In the moment when shots rang out and tourists were being gunned down in Pahalgam, Kashmir, Rayees Ahmad ran uphill – not away from the gunfire but towards it.
Ahmad, 35, head of the local association of pony handlers, was at his office when news of the terror attack at the Baisaran meadow, a picturesque remote clearing, crackled through on a poorly connected phone call. It was around 2.35pm.
