{"id":68184,"date":"2024-12-06T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/06\/fisher-of-people-kashmiri-man-saves-hundreds-drowning-retrieves-bodies"},"modified":"2024-12-06T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T06:00:47","slug":"a-fisher-of-people-the-kashmiri-man-who-has-saved-hundreds-from-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68184","title":{"rendered":"A fisher of people: the Kashmiri man who has saved hundreds from drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Salaam Dar fishes for a living, but he is also regularly called upon to help rescue people \u2013 dead and alive \u2013 from the region\u2019s waters<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Salaam Dar has been fishing for most of his life. From Lelhar Kakapora, a hamlet along the Jhelum River in Kashmir, 69-year-old Dar sells his catch at local markets.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a fisher of people. For the past 30 years, he has rescued hundreds of people and pulled out 47 corpses from rivers in the valley.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/06\/fisher-of-people-kashmiri-man-saves-hundreds-drowning-retrieves-bodies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Salaam Dar fishes for a living, but he is also regularly called upon to help rescue people \u2013 dead and alive \u2013 from the region\u2019s watersAbdul Salaam Dar has been fishing for most of his life. From Lelhar Kakapora, a hamlet along the Jhelum River in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,432,79,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-kashmir","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68185,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68184\/revisions\/68185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}