FIRDAUS AHMED

Mr. Modi has thrown his hat in the ring. His

opponent, the Congress scion, nowhere to be
seen, it is apparent that NaMo will be seen as a
credible prime ministerial candidate. The BJP
had to discard its geriatric mascot and get
another in his image, another pretender to the
title of Sardar Patel II. However, Nitish Kumars
early rebuff has unmistakably brought home that
NaMos ascendance to 7, Race Course Road is
not quite certain. The effect of this will be in an
energised campaign by Modi, that can be
expected to witness subterfuge and outright lies.
The ends being taken by his lobby as justifying
the means, low blows will be par for the course.
Therefore, suffering through a Modi era must be
prepared for, howsoever distasteful the
prospects of such miscarriage of democracy.
What can such an era entail?
Firstly, getting Modi into the chair would
require some manoeuvring by the right wing
combine. The propaganda machinery will be in
full swing and will draw on the work of unsus-
pecting conservative-realist strategists. Modi
will have access to corporate coffers and middle
class talent, in the hope that his reign will
unleash the long-awaited second phase of eco-
nomic reforms seen as necessary to put India
into the China league.
However, to unite the majority as a vote
bank, Modi will emulate his predecessor in reviv-
ing the Ayodhya campaign, perhaps with a
promise to build the temple at the site of the
demolished mosque. Modi will project himself
as the strong man who can rout the Maoists at
the gates. A contrived linkage will be drawn
between the Maoists and Muslim radicals, con-
veying the imminence of a threat where none
exists. The unsubtle scape-goating of the minor-
ity for bomb blasts will come into high gear.
Instance of Hubli, Dilsukhnagar and
Malleswaram will be oftener. The Pakistan front
will see some rhetorical fireworks in order to try
and project the minority as a fifth column. The
draw-down of the US from Afghanistan and the
return of the Taliban will be shown as a looming
Muslim fundamentalist threat to India.
Clearly, these gimmicks to get Modi to office
will outlive his getting there. They will form the
agenda of his regime. Not only will the business
classes prosper but will do so at the expense of
the voting public. In order that the elite are not
distanced from the masses and the latter do not
devour the former through a left-ward lurch,
elite-mass integration will take place by project-
ing the problems that will arise on the Other.
The Other in the form of the Muslim minority
has been assiduously manufactured by the right
wing over the past three decades. The public,
however, will be fed the toxic cocktail of religion
and nationalism, with the minority as an internal
bogeyman that is externally abetted. Thus, Modi
will inject insecurity into society in order to reap
stability in a rally round the flag strategy.
Projecting himself as the messiah to deliver
the much-put-upon majority from a thousand
years of eclipse, he will seek to perpetuate his
regime. Modis support infrastructure in the
Sangh Parivar will use the opportunity for ideo-
logical expansion with the intent of celebrating
the coming centenary of the RSS in style.
In other words, Modi will not be a one-term
wonder, but will spend his first term creating the
conditions for the next since his ideological
benefactors need that much time to reset India.
This scenario and its prospects suggest that
it is not merely an election that is ahead but an
era. There is no guarantee of this, after all the
majority community is not imbecile. With five
thousand years of civilisation behind it, assum-
ing that they will be taken in by Modis campaign
is to disrespect their good sense, intellect and
culture. Besides Indias poor, who form Indias
voting public, are not likely to be overwhelmed in
numbers by the Chetan Bhagat reading middle
classes so enamoured of NaMo.
Modis supposed developmental miracle in
Gujarat has an underside that will directly affect
them: that the rate of poverty reduction has been
below Indias average even if the growth rate has
been higher. The former is what will swing the
electoral verdict. Besides, his challenger, Mr.
Gandhi, may yet have an ace up his sleeve,
being cooked up and delivered by his think tank
in Jawahar Bhawan. Congress has a way to woo
masses, the latest being the idea of undercutting
middlemen by delivering social security cheques
variously named right into bank accounts of
prospective voters. With right minded politicians
as Nitish Kumar willing to stand up to the com-
munal tide, pessimism is unwarranted.
However, the paradox is that these chal-
lenges will prompt the saffron dirty tricks
department to work overtime. They will attempt
to create conditions in which common sense is
rudely pushed aside. The theme will be a Bush-
like: if you are not with us, you are against us.
Identity politics shamefacedly practiced can
prove fatal to secular exercise of votes. Also,
Modis is a considered move. He is not growing
any younger. Waiting for longer will make him
lose out to his younger opponent. He is clearly
not playing to lose. Gujarat can no longer con-
tain his ambitions. He has to move. So Delhi it is.
Being divisive and authoritarian, he can hardly be
expected to forge coalitions la Vajpayee. He
has, therefore, to fight to win. This means his
campaign will be ruthless and designed to
showcase him as a winner out to gain a place in
the sun for the greater glory of Hinduism rather
than a secular democratic India.
This suggests that while it may be prema-
ture to be pessimistic, it would be realistic to
prepare for a Modi victory. Once in office, Modi
will have the state machinery feeding from his
hands; as he has had in Gujarat. As in the
Emergency, state minions will compromise with
governance, obeying RSS and VHP hatchet-men
elevated to state power as ministers and legisla-
tors. The minority having been pushed to a cor-
ner will have to will itself to survive and outlast
the dark times. How it does so will be a test not
only of its moral strength but also that of the
good sense of the majority community. To be
sure, there will be challenges posed to the
rulers. This will be from the secular-liberal spec-
trum, but it is liable to be easily ignored and, if
required, crushed.
The more substantial backlash to corporate-
led growth will likely be from the Maoists,
expanding their influence due to the fallout on the
common man of economic policies serving sec-
tional interests. Increased violence and retribu-
tion may be witnessed. Given this environment
and one in which the minority is directly victim,
what must guide its response?
There is no doubt that whatever suggestions
there may be in this column, there would be
minority extremists mirroring majority extrem-
ists. Their dialogue of violence cannot but con-
tinue since being hotheads they are predisposed
to such action. This may be inescapable in order
to dampen the ardour of the majority extremists
for any notion of a final solution. In any case,
self-defence is a birthright. However, for the
common people abjuring social violence will be
necessary lest any association with violence
lead to justifying the stereotype and mass retri-
bution. Instead, using the opportunities that are
available for concentrating on bettering ones
condition may be one way out. Forging regional,
social and class unity will help with building
bonds to sustain. Plumbing the wellsprings of
religion and culture for resources for resilience
may be required. False leaders will have to be
run out of town. Collaborators will need to be
educated and weaned away. Where incorrigible
due to economic or power incentives, they must
be forced away from contaminating social
spaces. Building social transparency and ties
with neighbours of the majority community will
act as propaganda by deed to dispel the false
propaganda that will fill prime time. These ties
built will over time help eject the regime and the
reject its ideology. India will then emerge
cleansed into democratic light.
This is a scenario that might not come to a
pass. Awareness of it can energise the bulwark
against the NaMo campaign beginning to unfold.
It can have a sobering effect on otherwise intel-
ligent and graceful people liable to be deluded
into believing that they need a saviour through
manufactured insecurity. In case the great Indian
democratic project is usurped, then outlasting
Hindutva may require prior creation of the
reserves and imagination in a valiant democrat-
ic counter over the coming year.
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ahead but an era.
The unsubtle scape-goating of the minority for bomb
blasts will come into high gear. Instance of Hubli,
Dilsukhnagar and Malleswaram will be oftener. The
Pakistan front will see some rhetorical fireworks in
order to try and project the minority as a fifth
column. The draw-down of the US from Afghanistan
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Associating a calamity with imagined divine
wrath has been the habit of man since the
beginning of human civilization because by
doing that, he absolves himself from taking any
responsibility and further strengthens his super-
stitious self, wisely observed Sir Carveth Reid
in his magnum Opus Man and his supersti-
tions. The massive calamity that befell
Uttarakhand has furthered Hindus superstitious
beliefs at a large scale and have assumed the
form of collective irrationality. One of the
Shankaracharyas is saying that since people
have relegated Uttarakhand as a honeymoon
spot, god has taught them a severe lesson. One
Pandit sees goddess Kalis ire in this catastro-
phe as her husband Mahadav received a raw
deal from the pilgrims in the last few years! He
says that its the combined revengeful anger of
Kali and Mahadev! Instead of looking at the
ground realities and reasons that have nothing
to do with any divinity whatsoever, Hindus are
erroneously thinking that its gods unprece-
dented anger that has caused this massive
depredation.
Narendra Modis rescue act
Narendra Modi s exaggerated cl ai m to
rescue 15,000 marooned Guj arat i s i n
Ut t arakhand-debacl e gi ves ampl e evi -
dence t hat he s an out ri ght par t i san
l eader who cannot thi nk beyond hi s state
Guj arat and Guj arati Hi ndus. Even at thi s
hour of acute cri si s, thi s rank oppor-
t uni st i s t r yi ng t o t ake advant age of
affected peopl es pl i ght. How can thi s
man be a nati onal l eader, who thi nks so
ethni cal l y and tri es to mi l k such grave
mi shaps?
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Stories Continued
Behrampada, Bandra East, Mumbai. What can you say about a girl who is just 21 years old and works eight hours a day to support her family of
seven members! Rizwana stays in the in the Behramnagar slums, in Bandra East,studied in an Urdu Medium School, got her Bachelors Degree in Mass
Media, working part-time to support her own studies and her family. What we can say? Well-done!!! And stand up and applaud. Rizwana is a typical
shining star of Rahat.
Nala Sopara, Extended Suburbs, Mumbai. Asif has just moved to his ownership flat in Nala Sopara, with his wife and three year son Asif is an
Insurance Advisor.. and has done well for himself.. When we first met Asif.. he was about to be rusticated from his English Medium School in Bandra
East. He was then studying in the 9
th
standard. We intervened. In fact this was one of our first affirmative action. For a boy from one of the sleaziest
slums of Mumbai to have reached standard 9
th
was a miracle by itself. A first generation learner, with illiterate parents, we saw a spark in that boy. And
Asif did not let us down.. He passed that 9
th
standard exams and did not fail even once on his way to obtaining his B. Com Degree. He worked hard,
supported his family and became an insurance advisor on his own. Asif now does Rahats field work and is proud to do so. A classic Rahat Scholar!!

Juhu Gullu, Andheri. 1992. Rahat had just started its work, when a young girl, with a big dream approached Rahat through a neighbor, she said, I want
to become a doctor. Zarina had just passed her 12
th
science exams and had scored 84% marks in her PCB, the then criteria for admission to an MBBS
Degree College. Zarina underwent a tortuous period involving her admission process.. and one day her seat to a private, but recognized, MBBS college
was confirmed. Rahat was involved in facilitating this process all the way. It was indeed a fine day when we handed over the draft to the Secretary of the
College. Dr Zarina in the meanwhile got married, is a mother, has worked abroad, and one day visited our Working Centre at Bharat Nagar, Bandra
East.. and wrote out a cheque of Rs 90,000/-. Today she has a thriving medical practice in Mumbai, has bought her ownership flat and is a regular Donor
of Rahat!!!!

Bharat Nagar, Bandra East, 2002. Hello, my name is Zainab. I have just appeared for my final year B A Exams. In 2002 my parents died. I was in the
7
th
standard in a Municipal school. I was admitted to Shaheen Urdu High School in the 8
th
standard. Obviously my financial condition was very bad. It
was hand-to-mouth struggle for survival. We are a family of seven and we were not sure whether there would be food for us.. every day. At Shaheen,
Rahat adopted me under TESS, guided me, encouraged me. And from 8
th
to 15
th
it was Rahat all the way. Rahat not only supported me in my studies, it
supported everyone in my family. Thank you, Rahat. {Zainab got married this year and we were there to congratulate her and her siblings. She had
also done a part-time job to support her family and her studies).

Rahat is currently helping over One Thousand students, enabling them to take care of themselves and to live a life of Dignity and Self Respect. These
are the role models who have shown that a better world is possible. These are the shining stars who have enriched our efforts and have given an abiding
meaning to our work. And we say this with great responsibility: only Rahat would have picked up these Rahat children, majority of whom are orphans,
whose stories we have narrated. All names have been changed to protect the identity and dignity of the students involved.

ZAKAT COLLECTION. Rahat activities are funded mainly through the Zakat collection in Ramzan every year. And Rahat does need funds on a
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send Rahat a part of your Zakat this Ramzan. (Donations are also welcome). No amount is too small not to be of help. Please ask at least two other
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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
conspiracy hatched by the powers that be, IB, Police and
media, has sullied and defamed our community. This campaign
has affected our lives, peace of mind and has thwarted our
efforts to progress and educate our children to join the nation-
al mainstream.
Our efforts so far to present our case, to bring out our inno-
cence 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 thou-
sands are still languishing in jails on the basis of fake confes-
sions 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 write-
ups on various aspects of this issue, covering the history, gen-
esis, communalism, 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 victims,
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 organisa-
tions, and thereafter present this huge document of over 600
large format pages to politicians, media, human rights organi-
sations, 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.
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contributors plus six months salaries to researchers and
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ew Delhi: The Press Council of India (PCI) has issued intimation to ten
newspapers to appear before the inquiry committee for hearing on
16 July in response to the complaints filed by Popular Front of India
(PFI), said O.M.A. Salam, General Secretary of the organization.
PFI had approached the PCI, the regulatory body over press, in April last
year against ten news papers, viz., Dainik Jagran Hindi Daily (Meerut), Dainik
Jagran Hindi Daily (Delhi), Hindustan Times English Daily (Lucknow), The
Asian Age English Daily (Delhi), Deccan Chronicle English Daily (Ernakulam,
Kerala), Nav Bharat Times Hindi Daily (Delhi), The Inquilab Urdu Daily (Delhi),
The New Indian Express English Daily (Calicut, Kerala), The Sunday Guardian
English Weekly (Delhi) and The Pioneer (Delhi) for publishing defamatory news
against the organisation with malicious intention to lower and damage its rep-
utation. Subsequently, the complaints were taken on the file and show-cause
notices were issued to the newspapers.
The PCI has now issued intimation to the said newspapers to appear before
the inquiry committee for hearing on 16 July. Advocates Bahar U. Barqi, Maroof
Ahmed and A. Mohamed Yusuff will represent PFI during the hearing.
