Congrats on Catching Me: Dujana in Last Phone Call to Army Man

In the phone call, Dujana is heard saying he left to become a martyr, and will accept his fate as Allah’s calling. 

(Photo: Harsh Sahani/ The Quint)

Minutes before he was killed in an encounter on Tuesday, LeT commander Abu Dujana attended a phone call from a security officer, requesting him to surrender. Dujana was in Pulwama to meet his wife when the phone call came through, according to reports.

The phone call, which was accessed by media outlets, begins with the security officer speaking to a civilian asking him to hand over the phone to Dujana. The officer then goes about coaxing Dujana into surrendering, which he blatantly refuses to do.

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‘Parents Are in Gilgit-Baltistan’

When the officer brings up his family and wife, Dujana claims for reportedly the first time that he has left his parents behind in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, and as for a wife, “he never married anyone”.

He then asks the officer in a sarcastic manner – “Aur kya haal hai? (How are you?)” then laughingly goes on to say “It’s been a while since we spoke”.

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‘Congratulations on Catching Me’

The officer tells him to stop joking around and asks him to surrender, while telling him that nobody wants to die. Dujana is heard saying that he left his hometown to be shaheed (martyr) and that whoever wants to ‘play the game’, can do so.

Sometimes you are ahead, sometimes we are, congratulations you caught me. Now do what you have to.

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‘Allah Will Do As is My Fate’

When the officer asks him to surrender again, while pointedly saying that they do not believe he is an enemy, Dujana says he will not surrender, adding,

You have your duty, we have ours. Whatever is written in my fate is what Allah will do for me. 

‘I Understand The Game’

When the officer says that Allah is the same for all, Dujana invites him inside which the officer evades by saying that he is far away and not anywhere near by. The officer then tells him that they never chased him out of hate, but for duty, to which Dujana retorts by saying “I know your duty, I know the system. I understand the game.”

The officer then urges him to remember that this is not jihad, and that as the main commander, he should come out and tell the people that and stop recruiting youth.

To this, Dujana says that the people understand the reality, and abruptly ends the call, even as the officer makes repeated pleas to him to surrender.