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== Biography ==
Burhan Wani was born in Dadsara[[Dadasara]] village of [[Tral]] area in [[Pulwama district]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]] to Muzaffar Ahmad Wani, principal of a government higher secondary school and Maimoona Muzaffar, a [[postgraduate]] of science who taught [[Quran]] in her village.<ref name="TIE" /> He had four siblings, including his elder brother Khalid Muzaffar Wani, sister Iram Muzaffar and two younger brothers, one of whom is Naveed Alam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/violence-breaks-out-in-tral-after-youth-killed-in-gun-battle-with-army/article7102391.ece|title=Violence breaks out in Tral after youth killed in 'gun battle' with Army|date=15 April 2015|work=[[The Hindu]]|accessdate=9 July 2016}}</ref><ref name="IBT">{{cite news|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.in/kashmir-edge-after-hizbul-mujahideen-militant-burhan-wanis-killing-686048|title=Kashmir tense after Hizbul Mujahideen militant Burhan Wani's killing|work= [[International Business Times]]|date=10 July 2016|accessdate=10 July 2016}}</ref><ref name="TIE">{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/big-picture-guns-n-poses/|title=Guns 'n' poses: The new crop of militants in Kashmir|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=26 July 2015|accessdate=24 July 2016}}</ref><ref name="HP">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.in/burhan-wani/who-was-burhan-wani-and-why-is-kashmir-mourning-him/|title=Who Was Burhan Wani And Why Is Kashmir Mourning Him?|first=Piyasree|last=Gupta|work=[[HuffPost]]|date=11 July 2016|accessdate=23 July 2016}}</ref> TraI has been a perpetual hot-bed of hardliner separatist insurgency.<ref name=theweek18Oct15>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theweek.in/theweek/statescan/terrorist-burhan-muzaffar-wani-made-militancy-look-glamorous-in-kashmir.html|title=Groups of wrath|last=Bhat|first=Tariq|date=18 October 2015|work=[[The Week]]|access-date=|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Burhan Wani planned to be a doctor and had obtained more than 90% marks in his Class 8 exam<ref name=hindustantimes19Aug15>{{citation |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/burhan-wani-the-new-face-of-kashmiri-militancy-in-virtual-world/story-gV6cBYVcdisOhzrlDcTncL.html|title=Burhan Wani: The new face of Kashmiri militancy in virtual world|date=19 August 2015|work=Hindustan Times|language=en|access-date=20 January 2020 |first1=Toufiq |last1=Rashid}}</ref> but left his home on 16 October 2010, ten days before his secondary exam and enrolled for the militant cause at about an age of 15, joining Hizbul Mujahideen.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news18.com/news/india/hizbul-commander-burhan-wani-killed-in-encounter-in-kashmir-1267434.html|title=Hizbul Commander Burhan Wani Killed in Encounter in Kashmir|date=8 July 2016|accessdate=9 July 2016|publisher=[[News18.com]]}}</ref><ref name="Most-wanted" /> His family claims that the root of his disillusion with Indian state apparatus laid in an incident in the last summer, whence state police allegedly beat him up, along with his brother Khalid and a friend for no fault of theirs, after asking them to purchase cigarettes for them.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/burhan-wani-father-remembers-sons-life|title=A Year After Burhan Wani's Death, His Father Remembers His Life|last=Maqbool|first=Majid|website=The Caravan|language=en|access-date=2020-01-20}}</ref><ref name=theweek18Oct15 /><ref name="TIE" /> Burhan's cousins were already involved with the militant movement since about 2008, and had joined Hizbul Mujahideen in 2010.<ref name=theweek18Oct15 />