MUSTAFA KHAN

In quite a number of chargesheets framing innocent Muslim youths

in fabricated cases of terrorism across the country the anti-terrorist
senior officers leitmotif is: jihadi terrorism is behind 9/11, hence it
is also behind terrorism in India. Invariably Muslims are terrorists,
hence Students Islamic Movement of India must be banned and
POTA and other harsher and draconian laws should be promulgat-
ed to punish Muslims. This anti-Muslim bias permeated from the
highest ranking police officers to the lowest policeman with some
exceptions here and there. This went so far that the superintendent
of police in Dhule observed after the 2008 communal flare up that
the Muslims are by nature the masterminds behind all terrorism.
A month later, he made the observation, Hemant Karkare surprised
everyone by his empirical investigation on seizing Sadhvi
Pragyasingh Thakurs motorcycle in Bhiku Chowk on 29 September
2008 after the blast.
Since then more and more cases have, albeit belatedly, shown
the involvement of Hindutva terrorists in the past incidents of terror
and even those that followed on the heels of the assassination of
Karkare. One such revelation in July 2013 was by the Gujarat police
officer Satish Verma inquiring into the fake encounter of Ishrat
Jahan and others, that Intelligence Bureau was behind the
Parliament attack on 13 December 2001 and also 26th November
2008 attacks in Mumbai. But what struck many was that Verma
said the motive behind the attacks was to enact harsher stringent
laws against terrorism. This also crystallizes the issue that harsher
laws are of course meant for applying against Muslims accused in
terrorism. The terrorists behind the first serial bomb blasts on
12 March 1993 in Mumbai (Bombay, then) were Muslims. But the
extremists among Hindus who slaughtered the Muslims in the city
including Shiv Sena leader Madhukar Saroptdar who distributed
arms and the Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray who exhorted
Hindus to teach the Muslims a lesson and his followers went scot-
free. One day after the tenth anniversary of the Bombay serial
blasts, terror struck the cosmopolitan city again. The police bias
against Muslims had deepened and there was government policy of
medals, monetary awards and out-of-turn promotion for police and
the police wanted quick results for that inducement and incentive.
The arrest of Malegaons Muzammil Akhtar fits in this recurrent pat-
tern or common design. Another dimension of the common design
was that Muslims take revenge of 1992 demolition of Babri mosque
and mark the anniversary with violent revenge. Hence the Mulund
train attack of 13th March 2003 in Mumbai must be seen as
revenge of Muslims. The possibility of Hindutva camouflaging this
pretext to attack was thrown to the winds.
Of all the innocent Muslims having wasted their youth in Indian
prisons for having committed no crime, let alone an act of terror-
ism, the case of stripling youth Muzammil Akhtar stands out as the
most glaring instance of justice delayed is justice denied. And quite
agonizing is that the world has allowed him to remain in anonymity
as a nonentity.
A youth working as a mechanical engineer in an office of Vashi,
Mumbai, he had yet to dream of having a family and how to settle
down with a host of expectations and dreams for the future conju-
gal life. The police atrophied all that in him which other youths of
India are bristling with when in new jobs.
Instead of that bright optimism of the youths contemporaneous
to him, Muzammils youth was snuffed out with police slamming
charges against him in four terror attacks and courts denying him
bail five times when the other fifteen accused in the same four
attacks were given bail and discharged.
In his absence behind jail walls, life of his family suffered heavy
toll. His younger sister died but he was not allowed to attend the last
rites let alone have a last glimpse when she was seriously and ter-
minally ill. Shahenaz Akhtar, proficient in English, was a trained
teacher with D. Ed. Degree and was preparing for a job. But the ten-
sion of her brother in jail on false charges took her life in November
2006. For three years since his arrest, she took it to her heart and
wailed. She would always bemoan that her father had given them
education but it could not help her brother to get justice. As if that
was not enough, mounting costs of fighting his legal case forced
the family to sell off their residential house in a middle class neigh-
bourhood in 2009 and move to a wasteland of a quadrilateral of
buildings with powerlooms with few workers within and no humans
outside, deserted barrack-like walls and tin roofs filled with only iron
machines devoid of any family except his living in a corner. From the
middle class area teeming with human sound and activity, they were
now in a Sargasso Sea of monotonous and ceaseless noise
machines that made their situation like what Prof Abdul Shaban of
Tata Institute of Social Sciences called in his study of Malegaon a
living hell, more a space fit for dying than for living. Or what
T. S. Eliot describes:
What branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish?
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief
And the dry stone no sound of water.
From the proceeds of the sale of their ancestral house, they paid the
legal fees to the lawyers. As Alfred Dreyfus, the Jew, was accused
of passing secret information to Germany and thus betraying France
at the time of war, Muzammil was also charged with acts of terror-
ism and exploding bombs at the behest of Lashkar-e-Toiba. Dreyfus
was falsely accused in 1894 and imprisoned for ten years pending
trial and ultimately exonerated in 1906 so is the case of Muzammil.
But till today there is no sign of light at the end of the tunnel, ten
years on.
There were four bomb attacks between 2 December 2002 and
13 March 2003:
1) Bomb explosion in a bus outside the railway station at Ghatkoper
on 2 December
2) Bomb explosion at McDonald joint on 6 December
3) Bomb explosion at the market place in Vile Parle on 28 January
2003
4) Bomb explosion in a first class compartment of a local train at
Mulund on 13 January, 2003
There are basic structural faults in the police version of the four
blasts. The blast of 13 March took place on a day that also saw the
police arresting Dawood Ibrahims brother Iqbal Kaskar under
MCOCA. Was the bomb exploded to protest against the arrest and
warn of serious consequences? If so, it cannot be to mark the 10th
anniversary of 12 March 1993 serial bomb attacks. Those behind it
wanted to give a signal and not take revenge. The 6 December
attack synchronized with the Ayodhya mosque demolition. But
ascribing revenge of Muslim is untenable because life in the coun-
try had become normal as far as protest against the Babri mosque
demolition is concerned.
Another reason for involvement in terror was that Muzammil
who, lived in Kurla, had been collecting relief fund for the Muslims
affected by the pogroms in Gujarat in 2002. He would collect dona-
tions and deposit in the local relief committee centre there. Such
donations are regularly collected and sent to affected members of
the community after floods, riots or the pogroms in Gujarat.
There are many reasons why the Mulund case investigation
has gone haywire. One, that the four blasts of 2002 and 2003
were clubbed together and common accused were blamed for
all the blasts. The fact is that Muzammil had not earlier met or
talked to any of the other accused. There is no corroborative evi-
dence that they were all engaged in any conspiracy, especially
in the case of Muzammil. The investigation officers have used
almost identical language in writing their chargesheets.
Muzammil was not a member of SIMI. Khwaja Yunus and
Dr Mateen Ansari of Aurangabad and the rest were innocent.
Mateen had heard Yunus cry in pain and vomit blood when the
police tortured him. This led to the discovery that he was taken
from Mumbai to Aurangabad and on the way, ATS officer Sachin
Vaze killed him and disposed off the body. Vaze alleged that the
car in which he was taking Yunus to Aurangabad had overturned
and Yunus had escaped. Mateen was accused of partially mak-
ing the bomb in his clinic but the police failed to prove this and
he was discharged.
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Of all the innocent Muslims having wasted their
youth in Indian prisons for having committed no
crime, let alone an act of terrorism, the case of
stripling youth Muzammil Akhtar stands out as
the most glaring instance of justice delayed is
justice denied. And quite agonizing is that the
world has allowed him to remain in anonymity as
a nonentity.
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MUSHTAQUE MADNI
Has anyone of us ever heard or read in the
newspapers or tabloids that Pakistani Hindus
were involved in bomb blasts that have been,
since last two decades, taking place in different
cities of Pakistan? Has it ever happened that the
ISI, ostensibly most notorious agency for the
Indian IB-intoxicated media, reported to its
government that the bomb blasts in Pakistani
mosques, shrines and other public places were
being carried out by the radical Hindu groups in
Pakistan having ideological affiliations with RSS,
Abhinav Bharat or Sanatan Sanstha or RAW?
We could only imagine the hysterical hue and
cry the Indian media and a hypocrite Indian gov-
ernment would have created if such an allega-
tion had ever been levelled at Pakistani Hindus.
So, was the Pakistani establishment scared of
Indian government or its transparently pro-RSS
Indian media?
Certainly not. Why on earth an extremely
audacious country, given its hostility and tradi-
tional public rage towards India and that had,
during Ziaul Haq regime, kept the Indian estab-
lishment chewing its lips for full twelve years
while fighting a war against the then USSR and
not even once considered the Indian establish-
ment worth consulting on Afghan (Taliban)-
USSR war, a country armed with nuclear
weapons and enviably close to the emerging
super-power China, was hardly expected to be
on backfoot when it came to dealing with an
ever aggressive Indian establishment. On the
contrary, after every bomb blast, they, like true
professionals, always blamed and banned
Muslim extremist organisations like Lashkar-e-
Toiba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jaish-e-Mohammed
or Pakistani Taliban and never, on any level, tried
to defend them or pass the blame to a weak
minority like Pakistani Hindus. And even for
those bomb blasts that, according to them, were
carried out with the help and support of Indian
agency RAW (as President Pervez Musharraf
once stated in an interview to Mr Rahul, the
anchor of Headlinestoday) they never made a
single mention of any Pakistani Hindus involve-
ment in either of them. Could they not have done
such an easy thing against a soft target? Had
they decided to protect the real culprits and
blame only native Hindus in all the bomb blasts
what could Indian establishment do to them?
For, even otherwise it would be their internal
matter. But despite having had all such easy
options at their disposal, neither Pakistani gov-
ernment, nor Pakistani media, or bureaucracy or
even the worst critics of India in Pakistan ever
blamed, harassed or destroyed a single
Pakistani Hindus life by making such a fake alle-
gation because they knew that Pakistani Hindus,
given their vulnerability and frustration, could do
anything but carry out bomb blasts.
Couldnt the same formula, logically or oth-
erwise, be applied to ever vulnerable Indian
Muslims that they could be anything but terror-
ists? There is a solid and concrete reasoning to
it. Terror-ism, as per the definition, is an ideol-
ogy, a definite doctrine and an unnerving philos-
ophy having its very own fundamentals, which
cannot be carried out without the active con-
nivance of like-minded influential people in the
local system. Secondly, unless there are huge
funds and public sympathy stemming from
sympathetic traders, police officers and general
public, one cant carry out terror activities.
Terrorism is a syndicated concept, not a one-
man mission, wrote Samuel Huttington. Thirdly,
a terrorist is seldom a lumpen element of the
society like a thief, thug, goon, rapist et al.
Nathuram Godse never harmed anyone, never
stole anything, never attempted to rape anyone,
and yet when time came to fulfill his ideological
task, he didnt hesitate to kill the Father of the
Nation.
Ironically and quite ridiculously, for the
Indian media and establishment, terrorism hap-
pens to be a childs play that could be played by
anyone at his/her convenience. More surprising
is the attitude of the learned courts which, apart
from being seemingly ignorant of the theory of
Terror- ism and visibly hell-bent to satisfy the
nations collective conscience, relied on,
rather dared not question, the validity of the con-
cocted stereotype theories of the brazenly com-
munalised IB/ATS across the country, embold-
ening them to carry on with their favourite task
of targeting innocent Muslims.
Therefore, exactly contrary to the Pakistani
attitude towards the culprits of blasts, Indian
media, Intelligence agencies, state and central
governments, bureaucracy, ministries had been
studiously protecting the real culprits who hap-
pened to be their religious brethren and never
lost an opportunity to blame ONLY Muslims,
shamefully counterfeiting a fictional outfit called
Indian Mujahidin for the bomb blasts actually
carried out by the well-organized and system-
supported Hindutva terrorists as was found and
proved in Malegaon blast 2006, Ajmer Sharif
2007, Makka Masjid 2007, Samjhauta Express
and many others.
One can raise, and rightly so, the apathetic
condition of the Pakistani Hindus and the ques-
tionable state of their safety and security. But
one fact remains unaltered that they had never
been targets of State-sponsored carnages,
genocides and pogroms, while in India, pre-
planned, State-sponsored and condoned car-
nages of the minorities, particularly Muslims
and Christians, had been the hallmark of the
Indian democracy for the last sixty-five years.
Little wonder then that the UNs High
Commission for Human Rights had to categori-
cally state that India failed to protect its
Minorities.
Needless to say, however failed or notorious
a state Pakistan may be, its establishment,
agencies and media, fared far better and proved
more professional, truth-seeking and humane
than the so-called impartial and secular Indian
establishment, agencies and media when it
came to dealing with terrorism and undoubtedly
proved a better place for the native Hindus than
India proved to be for its native Muslims.
The author is Editor of Pune-based Usool fortnighty
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SALMAN SULTAN
In the present tough times when constitutional institutions are fast
losing respectability, we steadfastly adhere to our trust in one
revered institution in our secular democratic republic, i.e., judici-
ary. Delhis Saket court verdict in the Batla House fake encounter
in which two boys lost their lives with umpteen bullet holes in their
heads and bodies in addition to torture signs on their bodies, and
an injured inspector who could manage to climb down four stair-
cases and seen walking quite a distance on the road with the sup-
port of his colleagues. Surprisingly, despite being a premeditated
and well-planned police action, neither an ambulance was ready
nearby nor police personnel equipped with hi-fi modern commu-
nication gadgets could think of calling an ambulance to take their
injured colleague to an emergency ward. He was after all a deco-
rated police officer who incidentally was present at the time of
(now clearly stage-managed) Parliament attack. It was easy for
the Police to get roads cleared for the siren blowing ambulance to
reach an awaiting emergency team in the best hospitals of Delhi
(two big hospitals are at walking distance from the scene of the
encounter). It is hard to believe, with late inspector Sharmas
image walking easily on the road etched in our memory, that a
healthy Police inspector died on the way to the hospital which is
barely at a distance of one minute by car from the scene of the
encounter.
Persistent public demand of an impartial judicial enquiry fell
on deaf ears. If in a democracy government is bent upon refusing
genuine popular demands for transparency, then what is the way
out? No one has the right to take innocent lives and allegations
must be proved prior to calling the accused a criminal or a terror-
ist.
Media, supposedly the fourth pillar of democracy, gets away
with all kinds of lies. Electronic and print media waste no time in
associating accused Muslim boys with exotic named outfits min-
utes after a bomb blast and splashes the news in bold headlines
on the screens and on front pages but fail to mention even fleet-
ingly the honourable acquittal of the accused in almost all such
fabricated and framed cases by our revered courts of justice.
Recently, Justice Katju has taken note of such weird behavior
of the media vis--vis a particular community (Muslims) but the
trend still continues. As litigation is exorbitantly expensive and
takes an eon for judgment, individuals or even groups feel shy of
bringing the influential media houses to book.
In Saket Court, defence counsels plea to the honble judge
to inspect the site to have a first-hand knowledge of the locality
was not heeded. With due respect to honble judge, does he think
it is possible for someone to jump from a fourth floor flat and still
survive? Will some healthy and fit police personnel volunteer for
such an experiment?
It is really inexplicable as to why scant respect was shown to
the report Batla House encounter- unanswered questions. I am
not aware if it was mentioned at all in the court proceedings. It is
also inexplicable as to why it took five years for a supposedly, as
per Police version, a straight-jacketed case like this one, to get
decided. Why it took persistent effort and a long time to get post-
mortem report of the two persons who were killed in this fake
encounter and that too through RTI? What about ballistic reports
and the weapon supposedly used to fire upon the injured Police
inspector?
Such fake encounters are in no way limited to one particular
community. Tehelka has exposed vividly through serial photo-
graphs such fake encounters (or cold-blooded murders) in the
north-east. Police personnel are trained to uphold Law, not to
take the Law into their hands. Yet high officials claim that an
enquiry will affect the morale of the Police force. The principle of
justice favours letting scores of criminal go scot-free than letting
an innocent sacrificed on the altar of justice. Should we do away
with our judicial system and let security agencies along with
media frame charges, hold trials and pass and execute judg-
ments?
The Sunday Guardian (8 August, 2013) reports: A glaring
loophole is that there is no mention of a man called Shahzad
Ahmad in the different documents prepared by the police. There
is a Pappu, there is a Shahwaz and then a Shahnawaz. Shahzad
Ahmad finds a mention only in the charge sheet which the police
has filed in the Saket district court. The police claimed that it con-
fiscated Shahzads passport from Batla House at the time of the
encounter. The passport has the name Shahzad Ahmad, but
police documents prepared after the encounter shows his name
as Pappu. Moreover, in its list of those arrested for the 13
September Delhi serial blasts, the police say that Shahzad was
arrested from the Patiala House Court on 6 February 2009. In
reality, he was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorism Squad
on 1 February 2009 from his house in Azamgarh, UP.
Why did the Police lie about the place of his arrest? Have they
not gone through travails of Raja Harish Chandra, who as
guardian of cremation ghat, didnt allow his own son to be cre-
mated in spite of heart rending pleas of his wife. Fortunately, there
are scores of upright fellow Indians who have been nurtured by
their parents and educational institutions to uphold Truth come
what may Jaan jaye par vachan na jaye is the famous say-
ing for them.
A supposedly esteemed daily The Hindu (23 September,
2008) reported: Among those present at the cemetery was the
former municipal councillor, Mohammad Asif Khan, who demand-
ed a judicial probe into the shootout. We should not be seen as
supporters of terrorists. But we should know what exactly tran-
spired there. According to the police, two militants managed to
escape during the encounter, but there is only one entry-exit to the
flat on the fourth floor where they were living. A photograph of the
injured Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma being taken away by two
persons shows that he had no injuries in the stomach, as being
reported. Showing a copy of the purported tenant verification
form submitted by Mohammad Bashir alias Atif to the area police
station, Asif demanded a probe into the authenticity of the form
and the police seal on it. Another local resident, Naushad, said:
The police are hiding something, or else they would have allowed
the media to visit the flat after the encounter. While in other
encounters, they display the weapons seized from terrorists, in
this case they have not done that.
Prior to his arrest, Shahzad was demonized through electron-
ic media as one flying planes simulating the attack on the twin
trade towers in New York! Poor chap! He just had the ambition to
become a pilot as narrated by his close relatives but in all proba-
bility he had only filled a form for such training.
National Human Rights Commission also relied on the Police
reports but incidentally the two Police reports submitted to NHRC
were contradictory. One report placed it as a fake encounter.
For arguments sake, lets accept the Police version and
accept these kids as dreaded terrorists though one of the mur-
dered youth was just 17 and had ventured out of his village for the
first time in pursuit of good education. Now if our security agen-
cies are so damn sure about the identity of these kids, why they
took such a long time for framing charges and opted all kinds of
dilly-dallying tactics to prolong the trial? They failed to produce
independent witnesses when this fake encounter took place in
broad daylight in a crowded locality of the national capital.
Is Justice literally blind?
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Respond now if you care about your
community
White Paper on Terrorism
The issue of fake terrorism charges and the unjust arrests and defamation of our community,
especially since 2001, is the biggest challenge facing the community ever since. A grand con-
spiracy hatched by the powers that be, IB, Police and media, has sullied and defamed our com-
munity. This campaign has affected our lives, peace of mind and has thwarted our efforts to
progress and educate our children to join the national mainstream.
Our efforts so far to present our case, to bring out our innocence and force the national and
state governments to listen to our grievances have mostly failed. All we have received are a few
words of solace which have no real meaning and have not changed the situation on the ground.
Our children by their thousands are still languishing in jails on the basis of fake confessions
obtained through torture and blackmail.
As a long-term solution and a serious response to this problem thrust upon us, AIMMM
decided last year to bring out a white paper on the Muslim-related terrorism in the country. The
work is going on with all seriousness and many researchers, scholars and journalists are busy
preparing writeups on various aspects of this issue, covering the history, genesis, communal-
ism, vested interests in various related fields, analysis of various laws like TADA, POTA and
UAPA, fake encounters, narco tests, torture, acquittals, IB & Police role, media attitude, case
studies, statewise surveys, SIMI, Indian Mujahidin, Hindutva terror, individual tragedies of vic-
tims, Azamgarh, Bhatkal, Malegaon, Darbhanga modules, some basic documents, etc., etc.
The target is to bring out this white paper during the next seven months and to release it in
a big convention at Delhi as a combined effort of major Muslim and civil rights organisations,
and thereafter present this huge document of over 600 large format pages to politicians, media,
human rights organisations, especially outside the country, in order to enlighten public opinion
at home and abroad as well as to build pressure on our blind and deaf government.
The estimated cost of this white paper is Rs 35 lakh divided as follows: Rs 15 lakh cost of
preparation and payments to contributors plus six months salaries to researchers and experts;
Rs 15 lakh for designing and printing the document in a world-class format; while the grand con-
vention at Delhi will cost at least 5 lakh. Effort will be made to release the White Paper in some
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Sabha in May 2010 but before it could be passed by
the Rajya Sabha, differences arose among Muslim
religious leaders and organisations, particularly
about a note reportedly inserted at the behest of
the All India Muslim Personal Law Board allowing
the sale of waqf properties under adverse occupa-
tion or where they become useless. Various schol-
ars and organisations, especially the All India
Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat spoke against this
provision. Those who opposed it included Board
member Maulana Ahmad Ali Qasmi, Mufti Ataur
Rahman Qasim and Muhammad Adeeb (MP) who
held the view that sale of Waqf properties is not per-
missible in the countrys prevailing conditions. Their
argument was that about 75 percent of waqf prop-
erties have already been lost or sold unscrupulous-
ly and if sale is allowed legally, it will result in further
great loss of Waqf properties. The opponents said
that though allowed by many fiqhi scholars (and
opposed by others), such a provision in the prevail-
ing conditions in the country will open a floodgate to
sell whatever is left of waqf properties. AIMMM
president Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan wrote letters to the
Minority Minister K Rahman Khan and AIMPLB
chairman Maulana Muhammad Rabey Hasani
Nadwi.He also led a delegation which met the
Minority Minister who said that this matter should be
amicably sorted out among the Muslim scholars.
The issue had become serious due to reportage in
Urdu press of both pro- and anti-AIMPLB note
which allowed sale of such properties under condi-
tions and with the exception of mosques, dargahs,
imambaras and graveyards.
Hence a meeting was held in Delhi on 30 July. It
consisted of AIMPLB members and other scholars
and leaders of the community where it was decided
that the Minority Ministry should be asked to overlook
the earlier request to allow sale of waqf properties. It
was also decided that mortgage of waqf properties
should also be opposed as it too will lead to the loss
of waqf properties. A delegation of AIMPLB members
and other scholars and leaders of the community met
the Minority minister and conveyed to him this deci-
sion. He assured the delegation that he will try to get
the bill passed during the current monsoon session.
It may be stated that for the first time a Waqf
Act was passed by Parliament in 1954. Some
shortcomings came to fore subsequently and in
order to remove them it was amended in 1995 but
again the need was felt to further amend it and
hence an amended Waqf bill was drawn up. Views
of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the
umbrella body of Muslims of different schools of
thought on Muslim personal law issues, were
sought by the government. The so-called con-
tentious note was a result of such interactions.
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On 30 July, Bihar government amended the
BodhGaya Temple Act 1949. This was the first
time after 1956 that Bihar government did jus-
tice to Gaya District. Since 1949, mostly the
District Magistrate was only a Hindu. In violation
of the Indian Constitution, IAS officers from
minority communities were not found fit to
become Gaya district magistrates because this
district official is the ex officio head of the com-
mittee running the affairs of the Mahabodhi
Vihara which is officially given the Hindu name
of BodhGaya Temple and Vishnu Pada
Temple of Gaya.
Now after the amendment in the 1949 Act,
the district magistrate Gaya of need not be
Hindu.
Secretary of the temple committee too was
mostly Hindu. There was a Hindu secretary from
1949 to 1998, then again from 2001 to 2006.
One Hindu person continued as secretary for 29
years, another for 12 and two held the office for
six years each. Another feature of the Act is that
the mahant of the BodhGaya Saivaite Matth is a
life member in BTMC. It has been alleged that
the recent blasts in Bodhgaya were to stop this
change in the tempt Act.
MP govt order to introduce
Gita in madrassas triggers
storm in Muslim community
Jabalpur: Madhya Pradesh government has
decided to introduce Bhagavad Gita even in the
curriculum of Urdu schools from academic ses-
sion 2013-14, inviting rebuke from opposition
Congress which accused the government of
diverting attention of people from overall mis-
governance.
In its latest circular issued on 1 August,
Shivraj Singh Chouhan government has decided
to add one chapter each based on incidents from
Bhagavad Gita in the textbooks of General Hindi
prescribed to class III-VIII, Special English and
Special Urdu in Class I and II for this academic
session.
The circular came within a month of a 4 July
notification that a chapter based on incidents in
Bhagavad Gita will be added to textbooks of
Special Hindi prescribed to Class IX to Class XII
and Special English in Class XI and XII for the
academic session 2013-14.
Slamming the government move, opposition
Congress today said that the decision was taken
at the behest of RSS and is aimed at dividing
society on communal lines to drive political
mileage in the election year.
In order to divert peoples attention from
basic issues and to spread tension in the state
in an election year, the BJP government, led by
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, has taken refuge under
religion by introducing lessons on Gita in school
syllabus, said Leader of Opposition Ajay Singh.
He said that all religions have their own set-
ups in the state to impart religious education
and they are discharging their responsibilities in
a proper manner.
But with an aim to polarise votes, the chief
minister is including lessons only from a partic-
ular religion in this secular state, Ajay said.
By including teachings of Bhagavad Gita in
schools and madarsas, the Chief Minister has
clearly shown that he is running the government in
the state with the RSS mindset, Ajay added.
Meanwhile, member of the Muslim Personal
Law Board Arif Masood has appealed to
Governor Ram Naresh Yadav to revoke the
order, saying the circular is against the spirit of
Constitution as imparting teachings of a partic-
ular religion is against Rajya Dharma.
After a nationwide storm of protests
against this decision, the M.P. government on
6 August withdrew the circular and
announced that madrasas will not be covered
by this circular. It also said that the proposed
religious material to be taught in schools, apar t
from Gita, will also include subjects of other
religions including a life sketch of Paigambar
Mohammad Sahib, Karbala incident, Guru
Nanak Dev, Gautam Buddha, Mahavir Swami,
Jesus Christ and Khwaja Gharib Nawaz of
Ajmer. Lessons, poems and information on
Christmas, Bibi Fatimas life sketch, Holi, Eid,
Diwali, Onam, Dusshera, Guru Parv and
Mahavir Jayanti will also be included in school
books of various classes, the release said. It
was not clear if the same will be taught in Urdu
schools also.
Mahabodhi temple act amended
555 alleged fake
encounters reported
between 2009-13: Govt
New Delhi: Even as CBI probes the Ishrat
Jahan and Sadiq Jamal alleged fake
encounter cases, at least 555 such alleged
extra-judicial killings have been reported in
the country, including 138 in Uttar Pradesh,
in the last four years.
According to a Home Ministry statis-
tics, a total of 555 cases of alleged fake
encounters by police, defence and paramil-
itary forces were registered by the National
Human Rights Commission (NHRC) since 1
April, 2009 till 15 February, 2013.
Out of the 555 alleged fake encounter
cases, 144 cases have been solved and the
remaining 411 are either being probed by
the police or are before courts for trial or
have been termed as unresolved.
Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest
number of alleged fake encounters in the
last four years -- 138, of which 30 took
place in 2009-10, 40 in 2010-11,42 in
2011-12 and 26 in 2013 (till February).
Manipur recorded 62 alleged fake
encounters, Assam 52, West Bengal 35,
Jharkhand 30 and Chhattisgarh 29 during
the last four years.
For expediting the unresolved cases, con-
certed efforts are being made by NHRC for
obtaining the inquest reports, post-mortem
reports, magisterial inquiry reports etc. from
concerned state governments, sources said.
While in none of the cases, any recom-
mendation for disciplinary action prosecu-
tion of the public servants was made by
NHRC, they did recommend CBI-CID inves-
tigations in some cases.
A total of Rs 11.43 crore financial aid
has also been recommended by the NHRC
in 201 cases of doubtful encounters to the
next of kin of the victims.
The 2004 Ishrat Jahan fake encounter
case in Gujarat continues to dominate pub-
lic discourse as the CBI filed its chargesheet
on 3 July.
The investigating agency is expected to
file a supplementary chargesheet next month
where it may name Special Director in
Intelligence Bureau Rajinder Kumar as one of
the accused.
The CBI is also probing the 2003 Sadiq
Jamal fake encounter case in Gujarat in
which several officials of the Gujarat Police
were allegedly involved.
However, a court in Delhi on Thursday
[25 July] ruled that the 2008 encounter in
Delhis Batla House was a genuine gunbat-
tle between the terrorists of Indian
Mujahideen and police. (PTI, 28 July 2013)
96,000 die every year
due to Hepatitis in India
New Delhi: Nearly 96,000 people die annually
in India due to Hepatitis, which has become a
hidden epidemic and a silent killer, according to
health activists. Legal experts, doctors and
activists brought together by NGO Doctors
Without Borders on 25 July expressed con-
cern over the growing rate of Hepatitis C in the
country. Citing a WHO report, the health
activists said nearly four lakh Indians have been
tested positive for Hepatitis C, leading to
96,000 annual deaths due to the viral infection.
The report said the prevalence of Hepatitis C
is estimated to be within 1.8-2.5 per cent,
while among drug users it is 50-90 per cent.
