Since the inception of Pakistan, India has been trying to wreak havoc on the land of pure. The apple of discord between the two-nation is Kashmir. To our utter dismay, the Indian side has been brutal to Kashmiris since the beginning of Indian reign. In 2010, Indian forces severely killed multiple Muslims in Kashmir. One of them was Tufail Ahmad Mattoo a 17-year-old student.
In 2010, Indian forces, on 11 June, Indian forces hit a tear gas shell to the innocent boy. The shell struck Tufails’s head. The martyrdom of Tufail became the casus belli of unrest in Kashmir. Consequently, stone-throwing mobs have started confronting the Indian Army and Police on a daily basis.
Tufail would have been 27 today. He would likely have finished his studies and become a doctor like he wanted to be. He would’ve been thinking of starting a family of his own.
He was denied all of that. Murdered at 17. He became the boy who lives. pic.twitter.com/U9Ev7FTh4y
— Muhammad Faysal ?️ (@_Faysal) June 11, 2020
The afore-mentioned tweet remembers Tufail on his 10th death anniversary. Tufail would have been a doctor today. Furthermore, Muhammad Faisal, a well-known storyteller, shares details about Tufail in his tweets.
‘After blowing his head into smithereens, his funeral was tear-gassed too’
He was one of the 128 people mostly teenage boys who were murdered in 2010. After blowing his head into smithereens, his funeral was tear-gassed too.
This day in 2010 changed everything for me and my generation of Kashmiris.
— Muhammad Faysal ?️ (@_Faysal) June 11, 2020
‘Ten years. I haven’t stopped thinking of Tufail, his father Ashraf and his family’
Ten years. I haven’t stopped thinking of Tufail, his father Ashraf and his family. I keep thinking if they knew naming him Tufail, a little child in Arabic, he would be buried as one.
— Muhammad Faysal ?️ (@_Faysal) June 11, 2020
‘Personally, I think I am still in 2010’
Personally, I think I am still in 2010. Like the sounds of funerals and gunshots in the city I was born continue to ring in my ears.
It’s 2020. Many of us are still in 2010.
Tufail 1992-∞
— Muhammad Faysal ?️ (@_Faysal) June 11, 2020
Above all, it was not the first time Indian forces, attacked innocent Kashmiris. Recently, after Indian revoked article 370 and 35A from her constitution, the genocide of innocent Kashmiris began in the Kashmir valley. Although it has been ten years since Indian forces martyred Tufail, he is still alive in many hearts.
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