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The story of Ruksana is different. She was a meek village girl of 18. very sober and very shy. When life and its perils brought her to the brim of endurance she showed the strength and spirit which was extra ordinary. That saved her. The entire family from a brutal slaughter.
           Ruksana and her family fought with 3 militants came to their small hamlet in the dark to revenge her father and brother. She and her mother are on the verge of humiliation as women that were habitual in such cases. The life of father and brother was so dear to her than anything. No need to teach her what is the pride of women. She caught the leader in his hair and pushes his head against the wall. The AK 47 carrying militants got stunned by the sudden resistance. His brother used the chance and took an axe at reach and gave a heavy beat to the leader. At the time of a wink he snatched the AK 47 from the militant and shot at him. When Ajaz Ahamed killed the leader the remaining two fled away.
           It was on Sunday night when the family heard a knock at the door of their house in Shahdra Sharief in the border district of Rajouri.Noor Ahamed wife Rashida Begum son Aejaz Ahmad and Daughter Rukasan were sleeping. They got embarrassed by the knocking at the door. It was not possible for them to open it other wise the militants can break it easily. The heavily armed three men entered. They charged Noor as a police informer and started to beat him. The son interfered. It was a long struggle for life. it is known to everybody in the valley that what will happen in the end. The brutal killings and humiliation for the womenfolk before their merciless turn for death it was dark. Nobody to come for help. It seemed all at the end. Yet they are fighting. It was Rukasana make the advantage quite unexpectedly. That turned the future course of events.
           Rashida Begum, Noor Ahmad's wife, described her horror: "When my son saw they were beating me and my husband, he attacked a militant with an axe, took his gun and fired some shots. I caught hold of another militant and attacked him with the axe. He too dropped his gun."
           Aejaz Ahmad recounted the moments. "We were sleeping in the night when militants knocked at the door...we confronted the militants...I killed the terrorist, I hit him with the axe on the head, my sister fired at him but it didn't hit him. I also hit him with the rifle and I told the Army that I killed him..."
           Ruksana said she caught hold of the leader of the three by his hair and hit him against the wall and with the gun. The militants too fired, along with other family members, overpowered the militant and fired with his gun. She too said she fired many shots with the militant's gun. she said.
           Police says the killed is Laskhkar-e-Toiba commander Abu Uzama, a Pakistani who has been operating in the twin districts of Rajouri-Poonch for the last four years.