Karnataka panel to review
attacks on churches
As the Justice Somashekhara Commissions report on church attacks was not
submitted before the Cabinet sub-committee, we need to discuss the report
first by setting up a fresh sub-committee, said Karnataka Home Minister
K J George. At a press meet on 19 June, he said that the previous BJP govern-
ment had not submitted the report before the Cabinet sub-committee. We will
take further action only after discussing the report, he added.
The Karnataka Home Minister also directed police to take stringent action
against the drug mafia, illegal activities, moral policing and others, keeping the
future of the society in mind.
I will meet the demands of the Police Department with regard to filling up
vacant posts and upgrading weapons after consulting Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah, he said.
On the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), George said the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF)
was a temporary one while ATS would be permanent. ATS personnel will
receive training in jungle warfare, on combing forests and others. He clarified
that the launch of ATS does not mean ANF would lose its focus on anti-Naxal
operations.
We will take all measures to ensure the security of minorities and resi-
dents of the state, he said.
Muslim League delegation meets
Madani in prison
The delegation of Indian Union Muslim League led by Siraj Ebrahim Sait,
National Secretary, IUML, and Syed Sadiq Ali Shihab Tangal visited Abdul
Nassar Madani at Parapana Agrahara Jail in Bangalore and spent with him 30
minutes. Later the delegation met Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and
discussed with him many issues relating to Minorities of the state of Karnataka.
In the meeting, which lasted for 20 minutes, home Minister K.J. George and
Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy were also present.
KMCC General Secretary M.K. Naushad, Advocate Muneer Ahmed General
Secretary, Bangalore District IUML, Mohammed Ilyas Vice President Bangalore
District IUML and Ibrahim Secretary Karnataka State IUML were also present.
The delegation said in its written memorandum, We wish to bring to your
kind notice the plight of the youths who are languishing in jails in different parts
of Karnataka state without even being chargesheeted and those who are in ille-
gal custody should be set free with immediate effect. We also wish to highlight
the plight of the politician from Kerala Mr Abdul Nasser Madani and request you
to speed up the judicial process enabling all citizens to obtain fair play and jus-
tice.
PCI to hear PFI case against ten newspapers
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Ph: 0416-2223825, 2221825 Email: icvellore@gmail.com
Islamic Centre Vellore has established 25 Masajids
which serve as social centres in Neo-Muslim villages in
five districts of Southern TamilNadu viz Madurai,
Ramnad,Virdhunagar, Tanjore and Theni. ICV main-
tains them and caters to their needs. Besides it has
appointed energetic youth as Imams of these Masajid.
ICV conducts Maktabs (morning, evening) to teach the
tiny tots of the resident neo-Muslim society. Besides ICV
provides school and college fees to youngsters for their
higher studies and tehnical studies. ICV maintains a
Student Hostel for the benefit of young aspiring
techies and students.
ICV has engaged six dayees and dayias to disseminate
the message of Islam among those souls (in 23 districts
of TamilNadu) who have got acquainted the message
of Islam and those who are on the verge of embracing
truth. These dayees establish personal rapport with
them.
ICV has earmarked a plan to inculcate the basic teach-
ings of Deen-e-Haneef among Neo-Muslims. These
basic teachings include Basic beliefs, Ibadah, Taharah,
Duas, memorization of small surahs etc. Besides ICV
runs a fullfledged coaching centre fully equipped with
separate boarding, lodging facilities for men and
women in Vellor. A two / four month Islamic
Orientation Course to impart Islamic values among
Neo-Muslims is given to the students. They are provid-
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ICV has established Dawah Colleges imparting Higher
Islamic studies to Neo-Muslims viz Kulliyatul Marif for
girls and Kulliyatus Salam for boys fully equipped with
boarding and lodging facilities.
ICV runs a postal library through Islamic Academy in
Chennai. A set of 20 introductory books on Islam in
Tamil and English is provided to the readers.
With 16 Imams and Khateebs serving in Neo-Muslim
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and 10 administerial staff including Watchman ICV
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ICV have always been in the forefront in handling del-
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also handles the issue of providing higher education,
solving social issues and above all helping them to lead
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Islamic values.
The beneficiaries of the silent service of ICV belong to
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India is intolerant
Swedish economists have stated that
India, Jordan and Bangladesh are
among the least tolerant countries in
the world, while Britain is among the
most accepting.
The World Values Survey asked
respondents in more than 80 different
countries to state the type of people
they did not want as neighbours. Over
40 per cent of respondents in India,
Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong
said they would not want a neighbour
of a different race.
In India, 43.5 per cent said they
did not want someone of a different
race as their neighbour. In Jordan it
was 51.4 per cent, while in Hong Kong
and Bangladesh, over 70 per cent said
someone of a different race was their
biggest concern in a neighbour.
Blast accused told to pay
Rs.10,000 to visit ailing mother
Mumbai: The Special Maharashtra
Control of Organised Crime Act
(MCOCA) on 17 June rejected the
interim bail application of Mohammed
Sajid Marghoob Ansari, one of the
accused in the July 2006 Mumbai
train blast stating that there was no
provision of bail under the anti terror
law. Sajid Ansaris mother is in a hos-
pital in Mumbai suburbs due to seri-
ous illness. The court, though rejected
Sajids bail application, allowed him to
visit his ailing mother for six hours
with escort if he so wishes after
depositing Rs.10, 000 as fees.
Sajid Ansari had applied for
Interim Bail for four weeks to meet
his aged ailing mother who is on the
verge of death. He also promised to
surrender to the custody and face fur-
ther proceeding, and bound to comply
with each and every condition decided
by the court. However, MCOCA court
Special Judge Y D Shinde rejected the
application, Advocate Shahid
Nadeem Ansari, the Defence Counsel
said while talking to ummid.com.
Sajid Ansari is languishing in Jail
since more than six years without
committing, abetting or participating in
any crime, in any manner knowingly
and unknowingly, he added.
Incidentally, Sajid Ansaris sister had
died in 2010 and he could not attend
her funeral despite the court order as
the escort party had reached late at
prison.
Modi aide convicted
Ahmedabad: Babu Bokhariya, a senior
minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet
in Gujarat, was convicted for illegal
mining on 15 June. He has been taken
into custody. Mr Bokhariya, who is
Gujarats water resource minister,
along with three others, has been sen-
tenced to three years of imprisonment
by a sessions court. The three others
convicted in the case are former MP
Bharat Odedara, Bhima Dula and
Laxman Dula. They all were accused
of illegal mining of limestone from the
land where Saurashtra Chemicals
Limited holds mining rights.
India has 50 lakh child labourers
New Delhi: Fifty lakh children eke out
a livelihood in the country, of whom
17.5 lakh are in Uttarakhand, accord-
ing to the National Sample Survey
Organisation (NSSO). The second-
largest share of child labourers comes
from West Bengal (5.5 lakh),
Rajasthan (4.05 lakh) and Gujarat (3.9
lakh), the NSSO estimated on the eve
of the World Day against Child Labour
on 11 June.
Immediate enforcement of the
provisions of Child Labour (Prohibition
and Regulation) Act, 1986, and all
other related acts need to be imple-
mented to prevent the employment of
children in bidi rolling or other haz-
ardous occupations, said Bhavna
Mukhopadhyay, executive director,
Voluntary Health Association of India.
Child labour in India is governed
by the Child Labour (Prohibition and
Regulation) Act, 1986, to which an
amendment was also proposed.
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MUSTAFA KHAN
The trial court may take some time to hear the
case of Ishrat Jahan even if the Central Bureau of
Investigation submits its report by 4 July, 2013.
However, what is clear as of 21 June, 2013 is
that Modi was involved and his mastermind as in
the Godhra incident was again IB officer Rajendra
Kumar.
Kumar met Ishrat Jahan before she was
killed in captivity with three others. The guns
used in the killing also came from the SBI of IBs
Gujarat unit. Kumar was in-charge of this unit.
Thus it proves the mother of Ishrat, Shamima,
true that Modi was hundred percent involved.
What for was Kumar in touch with Modi the
whole day of the fake encounter? Is there any
court in India, including the Supreme Court, that
can take cognizance of the emerging facts suo
motto and try Modi before he may become the
Prime Minister and escapes justice?
Even so the facts lead to the most startling
denouement of the whole decade. Genocide of
Muslims took place with the input of Rajendra
Kumar, then joint director of the IB. He it was who
changed the fire accident in coach S6 of
Sabarmati Express on 27 February, 2002 at
Godhra into a sabotage of ISI allowing Modi to
call a strike and let Hindus take revenge on
Muslims. By watching the mass atrocities on
Muslims during the pogroms, they got embold-
ened to venture into fake encounters. Modi and
Kumar/Amit Shah behaved like the King and the
Duke in Mark Twains masterpiece The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Their cheatings
led them to perform a show they advertised for
the gullible public as Royal Nonesuch!
Amit Shah was the junior home minister to
the home minister and chief minister Modi. Thus
Modi knew and approved what Shah and Kumar
were doing.
Kumar and Shah ordered the fake encounter.
Shah had also ordered the kidnapping of
Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauser-bi and friend
Tulsiram Prajapati from the bus intercepted at
Sangli, Maharashtra, on the way from
Hyderabad. This allegation is made by
GL Singhal, an IPS officer who shot and killed the
four including Ishrat.
That Kumar was also in the illegal detention
centre room, where Ishrat was tortured and then
killed, must have been known to PP Pandey and
Kaushik. Pande is still absconding and may have
told this to CBI or Kaushik. These must have fig-
ured in the talks with Modi who was in constant
touch with Kumar having 37 phone conversa-
tions with him on 15 June, 2004...
As the Home Minister of the state, Modi is
constitutionally bound to have known the pre-
meditated murders his deputy Amit Shah was
ordering in connivance with the IB in-charge of
his state.
The CBI questioned Kumar on 18 June,
2013. Since then Modi, now in-charge of the
election campaign of his Hindu party BJP, and his
deputy again Amit Shah as secretary of the party,
have shown a subtle shift in their public appear-
ances. Modi dropped his idea of going to
Ayodhya not because he was afraid of the polar-
ization of the voters but because he was a real
time avenger and knew what the intelligence set
up and the inquiry agencies were up to. They
stand naked as the King and the Duke in Royal
Nonesuch. It would not be long when the public
would flock to their rallies but they would have
enough rotten eggs and stones in their hands. For
the rogues deserve what the King and Duke
deserved.
In the meantime the plot thickens. Two days
before the encounter, there were two phone calls
from a public booth, one to the Ahmadabad SIB
and another to Shaikh Ghulam Javed (Pranesh
Pillai) within an hour of the same caller speaking
to SIB Ahmadabad.
Rajendra Kumar was the mastermind as far
as the fake encounter of the four is concerned.
He generated three fake inputs and was physical-
ly present when Ishrat was brought to
Ahmadabad and shot dead with the others. He
present even at the site of the fake encounter.
That Amit Shah told GL Singhal and the oth-
ers to execute his order makes him the clinch pin
in this case also as he was in the case of
Sohrabuddin, Kauser and Prajapati. Singhal not
only killed the four with the weapons supplied by
the Gujarat unit of IB but also planted them on the
dead bodies showing them to be terrorists on the
way to kill Modi, Advani and Togadia.
Fearing that the higher ups would escape and
leave him in the doledrums in case of exposure,
Singhal chose to be the Albratross hanging
around the neck of Modi. He made an audio
recording on 20 November, 2011. In this new
evidence the then state home minister Praful
Patel is discussing with Advocate General Kamal
Trivedi, Additional Advocate General Tushar
Mehta, Additional Principal Secretary GC Murmu,
another lawyer and Singhal how best to cover up
the fake encounter and sabotage the case in the
trial court from within in order to save the officers
involved. This Patel must have undertaken this
exercise at the behest of none other than Modi.
This surely reminds you of how Modi had also
tried to sabotage the PIL filed by Malika Sarabhai
in the pogroms at Naroda Patia where 800
Muslims were brutally burnt alive and their bod-
ies were thrown into a well. He had ordered RB
Sreekumar, boss of SIB, to hand over to his
deputy Sanjiv Bhatt ten lakh rupees for the task.
Cases are piling up one after another like that
of Sadiq Mahtar, etc. Had Modi been in the house
kept by Joshnaben, he would not have time to kill
Shamimas daughter.
Indias second independence, now from
the yoke of Narendra Modi
They stand naked as the King and the Duke in Royal Nonesuch. It
would not be long when the public would flock to their rallies but they
would have enough rotten eggs and stones in their hands.
For the rogues deserve what the King and Duke deserved...
Kumar and Shah ordered the fake encounter. Shah had also ordered
the kidnapping of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kauser-bi and friend
Tulsiram Prajapati...
My daughter Ishrat Jahan was abducted, illegally
confined and killed in cold blood by officers and
men of the Gujarat police, in June 2004. She was
killed as part of a larger conspiracy which had a
political agenda. Ishrats murder was projected as
an encounter and justified by branding her a ter-
rorist who had come with three other men to
attack the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
This was not the first fake encounter in
Gujarat, other Muslims too had been executed in
similar staged encounters, committed in the name
of protecting the Chief Minster of Gujarat.
Some of these other fake encounters, which
are nothing but premeditated extra-judicial killings,
are already under investigation and prosecution.
My young college-going daughter, Ishrat, was
studying and working to earn and support her
brothers and sisters, after the death of her father.
Since the day of her murder, I have been stating
that my daughter was innocent and had no links
whatsoever with any terrorist or criminal activity.
The same was categorically asserted by me in the
writ petition filed by me in August 2004, before the
Gujarat High Court, seeking a CBI enquiry to
establish the innocence of my daughter and jus-
tice through punishment of her killers.
For nine long years, the Gujarat state has
abused its power to obstruct, delay and derail the
investigation, so that the hands and masterminds
behind this heinous crime are shielded from legal
accountability.
The state of Gujarat and its senior IPS officers
have filed frivolous and vexatious petitions in the
Supreme Court, coerced witnesses, and deployed
many other unlawful tactics. My lawyers have res-
olutely met each challenge and worked to uncov-
er the truth.
The report of the judicial enquiry by the
Magistrate Shri S.P. Tamang, in September 2009,
concluded that my daughter was innocent and had
been murdered by Gujarat police officers and
men. The SIT appointed by the Gujarat High
Court, under the chairmanship of Shri R.R. Verma,
too concluded in 2011, that the encounter was
fake and not genuine and that Ishrat Jahan had
been killed in prior custody.
Under directions of the Gujarat High Court the
investigation was transferred to the CBI and an
FIR for murder and other grave crimes lodged in
2011.
