Today you caught me, congrats: Dujana's last words to officer

Abu Dujana, the most wanted commander Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) had refused Army's offer to surrender minutes before he was killed in an encounter in south Kashmir's Pulwama district on Tuesday.

What is believed to be an army officer's phone call to Dujana when he was cornered in a house surrounded by security forces, Dujana, one of Lashkar’s most dreaded commanders in south Kashmir greeted the officer saying, “How are you?”

"Kya haal hai? Maine kaha, kya haal hai (How are you. I asked, how are you)?" Dujana is heard asking the officer. The officer replies: "Humara haal chhor Dujana. Surrender kyun nahi kar deta. Tu ne shadi ke he uss ladki se, galat kar rha hai (Why don't you surrender? You have married that girl. What you are doing isn't right.)"

Sources said the house owner where the militant commander was hiding was asked to dial Dujana before the officer took over. “Why are you getting killed? You get ready. I will arrange your surrender,” the security officer was heard telling Dujana during the conversation.

To this Dujana, who was an A++ category militant and carried a bounty of more than Rs 15 lakh on his head, replies to the officer: "Kabhi hum aage aap peechhe, kabhi aap aage hum peechhe, aaj aapne pakad liya, mubarak ho aapko (sometimes I am ahead, sometimes you are ahead. Today you have caught me, congratulations")

The officer tries to persuade Dujana to surrender so that he could explain the Pakistan's game plan in Kashmir. "Unless you come out and explain to people, there will be blood-letting. Who will persuade these people? Unless you speak up, Kashmiris will keep getting killed..."

"I didn't start the bloodshed...I know the whole game," Dujana replies and cuts off the line, saying: "Achha theek hai yaar (ok then)."

Dujana, who had given slip to security forces a number of times, was finally trapped on Tuesday morning at Hakripora, Pulwama and gunned down along with his associate after he refused to surrender.
Dujana had taken over operational command of LeT in late 2015 following the killing of Abu Qasim. However, police sources said, he was disarmed by his group after a rift within the ranks of the terror organization a few months back and he was in close contact with Zakir Musa, who was recently appointed by international terror organisation al-Qaeda as head of its Kashmir cell.

Dujana, who had infiltrated into Kashmir in 2010 and had been named by police as the mastermind in several militant attacks across the state, according to police sources, had gone to meet his newly wed wife during the night and had followed a pattern tracked by police during his previous visits.