New Delhi: Nearly one-and-half months after Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani’s  death in an anti-terror operation, his wife said I did not cry when I was told he is no more.   

on a day the government announced the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award, for Wani . His wife said, "I did not cry when I was told he is no more. There was an inner resolve which did not allow me to cry.” She further added, “He loved me so much. For me, he was my guiding light. He always encouraged all of us to make people around us happy, to resolve people's problems.”

Wani hailed from Cheki Ashmuji in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir is a militant-turned-soldier who had joined the Army's 162 Infantry Battalion (Territorial Army) Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry in 2004, will be conferred the award posthumously on Saturday by President Ram Nath Kovind.

On November 25, Wani lost his life in a counter-terror operation against six terrorists in Hirapur village near Batgund, in Shopian.  Under intense hail of bullets from the terrorists, he killed the 'district commander' of the Lashkar-e-Taiba and one foreign terrorist.