The CBI is investigating the murder of my
daughter and three others. This investigation is
being monitored by the Gujarat High Court and a
status report of the investigation is regularly filed
before the High Court.
I have always placed my faith in the Court and
pray that the Honble High Court will ensure that
my struggle for justice is not in vain.
The CBI investigation has already led to the
arrest of many senior Gujarat police officers and
men. The CBI investigation has revealed that
those complicit in the staged fake encounter of
Ishrat and three others in 2004 were not only
police officers of Gujarat, but others as well.
The evidence collected by the CBI, as
expressed to the High Court on the last date of hear-
ing i.e., 14 June 2013, points to a larger conspiracy.
The conspiracy appears to include Mr. Rajendra
Kumar, a senior officer of the Intelligence Bureau.
The CBI counsel stated before the High Court on 14
June, 2013 that their investigation shows that IB offi-
cer Mr. Rajendra Kumar not only knew about the ille-
gal detention of my daughter Ishrat but was directing
the operations.
I am astonished and distressed to hear that
attempts are being made to protect Mr. Rajendra
Kumar from arrest and custodial interrogation by
the CBI.
I am also surprised that the media is project-
ing the CBI investigation as an attack on the insti-
tution of IB. To my mind, what is worrying, if not
dangerous, for the security of India, is if high rank-
ing officers in institutions such as the IB, abuse
their position and fabricate information to advance
a communal and politically motivated agenda, it is
in the interest of the country if such people are
weeded out of the IB and the security of all the
people of India protected.
Clearly, the investigation of the CBI is moving
in the right direction and to thwart it a very crude
and motivated move was orchestrated by planting
some audio-tapes with a private media channel
viz. Headlines Today. There is not a whisper of
allegation against my daughter Ishrat Jahan in
these so-called IB audio recordings. Significantly
the timing of the broadcast of these tapes, on 13
June 2013, by a compliant private TV channel, the
night before the hearing by the High Court, not
only makes them highly suspect, but in fact
betrays that they are desperate to shield the guilty.
I would like to state here that my lawyers will
be sending a legal notice and will initiate appropri-
ate legal action against Headlines Today TV chan-
nel for the false, scandalous and defamatory state-
ments made against my deceased daughter Ishrat
Jahan.
When the next day the Additional Advocate
General of Gujarat brandished these planted and
concocted CDs before the High Court on 14 June,
2013 and made specious arguments for them to
be taken on record, the nefarious design and pur-
pose was clear to all. The Gujarat High Court not
only rejected this fallacious plea of the state of
Gujarat, but also sternly reminded it of its constitu-
tional duty to protect its citizens and admonished it
for continually obstructing the investigation into the
staged encounter.
I strongly reject and denounce each and every
allegation and statement that refers to my
deceased daughter Ishrat Jahan as being a terror-
ist or having any links with any terrorist activity or
group. In the past too attempts have been made to
taint the name of deceased Ishrat by planting
false, concocted and baseless news reports. What
is significant is that the judicial enquiry and impar-
tial and professional investigation have always
upheld the innocence of Ishrat.
The state of Gujarat has on each hearing
before the High Court argued strenuously to dis-
rupt and disturb the CBI team that is investigating
the killing of Ishrat and others. As I observe the
progress of this investigation, I ask the following
questions: Why is the state of Gujarat so keen,
almost desperate, to remove Mr. Satish Verma,
IPS, from this investigation? What does the state
of Gujarat fear this diligent and honest investiga-
tion will reveal? Who are the persons the state of
Gujarat is trying to protect?
I have a right to know the complete truth - who
killed my daughter Ishrat Jahan, who mastermind-
ed her murder, who stood to gain from the cold
blooded killing of a young Muslim girl. I have a
right to complete justice, and for that it is neces-
sary that the entire conspiracy is unearthed and all
those responsible for eliminating my innocent
daughter are indicted, charged prosecuted and
punished.
Issued on 18th June, 2013
Hindu Yuva Vahinis
terror in Kushi Nagar
New Delhi: If Naxalism rules the roost in some
parts of the country, in areas around Gorakhpur,
Hindu communalists rule and Yogi Adityanaths
Hindu Yuva Vahini has unleashed a reign of ter-
ror here. Their latest target is Kushinagar. Here,
first, Muslim girls are kidnapped, then they are
employed in houses as maid servants and sub-
jected to rape and forced to conver t to
Hinduism and marry Hindus. Helpless parents
register complaints in police stations. Instead of
getting any help from the police, they get threats
from communal forces. These facts were
brought to the notice of Jamiat Ulama-e Hinds
central leadership by a delegation of Jamiat led
by Maulana Hayatullah Qasmi which, after tour-
ing Kushinagars villages Haat, Malukahi,
Dharampur etc reported the situation to the
central leadership in Delhi. What the delegation
learnt there is a matter for grave concern. In a
nutshell, lives of Muslims in the area, their
honour and properties are no longer safe. This
situation has been going on in these areas for
months together and many young Muslim girls
have been kidnapped. When information was
sought about them, it was found that these girls
are living at the houses of a certain person as
prisoners.
The delegation toured Malukahi village of
Kushi Nagar district where there are about 500
houses of the majority community and only 80
houses of Muslims. In this village, a member of
Hindu Yuva Vahini had crushed and injured a
Muslim by his tractor. When Muslims lodged a
complaint with the police, they were thrashed
mercilessly. When the dispute took a serious
turn, police arrested some persons of both
communities but the goons of Hindu Yuva
Vahini were soon released. These goons wel-
comed the release of the persons of their com-
munity with garlands. They took them around in
a procession and gave an ultimatum to the
Muslims to vacate the village.
According to the Jamiat delegation, now
there are only five or six Muslim boys in the vil-
lage and all other young men and women have
gone into hiding.
The delegation members also toured
Dharampur Basti where Hindu Yuva Vahini goons,
after attacking Muslims and insulting and humiliat-
ing their women set their houses on fire in which
ten Muslims received burn injuries, out of whom
the condition of three persons is serious.
The delegation members met Muhammad
Siddiq, Owais Ahmad, Mubin Ahmad and Shukra
who are being treated in Padrona district hospital.
The delegation entrusted the responsibility of
these victims better treatment to the Gorakhpur
Jamiat leaders Bhai Asadullah and Maulana Matiur
Rahman and asked them to get them treated in
Gorakhpur hospital if their condition demanded.
The Jamiat delegation asked local Muslims
to have patience and maintain peace. In addition
to Maulana Hayatullah Qasmi, the delegation
included Maulana Inayatullah Qasmi, Mufti
Matiur Rahman of Gorakhpur etc. (N. A. Ansari)
Statement by Shamima Kausar, mother of deceased Ishrat Jahan
RAM PUNIYANI
ram.puniyani@gmail.com
Rihai Manch, a forum for
ensuring justice to the false-
ly implicated youths in the
cases of acts of terror start-
ed a ongoing dharna in June
to demand the arrest of
police and IB officials
responsible for the death of
Maulana Khalid Mujahid, to implement the
R.D. Nimesh Commission report and to release
the innocent Muslim youths implicated in acts of
terror. This campaign is getting broader support
from human rights groups and the affected com-
munity. This is a major effort by a civic society
group to democratically protest against the
insensitive and biased state machinery, to pres-
surise it to come to the path of justice.
The Samajvadi Partys Akhilesh Yadav-led
government in UP had earlier claimed to be the
major champion of the cause of Muslims to the
extent that the main leader of this party Mulayam
Singh Yadav was derogatorily called Maulana
Mulayam. But as he came to power last time
also many a communal episode of violence took
place under the very nose of the government
during his regime. Currently also, Akhilesh
Yadavs regime is marked by over 27 episodes
of major riots in the state. On the top of that, the
Samajwadi Party in its election promise had said
that the innocents implicated in the acts of terror
will be released. On the contrary, the death of
Maulana Khalid Mujahid in police custody has
raised sufficient doubts about the intentions of
the Government. Even R.D. Nimesh Commission
report was kept in the cold storage for close to
one year, and now when it has been released
finally, the government is refraining from taking
action, hiding behind the argument that it will be
discussed in the future Assembly session before
action is taken on the report. As such, U.P. gov-
ernment has full prerogative to take action at
cabinet level. People fear that this commission
report may also face the same fate as the other
commission reports, which are generally put on
the backburner or in the cold storage.
Ashish Khaitan, one of the journalists with
dogged determination, sensitivity and honesty,
has floated a portal, Gulail (slingshot) to high-
light the investigative reports related to the fram-
ing of innocents by authorities. Many an officer
have falsely implicated innocents, despite know-
ing the truth, to enhance their own career
prospects or due to the biases which have
gripped the large sections of the law enforce-
ment agencies. These agencies regard that only
youth from one particular religious community
are responsible for the acts of terror.
Khiatan believes that putting forward the
truth of such cases is also not of much use as
in such cases reports of honest investigations
are overshadowed by the biased reporting and
opinions in the print, T.V. and social media. He is
pinning his hopes on judiciary and the peoples
campaigns for getting justice.
The ongoing dharna in Lucknow is drawing
the attention of social groups and is being sus-
tained for over a month now by social activists
and the pained and anguished community
whose young ones are being incarcerated and
have to suffer not only their future career
prospects but have also to get the blame which
ostracises in social life.
Various efforts have been undertaken in the
past in this direction but after temporary
response and restraint, the investigation agen-
cies lapse back into their usual prejudiced
actions.
Not only can this be seen in the case of UP,
but overall one sees the wide gulf between the
promises and actual actions of the so-called
secular parties. While in Maharashtra, the
Congress-led coalition came to power with the
promise of implementing Shrikrishna
Commission report on 1992-93 riots, after com-
ing to power on this promise it put forward the
usual excuses and the guilty police officers and
political leadership continued to be in their posi-
tions of power despite sufficient proof of their
involvement in instigating and participating in the
riots.
As far as justice to the victims and action
against the guilty is concerned, Samajvadi Party
seems to be no different. The R.D. Nimesh
Commission has given the full truth based on
which it can proceed to punish the guilty police
officers but thats what is being avoided.
The credentials of the so-called secular par-
ties are more or less similar. Be it the Congress
or the Samajvadi Party, they have very oppor-
tunistic attitude as far as the justice to minorities
is concerned.
While communal parties are out to do away
with the rights of minorities and deny them jus-
tice through and through, these so-called secu-
lar parties have a dual character. They promise
but are unable to deliver as their calculations are
built around the vote bank politics.
This is due to multiple factors. One is that
these supposedly secular parties are also being
trapped by considerations other than the values
of secularism. So, controlling of communal vio-
lence, which is possible if there is adequate
determination to do so, is not being done effec-
tively. The second reason is the communalized
state machinery, the investigating agencies,
police and bureaucracy. How to investigate the
cases, how to frame the innocents is an easy
enough job, which the authorities do and their
khaki uniform enables them to do it with ease. It
is precisely due to this that the fate of inquiry
commission reports have not been helpful to
curb such phenomenon. Star ting from the
Madon Commission of inquiry into Bhiwandi
riots, to Shrikrishna Commission and Liberhan
Commission reports, the outcome, taking action
based on the reports, is close to nil as the imple-
menting authorities, political leadership, is
opportunist and lacks the strength to stick to
principles.
So where do we go from here? While the
communal forces are out to proactively brow-
beat the religious minorities, the secular forma-
tions do not have the spine to ensure justice and
equity. Its here, that social activism which has
prominently come up during the last two
decades in particular, needs to be strengthened.
The activist groups have taken up these issues
seriously and the initiatives by social activists
are a major landmark in this direction.
One wonders, why are the left parties which
should be principally secular to the core, are
shunning these efforts. Their joining these
efforts to ensure equity and justice to the minori-
ties will put pressure on parties like Congress
and Samajwadi to be sincere in their efforts.
The intensification of efforts through judici-
ary and popular protests has to be strengthened.
The rot set in our democratic polity due to the
infiltration of communalism through different
mechanisms has been a very dangerous one to
the values of our Constitution. It is time that we
as a nation introspect and get over the biases
and prejudiced behaviours towards weaker sec-
tions of our society. The path to social progress
is paved through amity and justice.
Professional attitude in investigation of acts
of violence, communal amity and justice for all
are prerequisites of social progress, progress of
society in the real sense. (pluralindia.com)
Whither Justice: fabricated cases and State
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Many an officer have falsely implicated innocents, despite
knowing the truth, to enhance their own career prospects or due
to the biases which have gripped the large sections of the law
enforcement agencies. These agencies regard that only youth
from one particular religious community are responsible for the
acts of terror.
The rot set in our democratic polity due to the infiltration of
communalism through different mechanisms has been a very
dangerous one to the values of our Constitution.
KANEEZ FATHIMA
The architect of Indian constitution Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar with
farsight had framed the document in such a way that no person
is denied of his/her rights irrespective of caste, class, creed, reli-
gion, region, race and sex. But these guarantees have been rele-
gated to paper.
Keeping in mind Dalits, Adivasis and minorities, Dr. Ambedkar
had suggested that small states should be formed so that with
the decentralization of power, governance and law enforcement
would become easy and the citizens will enjoy their rights in a
better manner. Ambedkar with his foresight, supported small
states for the betterment of the nation. But national parties
oppose the idea of small states because it goes against their
benefits and gains. Communal parties, on the other hand, sup-
port small states where it will be easier for them to spread com-
munalism and hatred. Selfish politicians who are only after power
and money are busy changing parties and stands. We are wit-
ness to these political changes in Telangana region since the
movement started.
Nagam Janardhan Reddys jump into BJP has shocked com-
mon people, especially Muslims and dalits because people
believed that he was devoted to the Telangana people. Nagam
always criticized KCR before joining BJP. Now after joining BJP will
he be able to retain his voice or will he be influenced by the BJP.
From the time BJP hijacked this movement, it has never crit-
icized TRS or its leaders. All these changes are taking place for
their selfish gains as the 2014 elections are nearing. They are
making themselves ready to cash all issues. In fact, these people
have no love or pain for Telangana and its people.
Ever since the Telangana movement started, every now and then
KCR declared that achievement of Telangana is near. By saying this,
he deceived the common man many times. It was due to TRS, polit-
ical JAC and TNGOs that the Sakala Janula Samme failed and then
suddenly TRS chief declared that now Telangana will not come in this
manner; we will have to fight and gain more seats in the elections and
then only we will be able to achieve Telangana. People understood his
tricks that as soon as Telangana is achieved he and his family will
have to close their shops and get merged in some party and then
they will lose power. So, in the name of Telangana, he wants to gain
more seats, power, money and fame. Therefore, he is preparing for
2014 elections.