Most Hepatitis C infections are among
people who inject drugs. Thus, HCV infec-
tiousness is ten times more contagious than
HIV, said Leena Menghaney, a member of
the NGO. The activists also accused the gov-
ernment of failing to formulate a policy to
contain the disease. The failure of the Health
Ministry to initiate steps to prevent the viral
infection and proper treatment facilities is
one of the reasons for spreading of the dis-
ease in India. It is time that we hold the gov-
ernment accountable for protecting public
health, said Anand Grover, lawyer-activist
and Special Rapporteur in UNHRC.
The activists said most often patients diag-
nosed with Hepatitis C lack access to afford-
able and appropriate treatment and medical
care. One vial of interferon alfa by a private
drug company costs Rs 23,100. Multiply the
figure with 48 weeks and thats how much ini-
tial treatment would cost, said Loon Gangte of
Delhi Network of Positive People, a group work-
ing for the welfare of people suffering from
HIV+. (PTI, July 25, 2013)
Proportional
representation of Shia
demanded in govt
N. A. ANSARI
Maulana Kalbe Jawad Naqvi, noted Shia leader and
general secretary of Majlis Ulama-e Hind, while
speaking in a conference at Lucknow on Problems
of Shias on 7 July demanded proportional repre-
sentation of Shia Muslims in government, inclusion
of at least five persons of the Shia community in the
U.P. sate cabinet, proper distribution of tickets by
political parties to Shia candidates in Lok Sabha and
assembly elections, vacation of illegal occupations
of Shia Waqf lands and provision of facilities to Shia
artisans who are mostly engaged in gold embroi-
dery business. He said that all governments in power give at least some
things to all minority communities but the people of Shia community only are
the ones who are deprived of their due rights. Instead of fulfilling their
demands they (governments) are occupying their Waqf lands which they are
selling illegally. The state government which came to power not with the
votes of only one community should give representation to the Shia commu-
nity also in the government. He said that there was no representative of the
Shia community, no one holds any post even in any semi-government office.
How then should they believe that the government is sincere or sympathetic
to the needs of our community whose population in U.P. alone is more than
one crore. He said that people of Shia community do not stand to benefit
from any central or state governments welfare schemes. Hence there should
be a special quota for the people of Shia community. He said that opportuni-
ties of employment for Shia were virtually nil. He said that most of the peo-
ple of the Shia community are engaged in gold embroidery industry whose
economic condition is very critical. Hence facilities provided to bunkers
should also be provided to them so that their economic condition improves.
Friday Imams of the Shia community from about 40 districts of UP par-
ticipated in this Conference and explained the problems being faced by the
Shia in their areas. It was demanded that at least two members of the Shia
community should be inducted in the state cabinet and at least three mem-
bers should be given the rank of ministers of state. For the Lok Sabha 2014
elections, tickets should be given to people of Shia community. It was also
demanded that the Shia Central Waqf Board should be constituted at the ear-
lierst in which, instead of politicians, Ulama and religious people known for
rendering social and national service should be appointed. Facilities given to
bunkers should be provided to people of Shia community also who are main-
ly engaged in gold embroidery (zardozi)) industry and their minimum wages
also should be fixed like those of workers in general. Benefits of the central
and state governments welfare and other schemes should be made available
to people of the Shia community, financial assistance should be provided to
their madrasas and those already being given such assistance, the grants
should be hiked. It was also demanded that at least one member of the Shia
community should be nominated to the Rajya Sabha from UPs quota.
It was decided at this conference that if these demands are not met by
the state government, a large meeting and a rally will be held in Delhi after
the month of Ramadan in which Sunni brethren will also be invited to decide
the future course of action. It was decided that nothing should be done or
said which may hurt the feelings of Sunni brethren and every effort must be
made to strengthen the unity and commonality of interests of the Muslim
community as a whole. Maulana Jawad said in the conference that in order
to keep India united and progressive, Hindus and Muslims both should keep
Narendra Modi away from power at the Centre because, as he said in clear
words, his party is a party with people of fascist mentality who are enemies
of peace and harmony in the country.
Violence in Lucknow
Lucknow: Violence broke out here on 31 July as two groups of same com-
munity fought in the Bazarkhala area after stones were pelted near Bhadenva
telephone exchange on the taboot procession. Following the incident,
groups took to the streets and over a dozen shops and eight vehicles, includ-
ing two trucks were torched. Reportedly a shop was looted. Police resorted
to a lathi-charge to disperse the clashing groups. The situation was quickly
brought under control. Stray incidents of stone pelting, however, were report-
ed in some parts of the city.
All India Shia Personal Law Board spokesperson Maulana Yasoob Abbas,
condemning the violence, alleged that it was all part of a pre-meditated plan
to disrupt the holy month of Ramzaan. He alleged that some women and chil-
dren were injured in the incident but the same was denied by the police.
Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Arun Kumar said
the people who tried to disrupt the procession have been identified and
strict action in accordance with law will be taken against them.
Muslims support Gorkhaland
Darjeeling: The Muslim community in the Hills has maintained not to fanfare
the festive celebration of Id on 9 August, extending support to the ongoing
agitation and shutdown of Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha for the demand of
Gorkhaland.
In support of Gorkhaland, members of the community said that the
community will not seek any relaxation to the shutdown.
Even if Mr Bimal Gurung grants relief to the community for the Id, we
shall neither grant the celebration nor we shall complain, said Mr Abdul
Rashid Butt, secretary to the head of the community organisation, Anjuman-
e-Islamia.
He said: However, all the religious facets of Id will be carried out but
without any fanfare unlike the earlier years.
Further, members of the community maintained that the decision has
been passed to all the Muslim co-ordinates all over the Hills.
He said, We shall also pray for Gorkhaland.
Another member of the community, Mr Ali Akhtar, who is the general
secretary to the GJMM minority front, said: All the communities of the Hills
support the demand of Gorkhaland.
Meanwhile, expressing gratitude to the decision by the community, the
GJMM chief Mr Bimal Gurung said: I am grateful to the Muslim communi-
ty for supporting the Gorkhaland demand by not celebrating their festival of
Id. I am obliged to the Muslim community and I promise we will celebrate Id
on a much bigger margin once we achieve Gorkhaland, Mr Gurung said.
Hindus in Gaya protest against the change in
Mahabodhi temple law
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 16-31 August 2013 5 www.milligazette.com
N. A. ANSARI
New Delhi: The verdict on Batla House encounter of 19 September
2008 was pronounced by a Delhi courts Additional Session
Judge Rajinder Kumar Shastri on 25 July declaring the encounter
genuine and finding the lone accused Shahzad guilty of killing
Delhi Polices Special Cells Inspector M C Sharma and sentenc-
ing him to life imprisonment. On the day the courts verdict was
to be pronounced mediapersons, human rights activists and
Muslim organisations were entertaining the hope that the vedict
would be in accordance with their expectations and in favour of
Shahzad, though some had doubts in view of the fact that despite
some solid proofs and repeated demands for a judicial enquiry,
the government had consistently been rejecting the popular
demand for a high-level judicial enquiry, fearing that if the result of
the judicial enquiry went against the police, it would lower their
morale. However, the verdict surprised and disappointed them all
and sent a gloom among the residents of Okhla, Muslim leaders
in general and the people of Batla House area in south Delhi in par-
ticular as the national media and the police have all along been
projecting the area in a bad light so much so that persons with a
Batla House address have difficulty in getting jobs or loans from
banks.
Shahzads grandfather, Iftekhar Ahmad, in his home-town in
Azamgarh district, while expressing his sorrow, said that he is
sure that Shahzad is innocent because he was not present in L-18
at the time of the encounter. He said that he would challenge this
verdict in the higher court.
Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association headed by Ms Manisha
Sethi, which had been consistently carrying on a campaign
against the fake encounter, expressed its disappointment. The
associations chairperson said courts verdict has disappointed
us very much. She said that we were not expecting such a ver-
dict because Shahzads lawyers had presented their arguments in
a convincing manner. She said that we had demanded a judicial
enquiry which has been denied so far. Prashant Bhushan, human
rights activist and Supreme Court senior lawyer who had demand-
ed an independent investigation into this encounter, expressed his
disappointment over the verdict saying that the police argument
and possibility for Shahzads escape from the flat in the given cir-
cumstance is very weak. No credible explanation has been given
by the police for his alleged escape.
Welfare Party of Indias general secretary Dr Qasim Rasool
Ilyas said in a press statement that Delhi Sesssion Courts verdict
on Batla House encounter is not only unfortunate but contrary to
facts also. He added that the court has ignored many important
legal points raised by the lawyer and has accepted the one-sided
statements of police and its witnesses as the basis of this verdict.
He said that the court neither gave any importance to the circum-
stantial evidences nor to the fact that in this case there is no inde-
pendent witness as the police personnel being victims have
been accepted as witnesses by the court which is not allowed
normally. Describing the court verdict as being against legal facts,
he said that it could not be trusted because in this verdict legal
aspects which were in favour of the defendants have been
ignored.
Head of All India Muslim Majlis Mushawarat Dr Zafarul-Islam
Khan said that even now he is as sure of this encounter being fake
as he was earlier. He said that no doubt, courts pronounce ver-
dicts on the basis of proofs and statements of witnesses but
police methodology in this whole affair is equally doubtful seeing
that police extract confessions from accused persons by using
force and compel them to give false evidences and statements in
courts. He reiterated that in the whole affair a judicial or high level
enquiry should be held.
Asif Muhammad Khan, MLA from Okhla said in clear words
that the Muslim society is in no way prepared to accept the lower
courts verdict in the Batla House encounter case. He said that he
had himself studied all the facts after this encounter on the basis
of which he could say that it was a fake encounter. He said that
the lower courts verdict clearly reflects the police version and he
would stick to his earlier stand that it was, and is, a fake
encounter.
Fatehpuri Masjids Imam Mufti Mukarram Ahmad said that it
has already been stated that it was a fake encounter and was fab-
ricated by the police. He hoped that when an appeal is made in the
High Court, justice would be given. ANHADs head Shabnam
Hashmi said that there are too many loopholes in this verdict
because all the witnesses in this case are associated with Delhi
Polices Special Cell who cannot be trusted. She said that this
encounter had taken place on the occasion of Delhi elections and
hence the demand for judicial enquiry was rejected. She said that
if a judicial enquiry was held, facts would have been revealed.
LJPs Okhla area leader Amanatullah Khan said that they were
pained at the courts verdict because the court has given its ver-
dict merely on the basis of proofs presented by the police while
logical arguments of the defence lawyers have been ignored. He
asked why local people who were eye-witnesses to the encounter
were not called as witnesses by the police whereas all witnesses
produced by the police were its own personnel.
Some people observed that the encounter five years ago had
taken place in the month of Ramadan and now five years later the
verdict is pronounced again in the month of Ramadan. This can-
not be a mere coincidence but a deliberate attempt to hurt the feel-
ings of Muslims. Qayamuddin, a resident of L-16, which is adja-
cent to L-18 in which the encounter took place, said that he saw
that Atif was killed even before the encounter took place.
Dr Tasleem Rahmani, President of Muslim Political Council of
India, said that in the courts verdict trust had been placed on the
police version while other proofs and witnesses have been
ignored. Dr Javed Alam, chairman of the Azamgarh-based
AWMELA, the organization which renders legal help to Shahzad
Ahmad, said that this verdict is surprising because the police
claim that Shahzad Ahmad was present in L-18 at the time of the
encounter and it was he who had fired at Inspector MC Sharma is
wrong because Shahzad was not present in that flat on that day.
Making fun of the police claim that Shahzad had jumped out from
the 4th floor flat of building number L-18 and fled, he said that it
is not simply possible especially when strong police cordon was
placed in advance around the L-18 building. He added that police-
men are quite healthy and strong and also well trained, and there-
fore let a policeman jump form the 45-50 ft high 4th floor of that
building on the hard ground below and let him run away and only
in this case we will believe the police claim that Shahzad had
jumped from the 50 ft high 4th floor flat and ran away!
Contrary to reactions of Muslim leaders and local people,
BJPs spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said that we have been
saying from the very beginning that the encounter was genuine.
On the other hand, Congress Partys general secretary Digvijay
Singh said though we welcome the courts verdict but even then
we stick to our stand that the encounter was fake.
As regards polices repeated claim that Shahzad was an
Indian Mujahindin (IM) man, Judge Rajinder Shastri said in his
verdict that it is difficult to say that he was actually a member of
IM because from the facts presented in the court, his being a
member of IM is not proved. The court also admonished the
police and said that in spite of the fact that they knew that they are
going for an important and risky operation and that firing could
take place from the other side, they did not wear a bullet proof
jacket. This was an unprofessional move, he said. Moreover, two
members of the police team did not carry a single arm. This too
is strange, the judge observed.
Verdict on Batla House encounter and peoples reaction
...the courts acceptance of communal explanation offered by the Additional Public Prosecutor for not
involving local public witnesses as they belonged to the same religion as dangerous, Sanghamitra
Misra, Joint Secretary of JTSA, said that this has lowered the prestige of the judiciary. It also reflects
the institutional bias afflicting the police and prosecution which tend to stereotype Muslims as terror-
ists or sympathisers of terrorists. Sanghamitra said.
Verdict is a mockery of
justice: JTSA
New Delhi: Calling the verdict by a Delhi court holding Shahzad
Ahmad guilty of murder and many other offences in the controver-
sial Batla House encounter case as perverse and a mockery of
justice, the Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association (JTSA) on 31
July expressed shock over the flagrant violation of settled princi-
ples of criminal jurisprudence in the case.
Releasing a 24-page analysis of the judgment entitled
Beyond Reasonable Doubt? The Conviction of Shahzad Ahmad,
in a press conference here, Manisha Sethi, chairperson of of JTSA,
said that the judgment assumes that the facts of the case were
examined by the court as to whether the prosecution had proved
them beyond reasonable doubt. The analysis issued by JTSA is a
point-by-point critique of the court judgement. It also contains
photographs and sketches to explain the objections to the judge-
ment.
Commenting on the theory of the escape of the accused
Shahzad Ahmad which has been accepted by the judge, Sethi said
that the police had claimed that two terrorists managed to escape
from the flat while opening fire on the police, the court comes up
with a completely new story, purely on the basis of conjecture.
Forgetting even the basic legal principle that prosecution must
prove its case in the manner alleged, the court speculates that
these two persons might have taken shelter in some other flat and
then escaped posing as local residents, Sethi said.
Elaborating on the impossibility of any person escaping from
L-18 building, the site of the alleged encounter, Sethi asked, Flat
No. 108, measuring 70 sq yards, is on the fourth floor in the rear
portion of L-18, Batla House. According to the police, a team of
seven members entered to apprehend its occupants. Police
claimed that two terrorists, one of whom is the accused Shahzad
Ahmad, escaped from the front, unlocking the double iron and
wooden doors whilst firing at the police. Is it plausible that two
persons escape from a 70 sq yard flat situated on the fourth floor
of a building when seven policemen have already entered and
many other police men have secured the only exit that the building
had?, Sethi asked adding, The conclusions of the Court in this
case are mere wishful thinking rather than based upon any realis-
tic assessment of the sequence of events and evidence available
on record.
Sethi lamented that the court rejected the request of Shahzad
Ahmad to visit the building in order to take a firsthand look of the
site which would have been sufficient to demolish the police claim.
Addressing mediapersons, Satish Tamta, lawyer of Shahzad
Ahmad, said that the conviction of Shahzad Ahamd was based
upon presumptions and assumptions and not on the basis of
appreciation of evidence. Tamta said the prosecution was required
to prove that the police party was fired upon by the occupants of
the flat no. 108 in L-18, and that the police fired upon them in self-
defence, that Shahzad Ahmad was present there and shared com-
mon intention with others firing upon the police but none of these
claims was proved in court beyond reasonable doubt.
He further said that the prosecution did not explain the injuries
on the bodies of Atif and Sajid who were killed by the police
allegedly acting in self-defence. The plea of self-defence was sim-
ply assumed by court while the prosecution did not even bother to
prove before it.
The post-mortem reports of Atif and Sajid, presented before
the court, showed that almost all entry wounds of bullets on the
body of Atif were on the backside which showed that he was
repeatedly shot from behind. Similarly, entry points of all of the gun
shot injuries received by Sajid strongly suggested that he was held
down by force while bullets were pumped down. Besides, bodies
of Atif and Sajid also had many non-gunshot injuries. In the
absence of an explanation of the injuries on the body of Atif and
Sajid, the plea of self-defence could not have been believed but the
judgment brushed aside these points by conjecture, Tamta said.
Terming the courts acceptance of communal explanation
offered by the Additional Public Prosecutor for not involving local
public witnesses as they belonged to the same religion as dan-
gerous, Sanghamitra Misra, Joint Secretary of JTSA, said that
this has lowered the prestige of the judiciary. It also reflects the
institutional bias afflicting the police and prosecution which tend to
stereotype Muslims as terrorists or sympathisers of terrorists.
Sanghamitra said.
Tanweer Fazal, a member of the JTSA, pointed out that the
court brushed aside the significance of the failure of the prosecu-
tion to prove that Shahzad was a member of Indian Mujahidin He
said, It is surprising that the police, which use the name of Indian
Mujahideen for propaganda in the media, does not even bother to
provide evidence in court, he said. (Excerpted from a report in
muslimmirror.com)
First woman Imam
prevented from delivering
lecture in Madras
University
Chennai: Dr Amina Wadud, an Islamic scholar and professor in
USA had planned to deliver a lecture on Gender and Reforms in
Islam in Chennai University but was prevented from doing so by
police on higher level orders which caused much uproar as to
who is the police to prevent an academic function. A senior police
officer, however, said that the decision to cancel Ms Waduds lec-
ture was taken at a higher level because some Muslim organisa-
tions were opposed to her delivering a lecture and this step had
been taken to avoid any law and order problem that could have
arisen because of the lecture.
The Vice Chancellor of the University had received an sms
from the police to the effect that in view of the expected law and
order problem police couldnot allow this lecture and hence it
should be cancelled. After receiving this message, the Vice
Chancellor cancelled her lecture. After cancellation of her pro-
posed lecture, Prof Wadud sharply criticised the capitalution of
intellectuals to fringe groups and expressed her disillusionment
with the country. She, however, tweeted that she had some com-
mitments here after which she herself would like to leave
Bharat. Among her commitments, in addition to delivering the
lecture at Madras University, was to interact with some mediaper-
sons at the US consulate and to speak at Justice Bashir Ahmad
Sayeed College for Women mainly on issues regarding gender
and Islam.
Sixty-year-old Amina Wadud was born to an Afro-American
Methodist family in Americas Maryland state. She embraced
Islam when she was 20 years old. She came into the limelight a
few years ago when she performed the duties of an Imam by lead-
ing about a hundred Namazi men, women and children and thus
became the first Muslim woman Imam leading men in prayer
(women leading women in prayers is common). It is said that she
runs an organisation named Sisters in Islam. When she wanted
to lead this special Namaz in a mosque, she was denied permis-
sion. Then the organisers selected an Indian exhibition centre for
that Namaz, but this centre got a message that it would be blown
up. Finally, that Namaz was offered in a church in Manhattan, New
York, in which about a hundred men, women etc took part and she
lead the prayer.
Stung at the denial of permission to deliver the lecture at Madras
University, Prof. Wadud said that it is a matter of shame that Madras
University stooped so low and surrendered to factions of ignorant
people. If that is so, where is intellectualism, she tweeted.
It was stated that on one occasion in the past her lecture in a
city in Tamil Nadu had created much problem. She retorted by
saying that she had never gone to Tamil Nadu before this, so how
the question of the lecture and the following problem arises?
About her public addresses leading to trouble, she said that she
had delivered lectures in Hyderabad, Delhi and in Kerala recently
but no problem of any kind had arisen anywhere.
Against opposition by Muslims in general to her lecture, chief
Qazi of Tamil Nadu, Ghulam Muhammad Mehdi said that stopping her
from speaking is not the solution. Researchers and scholars in the
University should have been allowed to hear her views so that there
can be a discussion. He added that her lecture was for a select audi-
ence of scholars, researchers and intellectuals, and not for a crowd
in a public meeting. He, however, cautioned that she should respect
the religious sentiments of people and not speak like Taslima Nasreen
or Salman Rushdie.
Chenai police is said to have received a letter from Indian
Tauheed Jamaat objecting to her lecture, saying that she has been
influenced by Jewish ideology and is delivering lectures against
Islam. It is, however, significant to note that some books written
by her are said to be part of the Centre for Islamic Studies curricu-
lum in Kerala. This Centre is headed by P.K. Abdul Rahiman. (N. A.
Ansari)
RAM PUNIYANI
[email protected]
A friend with dogged deter-
mination to show that the
BJP is a lesser culprit of
communal violence and that
Congress is the major party
to be blamed, listed the
major communal riots in
India and showed that most
of the time when violence took place, it was
Congress which has been the ruling party. He
asks, so why get stuck with one episode of
Gujarat violence and put it as a major point
against Narendra Modi or BJP for that matter?
Others also regularly point out that the role of
Congress was no different in the anti-Sikh
pogrom of 1984 in Delhi, when so many
Congressmen were involved at various levels in
the anti-Sikh pogrom. If Modi justified Gujarat by
saying every action has an opposite reaction,
Rajiv Gandhi also told us when a big tree falls,
the earth shakes. So why single out Modi-BJP
being worse than Congress on the scale of who
is more responsible for communal violence.
The story so far has been that in India the
communal violence began with the British imple-
menting the policy of divide and rule and for
achieving that they did introduce communal his-
toriography, looking at kings through the prism
of kings religion. This vision of history was
taken up by the declining classes of landlords
and Raja-Nawabs. These declining sections of
society laid the foundation of communalism,
Muslim and Hindu both. Hindu communalists
blamed Muslim kings for temple destruction and
forcible conversions, while Muslim communal-
ists claimed that they were the rulers of the
country before the British and they will not be
safe under Hindu rulers when the British depart.
This distorted version of the past created an
atmosphere of mutual hate amongst Hindus and
Muslims. Communal violence gradually went up
as communal parties, Muslim League and Hindu
Mahasabha, along with other communal forma-
tions created an atmosphere of mutual hate.
Still, they did not get success in the electoral
arena.
During the British period, while the blame
can be put on the communal history introduced
by the British and their subtle moves to play one
community against the other, the communal
forces cannot be exonerated for their role in per-
petuating violence. The police authorities during
that time played the role of a neutral observer
which is not the case now.
What is important here to see that there are
multiple agencies that played different types of
role in the tragedy of Hindu-Muslim violence.
The blame at this stage has to be apportioned to
the British policies (especially their introduction
of communal historiography, separate elec-
torates and the policy of divide and rule), as
well as to the communal forces in equal meas-
ure. At that stage the police-administration could
not be blamed for a role in violence.
Things gradually started changing. After
independence, the role of administration-police
gradually star ted becoming par tisan. The
research of Dr. V.N.Rai, police officer of repute,
showed that no violence can go on unless the
administration, political forces included, wanted
it that way. The major blame has to go to the
communal forces which not only kept on
spreading canards against the minority commu-
nity and some of their elements used communal
violence to polarize the community along reli-
gious lines.
The polarization along religious lines did
help the communal forces to consolidate them-
selves in the social-political and electoral arena.
Many a politician from other parties also some-
times used violence to either retain power or to
come to power.
Enquiry commission reports during this time
uniformly point to the role of communal forces.
Jagmohan Reddy Commission on Ahmadabad
riots of 1969 talked of the active participation of
RSS-Jan Sangh leaders (Jan Sangh is the previ-
ous avatar of BJP). Major blame has to go to
these forces, though they were not in power.
In Bhiwandi and Jalgaon riots of 1970,
Justice D.P. Madon stated that section of Hindu
elements particularly RSS and some PSP men
were bent upon creating mischief, and they
could succeed because of the passive police.
Justice Joseph Vithayathil on Tellicherry riots of
1971 pointed out that the anti-Muslim propagan-
da was begun by RSS-Jan Sangh which
changed the situation leading to communal
polarization. In the 1979 Jamshedpur riots, the
report of the commission of enquiry says that
Samyukta Bajarangbali Akhada Samiti, related to
RSS, was the one which deliberately created the
dispute on the issue of the route of the proces-
sion and the members of Samiti raised anti-
Muslim slogans leading to violence. Justice
Venugopal on Kanyakumari 1982 riots made the
observation about the role of the RSS in spread-
ing rumours etc., the rumours acted as instiga-
tion to violence. Justice Srikrishna Commission
also made it clear that the BJP ally Shiv Senas
role in Mumbai violence was very stark.
So the question is: if there is some ruling
party, should it be totally blamed? The violence
is an outcome of divisive propaganda, commu-
nal instigation, role of police and the attitude of
the ruling party. They all have separate blames
to take. While the ruling party, which has been
Congress in most of the places, has to be
blamed for its soft handling of violence, some-
times overlooking the violence and sometimes
being the active instigator as in the example of
Delhi 1984 in particular. The role of police is very
central. The police, which was neutral at the time
of the British rule, today has gone to become the
most partisan player in this tragic phenomenon
as seen in the Dhule riots of 2012 in
Maharashtra. Here the role of the Hindu mob
was not needed as police did the firing on its
own and killed the hapless minority victims.
So how do we compare BJP and Congress
as far as communal violence is concerned? BJP
is the political child of RSS. Communal propa-
ganda, rumour-mongering, polarization, instiga-
tion and initiation of violence has been led from
the front by by the RSS combine and its affili-
ates. Gujarat is the total example, while in other
episodes also it has played the crucial central
role. Not being in power does not mean it has
not played the central instigator role. This argu-
ment that Congress has been mostly in rule so it
is to be blamed for violence has been cleverly
constructed for propaganda purposes. While
Congress cannot be exonerated for its role in the
violence, its role cannot be compared with that
of RSS/BJP in any sense. Barring one example
of the tragedy of Anti Sikh violence of 1984,
where the role of Congress was central, in other
cases mostly its acts were that of omission,
while RSS/BJP and company played central role
in most acts of violence.
Role of Congress in the 1984 anti-Sikh
pogrom will remain a permanent blot on its
inheritance of pluralism and secularism. It has
tried to rectify it by paying record relief compen-
sation and apologizing for the violence. Today its
plural character is also reflected by its prime
minister who is a Sikh, having the longest unin-
terrupted reign as PM after Nehru. As such, BJP
cannot be compared with any other political
party as it is the political child of RSS which is
working for Hindu nation. Some social scientists
have very well given the contrasting nature of the
politics of Congress and BJP. Aijaz Ahmed points
out that BJP is programmatically communal
while Congress is pragmatically-opportunistical-
ly communal. Mukul Kesvan in one of his recent
article says that Congress is inherently plural
and is opportunistically communal, while BJP is
ideologically communal and opportunistically
secular.
Notwithstanding the fact that communal vio-
lence is a multi-factorial phenomenon, two
wrongs dont make a right. Congress needs to
tighten the total link from bottom to top, and rec-
tify the factors which have been leading to com-
munal violence: the communal propaganda, the
laxity of laws, the impunity with which the guilty
officers get away. It needs to bring in the anti-
communal violence bill to see that this sub-
human phenomenon is put to rest.
The propaganda emerging from RSS com-
bine stable is totally misleading to say the
least.(pluralindia.com)
Communal Violence: Who is to be blamed?
6 The Milli Gazette, 16-31 August 2013 NATIONAL www.milligazette.com
The police, which was neutral at the time of the British rule,
today has gone to become the most partisan player in this tragic
phenomenon as seen in the Dhule riots of 2012 in Maharashtra.
Here the role of the Hindu mob was not needed as police did the
firing on its own and killed the hapless minority victims.
New Delhi, 03 August (Qaumi Salamati Desk): On
Jumuatul-Wida, when on the one hand the Muslim
community was observing Yaumul-Quds (World Quds
Day) by taking out mass rallies to demonstrate against
the Israeli brutalities against the Palestinians, a band of
renegade and so-called Muslim leaders were having a
sumptuous Iftar dinner at the Israeli Embassy in Delhi to
show solidarity with the Zionist regime.
Along with the bearded and religiously-robed, there
were some liberal Muslims too who attended this dinner.
According to the information provided by the Israeli
Embassys website, 60 Muslims were among those who
attended the Iftar Party hosted by the Embassy. The
press release issued by the Embassy did not name the
Muslim leaders and scholars who attended the dinner.
The photograph on the embassy website, though, clear-
ly shows the owner-publisher of many daily newspa-
pers, Mr S M Asif, among the guests. When contacted
and asked whether he had attended the Iftar party at the
Israeli embassy, he denied it but when further ques-
tioned and told that if he did not attend the dinner, how
has the embassy published a photograph that shows him
there among other guests? At this point, he put the
phone down.
Maulana Umair Ilyasi, who is the head of an organi-
sation of Mosques Imams who has earlier toured Israel,
did not answer the question in any clear
terms about participating in the Israeli Iftar
dinner. He simply said that he does not have
any knowledge of it. But the photograph
which the Israeli Embassy has published on
its website shows his face very clearly. It was
on this basis that the Qaumi Salamti had con-
tacted him to find out the facts because
Maulana Saheb has toured Israel and has
opened his mouth in favour of Israel many a
time. It should be kept in mind that Maulana
Umair Ilyasi is the President of All India
Imams of Mosques Organisation and there-
fore claims to be the leader of all the
mosque-imams of India. If so, does he sup-
port any such un-Islamic activities of the
imams?
According to the website, the Israeli
ambassador addressing the dinner wished
better relations between Muslims and Israel and told the
gathering that Muslims and Israelis are the progeny of
one great father Ibrahim. He said that Ramadan is not a
festival only of Muslims but is the festival of the whole
world. Very audaciously he claimed that there are 12 per
cent Muslims in Israel who enjoy all kind of liberties
there.
