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Saudi job to Op Sarp Vinash: J&K man who had key role in 2003 strike on terror stronghold dies at 63
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Saudi job to Op Sarp Vinash: J&K man who had key role in 2003 strike on terror stronghold dies at 63

The Indian Express·Arun Sharma·about 1 month ago
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Fazal Tahir, 63, died of a heart attack. He was laid to rest in Poonch district’s Murrah village When his brother was killed by terrorists in 2002, Fazal Tahir left his job as a supervisor at a marble company in Saudi Arabia to seek revenge. And that’s exactly what he did: he would be seen as instrumental in the Indian Army’s Operation Sarp Vinash, an exercise to purge Hilkaka — a hamlet nestled in the mountains of Surankote tehsil in Jammu’s Poonch — of terrorists who had established a parallel state there. This week, the hero of Hilkaka, Tahir, a Muslim Gujjar , died of a heart attack in Uttarakhand and was laid to rest in his native Murrah village. He was 63, and is survived by two wives and three minor sons. A Special Police Officer in Jammu & Kashmir Police, Tahir began working as a timber merchant after his retirement two years ago and was on a business trip to Uttarakhand when he had a heart attack. “He called around 8 pm Wednesday to tell me that he had some chest pain and had visited a hospital.…

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