Common people have now understood that TRS can never
achieve Telangana. Till now it was said that TRS will fight inde-
pendently but now suddenly they have changed their stand and
are saying that they do not have any problem with any party
including BJP. With this stand they are giving clear indication that
if negotiations do not work out with Congress, they will go for BJP.
Due to this reason, TRS has never criticized BJP and their com-
munal politics. Even now, when Nagam Janardhan Reddy has
gone into BJP, the TRS and its leaders are criticizing Janardhan
Reddy but not BJP. Such is the deceit of these politicians.
Till now Muslims felt that Congress and BJP are two sides of
the same coin. But, now it is clear that TRS is also one of the
faces of this coin. Sometimes we can see TRS on this side of the
coin and sometimes on the other side.
Taking for granted the movement and the innocence of the
people, the communal BJP is steadily coming forward and prom-
ising that only they can bring Telangana. The small and big lead-
ers, politicians of different parties, are jumping and joining this
party, as a result. But people have not forgotten that from the time
the Hindutva party hijacked this movement, this movement has
collapsed and communalism and communal attacks spread to
every corner of Telangana. We are witness to the attacks on
Muslims in Bhainsa, Karimnagar, Siddipet, Nizamabad,
Sangareddy, Medak, Mahboobnagar, Nalgonda, Kamareddy,
Adoni and to continuous violence in different parts of Hyderabad
city since the start of the movement in 2009. Telangana move-
ment has never condemned these attacks. Even KCR, who prom-
ises deputy CM post to Muslims, visits Nizams grave to appease
Muslims but he has never condemned the attacks on Muslims or
the Hindutva terrorism. Every now and then when Muslim youth
are picked up and detained in the name of terrorism, no leader
says this is injustice and discrimination against the community.
But Muslims even then supported BJP in Nizamabad due to their
honesty towards Telangana. However, TRS, Political JAC and BJP
joined hands with each other and defeated the Muslim candidate
at Mahboobnagar. All the time these parties want only upper
caste candidates to win elections. This is the reason why at the
instructions of Congress MLA T. Jayaprakash Reddy, Muslims
were attacked by the Hindutva people continuously for two days
at Sangareddy and the livelihood of poor Muslims was destroyed
by burning their shops and business establishments. No TRS
leader tried to stop these attacks. After everything was destroyed,
Kodandram Reddy, Rama Melkote and others went to Sangareddy
and met people who were involved in the attacks instead of the
victims.
Since the last two years people are observing that civil and
human rights defenders and intellectuals are exposed by support-
ing the communal party in the name of Telangana. On the other
hand, people are also getting surprises each day when many
small and big leaders, intellectuals, writers and activists are
changing their colours. These people include SC, ST and BC
groups including Manda Krishna Madiga. They have forgotten
their aim in their quest for money and power.
MRPS (Madiga Reservation Porata Samiti) never spoke for
Muslims. It has never condemned Hindutva attacks on Muslims
during this period of Telangana movement. Once MRPS had
formed a party called Mahajana Sangharshana Committee along
with other leaders to work for SC, ST, BC and Minorities. Where
has this party gone? Why is MRPS silent on the communal
attacks on Muslims? The straight answer is that it is working in
tandem with the BJP. It is very strange that a few Dalit leaders and
activists who are in MRPS also work for the communal BJP. What
is the aim of these Dalit leaders and activists? Is it to work for the
betterment of their community or for the benefit of Hindutva
party? On the one hand, Muslim intellectuals and political parties
are planning to work and unite with Dalits and on the other, dalits
are working for the communal party. Not only this, the BJP is
recruiting SCs, STs and BCs in the name of Telangana movement
and increasing their cadre, giving training to them and sending
them to other states to spread hatred and communalism.
People are being cheated in the name of Telangana.
Telangana movement activists who claim that this movement is
the model for social movements have never condemned attacks
on Muslims by Hindutva forces and Dalits by upper caste people.
Telangana leaders and activists claim that Andhra people are
communal but not Telangana people. This time Telangana move-
ment has proved that Telangana leaders and activists are more
communal than Andhra leaders and they have made the people of
this region communal too. The leaders of this region are respon-
sible for the current situation in Telangana. It is high time for the
people to think deeply, understand the realities, remember what
happened from November 2009 to this day. This way they will get
clarity and will arrive at proper conclusion.
Kaneez Fatima is associated with
the Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, Hyderabad
Politicians selfish interests in the name of Telangana
Since the last two years people are observing that
civil and human rights defenders and intellectuals are
exposed by supporting the communal party in the name
of Telangana. On the other hand, people are also
getting surprises each day when many small and big
leaders, intellectuals, writers and activists are
changing their colours. These people include SC, ST
and BC groups including Manda Krishna Madiga. They
have forgotten their aim in their quest for money and
power.
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IRFAN ENGINEER
In May and June 2013, I attended two conventions organized by
organizations in which Muslims lead and whose raison detre was
to address issues of Muslims. I am deliberately avoiding calling
them Muslim organizations as Hindus too are associated with
both these organizations. One was a convention organized by
Maulana Azad Vichar Manch on 29-30 May, while the other was a
convention organized by Tanzim-e Insaaf on 15-16 June.
There were some similarities in the issues the two organisa-
tions wanted to address and there were major differences as well
in the strategies they want to adopt.
Let me first briefly recall the conventions as I witnessed them.
Maulana Azad Vichar Manch organized a convention on Muslim
education in Mumbai. It was inaugurated by the Vice-President of
India Hamid Ansari. The convention was also addressed by
Minister of Minority Affairs K. Rahman Khan, Chief Minister of
Maharashtra Prithvi Raj Chavan, and a few other Central as well
Maharashtra state Ministers. About 4,000 people attended the
inaugural session and the valedictory address. The attendance
otherwise varied. Maulana Azad Vichar Manch is led by Hussain
Dalwai, a member of Parliament. Dalwai might have felt the need
to mobilise his natural base - Muslims - as he works incessantly
to address their basic problems. Though Dalwai serves all individ-
uals who approach him irrespective of their religion, caste or
class, and participates on varied platforms that address issues of
other sections of the society like the Dalits, he channelizes his ini-
tiatives in addressing problems of the Muslim community.
Members of the executive committee of his Vichar Manch are
drawn from various districts of Maharashtra, but mostly from the
backward classes of Muslim biradaries (social groups). Dalwais
team includes Hindus who help him organise the programmes and
undertake various duties. His major objective is uplifting the back-
ward classes of Muslims and his vision seems to be inclusive and
equitable growth. His strategy to achieve these objectives is to
serve as a catalyst in getting various schemes for the minorities
to the Muslim community and increase the number of beneficiar-
ies from the community. His strategy also includes critically
reviewing the schemes as to policy gaps and pointing out inade-
quacy of the funds allocated for the minority schemes and bureau-
cratic obstructions in implementation.
Serving these objectives, the Muslim education conference
was organised with dual objectives - to make the community
aware of the need for education and to educate the members of
the community about the available scholarship and other schemes
formulated by the Govt. The second objective was to give a criti-
cal feedback to the political leaders of his party of corrections
necessary in the policies and to increase the funds allocated for
the existing schemes. For the first objective, the Ministers in the
Central and state Govt. addressed the gathering from the dais and
screamed about the existing schemes and quantum of funds allo-
cated and that the best that could be done was more or less
already done. The claims of the dais were strongly contested by
the floor, albeit through murmurs into each others ears of experi-
ences with stiff bureaucracy and wrong policies that resulted in
failure to benefit from the schemes. This writer was present on the
floor hearing those murmurs of protest.
Urdu media covered the convention extensively while the
English media more or less ignored the event. They might have felt
that the convention was some internal affair of the Muslim com-
munity not important for the life of the nation and not worth
reporting, even if Vice-President of the republic, who also hap-
pens to be a Muslim, inaugurated the convention. A columnist in
one of the Urdu newspapers commented that Muslim community
had now learnt to lobby within the democratic framework with-
out the use of violence.
The second objective of the convention - to give a critical
feedback to the policy-makers - was partly achieved by calling
intellectuals like Abu Saleh Sharif, former member-secretary of
Sachar Committee, who was the lone voice from the dais telling
the sundry ministers that the Govt. had travelled some distance in
formulating policies and schemes for development of the minori-
ties, and indeed all the socio-religious categories (SRCs), but the
policies did not go far enough and were at best cosmetic. Sharif
pointed out that child labour was high in the community and the
schemes did not factor in such problems. The schemes did not
lead to what he called inter-generational transfer of assets - what
one generation hands over to the next should not be poverty but
assets like skills, capital or education that improves the situation
of each subsequent generation. Rather than forming special
schemes for minorities, for which allocation is a tiny portion of
budget, Sharif said the Govt. should be inclusive in all the welfare
schemes and ensure equal opportunity for all SRCs.
Later, when the media attention was less, Govt. functionaries
had left and audience attendance was thin, some more critical
inputs poured in from the dais by Teesta Setalvad, Farida Lambay,
Shama Dalwai, Sandhya Mhatre and others.
The Vichar Manch convention was designed to be more or
less silent on other issues of the community, including the target-
ing of its youth by intelligence agencies, staged encounters, com-
munal violence and the rest.
Tanzim-e Insaf
The Tanzim-e Insaf convention organized in Nanded, Maharashtra,
on the other hand, was organized to precisely address the issues
related to the security of the community. The leadership of TEI is
largely drawn from the Communist Party of India. The convention
was part of the campaign initiated by CPI leaders and is called
Peoples Campaign against Politics of Terror (PCPT). How a reli-
gious community-based initiative fits into CPIs scheme of things
is for them to figure out.
A B Bardhan inaugurated the
Convention and other promi-
nent leaders associated with
PCPT are its CC member Atul
Anjan and National Convenor
Mohammed Adeeb (MP). Raza
Murad, cine actor, was an
added attraction and landed
his principled support for the
work of communal harmony
and democracy.
T
he first convention of PCPT
was held in Hyderabad,
where large numbers of inno-
cent Muslim youths were
arrested following Mecca
Masjid blast that was allegedly
carried by terrorists motivated
by Hindutva ideology. The
National Convenor of TEI - Aziz
Pasha (ex-MP) is from
Hyderabad. Tanzim is now
active in about 12 states.
About 1200-strong audience in
a small town like Nanded was
some achievement of sorts for
the motivated activists of TEI.
The speeches from the dais attacked the demonization of Muslims
by intelligence agencies in particular and by the State in general in
matter of livelihood, education, loans and State contracts, leading
to the marginalization of the community. There was simultaneous
emphasis on syncretic cultural traditions and diversity within the
community. That the cultural ethos of people was secular and it
was only the communal forces that worked overtime to spread
hatred against Islam and Muslims. Islamophobia also suited the
US imperialism.
The Remedies
The leadership analysed the problem but did not seem to provide
any solutions. The good thing about the convention was that
silence in the mainstream parties regarding targeting of inno-
cent Muslim youths by intelligence agencies and branding them
as terrorists, seems to have been broken. Speaker after speak-
er problematized the unanimity among the mainstream parties,
intelligence agencies and social common sense which popular-
izes the doctrine that every Muslim may not be a terrorist but
every terrorist is a Muslim.
Journalist Ashish Khaitan being invited to speak on the issue
was therefore significant. Public discourse putting the intelligence
agencies in the dock itself would apply some brake on such a
popular belief.
The Vichar Manch Convention judiciously avoided the dis-
course though every person in the Convention implicitly ques-
tioned such wisdom pushed by the Hindu communal forces. The
Congress Party or any other mainstream parties for that matter
have not countered such a stupid conventional wisdom and in fact
implicitly believed it.
It is left to the Muslims to speak up even at the risk of those
critiquing such a proposition themselves being targeted as a ter-
rorist sympathiser or a terrorist herself/himself.
Other than countering the discourse and the conventional wis-
dom on terrorism, there was very little solution that was offered
by the TEI/PCPT as a way ahead to achieve equality and reverse
the trend of marginalization of the Muslim community.
The Vichar Manch at least seemed to implicitly suggest that
the community should be silent on being targeted by the intelli-
gence agencies and fight the unfair terror accusations individual-
ly. There was also an implicit suggestion on getting educated, util-
ising the schemes for minorities set up by the Congress Govt.,
which somehow would go towards mitigating the plight of the
community.
The implicit solution offered by the Vichar Manch was also to
re-elect the Congress Govt. so that the schemes for the Minorities
are not disturbed and implemented earnestly (this is not to say
that any open appeals were made to vote for Congress).
The critical wisdom by some speakers from the Vichar Manch
dais of course called for tweaking the schemes here and there but
did not question the schemes or provide any alternative route to
arrest the marginalizaton of the community. Even if the schemes
were implemented in all earnestness and honesty and every paisa
allocated was utilised and easily accessible to the members of the
community, were these schemes capable of educating, housing,
clothing and providing decent livelihood with dignity and equality
to the 150 million Muslims? Nobody asked such questions.
The Tanzim, too, on the second day of its convention during
the delegates session provided no clear way ahead.
Implementation of the schemes seemed to be the only pivot
around which the community was to be mobilized, albeit also con-
testing the terrorist tag on the entire community.
Conclusion
The plight of Muslim women mattered little in both the conven-
tions and there was no critical evaluation as to how the schemes
impacted on women and whether the schemes were inclusive
enough in their outreach to women. The patriarchal structure of
the community was a no-go in both the conventions. There were
less than 10 women in the Tanzim convention with about 1200
people attending the open session. To critique the patriarchal
structures (which in my humble opinion are also un-Islamic)
would tantamount to sort of threatening the existence of the com-
munity itself. The Vichar Manch Convention had many women -
about 25 percent roughly and problems of girl education was dis-
cussed as a special topic but without questioning the patriarchy
within the community.
The critique of the Indian State too was absent from both the
conventions. Though critique of the Indian state was not expected
from the Vichar Manch dais, its absence was rather a strange
coincidence from the Tanzim Convention.
The State discriminates not only against the minorities, but
against all the marginalized sections, including the dalits, the adi-
vasis, women, workers, marginalized ethnicities in the North and
North-East. Organising people on religion-based platforms is not
strange as far as the ideology of Congress is concerned, and in
fact necessary to mobilise votes of different sections of society.