It was highly surprising that when the ambassador
was making this claim no one among the guests stood
up and dared remind him the atrocities being committed
against the Palestinians.
It should be noted that on the occasion of Yaum-ul-
Quds, Muslims all over the world record their protest
against the illegal occupation of Palestine and the atroc-
ities committed by the Israelis there. Brutalities commit-
ted by Israeli government are there for the whole world
to see. Palestinians are gagged and Gaza strip has been
under an unlawful siege for the last so many years caus-
ing shortages of food and medical supplies and there-
fore many children die there unnecessarily every day.
Due to illegal constructions by the Israelis, Palestinians
are being deprived of their land. Despite these continu-
ous atrocities, worlds conscience is not bothered. Apart
from lip-service and issuing occasional statements of
condemnation, nothing is being done against these bru-
talities meted out to the Palestinians.
This is why on the last Friday of Ramadan every year
Yaumul Quds (World Quds Day) is organised and rallies
are taken out to awaken the conscience of the world to
the atrocities committed by Israel. (Source: Qaumi
Salamati 4 August 2013, English translation by urdume-
diamonitor.com)
Renegade Muslim Leaders Attend Israeli Iftar Dinner
Plan to set up 101 girls
hostels & 13 degree colleges
in minority districts
New Delhi: The Central government has decided to set up 101
girls hostels and 13 model degree colleges in districts with a fair
majority of Muslims, in the next eight months, though doubts are
being raised as to how all this can be achieved in such a short
period of time. Moreover, there have been no such proposals from
state governments. Though multi-sectoral development projects
(MSDP) have been started in minority-majority districts and work
on them has been going on in accordance with the Sachar
Committee's recommendations, there have been complaints that
results of these projects are not satisfactory. Seeing that recom-
mendations of Sachar Committee were submitted to the govern-
ment seven years ago, their implementation and results achieved
and benefits accrued to Muslims are not encouraging at all.
Anybody can understand that the latest decisions of the govern-
ment are obviously in view of the approaching general elections
with an eye on the Muslim votes. More such proposals may also
be announced in the coming days and months with the same
objective and same fate.
Out of all Sachar recommendations, government's attention is
mainly on the promotion of education among Muslims in which
they are very backward, as the national rate of education is 64.8
percent but the rate of education among Muslims is only 59 per-
cent. Even in the field of promotion of education among Muslims,
the government's attention is mosty on the promotion of educa-
tion among girls and that is why 101 girls hostels are planned. It
is yet not decided in which districts these model degree colleges
and girls hostels will be set up because so far there have been no
proposals or demands from states in this respect. (NA Ansari)
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 16-31 August 2013 7 www.milligazette.com
MANZAR IMAM
New Delhi: As part of a lecture series, the Pakistan Studies
Programme of the Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia
Islamia in collaboration with the Jinnah Institute of Islamabad and
the Australia-India Institute of Melbourne conducted a lecture by
Sherry Rehman, Pakistans former ambassador to the United
States and former Federal Minister of Information & Broadcasting,
on 31 July, 2013 at JMIs Tagore Hall on Transition and
Opportunity: Regional Peace and the Strategic Imagination. The
lecture was chaired by the officiating Vice-Chancellor, Prof.
S. M.Sajid and attended by faculty members, teachers, students,
mediapersons and representatives of government bodies and pol-
icy institutions.
Rehman talked about many crucial issues concerning
Pakistan, India and Afghanistan and stressed on the need to
humanize conversations for building peace and strengthening
relations especially between India and Pakistan.
She called the recent constitutional transfer of power and
transition of government in Pakistan a successful democratic
achievement, maintaining that democracy was not a new phe-
nomenon in her country.
As Afghanistan is also experiencing multiple transitions and
many layers of changes and India too is going into elections in
less than a year, the whole region thus is rife with short-medium-
and long-term transformations, she said. Some see it as a chal-
lenge, while others imagine it as the penultimate South Asian
moment.
In this imagination, India and Pakistan have key role. The
choices are whether we want to remain regional or move beyond
the cold war politics of sclerotic identities.
While population growth is high and renewable resources are
adrift, which pose challenges, the appetite and space for democ-
racy is also increasing.
Urgent challenges confront governments in a kind of daily
chronology of issues in which terrorism is a complex of moderni-
ty.
Although these threats are dealt with by an increasingly
assertive democratic voice, there is a great deal of reform we
need to bring to the table, said Rahman while stressing on the
urgency of securing our collective future as a region.
About the possibilities of India-Pakistan peace processes, the
diplomat said that the mood among our interlocutors reflected at
least three kinds of opinions in India. One group considered
Pakistan as a nuclear irritant next door. This is a strategic mindset
that gave no value to conflict resolution.
The other group, often connected with the business and
peace community, sees trade and economic activity as a key drive
of change. They reflect the forward thinking.
The third was the larger social and peace activist group,
which does not include media and student groups. All of these
groups have their mirror images on the other side of the border. All
are very important spaces for building empathy in times of trau-
ma, she said adding that these bridges are very crucial and they
can be amplified.
Although fragile, Pakistan is still a democracy and expecta-
tions from democracy are very high in the country.
About the need to include the Kashmiris in the conversations,
Rehman felt that although there are many issues that are very
important but Kashmir will remain a core concern.
In Pakistans corridors of power, Afghanistan has the strategic
priority across the border. We do feel now that it is time that all
regional and global players must step back and play supportive
role to peace in Afghanistan.
She said that Pakistan will support Afghanistans electoral
process and assist development but We cant be the guarantors
of a peaceful endgame. Afghanistan belongs to the Afghans.
They have to build their political and public dialogue; they have to
do this themselves.
She further said that Pakistans stakes in Afghanistans stabil-
ity are very vital. If there is enhanced volatility in Afghanistan, it
certainly surges and affects Pakistan.
According to Rahman, the difference between the poor and the
rich will be huge, despite the Southern Bloc consisting of India,
Pakistan and other Asian nations, being predicted to become a pow-
erful bloc second only to China in the near future. Economic predic-
tions are hard to make. But inequality will grow between the top and
bottom of the social pyramid even if the wealth grows. This will usher
in many more drivers of conflict and these will be very clear ones.
About issues like growing migration, food security, land
hunger and higher water deficits, she said that in strategic lexi-
cons these are called soft issues. But these are the core
derivers for incentivizing change in the model of two nation secu-
rity states that we have become.
Unresolved Kashmir, water-based rivalries.
Where do we stand today? As the two PMs are looking for-
ward to meet soon, are we going to be prisoners or leaders of our
destiny, she asked and added that the one goodwill gesture India
can make is to address Pakistans water anxiety.
She said, its astonishing how Pakistan is still often seen in
India through a vey outdated lens whereas the larger arguments
for normalization remain bogged in an overgrown forest of mutu-
al conditionalities. She said that one of questions asked in
Pakistan is peace with India even as a medium-term goal if New
Delhi was strategically indifferent to peace in South Asia.
Ms Rehman, who heads Jinnah Institute, said that while gov-
ernments have constraints, citizens have least limits in imagining
better futures. Public pressure affects policies.
In the question and answer session, Rahman talked about
issues of visa loads as a cause of worry for peace initiatives. She
also dealt with women playing their role in raising issues.
In his remarks, Prof. S. M. Sajid said that there was no deny-
ing the fact that the Indian community was very happy to see
democracy strengthening in Pakistan. Developing a better under-
standing about each other is a key prerequisite for having sus-
tained peace, he said adding that the universities and educational
institutions had a role in this. He suggested that trade could be the
easiest beginning to link up the two economies and also the minds
of the people.
Humanize conversation to build peace: Rehman
As Afghanistan is also
experiencing multiple
transitions and many
layers of changes and
India too is going into
elections in less than
a year, the whole
region thus is rife with
short-medium- and
l o n g - t e r m
transformations, she
said. Some see it as a
challenge, while
others imagine it as
the penultimate
South Asian moment.
As Muzammil did not know any of them, the question of con-
spiracy does not arise. The man who accused Muzammil of plant-
ing the bomb in the train said he recognized Muzammils voice who
he alleges had a quarrel with another passenger according to him.
Muzammils voice is so weak and low that the witness could not
have heard him from his seat in the farthest end the compartment.
So if he is in jail for more than ten years and the flimsy charge has
not been proved, how long can Muzammil wait for justice?
Three of the accused Dr Mateen, Noor Abdul Malik and Kamil
Ansari were given bail after eight years in jail, then why Muzammil
cant be given bail now that he has spent more than ten years and
the case has not come up for trial. This inordinate delay is nothing
but denying him justice.
The police had botched up the four cases in an unseemly hurry
to prove what was not there. The police tortured Mateen and got his
confession that all the bombs were made in his clinic. Actually, in
the confessional statement Mateen had written in Urdu ghalat hai
(it is incorrect) instead of putting his signature. The police took this
writing in Urdu as his signature. Later, it could not stand in the
court.
1
Muzammils confession is a result of sheer blackmail as the
threat of undressing of his mother or sister in his presence drove
him to utter grief after his father was already undressed and forced
to sit naked before him. With such tactics, Muzammil was forced to
sign what was put before him.
Even Saquib Nachan was given bail although far more serious
charges were leveled against him including his being the leader of
the module that included Muzammil in the Mulund blast and also
possessing AK56 rifles.
Noor Sikander, also from Malegaon, was claimed to be the
leader of another module entrusted with the job of blowing up the
seat of Maharashtra government, the Mantralaya. He too was given
bail. All the three major accused Mateen, Nachan and Sikander
could get bail but not Muzammil. Sikandar called off the strike
when three terrorists were gunned down in Jogeshewari on 29
March. It is bizarre that one of the killed was the southern com-
mander Abu Sultan from whom the police said it had recovered a
CD which led to the arrest of Anwar Ali, a lecturer at Khadakwasla
Defense Academy. But Anwar Ali too was discharged.
2
Saquib Nachin was the prime accused in the Mulund case but
he was granted bail after seven years in jail because he was in pre-
trial detention and the trial had not started yet. This also applies to
Muzammil but then why he continues to be denied bail?
Furthermore, it flies in the face of reason that Muzammil should
be exploding bombs in four different places within three months
time and still be normally attending his office in Vashi as if nothing
had happened.
There was a combined chargesheet of the bomb blasts at
Mulund, Vile Parle and Bombay Central McDonald. The 16 were
charged under POTA and the Explosive Substance Act and also for
waging war against the nation and hatching a criminal conspiracy.
When Muzammil was not known to the others, how could he be a
part of a conspiracy?
When Ghulam Akbar Khotal was granted bail after five years in
detention, his lawyer Shahid Azmi had argued: There was no evi-
dence to keep him behind the bars and the police have not been able
to prove the case in its totality. So he should be granted bail. Does
not the same argument hold true in the case of Muzammil ten years
after his detention?
3
Another accused, Dr Wahid Abdul Shaikh, was given bail and
then the court suddenly cancelled his bail because court found
prima facie evidence against him!
So shoddy was the investigation and the draft charges filed in
the court as early as 2004 that ultimately when Khan Wajhul Qamar
was released only four months after his arrest, although it was
claimed that Qamar is the most dreaded of all the 16. As compared
to him, Muzammil has spent more than a decade in prison and yet
he remains within the walls of the prison with no hope of an early
release on bail.
Footnotes
1.http://ar ti cl es.ti mesofi ndi a.i ndi ati mes.com/2011-04-16/mum-
bai/29425166_1_blast-case-central-blast-pota-court
2.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Simi-cells-neutralised-
police/articleshow/46303706.cms?
3.http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mulund-blasts--khotal-gets-
bail/454478/
New Delhi: Giving a clean chit to the former AMU
VC, the CBI has closed the probe against
Prof. P K Abdul Azis. He was accused of finan-
cial irregularities during his tenure in the varsity.
The agency had registered a preliminary enquiry
in July, 2011 after it was alleged that Prof. Azis
had flouted rules of the institution for his own
benefits. Azis had also been questioned by CBI
in the enquiry. The probe has now been closed
as the agency couldnt find anything substantial
against Azis. CBI had started the investigation at
the request of Union ministry of HRD. Azis has
been VC of AMU from June, 2007 to the end of
2012.
It was alleged that Prof Azis made the AMU
pay his income tax [actually a loan] and also vio-
lated varsity rules by transferring Rs 8 crore of
Provident Fund money
from the State Bank of
India to Shreyas Gramin
Bank [actually to get better
interest rates]. It was also
alleged that varsity funds
were misused for interior
decoration of his residence
[actually the order was
given to the company
offering lowest tender].
Azis had refuted these
charges. The CBI had sub-
mitted the closure report at
Patiala House located
cour t of CBI Judge
Swarnakanta Sharma.
Prof Aziz, currently Vice
Chancellor of the University
of Science and Technology,
Meghalaya, expressed his
happiness after coming
clean in the allegations.
Thanks to Almighty Allah,
the CBI clean chit has come
as a big relief for me since
the allegations are proved
wrong. Thanks to the
agency for listening to my
side of the story and bring-
ing out the truth, he told
ummid.com. I am also
thankful to my well-wishers
for having full faith in me.
MG comment: The Then HRD minister Kapil
Sibal, under the influence of some vested inter-
ests, had ordered the CBI enquiry although two
earlier probes by other agencies had given clean
chit to Prof. Azis whose detractors included a for-
mer MP and party-hopper (now in the Congress),
in cahoots with a mafia in AMU which believes
that all contracts in the university should go to its
nominees and that its progeny have a god-given
right to be employed in the institution. This vocal
mafia was able to influence gullible leaders in
Delhi. Now the same mafia is silent. It should
come out and apologise to the former VC who,
being a southern and a gentleman, was hounded
by this mafia. MG urges Prof. Azis to file a crim-
inal suit against this mafia for defaming him
(Zafarul-Islam Khan).
Continued from page 1
Ex-AMU VC gets CBI clean chit, critics mum
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MUSTAFA KHAN
On Thursday, 25 July, 2013, a Delhi court convict-
ed Shahzad in Batla Hourse encounter of
19 September, 2008 and also held the encounter
genuine. On the same day senior Congress leader
Digvijay Singh maintained that it was a fake
encounter. But he also said more than that which
the media chose not to report. According to the
news coverage in a daily, he remarked that RSS
trains people in making bombs.
(1)
. During the
BJP rule in MP in 1992, a bomb had exploded in
the RSSs Seva Bharti office in Neemuch, but the
BJP government did not bother to investigate. In
1993, Congress came to power and the case was
reopened. The principal of a Khargaon school run
by the RSS was arrested for exploding the bomb.
In Mhow, there was a blast in 2004 which the RSS
accused said they had caused it. They also
averred that they were given training by the RSS in
exploding bombs. However, this piece of informa-
tion was buried inside on page 6 while the front
page had the banner headline that IM man was
held guilty in Batla encounter. The report also
said that the cops were unable to recover the
weapon because Shahzad had dumped it.
The Batla verdict came on a day when the
Tehelka reporter Rana Ayyub had dared to publish
what had remained till then and remains even
today classified. The latest disclosure tightens the
noose around Rajendra Kumar for his involvement
in the Sadiq Jamal Mehtar fake encounter. To no surprise of the
people and the intelligentsia (who remained unbothered about
Sadiq), but for the few thoughtful the denouement should not be
less than the most tragic event which should eclipse other
encounters that are crowding out most other news from the first
pages of the mainstream newspapers.
On 28 December, 2002, the IB and the Mumbai police under
Sudhir Kumar had thoroughly examined Sadiq and had not found
him involved in any terrorist attack. The Gujarat police took Sadiq
Jamal Mehtar in custody on 3 January, 2003. But, strangely,
Rajendra Kumar, then the deputy director of IB, sent this message
to Sudhir Kumar: Please refer to earlier communications [of
November 29] about Sadiq Jamal Mehtar. He has not been appre-
hended yet and is still absconding. Efforts to search him must
continue. Sudhir Kumar replied instantly Efforts are on to nab
him. It is amazing that Sudhir Kumar and the IB had Sadiq in their
custody, nay, Sudhir Kumar had himself interrogated and exam-
ined him and yet he was also hunting him at the same time!
Therefore, the warning sent out to Sudhir Kumar by Rajendra
Kumar was a mere formality and was issued in order to place on
record what would ultimately be an orchestrated fake encounter.
These intelligence officials were cocksure of enjoying total immu-
nity from prosecution. Little did they foresee that a magistrate, SP
Tamang, would do honest work and expose the fake encounter in
his examination of the Ishrat Jahan case.
Batla case may take some more years to dispel the haze sur-
rounding it but the Sadiq Mehtar case is crystal clear and points
at the proverbial specks in the beard of the thief - in this case the
grey beard (Narendra Modi) and the black beard (Amit Shah).
Temporarily being both relieved from the shift of focus but it would
be ephemeral before the nemesis of fake encounters claims them.
There were 17 fake encounters in Gujarat alone [and Rajendra
Kumars input that led to Batla encounter].
It was another such case in the Malegaon 2006 bomb blasts
in which Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, now a cabinet secretary, would
likely be found guilty. It was Suboth Kumar, then with Maharashtra
ATS as a joint commissioner, who had steered the preparation of
the 2006 chargesheet. He had also referred the same ingenious
albeit bogus excuse for Muslim involvement in 2006 Malegaon
blasts viz., the theocratic injunction of jihad attack, 9/11 attacks in
the US, the Malegaon public protest against Chechnya atrocities,
and the heavy casualties of Muslims in 26 October, 2001 riots and
their desire for revenge, and the ubiquitous reason that Muslims
exploded bombs to cause Hindu-Muslim riots.
Three officers working in the Mumbai branch of SIB in 2002,
namely Sudhir Kumar, and assistant intelligence officer Pravinbhai
Ladhani, and Ambady Gopinathan alongwith two other officers,
DSPAnupam Singh Gehlot and J Mahapatra, an IPS officer who
was then ADG (Intelligence) in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, had found that
Sadiq was not involved in terrorism. Still Sudhir Kumar went
ahead with the plot to kill Sadiq.
P
rioritizing police morale over rationality, law, justice and
humanity was much vaunted apologetics of the central gov-
ernment in the wake of the Batla encounter. In sharp contrast is
the role of Rajendra Kumar of IB who is surely behind the fake
encounters of Gujarat and also Batla House. In the case of Sadiq,
nearly ten years have passed during which the central government
did not bother about the police morale nor did its counterparts in
the BJP care for the same.
But the conspiracy to frame innocent Muslims and the resolve
to either bump them off through fake encounters or imprison them
with false terror charges went ahead in the most bogus manner.
Tehelka quotes verbatim the same statement of motivation as
in Malegaon case. After Partition in 1947, two nations, India and
Pakistan, came into existence. Pakistan was created on the basis
of religious fundamentalism, whereas India remained a secular
state. In order to grab Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan fought three
wars against India, the last insurgency was made in Kargil. It was
the continuation of Pakistans warring tendency. In Gujarat, the
Godhra carnage was followed by large-scale riots and arson. The
ISI and jihadi organisations from Pakistan, in association with
underworld gangsters and notorious gangs, took advantage of the
situation arising from the riots to target Gujarat. This fact is clear-
ly established by various acts of terrorism such as the attack on
Akshardham, the conspiracy to kill Narendra Modi and Pravin
Togadia in Ahmedabad by local LeT terrorists, namely Shahid
Bakshi and Samir Khan Pathan, and the firing on VHP general sec-
retary Jaideep Patel.
(2)
As a matter of historical and factual
record, courts have established the fact that neither Samir Khan
Pathan nor Shahid Bakshi was a terrorist.
Such a comprehensive conspiracy involving Delhi, Gujarat,
Malegaon and even Pakistan needs more than a court trial. There
should either be a high level commission appointed by Parliament
or the UNO that should go into these claims.
B
atla encounter in Delhi, 17 encounters in Gujarat and the moth-
er-of-all inputs that Rajendra Kumar fed to Modi that the
Godhra fire accident was not an accident but a terrorist attack by
LeT and the Malegaon 2006 blasts speak volumes of truth not
uncovered so far. Abrar Ahmad, one of the accused-turned-
approver-turned-hostile in the Malegaon case says: aththra
December 2006 ko ATS affsaraan nay Nagpada mein Jaiswal
sahib, Raghuvanshi saheb kay roobaroo mujhay pesh kiya. Un
logon nay kaha ke yeh apna aadmi hai; iss ko hatkadi mut
lagaana (On 18 December, 2006, ATS officers brought me face
to face with [Suboth Kumar] Jaiswal and [ATS chief KP]
Raghuvanshi who [Kumar and Raghvanshi] told them that this
[Abrar] was our man and they should not handcuff him. (2A)
Nearly two years later, Abrar has this to say: yakum September
2008 Kaiswal sahib, Sachin Kadam aur Rajwardhan sahib jail
mein milnay kay liyay aayay thay. Aur kaha tha kay hum log do
maheeney mein tumhaari jamanat kara lein gay. May nay kaha tha
ki tum logon nay meray saath dhoka kiya hay. Aur mujhe bila
wajeh iss case mein phansaaya gaya hai. Uss wakt unhon nay
kaha ki hamara ek mission hai woh dhai maheenay mein poora
hojaayay ga. Phir beech mein kuch log tang ada rahy hain. Koi
naheen rahay gaa. Tab mein nay kaha meri jamanat say aap key
mission ka kya talluk hai? Tab unhon nay kaha ki hum log 2006
mein jo tahkeekat karke charge sheet daakhil kee thim usay woh
log badal daal rahay hain. Iss hee liyay unka beech say hataana
jarrori hai. Iss hi liyay tumhaaree jamaanat ka kaam late ho raha
hai. Aur sab baat hum tum to naheen bata saktay. Itna bol kar
unhon nay phir say ek martaba kaha Jaiswal saheb jo waada kiyay
hain usay poora karein gay and tumhen hamaari baat manna
paday gee kiyon key hum nay tumhaaree biwi, sasur aur salay ko
bahut kuch diya hai (On 1 September, 2008 [Suboth Kumar]
Jaiswal, Sachin Kadam and [Additional SP of Malegaon]
Rajwardhan had come to meet me. They told me that they would
get bail for me. I told them that they had betrayed me and framed
me in this case [2006 bomb blasts case of Malegaon]. At that
they told me that they had a mission of theirs which would be over
within two and half months. In the meantime some people [read:
Hemant Karkare who replaced Raghuvanshi on August 1, 2008
and his team] were obstructing them [Jaiswal, Kadam and
Rajwardhan] and they [Karkare et. al.] would not be there. I asked
them what is the connection of my getting bail with their mission.
Then they told me that they had made investigations in the 2006
case and submitted a chargesheet on [Malegaon bomb blast case
of September 8, 2006], but they [Karkare and party] were chang-
ing it. Therefore, it was necessary to eliminate them from among
[the police force.] Because of this, your bail is delayed. We can-
not tell you everything, they said. They also assured me that what
Jaiswal sahib promises, he would fulfill. You will have to toe our
line because we have paid so much money to your wife, father-in-
law and to your brother-in-law.
(3)
This selective disclosure of what is to go into the making of
fake encounters in Gujarat and also in Malegaon and 26/11 in
Mumbai attacks show a nationwide network of terror politics of
the Hindutva embedded in the police and security and intelligence
agencies. In my book, Aggressive Hindutva Terror and Malegaon
(3A), I have decoded the implications of the above dialogue as:
When Abrar reprimanded them [Subodh Kumar,
Sachin Kadam and Rajwardhan] for getting him
into trouble and betraying him, they assured him
that they would get him out on bail. This is high
treason on their part if proved in a court of law. Its
implications are very disturbing. It would mean
that the four bombs exploded at Malegaon in 2006
were the handiwork of a team which included
Abrar Ahmad. But it would also mean that it was
an insiders job. That the police were involved in
the conspiracy of exploding bombs, at least at the
Mushawarat Chowk. This would also confirm
what Purohit had said that Abinav Bharat had used
Students Islamic Movement of India prior to 2008
blast. That Muslims were used in carrying out
tasks which Hindutva terrorists had designed.
More than these two serious and dangerous
implications is the third, that the trio which went to
visit Abrar wanted to destroy the new investigators
which included the new chief of ATS Hemant
Karkare. That they succeeded in their plans late in
night of 26 November, 2008 is unmistakably the
foretold story in the dialogue above. Dhan Singh,
Rajendra Choudhary, Manohar and Lokesh
Sharma must be believed but they were outsiders
and without the local help and the police manoeu-
vring the blasts could not have been possible. Or
else, how could Subodh Kumar who subsequent-
ly joined the Reseach & Analysis Wing, be
believed that he would fulfill his promise to Abrar
Ahmad.
Similarly, Sudhir Kumars deft manoeuvring is also in play as
he takes a selective hint from Rajendra Kumar in the case of Sadiq
Jamal Mehtar:
According to reliable information from a channel, one Sadiq
Jamal, a Dubai-based person, was recently contacted by Salim
Chiplun, a Pakistan-based gangster and a close associate of
Anees Ibrahim and has reportedly been briefed about the task of
targeting three important targets from the list of ISI and LeT
(Lashkar-e-Toiba). The targets are Deputy Prime Minister LK
Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and VHP leader
Pravin Togadia. Sadiq has reportedly landed in Mumbai and it is
learnt that he has vowed to finish off the first available target dur-
ing the ensuing Assembly election. He has been reportedly on the
move between Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bhavnagar and Delhi. He is
a native of Gujarat and closely associated with the Dawood gang.
He is 22, unmarried and a heavy drinker. He is awaiting the deliv-
ery of weapons and money through hawala. He also holds a
fraudulent Indian passport. (2)
The above intelligence input was sent by Rajendra Kumar to
Sudhir Kumar on 24 November, 2002, even when the Bhavenagar
court in Gujarat had cleared Sadiq on 14 November of gambling
charges and found no terrorist link.
Then, like a bolt from the blue, Rajendra Kumar sent this
input to Chakravarty. DGP of Gujarat, on 29 November 2002,
with a message marked secret and copies of it were also sent
to ADG (Intelligence) J Mahapatra and the Subsidiary Intelligence
Bureau, Ahmedabad. This message said:
Sadique @ Ayyub Islam on 29 Nov. till 1700 hours will be
available at 1. Ajju bhaiyya: maternal uncle of Sadiq. STD booth,
behind bus stand; 2. Garage of Rafique bhai: near Navrangpura,
Kurtanmal Gate; 3. Telephone No. 02782516308 (Information
also technically shared with SP, Bhavnagar, Gehlot). (2)
This insidious hint of the location of the quarry led to Sadiqs
murder on 13 January, 2003. It bears parallel to the hint Subodh
Kumar Jaiswal gave to Abrar Ahmad on 1 September, 2008 of
what would transpire on 26/11 in Mumbai. So Subodh Kumar s
premonition came true. In a similar way, Sadiq was arrested by
the Mumbai police on 19 December, 2002 and for more than a
whole week he was examined and cleared. Gopinathan of IB,
Mumbai, said that there was no substance in the intelligence
inputs that Sadiq had any intention to harm VVIPs. (2)
Another level of prioritizing is of credulity over rationality. That
there was only one exit in the Batla House building. It was heavily
guarded by police personnel and yet Shahazad was able to
escape. If he did not escape through the only exit gate, then he
must have jumped down from the fourth floor where the shooting
took place. If Mohan Chand Sharma was injured on the fourth
floor how come he climbed down the stairs and no car was kept
waiting for him as he had to be helped by two colleagues to go
some distance before the ambulance could pick him up. His
wound in the left arm showed slight injury and it was clear that
there was no profuse bleeding even when he climbed down four
flights of stairs. What went wrong in between? When Karkare was
asked to report to Police Commissioner Hasan Gafoor, why was
he then told to report to Crime Branch chief Rakesh Maria on the
fateful night and then what went wrong?
Another even more cogent issue is the prioritizing of Batla
House encounter over the world focus on Ishrat Jahan fake
encounter till Thursday 24 July, 2013. Delhi courts indictment of
IM terrorist (as reported by the media) side-stepped Ishrat or
tried to.
But it is impossible for this incident to eclipse Ishrat case and
hence the hardliner Shiv Sena rues aamcha deshat anek naxal-
wadi police chakmakeet maeley jatat, pan teyanchee nawey
Ishrat, Sadiq, Sohrabudeen nasleya mude deshachey karbhari tey-
acha kade gambhirtaney payat nasawey (In our country many
Naxalites and police men die in encounters but their names are not
like Ishrat, Sadiq or Sohrabuddeen and therefore the rulers of the
country do not pay serious attention to them.
(4)
Prioritizing Batla House encounter and King Oedipus
The motivating factor for Modi was the
Hindutva ideology that is seen working in
Anand Math, a novel by Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay. When asked what
secularism is, Modi famously remarked:
India First (4A). It would mean that India
is Mother more important than the
biological mother as in the novel, Anand
Math. Only those who worship India as the
Mother are Indians. Muslims cannot be
because they are not idolatrous. The British
ruled India when the novel was written; their
rule was acceptable to Bankim Chandra and
his followers even when the British were
foreigners. Muslims must either go away or
reconvert to Hinduism because they
polluted the motherland that is India to
Hindutva. This twisted ideology is popularly
known these days as ethnic cleansing. The
genocide and the fake encounters are tactics to achieve that.
Continued on the next page
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 16-31 August 2013 9 www.milligazette.com
The communal slant in the remark cannot obviate the grave truth
that the three murders of Ishrat Jahan [and three others with her],
Sadiq Jamal Mehtar, and Sohrabuddeen, his wife Kauserbi and his
friend Tulsiram Prajapati were not of the same class. They were
not terrorists but were killed by the Gujarat police functioning
directly under Narendra Modi who was also the home minister.
