{"id":304056,"date":"2018-10-12T08:07:23","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304056"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T08:07:23","slug":"jammu-and-kashmir-separatists-call-for-shutdown-over-ph-d-scholar-killing-hits-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/jammu-and-kashmir-separatists-call-for-shutdown-over-ph-d-scholar-killing-hits-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Jammu and Kashmir: Separatists call for shutdown over Ph.D scholar killing hits valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-304057 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Manan-Wani-jpg-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Manan-Wani-jpg-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Manan-Wani-jpg-448x420.jpg 448w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/Manan-Wani-jpg.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Separatists in Jammu and Kashmir called shutdown on Friday to protest over the killing of a Manan Bashir Wani, a Ph.D scholar-turned-militant commander in a gunfight in Kupwara district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Militant Wani was a scholar in the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh before joining militancy in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He belonged to Lolab area of Kupwara district where hundreds of mourners attended his funeral on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Restrictions have been imposed in the district to prevent protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Militant Wani and his accomplice Ashiq Zargar, were killed\u00a0by the security forces on Thursday at Shartgund Qalamabad village during a cordon-and-search operation after getting tip-off about their presence through intelligence inputs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Businesses, shops and educational institutions remained closed along with other district headquarters of the valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Train services between north Kashmir&#8217;s Baramulla town and the Bannihal town in Jammu region were also suspended as a precautionary measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were deployed in the old city area and other law and order sensitive places of Kashmir valley.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separatists in Jammu and Kashmir called shutdown on Friday to protest over the killing of a Manan Bashir Wani, a Ph.D scholar-turned-militant commander in a gunfight in Kupwara district. Militant Wani was a scholar in the Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh before joining militancy in January. He belonged to Lolab area of Kupwara district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2016,2009,2014],"tags":[1141,4168,137,5060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304058,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304056\/revisions\/304058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}