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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Hizbul Mujahideen confirms ex-AMU scholar Manaan Wani joining its rank
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Hizbul Mujahideen confirms ex-AMU scholar Manaan Wani joining its rank

Former AMU scholar Manaan Wani has joined the Hizbul Mujahideen, the group's Pakistan-based chief Syed Salahuddin said in a statement to local media

Hizbul Mujahideen’s Pakistan-based chief Syed Salahuddin confirmed Manaaan Wani’s induction in the group. Photo: PTIPremium
Hizbul Mujahideen’s Pakistan-based chief Syed Salahuddin confirmed Manaaan Wani’s induction in the group. Photo: PTI

Srinagar: Former Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) scholar Manaan Wani has joined the Hizbul Mujahideen, the group’s Pakistan-based chief Syed Salahuddin said in a statement to local media.

“Joining of Manaan Wani exposes the Indian propaganda that the youths of Kashmir are joining militant ranks due to unemployment and economic distress," Salahuddin said in the statement to a Srinagar-based news gathering agency on Monday.

Wani, who belongs to Tikipora in Lolab area of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, went missing last week. He was scheduled to return home from Delhi on 6 January. The 26-year-old scholar was on Monday expelled by AMU following reports that he may have joined the terror group after his photograph, showing him with an AK-47 rifle, appeared in social media.

“From years on, educated and qualified youths of Kashmir have been joining Hizbul Mujahideen to take this ongoing freedom movement to logical conclusion. This spirit of youths is laudable," Salahuddin said, confirming that Wani had joined Hizbul Mujahideen, in the statement in Urdu.

Police had on Monday refused to deny or confirm the reports of Wani’s joining the terror group, saying they were investigating the photograph of him brandishing the rifle on social media sites.

Wani was a researcher in the Department of Geology at the Aligarh Muslim University, and last attended class on 2 January, the university officials said.

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Published: 09 Jan 2018, 03:04 PM IST
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