The chief minister of Gujarat was an associate of the IB special
director Rajendra Kumar. Modi had him transferred to Ahmedabad
through the good offices of LK Advani who was then the Union
Home Minister. Both were wedded to the Hindutva ideology of hate
and vowed to terminate Muslims because they do not view them
as equal fellow Indians. LK Advani was most riveted to that Nazi
philosophy of purging the Muslims of the land as it was translat-
ed in his rathyatra and its sequel, the demolition of Babri mosque.
Their ideologue Golwalkar was impressed by Hitler and Mussolini
who had purged the Jews from Italy and Germany and recom-
mended emulating them. Modi committed the rarest of rare crimes
by conducting genocide of Muslims and succeeding in this
Hindutva experiment in what is now called Gujarat laboratory
and at the same time getting away with it in full view of the media
focus. And what is more, having achieved that, he reached the
cynosure of becoming the most admirable one for the post of the
next prime minister of India in the eyes of his admirers.
How did he accomplish this? First, he got Rjendra Kumar
transferred to Gujarat from Intelligence Bureau in Delhi. Advani
was then his mentor and as Home Minister of India he was obliged
because he too was in the conspiracy as he was in the alleged
conspiracy of blowing bomb to kill Mohammad Ali Jinnah in
Karachi. Kumar was a staunch Hindutva sympathizer and Modi
was a propagandist or a pracharak of RSS and also in-charge of
the election in Haryana towards the end of the last century and
both shared the same hideous fascist ideology. The genocide and
the subsequent fake encounters in Gujarat constitute the rarest of
the rare crimes because they are crimes against humanity carried
out in the twenty first century with impunity. Advani never tired of
issuing clean chits to Modi at every turn and calling him the most
efficient chief minister India ever had! Modi threatened the media
people with dire consequences throwing all cautions to the wind,
assured of the fact that despite the Prime Minister Vajpayees con-
cern for what had happened in 2002 had put India in a bad spot,
he would carry the day with him as the hardcore Hidutva forces of
RSS, VHP and others were solidly behind him. Nay, they were pre-
pared for a showdown with the Prime Minister himself on this
issue.
The motivating factor for Modi was the Hindutva ideology that
is seen working in Anand Math, a novel by Bankim Chandra
Chattopadhyay. When asked what secularism is, Modi famously
remarked: India First (4A). It would mean that India is Mother
more important than the biological mother as in the novel, Anand
Math. Only those who worship India as the Mother are Indians.
Muslims cannot be because they are not idolatrous. The British
ruled India when the novel was written; their rule was acceptable
to Bankim Chandra and his followers even when the British were
foreigners. Muslims must either go away or reconvert to Hinduism
because they polluted the motherland that is India to Hindutva.
This twisted ideology is popularly known these days as ethnic
cleansing. The genocide and the fake encounters are tactics to
achieve that.
A Supreme Court judge called Modi modern-day Nero
because he did nothing to stop the genocide and never felt repen-
tant ever afterwards. When Karan Thapar confronted him with this
stark reality of having seen mass atrocities on Muslims when he
was on a round to watch the genocide in action, Modi was dehy-
derated and abandoned the interview. The interview was con-
ducted several years later, in 2007. Nobel-laureate Amartya Sen
rightly wonders whether Modi could bear the burden of this if he
at all becomes the ruler of India.
What that burden would be Shamima Kauser, mother of Ishrat
Jahan, spelled thus: Narendra Modi apne aap ko kab tak masoom
aur mazloom banakar pesh karteyrahen gay. Jab tak who vazir
aazam ki gaddi par naheen baith jaetay tub tak? Magar woh bhi
jaan leyn, chahey unhon nay media khareed liya ho, Amreeki
ishtehaari company unhen saaf suthra bana kar pesh kar rahi ho,
magar aaj naheen to kal bay- gunaahon ka khoon unhein
yaqeenan jaanay gaa (How long will Narendra Modi present him-
self as innocent and a victim of cruelty, until he has occupied the
throne of the Prime Minister? But he must know that even if he has
bought the media and got the American publicity company which
is presenting his image as clean, but, if not today, some other day
the blood of the innocent killed will recognize him).
(5)
The bereaved mothers woeful warning is that the land would
suffer if Modi does occupy the throne as it happened in the case
of Oedipus who had married his widowed mother Queen Jocasta
and begotten children on her despite a warning and that ruined the
land he came to rule after having killed his own father who was
the king and whom he had succeeded. Modis crimes against
humanity are that he hatched a conspiracy and let the slaughter of
Muslims take place for three full days from 28 February to 2
March, 2002 and also hatched a conspiracy in collusion with
Rajendra Kumar to execute a series of 17 fake encounters that
were calculated to convince the subjects of the state he ruled that
he was the victim of a would be assassination by the jihad-
inspired Muslim terrorists! He won election after election to the
detriment of the life and property and business of fellow citizens
of the land who happened to be Muslims by the accident of their
birth. So a bigger calamity awaits the land when and if he rules
India. The writing on the wall is there as in the case of Belshazzar,
the last king of Babylon and son of Nebuchadnezzar. His death
was foretold by the writing on the palace wall on the day of the
royal banquet. The trial of the cases of the fake encounters in
Gujarat has had many ghosts of Banquo visiting this than Gujarat
who now eyes the throne of Delhi.
On the top of all this, the mainstream newspapers and the
media are full of acclaiming him as the next prime minister, with
paucity of daring and prudence to tell his imminent fate:
Why hurry to tell Belshazzar
What soon enough he would know?
(6)
Footnotes:
(1) Asian Age, 26 July, 2013.
(2) http://www.tehelka.com/the-noose-tightens-around-rajinder-kumar/
2A. Affidavit of Abrar Ahmad submitted to MCOCA court on 18 April 2009.
(3) Abrars affidavit submitted to MCOCA court on April 18, 2009.
3A. commonalty.blogspot.com - June 2011
(4) Saamna, July 30, 2013.
4A. India first is my definition of secularism, Narendra Modi tells NRIs,
PTI, 10 March, 2013 -- http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-
03-10/india/37598003_1_gujarat-chief-minister-skill-development-bjp.
(5) Asia Express, Aurangabad, 28 July, 2013.
(6) Robert Frost, The bearer of evil tidings in The Poetry of Robert
Frost, ed Edward Connerly Lathem. New York, Owl Books, 1979.
Is Durga Nagpal really innocent?
. Modis crimes against humanity are that he hatched a conspiracy and let the slaughter of
Muslims take place for three full days from 28 February to 2 March, 2002 and also
hatched a conspiracy in collusion with Rajendra Kumar to execute a series of 17 fake
encounters that were calculated to convince the subjects of the state he ruled that he was
the victim of a would be assassination by the jihad-inspired Muslim terrorists! He won
election after election to the detriment of the life and property and business of fellow
citizens of the land who happened to be Muslims by the accident of their birth. So a bigger
calamity awaits the land when and if he rules India. The writing on the wall is there
ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN
New Delhi: The 24x7 media has once again succeeded in turning
a clear case of high-handed, arrogant, if not communal, behaviour
of a bureaucrat to an act of highest national service. It was a clear
case of rash high-handedness by an officer intoxicated by the
powers the steel frame still enjoys six decades after the depar-
ture of the British raj, which made her demolish a place of wor-
ship (read mosque - can she touch any other communitys place
of worship?). The blackmailer-paid-news-media donning the
patriotic garb, quickly turned it into an act of mafia revenge
because the said officer was fighting against sand mafia in her
area. Soon a misinformation was fed quoting the district magis-
trate that the villagers, being told that the mosque was illegal,
themselves demolished the wall (!). It is repeatedly being said that
the mosque was being built without permission but it has not been
made clear since when permission is needed to build something
in a village? The law to make a prior permission from the local
administration obligatory before building a place of worship
[which in practice was going to be applicable to mosques alone]
that the BJP government in UP tried to sneak in, in 2000, never got
passed.
The alert-as-ever 24x7 media never bothered to go and talk to
the villagers whose mosque was demolished. This is a basic duty
of media and was not difficult either as the village Kadalpur is sit-
uated in Noida, on U.P.-Haryana borders, within a stones throw
from Delhi.
It is a Muslim-dominated village with a population of 5000 out
of which 80 percent are Muslims. Previously, it had only one
mosque at one corner of the village. Residents on the other end of
the village had to walk a distance of two kms to reach the mosque.
In view of the need due to growing population, a gram Sabha
vacant land was chosen according to a decision made way back
in 1982. Villagers came forward to donate to first fill and prepare
the land at a cost of one lakh rupees, then they built walls around
the plot and placed a tarpaulin, water tank, built a place for ablu-
tions and placed mats for offering prayers.
Urdu daily Inquilab (Delhi, 2 August) quotes villager
Muhammad Shamshad, an eyewitness of the demolition on
27 July, as saying,
We had taken our sehri (pre-dawn food taken at the fast) and
offered fajr (dawn) prayers and were preparing to go to the fields,
when we were surprised to see a force from the area police sta-
tion arriving in the village at around 9-10 in the morning. They sat
next to the mosque. Soon a force of PAC came, followed by an
ambulance vehicle and a JCB machine. Then, at around 12 pm,
SDM Durga Nagpal arrived amid wailing sirens. Her vehicle halted
with a screech at the mosque
causing such a frightening
sound that the villages got
scared and ran to their
homes for safety. We soon
understood the reason why
this force had come. Now vil-
lage pradhan Sher
Mohammad and other digni-
taries of the village mustered
courage to approach the
SDM and talk to her.
When we wnt to talk to
the SDM, at first she spoke
politely but soon she lost her
temper warning us that if
anyone came forward, I will
send ten policemen behind
him.
Pradhan Sher
Mohammad, who had
appealed to the SDM not to
demolish the mosque, told
Inquilab: I spent some fif-
teen minutes reasoning with her and beseeching with her not to
demolish the mosque in Ramzan. I told her: we have built the
mosque with great effort. I told her: after Ramzan we will get the
official papers ready. But she refused to listen and ordered the
demolition of the mosque. The policemen first smashed the tar-
paulin, then threw away the prayer mats, then they broke the water
tank which we had bought after collecting donations for twenty
days.
The pradhan added, we were in a bind as to what should we
do while the police were destroying the mosque: should we resist
or not? But seeing the temper of the SDM and her threat to turn it
into a Bhatta Parsol, we kept quiet. The demolition activity contin-
ued till 4 pm, after which the SDM, tahsildar and the police force
withdrew leaving behind a police team.
Inquilab further reports, quoting locals, that a state of disqui-
et prevailed over the village and the news spread to the neighbour-
ing villages. People from 50 neighbouring villages assembled.
The situation was going to turn from bad to worse but the saner
elements prevailed and pressed for a peaceful solution.
Muhammad Zakir, a villager, said that zuhr (noon) and asr (after-
noon) prayers were not offered on that day but we offered the
maghrib (evening) prayer in the same mosque. He said Nagpal is
a communal person who destroyed a place of worship in which
even Hindus had contributed. He said the former pradhan
Chandra Pal had paid 11,000 rupees while Mahindra Jat had paid
5000 rupees for the mosque.
Inquilab quoted 71-year old villager, Muhammad Shakir, as
saying, We are pained at the illegal way our place of worship has
been destroyed but we are more pained because no one listens to
us, the victims. He said, every one is listening to the IAS officer,
who will listen to us?
Another Urdu daily, Qaumi Salamti on 3 August quoted Zakir
Husain, pramukh of the neighbouring village of Anwargarh, Clean
chit has been given to the SDM though the DM [district magis-
trate] has not bothered to visit the place not has he spoken to any
panchayat member. He has sent a wrong report. Why should the
villagers demolish their own mosque? Zakir Husain further said
the officer [Durga Nagpal] herself had come to destroy the
mosque walls endangering communal peace.
Qaumi Salamati quotes the pradhan of Kadalpur as saying that
they had collected donations for a whole year before they were
able to build the mosque on an uninhabited piece of land for which
no permission was sought from the administration.
Daily Sahafat on 3 August published a similar report adding
that once the wall was demolished, people were ready to go to
any length but saner elements opposed violence.
Continued from the previous page
AFSANA RASHID, SRINAGAR
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron, Mufti Mohammad
Sayeed has claimed that he would resolve Kashmir issue if his
party gets a decisive mandate in the forthcoming 2014 state
assembly polls.
I have a vision and a roadmap for Kashmir solution, Sayeed
said, while addressing a gathering here at the party headquarter,
July 28, on the occasion of partys 14th Foundation Day. He, how-
ever, didnt elaborate on his plan. PDP was formed on 28 July,
1999.
Sayeed said his party needs a decisive mandate, a mandate
of at least 40 seats. If that would happen, well not only take Indian
political parties on board but inclusively involve people of the
country in the process of Kashmir resolution.
The PDP patron said that the vote in 2014 wont be used as a
tool for government formation only but comprehensively for
addressing the Kashmir issue which is lingering for 65 years. He
added that the solution has to be acceptable to the people of
Jammu & Kashmir, India and Pakistan.
Reacting to this, National Conference provincial president
Nasir Aslam Wani, August 1, said with 16 seats they divided the
state, if ever they get 40, we can only foresee death and destruc-
tion. They are trying to cash in and trade on a false solution to
Kashmir imbroglio.
Awami Ittihaad Party led by the independent legislator,
Er Abdul Rashid, July 29, while addressing his party workers
here, said, If PDP and National Conference are serious in resolv-
ing Kashmir dispute, they must form a joint strategy, lead from the
front and tell New Delhi that there is no substitute to the resolution
of the Kashmir issue based on the principle of natural justice.
Hurriyat (G) led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani, July 29, in a state-
ment here said, for Omar Abdullah the resolution of Kashmir and
elections are two different issues, while for Sayeed the two are co-
related. They arent sincere and their main aim is to grab power.
Senior Akali Dal leader from Punjab, Simranjit Singh Mann,
July 23, told media here, that Kashmir issue couldnt be resolved
without the intervention of a third country.
Gool firing: Army gives itself clean chit
In its initial report on Gool firing to the Union Home Ministry,
Special Director General Border Security Force (BSF), Dilip Trivedi,
has given a clean-chit to its personnel maintaining that BSF along
with police had fired in self-defence to save its men and weapons.
BSF had allegedly resorted to indiscriminate firing on protesters in
Gool-Ramban area, leaving four persons dead and several injured
on July 18. The protesters said they were protesting after the des-
ecration of the Holy Quran by the BSF personnel.
Few days later, chief minister Omar Abdullah, July 28, was
quoted as saying that a local Imam (cleric) had spread baseless
rumours about the desecration of holy Quran, which instigated
people to attack the BSF camp.
Reacting to chief ministers remarks, PDP president
Mehbooba Mufti, July 29, said it is a deliberate attempt to shield
the guilty. She added, it is an attempt to repeat the Shopian farce
in the name of an inquiry. Er Rashid, president Awami Ittihaad
Party and independent legislator, July 27, said Both central and
state governments are responsible for Gool killings.
Senior separatists and chairman Democratic Freedom Party,
Shabir Ahmad Shah, July 23, called for an independent and impar-
tial inquiry into the incident. Every time when forces are involved
in massacres, government orders probes and inquiries, but to no
avail. Hurriyat (G) spokesperson, July 29, said that the chief min-
ister has issued the statement to appease authorities in New
Delhi, whereas Hurriyat (M) spokesperson termed the statement
fabricated and misleading.
Taking suo moto cognizance of the incident, National Human
Rights Commission, July 25, asked Union Home Secretary and
DGP Jammu and Kashmir to file a report within four weeks.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president and Member
of Parliament, Asaduddin Owaisi, July 24 told the Kashmiri
agency, CNS, that BSF personnel responsible for innocent killings
in Gool and desecration of holy Quran, should be severely pun-
ished.
A five-member team of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar
Association, July 30, came out with a report on Gool killings, stat-
ing that firing by BSF was unprovoked and unjustified. The team
during its visit to the area had interacted with eyewitnesses and
other locals.
The report says, In the statement of chief minister, blame has
been put on the local Imam who doesnt figure anywhere in the
story. This statement is indicative of the mindset of people at the
helm of affairs at the state and central levels.
The report further says that people are ready to provide truth-
ful testimony before all forums. It was also reported that police
hasnt recorded any statement, at all, under section 161 CrPC.
Sectarian violence in Budgam
Curfew was imposed on parts of central Kashmirs Budgam dis-
trict following incidents of arson during sectarian violence in the
area, July 23.
A local woman, Fatima Begum, from Dedina village, was crit-
ically injured. She succumbed to her injuries here at SKIMS, July
27. Her family alleged that she died in police action. Police, how-
ever, said she died during clashes. Besides, property worth crores
has been damaged during the clashes, reports say.
Army was deployed in curfew-bound areas to help the admin-
istration restore law and order, July 24. According to the Kashmiri
news agency, CNS, locals alleged it were outsiders, who appeared
in different villages and created havoc.
Both separatists and mainstream politicians appealed to peo-
ple to maintain calm and foil the nefarious designs of vested ele-
ments bent on creating a wedge between the two communities.
Separatists blamed intelligence agencies for fuelling violence
to divert attention from Gool-Ramban incident that took place on
July 18 and left four persons dead and several injured.
Terming sectarian-clashes as a conspiracy to distract the
attention of people from Gool- killings and alleged desecration of
holy Quran, Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, July 24,
said that there was a minor scuffle between two persons and
mysterious hands manipulated it to the hilt to fuel sectarian-clash-
es.
Urging ulama and clerics to play their role in ending sectarian-
clashes, Hurriyat (M) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, addressing
Friday congregation here at the historic Jama Masjid July 26, said
people of Kashmir should understand that sectarian-violence
only helps New Delhis intentions of institutionalizing oppression
in Jammu and Kashmir. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed
Salahuddin, as quoted by its spokesperson, Salim Hashmi in a
telephonic statement to KNS, said agencies are hell-bent to create
wedge among Muslims as it weakens our freedom struggle.
JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik led a peace march in
clash-hit areas of the district, July 24, and appealed to the people
to maintain peace, brotherhood and unity. Malik arranged many
mutual meetings of Shias and Sunnis and emphasized on restora-
tion of peace between the two communities.
PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, July 24, said the trag-
ic incidents are a clear violation of principles of Islam and
Kashmirs centuries-old tradition of tolerance and brotherhood
among various communities and sects.
Senior PDP leader and noted religious leader, Moulvi Iftikhar
Hussain Ansari, July 23, blamed the ruling National Conference
for dividing Kashmiris along sectarian lines to divert attention from
its disastrous performance in government.
Hitting back, National Conference legislator from Budgam,
Aga Syed Ruhulla, July 24, said that the clashes have surfaced in
areas where PDP workers are in majority.
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New Delhi: The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the umbrella
body of Indian Muslim organisations, on 27 July 2013 condemned
the unprovoked murderous attack this morning by the Egyptian
army on unarmed and peaceful protesters in Cairos Rabia Adawiya
square and in Alexandria.
Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President of AIMMM, said in a statement
here that the Egyptian army is exposing the country to a civil war by
its continuous attacks on unarmed and peaceful protesters, killing
around 300 and wounding thousands since its coup detat on 3 July
overthrowing a legally elected President and his government.
Dr Khan said the coup was totally illegitimate from day one as
a democratically elected President and his government can only be
replaced by a fresh election. Any other means to change peoples
mandate is illegal and tantamount to high treason. The Egyptian
army has a long history of trampling upon people and ruling Egypt
through a state of emergency. Some defeated Egyptian political
leaders, some small opposition parties and a few civil society fig-
ures supporting the army in this illegal attempt to unseat a legally
elected President and his government and usurp power are playing
with fire and exposing their country to a long civil war on the lines
of Algeria where the violent reaction against a similar crime to undo
a popular mandate in 1991 is yet to die down and has cost that
country close to one hundred thousand innocent lives.
Dr Khan appealed to the leaders of the Egyptian coup and their
civilian supporters to back down and return to the barracks before
their country actually falls into the abyss of a civil war. The elected
leader should be reinstated in his post forthwith and a dialogue
should start immediately on political and electoral reforms.
Dr Khan said, in a democracy a majority should take along the
minority while the minority should learn to respect the peoples
mandate. Disruption of the democratic process by inviting the army
and foreign powers to arbitrate and to exclude the majority by force
of arms will only kill democracy and push the country into the dark
tunnel of a military dictatorship for decades.
Dr Khan appealed to the US, other western countries and India
to scale down relations with the Egyptian putschist leaders and force
them to return the status quo ante without preconditions.
Democracy has no other meaning but to respect the outcome of the
ballot box. Mere resumption of the democratic process is a farce if
the previous popular mandate has been undone illegally.
Muslims dont believe IM exists: Minister
On the day a Delhi court convicted suspected Indian Mujahideen
(IM) member Shahzad Ahmad in the Batla House encounter,
Minority Affairs Minister K Rehman Khan said the Muslim commu-
nity in general did not believe in the existence of the outfit. He, how-
ever, added that he was only reflecting a feeling among the com-
munity.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Khan said: Unlike other organi-
sations, the Muslim community is not buying its existence in the coun-
try... As far as the IM is concerned, nobody knows what it is, where it
was formed, how it was formed and who runs it. Asked if he was
denying the existence of the outfit, Khan said he was neither denying
nor questioning anything, but pointed out that the community has that
feeling. He also said there were some misguided youths in every
section of society, and drew parallels with the Bajrang Dal.
While declining to comment on reports that the IM was formed
after the Gujarat riots, Khan asserted that there was a sense of inse-
curity and anger among the Muslims after the Babri Masjid dem-
olition and the Gujarat riots. That is a fact which nobody can deny,
he said.
Muslims of India have total commitment to the countrys secu-
rity, he added. He said barring the Batla House conviction, no
Muslim has been found guilty in a terror case. It is only suspected.
A few are suspected... their involvement is not proved... Even in
Kashmir, terrorists are coming from outside the country... With such
a large population, have you ever found a single Indian Muslim going
and supporting terrorists in Kashmir? he asked.
Some youths are misguided. Some of the fundamentalist Hindu
youths may also be misguided... Hindu fundamentalist organisations
like Bajrang Dal...What is it that they are doing? What about moral
policing and all? What are they doing? How do you describe this atti-
tude of some misguided Hindu organisations? Why dont you talk
about that? Who will control them? You take some suspected youth
from the Muslim community...but such elements are free to do what-
ever they like, he said.
If there are real people involved, please engage the Muslim
community... take the communitys moderate leadership into confi-
dence... If they are misguided, somebody should guide them. Who
will guide them? This police, IB or CBI? asked Khan. You take the
moderate leadership of every section of society - whether it is Hindu
society or Muslim society - and give them the task of de-radicalisa-
tion. Entrust it to the society, he said. (Manoj C G, Indian Express 26
July 2013)
Media must shun divisive elements: Katju
Varanasi: Press Council of Indias chairman Justice MarkandeyKatju
on 21 July advised the media to discourage persons and forces rak-
ing up issues like Hindu Rashtravad and asked journalists to
expose elements trying to divide the society by raising such issues.
Such an act is anti-national in a country with secular structure....
Stating that the country was passing through a crucial stage where-
in feudal structure was being replaced by a new society in the mak-
ing, he said, Making of a new society will take at least two decades.
It is crucial a phase. Media has to play an important role by encour-
aging scientific and moral values to keep the society united.
Lamenting that the issue of bringing electronic media under PCI had
been lingering on due to protests from media houses, he said, In a
democratic structure where the accountability of all sections, including
politicians, judiciary, lawyers, civil servants and others, is fixed, why not
have model code of conduct for journalists of such section of media?
The PCI chief explained that after a terrorist attack in the country, chan-
nels mention names of terrorist group that had owned up the responsi-
bility. Possibility of involvement of a mischievous element in sending
mail or fax to claim responsibility for any attack cannot be denied. In a
hurry to air such claims, these channels cast doubt on the role of a par-
ticular section of society which is not good for the country, he said and
added, I am not against freedom of media but this should not be
uncontrolled. (articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com -- Jul 21, 2013)
Mushawarat statement on the situation in Egypt
The decision of the Congress Party to favour
bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh (AP) to carve
out a new state, Telangana, appears loaded
with some promises for Muslims in the area.
If Telangana is formed, those favouring it,
are talking loudly about the new impor-
tance that Muslims will gain. Muslims have
been projected as kingmakers in the pro-
posed new state. How seriously should these promises be
taken? At present, these should be dismissed as nothing but
rhetoric. Those favouring Telangana have no option but to
indulge in such rhetoric to attract support of Muslims.
Interestingly, just as the rest of India and people of AP seem
divided over the formation of Telangana, Muslims are visible on
both sides.
If formed, Telangana will be Indias 29th state. Lack of unit-
ed support behind the formation of Telangana was visible on the
opening of the monsoon session of the Indian Parliament on
5 August. While those opposing the move protested against it,
others raised demand for smaller states in their areas too. This
raises the billion dollar question: for how long is India expected
to consider formation of more and more states to appease vari-
ous socio-political elements? There is also a view that smaller
states will ensure political stability, better administration and
also economic development. There is, however, no guarantee
that this process will solve problems faced by those demanding
smaller states.
Everybody from AP does not welcome the division of their
state to form Telangana. Tension prevails in AP with several
groups, including students, sitting on a hunger strike in protest
against the proposed division of their state. There prevails the
fear that the states division will spell a loss of employment
opportunities for millions in Andhra region.
At present, the Congress has only announced its decision. It
is not likely to become a reality this year. The Congress has
apparently declared its support for the formation of Telangana
with an eye on cashing on it politically in the next parliamentary
polls. The tense situation, however, does not project bright
prospects for those favouring Telangana. It may be recalled, the
central government had earlier announced formation of
Telangana on 9 December, 2009. Violent protests against the
decision led the government to hastily put in on hold only two
weeks later.
More than a dozen Congress legislators from AP have
threatened to quit in protest against the formation of Telangana.
They have taken this step in pressure from massive protest
demonstrations in their constituencies. Of these, nine, including
four Union ministers, have agreed to backtrack after being
assured that a high level panel will be formed to look into the
issue.
Clearly, on one hand, the Telangana proposal has ignited
demands for separate statehoods of other groups. At the same
time, many regional leaders are against their states being divid-
ed into smaller units. The only leader who has voiced support for
formation of smaller states is the former U.P. Chief Minister
Mayawati. However, except Uttar Pradesh (UP), which during
the Mayawati-led BSP government proposed to create four
states dividing the countrys most populous state, no state gov-
ernment has put forward any recommendation for carving out a
new state. When Mayawati was chief minister, the state assem-
bly had passed a resolution to divide UP into four states,
Bundelkhand, Poorvanchal, Pashchimanchal and Avadh
Pradesh.
Even though, at present, formation of Telangana seems a
distant reality in the near future, demonstrations in favour of
smaller states have gained strength in several areas. These
include Bodoland from Assam, Gorkhaland from West Bengal,
Vidarbha from Maharashtra and Saurashtra from Gujarat,
among several others. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Bannerjee has strongly rejected the demand for division of West
Bengal to carve out Gorkhaland. Similarly, Jammu & Kashmir
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has ruled out prospects of J&K
being divided for creation of Jammu as a separate state and
Union territory status for Ladakh.
It may be recalled that the BJP-led National Democratic
Alliance (NDA) government justified the creation of Jharkhand
and Chhattisgarh in 2000 by pointing to their economic develop-
ment and political stability being threatened by security prob-
lems posed by Naxalities. It has been observed by Justice Sri
Krishna Commission that Chhattisgarh has not been able to
control and even contain successfully the violence and extor-
tions perpetrated by the Naxalites. In ten years, Jharkhand has
had eight chief ministers, besides being under Presidents
Rule twice. Its economic performance has been dipping steadi-
ly and internal security problems created by the Naxals contin-
ue to exist the Commission said. Telangana, if created, is like-
ly to face similar problems. The five districts of Telangana, fac-
ing high Naxal activity, comprise 46 percent of its population.
Whatever may be the political motive behind the decision of
the Congress Party to support the formation of Telangana, devel-
opments suggest that the party may be forced to again put it on
hold, at least for now. Though an attempt is being made to
announce benefits that formation of Telangana would spell for
them, Muslims remain guarded about being swept by the same.
Politically, it is wise of Muslims to maintain this stand. They can
shrewdly play their political cards in AP, whether Telangana is
formed or not.
Speaki ng Out
Telangana
Rhetoric & Muslims
NI LOFAR SUHRAWARDY
AFSANA RASHID
Srinagar: A case came up before Srinagar district
mediation centre recently wherein a woman had
undergone abortion thrice on the pretext that
there was some genetic problem and she could-
nt carry on with her pregnancy after a certain
period of time, said Advocate Soffiya Mudasir,
mediator at the Srinagar District Mediation Centre.
The mediator says that the husbands contention was that his wife
does this deliberately. Consequently, the matter ended-up in a matri-
monial dispute. After hearing both parties, medical records were
called in which proved the genetic problem. The records further said,
points the mediator, that treatment for the same is available.
The treatment incurs huge expenditure, which is beyond the
means of the couple, said the mediator adding that due to illiteracy,
the husband wasnt ready to accept this and the dispute lingers on.
Referring to another case, Advocate Mudasir says, a local court
here, last February convicted five persons including a doctor for con-
ducting abortion of a woman at an advanced stage of pregnancy,
which led to her death, a decade ago. The court sentenced
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Bhat to 10 years rigorous imprisonment with a fine.
A case was registered against Dr. Bhat and others after the woman
had died at his private clinic while undergoing an abortion in 2003.
Advocate Soffiya Mudasir said a similar case is registered against
Dr. Bhat in Chadura (Budgam) sessions court, as well. After this inci-
dent, doctors feel the heat and it would act as a deterrent, she said.
