{"id":16379,"date":"2019-02-02T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=16379"},"modified":"2019-02-02T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T14:34:02","slug":"gun-wielding-picture-of-srinagar-youth-triggers-storm-mother-appeals-for-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=16379","title":{"rendered":"Gun wielding picture of Srinagar youth triggers storm, mother appeals for return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><i>We are ascertaining veracity of photograph of Danish, says Police<\/i><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><i>Srinagar, Febuary 02:<\/i><\/strong><i> The family of a 22-year-old youth from Natipora area of Srinagar on Saturday made a passionate appeal for his return after his gun-wielding picture surfaced on the social media taking his family by a storm.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Danish Haneef Wani went missing soon after he left home for prayers in the nearby mosque on December 30. His family lodged a missing report at police station Chanapora on the next day. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>However, a picture of Wani holding a gun and a copy of Qur\u2019an in his hand surfaced on social media on Saturday. According to the picture, Wani has joined Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group on January 8. \u201cHe was never detained nor did he participate in any protest. He has completed his B.Com,\u201d said Shoaib Haneef Wani, his younger brother told KNO.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Son of a government employee, Danish would always obey to his parents and never turn down their orders. \u201cOn December 30 last year, he left his home to offer Zuhr prayers but didn\u2019t return,\u201d said Shoaib. \u201cHe never discussed about joining militancy of leaving home. Today, we were surprised to see his photograph where-in he is wielding a gun and holding a copy of quran in his hands.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A senior police officer said they were verifying the authenticity of the photograph. \u201cWe are in touch with his parents and hope that Danish pays heed to his mother\u2019s passionate appeal and would return home soon,\u201d he said.  In December last year, police had persuaded Ehtesham Bilal, a resident of Khanyar area of Srinagar, who had purportedly joined.(KNO)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are ascertaining veracity of photograph of Danish, says Police Srinagar, Febuary 02: The family of a 22-year-old youth from Natipora area of Srinagar on Saturday made a passionate appeal for his return after his gun-wielding picture surfaced on the social media taking his family by a storm. Danish Haneef Wani went missing soon after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16379","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\/16379","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=16379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16379\/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=16379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}