Of Martyrs & Militants: What Earmarks Ummer Fayaz & Burhan Wani
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Of Martyrs & Militants: What Earmarks Ummer Fayaz & Burhan Wani

The Quint  

Uncle Rahmat, sitting on stands along with the other parents and relatives, wondered where his nephew was when bugles sounded the call and the gates of the Quarter Master Fort opened. A stream of smartly turned-out young cadets from all services began to fill the Khetarpal Drill Square, named after martyr Lieutenant Khetarpal who had made the supreme sacrifice and had been awarded the Param Vir Chakra in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. Ummer, still not perfect at the drill, managed somehow and the fog helped as no one could notice if he did go wrong. After the drill, the passing out cadets went past the quarter deck in a slow march with an Air Force fly past in the sky carried out by fighter jets flown over the Drill Square.

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