However, how does it fit into the scheme of things for leaders of a
communist party is a telling story of the changing times. The
implicit corollary is that if minorities are victims of majority com-
munalism and discrimination, then the responsibility to struggle
against it is on the doors of the victim minority community. May
be I am reading too much and may be that after all the commu-
nist parties might be addressing the problem through other secu-
lar platforms as well. But the impact of the convention was not
lowering the Hindu-Muslim divide, even by talking of syncretic tra-
ditions, but constructing an opaque communal wall wherein
speaker after speaker felt more emboldened to criticise majority
communal forces as they were preaching to the converted.
If Muslims are expected to fight Hindutva ideology and com-
munal forces, they feel tempted to and easier to do so by con-
structing their own community boundaries and communal-funda-
mentalist ideologies and have a sense of belonging, even if it is
false - the opium of fundamentalism. Sachar Committee recom-
mendations and minority schemes were the tool exploited by the
organizers of both the conventions albeit for different ends.
However, if the crumbs of minority schemes are taken away, how
long the marriage will last, is to be seen. One hopes it lasts longer
as Communists are also consistent force that has always
opposed communal forces in this country. (Secular Perspective)
Two conventions on Muslim issues
It is left to the Muslims to speak up even at the risk of those critiquing
such a proposition themselves being targeted as a terrorist sympathiser
or a terrorist herself/himself...
The State discriminates not only against the minorities, but against all
the marginalized sections, including the dalits, the adivasis, women,
workers, marginalized ethnicities in the North and North-East.
Muslim women seek ban on oral talaq
Voices for a complete ban on oral talaq (divorce) have begun to
assume high pitch as more and more Muslim women are coming
to the fore demanding codification of Muslim family laws to put
an end to the practice of unilateral divorce that pushes hapless
women into a state of abject misery.
Muslim women on 12 June took out a bike and bicycle rally
in Cuttack as part of a nationwide movement launched by the
Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA) to mobilise public
opinion on the issue. They handed out a book Stories of triple
talaq and Indian Muslim women, released by BMMA, to the peo-
ple. The book depicts heart-rending stories of the victims of the
practice. The oral triple talaq, which has been the bane of the
women in the community, has assumed alarming proportions in
the present age of technology. Men are now using skype, face-
book, sms, email and mobile phones to divorce their wives. The
divorced women are not entitled to any alimony or maintenance
and thus driven to a pitiful existence after separation.
In spite of repeated demands to declare this practice illegal,
the State refuses to acknowledge the problem. The BMMA, while
spearheading the campaign, has also been in the process of
drafting a Quran-complied codified Muslim family law to end the
arbitrariness in decisions pertaining to divorce, polygamy, mehr,
maintenance, custody of children, etc. If the community has a
codified law like the Hindus, Christians and other religions, then
the ills can be eliminated, state convenor of BMMA Farhat Amin
said.
The BMMA had earlier conducted a survey on the issue,
which had revealed that more than 83 per cent Muslim women
were against the unilateral divorce and called for its abolition.
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R.B. SREEKUMAR
Strangely, the blatantly illegal
act of Union Home Secretary
convening a meeting of the
Director of the Central
Intelligence Bureau (IB) and
the Director of the CBI report-
edly for influencing CBI from
doing anything affecting
image and morale of IB personnel in the inves-
tigation of fake encounter cases in Gujarat, did not
evoke adequate discussion in the media. The
Parliament enacted law, Criminal Procedure Code
(CRPC), provides authority only to the CBI to
investigate criminal cases, under the supervision
of the judiciary, which can only intervene to give
directions to the Investigating Officer (IO). The
Union Home Secretary has only administrative
authority/ powers over CBI. The administrative
regulations empowering MHA to summon CBI
cannot and will not supersede the efficacy and
superiority of CRPC. So, per se, the act of
Secretary, MHA is an offence under section 186
of Indian Penal Code (IPC) - obstructing public
servant in the discharge of his public function. In
case the CBI Director had altered the course of
investigation or restrained the IO from taking any
action, in compliance with MHA directives, he is
culpable u/s 217 IPC - public servant disobeying
the direction of law with intent to save person
from punishment. As per CRPC, the IO of a case
should probe basing on the principle of his sub-
jective satisfaction and judicious appreciation of
evidence.
Chapter XII of CRPC delineating the power
of police officers to investigate offences pro-
vides adequate authority and even semi-judicial
status (to issue summons, etc.) to police and so
the IO is only accountable to the jurisdictional
judicial authority. Under section 36 of the CRPC,
the authority to supervise the work of the IO is
given only to Police officers superior in the rank
of an officer in charge of a police station, who
takes cognizance of an offence u/s 154 of the
CRPC. High ranking functionaries of political and
civil bureaucracy have no legal powers to med-
dle in the affairs of the investigation. But their
such deviant actions are tolerated, allowed or
ignored by police officers due to their own self-
promoting careerist interests. Never theless,
none can blame if police officers allow them-
selves to be influenced by unauthorized persons.
State Home Department officials and minis-
ters often make boastful, but intrinsically illegal
statements about their plans of arresting or
releasing somebody in India. These acts are
contemptuously ridiculous.
The hue and cry made out by Director, IB
and resource persons, friends of intelligence
agency in media and intellectual circles, aims at
practically providing an armour of immunity
from arrest and impunity from prosecution to IB
personnel accused for allegedly planning and
execution of the fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan
and three others in Gujarat, in collaboration with
Gujarat Police. This posture of the Director of the
IB is illegal, unethical and simply against the
foundational principles of the Constitution of
India and canons of the Rule of Law.
The protagonists of blanket protection to IB
people from legal action for their malicious acts
argue about the dangers of erosion of morale
and adverse ambience under which IB men have
to perform their functions for the internal securi-
ty of our mother land. These friends of intelli-
gence agencies, had conveniently ignored the
denial of right to life and other fundamental rights
to citizens who were victims of atrocities by
Gujarat Police and IB staff. They, perhaps, want
IB men to be given privileges provided by law to
the President of India and Governors - protection
from arrest and prosecution. They are not willing
to wait for judicial scrutiny of the chargesheet
and trial through due process of law.
Many citizens may not be aware that our
intelligence agencies - IB, RAW, etc. - irrespec-
tive of controversies regarding the professional
merit of their output, enjoy total freedom from
any auditing, monitoring and supervision from
any agency outside their hierarchical over-view-
ing elite. Such a system was put into operation
by the British for creating a set of blue-eyed
boys to spy on freedom fighters, without any
apprehension over scrutiny of their work by
independent agencies and accountability. As on
today, in nearly 75 democratic nations in the
world, like UK, USA, France, Canada, Malaysia
and so on, intelligence agencies do work under
specific laws and their charter of duties and
powers are streamlined. To illustrate, intelligence
agencies are given full authority to register
cases, search premises, arrest and prosecute
persons accused in cases relating to counter-
intelligence and counter-espionage functions to
block hostile designs of foreign countries.
Strangely, recently IB willingly took up policing of
immigration procedure in major airports, though
their entry did not, reportedly, make any notable
reduction in human trafficking, ex-filtration, infil-
tration and other fraudulent acts. These factors
must have prompted our Vice-President, Hamid
Ansari, to propose for subjecting all Indian
Intelligence agencies under legislative control
and system of accountability (Jan. 2010). Any
well-meaning citizen would feel that there is no
merit or credit in insulating just the intelligence
segment of governmental functions from well-
oiled and structured monitoring mechanism
even after 65 years of Indian independence.
Though IB has been working in most haz-
ardous areas of terrorism, and militancy, like
Jammu and Kashmir, North Eastern States, and
left-wing extremism-affected areas, it had never
faced so much criticism for its acts of commis-
sion and omission as in Gujarat from the days of
2002 communal riots. Plenty are the alleged
instances of misuse and abuse of the Central IB
unit in Gujarat by Gujarat State Government for
implementation of the covert political agenda of
the ruling party at the Centre and state - BJP - in
those days. Media repor ted that the Joint
Director, IB in Gujarat from 2001 to 2005, who is
accused of active blamable role in conspiring to
eliminate Ishrat Jahan and others through extra-
judicial killings, became friendly to Narendra
Modi earlier, when the latter was in-charge of
Hariyana and Punjab states as General Secretary
of BJP and the former was supervising IB work
in similar areas.
Evidence before the Justice Nanavati
Commission enquiring into Gujarat riots has a lot
of inputs about acts, allegedly intentional omis-
sion and commission by this IB officer. This evi-
dence is in public domain. These include failure
of IB to report about misdeeds of the Gujarat
contingent of karsevaks on their onward and
return journey from Gujarat to Ayodhya, not
informing in advance about a possible attack on
Hindus in Godhra railway station (after the train
fire incident IB had pressurized Gujarat state
Director General of Police on 27 Feb., 2002
forenoon to investigate the train fire incident as
an international conspiracy against Hindus
hatched in Pakistan), refusal to provide informa-
tion received by IB from its agents who were
moving along with karasevaks and had wit-
nessed the actual process of train fire incident,
failure to give advance intelligence about areas
likely to be attacked by anti-Muslim Hindu mili-
tants on the bandh day on 28 Feb., 2002, failure
to report about the unabashed and visible sub-
version of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) by
Gujarat Police and public prosecutors (Gujarat
State Intelligence had reported this matter) after
the riots, which had delayed and denied justice
delivery to riot victim survivors, and so on.
Significantly, though many fake encounters
were carried out by Gujarat Police, particularly
Ahmedabad City Police Crime branch, headed by
DIG Vanjara on IBs intelligence reports, IB did
not come out with any collateral information on
the so-called Jihadi militants killed by police,
par ticularly on their associates, shelters,
finances, communication system, weaponry
and so on. Normally, even in case of a thief
arrested or killed in police action intelligence
agencies and police do trace out all facts and
data related to him so that future security/police
schemes can be designed suitably. But none of
this plethora of delinquent acts by IB personnel
can be established for want of supervision of IB
work by outside agencies in the Central
Government. CBI probe in Ishrat Jahan case
alone had uncovered IBs alleged criminal role.
Media reports about assertion by Director,
CBI on possession of substantial evidence about
reprehensible guilt of IB officers in crimes of fake
encounters. To counter this claim by CBI, IB and
MHA spoke about terrorist links of those killed in
encounters. Refreshingly, Gujarat High Court on
14 June, 2002 had categorically directed the CBI
to concentrate its probe on the background,
course and aftermath of the encounter killings
and not on the criminal or even anti-national
character of victims of fake encounters. Did IB
forget that even a person imposed with death
penalty could not be killed through extra-judicial
methods by police or Government?
Let us hope that saner wisdom will prevail
upon the Government and its executive authori-
ties to give CBI a free hand in the investigation of
fake encounter cases and leave judgment on
culpability of accused persons to judiciary.
Already considerable sections of riot victim sur-
vivors and relations of those killed in fake
encounters are highly disillusioned about the
repor ted lukewarm approach of Central
Government towards 2002 riot cases and extra-
judicial killings.
Though, there is total protection to all wit-
nesses giving evidence to Judicial Commissions
u/s 6 of the Commission of Enquiry Act, IB had
avoided filing affidavit on 2002 Gujarat riots. But
for saving its officers IB had filed an affidavit in
the High Court of Gujarat through MHA in Ishrat
Jahan case. Similarly, IB had given evidence
before the Commissions which probed into
Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi assassinations.
Refusal to give evidence on Gujarat riots
amounts to opportunistic irresponsibility by IB.
IBs failure to report on the rise of Hindu
militancy due to indoctrination of misguided
Hindu youths by Sangh Parivar about
Governments so-called soft approach to
Jehadis and demonization of the Muslim com-
munity had resulted in state Police units victim-
izing Muslim youths in cases of explosions in
Malegon, Nanded (Mahashtra), Modasa
(Gujarat), Mecca Masjid (Hyderabad), Ajmer
Sharif (Rajasthan), and Samajhauta Express
train (Indo-Pak border). Spreading of disaffec-
tion among personnel in Defence forces had led
to Army officers arranging explosives for Hindu
extremists to bomb Islamic shrines. This trend
had escaped the IB radar, so no preventive
action was taken by the local police. The coun-
try had witnessed a ping-pong of hurling of
blame between IB and RAW soon after 26/11
Mumbai attack, regarding supply of advance
intelligence. None can deny that except general
alert notice about Pakistan planning guerilla
attack through sea route in Mumbai, there was
no pin-pointed real time, preventive advance
intelligence and hence police could not secure
targeted areas purposefully. Even while conced-
ing for argument sake about claims of IB and
RAW about supply of prior information of intelli-
gence on 26/11 attack, the fact remains that
they failed to report about the inadequate and
near-nil follow up action by police on intelligence
warnings. Mere sending an alert report and
thereafter going on a state of slumber is not the
profile of any professional intelligence body.
The cover of secrecy is often serving as a
carpet of immunity from penal action, accounta-
bility, professional acts of omission and com-
mission and misuse of resources for tracking the
political opponents of ruling parties, at the
expense of the tax payers money. In mature
democracies like UK and USA, political intelli-
gence in the form of reporting on legitimate
overt activities, is not in the charter of intelli-
gence agencies. American president Richard
Nixon had to resign for spying on Democratic
Party Convention, through private intelligence,
and not by CIA or FBI.
The need of the hour is to place Indian
intelligence agencies also under the structured
monitory system applicable to all other
Government departments by incorporating spe-
cial safeguards in the relevant context of nation-
al security. Firstly, the charter of agencies be
legalized through a legislation. This would
enable the monitory mechanisms to evaluate
the output of agencies, without even delving into
the sensitive details like economics of intelli-
gence collection, technology applied, persons
deployed, agents maintained and so on. It is
quite far-fetched to think that an assessment of
intelligence by the agencies about VIP security,
major riots, terrorist acts and so on and the
quantum of advance actionable real time infor-
mation therein would be exploited by nations
enemies within and outside, because the tools
and human resources of agencies are not being
scrutinized by supervisory mechanism. On the
other hand, such a periodical exercise would
throw a lot of food for thought and wisdom for
better future performance.
The illusion of internal corrective system of
agencies, taking care of detractors and non-per-
formers is suicidal and counterproductive.
Strangely, except one case of compulsory
retirement of an Addl. Director (ADGP) ranking
officer in IB, by the erstwhile Gujaral
Government in 1990s for his closeness to
Western interests, none has been found to have
deviated from the straight and narrow path of IB
since independence. Should we believe that for-
eign intelligence agencies are idle or have total-
ly failed to get any talent spotted for serving
their objectives in IB so far?
