SRINAGAR: An MBA graduate from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University , Haroon Abbas Wani, has joined the terror outfit Hizbul Mujahideen Posing with an AK-47 rifle, his picture went viral across Jammu and Kashmir . Wani, according to the picture, has joined the outfit on September 1, 2018.Haroon Abbas Wani, is from Furqaanabad Ghat in Doda, of Jammu division.A young man Abid Hussian Bhat from Sazan area in Doda in Jammu joined Lashkar-e-Taiba on July 1, 2018. He was killed on July 25 this year in an encounter at Anantnag in south Kashmir.Haroon was a good student and is one of the four children of parents Ghulam Abbas Wani and Shamima Begum.The family came to know about him only through the picture that went viral on social media , after he went missing on September 1.Knowing this, the parents urged their son to shun the path of violence and return to his home."You have put us in trouble. How can we survive without you? I am suffering," mother Shamima Begum reminded her son Haroon.The reports said the entire village was shocked to learn that Haroon Wani had joined militancy."I was in Doda when I got a call from some relatives, who were inquiring about the viral picture of a youth resembling like Haroon. They forward me the picture. I was shocked," said Haroon's uncle Farooq Ahmed Wani."He mostly stayed out for his work. So we don't have any idea about his motivation to join militancy," Farooq said adding, "his mother, the whole family and the villagers want Wani to give up violence and return home."Haroon and his siblings are good at studies. The Wani family enjoys a good reputation in Doda town."Haroon had got several job offers given his good score in MBA. Presently, he was working with a pharmacy company," Haroon's uncle said.The police are ascertaining facts after Wani's picture surfaced on social media. "We are confirming from our sources whether he has joined the militancy," a senior police officer said.A senior police officer said, there has been a significant increase in the number of militants in Jammu and Kashmir. In 2017, 126 youth from Kashmir Valley joined militancy.The official figures compiled by police revealed that 327 militants are active in the valley of which 211 are locals and 116 are foreigners.