Nearly six months after local guide Nazakat Ahmed Shah rescued the family of a Chhattisgarh BJP youth worker during the Pahalgam terror attack in South Kashmir, he received a warm welcome in the state. The April attack had left 26 people dead and many injured.

Shah, whose family has been visiting undivided Madhya Pradesh and now Chhattisgarh to sell clothes for 30 years, had helped save the family of BJP youth wing worker Arvind Agrawal, who was in Pahalgam with his family and friends during the attack. On his first visit to Chhattisgarh since the incident, Shah was received by Agrawal and other families from Chirmiri in Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur district who had been caught in the firing.

Recalling the day, Agrawal, 35, said he had been pulled to safety, but his wife and four-ye

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