SRINAGAR: Inspector Asrar Ahmad Shah called his cousin at 10.50pm on Friday, asking him to wait on the highway so they could drive home to Kupwara together after work. Thirty minutes later, an explosion ripped through Srinagar's Nowgam police station, killing Asrar and eight others. The victims were police officers, forensic personnel, revenue officials and a tailor, all between 30 and 45. The cousin who had waited for Asrar spent the night visiting Srinagar hospitals before finding his body in the police mortuary the next morning. By then, social media was flooded with hashtags of heartbreak and outrage over yet another of Kashmir's recurring tragedies. Asrar, 37, was an MBA from the University of Kashmir who joined J&K Police in 2010. He was a father of three. A video of a young

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