Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday said that “Islam doesn’t permit us to embrace death at this age”. Mufti was reacting to the killing of ten Kashmiris by government forces in south Kashmir on Sunday. 

“Allah has sent us to Earth to live a good life. Islam doesn’t permit us to embrace death at this [young] age,” reports quoted Mufti as saying.

Top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Saddam Padder and a University professor Mohmmad Rafi Bhat was among the slain militants.