Summary:
During the phone call, Mir informs his mother that the Superintendent of Police had asked him and four other militants trapped in a house to surrender. In a firm voice, she tells her son, "You have chosen the path of God and you have taken up arms for God. NEW DELHI: In an attempt to discourage militants from surrendering at the behest of their parents' emotional pleas, separatists in Kashmir circulated an audio of a mother urging her son to die fighting security forces rather than give up. J&K police always offers local militants a chance to surrender and in most operations, seek the help of families to persuade their sons to yield. "SP has been trying to persuade us to surrender, but we won't," Zahid is heard telling his mother.Unlike other Kashmiri parents who generally ask their militant children to surrender and return home, Zahid's mother encourages him to embrace "martyrdom"..