{"id":10865,"date":"2018-01-08T19:35:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=10865"},"modified":"2018-01-08T19:35:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T14:05:33","slug":"family-of-phd-scholar-who-joined-hizb-in-mourning-urges-him-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=10865","title":{"rendered":"Family of PhD scholar who joined Hizb in mourning, urges him to return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother says \u2018he should come back, won\u2019t let him study more, live in penury\u2019   <\/i><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Srinagar, Jan 8 : <\/span><\/b>Family of Mannan Wani, a PhD scholar of AMU who announced his joining the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant organization, are in mourning and demanded him to return back home.  <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cHe has taken this decision himself and without consulting me. He knows and understands how much he has pained his \u2018papa\u2019 and saddened his mammy; how much he has upset his lone sister,\u201d Bashir Ahmad Wani, father of the 26-year-old told reporters at his residence at Takipora village in Kupwara district of north Kashmir.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a mature person and I was never expecting this from him. If he has any issues, he could have addressed it some other way. I have no words to express what we are going through and everything is before you (referring to family\u2019s mourning.\u201d He according to GNS said Mannan\u2019s joining (Hizb-ul-Mujahideen) was \u201cshocking news.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe is very talented. The talent he posses, he could have done a lot. It is very unfortunate. On December 3, there was last contact with him. He sent pictures to his sisters and since then there is no contact with him,\u201d he said. Mannan was doing PhD in geology in Aligarh Muslim University, he confirmed.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

His mother said urged Mannan to come back. \u201cI would not let him to study more. I don\u2019t want his degree or employment. We will live in penury. Kindly get him back,\u201d she said as broke down.   <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Mannan announced his joining Hizbul Mujahideen outfit by uploading on social media pictures in which he poses with an AK rifle.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

He was pursuing his Phd in Geology at Algarh Milam University. Since last five years he was in AMU where from he completed his Mphill.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

 \u201cWe are investigating the case of the Phd student who left his studies to become a militant and his photograph holding an AK assault rifle was doing rounds on social media,\u201d a police officer, as reported already, told GNS. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The police was trying to ascertain how the student left his studies to join the militant group, the officer had said. (GNS)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother says \u2018he should come back, won\u2019t let him study more, live in penury\u2019    Srinagar, Jan 8 : Family of Mannan Wani, a PhD scholar of AMU who announced his joining the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant organization, are in mourning and demanded him to return back home.   \u201cHe has taken this decision himself and without consulting me. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10865","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\/10865","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=10865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10865\/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=10865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}