A tread about days and nights in the mountains of Kashmir

Disclaimer:
Interview of Ex LET militant, no longer affiliated with the organization, so don't come up with moral lecturers and stuff. Just sharing his experience if any researcher wants to know about how the NSO works

Some of my mutual made me interview him, They know who is he, I introduced him to them.
Don't ask about him, I'm not disclosing his ID
Thanks to @DonnyCass
@Xaniken
@thoompdotwav
For question suggestions

I recorded everything he said and translated it to Gibberish language
Enjoy

It was a beautiful morning, time was 0500, I picked my bag, packed a day ago and headed to meet the recruiter.

After briefing and drinking chai he handed me a note which stated that he knows me and sended me to gathering compound, there are already one recruit waiting,

we were introduce and told that four more recruits are coming to join us.
One guy didn't showed up, total of five of us were there finally.

After eating lunch we were given a note again and address of the destination,

One guy didn't have money to travel, They give him money for travel and  some extra for spending on food etc.

It was a long drive (not going to mention the areas) upon arrival at station, we hired a taxi to reach the Markaz Camp (Markaz Khalid bin Waleed).

This is the point where you makes calls & say bye to your relatives for a brief time, you have to submit your phone, money & other non essential items & receive a receipt for that

In the Markaz camp there were people from all over the country & from every ethnicity, around +-320

We were five from KPK and they would call us Sulaimanis (related to Solomon) idk why they call us pushto speaker that, but I noticed they have huge respect for pushto speakers

(later I found out why)

After eating the lunch we were given each and everyone a sleeping bags and we fall asleep in no time because of the travel.

Then comes the shocking surprise...

Suddenly we were awakened up after only 3 hours of sleep which is really needed after that long travel.

Rules are stated to us and asked to pray Tahajud salah, and given Quran for recitation till fajar prayer.

Then Ishraq salah and Soo on...

Next day at markaz camp was usual, nothing special, chit chat with new guys and stuff and same routine.

There are 5 salah compelsury for Muslim during a day.
But not us
We were officially jihadist, we have to pray extra

They given us a card which has the amount of money written on it which we have submitted along with our belongings at arrival.

We call this card manual credit card

There were a shop at every camp, where you can buy essential items such as toothpaste, shampoo, candies etc using this card, they would deduct the amount using ballpoint

We heard that tonight we are heading towards Mauskar (Training Camp #1) every Mauskar has specific name dedicated after a historical figure

which I cant remember now

I bought alots of dates, juice and milk packs just because I was aware whats going to hit us next...

And the night comes, it was a long, dark and exhausting night 

We reached the Mausker #1 after 13 hours of non stop march.

No one was prepared, all of us were ordinary guys with no such experience, many guys fainted on the way

Upon arrival we were splitted Into groups of 10 to 12 on age bases, giving every group a specific tent, sleeping bags and every group got a name of historical Muslim figure like

Salman farsi, Zarar Azwar, Abu Bakar Sadeeq and so on

And then hell become lose!

The first two weeks were the hardest...

praying, running, exercise, weapons handling , and only 4 hour of sleep with 20 minutes of guard duty for your team.

All the mommy-daddy guys were broken at week first and they were sended to kitchen/other domestic chores or sended back to Markaz camp because they were not able to continue what we were going through.

They have to spend some time there in camp and later sended home (dropout)

There are no "maybe" in militant life style 

Either you have "yes" or "no"

straight forward 

For example if someone ask you for doing something you have to answer only in two options

Yes or No

If you say yes you are bound to do that job even if you die.

So think before making a decision in there

Unlike the Tableeghi Jummat or other organizations

Whare you can do "Irada" but not bound to perform the stated "Irada"

I personally started to somehow enjoy the routine at weak 3 especially the martial art, sport activities and weapons classes, it was hard but also fun...

Every other week we were swapped between Mauskars, a total of four Mauskars were there, I personally liked the Mausker #4 which is setuated at a very beautiful location, on a mountain peek, and we don't have to travel miles for food and water in there

There are no beating or humiliation as punishment, they operate on equality bases, even the head of the camp would call you bhaijan (brother) no one was considered high figure there.

If you do something wrong you have to do alot of push-ups, crawling or other physical task or you lose the sleeping hours.

The later was considered extreme punishment because we only got 4 in 24 hours sleep

Everyday was like this

Prayer Tahajud (extra)
Quran Recitation
Prayer Fajr
Short Course on Islamic Teaching
Prayer Ishraq (extra)
Exercise
Chaw Time
Weapons Class (Practical)
Camp Maintenance
Prayer Dhuhr 
Weapons/Tactics Class (Multimedia)
Endurance/Shooting/Drills if any

A one hours rest (rarely)
Prayer Asr
Gerenal Class
Sport Activities
Prayer Maghrib 
Random Classes
Chow Time
Prayer Isha
4 hour sleep then repeat

The order of classes was not fixed, it would change sometimes

Food:

Well balance food with fruits.

Every Friday you have to past and no physical activities apart from camp maintenance.

No caffeine apart from only one cup Gurh(crude brown sugar) Qihwa on Thursday only.

On every Sunday there is a shop which will be opened for 1 hour (I used to buy huge amount of dates, candies and packed milk for extra calories)

I lost 7 kg at the first month regardless of eating very bulky.

Weapons:

We were trained on every standard military small arms which could be encountered in the region

Rifles
we got trained on 45 types of firearms inc all the standard mil issued firearms such as M16, G3, SLR, Insas, Uzi, SKS, AKM, different pistols, dif precision rifles & DMRs 

MGs
Heavy & Light MGs such as PKM, RPK, RPD, Grenov Hafeef, Grenov Saqeel, Bren7.62x51, DSHKA Etc

Explosive

60mm mortar, RPG7, different grenades/mines, explosive/accessories and last but not least how to fire BM107 missile artillery round without the launcher in many ways

How hard is it?

Ohh trust me it is hard AF but after 3 weak your body will be rock hard, you will be feeling like a machine.

Your elbow and knees will be covered in wounds, your skin tone will changed.

The first 3 week is a challenge.

We started at 320 mark and only 90 made it through the full course...

Ironically all of us 5 were standing at the end, and that's the reason why they call Pushto speakers Sulaimani,

Pro Tip

Ibuprofen is your good friend at that phase.
I forget to tell there is a dispensary at every camp 
Where you can get medication

This is getting to long, it could take a book of I tell tell you everything, i have funny memories, sad/happy memories of my life as militant...

I have no regrets, it was a good experience...

End

Note:
This was about basic training only.
I will convince him for another round about training methods, advance training and field work in future

Inshallah

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