<p align="justify" class="title">College student and footballer Majid Arshid, who had joined the Lashkar-e-Toiba a week ago, has surrendered before security forces, officials said on Friday.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">Arshid walked into a security camp in south Kashmir on Thursday night and surrendered with his arms and ammunition, the officials said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">He whisked away to an undisclosed destination early on Friday.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The college student, a goalkeeper for his local team in Anantnag in south Kashmir, is believed to have turned to militancy after a close friend was killed in an encounter.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">Police was constantly in touch with his friends and family members, urging them to put pressure on Arshid to return home.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The surrender follows appeals by his parents and the Jammu and Kashmir Police. His parents had gone on television and social media to ask him to surrender.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">A video showing his mother Asiya Khan crying and asking him to come home went viral on social media. </p>
<p align="justify" class="title">College student and footballer Majid Arshid, who had joined the Lashkar-e-Toiba a week ago, has surrendered before security forces, officials said on Friday.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">Arshid walked into a security camp in south Kashmir on Thursday night and surrendered with his arms and ammunition, the officials said.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">He whisked away to an undisclosed destination early on Friday.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The college student, a goalkeeper for his local team in Anantnag in south Kashmir, is believed to have turned to militancy after a close friend was killed in an encounter.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">Police was constantly in touch with his friends and family members, urging them to put pressure on Arshid to return home.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">The surrender follows appeals by his parents and the Jammu and Kashmir Police. His parents had gone on television and social media to ask him to surrender.</p>.<p align="justify" class="bodytext">A video showing his mother Asiya Khan crying and asking him to come home went viral on social media. </p>