Truck driver Waseem Ahmad Mir’s killing was one of three reported over three days in the first week of February 2025 in J&K, leaving seven children orphaned, two women widowed, and three families without their only wage-earners/ SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

By Team

Sopore, Jammu and Kashmir: On 5 February, 2025, as the sun was about to set upon Goripora village in the district of Sopore, 60 km northwest of state capital Srinagar, Nissara Begum grew restless and told her son, Irfan Ahmad Mir, that she felt something was about to go wrong. 

“Be at ease,” said Irfan Ahmad Mir, 29, an unemployed young man, comforting his mother. 

Irfan’s elder brother, Waseem Ahmad Mir, 32—the only wage earner in the family of six—was away from home on a delivery run with his truck that he drove with another man for Rs 10,000 a month.  

After a sequence of events—which we detail later—Begum’’s ill-ease was borne out.

Waseem Ahmad Mir was shot on the night of 6 February at an army checkpost for allegedly refusing to stop when soldiers asked him to. 

This story was originally published in article-14.com. Read the full story here.