{"id":16717,"date":"2019-02-18T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=16717"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:10:55","slug":"sopore-youths-gun-wielding-picture-goes-viral-family-rejects-says-he-is-pursuing-education-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=16717","title":{"rendered":"Sopore youth\u2019s gun-wielding picture goes viral; family rejects, says he is pursuing education in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Sopore, Feb 18:<\/i><\/strong><i> A family in Sopore town of north Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district on Monday rejected the joining into militancy ranks of their son whose gun-wielding picture has surfaced on social media.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>According to the family, the youth Sadat Amin Malik Son of Mohammad Amin Malik, a resident of Krankshivan Colony Sopore, is pursuing Engineering in Pakistan.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The family members questioned the authenticity of the picture, asserting that they are still in contact with him in Pakistan.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>On Sunday evening, his gun-wielding picture surfaced on social media\u2014the trend Kashmiri youth follow to announce their joining into militant ranks.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Meanwhile, SSP Sopore Javeed Iqbal when contacted told GNS that soon after the picture went viral on social media a team of police visited his home.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>However, he said, the family informed that their son is pursuing education in Pakistan. The SSP said that police was verifying the facts and in this regard, further investigation is underway. (GNS)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sopore, Feb 18: A family in Sopore town of north Kashmir\u2019s Baramulla district on Monday rejected the joining into militancy ranks of their son whose gun-wielding picture has surfaced on social media. According to the family, the youth Sadat Amin Malik Son of Mohammad Amin Malik, a resident of Krankshivan Colony Sopore, is pursuing Engineering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717","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=16717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}