like Pathankot, Tangdhar, Pulwama police lines asked the youth to join militant ranks.
He however believes that “his martyrdom will not bring freedom”, but it doesn’t mean the “people stop fighting for Jihad”.
The teenager said that “nation will get freedom only when youth are not scared of making sacrifices.”
Scores of people participated in the funeral prayers of deceased JeM militant Fardeen Khanday at Hayuna Tral.
Fardeen was laid to rest amid pro-freedom and anti-Indian chants at his ancestral graveyard in Nazneenpora Hayuna area of Tral.