'Invite to Pak PM disgraces martyrs'

The family of Hemraj, who was reportedly beheaded by the Pakistani soldiers in January 2013, said inviting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was a disgrace to the martyrs.

Hemraj’s widow Dharmavati, a resident of Kosikalan in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district, about 500 km from here, reportedly told the local media that Sharif should either bring back her husband’s “severed head” or decry the killing before being allowed into the country. “The moment the prime minister (designate) of India and other leaders welcome Sharif, will be the saddest moment of my life,” she added.

Dharmavati said the invitation to Sharif was in fact a “humiliation” to the martyrdom of the brave Indian soldiers. “Sharif should not have been invited,” she reportedly said.

She said she will never get justice. “Sharif, whose army had beheaded Indian soldiers, can never be our guest,” she said and urged former Army chief V K Singh to intervene in the matter and ask the new regime to cancel the invite to Sharif.   The widow said she would observe fast as long as Sharif was in the country to register her protest to his visit.

Pak soliders had allegedly beheaded Hemraj, who was a lance naik in the army and was posted at Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir, and had taken away his severed head in January last year.