Pertinently, Jammu & Kashmir state witnesses the serious phe-
nomenon of declining sex ratio among children in the age group of
0-6 years. Only 862 female children are born per 1000 male births
according to the 2011 Census report.
Mudasir says that a few months after conception, the foetus is
considered a human being and once it is aborted, it means a human
being has been killed. She says, mostly private practitioners,
medicos as well as paramedics, are involved in pre-birth gender
selection as it earns them easy and hefty amounts. This is mostly
done in unregistered private clinics in a highly sophisticated and con-
fidential manner. Medicos as well as paramedics open such centres
wherein they charge hefty amounts depending upon the stage of
pregnancy. In case of late pregnancy stage, they charge more, as
more risk is involved.
The mediator says that sometimes it takes place with the full
consent of the mother and sometimes under pressure. Medical
practitioners have a main role to curb it, she says.
Mushrooming of polyclinics in Kashmir and their easy accessi-
bility are contributing factors, observes the attorney, adding that dis-
crimination against girl-child, dowry-system prevailing in society,
huge expenses incurred on marriages and the notion that a girl-child
is a burden are some of the other reasons responsible for pre-birth
gender selection.
She further informs that there is no enforcing authority in the
state under Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Sex
Selection/Determination (PCPNDT) Act, as it is still in infancy, here.
Due to lack of awareness, people dont know whom to complain to,
where and how. No Commission or Board or government committee
is in place where people can register their complaints. Moreover,
people are in no mood to complain, says Advocate Mudasir.
She suggests the need to strengthen human resources to look
into the issue. She states that there is a medico-legal cell in every
hospital but they dont take any action and even people arent aware
about it.
If doctors are found guilty, they are liable for more than 10 years
of imprisonment, says advocate G N Shaheen, former Secretary of
the J&K High Court Bar Association. He admits that such cases
dont come to the High Court or subordinate courts, but argues, in
view of a sharp decline in female births as shown by the latest
Census report, it can be said that pre-birth gender selection is a
common practice here.
About PCPNDT Act, he says that it is effective and a very con-
clusive Act, if enforced. He observes that law enforcing agencies are
corrupt which is why this law is not enforced in letter and spirit.
Even today, pre-natal tests are done in major cities and small towns
for pre-birth gender selection. Law exists but cases arent being
identified as it is done in secrecy. As such, law enforcing agencies
arent able to react. He adds that this activity is continuing secretly
and this will continue.
Asked about any loopholes in the Act, the former Bar Secretary
says that as such there are no loopholes. t provides all punitive, cur-
ative and preventive measures. He maintains that police has a pro-
active role to play. There must be medical vigilance or surveillance
as there is no proper monitoring mechanism. Police come in action
once it is reported. The medical department can create its own sur-
veillance system by creating bureaus that will keep a constant eye on
laboratories. Medical vigilance teams should be from medical
departments with certain powers. Otherwise, law provides for seal-
ing of centres where pre-birth gender selection is reported. Advocate
Shaheen says that many labs were sealed and doctors disqualified
by government in 2010 for determining gender-related tests.
He further observed that social and cultural invasion have made
inroads into our family affairs and society wherein men are treated
supreme. Islam has worked against this discrimination. It has grant-
ed socio-legal and political rights to women and it has even protect-
ed their economic rights, he says.
About measures to be adopted, the attorney suggests moral
awareness and belief in gender equality among masses need to be
propagated; general awareness among parents about gender equal-
ity; concept of dowry that is making fast inroads in our society needs
to be curbed. In fact, the dowry system has made the institution of
marriage very difficult resulting in discrimination against women.
Consequently, insane people think to nip the problem in bud, that is,
they go for pre-birth gender selection.
The attorney though points out that it is not an alarming situation
in Kashmir, but definitely it is a matter of a serious concern and
deserves to be urgently addressed. He says the issue is serious in
Kashmir but its impact is more felt in Jammu. A general survey in
Kashmir suggests that females are brought up better, as ratio of high-
er studies here is increasing among women. He adds that due to
conflict, innumerable deaths took place which affected the overall
birth rate.
Describing it more a social problem than legal one, he empha-
sizes that only social awareness and social reforms can prove effec-
tive in dealing with such issues. Every disease is curable provided
there is social stress on the problem. A social norm works more than
a legal one. Legal norms are always punitive, whereas social norms
are always preventive. Religion too can play an effective role, he
said.
Stressing that the pre-birth gender selection is a sin, he says, It
is unpardonable.
Throughout India, it has been found that pre-birth gender selec-
tion mostly takes place in well-off liberal section of the society
Law is good, its objective is laudable but it lacks implementation,
enforcement, proper utilization and monitoring, says Prof. Fareed
Ahmad Rafiqi, Associate Professor in University of Kashmirs Faculty
of Law. He adds that inertia lies on part of government agencies and
the result is obvious.
Prof. Rafiqi observes that though law exists, the process of the
identification of people involved in diagnostic centres isnt properly
monitored and licenses arent properly extended. That problem is
due to money, clout, inertia and nexus between enforcing agencies.
Hospital administration, police and judiciary would have been able to
control it but there is a lack of coordination. They are groping in the
dark and finding no solutions, he said.
The result is that incidents of pre-birth gender selection are on
the rise, despite law being there. The problem cant be tackled in iso-
lation; all agencies must work together.
The academician points to a social belief, that man is superior to
woman, which is the main reason behind the pre-birth gender selec-
tion, apart from the menace of dowry and consideration of daughter
as a burden mostly in low and middle income groups. He says there
is need to curb dowry and to consider females as a useful entity and
not as a burden on society. He calls for the need to put an end to cer-
tain campaigns creating confusions like wrong interpretations of reli-
gious beliefs and creating barriers for womens education. He says
there is a role religious leaders can play in this perspective.
Pointing towards punishment, Prof. Rafiqi observes that even if
you enact death penalty for this crime, it matters least. Whatever is
the quantum of punishment, it will not make any difference. A sen-
tence comes once a violater is convicted. Even if someone is con-
victed but not rejected by society, the practice will be encouraged but
if the practice is boycotted it becomes a deterrent. He adds that the
irony is that we accept the violators as honourable citizens due to
their clout, whereas we ought to condemn them at the societal level.
About the various steps that can be taken to curb the menace of
the pre-birth gender selection, he suggests awareness generation
among masses about dignity of women, that man is in no way supe-
rior to women and there is no reason to discriminate against women,
increase level of literacy among women and the need to empower
women by giving them authority like their induction in police and judi-
ciary.
He adds that women have to be trained and educated to with-
stand pressure at various levls and stages. Confidence Building
Measures (CBMs) ought to be taken so that they are able to live a dig-
nified life. Any diagnostic centre found violating PCPNDT should be
severely dealt with, its license should be automatically cancelled and
the quantum of fine fixed. The same could act as a deterrent for oth-
ers, he says.
The academician observes that the termination of pregnancy
adversely affects society in the long run as the foetus terminated
can be tomorrows Madam Curie or likewise. He further observes
that there is a possibility of misusing Medical Termination which
is otherwise done if life of a mother is at risk.
PCPNDT Act is a crucial part of three subjects taught at the
university level - Gender Justice; Women and Criminal Law and
the Act as a separate local law.
(This article is part of Media fellowship programme offered by Mumbai-based
NGO, Population First. Feedback is welcome at [email protected])
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Menace of Pre-birth gender selection in Kashmir
Pointing towards punishment, Prof. Rafiqi
observes that even if you enact death penalty
for this crime, it matters least. Whatever is
the quantum of punishment, it will not make
any difference. A sentence comes once a
violater is convicted. Even if someone is
convicted but not rejected by society, the
practice will be encouraged but if the practice
is boycotted it becomes a deterrent. He adds
that the irony is that we accept the violators
as honourable citizens due to their clout,
whereas we ought to condemn them at the
societal level.
Prof OBAID SIDDIQI,
famous scientist, founder
of National Centre for
Biological Scientists and
National Research
Professor of Tata Institute
of Fundamental Research
died in Bangalore in a
hospital on 26 July after he had sustained
sever head injuries in an accident. A famous
scientist, he was honoured with Padma
Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, Dr Shanti
Saroop Bhatnagar Awards for his important
researches and achievements in his field of
science. He was 81 and is survived by his
wife, two sons and two daughters.
MAULANA SYED KHALIL HUSAIN alias Khalit
Mian a member of Darul Uloom Deobands
Majlis-e Shoora, founder and rector of
Deobands Madrasa Asgharia died on 25 July
at the age of 81 years after a protracted ill-
ness. He had been living in Madina for a long
time but because of illness he had come back
to his native place and here also he remained
confined to bed.
Prof MAJEED MUZMAR, noted litterateur,
researcher and critic of Kashmir University
died of heart attack on 26 July. An author of 4
books in Urdu and also
translator of many books
from English into Urdu
which were published by
Sahitya Academy, he was
a teacher of many genre
of Urdu literature such as
Urdu fiction, drama, Urdu
ghazals and poems etc. Among his Urdu
works are Urdu ka Aalami Afsana, Kashmiri
Drama aur fiction. He was around 60.
MAULANA MUHAMMAD KHALID of Jamia
Islamia, died in AMUs JN Medical College
and Hospital on 25 July after his head was
crushed with a big stone by thieves as he was
sleeping in a mosque in Aligarh. After the
attack he was rushed to JN Medical College
but because excessive loss of blood he could
not be saved.
RAFEEQAN, a resident of Rampur districts
Swasi town died on 23 July because of old
age. She was an ordinary woman but what is
newsworthy is that she died at the rare age of
128 years which probably is a record in India,
if not in the world. After hearing the news of
her death, people from far off places, even
those who did not know her, came to her
place to participate in her burial.
Dr AUSAF SAYEED, IFS offi-
cer and Indian ambassador in
Yemen, has been appointed by
Indian government as Indias
Consul General in Chicago. A
native of Hyderabad he says
that he has emotional relation-
ship with both Yemen and
Chicago because his forefathers belonged to
Yemen and his father, Ewaz Sayeed, Urdu critic
and man of letters had died in Chicago in 1995
where he is buried. About Indians in Chicago he
said in reply to a question that there are about 3.5
lakh Indians in Chicago of whom about 40000 are
Hydrabadis.
J&Ks finance minister Abdul
Rahim Rather has been
elected new chairman of the
Empowered Committee of
States finance ministers on
GST (Goods and Services
Tax). His election was held in
the presence of the Patron of
the Empowered Committee, P. Chidambaram,
finance minister.
Prof AKHTARUL WASEY, present Vice Chairman
of Delhi Urdu Academy has been selected / nomi-
nated Vice Chairman of this Academy consecu-
tively for the third time by
Chairperson of the Academy
and chief minister of Delhi,
Shiela Dikshit. The Academy
was constituted in 1982 and
from that time onwards no one
was appointed Vice Chairman
of this Academy for the third time. Other important
members of this Academy are Dr G. R. Kanwal, Dr
Dharmendra Nath, Prof Khalid Mahmood, Dr
Shabana Nazeer, Ms Manorma Diwan, well known
journalist and Masoom Muradabadi, another jour-
nalist.
I.A. SIDDIQI, a former member
of Jan Shikayet Ayog and senior
Trade Union leader has been
appointed by union ministry of
home affairs a member of Nai
Dilli Palika Parishad (NDMC)
Lieut Gen (Retd) SYED ATA HASNAIN and
WASEEM AHMAD, former MP have been appoint-
ed by the President of India in his capacity as
Visitor of AMU as Members of the Universitys
Executive Council for a period of 3 years.
According to AMUs Registrar, Gr. Captain (Retd)
Shahrukh Shamshad, order to this effect has
already been issued by HRD ministrys Under
Secretary.
MEN & WOMEN IN NEWS
OBITUARIES
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MUHAMMAD ATHARUDDIN BHARTI, journalist and social
worker was honoured with award in recognition of social
work. Earlier also he was honoured with many awards such
as Radio Moscow Award in 1989, Swamy Vivekanand
Sadbhavna Pradeshik Samman in 1995, Radio Voice of
Russain Club in 1996, Patrakar Prabhakar Puraskar by Akhil
Bhartiya Lekhak Manch and Hakeem Ajmal Khan Award by
Central Unani Tibbi Board. Also, All Journalists Association
had honoured him with Param Shri Award.
USTAD AMJAD ALI KHAN, sarod maestro has been selected
for being honoured with Rajiv Gandhi National Harmony Award
for promoting national unity, harmony and peace. This Award
is given every year to individuals or
organisations for creditable work for
promoting national unity and peace
and against violence, terrorism etc on
the occasion of Rajiv Gandhis birth-
day and consists of Rs 5 lakh and a
certificate. The Award will be given to
him at a function to be held in Delhi on
20 August.
ASHRAF ASTHANVI, noted journalist was honoured with
Man of the Year Award by Bihar Governoer Dr D. Y. Patil in
recognition of his valuable work and services as a journal-
ist. The Award consisted of a Memento, Shawl and
Commendation Certificate.
AWARDS
Mehdi Hasan the very name evokes a
sense of profound respect and a deluge of
profuse admiration. June 14 was his first
death anniversary. Im spontaneously
reminded of my memorable meeting with
the maestro at Chaklala during my visit to
Pakistan in 2005. Id gone to meet my friend
and professor Dr Tahir Aziz. Professor Tahir
telephoned me that there would be a pleas-
ant surprise for me. What could it be, I
thought. When I reached his place, I was
astonished to see Mehdi Hassan there. He
had come to meet Professor Aziz as Azizs
ancestors also hailed from Rajasthan. Here,
I must mention that Mehdi Hasans ances-
tors belonged to Jhunjhnu district of
Western Rajasthan. They migrated to
Pakistan after partition. Mehdi Hasan was
20-year-old at that time.
Dumbfounded to see my idol before me, I whispered into
Azizs ears to request Hasan Sahab to sing "Ranjish hi sahi, dil hi
dukhane ke liye aa..," Mehdi Hasans immortal ghazal. "Hasan
Sahab, ye aapki woh ghazal samaat farmana chahte hain" (He
wants to hear that particular ghazal of yours), he politely told
Mehdi Hasan Sahab. There was no harmonium, no tabla or any
saaz (instrument). Yet the humble genius asked me, "Aapko ghaz-
al poori yaad hai?" (Can you recollect the entire ghazal?) Yes I
said. Mein kaheen bhoolnay lagoon toh aap yaad dilaane kee
zahmat gawaara keejiyega (If I forget and fumble, please remind
me). Then, he began to render the ghazal in his inimitable style.
And Im pardonably proud of the fact and still get the goose-
bumps to think that I heard Mehdi Hasan Sahab sing without
instruments. And what a voice! Ive heard ghazals by some of its
greatest exponents, but Mehdi was Mehdi. Once he got going, he
went on to sing five ghazals in a row and one of them was Firaqs
"Yeh bhee nizaam-e-hayaat hai koi..."
After the informal ghazal session, we all gathered for dinner.
Mehdi Saheb was a pure vegetarian. Its indeed a great coinci-
dence that the two greatest voices from the Sub-continent,
Muhammad Rafi and Mehdi Hasan were strict vegetarians.
Aawaaz zaria-e-ibaadat-e-Allah hai. Isay khoon-aalood naheen
kiya ja sakta (voice is the medium of Almightys worship. It can-
not be stained with blood (of animals), he told me. Being a vege-
tarian, his words moved me all the more. The great man made no
secret of his fondness for the glass. This fondness landed him in
trouble during the totalitarian regime of General Ziaul-Haq. Despite
being so great, he trivialised none and even enquired about ghaz-
al singers like Satish Babbar, Neena and Rajendra Mehta.
Behtareen gaate hain yeh log (they are best at singing), he told
me. While he was talking to me in impeccable Urdu, he was com-
pletely at home with Rajasthani and told me that it was the lan-
guage of his heart. Rajasthani meray dil
kee zubaan hai (Rajasthani is the language
of my heart). Hasan Sahab didnt lose the
typical accent of Marwar region in western
Rajasthan and spoke that dialect with con-
summate ease. The great vocalist never
forgot his roots and wistfully remembered
the village in Rajasthan he was born in.
Humilitys the main attribute of truly
great people. After having met Mehdi
Hasan, I realised that greats are indeed
humble and down-to-earth. Only those,
whore shallow, think that the worlds their
oyster, but people like Mehdi Hasan are
above such pettiness. Wish I could go
again and meet him when he was serious-
ly ill and died.(Sumit Paul)
HAJI OOSMAN SAIT
Freedom fighters suf-
fered for a cause and
passed away, leaving
behind a shadow of their
love for India. One such
person now forgotten by
the new generation is
Haji Oosman Sait. His
family still lives in the city
of Bangalore, where
once upon a time, it was
richest owning nearly 27
bungalows, Imperial
Talkies on St. Marks
Road, the most costly
land in the city.
Whenever our his
wife was pregnant, Hajee
Usman Sait used to
name the bungalow
where she will deliver the next baby. That is why, until recently,
all these bungalows had the stone name-plates like Yakoob Villa,
Ebrahim Villa, Khader Villa, Iqbal Villa etc. All bungalows starting
from Richmond Road petrol station to the present-day India
Garage was known as "Cash Bazaar departmental stores".
This highly successful businessman and cloth merchant met
Gandhiji and Nehru who changed his life and infused him with a
mission to work for the independence of India, to be free from the
bondage of the British rule. Haji Oosman Sait now started sup-
porting the freedom movement financially. He gave gold coins in
leather bags to Nehru and Gandhiji so much so that he was
labelled as the "cash bag of the National Congress". His support
to the freedom movement angered the British who started boy-
cotting Haji Oosman Saits businesses. He had to sell and pledge
his properties and yet continued paying the National Congress
regularly to continue its activities. The amount spent by Haji
Oosman Sait in support of the freedom struggle has been esti-
mated in todays terms at 7000 crore rupees.
At the call given by Mahatma Gandhi to boycott English
schools, Haji Oosman Sait was first to open an Indian National
School in 1921. This motivated many Muslims to start their own
schools.
The family of Hajee Oosman Sait, consisting of 102 members
today, are proud of the sacrifices of their grandfather. The lead-
ers of the freedom struggle never forgot their friend in need. After
independence, Nehru in 1949 allotted 300 acres of land to the
family of Hajee Usman Sait, but the family showing great respect
for the sacrifices made by their grandfather, refused to take any
favours in return for the sacrifices offered by Haji Oosman Sait
who was the first Congress President of the erstwhile Mysore
State and served the National Congress till his death. His children
hope to see the India that their grandfather and leaders of the free-
dom struggle had in their dreams. (Based on information provid-
ed by Haji Oosman Saits grandson, Mohamed Ali Javeed)
GHULAM SARWAR
Ghulam Sarwar (1926-2004), a
Bihar politician, became known as
a fiery orator in chaste Urdu in late
1940s. His pen showed its might
through the newspapers,
Naujawan, Saathi, and more
well-known Sangam, which
endures till date. This Baaghi
Daanishwar, i.e., rebellious intel-
lectual, became an eye-sore to the
Indian state in the 1960s. He was
imprisoned in 1964. His Jail Diary,
Goshay Mein Qafas Ke became such a best-selling account
that its royalty fetched him enough money to perform Haj; on
coming back he was once again put behind bars in 1965,
which produced another Jail Diary, Jahan Ham Hain. In
1970s, he jumped into the JP Movement; simultaneously he
was one of the strongest pillars of the Urdu Movement in
Bihar. He bcame Bihars education minister (1977-79),
Speaker, Bihar Legislative Assembly (1990-95), and agricul-
ture minister (1995-2004).(Excerpted from a writeup on
yahoogroup by Dr Mohammad Sajjad, Asstt. Prof.., Centre of
Advanced Study in History, AMU)
An evening with MEHDI HASAN
PhD on Dawat
Inamur Rahman Rafiqi was awarded a PhD degree
by the Department of Islamic Studies, Jamia Millia
Islamia for his work on the Dawat Urdu newspaper
published by Jamaat-e Islami Hind since 1953.
The research work in 450 pages was completed
under the guidance of Prof. Iqtidar Ahmad Khan.
Dawat is an Urdu sahroza (3-day periodical) which
has played an important role in covering Indian
Muslim issues and views and guiding its readers
on milli problems. It is also available now online at
dawatonline.com. The research forcused in particular on the role of media
in propagation of Islam.
Protest at the Egyptian embassy in Delhi
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Representatives of a number of students and
youth organisations organised a protest at the
Egyptian embassy in Delhi on 1 August against
the military coup, overthrow of the elected gov-
ernment and wholesale murder of protesters
exercising their democratic rights.
Speakers said that the Indian government
had hosted President Mohammad Morsi only a
few months earlier but now the Indian govern-
ment has completely disowned him without
showing any concern for democracy and funda-
mental rights of Egyptian people who elected
Mursi as president. Speakers said that they will
continue supporting anti-coup protests in India
because of the historical brotherhood between
Indian and Egyptian peoples.
Leaders of the Forum for Students
Democracy, Democratic Students Union,
Students Islamic Organization and Campus Front
spoke during the protest and expressed their sol-
idarity with the anti-coup protesters in Egypt.
Convener of the Forum Omair Anas criticized
Indias silence over the military coup and conse-
quent military-sponsored violence in Egypt. He
said that the coup in Egypt is a huge blow for the
entire Arab region where American hegemony is
the major decisive factor. He reiterated that only
peoples choice through democratic institutions
can correct historical mistakes of past govern-
ments in Egypt. He said that a president and par-
liament elected through ballots can only be
removed by ballots.
General Secretary of Welfare Party of India
Dr Qasim Rasool Ilyas said that Indian govern-
ments silence is against Indias long-term inter-
ests in the region. He explained how Israelis and
Americans are secretly playing games behind
the cur tain of this coup.
Representatives of Forum for
Students Democracy, Democratic
Students Union, Students Islamic
Organization and Campus Front also
spoke and expressed their solidarity
with anti coup protesters in Egypt.
At the end of march, a memoran-
dum was submitted to the officials of
Embassy which demanded the mili-
tary ruler of Egypt:
1. To cancel military declaration
of suspending Constitution and rein-
state Dr. Mohammad Morsi as presi-
dent to find a broad-based solution
within legitimate process mandated
by clear electoral support.
2. To cancel all emergency pow-
ers to military or the police to deal
with ongoing political crisis. To allow
peaceful struggle for all political
groups.
3. To lift ban from all media
organizations shut down after the
military takeover, in order to ensure
freedom of expression.
4. To release all detained leaders of all polit-
ical parties and stop arbitrary arrests and torture
campaign against leaders and activists of
Muslim Brotherhood and Freedom and Justice
Party.
5. To support a broad-based national recon-
ciliation dialogue among all the political players
of Egypt to find a political and constitutional
solution in the light of the mandate given by
Egyptian people in the last presidential election.
6. The forum appeals to all Egyptians, liber-
als, Islamists and others to refrain from violence
against each other and to protect Egypt from mil-
itary dictatorship.
7. The forum appeals to the international
community, including the Arab League, the
United Nations and other countries to support
the civilian government elected by the people of
Egypt and not to deal secretly with the military as
they have done in the past.
8. The forum expects that the Indian govern-
ment would take an independent position on the
crisis which brings back legitimacy of the man-
date given to the elected President. We demand
the Indian government not to recognize this mil-
itary coup and convey to the military leadership
that it will deal only with the elected leadership of
Egypt.
Egypt Solidarity Forum, an umbrella organi-
zation of many students and political groups
organized the protest. Delhi Police tried unsuc-
cessfully to prevent the protesters from reaching
the embassy in Delhis Chanakyapuri area.
AFMI distributes fees and books in Ranchi
In coordination
with the Friends
of Weaker Society
NGO, the
A m e r i c a n
Federation of
Muslims of Indian
Origin (USA &
Canada) paid the
annual fees for
200 students and
distributed books
to 500 students in
Ranchi.
For more infor-
mation on AFMI
activities in India,
visit:
www.afmi.org
Aligarh: In a bid to promote the concept of a green campus, AMU
Vice Chancellor, Zameer Uddin Shah on 1 August announced that
henceforth he will use a bicycle for commuting within the University
campus. The VC launched a drive to popularize cycling within the
University campus following the ban on motorcycles in all residen-
tial boys hostels of the University.
The VC said in a statement that in most western countries there
has been a major revival in the use of bicycles in all leading univer-
sities. This, he said, was a very healthy trend and deserved to be
emulated in different universities in the country. The VC said that the
drive for use of cycles had twin objectives, primarily for economiz-
ing the funds and also for promoting cycling as a healthy exercise.
Bicycling had traditionally been the main mode of transport
within the University campus till the 1980s. However, the use of
motorbikes and scooters increased in a big way inside the University
campus after that period.
New Delhi : Human Welfare Foundation offered 120 school kits on
4 August to selected children of J.J. Colony at Kanchan Kunj,
Madanpur Khadar.
Dr Manoj Pateria, director of National Council for Science
Technology, was the chief guest of the programme . He said that
promotion of education in the society should be our priorty.
Through this noble effort, HWF is trying its best for needy children.
The programme was presided by Rafeeq Ahmed, general sec-
retary of HWF.
The school kits were distributed with the joint efforts of an NGO,
Mitr Ek Sanjha Prayas which had surveyed the Kanchan Kunj area and
identified the deserving children. Each school kit consisted of a bag in
which included a included notebook, geometry box, exam pad, colour
box, drawing pencils etc as well as a moral story book.
The effort is to minimize the dropout rate of children in poor
localities. HWF has been providing school kits in northern states
of India for some years. This year, it has given away 6500 school
kits to poor children all over India.
AMU VC to use bicycle for
daily commuting
HWF gifts school kits to children of Kanchan Kunj
For Amreen, sky is not the limit
For Amreen Himani, who cleared CA exam in
her first attempt, the sky is not the limit.
Though Amreen itself means sky she is not
content with a bird like flight. She wants to
soar high in the sky like a falcon - what
Dr Iqbal had urged people to try. Born in a
poor family, living in Juhapura ghetto, she
kept pursuing her dream. Though she want-
ed to be a doctor her financial circum-
stances compelled her to change the course of her flight and she
opted for the commerce stream. Her father pushes his hand-cart
from Muslim ghetto to Ahmedabads Hindu locality Vasana, where
he sells items like bindi, mangalsutra, tops, imitation jewellery.
During peak seasons (marriages and festivals) Amreen too joins
her parents. Having been a good scholar throughout her student
career she could secure scholarship. She passed all the three
exams of CA in the first attempt. She does not subscribe to the idea
that girls should not dream big. On the contrary, she believes that
girls should dream big to scale great heights. Parents should
encourage children in realising their dreams. Amreens parents do
not know what CA is but despite their poor circumstances they did
not restrict her flight-to the skies. She has an education loan of Rs
1.5 lakh which she is confident of repaying very soon because she
has immense faith in Allah and of course, in her own potentials.
(Based on an interview by Vijay Trivedi, daily Patrika, 22 July 2013)
Two more success stories: CA exam
Ahmedabad / Prantij: Two Muslims despite poor financial circum-
stances managed to succeed in the prestigious CA exam. Ghulam
Haider Ghulam Nabi, resident of Shah-e-Alam locality of
Ahmedabad studied in the scorching sun as his father, a welder,
cannot afford him better facilities. Father of three daughters,
Ghulam Hiders father, decided to support his son by obtaining a
loan of Rs 2 lakh as he failed to secure a scholarships from other
sources. He obtained 55% marks. Studying daily for 8-10 hours
Ghulam Hider did not forget his religious obligations. Muhammad
Hashim Maulvi of Prantij (Sabarkantha district) is the son of an
Imam leading prayes in the local mosque, Fatah-e-Islam mosque.
Molvi Abdullah, agent of Gujarat Today, has four children whom he
provided both kinds of education - religious as well as academic
(liberal) education. One of them has recently completed engineer-
ing. Muhamad Hashim was lucky in obtaining loans from a few
organisations. He scored 442 marks.
AMU VC refutes charge of language politics
Aligarh: AMU Vice Chancellor, Zameer Uddin Shah explained on
23 July that both Hindi and Urdu are taught at AMU to students of
1st year BA, BSc and BCom. Those students who had studied
Hindi as a subject in class 12 have to opt for Urdu while those who
had Urdu have to opt for Hindi. Shah pointed out that despite being
compulsory, these subjects were not taken seriously by students
since neither the attendance was regular nor marks were counted
in the Division. In order to make the students take these subjects
seriously, the recent decision stipulated that both attendance and
marks would be counted. The VC added that the decision was
taken only to induce seriousness of purpose among students.
Shah regretted that this decision to improve academic standards
has been misconstrued. The Aligarh Muslim University takes
pride in fostering the pluralistic ethos of our multi-lingual and sec-
ular country, he added.
IIM Kashipur offers MDP in Islamic Banking & Finance
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Modis Gujarat: 45 cr spent for stalling lokayukt appointment
New Delhi: BJPs party candidate Narendra Modi who is hailed for
his good governance is alleged to have spent 45 crores for stalling
the appointment of lokayukt. Congress found an opportunity to
expose Modi following Supreme Courts verdict against the Modi
government. Repeated court cases have on the one hand proved
that Modi is afraid of lokayukt and wants one of his own choosing
and on the other it has caused a burden of Rs 45 crores to state
exchequer. The Lokayukt Act of 1984, which the BJP had advocat-
ed, gave power to the governor to appoint Lokayukt after consult-
ing the High court chief Justice and the leader of opposition. As
Modi government failed to appoint one, the governor appointed
lokayukt on August 25, 2011 much to Modis chagrin. Congress
spokesperson Raj Babbar said that this fear proves that there is
large scale corruption. According to the latest news coming out of
the laboratory of Hindutva, the lokayukt (Justice RA Mehta) on
8 August has resigned because he was not allowed to function. He
said in his letter to Governor Beniwal that the appointment has
lost all the grace and dignity...I humbly withdraw my consent for
the appointment as the Gujarat Lokayukta and decline to assume
the office. Kindly accept my request and relieve me...Some think
that if a person is not pro-government, he is necessarily anti-gov-
ernment. They cant accept that there is third category, neither pro
nor anti, but independent and neutral. Their mindset is clear- their
way or no other way...Even after three judgements of the Supreme
Court, the reluctance of the State Government to notify the
Lokayukta appointment in the official Gujarat Government gazette
is surprising, but not unexpected.
