Anantnag, Aug 9, KNT: Militants gunned down BJP Kisan Morcha District President for Kulgam and his wife in their rented accommodation in South Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Monday late afternoon. Local sources said a couple of gunmen barged into the rented accommodation of Ghulam Rasool Dar at resorted to indiscriminate firing. In the attack, Dar and his wife Jawahira sustained bullet injuries and possibly died on the spot. The couple were shifted to hospital where doctors declared them brought dead. BJP Spokesperson Altaf Thakur told news agency Kashmir News Trust that Ghulam Rasool Dar was a senior BJP leader who besides being a Sarpanch Redwani Kulgam was District President BJP Kisan Morcha. He said Dar and his wife were killed in rented accommodation. Dar was a retired government school headmaster. The couple is survived by three issues who are all married and settled. (KNT).
