Pulwama suicide bomber: A sawmill worker, he joined Jaish-e-Mohammad last March

In a pre-recorded video message released by the Jaish after the suicide attack on Thursday, Adil said he had joined its ‘fidayeen’ squad.

Adil Ahmad Dar, the prime accused in the Pulwama attack.

Till March last year, Adil Ahmad Dar (20), a resident of Gundibagh village in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, used to work in a sawmill. On Thursday, the Jaish-e-Mohammad named him as the suicide bomber behind the attack on the CRPF convoy.

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According to reports, Adil left his home on March 19, 2018, and didn’t return. His friend, Sameer Ahmad, a post-graduate student of Geology at Kashmir University, went missing the same day. Adil’s family filed a missing person report at the local police station. But their search ended a few days later, when his photograph was posted on social networking sites, holding an AK-47 and with the code name ‘Waqas Commando’.

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In a pre-recorded video message released by the Jaish after the suicide attack on Thursday, Adil said he had joined its ‘fidayeen’ squad. This was just two months after a local militant, Fardeen Ahmad Khanday (16), was killed in an attack on a CRPF camp at Lethpora.

Adil, whose father, Ghulam Hassan Dar, is a small-time vendor, dropped out of Class XII and started to work at a sawmill owned by a neighbour. Till he left to join militancy last March.

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“After leaving home, he met us only once,” Dar told The Indian Express. “His cousin was a militant, who was killed just 11 days after joining them,” he said.