The traditional leadership in the agencies,
notwithstanding their eminence and brilliance,
nurture a self-righteous narcissistic infallibility
syndrome, inhibiting them from detecting
detractors and defaulters in the departments and
recommending action against them to the
Government, lest this will affect the organiza-
tions longstanding good image.
A periodical institutionalized control system
through legislative or specially constituted forum
can only liberate the agencies from their eternal
euphoria of immunity, being the sacred cows of
the powers that be. Will Indias political elite
muster sagacity and exhibit farsightedness to
professionalize intelligence agencies by freeing
them from collection of political intelligence and
streamlining an effective supervisory system, in
the spirit of the Apex Court observations for
restoring efficiency and integrity of Indian police
in the famous case of Prakash Singh vs. Union
of India?
Status quoism by preserving the vestiges of
colonial feudalism will never take India to the
deserving heights of a modern nation. If no cur-
ative measures are taken, unscrupulous self-
serving officers will continue to indulge in mis-
adventures as witnessed in case of fake encoun-
ters in Gujarat.
Unlike intelligence agencies of modern
democratic countries, IB holds on to the obscu-
rantist medievalism by refusing to declassify its
records of even pre-independence days. Why
should we be irritated about exposure of the mis-
deeds of our colonial masters? There should be
a public outcry to fix up a period of 25 or 30
years for preservation of IB reports and older
documents should be revealed to the citizens.
The compendium of ancient Tamil wis-
dom - Tirukkural by Saint Tiruvalluvar (1st
century AD) deemed that Verily the two eyes
of a Ruler are espionage and celebrated code
of laws - kural No. 581, chapter 59, on spy-
ing. India is lacking that eye - law for disci-
plining spies. Let us design these urgently.
(countercurrents.org)
Intelligence Bureau or Immunized Bureau
Many citizens may not be aware that our intelligence agencies - IB,
RAW, etc. - irrespective of controversies regarding the professional
merit of their output, enjoy total freedom from any auditing, monitoring
and supervision from any agency outside their hierarchical over-
viewing elite. Such a system was put into operation by the British for
creating a set of blue-eyed boys to spy on freedom fighters, without
any apprehension over scrutiny of their work by independent agencies
and accountability...
IBs failure to report on the rise of Hindu militancy due to
indoctrination of misguided Hindu youths by Sangh Parivar about
Governments so-called soft approach to Jehadis and demonization of
the Muslim community had resulted in state Police units victimizing
Muslim youths in cases of explosions in Malegon, Nanded
(Mahashtra), Modasa (Gujarat), Mecca Masjid (Hyderabad), Ajmer
Sharif (Rajasthan), and Samajhauta Express train (Indo-Pak border).
Spreading of disaffection among personnel in Defence forces had led
to Army officers arranging explosives for Hindu extremists to bomb
Islamic shrines. This trend had escaped the IB radar, so no preventive
action was taken by the local police.
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 1-15 July 2013 9 www.milligazette.com
S.R.DARAPURI, I.P.S. (RETD)
IB (Intelligence Bureau) is very much in the
news these dsays. The context is the involve-
ment of Mr. Rajinder Kumar, its
SpecialSpecial Director in Gujarat, in the
Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case. At present,
CBI is investigating this case and has found
sufficient evidence about the involvement of
Rajinder Kumar in this conspiracy. According
to the available evidence, Rajinder Kumar has been found respon-
sible for giving a false input to Gujarat police that Ishrat Jahan along
with Javed Sheikh alias Parnesh Pillai and two alleged Pakistani
nationals were coming to Gujarat to kill Narender Modi, Chief
Minister of Gujarat. Not only resting with it, he has also been found
to be involved in hatching a conspiracy to kill them and he is also
alleged to have supplied one AK-47 rifle which has been shown as
a recovery from the so-called terrorists. He also visited the spot
of encounter immediately after its execution by Gujarat police offi-
cers.
Armed with this evidence, CBI had asked Rajinder Kumar to
appear before the investigation team to answer questions relating
to his role in this conspiracy. He avoided it for a long time and
appeared before it only when he was threatened with arrest. In the
meantime, IB tried its level best to ward off his interrogation by
the CBI. They put forth the plea that his role was limited to giving
the intelligence input only and he did not motivate Gujarat police
to kill the alleged terrorists who are said to be members of
Lashkar-e Toiba, a Pakistan-based terrorist organisation. Director
IB aslo claimed that if Rajinder Kumar is arrested or questioned it
is bound to demoralise the officers of IB who are responsible for
monitoring terrorist activities and informing state police organisa-
tions about the developments thereof. IB also played a dirty trick
by getting broadcast a so-called audio CD, without any authentic-
ity thereof, in which Ishrat Jahan is alleged to be in conversation
with Lashkar-e Toiba operataves. They also put forth the plea that
Headley, a terrorist based in America and who masterminded
26/11 attack on Bombay, had also said that Ishrat Jahan was a
member of Lashkar-e Toiba. It is surprising that Central
Government which filed an affidavit in Gujarat High Court has not
mentioned anything about Ishrat Jahan being a member of
Lashkar-e Toiba. It clearly shows that all these are fake pleas to
shield the wrong doings of Rajinder Kumar. His involvement in this
murder conspiracy has been testified before the court by
Mr. Singhal, a Gujrat police officer who was directly involved in
this fake encounter. This evidence clearly establishes beyond any
doubt the involvement of Rajinder Kumar in the fake encounter of
Ishrat Jahan and three others.
Now the question arises as to what is the sanctity of being an
officer of IB and claiming immunity in the name of national secu-
rity and the alleged demoralisation of IB officers if they are prose-
cuted for their criminal acts. Our law of the land lays down the dic-
tum of equality before, and the due process of, law. In the present
case, can Rajinder Kumar claim to be above the law of the land?
I think he cannot. He is involved in an offence and he should be
investigated and prosecuted.
As regards the bogey of IB officers getting demoralised, it is a
usual plea taken by all police agencies which when caught on the
wrong foot seek protection from their masters. On the contrary, I
think it will give a boost to the morale of all those officers who
work as per law and rules. The wrong-doers get a walk-over
against the right-doers as they are able to impress their seniors
and political bosses with their machinations, fabrications and
manipulations. This phenomenon actually demoralises the right-
doers. People also lose faith in police and, as at present, police
has totally lost its credibility. The police can restore it only by
working according to the dictates of law in an impartial and just
manner.
As regards Ishrat Jahan being a Lashkar-e Toiba operative, so
far no conclusive evidence has come forward to establish this
fact. IB is floating various stories about the same in an effort to
forestall the prosecution of its officer. Even if it is taken as true,
does it give a licence to kill Ishrat Jahan? I think the answer can
be no only. Actually, it is the communal mindset of the IB offi-
cers which is responsible for the victimization of Muslim youths.
It is alleged that some communally-minded IB officers like
Rajinder Kumar, in collaboration with state Police, indulged in
witch hunting of promising Muslim youths. They located such
youths and targetted them. They gave false and fabricated intelli-
gence reports of such youths being members of terror outfits and
got them bumped off or booked in various terror cases. The result
is that a large number of innocent youths are languishing in jails
in terror cases.
A similar role has been played by IB officers in U.P. also. In
three terror cases of Court bomb blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi and
Faizabad in 2007, it is mentioned in the FIRs that as per the report
of Intelligence agencies these persons are members of HuJI or
Indian Mujahidin and they have been booked for the same. In two
cases of Faizabad and Lucknow, Nimesh Commission found two
persons Tariq and Khalid as wrongly arrested.
In a letter-writ petition filed by Ashish Khetan, a journalist, in
Allahabad High Court against the arrest and implication of innocent
Muslim youths in seven terror cases of U.P., he has demanded rein-
vestigation of all these cases. In three cases, the input was given by
IB. Mr. Khetan has produced the interrogation reports of the persons
later on arrested by police alleged to belong to Indian Mujahidin who
have confessed their involvement in the cases wherein innocent
persons alleged to belong to HuJI hade already been booked but this
fact has not been disclosed before the court. Now if the High Court
accepts this petition and orders reinvestigation of these cases, the
whole falsehood of IB and U.P.Police will be exposed.
As we know, IB has been playing a very dubious role in our
country. Firstly it is an organisation without any statutory sanction
and not answerable to anybody except Union Home Minister and
Prime Minister. Its duties and responsibilities have not been
defined anywhere. Its budget is not discussed in the Parliament. A
retired IB officer has filed a writ in the Supreme Court challenging
the validity of the very existence of such an organisation without
any statutory sanction. The writ is still pending in the Court. IB has
been functioning very pleasurely so far. But now having been cor-
nered in Ishrat Jahan case its officers have started asking for
defining of its duties and responsibilities.
The primary work of IB is said to collect intelligence covertly
about threats to internal security but it is used by the ruling party,
whosoever it may be, to spy over its opponents. Before election it is
used to collect intelligence about the election prospects of the ruling
party and those of its opponents. Many times IB is used to carry out
secret operations for frustrating the election prospects of opposition
parties. IB gets a lot of funds to carry out these operations and enroll
paid agents. As such IB serves as a faithful servant of its master and
public funds are misused for the benefit of the ruling party.
In Ishrat Jahan case, IB is claiming immunity in the name of
being a secret organisation and the possibility of its officers get-
ting demoralised if punished for their involvement in criminal activ-
ities as in the case of Ishart Jahan and some other cases likely to
come up. The law of the land stands for equality before law and
due process of law. IB cannot be treated above law. Hence the
claim of IB of being a sacred cow cannot be accepted in the eyes
of criminal justice system and the culprits have to face the conse-
quences of their illegal deeds. At the same time it is necessary
that IB must be made to work under a statutory authority and be
made accountable to the Parliament.
Is Intelligence Bureau a holy cow?
Actually, it is the communal mindset of the IB officers which is responsible for the victimization
of Muslim youths. It is alleged that some communally-minded IB officers like Rajinder Kumar,
in collaboration with state Police, indulged in witch hunting of promising Muslim youths. They
located such youths and targetted them. They gave false and fabricated intelligence reports of
such youths being members of terror outfits and got them bumped off or booked in various
terror cases. The result is that a large number of innocent youths are languishing in jails in
terror cases...
IB has been playing a very dubious role in our country. Firstly it is an organisation without any
statutory sanction and not answerable to anybody except Union Home Minister and Prime
Minister. Its duties and responsibilities have not been defined anywhere. Its budget is not
discussed in the Parliament. A retired IB officer has filed a writ in the Supreme Court
challenging the validity of the very existence of such an organisation without any statutory
sanction. The writ is still pending in the Court. IB has been functioning very pleasurely so far.
But now having been cornered in Ishrat Jahan case its officers have started asking for defining
of its duties and responsibilities.
JAVED JAMIL
The recent Madras High Court
judgment is bad though it has
a positive element too. The
judgment seeks to ensure the
rights of women and their chil-
dren born out of live-in rela-
tionships. But in the process, it
makes the live-in relationship not only legitimate
but also socially acceptable. This is despite the
clarification given by the Court that it did not
intend to undermine the institution of marriage.
Not only the Court did not say anything
about the undesirability of live-in relationships
but also sought to equate it with marriage. The
judgment has sparked an intense debate but, as
is always the case, in the wake of this judgment,
the impact of the New World Order on relation-
ships will be sought to be institutionalized in the
country. The media will seek to normalize these
relationships. The corporate-funded NGOs will
find in it another opportunity to dilute the institu-
tion of marriage.
There are people who justify live-in relation-
ships as as good as marriages. They are
unable to realize the huge differences between
the two. In a marriage, sex is preceded by a
commitment to develop a family life in accor-
dance with the declared and undeclared rules of
marriage in different communities. In civil mar-
riage, the State-appointed authorities authenti-
cate the desire of such a bond. In a live-in rela-
tionship, more often than not sex precedes the
commitment. If at all there is a commitment
before physical intimacy, it has no legal or social
sanctity. The difference between the two is the
same as between a statement made under oath
and one made without oath. Live-in relation-
ships normally develop after a certain period of
time. Like a smoker or drinker, the partners
too have the first encounter. The first puff or sip
does not necessarily lead to long lasting habits.
Not all sexual encounters develop into live-in
relationships and not all live-in relationships end
into marriages.
If live-in is equal to marriage, then why not
marry? They do not marry simply because their
commitment level is low at the beginning of the
relationship.
The laws and social pressures that make
marriage difficult and divorcing still more diffi-
cult entice the partners to first test each other
before making a commitment under oath. The
Western recognition of the rights of their chil-
dren has made women feel comfortable with
such relationships. The same will happen in
India if live-in relationship is normalized and rec-
ognized as a socially acceptable institution.
However, apart from religious morality,
which would always remain a key factor in the
eyes of the faithful, there are several other rea-
sons, medical and social, that would be enough
grounds for a full-fledged campaign against
such relationships. First, such relationships tend
to dilute the marriage-based family system,
which is the healthiest method of having a sex-
ual life and safest method of safeguarding the
interests of wives, would-be mothers, and their
children. The amount of security and peace,
which goes along with a marriage can never be
attained in live-in relationships. Second, the
chances of abortions are much higher in live-in
than in marriage. Third, live-in relationships
delay the child bearing, and so the parents have
much lesser life span to live with their children.
Fourth, the children born out of these relation-
ships have bigger chances of living in single
parent families. As they grow, they do not feel
psychologically as satisfied as the children born
out of formal marriages. Fifth, men and women
living in live-in relationships have greater
chances of succumbing to promiscuousness,
with all the attendant medical and social hazards
that go along with promiscuity. Promiscuity has
the biggest depressing effect on life expectancy,
as it has been the major cause of HIV/AIDS and
induced abortions. More than 1 billion human
lives have been aborted before birth during the
last two decades and promiscuity remains the
single most lethal factor in this huge loss of
lives. More than 40 million have died due to
AIDS so far, and it will kill another 40 million in
the next 10-15 years. The rate of violence as
well as suicides is also on the higher side in live-
in and casual relationships.
Live-in is usually a relationship limited to
two individuals. Marriage is an extended bond
between two families. Strengthening of the fam-
ily system is important if we want to reduce
crimes, suicides, abortions and psychiatric ill-
nesses.
Comprehensive peace in society is unimag-
inable without a strong and peaceful family sys-
tem. While there is a need to run a global cam-
paign against all forms of sexual relationships
outside formal marriage between a male and a
female, this cannot be tolerated in a country like
India where the overwhelming majority of the
people are believers in one or the other religion.
