JK News Today
PDP leader Waheed Para’s anguish over Engineer Rashid’s absence at his father’s death. In a post on X, Wahid Parra said, “Er. Rashid, an elected MP, remains behind bars while his father returns to the earth without the touch of his son’s hands, without one final embrace, without the comfort of seeing him beside his deathbed. There are sorrows that death brings and then there are sorrows that outlive death itself. To lose a parent from afar is to carry a wound time never closes. It is to replay, forever, the unanswered calls, the empty chair, the funeral walked in absence. In Kashmir, countless families know this ache intimately. Here, politics does not stay in parliaments or prisons; it enters homes, sits beside hospital beds, and breaks families in silence. They say the personal is political but in Kashmir, the political becomes heartbreak itself. Rashid’s father carried both pride and pain: pride in a son who rose despite everything, and pain in never having him near when his final breaths arrived. Some prisons are built with walls. Others are built with distance, helplessness, and the cruelty of being unable to say goodbye.”