Woman in burqa asked to remove Hijab in bus
Indore: A driver, a conductor and a ticket checker were suspend-
ed following a complaint by a woman and her husband. Zahida
Khan, resident of Azad Nagar. Shereached AICTSL office and com-
plained that she had been travelling from Shalimar bus stop for the
last five days and continuously for three days the bus staff has
been asking her to remove her hijab on the plea that there are cam-
eras in the bus. For three days she ignored the matter but decided
to apprise her husband. The two met officials and apprised them
about the incident (in a written complaint). Officials at AICTSL not
only apologised but also took strong action against the three. They
have been suspended. ibus service is a recent addition to trans-
port service in the city.
Case filed against Sanjiv Bhatt
Ahmedabad: Suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt faces a complaint
lodged by the commando in his security. Jignesh Patel lodged a
complaint at the Ghatlodia police station alleging that the officer
slapped him when he refused to comply with his order to take the
pet dogs back to home. The cop argued that being a security per-
son he was not supposed to take care of dogs. An angry Bhat
slapped him at which Patel reported the matter to control room.
Bhat, however, claims that no such incident took place. He wrote
a letter to the police commissioner S P Saikia alleging that the gov-
ernment was trying to implicate him in a false case. Ghatlodia
police station says that he will be arrested if found guilty after
investigation
Drunk cops harass Imam
Indore: Members of Muslim community staged a protest demon-
stration at the DIG office following an incident in which an Imam
was harassed by two drunk cops. They blocked the busy MG
Road at Regal Square. After preliminary enquiry SP Abid attached
the two cops to police lines. According to Imam Muhammad
Maqbool Noori (21) caretaker of Madrasa at the shrine of Nahar
Shah Wali two cops asked him to stop while he was returning from
the Madrasa. They asked him to play music on his vehicle loudly.
On refusal they pulled his beard and threw away his cap.
Residents of the area complain that the two cops had been doing
such things with several people. There was a complaint by one
Vikrant Thakur also.
SP Verma faces fresh enquiry in encounter case
Ahmedabad: After completion of his assignment with the SIT
probing Ishrat fake encounter SP Verma, the IPS officer, has to
undergo a fresh investigation into an old case of police encounter
in Porbander. Gujarat High Court rejected Vermas petition seeking
closure of enquiry. The HC has ordered a fresh investigation. It
may be recalled that three persons were killed in the encounter in
a case in 1996/97. when Verma was SP at Porbandar. On a peti-
tion by the brother of one of the deceased persons a probe was
ordered. The HC did not entertain Vermas plea that the CID IG had
given him a clean chit.
Rakhi in the name of Ishrat Jahan
New Delhi: Ishrat Jahans name has
now become familiar to almost every
body because from the proofs found
so far it has become almost clear that
she was innocent and was killed in a
fake and planned encounter. Amaresh
Mishra, well-known historian and
social worker plans to start a move-
ment of preparing rakhis containing the
writing in Urdu, Hindi and English that
Ishrat Jahan meri bahen thi, usay farzi
encounter mein maara gaya. Mishra says that the festival of
Raksha Bandhan falls on 20 August. On that day he would popu-
larise the message that Ishrat Jahan was innocent and that she
was killed in a fake encounter. He said that he will also spread the
message that the objective of killing this sister was to murder
Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb. Hence with this message, he hopes to foil
this objective of communal forces. He said that so far orders for
ten thousand such raakhis have been placed and our whole team
is working for this without any banner and our slogan is (or will be)
Ganga-Jamuni tahzeeb waapas lao, firqa parasti ko mulk se bha-
gao. He said that in addition to Delhi they have so far prepared
their team in 12 districts of UP including Lucknow, Banaras,
Allahabad etc and in addition to UP their team is also carrying on
the same movement in many districts of Bihar after which they are
now carrying on their movement in big cities lie Mumbai, Pune,
Jaipur, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chennai, Kolkata and so on and so
forth. He said that on Raksha Bandhan, the sacred festival of
Hindus which strengthens the sacred relationship between broth-
ers and sisters, thousands of raakhis will be tied by sisters on the
wrists of their brothers and get an oath from them that in future no
sister in our country should be killed in such fake encounters. He
said that now it has become clear that Ishrat Jahans encounter
was fake and hence her family members should get justice and the
guilty should be punished. He said that they had not given any
name to this movement but this movement is from civil society
and they themselves are making arrangements for this. He said
that they hope that secular leaders Rahul Gandhi, Prakash Karat,
Mulayam Singh, Nitish Kumar, Lalu Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan etc
will participate in this campaign. He further said that RSS and its
outfits have come to know about this plan of theirs and they are
opposing it. They have telephoned him, saying that this is not
proper because it will give a wrong message but, he said in reply
to them, this will create an atmosphere of brotherhood in the
country.
Diggis ATS links
Indore: Determined to polarise voters RSS units are busy framing
charges. Accusing Digvijay Singh of links with Maharashtra ATS
pleaders hold him responsible for Dilip Patidars mysterious disap-
pearance. In a meeting of Indian Council for Security and Human
Rights advocates alleged that because of his links with Hemant
Karkare Diggi was instrumental in initiating several investigations.
According to them ATS used to work according Diggis instruc-
tions. Had Karkare been alive he too would have been an accused
in Dilip Patidars disappearance case. Anil Soni, additional advo-
cate general Panjab and a member of ICSHR, holds that Diggi has
lost his mental balance and hence needs medical treatment. He
feels that the NIA is also terrorising people on his instructions.
Family members of people accused of terror links marched in a
procession to Gandhi Hall. Relatives of Sadhvi Pragya Singh, Dilip
Patidar, Lokesh Sharma and Rajendra Sinh were present at the
meeting. J P Sharma, advocate and general secretary of a council
accused the NIA of acting as CBIs B team.
New Delhi: Union minister for Information Technology, Kapil Sibal
released Urdu Fonts and Urdu Keyboard Manager prepared in
joint cooperation with National Council for the Promotion of Urdu
Language (NCPUL) and C-Deck at a function held in Delhi on
12 July. Speaking on this occasion he said, among other things,
that with this, his old and cherished dream of associating Urdu
with state-of-the-art technology has been fulfilled and from this
point of view 12 July 2013 has become a historical date. He said
that Urdu being the link language among the people of different
regions of the country, it was this language with which we fought
the war of independence and liberated the country. At the same
time, he said, we want to associate Urdu knowing and speaking
common people with the new technique so that they can derive
maximum benefit from this. He said that he would soon distribute
tablets equipped with latest technology among Urdu boy and girl
students in which there will be many sets of information like dic-
tionary and encyclopaedia.
NCPULs Vice Chairman Dr Waseem Barelvi while thanking
the minister for releasing Urdu Fonts software and Urdu
Keyboard Manager said on this occasion that this is pioneering
work in the world of Urdu computer and Urdu software and fur-
ther progress and work in this field will surprise the world.
NCPULs Director Khwaja Ikramuddin while explaining the work-
ing of Urdu Fonts, software and the new keyboard said that with
this, way has been cleared for Urdu entering all the windows. He
said that for this type of software so far we were dependent on
Pakistan but with this, we will no longer be dependent on Pakistan
and with the opening of android-based software Urdu India will
be written in it. He further said that in this software based on
naskh and nastaleeq scripts (common Urdu and Arabic scripts)
there will be a total of 13 fonts, adding that this software prepared
with joint efforts of NCPUL and C Deck is a new revolution in the
world of Urdu literature and Digital media. He further said that
with these 13 fonts Urdu language can be directly used in the
smart phone, android phone, tab, laptop, window phone, SMS,
Email etc like English. Associate Director of C Deck, Mahesh
Kulkarni however said that these are preliminary works and much
more remains to be done but for the time being we have put 5000
commonly used words in this software but the data of more
words have to be collected and dictionary also can be uploaded.
In addition to these, there are facilities to work in English also with
caps lock. Moreover, in addition to fontech facility in the keyboard
there are facilities of other keyboards also, he said.
Director of NCPUL Khwaja Ikramuddin, said that for the pop-
ularization and propagation of Urdu this Council has started tak-
ing help of digital sources under which steps have been taken to
ensure the use of this language (Urdu) easily in supplying Urdu
books on-line and in modern electronic gazettes. He said that in
addition to many steps that have been, and are being, taken for
promoting Urdu through various courses and plans and taking
help of digital sources, our effort is to make available on-line
every thing associated with Urdu. He said that steps are also
being taken to ensure the easy use of Urdu language in many
modern electronic gazettes like tab and smart phone. These
steps include making the fonts in conformity with technology and
making it functional. He said that NCPUL has more than 1200
books which are being uploaded in digital form on NCPULs web-
site so that people are able to read these books online.
As regards associating Urdu with employment and jobs, he
said that in spite of limited resources they are running many pro-
fessional courses which will be, and indeed are, helpful to our
youth in getting employment, though still much remains to be
done. He said that with online Urdu course, people can learn Urdu
on its website. (N. A. Ansari)
Urdu Fonts and Keyboard Manager launched
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Lokesh Sharma granted bail in Sunil Joshi case
Mhow: Lokesh Sharma was granted bail in the Joshi murder case
as the NIA could not file challan against him in the stipulated peri-
od of 180 days. He was released on a bail of Rs 50,000 under IPC
section 167 (2). Earlier Balvir Singh was also released as the NIA
did not object to his bail declaring that he should have been
released much earlier. Special magistrate of the NIA, Pande,
granted bail to Sharma on 24 July.
Dr. Amin & Singhal quarrelled over Ishrats anesthesia
Ahmedabad: The CBI chargesheet records the quarrel between
Amin and Singhal over use of anesthesia on Ishrat. While Dr. Amin
wanted to administer anesthesia (overdose) just like Kausar Bi
and dispose the body in a similar way, Singhal strongly objected
to such treatment. DG Vanzaara had to intervene and the two
had a heated discussion in the matter. Singhal is reported to have
divulged the fact having suffered the loss of his only son who
committed suicide. The chargesheet also records the fact that in
order to prove the four persons terrorists, Tarun Barot and
Bharat Patel planted weapons in the Indica car. An A K - 46 was
planted at the left of Amjad Ali Rana and two pistols in the car
were placed by Patel. A bag containing weapons was handed over
by the IB team to GL Singhal who assigned the job to constable
Nizamuddin. Complying with the order, the constable handed over
the bag to Tarun Barot. Bhart Patel had kidnapped Rana in a Qualis
car and brought him to Arham Farm. While Patel drove the car,
Moti Desai provided the necessary security during the drive.
Urdu made a compulsory subject for graduates in AMU
Aligarh: AMU Vice Chancellor Zamiruddin Shah in consultation
with the Academic Council has declared Urdu a compulsory sub-
ject for students wanting to seek admission in BA, BSc and
B.Com in the academic year 2013. For this purpose students will
be divided into three categories and different standards or syllabi
of Urdu will be prescribed for them. Under this system, students
who have received Urdu education at senior secondary school or
inter level will have to read Elementary Urdu-A (in BA etc) and
secondly, students who have never received Urdu education or
who belong to UP and adjacent states, will have to read
Elementary Urdu-B. Thirdly, foreign students or those who
belong to far off and distant places in the country and who are
mentioned or whose names are written under Table 4 of AMU
Admission Guide 2013-14 will have to read non-Mother tongue
(Urdu). It may be stated in this connection that when Lt Gen
(Retd) Zamiruddin Shah had taken over as AMUs VC a little more
than a year ago he had stated that he would try to revive AMUs
good traditions and also revive Sir Sayyads mission of promot-
ing Urdu in AMU. He has made Urdu compulsory in graduation in
fulfilment of this promise. In a notification issued by AMU
Registrar, Shahrukh Shamshad it has been stated that marks of
compulsory Urdu will be included in the total marks of students in
BA, BSc and B. Com (1st year) which will affect divisions also.
For passing in this subject (Urdu) students will have to secure at
least 17 marks out of 50 and for obtaining Degree they will have
to pass this subject (Urdu) upto 2nd year. It has also been made
clear in this notification that 75% attendance in Urdu classes will
be compulsory.
Muslim Chamber for backward, small scale industrialists
Lucknow: The setting up of a Muslim Business Chamber is in the
offing for improving the lot of industrialists and people, particular-
ly Muslims who are engaged in the brass industry in Moradabad,
woollen carpet (qaaleen) industry in Bhadohi, glass and beeds
industry in Firozabad, lock and hinges industry in Aligarh, crock-
ery industry in Khurja and wood industry in Saharanpur (all in UP)
but they face many problems because they are carrying on their
trades in the traditional style without the use of modern and
advanced technology. The person who has taken the lead in this
initiative is Muhammad Saqib, an economist of Aligarh, a former
student of Canadas Western Ontario University who says that
these industries are very old and their products are being export-
ed to western and other countries but these days when advanced
technologies and management systems are being adopted, peo-
ple engaged in these industries are still carrying on their business
on the old pattern because of which they face many problems and
are neither able to improve their industries and their productivity
and business nor their own economic condition and because this
do not emerge as an industrial and business power in the coun-
try, though they are highly skilled and efficient in their trades. He
said that they are going to set up Muslim Business Chamber and
hope to start this initiative in September whose objective will be
to create and develop a professional attitude and spirit, to replace
old techniques with modern and advanced techniques and to pro-
mote their aptitude, skills and interest in these techniques and to
create a forum of Muslim industrialists at the regional, national
and international levels. He said that no doubt it is named Muslim
Business Chamber but it will include workers and tradesmen of all
communities and will help all. He said that they have selected 20
clusters in UP, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Bihar, Delhi, Rajasthan,
Andhra Pradesh etc in which they would train these people in new
business, production and marketing techniques pertaining to their
business and trade so as to bring them into the mainstream. He
said that Muslims have been experts in these and other handicraft
industries and trades since centuries. Their expertise and skill in
zardozi, spinning, chikankaari, gold and other embroideries,
woodwork etc even today is unparalleled but in spite of this they
face different problems and difficulties. He said that because of
not having PAN cards, passports, ration cards etc Muslim skilled
workers are not able to take advantage of many government
schemes nor are they aware of those schemes. They are not even
able to fill up forms for such schemes and because of this, mid-
dlemen exploit them. He said that in the 20 selected clusters the
Chamber will familiarise the skilled workers and small and medi-
um scale industrialists and businessmen with normal paper work,
provide information about PAN cards etc and how to get export
licence and other necessary documents. At the same time they
will also be guided about how to get bank loans and how to
improve their arts and techniques. He said that goods and items
produced by the industrialists and traders in these clusters will be
arranged to be marketed within the country and also exported to
foreign countries and also displayed in exhibitions held in India as
well as foreign countries and guidance in this respect will also be
provided to them.
JK Bank fined Rs 2 crore for mismanagement
Srinagar: Reserve Bank of India has slapped a fine of Rs 2.5
crores on Jammu & Kashmir Bank here for mismanagement,
anarchy and appointment of incompetent persons. According
to available information the condition prevailing in J&K Bank
which holds a very impor tant position in the economy of the
state is getting from bad to worse day by day because of mis-
management, absence of coordination among different sec-
tions, corrupt and incompetent employees. Banks head
appears to have no control at all over its employees. According
to knowledgeable sources, during the past few years, because
of financial irregularities, administrative inefficiency, corrup-
tion, loot, extravagance, employment of incompetent persons
from backdoor etc it has reached almost financial bankruptcy.
In view of all this Reserve Bank of India has imposed a fine of
2,50,000 on it, which in any case is a bad precedent. RBI has
also sternly warned the Bank to improve its overall position and
remove mismanagement.
Diggi faces police case
Bhopal: Hur t by Diggis tweet which offended his religious sen-
timents Sangeet Verma lodged a complaint at the Shahpura
police station. The tweet: Bachcha bachcha ram ka - Raghavjee
ke kam ka. was regarded offending for relating Raghavjees
crime with lord Ram. However, earlier, in his explanation Diggi
had claimed that by Raghavjee he was not saying anything
about the politician in jail but Raghavjee - his family deity. He
belongs to Raghogarh (named after the deity).
Ramadan mass prayer against terror
Thiruananthpuram: Mass Ramadan prayer on 4th August on the eve
of Lailatul Qadr is to take a pledge against terrorism and intoxication.
The prayer to be held at Mallapuram under the auspices of Maheen
Academy, an educational and religious organisation, is to be attend-
ed by thousands of persons and is being claimed as the biggest gath-
ering of devotees after Harmain Shareef. It is hoped that in addition to
local devotees people from several other countries will join the gath-
ering. Established in 1997 the Academy has 28 education and char-
ity organisations with a strength of 16,200 students.
Urdu ghazals by Veer Savarkar
Mumbai: Two long ghazals in Urdu running into 5 pages by Veer
Savarkar, first proponent of the two-nation theory, have recently
been found in a note book or diary maintained by him when he
was in Andaman Cellular jail (which in those days was popularly
known as Kala Pani and where freedom fighters, considered by
the British as rebels and criminals were imprisoned) for about 11
years from 1910 to 1921. This note book or diary was found in
the collection of books handed over by his (Savarkars) associ-
ate, (late) S.P. Gokhle to a trust, Swatantryaveer Savarkar
Rashtriya Samarak. Savarkars grandson and Chairman of this
Trust, Ranjit Savarkar says about the ghazals that till the discov-
ery of these ghazals no body knew about Savarkars proficiency
in Urdu. The two ghazals are patriotic in nature and portray
Savarkars yearning for the freedom of his motherland. After read-
ing these ghazals one will really be surprised at his proficiency in
Urdu, the language which awakened the conscience of people and
which played an important role in the countrys freedom move-
ment but which now is a victim of communal bias not only by the
votaries of Hindutva but also by most of the people in politics,
administration, schools, colleges, universities and society at
large. In addition to Urdu ghazals, there is a poem in Hindi also by
Savarkar which runs into about 3 pages. Savarkars grandson
says about the ghazals that except for some Persian words the
ghazals are in easy language and can be understood by anybody
and in the facing pages the ghazals are written in Devnagri script
also. The notebook is presently on display at the memorial in
Shivaji Park, Mumbai.
New Delhi: Tehelka magazine in an article titled Amanat mein
khiyanat (Breach of trust) has levelled some serious charges
against Jama Masjids Imam Maulana Syed Ahmad Bukhari.
Giving the historical background of Jama Masjid, Tehelka wrote
that when this mosque was completed in 1656, it is said that
Emperor Shahjahan was very delighted but at the same time he
was also worried because he could not decide as to who should
be appointed as the Imam of this magnificent mosque. It was his
sincere wish that the Imam of this unique mosque should also
be unique, a person who should be a religious scholar compe-
tent in all respects. The king of Uzbekistan had told Shahjahan
about such a person. Subsequently, Maulana Syed Abdul
Ghafoor who, on Shahjahans invitation had come from
Bukhara, was appointed as the first Imam of this Jama Masjid
and given the title of Imamul Haq. Syed Ahmad Bukhari is the
13th Imam of Jama Masjid from the same dynasty.
In its long story, Tehelka has written about the political use
of Jama Masjids pulpit and the use of the mosque and its prop-
erties for the personal benefit of the Bukhari family. Writing
about Jama Masjids income and illegal constructions in it,
Tehelka said that a few months ago a dispute about Jama
Masjids electricity bill had arisen. An amount of about Rs 4
crores for the electricity consumed is due. Imam Bukhari says
that this bill is to be paid by Delhi Waqf Board, and if the board
wants him to pay the bill, it should transfer the Jama Masjid to
the Jama Masjid Trust. The Waqf Board in turn says that though
the Jama Masjid is a waqf property, the board has no control at
all over it as it is completely controlled by Imam Bukhari. About
Jama Masjids electricity consumption, the accusation against
Imam Bukhari, among other things, is that on the Jama Masjids
electricity meters, 18 ACs are run in Imam Bukharis household.
About Bukhari familys occupation of Jama Masjid and its
associated properties, illegal constructions inside Jama Masjid
etc, a number of people have made complaints and have even
gone to courts. Their contention is that the Jama Masjid is the
property of the Muslim community, of Waqf Board, but the Imam
and his brothers have turned it into their personal fief. Bukhari is
the Imam of Jama Masjid, i.e. leader of prayers, but he has
become owner of the Jama Masjid.
Accusations against Imam started when a portion of the
Masjid was used for building a rest-house for pilgrims and
passengers but Imam brought it under his personal occupa-
tion and made it his own resting place. In addition to making
it his rest house, he also built a large house in it for his son
but when there was a hue and cry over the house for his son,
he passed it off as a toilet for visitors. Another accusation is
that near Gate No. 5 in Jama Masjid campus, DDA had built
a big meeting hall named Jannat Nishaan for the use of
common people but after some time the Imams younger
brother Yahya Bukhari occupied it for his own personal use
and even today it is under his control and occupation. At the
same time the government dispensary situated at Gate No. 9
is now occupied by the Imams younger brother Hasan
Bukhari.
Last year, one Suhail had filed a case in the High Court
against spoiling the historical beauty and shape of Jama Masjid
by the illegal constructions inside the Mosque by the Imam and
his brother. The High Court constituted a team to enquire into
the illegal constructions. This team in its report confirmed that
illegal constructions inside the Mosque have been made. As
regards the parking places near Jama Masjid, not only these
spaces but large spaces around these parking areas have also
been occupied by the Bukhari family, some of which are for his
personal parkings while others are used for paid public parkings.
Income from these parking spaces goes into the personal
accounts of Bukhari family. Tanveer Akhtar, a shop keeper in the
motor market outside Jama Masjid, says that the Corporations
ground near Masjids Gate No 1 was earlier being used since
long for marriage and other functions etc but today it is under the
occupation of the Imams brothers. If someone wants to book
that ground for marriage etc, he has to give a fat amount to
Bukharis people. Another shop keeper of Meena Bazar, near
Jama Masjid, said on condition of anonymity that all the four
Bukhari brothers have occupied the Jama Masjid from all the
four sides. In addition, from Masjids Gate No 2 to Red Fort and
to Urdu Bazar all the shops, permanent ones as well as on foot-
paths etc, operate with the permission and authority of Imam
Saheb.
In the year 2006, serious accusations were levelled against the
Imam when the Saudi monarch King Abdullah had offered financial
help for the repair of Jama Masjid. Government of India, though
very much surprised at this unsolicited offer of King Abdullah with-
out the matter being brought to its knowledge, refused this financial
offer with thanks, saying that the Indian government would itself get
these repairs done. It subsequently came to be known that Imam
Bukhari had made such a request to the King saying that the
mosques walls and minarets etc had developed cracks and his
help was needed to repair them. When Imam Bukhari was asked if
he had asked for the Saudi monarchs financial help, he flatly
denied but subsequently the then Saudi ambassador in India Saleh
Muhammad Al Ghamdi said in a press release that Jama Masjids
Imam Bukhari had requested the Saudi government for financial
help. Probably the Imam thought that the help would come to him
without the Govt of India being brought into the picture. Some years
ago posters were seen in Jama Masjid area in which some ques-
tions asked and their answers were sought, such as: In whose
account/s incomes from sale of tickets for entry in Masjids
minarets, fees for permission for bringing in camera and videogra-
phy equipment, are estimated at Rs 20,000 daily or about Rs 6 lakhs
monthly, go? Where does the income from parkings at Jama
Masjids VIP gate, which is about Rs 4500 daily or about Rs
1,35,000 monthly, for which no tender is ever invited, go? With
whose permission you built your personal residence on the DDA
Park which is part of the Jama Masjid which itself is a historical her-
itage and a trust of the nation?
In 2005, the Delhi High Cour t in its verdict regarding the
dispute between Waqf Boad and Imam Bukhari on the claim
over Jama Masjid, had not only stated that the Jama Masjid is
the proper ty of the Waqf Board but also had ruled that Imam
Bukhari is an employee of the Waqf Board. The Cour t had also
directed Imam Bukhari not to interfere in Jama Masjids his-
torical shape, affairs, building structure etc without the Waqf
Boards approval. About Waqf Boards question regarding
Jama Masjids income, the cour t had also directed Imam
Bukhari to submit a statement of his income and expenditure
of the past 30 years to the Waqf Board. No mention is made
about the compliance of this order of the High Cour t by Imam
Bukhari. (N. A. Ansari)
Misuse of Jama Masjid
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MARK H GAFFNEY
During a recent interview on Democracy Now, Noam Chomsky
stated that he believes Osama bin Laden was probably behind the
attacks of September 11, 2001.i The statement was curious
because in earlier interviews Chomsky described the evidence
against bin Laden as thin to nonexistent,ii which was accurate
and, no doubt, explains why the US Department of Justice never
indicted bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks.
Nor has any new evidence against bin Laden come to light;
on the contrary. A compelling body of evidence now points in a
very different direction, toward the unthinkable.
Three years ago (in July 2010) I attempted to engage
Professor Chomsky in a conversation about this new evidence.
Chomsky, however, showed no interest in the subject. After
responding in a way that can only be described as incomprehen-
sible, Chomsky repeated what he had stated in an earlier email:
that skeptics of the official story should pursue the usual path-
ways to advance their ideas. In other words, they should publish
their work.
By 2010, however, this had already been done. Indeed, my
reason for contacting Chomsky at the time was to alert him to the
serious implications of the new research that I will very briefly
summarize in this article.
Before I do that, however, I need to preface this discussion
with the obvious. Professor Chomsky has been one of our lead-
ing intellectuals for more than half a century. Since the time he
first began to participate in teach-ins at MIT protesting the
Vietnam War, Chomsky has mentored successive generations of
US peace activists, including this writer. Much of what I know
about geopolitics, especially the Middle East, I learned from
Chomsky. The mans grasp of the regions history and its frac-
tious politics is near-encyclopedic. I have never once caught
Chomsky in a historical error. He seems never to forget a name,
a date, or a place.
Beyond this, I owe Chomsky a personal debt of gratitude.
Without his assistance my first book would never have seen print.
Chomsky was there for me at a crucial moment, and I have no
doubt that other writers and activists can relate similar stories. I
was always amazed by the way Chomsky stayed on top of his
correspondence, given the heavy demands on his time. Without
fail, he would get right back. This kind of accessibility and gen-
erosity has no parallel in my experience, and it explains my
respect for the man and my reluctance to criticize him. Nor would
I do so now if the facts in the case were not so compelling, and
the need so great.
Now, on to the evidence: In two peer-reviewed papers pub-
lished in 2008-2009, independent scientists reported finding
residues of nanothermite, an incendiary, in dust samples from the
collapsed World Trade Center. The scientists also found tiny flakes
of unexploded nanothermite.iii They found, in other words, not
just the smoking gun but the gun itself. Nanothermite was origi-
nally developed for the US military at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory.iv
Here was powerful evidence that the horrifying World Trade
Center collapses witnessed that morning by a stunned world were
likely caused by cutting-edge explosives, not, as we have been
told ad nauseum, by plane impacts and fires. The publication of
these papers should have been front-page news at the New York
Times and Washington Post; but, of course, there was not a peep.
By this time, a large body of additional physical evidence,
expert testimony, and eyewitness accounts also pointed to the
same conclusion. See the following note for a concise summary
and sources.v
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
the federal agency charged to investigate the World Trade Center
collapses, admitted that it failed to look for chemical residues,
even though this is standard procedure in cases of building
fires,vi a telling omission. Nor has anyone, thus far, attempted to
refute the two papers cited above. They stand unchallenged in the
scientific literature and must be viewed as the most up-to-date
thinking on the issue.
By 2010, other important information had also come to light.
In 2008, after years of foot-dragging, NIST finally released its
report on the other steel-frame structure that collapsed on 9/11,
Building Seven (WTC-7), which was located one block from the
North Tower. Building Seven did not collapse on the morning of
September 11, but later that afternoon, at 5:20 P.M.
In its final report on Building Seven, NIST tacitly conceded
that the 47-story high-rise, with a base the size of a football field,
dropped into its footprint at free-fall speed.vii The admission of
free-fall was damning because this is the sine qua non of a con-
trolled demolition. Interestingly, in its earlier draft report NIST had
attempted to obscure the free-fall by fudging the start-time of the
collapse. However, at a public hearing sponsored by NIST in
August 2008, David Chandler, a high school physics teacher, and
Dr. Steven Jones, a former professor of physics at Brigham Young
University, asked penetrating questions that exposed the obfusca-
tion. At the hearing senior scientists from NIST were unable to
defend their work, a remarkable display of incompetence (though
malfeasance is probably more accurate) that forced NIST back to
the drawing boards. In its final report released two months later
NIST tacitly acknowledged free-fall.viii Chandler has since posted
a simple but thorough analysis of the WTC-7 collapse, based on
video footage, showing that free-fall is indisputable.ix
By 2009 the facts were clear. The evidence pointed to the use
of explosives at the World Trade Center, a very disturbing conclu-
sion because Islamic terrorists could not have been responsible.