They want to have the blessings of their deities
and good wishes of their relatives in all their
decisions. All religions must, therefore, unite
against this onslaught on moral and family val-
ues in India. This alone will preserve the family
system, which is surely one of the most lovable
features of Indian society. We have to tell the
world that religious morality is surely much bet-
ter than the commercial morality promoted by
the forces of economic fundamentalism that
seek to convert human beings into commercial
beings.
Dr Javed Jamil is a thinker and writer with over
a dozen books including his latest, Muslims Most
Civilised, Yet Not Enough and Muslim Vision of
Secular India: Destination & Road-map.
Save Family from live-in relationships
Live-in is usually a relationship limited to two individuals.
Marriage is an extended bond between two families.
Strengthening of the family system is important if we want to
reduce crimes, suicides, abortions and psychiatric illnesses.
AFSANA RASHID, SRINAGAR
For the first time, after more than 22 years, Kunan Poshpora rape
victims here June 22 shared their ordeals while addressing a pub-
lic meeting organized by Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society
(JKCCS), local human rights group. The victims, while resolving
to seek justice, felt that everybody has failed them all these years.
The programme Kunan Poshpora mass rape and torture:
Case reopening and future struggle for justice was held in the
backdrop of a recent order of a local court in Kupwara, June 18,
to reinvestigate the case.
A protest petition was filed by noted human rights lawyer and
patron JKCCS, Parvez Imroz on behalf of the survivors of the inci-
dent against closure report of police, before Judicial Magistrate,
Kupwara on June 10. At least 30 women were allegedly gang-
raped by security forces on the intervening night of February
23/24 in 1991.
Recommending reinvestigation in the case, State Human
Rights Commission, in 2011, had asked for constitution of Special
Investigation Team headed by an officer not below the rank of
Superintendent of Police. Victims had approached the
Commission in 2004.
An FIR under section 376, 452 and 342 has been lodged at
police station Trehgam against the Army, after the incident. A del-
egation of Indian civil society and parliamentarians, June 14, vis-
ited the village and demanded the case to be reopened and the
guilty be punished.
Demand to re-investigate Mattoo murder
Human rights watch-dog Amnesty International has asked the
state government to reopen investigation into killing of Tufail
Mattoo allegedly by police in 2010. Authorities in Jammu and
Kashmir have an obligation under national and international law to
conduct prompt and thorough investigations into the deaths, said
Amnestys statement, June 17, adding Delayed, partial or incom-
plete investigations violate rights of victims families to an effec-
tive remedy and accountability and contribute to the prevailing cli-
mate of impunity in state.
Resident of Saida Kadal and 12th standard student, Tufail, 18,
was killed, June 11, after police teargas shell allegedly hit him
near Gandhi Memorial College when he was returning home from
tuition. His killing triggered unrest in Kashmir that claimed more
than 120 lives. Amnesty International India urges authorities in
Jammu and Kashmir to promptly bring those suspected of crimi-
nal responsibility in deaths of those killed in firing by security
forces in 2010 to trial in fair proceedings, said the statement. It
added Amnesty has noticed many killings caused by use of force
in 2010, havent yet been investigated.
Tufails father, Mohammad Ashraf, addressing media here on
third anniversary of his sons death, June 11, the said state gov-
ernment approached him many times to withdraw the case. But,
he said, the family is steadfast to ensure that the perpetrators are
brought to justice. He said that the family was also threatened to
hold back and not proceed further in the case. All we want is jus-
tice; nothing else. Special Investigation Team of police in
November 2012 submitted a case closure report to trial court
stating all possibility of collecting evidence in the case was
explored, but failed to find any conclusive evidence. The family
challenged it in the High Court which asked the police to produce
before it all evidence evaluated during investigation. Hearing in the
case will resume in July.
Concern over youth joining militancy
Expressing concern over highly qualified youth in Kashmir joining
militant ranks, chief minister Omar Abdullah said that the govern-
ment will have to look into the reasons and motivation for these
youth taking to militancy.
Militants killed in recent encounters were qualified and most
of them were products of University of Kashmir and Islamic
University of Science and Technology, said the chief minister, on
the sidelines of a police function here, June 12. He added some
had professional degrees and there is a need to analyse and
understand the reasons for this.
These included Saifullah Ahangar, 20, a diploma holder in civil
engineering and Masiullah Khan, a degree holder in mechanical
engineering, they were killed in May this year and in 2011, respec-
tively. Sajad Yousuf, a Hizbul Mujahideen militant had post-gradu-
ate degree in Islamic Studies and Omar Ahsan was pursuing a
post-graduation in Physics.
He hurriedly added there was nothing new in qualified youth
joining militancy. Recruitment of militants at local level is negligi-
ble and this is a big thing. Number of youth joining militancy, in the
past, was so large that it was almost impossible to focus on indi-
vidual cases. Today each case is being focused upon.
Lt General Om Prakash, who left Kashmir after finishing his
tenure as GOC 15 Corps, told media here, June 13, It is matter of
concern that highly educated youth have been, of late, seen join-
ing militancy.
Militants have changed their strategy and around 325 of them
are active in Kashmir, he said, adding that the ratio of local to for-
eign militants is 60: 40 in north Kashmir and vice-versa in south
Kashmir.
Denial of free political space, failure to administer justice to
families of victims of violence and complacency due to fleeting
calm are some important aspects that demand an introspection at
all levels in country before finding out reasons behind the emerg-
ing tendency of educated youth joining militant ranks in the state,
said CPI (M) State Secretary Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami, while
addressing a Round Table meeting organized by Centre for Policy
Analysis, here, June 15.
Denial of opportunity to join peaceful political movement by
New Delhi and state government was forcing highly qualified
youth to join militant ranks, said Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali
Shah Geelani, in a statement, here, June 13. It is the stubborn
approach and denial of political space that youth are left with no
option other than taking to arms.
Buddhist violence against Muslims in Zanskar
Terming alleged Buddhist aggression on Muslims in Padam-
Zanskar as indirect conspiracy hatched by Congress and
National Conference Dukhtaran-e-Milat chief Syeda Aasiya
Andrabi said that Muslims in the area are facing social boycott. It
is a warning to Zanskar Buddhist Association and Ladakh Hill
Council to stop aggression on Muslims, said Andrabi, address-
ing media here, June 17, adding they must think what will hap-
pen if Buddhists in Kashmir meet the same fate.
She proposed constitution of a politico-religious group to
assess the ground situation in Padam and asked Ulemas to come
forward. Demanding adequate security for Muslims in the area,
Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani said, Muslims are suffer-
ing and face social boycott. State administration has failed to pro-
vide relief or create a sense of security among them, he said in a
statement, June 1.
Geelani added Muslims might be forced to opt for mass-
migration. He warned of dire consequences if authorities fail to
take serious note of the situation.
Media reports suggest Muslims in the area live under con-
stant fear, since they were attacked by majority community mem-
bers, September 23, last year. Muslim population in the area is
reportedly 700 in comparison to 15,000 belonging to majority
community.
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SHUJAAT BUKHARI
Nehru-Gandhi family heir-apparent and
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has cred-
ited the UPA governments two terms with the
change in mood in Kashmir. He has also dis-
missed Pakistan as a stakeholder in Kashmir,
saying that whatever change has to be brought
must come from within. By all means Rahul
Gandhi must be a well-informed political leader
on Kashmir.
Not only that, his party leaders, the govern-
ment at the Centre, have access to all the infor-
mation and analysis dished out by various agen-
cies in the establishment but also for the fact
that it is part of the coalition in Jammu and
Kashmir and Rahul does not seem to have lost
touch with his cadre in the state.
There is no harm in taking credit for some-
thing good done by any government. But in the
case of Kashmir, credit comes with a huge price
and whenever a political leader from Delhi visits
Kashmir (in peace time) he gets swayed with a
particular shade of interpretation of normalcy.
Kashmir has surely seen semblance of nor-
malcy after three years of unrest that claimed
nearly 200 innocent young lives. But should it
be declared as change in the mood and cele-
brated the way Rahul Gandhi prefers to? Here it
seems that either the future Prime Minister of
Congress is ill-informed or he is trying to ignore
the ground realities.
For all practical purposes, this change in
the mood is a relative term and depends on
how one sees it. If he believes that a handful of
people brought to listen to him at a function
aimed at attracting youth for job opportunities,
then he is grossly mistaken. Peoples participa-
tion in public meetings (of mainstream) parties
is no measuring stick for gauging the public
mood. If it would have been the case, the elect-
ed MLAs would not have faced the wrath of peo-
ple in 2010 agitation.
No doubt employment opportunities and
economic development are an important area
which people do not want to abandon and that
is perhaps the reason why people have realized
their stakes in peace. In 2011 and 2012, peace
or the change in the mood, as referred to by
Rahul, was only possible because people want-
ed it but that did not alter their sentiments about
the political resolution.
While talking about the mood, Rahul
missed an important point. He did not credit the
people with that change, if at all he felt it. In this
context, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is
better placed. When he visited Kashmir last year
and drove through Lal Chowk, he too was happy
to see this change but he credited the people
for the change, though it can be a misplaced
feeling as well.
Unfortunately, Rahuls UPA has nothing to
take credit of if we look at the mess they have
created both on political as well as governance
front in Jammu and Kashmir.
Soon after the political unrest showed a
decline in 2010, the UPA government appointed
three interlocutors to reach out to the people.
Much before they would embark on their mis-
sion, those who challenge the Indian rule in
Kashmir rejected them. And the mainstream too
did not give much credence to them, though
they had a compulsion to show obedience to
their masters in Delhi.
Even as Kashmiris had no hopes with the
group, they proved those correct who had no
expectations with that exercise. Not only did the
group of interlocutors show highest level of con-
tempt towards the political aspirations of the peo-
ple by reducing it to the problem of competitive
victimhood between the regions, the UPA gov-
ernment itself threw the report into the dustbin.
This was the only exercise the UPA government
initiated to address the problem. How come it
could be credited with any such change.
Moreover, Rahul talked about devolution of
powers and strengthening the institutions.
Doesnt he know that Jammu and Kashmir is
neck deep in corruption while his party is part of
the coalition. There are more allegations of cor-
ruption against his partys ministers than to
those belonging to the National Conference.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is on record to
have said that compulsion of coalition does not
allow him to take on corruption. He was appar-
ently referring to Congress ministers and his
helplessness for not being able to take action.
One of his ministers is currently in the dock
for ordering a reshuffle of engineers in his
department and there are many whose practices
are very much known to the public. His party
has failed to address the political problem and
has gifted the state with a most corrupt
regime.
Rahul also dismissed Pakistan as a stake-
holder. The way I look at it is that the real
change has to come from within India. We can-
not be dependent on what is going on in the rest
of the world, Rahul told reporters in Budgam
when asked about the impact of elections in
Pakistan. Here too he brushes aside an impor-
tant factor that has always put Kashmir on a
burner. If he believes that Pakistan situation has
nothing to do with Kashmir, then why does
Government of India blame Pakistan for all the
trouble and why so many summits and dia-
logues? He talks about the real change within
but there is no will here to act. One can under-
stand that he does not have much role to
address the larger political problem of Jammu
and Kashmir but to save the institutions from
demolition is very much within his domain.
Corruption has demolished the institutions
in the state and his party is playing a dirty role
in this. If he is really connected with the ground,
he should take a call on the issue of governance
and not give hollow statements about a change
which doesnt exist on ground. People here are
living with hopelessness as accountability in the
system is absent. When his ministers can stall
the transfers of district Superintendents of
Police at least four times in the cabinet, as they
do not get the officers of their choice, how can
merit be upheld on the ground.
I had a chance to interact with Rahul as part
of a civil society delegation last May. When he
talked about institution-building, my colleagues
and I highlighted the issue of corruption which
has badly hit these institutions. He agreed with
us and indicated that he was well aware about
what his ministers were doing and that empow-
erment of people at the grassroots was being
thwarted by vested interests.
We expected that he would be instrumental
in bringing a new change but he unfortunate-
ly went with the obsolete one that is helping
the political establishment to reap its harvest.
Meanwhile, people continue to suffer.
Mr Gandhi, there is no real change. It can
only come when you understand the aspirations
of people.
The author is Editor, Rising Kashmir
We need real change in J&K, Mr Gandhi
It is difficult, virtually impossible, to be led
by several BJP leaders comments regard-
ing their concern for the welfare of the
Indian Muslims. If it was not election time,
the same leaders would have probably
remained silent about this issue or were
busy talking about UPAs Muslim appease-
ment. But with Delhi assembly elections to
be held later this year and the parliamentary polls scheduled in
less than a years time, BJP apparently has no option but to try
and win over Muslim voters confidence. It is not without rea-
son that BJPs minority cell in Delhi has adopted a new slogan,
according to which, The ones who work for progress of
Muslims will rule the country.
BJP president Rajnath Singh has gone a step further by
asserting at a function in Jaipur (Rajasthan) that he wants to win
over the confidence of Muslims. Referring indirectly to
Gujarat-carnage (2002), he said that the country witnessed
13,000 communal riots before 2002. Suggesting that Muslims
should forget or ignore the post-Godhra riots in Gujarat
(2002), Singh asserted that (now) Muslims did not face any dis-
crimination in any of the BJP-ruled states. If they did, Singh
asked them to approach him and he will try and solve their prob-
lem.
It is indeed ironical that, on one hand, BJP is hopeful of per-
forming well in the parliamentary polls with the elevation of
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the partys campaign
manager. On the other, the BJP appears fairly apprehensive
that Modis political rise in the party may turn the Muslim vot-
ers totally against the party. What else could have prompted
BJPs Delhi cell leaders to suddenly give a new importance to
their concern for development of Muslims? The party, which
has the background of promoting anti-Muslim communal prop-
aganda, now seems to be indulging in secular politics to win
over Muslim-vote.
The apparent change in BJPs political strategy may be
critically examined from several angles. There is a possibility
that BJP leaders are deliberately using this strategy to con-
vince media about its non-communal, secular image. There
is no denying that the elevation of Modi within the party has
made secular and Muslim Indians suspicious about the BJPs
secular credentials. Superficially, the BJP is keen to shed its
communal mask. If the party was serious about adopting the
same strategy, Modis political reach would at best have
remained confined to Gujarat. He would not have been brought
to centre-stage as the BJPs national campaign manager.
