{"id":10848,"date":"2018-01-08T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2018-01-08T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:44:21","slug":"kashmir-research-scholar-joins-hizbul-family-says-lost-contact-after-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=10848","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir research scholar \u2018joins Hizbul\u2019, family says lost contact after new year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wani\u2019s brother said his brother left home for Aligarh a month ago. \u201cAll this time, we thought he was in Aligarh. He would talk to us regularly. We don\u2019t have any idea where he is,\u201d he said.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

A research scholar from Kupwara in J&K has appeared in a photograph posted on social media holding an under barrel grenade launcher, with a message claiming that he has joined the militancy. Mannan Wani, son of Bashir Ahmad Wani, joined the Hizbul Mujahideen on January 5, states the message along with the photograph that appeared on<\/span> <\/span>Facebook<\/a> <\/span>and WhatsApp.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

According to Wani\u2019s family, he was pursuing his PhD in applied geology at Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
\nSpeaking to The Indian Express, Wani\u2019s brother, Mubashir Ahmad, a junior engineer, said: \u201cWe have also seen the picture on social networking sites. But we have no idea (whether he has joined militants or not). We lost contact with him on January 4 as his phone was switched off. We thought he had switched it off for some reason or lost it. As we couldn\u2019t contact him, we lodged a missing report with police on Saturday.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

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Officials at AMU could not be contacted for comment but the university\u2019s official website states that Wani, 26, was pursuing a PhD on \u2018Structural and Geo-Morphological Study of Lolab Valley, Kashmir\u2019. According to the website, he received an award for the best paper presented at an international conference on \u2018Water, Environment, Ecology and Society\u2019 in 2016. It states that he enrolled in AMU after doing his Bachelor\u2019s in Geology and Earth Sciences from the University of Kashmir. He completed his Master\u2019s and MPhil in Geology from AMU, it says.<\/i><\/p>\n

Wani\u2019s brother said his brother left home for Aligarh a month ago. \u201cAll this time, we thought he was in Aligarh. He would talk to us regularly. We don\u2019t have any idea where he is,\u201d he said. SSP Kupwara Shamsheer Khan did not respond to requests from The Indian Express seeking comment. But sources said Wani was active during the recent student elections at the university.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

He had also apparently penned several articles on student politics on an online portal, thecompanion.com. Wani\u2019s biographical sketch on the portal describes him as a research scholar at AMU who is a \u201cstudent activist having interest in geopolitics and Islamic revivalist movements\u201d.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wani\u2019s brother said his brother left home for Aligarh a month ago. \u201cAll this time, we thought he was in Aligarh. He would talk to us regularly. We don\u2019t have any idea where he is,\u201d he said. A research scholar from Kupwara in J&K has appeared in a photograph posted on social media holding an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}