I believe in Punjab there was also the vendetta when DGP's son was killed by the militants.
The reality check is while India always blames Pakistan for pushing militants into the IOK, here you have a local fighter whose killing has caused such a backlash, it kills the myth that locals don't support the freedom struggle.
Few do, that is agreed. Anyone who says otherwise is fed on misinformation.
But majority don't really care. Anyways ..Pakistan is not clean handed. The local numbers of militants are too insignificant to bother.
But you do need to think as to why he was allowed to live so long? With all our DFs and off air interceptors, you would expect him to have been eliminated easily, yet he lived .. and he was under surveillance. That is the interesting question to ponder over.