Himachal cop receives death threat for viral poem against Pakistan

Shimla, October 10

Himachal Pradesh Police head constable Manoj Kumar, whose 135-second video "Kashmir to hoga, magar Pakistan nahin Hoga" in which he had 'warned' Pakistan for any 'misadventure' against India and had gone viral, has received a death threat on Facebook.

The threat has purportedly come from a user named Farman Khan whose account has accessed from Dubai. He has also received abuses from Bilal Ahmad, presumably a resident of Pakistan.

"If given an opportunity, I would kill Kumar with my own hands," Khan wrote on Kumar's timeline.

"Friends I am receiving threats, but I am happy that the enemy camp is in complete doldrums and if someone wants to kill me, I swear on my motherland and martyrs, that in case he happens to come face-to-face, I will give him hell," Kumar wrote on Facebook.

His message, shared on the social networking sites, received an overwhelming response with people "pledging support to him".

The video of the patriotic poem penned and recited by Kumar was uploaded by him on Kargil Day (July 26), but went viral aftermath of the Uri attack.

"Abki yudh hua to Kashmir to rahega par Pakistan nahin hoga" (if there is another war, Kashmir will survive but Pakistan won't) and "hum Pakistan ke bomb se nahin, Tashkent aur Shimla samjhauton se darte hain" (We are not scared of Pakistan's bombs but of Tashkant and Shimla pacts) and reminds Pakistan of its defeats in the hands of the Indian army in 1965, 1971 and 1999," read the poem.

"Remember the 90,000 prisoners of the 1965 war and the favour of Indira (Gandhi)," it said and warned, "There would be India on both sides of the Indus river and the Indian flag would fly over Islamabad." — PTI