Nor was this all. By this time a separate line of evidence
pointed in the same direction. A statistical study by Allen
Poteshman published in 2006 in the Journal of Business found
that early press reports about pre-9/11 insider trading were
almost certainly correct. Poteshman studied trading data from the
Chicago Board Option Exchange (CBOE), and concluded that
there is evidence of unusual option market activity in the days
leading up to September 11 that is consistent with investors trad-
ing on advance knowledge of the attacks.x Two other more
recent papers also support Poteshmans work.xi These academ-
ic papers also deserved to be headline news, because they flatly
contradict claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) and the 9/11 Commission that there was no insider trading
in the days prior to 9/11.xii Once again, however, the US media
took the day off.
Surely one not need be a structural engineer or a professor of
statistics to understand what all of this means. The possibility that
Islamic terrorists somehow obtained explosives that were devel-
oped here in the US and managed to sneak into the World Trade
Center unawares and plant them beforehand along with the nec-
essary control technology is approximately zero. The probable
use of explosives and the strong likelihood of insider trading tells
us that highly-placed individuals on Wall Street were complicit in
the 9/11 attacks. No other conclusion is possible. Although we do
not yet know the full degree of their complicity, it had to be at the
highest level.
By 2010 such a conclusion should have been evident to
every thinking American. Even so, at the time I was prepared to
cut Chomsky some slack. Everyone, after all, is at a different
place on the learning curve. Chomskys recent statements on
Democracy Now, however, indicate that his views on 9/11 have
not evolved and may even have regressed. Therefor, I believe we
must now hold Chomsky (and other left-wing gatekeepers)
accountable for statements about 9/11 that amount to denial.
Sorry, but there is no other word for it.
Judging from his emails, Chomsky thinks 9/11 truth is a dis-
traction that draws energy away from activism to oppose shock-
ing crimes of state. Such a view is not only mistaken, it is incom-
prehensible. However, before I comment further, here is the rele-
vant passage from the email that I received from Chomsky in July
2010. The reader may draw his or her own conclusions:
Im surprised, however, that you cannot see that if your
claims [about 9/11] are correct, the [sic] absolve George Bush
and point the finger at Saddam and bin Laden. History may regard
it as curious that so many people have labored so hard for 9 years
to establish this conclusion, believing themselves to be coura-
geous dissidents, and having no impact on policy apart from
drawing energy away from activism to oppose shocking crimes
of state.xiii
I was dumfounded when I read Chomskys email. How does
one respond to his strange assertion that 9/11 truth absolves
Bush? The evidence pointing to complicity on Wall Street does
nothing of the sort. If the financial elite was involved, then, the
9/11 attacks must rank as the most audacious crime of state in
US history. Far from distracting us, the latest evidence serves to
empower us. What better way to oppose crimes of state than by
unmasking the perpetrators?
Chomsky is one of the most rational people in the western
hemisphere. Despite advancing age, he remains sharp. So, how
do we explain his aversion to 9/11 truth? It is an interesting ques-
tion, and I have some thoughts about it. However, in my opinion,
the reason (whatever it is) is less important than the simple fact
that one of our leading intellectuals has lost his way on a key
issue.
9/11 is key because 9/11 was the pivotal event that set the
stage for everything that has occurred since. But 9/11 is also key
for another reason, one that Chomsky should understand but
does not. The terrible truth about that fateful day holds the power
to unite Americans of every political persuasion. This is why
unmasking the big lie is so important. The untold truth about 9/11
could yet rally the 99% against the financial elite, including the
much smaller group of insiders who rule this country from behind
the scenes. The same individuals shape US foreign policy and are
thus responsible for crimes of state. No doubt, many of the same
people were also responsible for dismantling the US economy,
off-shoring millions of jobs, creating the real estate bubble, the
2008 meltdown, the continuing bail-outs to the corrupt too-big-
to-fails, and as we have recently learned, the blackmailing of
Congressmen and government officials by means of unlimited
surveillance, and so on.
One would think that the Left would have awakened to this
long ago, and embraced 9/11 truth. Sadly, it never happened.
Many prominent Left-wing gatekeepers continue to serve as
unwitting tools of power by ridiculing skeptics of the official 9/11
story. If we survive the coming days with a measure of equanim-
ity and are able to look back to the present with the advantage of
hindsight, their blind servility will be obvious at a glance. Surely,
this explains the continuing malaise of the US peace movement.
Today, there is no one to look up to. We have no leaders wor-
thy of the name, certainly none on the Left. The same may be said
of US institutions. None are worthy of our respect. We are on our
own. We need to recognize this, accept it, and commit ourselves
to helping one another in the difficult days that lie ahead.
Mark H. Gaffneys latest book is Black 9/11: Money, Motive and
Technology (Trineday, 2012). Check out his website at
GnosticSecrets.com Mark can be reached for comment at
[email protected]
Notes
i http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35114.htm
ii For example, see http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzwohl_noam-
chomsky-no-evi dence-t hat -al -qaeda-car r i ed-out -t he-9-11-
attacks_news#.UdtEDY6LHnp
iii Kevin R. Ryan, James R. Gourley, Steven E. Jones, Environmental
anomalies at the World Trade Center: evidence for energetic materials,
Environmentalist (2009) 29:56-63. First posted on line in 2008.
http://scientistsfor911truth.org/docs/Ryan_EnvironmentalAnomalies.pdf
Niels H. Harrit et al, Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from
the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe, The Open Chemical Physics
Journal, 2009, 2, 7-31. Posted at http://www.benthamscience.com
/open/tocpj/articles/V002/7TOCPJ.htm
iv Kevin Ryan, The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-
Thermites, 9/11Review.com, July 2, 2008, posted at
http://911review.com/articles/ryan/nist_thermite_connection.html
The Los Alamos National Lab has also developed thermite matches.
http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/tt/pdf/techs/thermite_matches.pdf
v The physical evidence is consistent with the use of explosives.
Extremely high temperatures persisted at the World Trade Center for
many weeks after 9/11. The temperatures were in excess of 4500 F, far
far beyond what can be explained by burning jet fuel and office fires. For
a good summary see James Gourley, The 9/11 Toronto Report (Dallas,
International Center for 9/11 Studies, 2013); also see David Ray Griffin,
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 (Northhampton, MA,
Olive Branch Press, 2010).
With regard to testimony by experts: more than 1900 architects and
engineers now agree that the plane impacts and fires could not and did
not cause the World Trade Center collapses on 9/11. Hear them explain
why the official story cannot be right in this excellent video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW6mJOqRDI4&feature=player_e
mbedded
In addition to many press accounts, 118 New York City firemen report-
ed explosions at the World Trade Center. The 9/11 Commission had all
of this testimony but ignored it. For an excellent discussion see the paper
by Graeme MacQueen posted at
http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Article_5_118Witnesses_
WorldTradeCenter.pdf
vi See question #22. http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/
wtc/faqs_wtctowers.cfm
vii See the diagram on page 46. http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publi-
cation-search.cfm?pub_id=861610
viii Ibid.
ix In its final report, NIST nonetheless attempted to finesse the issue by
incorporating free-fall within a computer-generated collapse model. NIST
claimed that WTC-7 had suffered a so-called progressive collapse.
Although a forensic examination of recovered steel columns from the
WTC rubble pile would have definitively resolved the matter, NIST had
none to study because during the weeks after 9/11 nearly all of the steel
columns from the World Trade Center rubble pile (including Building
Seven) were removed from the site, sold, and shipped abroad. This
destruction of evidence was itself a crime.
In the absence of physical evidence, NIST resorted to a computer model.
It also proposed a new phenomenon to explain the collapse of Building
Seven, what experts at NIST called thermal expansion. NIST argued
that the heat from the building fires in WTC-7 caused floor beams to
expand and detach from one main core column (#79), setting in motion
a catastrophic collapse within the structure that was not visible from
without until the last instant when the whole building came down. The
temperature at which all of this happened: a mere 570 degrees F.
The low temperature at which catastrophic failure supposedly occurred
should have raised skeptical eyebrows, because the insulation protect-
ing the buildings steel infrastructure remained intact throughout the
structure. No plane impacted WTC-7. NIST also acknowledged that the
collapse of the nearby North Tower caused only minor damage to one
corner of WTC-7 and played no significant role.
NISTs explanation for the collapse of Building Seven amounted to an
extraordinary claim because no steel-frame high-rise has ever failed due
to thermal expansion, not before nor since. As Carl Sagan once said,
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. But the only evi-
dence NIST offered was a computer-generated model that no one out-
side of NIST has ever seen. NIST has yet to explain how minor fires on
just six floors (out of 47) triggered an unprecedented phenomenon
across an entire structure. The fact that NIST refused to allow independ-
ent scientists access to its computer model, essential for verification, is
the clearest indication that the NIST investigation was rigged: a scientif-
ic fraud.
x Allen M. Poteshman, Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist
Attacks of September 11, 2001, Journal of Business, 2006, vol. 79, no.
4. Archived at http://www.milkingtheherd.com/images/Poteshman
%20911%20Insider%20Trading%20Paper.pdf
xi Marc Chesney, Remo Crameri and Loriano Mancini, Detecting
Informed Trading Activities in the Options Markets, Swiss Financial
Institute Research Paper No. 11-42, July 3, 2012. Posted at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1522157
Wing-Keung Wong, Howard E. Thompson and Kweehong Teh, Was
there Abnormal Trading in the S&P 500 Index Options Prior to the
September 11 Attacks?, Multinational Finance Journal, 2011, vol. 15,
no. 1/2, pp. 1-46. Posted at
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_ id=1588523
xii For an excellent discussion see www.consensus911.org/point-g-2/
xiii email from Chomsky, July 8, 2010.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35595.htm
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Occupied Jerusalem: It has now become sufficiently clear that the
Sisi regime in Cairo is just another carbon copy of Bashar el-
Assad regime in Damascus. Common features are too stark and
too conspicuous to ignore or downplay. In the past few days,
Sisis criminal credentials became indisputable for any one with a
modicum of rectitude and intellectual honesty.
Since this despicable traitor carried out his criminal coup
against the democratically-elected President Muhammed Mursi a
few weeks ago, he has been swimming in a huge pool of blood
of peaceful Egyptian demonstrators, protesting the usurpation of
the peoples democratic will by a group of ignorant military offi-
cers, who want to take Egypt back to the fascist era -- when the
Mabahes Amn Ad-Dawla (State Securty Intelligence or the secret
police) tightly controlled all aspects of life in the most populous
Arab country. It was this virulent military dictatorship that made
Egypt lag behind most other nations of the world.
When King Farouk was overthrown in 1952, Egypt was at the
same socio-economic level of countries such as South Korea,
Malaysia, India and China. Now, these countries are effectively
economic superpowers while Egypt is still unable to feed its own
people. And with the latest military coup, and despite the influx of
billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Sheikhdoms,
Egypt is on its way to becoming another failed state.
This is not an exaggeration. Besides being a bastion of cor-
ruption, nepotism and cronyism, Egypt has an estimated million
thugs armed with swords, daggers and other weapons, whose
main function is to murder, attack and intimidate political oppo-
nents of the military establishment.
During the Mubarak regime, the huge legion of these
Baltagiya (or thugs -- it is believed that each of them receives a
monthly stipend of a thousand Egyptian pounds by the Egyptian
intelligence) were instructed to assault and terrorize voters
thought to be sympathizers with the opposition to Mubarak, espe-
cially the Islamists. We all remember the so-called Camel Battle
when the thugs, riding horses and camels, tried to crush the
protests at the Tahrir square during the uprising against Mubarak.
It were the same thugs, armed with automatic rifles supplied
by the Egyptian armed force, who showered innocent worshipers
with bullets while praying at dawn outside the Republican Guard
headquarters two weeks ago, killing dozens and wounding and
maiming hundreds others.
The massacre of Palestinian worshipers at the Ibrahimi
mosque in Hebron in 1994, perpetrated by the Jewish terrorist
Baruch Goldstein, is actually dwarfed into insignificance when
compared to the murderous killing of innocent Egyptians by their
own army and government.
As we all know, the same style of murderous killing was
repeated several times ever since, most notably on Saturday, 17
July, when police thugs massacred more than 130 Egyptians and
injured thousands. I am not certain that by the time this article is
published, another horrific carnage wont occur. The Egyptian
coup authorities are simply too criminal and too mendacious to
be expected to behave otherwise.
Lies, lies and more lies
As there is no truly responsible authority in Cairo ever since the
coup, at least one that can be trusted to tell the truth, it was amply
clear that the government itself was a government of thugs, by the
thugs and for the thugs.
Take for example, the military coups Interior Minister
Muhammed Ibrahim, who claimed during a press conference a
few days ago that the Egyptian police never ever opened fire on
Egyptian citizens and that the victims were themselves to blame
for their own death.
The ministers pornographic lie came as TV screens all over
the world filmed crack policemen shooting at demonstrators.
The fact that liars indulging in brash and brazen lies and thugs
whose hands are thoroughly stained with the blood of innocent
victims are at the forefront of the political scene in Egypt now
speaks volumes. It shows that the current military junta in Cairo
has a zero credibility. How else can one relate to a government
that murders its own citizens in cold blood and then claims it did-
nt do the killing and that anonymous elements did it?
Well, why is it that none of the anonymous elements has
been arrested or apprehended so far? Why is it that not a single
murderer has been indicted despite the killing of close 2000
Egyptians so far? Indeed, how many more Egyptians must die
before the so-called justice system, a rotten and incompetent
system by any standard of imagination, is able to identify the true
murderers and bring them to justice?
Today, Egypt is in the throes of a nefarious, murderous mili-
tary fascism that is likely to keep up the killing of Egyptians as
long as the green light from Washington and Tel Aviv keeps sig-
naling. Hence, it is the moral and human duty of all honest peo-
ple around the world to keep exposing the criminality and lies of
the treacherous Sisi regime.
It is also sad and lamentable that that nothing will restrain the
killing machine of Sisi and cohorts except perhaps a telephone
call from Washington or a strong statement from Brussels .
Which really shows that the new military rulers in Cairo cant be
entrusted with the fate of the Egyptian people.
Liberals bankruptcy exposed
The events of the past few weeks in Egypt have stripped naked
the so-called Egyptian liberals such as Muhammed el-Baradie.
These pseudo-liberals have been crying ad nauseam, denouncing
the Islamists for encroaching on human rights and civil liberties.
Unfortunately, many of these disingenuous liberals have been
given a tribune in the West to spread their venomous lies.
Now, these likes of Baradie are embracing military fascism
that murders citizens in the streets in cold blood and in broad day-
light, lies about the senseless murders, rounds up hundreds of
people, either on concocted charges, or without charge or trial,
and closes down non-conformist media outlets.
This is not to mention the criminal act of abducting and hold-
ing hostage the democratically-elected president.
What sort of liberals are these? These are fascist liberals par
excellance. This is the only description befitting them. I know the
term is an oxymoron, but this is the best way one can describe
hypocrites like Muhammed el-Baradie and the leaders of the Wafd
Party who hastened to embrace the fascist Sisi junta while men-
daciously claiming to harbor liberal ideals.
Well, if you want to really understand the Sisi junta, just con-
sider the people who have been extending their support to it. The
list supporters includes, inter alia, Bashar El Assad, Israeli Prime
Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the infamous Henry Kissinger
along with the decadent sheikhs of the Gulf, who are bereft of the
traits of humanity and justice.
Fascism on the Nile
If you want to really understand the Sisi junta, just
consider the people who have been extending their
support to it. The list supporters includes, inter
alia, Bashar El Assad, Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu and the infamous Henry
Kissinger along with the decadent sheikhs of the
Gulf, who are bereft of the traits of humanity and
justice.
The Frightening New Mind Control
Technology That Can Hack Your Brain
Theres a frightening new technology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) thats right out of a comic book.
Scientists at the technical school have figured out how to implant
false mental reactions in a mouse.
mind-control-technologyThis technological advancement is
terrifying when considering that it could lead to real life brain-
washing and mind control like that shown in the classic movie The
Manchurian Candidate (the classic film starring Frank Sinatra). In
the film, communists turn an average man into an assassin by
implanting false memories into his mind.
A similar plot is found in Total Recall. The brainwashing
shown in these movies were fantasy, but whats happening at MIT
is apparently real.
A team of MIT researchers led by neuroscientist Susumu
Tongawa figured out how to implant responses in the brains of
mice by manipulating neurons. They even have a name for their
technique, optogenetics, and it allows them to manipulate brain
cells with chemicals. Remember the term optogenetics; were
going to be hearing a lot about it in years to come.
Brain Hacking: Basically, these scientists have figured out how to
hack the brain much like cyber crooks can hack your computer.
Theyre still a long way from hacking human brains, but that
seems to be the goal here.
Whats really frightening is that the purpose of this research
has not been revealed. What purpose would false memories
serve? Could soldiers be programmed to forget things they saw
on the battlefield that might embarrass politicians back home?
Prisoners could be programmed to forget about abuse or, worse,
reprogrammed to commit treason; in other words, a real-life
Manchurian Candidate. Could people be convinced to do things
that they believe are unethical, such as kill?
Theres also the question of who is paying for this research.
MITs connections to the Defense Department and the military
industrial complex are well known. The Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has reportedly been doing a
lot of research on mind control and brain/computer interface. This
memory research has DARPA written all over it.
Do we really want our government, or any government, to
have the ability to implant false memories in peoples minds? I
dont think so. Worse, if this technology is like other DARPA devel-
opments, it wont be long before people outside of government,
such as criminals, terrorists, and cult leaders, get their hands on
it.
This research needs to be investigated now to see who is
developing it and why. Id like to see Congress look into this and
perhaps defund these mind control efforts. This is one technolo-
gy the world probably doesnt need. (storyleak.com)
DOUG BANDOW
You wouldn't know that the United States was the globe's sole super-
power from the administration decision to close a score of
embassies and consulates in response to possible terrorist attacks.
American facilities already stand apart because they usually are
fortresses, disrupting entire neighborhoods. Now Washington says it
is unable to defend what are among many cities' most secure build-
ings.
One can understand shuttering one diplomatic post in response
to a specific threat and using the time to enhance security at the loca-
tion-or perhaps to move operations elsewhere. However, it seems
unlikely that the facilities in Amman, Muscat, Riyadh, Tripoli, and
elsewhere will be markedly safer next Monday when they are slated
to reopen. And if al-Qaeda members really are prepared to strike, they
aren't likely to give up and go home over the weekend.
In an odd way the administration has allowed the terrorists to
win, as the saying goes. Reports of threats from a movement said to
be on the run caused the world's dominant military power to cower
in fear. Caution is a virtue, but announcing to everyone on earth that
Washington is unable to defend its global presence is a sign of weak-
ness.
More fundamentally, the frenetic closures demonstrate the
underlying failure of U.S. anti-terrorism policy. Washington has done
well damaging al-Qaeda and rolling up largely incompetent terrorist
wannabes in America. But neither the Bush nor the Obama adminis-
trations have managed to take the target sign off of Americans.
Nothing justifies terrorist attacks, but they largely reflect anger
directed at U.S. foreign policy. America's Mideast involvement going
back to the ouster of elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad
Mossadegh in 1953 has openly sacrificed the liberty of Arab peoples
to multiple U.S. government objectives. No wonder America often is
seen as an enemy.
President Barack Obama's blundering in Egypt demonstrates that
nothing has
changed. The admin-
istration backed dic-
tator Hosni Mubarak
against his people,
courted the new
Islamist leaders as
they moved in an
authoritarian and
sectarian direction,
and then endorsed
the coup which has
brought back much
of the old authoritari-
an Mubarak elite.
Thus, Washington
did much to earn the
hatred of every
Egyptian. If the mili-
tary pushes the
Muslim Brotherhood
into violent opposition, Americans are likely to end up on that group's
target list.
The U.S. needs a two-track approach to terrorism. Kill or inca-
pacitate those seeking to harm Americans. Stop pursuing policies
which cause more people to want to harm Americans. Unfortunately,
shuttering diplomatic facilities around the world advances neither of
these ends. (cato.org)
The United States as Global Midget
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FINIAN CUNNINGHAM
After two days of intercourse in Washington between Israeli and
Palestinian negotiators, US Secretary of State John Kerry emerged
like a benevolent matchmaker satisfied that his efforts at broker-
ing a marriage of sorts had at last borne fruit.
Kerry announced that the Israeli and Palestinian negotiating
teams had agreed to begin (once again) earnest talks to deliver on
a final peace settlement that would deal with all outstanding "final
status issues". Kerry said the next round of negotiations is sched-
uled to finish after a period of nine months.
The gestation period of nine months is no doubt a random
number. But it does invite comparison to an expectant birth.
Unfortunately, we can say with near certainty that the end result
will be stillborn. History tells us so.
Every White House administration from President Jimmy
Carter in the 1970s through to the present has stepped forward
periodically to herald an imminent "just peace" between
Palestinians and Israelis; and every time, cruelly, this promise
comes to nothing. Well, actually, it does come to something: the
territories and rights of the Palestinians are continually ravaged
and diminished as the violations of the Israeli state inexorably
expand
One of modern history's longest conflicts has festered and
metastasized for decades because of this fundamental problem:
the United States is not an honest broker in the quest for a just
peace. Washington is part of the problem. John Kerry, like so
many of his predecessors, may pose as an even-handed match-
maker between two quarrelling sides. But the simple fact is that
the US is not a neutral arbiter. It is the patron, sponsor, architect,
advocate and accomplice of one side - Israel.
In coaxing the Palestinians back to the negotiating table,
Secretary Kerry reportedly dangled the lure of $4 billion in private
investments to the Palestinian Authority headed by President
Mahmoud Abbas. But we have to put that incentive in perspective.
This is the amount of financial and military aid that Washington
has been plying Israel with every year for decades.
At the opening of the "talks about talks" earlier this week,
Kerry exhorted: "If the leaders on both sides continue to show
strong leadership and a willingness to make those tough choices
and a willingness to reasonably compromise, then peace is pos-
sible".
The cynicism in these words is astounding. Willingness to
reasonably compromise? The only side that is ever compelled to
make compromises, and unreasonable compromises, too, is the
Palestinian side.
For a start, the Palestinian Authority does not have a mandate
from the Palestinian people to represent them on vital national
issues. The PA cabal rules over the West Bank territory without
elections. It has negligible support among Palestinians in the sec-
ond biggest occupied territory of Gaza along the Mediterranean
coast. The elected Hamas administration in Gaza is opposed to
the current peace negotiations and has been ostracized by the
Israeli regime for the past six years owing to its more militant polit-
ical stance.
The PA of Mahmoud Abbas is seen as a more pliable partici-
pant in talks with the Israelis and therefore is lionized by
Washington as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian
cause - even though it very arguably is not. The military coup in
Egypt that ousted Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi
on 3 July has been a political blow to its ally Hamas. This may
have given Washington a window of opportunity to cajole the rival
PA into the latest phase of the putative peace process.
So the first instance of compromise by the Palestinians is that
they are not even permitted to have a strong, legitimate negotiat-
ing party to robustly represent their outstanding historical inter-
ests.
Subsequent compromises flow from this first one. Formerly,
the Palestinian position going into talks insisted on explicit recog-
nition of substantive issues. These issues include: a commitment
by Israel to return to borders that existed before the 1967 Six Day
War. This reasonable demand is supported by United Nations
Security Council Resolutions, as well as by international laws and
treaties, such as the Fourth Geneva Convention and UN Charter.
Other substantive Palestinian preconditions are: the right of
East Jerusalem (Al Quds) to be the capital of any eventual
Palestinian state; the cessation of Israeli settlement construction
in occupied territories; the right of return for up to four million
Palestinians evicted from their homelands going back to the vio-
lent inception of Israel in 1948; and the release of up to 5,000
Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails, as was stipulat-
ed under the Oslo Peace Accords signed 20 years ago in 1993.
(There are no Israeli prisoners held by Palestinians.)
During US President Barack Obama's first administration,
Washington ostensibly urged recognition of the 1967 borders and
the freezing of Israeli settlements.
However, the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu haughtily snubbed Washington and the Palestinians on
all counts. The unchecked Israeli building of new settler units on
occupied Palestinian land, including provocatively in East
Jerusalem, was the major reason why previous negotiations
floundered and have not resumed for the past three years. There
are now some 500,000 Israelis living in more than 120 illegal set-
tlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
The Obama administration has quietly backed down on its
earlier position. The Palestinian and Israeli sides have now come
back to the negotiating table without any commitment from Israel
to deal with any of the above substantive concerns. Indeed, while
talks about talks were taking place in Washington this week, it
emerged that Netanyahu has given the go-ahead to the building of
thousands of more settler units in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem.
The truly pathetic thing is that the Palestinians have been so
relentlessly browbeaten and violated by the Israeli state and so
relentlessly betrayed by Washington that their negotiators have
also given up on the basic, reasonable demands upon which a
peace settlement might be premised.
Through brute force and intransigence, the Israeli state has
made a mockery of international law and negotiations. This is not
negotiation - it is a smash-and-grab colonisation of Arab land
without any limit. Netanyahu and other
Israeli leaders have said so on and off
the record. For them, the "peace
process" is a just a cover to buy time
so that they can establish more "facts
on the ground", that is, the theft of
more and more Palestinian territory.
In this contest between unequals
Washington has done its utmost to
redouble the inequality. Far from over-
seeing a level playing field, the pre-
sumed arbiter has tilted the field to an
impossible gradient against the
Palestinians while also moving the
political goalposts to an unreachable
distance.
An indicator of the partisan posi-
tion of the US is the appointment of
Martin Indyk as Washington's inter-
locutor in the upcoming negotiations.
Indyk is former US ambassador to
Israel under Presidents Clinton and
Bush Junior. He is also closely aligned
with the powerful Israeli lobby in
Washington. Kerry said of Indyk this
week: "He brings a deep appreciation
for the art of US diplomacy in the
Middle East."
The art of US diplomacy in the
Middle East is evidently to give Israel
a carte blanche to do whatever it likes
with regard to trampling on Palestinian rights and lives. Israel rains
down missiles and bombs on civilians in Gaza, as it did in early
2009 and at the end of 2012, killing hundreds of women and chil-
dren, and all Washington does is reiterate its support for Israel's
"right to defend itself". This is not the function of an honest bro-
ker; it is the collusion of an accomplice in state terrorism.
This policy of the US towards Israel is not out of mere weak-
ness in the face of the Israeli lobby, as some analysts contend.
Rather it based on the essential role that the Israeli state performs
in the projection of US imperialist interests across the strategical-
ly important Middle East. A just settlement to the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict is antithetical to US imperialist hegemony in
the region. This is because US power is predicated on an expan-
sionist militarist Israel that serves as a garrison state to thwart
genuine Palestinian and Arab democratic development.
US diplomacy is therefore not a catalytic ingredient for finding
a peaceful solution. US imperialism is the overarching, impeding
problem. But the trite rhetoric from Washington on the "tough
challenges to find peace" is taken at face value by a vapid Western
mainstream media and given credibility.
The premise of a proper peace process between Israelis and
Palestinians being furnished in Washington is fundamentally mis-
placed. For it is a hollow illusory foundation that in reality and
despite the rhetoric is never meant to serve as a cornerstone for
any sustainable settlement. It is a charade to give the US and
Israeli parties a semblance of earnest, behind which they can con-
tinue their pernicious imperialist policies and projections.
The correct place and premise for a genuine peace process is
the International Court of Justice, where the past and ongoing
egregious crimes and violations committed by Israel and its
patron in Washington can be prosecuted and perhaps resolved.
For decades Washington has postured as a matchmaker between
estranged parties. In reality, it has and continues to facilitate a
rapist state to violate a victim, over and over again. (information-
clearinghouse.info)
Finian Cunningham, originally from Belfast, Ireland, was born in 1963.
He is a prominent expert in international affairs. The author and media
commentator was expelled from Bahrain in June 2011 for his critical
journalism in which he highlighted human rights violations by the
Western-backed regime.
Israel-Palestinian Talks
Washington Acts Like Matchmaker Between Rapist and Victim
This policy of the US towards Israel is not out of mere weakness in the
face of the Israeli lobby, as some analysts contend. Rather it based on
the essential role that the Israeli state performs in the projection of US
imperialist interests across the strategically important Middle East. A
just settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is antithetical to US
imperialist hegemony in the region. This is because US power is
predicated on an expansionist militarist Israel that serves as a garrison
state to thwart genuine Palestinian and Arab democratic development.
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DR. FAHEEM YOUNUS
Who can decipher the mind of a terrorist? In the post-9/11
America, there is a dollar-spending, ink-spilling, competition
between the government and the academia to answer this ques-
tion.
The faith of the terrorist in the above question is typically
implied while the magnitude of the problem - less than 0.0000001
percent of the worlds Muslims have committed acts of terror
against the western world - is typically denied.
Which brings me to the consequential next question: How
much effort has gone into decoding the minds of the 99.999999
percent of, yes, Muslims? Zilch. Nada. None.
So if you would like to know what the 99 percent of Muslims
secretly believe in, man, do I have an absolutely great idea for you:
perform ten deeds in ten days as the Muslim Holy month of
Ramadan winds down. For Muslims - over 90 percent of whom
observe fasting during the month of Ramadan according to a
recent Pew poll - these ten deeds are prescribed for the whole
month.
Each day, just act upon one deed. And forget about the ritu-
als; this is not stealth evangelism. The idea is not to convert any-
one to Islam but to convert a mindset based on media one-liners
and sensational images. At the end of this ten days, ten deeds
project, you would know exactly what is in the heart of an aver-
age Muslim.
So here we go:
Day 1, keep a fast: Give up all food and drinks from dawn to dusk.
