Kill Hafiz Saeed, let strikes eliminate 1,000 terrorists: Martyrs' kin

ARA/GAYA/SASARAM: Uri attack martyr Hawaldar Ashok Kumar Singh's widow Sangita Devi said on Thursday Indian soldiers should enter Pakistan and kill LeT terrorist Hafiz Saeed in the same way as US forces shot 911 mastermind Osama bin Laden in May 2011.

Hailing the Army's surgical strikes, Devi said, "The retaliatory attack on the terrorist camps has given me immense satisfaction and joy . My family and I are willing to give more sacrifices for our country."

Devi, whose son and nephew are also in the Army, said the Modi government should not hesitate to bomb all the terrorists and their patrons in Pakistan so that no Indian soldier's wife was widowed like her. "I thank PM Narendra Modi," she said at her village home at Piro in Bhojpur district, 100km from Patna. Martyr Lance Naik Sunil Vidyarthi's widow Kiran Devi in Gaya echoed Sangita. "I am not going to get back my husband. But it has come as a major pain reliever," she said and added the retaliatory attack was music to her ears also because it came a day before her husband's 'shraddh' on Friday.

The woman in her late 30s, however, regretted that had such operations been done earlier, her husband would have been alive.

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Vidyarthi's eldest daughter Aarti said our jawans should not wait for "orders from above" to kill terrorists. "They should kill them as and when they are seen," said the 14-year-old who on the day her father was martyred wrote her first-semester exam of social science paper of Class VIII.

Sepoy Rakesh Singh's kin said they wanted the PM to continue the strike "till 1,000 terrorists are killed"."The retaliatory attack is a tribute to their martyred sepoy on the eve of his `shraddh' tomorrow," his widow Kiran said in Baddha village of Kaimur district.