#KnowYourHeroes Shaheed Nadeem Khateeb Nadeem Khateebs family learned he was dead on February 27. Your son and two other mujahideen have been martyred in Udhampur, the caller said, claiming to be on the line from London. His wealthy Srinagar family had had no inkling of their son having become a rebel. The son of a retired Chief Engineer, Khateeb had been living in the United States, working as a well-paid flight instructor in a Georgia school where he had obtained his commercial pilots licence in 1995. Brought up in one of the poshest suburbs of Kashmir, Rawalpora. Educated in the cities best school, Tyndal Biscoe. Nadeem was a graduate in geology, geography and economics. In 1994 he attended a flight training school in Georgia, united states and joined the same school as a staff flying instructor. At the young age of 30 the son of a former chief engineer left his dream life in the US as a professional, from the runways of US he chose to take another path by foot. Nadeem was described as a person “who watched from the sidelines” as protests raged in his motherland Kashmir. One of his closest friends Ishfaq Majeed Wani grew up to be a commander of the resistance group JKLF ( Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front ) one of the many resistance organizations who share the same goal of attaining “freedom” from the oppression of the Indian occupation, took up the armed struggle and attained martyrdom in 1990. Nadeem never talked about joining the ranks of the militants says his father. Engaged to a girl who was his relative, he was reluctant to marry, no body knew why, maybe he was trying to focus on his career but his leaving the US to take up the armed struggle explains it all. After being in the US for many years, a close friend explains it thus: ‘‘He used to brood a lot on the US exploitation of the Muslim countries. He said that after being in the US for so many years, his eyes had finally opened”. He read a book by Syed Qutb who also spent time in the US analyzing the western world. “His faith strengthened so much, he wouldn’t talk of anything else. He was convinced that if he died in Jihad, he would be rewarded on judgement day.’’ It came to light that Nadeem joined the rebel faction al-badr for arms training in Kashmir, before crossing the line of control to face his enemy.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 10:05:54 +0000
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