The father and children of Naik Bakhtawar Singh, who was killed in Pak firing along the LoC, at Hajipur village near Mukerian in Hoshiarpur district on Friday. Tribune Photo
Sanjiv Kumar Bakshi
Hajipur (Hoshiarpur) June 16A pall of gloom descended on the village with the news of martyrdom of Bakhtawar Singh (35), an Army jawan from Sandhu Mohalla here, reaching the family this morning.His father Pritam Singh, mother Shila Kaur and wife Jasveer Kaur were in tears, but said that they were proud of his supreme sacrifice while serving his motherland.Pritam Singh said he had three sons, two of them in the Army. Bakhtawar was the youngest. He was recruited in the Army in 2003 and was posted at Rajouri in the Nowshera sector with the 8 Sikh Light Infantry Battalion.His wife got a call from the regiment that Bakhtwar was martyred in cross-border firing. Jasvir Kaur said they got married 12 years ago and had two sons and a daughter. The youngest son is nine months old.She said she was proud of her husband and she would send her sons too to in the Army to serve the motherland.She, however, flayed the Union Government, saying: “Enough blood of soldiers has been spilled. The government should act to restore peace in the region or give a befitting reply to Pakistan’s misdeeds.”