A girl in Jammu's Rajouri district has given women the strength to stand up against attacks by terrorists.
Young Ruksana Kausar proudly shows off the AK-47 which saved her from six terrorists who attacked her.
Mustering all her courage, the frail 18-year-old managed to get her hands on an axe, attacked one of them with it and then shot him dead with his own gun.
The brave girl snatched the assault rifle from one of the terrorists, shot one to death, injured another and send the others running for their lives.
It helped that Ruksana was trained by the village defence committee how to fire a Kalashnikov assault rifle.
“When I saw my parents lying unconscious, I thought they’d died. A divine force gave me the courage to pull down the terrorist by his hair, hit him with the axe and snatch his rifle. I pushed a terrorist into the wall. I hit him with the butt of the gun and then fired several times," says Ruksana.
The six suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists had barged into her home on Sunday evening asking her family to hand her over.
When her parents refused they were beaten up. Then her brother attacked the terrorists with an axe and Ruksana went for a terrorist's gun.
The police got to know of it only after the fight was over.
"These people handed us the weapons and informed us about the encounter," says Shabbir Choudhary, SP, Rajouri.
Ruksana's family now fear retaliatory attacks from the terrorists and has asked the local police and the Army to protect them.