Waseem Bari
SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI: The BJP’s Bandipora district head Waseem Bari, his father and brother were shot dead in their north Kashmir house by terrorists late on Wednesday. This is being seen as the first major incident involving a senior political leader after Article 370 was nullified in 2019.
Waseem, (38), his father Sheikh Bashir Ahmad (62) and brother Umar Sheikh (30) were at their two-storeyed residence which houses a family-run restaurant barely 30 metres away from the police station — and 600 metres from the residences of the deputy commissioner and district police chief — when the incident happened.
“All three have firearm injuries in the