ISIS-style execution: Civilian dubbed as informer, says J&K top cop 01:19

SRINAGAR: A video of a terrified youth whom Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists forced on gunpoint to “confess” that he was a police informer, went viral on messaging platforms in Kashmir on Monday. The video was shared along with the picture of the youth shot dead soon after the Hizbul extracted a “confession” and apology from him.In a WhatsApp picture, he was seen lying dead with blood oozing out of his nose.Police identified the youth as Ishtiyaq Ahmad Wagay, a shopkeeper in Jablipora, Anantnag in south Kashmir. He was killed in the first week of August by Hizb terrorists over suspicion of being a police informer, police said adding that his body was found in a Shopian village on August 8.In the video, Wagay is seen and heard talking to an invisible terrorist holding an AK-47 rifle against him. Wagay, visibly under pressure in the video, confesses that he worked for the security forces and got several militants killed by passing on information about them.“I was forced to become an informer. They did not pay me. I shared information about Talha, Musa Bhai, Junaid Kandro and Turab. Now, they have asked me to track down Daad,” Wagay is heard speaking to the gunmen in Kashmiri language.Though it is still not clear what prompted the terrorists to release the video 10 days after Wagay’s killing, the video confirmed that he was murdered by terrorists, which wasn’t known until now, said a senior police officer.The gunmen in the video were heard asking Wagay as to why he had been working against those who were “fighting for Islam”. Police, however, said that the Pro-Pakistan terrorists were deliberately creating confusion by calling it a fight for Islam.As per official figures, terrorists have killed more than 28 civilians in the last 28 years of insurgency, after branding them as ‘police informers’. Wagay is an addition to the list.Sources, however, disputed the statistics claiming that hundreds of Kashmiris had been killed by terrorists over suspicion of being police informers.In 2011, two teenage sisters of Sopore, accused of being informers, were killed by Lashkar-e-Taiba outfit. It was rumoured that the two were on the payroll of the security forces.In another video circulated on Monday, another youth, Sameer Ahmad Pandit was shown admitting that he got two stone pelters arrested by the police. Pandit, who claimed to have received Rs. 10,000 from somebody who hired him, also belongs to Anantnag.A senior police officer said the circulation of such videos was aimed at creating fear against giving out information about the presence of militants in the Valley.