This year, the average duration of a fast is approximately 16 hours
in America (15 hours in India). For the first 8-hours, you will expe-
rience a degree of self-discovery that will shatter the I-could-
never-do-it mindset and the last 8-hours will enhance your empa-
thy for the hungry - whether they are in Afghanistan or in your
downtown.
Day 2, control your anger: Whether someone parked in your spot
or your spouse started the age-old argument - walk away from the
situation saying I am fasting, therefore, I will not respond in kind.
Day 3, forgive: Especially someone who, you believe, does not
deserve forgiveness. Strip all malice from your heart. Muslims
believe that if we forgive fellow human beings, then God in turn
forgives us.
Day 4, do charity: Write a cheque, as big as you can, to your
favourite charity. A recent survey reported that UK Muslims gave
more money to charities, annually, than Christians, Jews, Hindus
and Sikhs.
Day 5, be hospitable: Invite your neighbours, your childrens
friends or your co-workers and have a meal with them. Sort of
what Greg Mortenson describes in his book, Three cups of tea.
Hospitality is deeply ingrained in every Muslim culture.
Day 6, be kind: After writing nearly 100 op-ed pieces, I can see a
reader, who is itching to write a scathing comment along the lines
of, go tell the Mozlems to do these ten deeds. Go back to your
Mozlem country. Be
kind. Dont write such a
comment during these ten
days. Fasting is an exercise
of comprehensive self-con-
trol. Giving up food is just a
part of it.
Day 7, visit the sick:
Theres got to be an uncle,
aunt, grandparent, someone
who will be elated to see
you unexpectedly. Spend
some time with them on day
7.
Day 8, forgive a debt: That
$100 or $1000 which a
friend or a relative owes you
but does not have the
capacity to pay it consid-
er forgiving it. Muslims are urged to follow the practice of easing
the hardships of other humans and Ramadan is considered the
best time for such acts.
Day 9: stay up all night and pray. Pray in your own words,
according to your belief. But dont miss these off-peak hours.
Muslims believe there is a night of destiny during the last ten days
of Ramadan when every prayer is accepted. Global median of 63
percent of Muslims pray five times a day and they intensely
search for the night of destiny during the last ten nights of
Ramadan.
Day 10, enjoy solitude: Turn off your phones, iPads, laptops, TVs
and genuinely think. Analyze. What would make a people who
globally practice empathy, sacrifice, charity, prayer, kindness, and
a comprehensive self-control hate us?
Think. (huggingtonpost.com)
If you would like to know what the 99 percent of
Muslims secretly believe in, man, do I have an
absolutely great idea for you: perform ten deeds in ten
days as the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan winds
down. For Muslims over 90 percent of whom observe
fasting during the month of Ramadan according to a
recent Pew poll these ten deeds are prescribed for
the whole month.
Each day, just act upon one deed. And forget about the
rituals; this is not stealth evangelism. The idea is not to
convert anyone to Islam but to convert a mindset based
on media one-liners and sensational images. At the
end of this ten days, ten deeds project, you would
know exactly what is in the heart of an average
Muslim.
Azan My Spiritual Friend
MITHUN DEY
Azan is a voice inside my head and my heart. I have imbibed
its spiritual message. I owe much to the muezzin for the intro-
duction of such a lofty voice mainly when I stay far away
from my hometown. I cant get the sound of its voice out of
my mind. I take it as a sign to clear my mind and listen to the
voice of divine guidance. However, I belong to a moderately
religious Hindu family.
Azan in Islam has a great meaning. It is not the effortless
ringing of the bell or the insignificant blowing of horns. It is
intended to bring to the mind of every believer and disbeliev-
er the essence of Islamic beliefs or its spiritual ideology. The
call of the muezzin is inviting in a greater degree than the ring-
ing of the cordial toned bell or the most precious and elabo-
rates system of chimes. The focal intention behind the multi-
ple loud messages of azan in every mosque is to make avail-
able to everyone an effortlessly intelligible summary of the
Islamic faith.
No one woke me up when I was in Mumbai, Delhi,
Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Allahabad and many other
cities. I woke up abruptly by the spiritual voice of Azan. Its
my natural intuitive gift in the morning. Azan, the voice inside
me that warns me and also gives me guidance. I get the inner
voice even when Im awake.
I am a firm believer that Azan tends to speak to me
when I am in jeopardy. Often I hear the voice in my dreams.
Every time, I feel that the voice is within me as different spir-
it guides. Azan often rings in my ears. I interpret this as a
sign to pay attention and consciously tune in to my intuition.
I listen sincerely to the voice of most beautiful and amazing
Azan while I am lying in bed. And, the voice is always the
same coming from all over the places wherever I am.
I take this voice as my spiritual friend. I believe it is the
spiritual guide for everyone. I can hear the voice of the amaz-
ing Azan of the river flowing through. I feel the spiritual voice
deeply in birds chirping in the sky. I also hear the voice of
Azan in the singing leaves. I hear it in the wind. Even I feel
the voice in the blossoming flowers.
The writer is based in New Bongaigaon, Assam
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Book: Kashmir Ifshae Haq (Urdu)
Author: Hashim Qureshi
Publisher: Iqra Publications, Srinagar
Year of Publication: 2nd Edition, 2011
Pages: 500
Price: Rs 500
MUSHTAQ UL HAQ AHMAD SIKANDER
T
he struggle for freedom and resistance against the occu-
piers in Kashmir in recent times goes back to the partition
of the subcontinent. The creation of Pakistan and a Free
India brought innumerable miseries for the inhabitants of
the formerly princely State of Jammu & Kashmir. The claims and
counter-claims about Kashmir by both the countries ultimately led
to the partition of the state with the conflict still raging hot and cold
in various phases. The political dimension of the conflict still
drives resistance in the Indian part of Kashmir. The state has pro-
duced various stalwarts of resistance since 1947, some have
shot to fame, others remain in oblivion, many are unsung heroes
while some have been branded as dubious, suspicious or double
agents owing to their political stance. Hashim Qureshi is one such
stalwart who falls in the last category. Qureshi, of the Ganga
Hijacking fame, is one of a rare kind, being a resistance leader as
well as a writer.
The present book under review contains his numerous
essays, press statements, articles and interviews that he gave
and wrote over several decades. Very few resistance leaders have
written about their experiences of resistance, political struggle, its
ideological dimensions, waywardness, ideal course of actions,
goals and future surmises. In this book, we discover Qureshi not
only as a political activist and a leader but also an ideologue of the
struggle for an independent Jammu & Kashmir.
In his Foreword to the book, former President of Supreme
Court of Pakistan Bar Association and Secretary General of
Pakistan Socialist Party Abid Hassan Minto narrates how he
fought the case for Hashim Qureshi, as he was declared a spy by
the state while the other members of the conspiracy were hon-
oured as freedom fighters. He further remarks that the creation of
Bangladesh was wrongly related to the Hijacking. Farooq Tariq,
Secretary General of Pakistan Peoples Party, in his Introduction to
the book states that these essays are a testimony of the transition
of Qureshis political beliefs from armed struggle to civil disobedi-
ence. Nazar Bonyari in his reflections about the book, notes that,
These essays are written by a person who has been a part of his-
tory-making and reading these essays will make many political
extremists and idealists change their views about various issues.
Hashim Qureshi in his own introduction reflects over various
issues that have been dealt with in the book. He criticizes the
noted British historian, Alastair Lamb who in his book, Kashmir: A
Disputed Legacy has distorted the facts about the Ganga
Hijacking case, but when Hashim and others contacted him to
rectify his mistakes, he wasnt ready to change his views, despite
irrefutable evidence. The essays, letters, press releases, inter-
views and articles all revolve around Kashmir issue and its vari-
ous facets. Qureshi having spent many decades in Pakistan and
Pakistan-Administered Kashmir (PAK) depicts the state of its
affairs and the pathetic conditions prevalent there. He also com-
pares it with the Indian-Administered Kashmir (IAK) and the
hypocrisy of IAK leaders.
Qureshi being one of the founders of the armed struggle in
Kashmir has now graduated to being a complete pacifist. He is of
the opinion that instead of gun culture, civil disobedience will have
more appeal and impact on the world opinion that will start sym-
pathizing with Kashmir cause. Qureshi decries and laments about
the waywardness of the armed insurgency in Kashmir. He main-
tains that there are no indigenous insurgent cadres in Kashmir, and
those who are operating on ground are controlled by the ISI of
Pakistan, not the other way round. He also laments about the anar-
chy and lack of discipline within the ranks of militants. According
to Hashim, the gun has gone berserk and that is responsible for the
doom of the armed insurgency in Kashmir. Hashim relates his
meetings with the ISI officials who wanted him to be a part of their
plan of recruiting youth of Kashmir for receiving armed training in
Pakistan and then infiltrating back into Kashmir for fighting. When
Hashim refused to be a part of their gameplan, murderous attacks
were carried out on him that forced him to leave Pakistan and
migrate to Netherlands in 1986.
Various solutions of Kashmir issue, their viability and short-
comings are discussed within the pages of the book. United
Nations Resolutions over Kashmir and their present relevance too
are dealt with. Hashim is vehemently opposed to Kashmirs
accession with Pakistan, citing the pathetic conditions of PAK,
economic crises in Pakistan and various other reasons to build his
argument. He also criticizes the Pakistani rulers and dictators. He
is against the Islamic roots of Kashmir struggle. One can differ
with him as though the Kashmir issue is political in its nature but
religion has seeped into the issue surely and religious roots of this
struggle cant be brushed aside or sidelined. He tries to surmise
about the horrors of religious dimensions of Kashmir struggle by
comparing it with the example of Afghanistan, where after the
departure of USSR troops, the various outfits of Mujahidin began
fighting each other. He is also against the foreigners fighting in
Kashmir, because he thinks that they will turn Kashmir too into an
Afghanistan. Hashim is opposed to the division of the state of J&K
on communal lines that, according to him, will once again lead to
bloody communal riots for which large numbers of innocent
Kashmiris will pay the price. Hashim tries to be a champion of
syncretic and plural culture of Kashmir that he terms as
Kashmiriyat although the real and proper term for the same is
Rishism. Various tragedies like burning of Charar-e Sharif shrine
and other such political blunders have been discussed too. In one
of his hard-hitting essays, Hashim holds the resistance leader
and Chairman Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
Amanullah Khan responsible for the hanging of Muhammad
Maqbool Bhat in Tihar jail, in the aftermath of assassination of the
Indian diplomat Ravinder Mahatre in UK by JKLF cadres
In his various analytical essays and articles, Hashim lucidly
explains the reasons for the initiation of the armed struggle in
Kashmir against India, and comes down heavily against the poli-
cies of the Indian State vis--vis Kashmir, that have always alien-
ated Kashmiris and generated anger, resentment, resistance and
violence. He also discusses the economic viability and richness of
Kashmir, its resource potential and how it remains still untapped.
Although Hashim stands for an independent state of Jammu &
Kashmir and wants Kashmiris to be included in every decision
related to their future, he offers a novel advice and puts forward a
unique solution about the Kashmir issue. According to Hashim, for
at least 20 years Kashmir issue must be frozen between India and
Pakistan, and then some solution must be found. But this solution
appears to put Kashmir issue on the backburner and would in no
way help solve it or put an end to the miseries of its unfortunate
inhabitants and the political uncertainty they face.
Criticizing leaders of both India and Pakistan, Hashim
doesnt forget the leaders and people of Kashmir. He laments
about the fact of internal divisions among the people of the
state that have resulted in the evasion of a permanent solution.
He vehemently criticizes the Pandit minority of Kashmir valley,
most of whom have aligned with the mainstream India, rather
than standing shoulder to shoulder with their Muslim brothers
in the Valley. Despite this factual reality, Hashim is pained by
their mass migration and wants them to return, though he
appears to be nave when he puts forward the claim that the
Kashmiri struggle for the right of self-determination will
become acceptable only when Pandits will join the same,
though it is evident that it would never happen. He also con-
demns the silence of Jammu people in not condemning the
atrocities committed against the Kashmiris by the Indian State,
while at the same time he very well states that Indians arent
following the teachings of their Father of Nation Mahatma
Gandhi when they are committing atrocities against common
people everywhere.
The section of press conferences and interviews also throws
light over various dimensions of Kashmir issue. The book con-
tains a wealth of material related to the Ganga Hijacking episode
and its aftermath which is a testimony of the fact that this hijack-
ing was an indigenous act not carried out at the behest of any of
the two countries. Also these documents relate how Pakistani
authorities made Hashim and Ashraf burn the aeroplane. This new
evidence dispels many conspiracy theories and rumours about
the hijacking case.
Overall, the book is an essential read for anyone interested in
the contemporary history, events, role of India and Pakistan in
Kashmir. It is mandatory for those who want to introspect about
the resistance movement and what went wrong. The book is dis-
turbing as it destroys numerous illusions and myths related to the
Kashmir issue. The iconoclastic figure of Hashim becomes more
evident in this book. Do read this book if you want to face the real-
ity in Kashmir, dreams of its people and its disturbing reality.
The reviewer is a writer based in Srinagar
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Hashim Qureshis version of the Kashmir story
Very few resistance leaders have written
about their experiences of resistance, political
struggle, its ideological dimensions,
waywardness, ideal course of actions, goals
and future surmises. In this book, we discover
Qureshi not only as a political activist and a
leader but also an ideologue of the struggle
for an independent Jammu & Kashmir.
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Fiction?
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AMU
It has become a fashion to criticize the Vice Chancellor day in day out and
sweeping under the carpet the achievements and highlighting the failings,
real and imaginary. Lt. General Shah has introduced far reaching and ever-
lasting reforms in the University. The long standing demand of the
Teachers Association for clubbing Earned Leave and Detention leave (to
be encashed at the time of retirement) is materialized. The Vice Chancellor
has also made arrangements to see that the retired teachers get their
Provident fund and Gratuity on the day of retirement itself. Now the retired
teachers need not wait for months and in some cases years to get their
due. The Guest Faculty who were never paid salaries during summer
vacations will now be paid. The Vice Chancellor has displayed the vision
of an academician and discipline of an Army man.
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The disgruntled elements of the Aligarh Muslim University have once
again switched over to their favourite game of criticizing the Vice
Chancellor conveniently forgetting the achievements in such a short span
of time. Lt. Gen. (retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah has set in motion the process
of holding selection committees in different Faculties. His frequent visits
to different departments of studies have kept the teacher and taught on
tenterhooks. Lt. Gen. Shah is improving condition of hostels, dining halls,
working for smart class rooms, upgrading syllabus to match industry
requirements and emphasizing on students to develop communication
skills. He is equally keen on the development of sports. VC Shah is trying
to get horses from the Army to strengthen the University Riding Club. The
critics should judge the Vice Chancellor in the right perspective. Regards,
M. Yunus Khan, Assistant Professor, AMU, Aligarh.
[email protected]
The way saffron brigades respect freedom of speech
At Delhi constitution club, a press conference was organised for Ishrat
Jahan family on 6 July at 5 p.m. Suddenly few fake hindu swabhiman
sabha reached the club and started tearing posters of press briefing. Few
lumpen type person entered the hall before PC. This is defined way of hin-
dutva wadi forces of respecting the freedom of speech. Hindutva wadi
forces can do anything in congress ruled states as Advani bloody rath
could cross congress ruled states but Laloo Yadav arrested him and
thwarted Advani rath yatra.
S. Haque, Patna
India-Pak relations
Who killed 5 Indian jawans this week? The answer varies depending on
who answers the question. Pakistani army invaded Indian territory and
killed our jawans. A group of terrorists dressed as Pakistani soldiers did
it. Some Pakistani army personnel accompanied by terrorists were
responsible. Whichever may be the right answer, the truth is the death
came from Pakistan and the government of Pakistan failed to stop it from
coming. The prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sherrif needs to take the
full responsibility. He should apologize to the Indian people promptly and
profusely.
Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, Mumbai 400054 070813
[email protected]
Two innocent Muslims acquitted from terror charges
A few months ago at the Indo-Nepal border police had caught two
Muslims and announced that two terrorists responsible for Hyderabad
blasts were caught. Raxaul police station and district police to win name
and fame had dubbed Muhammad Adam and Abdulah Umar Makran as
"terrorists". Media carried the police fake version to create collective con-
science. Additional district and session judge of Mitihari Mr. Anil Kumar
Srivastva absolved Adam and Umar from terror charges on 5 July 2013
but punished them for passport laws violation and entering Nepal
although India-Nepal is a free border and people from both sides cross the
borders. The Acquittal news was buried in inside pages while the arrest
news was splashed on page 1 as main lead-story.
S. Haque, Patna
Is Mynmar like situation in offing in India
India is a country with different of scales of assessing and measuring the
patriotism of so-called patriotic Hindutva-influenced Hindus and other co-
related and allied groups on one side and Muslims of the country on other.
Here any Tom, Dick and Harry has a birthright to form a political group
under the banner and coverage of Hindutva, thus proving himself most
staunch patriot loyal to the country. The day-to-day developing anti-
Muslim situation in India indicates that a day is ahead the community has
to face Mynmar-like situation for which a programme is under scrutiny
jointly by Congress, Hindutva forces, Israel and US. The other hand the
Hindutva forces who supported the foreign rulers in all respect are now
the national heros whose followers are free to speak in any manner
against Muslims because they are Hindus so their patriotism and loyalty
cannot be questioned in any way. The most surprising aspect of this
whole episode is that hereinbefore Congress, BJP and other Hindutva
groups used to call the same IUML anti-national, communal and a sepa-
ratist organisation but soon after the induction of Mr. E-Ahmed in Union
cabinet all allegations have been thrown in dustbin. The creation of Indian
Mujahidin on the Indian soil, and arrest of highly qualified, well behaved,
well-settled, intellectual Muslim youths to be put behind bars for years
together throughout the country by branding them involved in terrorist
activities, or having links with terrorist groups or having links with anti-
national elements and disruptive forces, killing many in the of encounters.
A Mynmar-like situation is being prepared for which an experimental lab-
oratory has been established in Gujrat by BJP with full support of the
Congress which is now being spread across the country. India is unique
country where perpetrators and murderers of the Father of Nation are dec-
orated with highest awards, those who never participated in the freedom
movement or rather opposed it by singing English tunes are called free-
dom fighters, the traitors are awarded for loyalty and patriotism whereas
faithfuls are put behind bars for years together, murdered and hanged for
unverified reasons.
Faheemuddin, Nagpur - 13
Justice buried under verbatim camouflage
To reach the bottom of fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan conspiracy the
authenticity of IB input should be checked but saffron brigade dubbed this
move as damaging move of secret agencies. When judicial inquiry in
Batla house fake encounter is demanded saffron brigade called this
demand of justice should lower the moral of police. Afzal Guru was not
given fair trial in courts but to execute him satisfaction of collective con-
science camouflage invented. When justice is demanded in riots inquiry
commissions are instituted Thus justice is buried under conspiracy of ver-
batim
S. Haque, Patna
Indian society in danger because of moral anarchy
The recent Madras High Court judgement supporting live-in-relationship
and legalizing pre-marital sex is really shocking. India has the distinction
of having highly valuable moral standard with regards to sexual relations.
Marriage has always been regarded as a social and moral bonding with-
out which sex is prohibited. Islam has made a significant contribution
towards this. In a marriage, sex is preceded by a commitment to develop
a family life in accordance with Indian traditions while live-in-relationship,
sex precedes the commitment and the commitment has no legal or social
sanctity. Unfortunately blind imitation of western society, pursuit of mate-
rialism, influence of hedonism and commercialisation of life has affected
our society to a great extent. A steady increase in heinous crime like rapes
and molestation of women are indications of the highly dangerous situa-
tion. It is a matter of great concern that some judges are under the influ-
ence of decadent of western thoughts and are undoing the time tested
Indian moral principles. The need of the hour is that our society should be
thoroughly overhauled and there should be strong doses of morality and
religion and we should have judiciary which fully respects Indian moral
standards.
Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, ex-MP, Mayur Vihar, Delhi - 91
Harsh punishments - need of the hour
China's ex railways minister Liu Zhijun is sentenced to death and confis-
cation of all personal property for graft and corruption. In fact harsh pun-
ishments act as a terror to the minds of such criminals. In our country
corruption, scams, scandals have become order of the day. Corruption is
rampant in society, politics, legislature, executive, media and even in judi-
ciary. Almost all the national and regional political parties are more or less
corrupt. Charges of corruption are levelled against their leaders, minis-
ters, national party presidents and cases of corruption are going on
against them in courts. Recently B.J.P leader Gopinath Munde said in a
function in Mumbai on June, 27, that he had spent a whopping Rs. Eight
Crores during his 2009 Lok sabha election campaign. Such corrupt peo-
ple should be disqualified and awarded stringent punishment. Corruption
on high places will destroy not only democracy and constitution but
would endanger India's unity and integrity.
G. Hasnain Kaif, Anant Nagar, Nagpur - 13
55 masjids but no school
On 1st Ramadan I visited a thickly-populated Muslim locality where vil-
lagers sat talking after zuhr prayer. They asked me to attend Iftar but I
refused and stood to leave. One of them said that they have built 55
masjids within a radius of 9 kms. I asked them how many schools and
colleges you Muslims have. Their said: none. I asked them to reconsider
where we are lagging? Muslims must introspect about their character that
is why films of costly budgets are released in Muslim populated areas
during the Eid festival.
S. Haque, Patna
Durga episode
Its very much clear that this SDM is not innocent and is backed by com-
munal forces. However, this media is now quite sure that it can play any
tune to the liking of "His Master's Voice", but is not aware of the end result,
that it will lose its credibility and its effectiveness if this type of approach/
reporting is not corrected well in time.
Maldar SA [email protected]
II
Why dont Akhlilesh Govt reconstruct the Mosque if they feel it was wrong-
fully demolished buy an arraying IAS officer rather communalising the
politics of UP. As to so many other mosques and grave yards has been
demolished or stopped construction illegally during present tenure of SP
govt and they did nothing. More than 100 small and major communal riots
and they didnt suspend any IAS officer only transferred a few and no cul-
prits were arrested even. They didnt fulfill any major poll promises like giv-
ing reservation to Muslim community and releasing innocent Muslim
youth rather one Khalid Mujaid was obnoxiously killed in custody and no
action has been taken yet. merely on a demolished mosque wall issue
they are planning to grab all Muslim voters!!!!!!!!! isnt it cynical?
Dr Taslim Rehmani, President Muslim Political Council of Inida
[email protected]
Batla House sentence
Apparently the order of sentence in the recent Shahzad Ahmad case also
spoke of the "collective conscience" which shone so brightly in the Afzal
Guroo judgment earlier. We have before us an example of a classic pro-
cedure. First you use a media not just pliant but even more blood-thirsty
than the khaki clan to whip up the passions of the public, then you take
the support of those passions by calling them "collective conscience".
This construct is of course not subject to the rules of evidence: it is, if
anything, in the same class as "acts of god". It also twists the very mean-
ing of "conscience", which customarily has the role of guiding the behav-
iour of the person who has it -- specifically, it does not empower its pos-
sessor to punish others or to wreak vengeance.
Mukul Dube, Purvasha. Delhi 110091
[email protected],
Physician heal thyself
The attack on Mahabodhi Vihar in Gaya is highly condemnable. The low
intensity bomb blasts did not cause any casualty or damage to the Vihar
and the Bodhi tree. Highest level investigation is necessary to bring out
the truth. Elements responsible should be severely punished. In view of
the present political situation in Bihar and the coming assemblies and par-
liament elections political elements may indulge in such heinous crimes.
The working president of V.H.P,Dr.Pravin Togadia while talking to media
men in Amravati condemned Gaya bomb blasts. He also condemned the
dastardly attack on places of worship and also condemned Muslim com-
munalism. The veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar had written in his popular
weekly column "Between The Lines" (Lokmat Times nagpur
dt.13/095/2010) "If fact India has discovered to its horror that there is a
network of Hindu Taliban as well. They are connected with RSS and said
to be responsible for the bomb-blasts at Hyderabad Mecca Masjid, Ajmer
Dargha, Malegaon, Goa and Samjhauta Express." He further writes that
"B.J.P run Rajasthan and M.P. Governments have been safe sanctuary for
Hindu outfits". Are Swami Aseemanand and his men Muslim
Communalists who were behind bomb blasts in Hyderabad Mecca Masjid
where large number of Muslims were killed and injured? Muslims were
arrested and tortured. Aseemanand had confessed his crime before the
court. The innocent Muslims were released by the court. I would like to
ask Togadia 'Physician Heal Thyself'.
G. Hasnain Kaif, Nagpur - 13
Lollipop of minority university for Muslims
After the Bhagalpur riot, Congress lost Bihar and after demolition of Babri
Masjid Congres survived. To get Muslim votes, Congress promised
Muslim reservation, appointed Sachar committee etc. This way Congress
could muster the necessary support to rule. AMU campuses were
announced before the MP elections and then this year just before 2014
general elections, Congress announced five minority universities. A
fresh announcement comes targetting previous announcement which is
the Congress ploy to deceive Muslims and garner their votes. Muslims
never remember "Muslim ek suraakh se do baar nihi dasa jata" but alas
Muslims dance at the tune of politicians because Muslims don't have their
own agenda.
S. Haque, Patna
Plight of India today
The political leaders of India are often in news headline for their infamous
remarks, which prove pretty much challenging to turn into action in real
life. The most recent incident of the political leaders claimed that food is
as cheap as Rs 5, 10 or 15 and that it is available only to the people in
the country to fill one's stomach. This is one such incident where the
politicians' statements show insensitivity and are nowhere related and
applicable to the ground reality of life.Political leaders like Raj Babbar,
Congress Spokesperson, Rasheed Masood, Rajya Sabha MP and Farooq
Abdullah, Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy and National
Conference party leader are some of the political leaders who made such
controversial remarks without showing any concern about the real situa-
tion of the masses. This has therefore sparked off a new debate from all
corners of the country questioning as to how and where does one really
get a full-fledged meal in the country, where every essential commodity
have increased prices. Hence it is justified to claim that our political lead-
ers still live in those bygone eras where one got a wholesome meal with
just 1 rupee. While the nation continues to be marred by controversies, is
this issue worth even debating in the public forum when millions of peo-
ple go without food in India every day.
Mohd Zeyaullah Khan, Jafar Nagar , Nagpur - 440012
[email protected]
Amartya Sen on Modi
Close on the heels of BJP MP Chandan Mitra's demand for stripping Nobel
laureate Amartya Sen of Bharat Ratna for speaking against Narendra
Modi, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna carried an editorial by its presi-
dent Uddhav Thackeray asking Dr.Sen to mind his business as an econo-
mist. One wonders whether a Bharat Ratna or being an economist for-
feits the fundamental right of expression given to every citizen in the con-
stitution! We see every night, a battery of supreme court lawyers, fight-
ing political debates on the TV news channels. There are many a bolly-
wood actor, industrialists and even some corporate media houses openly
siding with one party or the other. Why the Hindutva brigade is not asking
them to mind their business?
S.Sultan Mohiddin, Kadapa -516001
Andhra Pradesh
Will Ishrat get justice?
A 19-year-old college girl was killed in fake encounter but she will not get
justice because a deep conspiracy hatched by two government secret
agencies. Under the supervision of Gujarat HC, CBI is investigating the
fake encounter and tried to reach the bottom of fake encounter as CBI
quizzed the IB officer who sent fake alert to Gujarat govt about Ishrat
Jahan was let module. Immediately IB, government and saffron brigade
stood behind the IB officer. Thus Shadow boxing would go on for some-
time then in future CBI could crumble as per plan and Ishrat Jahan would-
n't get justice. Justice loving people of India salute Vrinda grover the
lawyer whose tireless effort could made possible to file chargesheet in
CBI after 9 years and she rebutted all the media & political insinuation
against innocent Ishrat Jahan in media too. On the other hand the day CBI
filed chargesheet a Muslim lawyer said to friend that what is the matter
of Ishrat Jahan. who has 30 yrs of practice. It is pity state of Ummah.
S. Haque, Patna
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Batla House verdict a slap on the
face of patriotic Muslims
The judgement of a New Delhi court convicting Mohammad
Shahzad as a terrorist and branding him and his two friends
who were killed in the police-staged false encounter, is one more
travesty of injustice. The court judgement totally disregarded the
evidence and the facts and instead pasted the pre-conceived
police allegation that the few Muslim young men living in the
apartment were planning a terrorist attack.
How could Shahzad have escaped from an apartment on
fourth floor of a building which had no exit other than the front
door that was guarded by several heavily armed policemen? Was
Shazad a bird who flew out of the apartment at such a height in
a building that had no escape route? The false allegations of the
police, prosecutor and their acceptance by the the judge boggles
common sense.
By its bizarre judgement the said New Delhi court seems to
confirm the slandering and stereotyping of the North Indian
Muslim youth, especially the youth of Azamgarh. The U.P. Police,
unable (or unwilling) to solve a string of terrorist attacks in the
last few years found it convenient to paste the terrorist label on
Muslim youth from Azamgarh.
The harassing of Muslim youth from UP, Maharashtra and
Hyderabad under the label of being sympathetic to terrorists is a
flagrant violation of the fundamental rights of these patriotic citi-
zens of the nation. Police brutality against Muslim youth has
taken a much more vicious turn in the last five years. In fact,
today it is the number one issue in the democratic and secular
Indian nation that many Indian human rights organizations are
focusing on.
The Muslim citizens of the nation should launch a campaign
against this awful and unjust harassment of the youth by the bru-
tal police. Citizens lobbies should appeal against the New Delhi
court judgement and fight all the way to the Supreme Court to get
this judgement overturned and Shahzad freed from jail and the
good name of Muslim youth reinstated.
Kaleem Kawaja, Washington, US
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