In first for Kashmir, militant-turned-soldier gets Ashok Chakra | Ghanti Bajao

Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani, who had returned to the mainstream abandoning militancy, has been posthumously awarded Indias highest peace time gallantry award, the Ashok Chakra.

 President Ram Nath Kovind will present the award to Wani's wife Mahajabeen on the Republic Day, January 26.

 On November 25 last year, Lance Naik Wani was participating in an operation against six terrorists in Hirapur village near Batgund in the Kashmir Valley.