Modis elevation compels one to deliberate on the degree
to which the BJP is serious about the progress of Indian
Muslims. As mentioned earlier, the BJP is apparently indulging
in this strategy to cleanse its image and project itself as a sec-
ular party. There is no knowing whether the BJP is indulging in
the same strategy at the grass-roots among its own extremist
associates linked with the saffron-brigade. Probably, the party
is least likely to reveal the strategy it is exercising in these sec-
tions. The BJP is hopeful that Modis communal image will help
it attract Hindu votes, particularly of those with extremist and
anti-Muslim leanings. But the BJP is least likely to expose this
card to the media and to secular as well as Muslim voters.
It may be noted, BJP has tried attracting the attention of
media and Muslims by drawing their attention to its concern for
the progress of this community. The party has made hardly any
noise about whether it has tried convincing its own extremist,
anti-Muslim associates that they must change their communal
and discriminatory approach towards Muslims. If Muslims still
remain subject to discrimination, it is largely due to communal
cards used by anti-Muslim extremists linked with the saffron
brigade. So, from this angle, howsoever loudly BJP pronounces
its pro-Muslim stance, this is likely to remain confined to rhet-
oric till Muslims and media are appraised of the same. In
essence, till the communal card played by the saffron brigade
activists is discarded, it is difficult to expect any change in the
discriminatory attitude Muslims face.
The BJP is also apprehensive that Modis elevation may
prove politically damaging for it. To a degree, this has
already been marked by Janata Dal-United (JD-U) walking
out of the NDA-coalition in protest against Modis elevation.
What is apparently more worrying for the BJP is the
prospect of the Congress gaining primarily because of
Modis communal image. Undeniably, the elevation of Modi
as the BJPs national campaign manager has made the
Congress feel politically comfortable about its performance
in the parliamentary polls. The Congress is apparently con-
fident that the anti-BJP vote will help it gain a lead in the
national elections. Rather than project this speculation as a
result of an anti-BJP wave, with Modi as the national cam-
paign manager, the Congress has already begun crediting
Rahul Gandhi for the partys possible success in the parlia-
mentary polls. This can be read in comments made by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh about the leadership qualities of
Rahul. Singh has described Rahul as a natural leader of
the Congress, who is fit enough to head the country as the
next prime minister.
Alarmed by its own political-card proving beneficial for the
Congress, the BJP is trying to reverse such prospects by pre-
senting its secular mask before Muslims and media!
Speaki ng Out
BJPs
Muslim-Card
NI LOFAR SUHRAWARDY
MUSTAFA KHAN
C
alling IB as Intelligence Bureau of rogues and thugs and
Modi playing in their hands may not go down well with the
upstarts chanting NaMo for the post of the prime minister
because he is worse than Pol Pot.
The chief minister of Gujarat was a pal of Rajendra Kumar of
IB whose brief he accepted and ordered the police to let Hindus
take revenge on Muslims in 2002 and again got Ishrat Jahan killed
in fake encounter in 2004. Haren Pandyas murder would now be
laid at the door of the chief minister.
Under the ruse of democracy and India First rather than
avowal of secularism enshrined in the Constitution he ruled the
state as the enemy of the Constitution. What is the difference
between him sworn to uphold the Constitution of India and Lt Col
Prasad Purohit sworn to uphold the same and yet secretly plan-
ning to abolish the Constitution? Purohits secret alliance with the
Israelis and the then Nepali monarch and Modis subscription to
Apco makes them birds of the same feather.
I have often called Modi as a real time avenger. He was in
touch with Rajendra Kumar, now a special director of IB but then
a joint director in 2004. During the real time fake encounter on 15
June, 2004 Modi had called and talked 40 times with Kumar. If the
job of the IB is just to pass information which they had done a
month ago, why was Kumar constantly in touch with the Chief
Ministers office [on the day of the fake encounter]?
What surely threatens to tighten the noose around Modis
neck is that there are witnesses to prove that he [Kumar] was with
officers like DG Vanzara just few days before the encounter.
Vanzara was the closest senior police officer to the Home Minister
Modi. Remember Kumar as the one who had cajoled RB
Sreekumar, then DGP Gujarat in-charge of intelligence, to accept
the conspiracy theory that the accidental fire in Sabarmati Express
was the work of ISI of Pakistan. IBs intrusion in the administra-
tion of Gujarat was like the tail wagging the dog.
We know physical motor action where a stimulus in the brain
leads to an action like the hand lifting or fingers picking up some-
thing.
The phone of the main public prosecutor was connected with
the home department of the state government of Gujarat. The
Home Minister of Gujarat is and was no other than the Chief
Minister Narendra Modi. This was the case in the night of 14 June,
2004 when Ishrat Jahan was killed. Her dead body with those of
the three others would be dumped at the fake encounter spot sev-
eral hours later in the wee hours of 15 June. As if this was not
enough, the phone of the main public prosecutor Sudhir
Brahmbhatt had been in direct line of communication with the
home ministry for days together. This single instance of crime
against humanity emanated from the home ministry of the state of
Gujarat. The Crime Branch and the main public prosecutor were
also in league.
During the pendency of the case the branch wanted the case
to be closed in unseemly hurry but the prosecution was lingering
it with the excuse that the absconders in the case who helped
Ishrat Jahan were not traceable. How could they when they were
incarcerated in a Jammu and Kashmir jail? The police officers
making investigation into the fake encounter were DySPs
Narendra Amin, Tarun Barot, J G Parmar and police inspector
Bharat Patel. They did not bother to take into custody the abscon-
ders who were very much available for prosecution in the jail in
J&K. Furthermore, the four were also not arraigned as accused.
This is quid pro quo in which the consent of the highest police offi-
cers like Commissioner of Police Kaushik and Modi was
inevitable. Modi may be too sharp to go on record but then this
give-and-take in such a serious matter cannot be done without his
consent. If the arrangement was done through Amit Shah, junior
minister in the home department, then Modis confidence in him
speaks of close connectivity of Modi in the crime.
The spy network of Shivaji helped Modi to know instantly
what was happening around. He flaunted how he could see
from his chair an octroi peon collecting toll. This watch may
deter the peon but watching Haren Pandya was the last straw
on the camels back. He must have been counselled by
Rajendra Kumar to have Pandya liquidated. The widow of
Pandya, Jagruty, had not so far openly blamed Modi and used
the means of her par ty BJP and its patriarch Advani to give jus-
tice to her. However, her saying that Kumar had also generat-
ed false intelligence repor t that led to the killing of her husband
confirms her father-in-laws strong belief that it was after all a
political murder. There can be no other rival as fatal as Modi.
Modi did not spare Ahsan Jafri, so would he spare Pandya?
Ishrat Jahan led to this new angle.
Shooting through the testicle of Pandya could have been done
by a sharp shooter and that could have been Tulsiram Prajapati. To
wipe out Tulsiram, the arrangement was made at the highest level
between Amit Shah and Modi.
So at long last it would be Modi on the line to get the rarest
of the rare punishment. This syllogism holds on the basis of
the twists of events so far. That may not be just an individual
affair of the ruler because several officers of IB too are
involved and hence the agency will have a new sobriquet of
apparatus of rogues and thugs presided over by Modi. Even
then there is a catch: directly involved police officers alone will
again shield their political bosses. So the need to vet: We have
got CDRs (call data records) of cellphones of some of the
police officers to show that they were involved in the plot until
the last minute, although they may not have been physically
present at the site of the fake encounter. Modi was not present
at the site but such an operation could not have been under tak-
en without his knowledge. If he is exempted so will have to be
the Commissioner of Police Kaushik who knew in advance that
the fake encounter was going to take place. GL Singhal was to
shoot Ishrat Jahan using an AK 47 supplied by IB and Modi
was to shield him.
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Finally it is out: Modi was behind Ishrats encounter
Indian Muslim leaders
condemn the Israeli
Presidents statement
New Delhi: Press Trust of India reported on 18 June that the Israeli
President Shimon Peres has asked India to shed its carefulness
in ties with Israel. He said New Delhi should overcome its cau-
tious approach which is due to a large Muslim population and
further strengthen the relationship with the Jewish state. He
underlined that a number of Muslim countries like Egypt and
Jordan have ties with Israel and India should also not be hesitant
in bolstering relationship with it.
Indian Muslim leaders have reacted sharply against this unwar-
ranted statement. The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the
umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations and eminent per-
sonalities, on 19 June issued a joint statement of Indian Muslim
leaders against the Israeli Presidents statement which is as fol-
lows:
We condemn, most forcefully and unreservedly, the Israeli
Presidents suggestion to the Indian government to disregard the
Indian Muslim community in developing and strengthening rela-
tions with the Zionist state.
First of all, this is an unacceptable interference in the inter-
nal affairs of a sovereign and free state. Moreover, it is a blatant
disregard of the democratic principles which take public opinion
into consideration while formulating national and international
policies. Tiny but highly arrogant Israel should realize that it is
committing a mockery of democratic principles by suggesting
policies to a country which is 200 times its population. Even the
Indian Muslim community Israel wants to be disregarded is 30
times bigger than Israels Jewish population.
We advise Israel to make peace with its neighbours, give
Palestinians their inalienable rights, return the occupied lands and
stop its criminal siege of Gaza Strip and equally illegal settlements
in the West Bank. Israel should stop day-dreaming that it can con-
tinue to overlord the Middle East thinking that it can forever rely on
the blind American support. Middle Easts sand is shifting fast
and even Israels American allies are now saying that a decade
from now Israel may not exist.
We advise the Israeli President to advise the Jewish settlers
in occupied Palestine to return to their original homelands while
those remaining in Palestine will have to live as loyal citizens of a
free and democratic Palestine.
We also advise the Israeli President to stop thinking about
India where a vast majority of people of all communities know the
reality of Israel and how it was built by violence and deceit on
stolen land with blind European and American support. Here in
India, we know that Israel is the only remaining apartheid regime
in the world, which is destined to disappear from the map of the
world sooner or later like the erstwhile apartheid regime in South
Africa.
Issued by
Dr.Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e
Mushawarat
Mujtaba Farooq, President, Welfare Party of India
Muhammad Ahmad, Political Secretary, Jamaat-e Islami Hind
Maulana Abdul Hameed Nomani, National Secretary, Jamiat
Ulam-e Hind
Maulana Abdul Wahab Khilji, President, Islahi Movement of India
Dr Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, Member, Working Committee,
Muslim Personal Law Board
Dr Taslim Rahmani, President, Muslim Political Council of India
Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, MLA, Manithaneya Makkal Katchi
Mualana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, Chairman, Shah Waliullah Institute
Lateef Mohammad Khan, Gen Secretary, Civil Liber ties
Monitoring Committee, Hyderabad.
So at long last it would be Modi on the line to get the rarest of the rare punishment. This
syllogism holds on the basis of the twists of events so far. That may not be just an
individual affair of the ruler because several officers of IB too are involved and hence
the agency will have a new sobriquet of apparatus of rogues and thugs presided over by
Modi. Even then there is a catch: directly involved police officers alone will again shield
their political bosses...
MAULANA SYED
MU H A MMA D
HUSAINI, noted
religious scholar
and Chancellor of
Indias old semi-
nary, Madrasa
Imania, Benaras died in a Banaras
hospital on 11 June after a prolonged
illness. Maulana Husaini had re-start-
ed the process of teaching in
Madrasa Imania in 1983 which was
discontinued for about 40 years.
HAKEEM TARIQ
AMROHVI, noted
social worker,
Unani Hakeem
and promoter of
Urdu died of
hear t attack on
18 June in Delhi at the age of 53
years. In addition to being the
President of Ghalib Educational
Society, he was also associated with
many other social, educational and
Tibbi organisations and associations
like Urdu Development Organisation,
United Muslim of India, All India
Unani Tibbi Congress etc. Though he
belonged to Amroha, he had been liv-
ing in Delhi for many years.
MUHAMMAD OBAIDULLAH SHARIF, editor of
Pasbaan, an Urdu daily was unanimously elected
President of Ajmer Sharif Dargah Committee.
Maulana Abdul Wadood of Rai Bareilli was elected
Vice President of the Dargah Committee. A meeting
of the newly constituted 8-member committee was
held at India Islamic Cultural Centre on 11 June
when these people were elected President and Vice
President of the Dargah Committee. It may be stat-
ed that the Dargah Committee works under the
union ministry of minorities affairs.
Dr F. R. SHARAR MISBAHI was unanimously re-
elected chairman of Central Unani Tibbi Board in the
meeting of Central Unani Tibbi Board held in New
Delhi on 11 June. Dr Ishtiaq Ahmad Siddiqi was
elected General Secretary of this Board.
CAPTAIN HAMEED ALI, Chief
Operating Officer of Jet Airways,
has taken over as interim Chief
Executive Officer of this airline
(which is headed by Naresh
Goel) after the resignation of
Nikos Kardassis as CEO. It is
reported that resignation of Kardassis as CEO of Jet
Airways is on the demand of Abu Dhabi based
Etihad Airways, with whom Jet Airways had entered
into a deal in April this year (2013) under which Jet
agreed to sell 24% share for Rs 2042 crores to
Etihad, that the management of Jet Air should be
changed.
ZAHEEN AKHTAR NADWI, a research scholar of
Jamia Millia Islamia was con-
ferred PhD Degree by JMI
Universitys Depar tment of
Islamic Studies for his research
treatise on Qazi Mujahidul
Islam Qasmi: Hayat wa Ufkaar-
e Mutala wa Tajzia which he
completed under the supervision of Prof Akhtarul
Wasey. Another researcher, SHUAIB AHMAD was
also conferred PhD Degree for his research treatise
Shauqi Zaif aur Unki Tanqidi Khidmaat which he
completed under the supervision of Prof Syed
Khalid Ali Haamidi.
Bollywood film actress and social worker SHA-
BANA AZMI was conferred yet another Doctorate
Degree, this time by Simone Frazer University of
Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) on 12 June.
She has already been conferred Doctorate Degrees
by Jadhavpur University in 2003, Leeds
Metropolitian University, Yorkshire (UK) in 2007 and
by Jamia Millia Islamia University in 2008. All these
Degrees are honorary degrees (Honoris Causa).
AMU Courts annual meeting chaired by VC Lt Gen
(Retd) Zamiruddin Shah was held in AMU on 12
June when as many as 42 persons from different
categories and groups were elected members of the
Court. Among the new members were AIMPL
Boards President MAULANA RABEY HASANI
NADWI, Prof GOPI CHAND NARANG, Justice
MARKANDEY KATJU, famous Islamic scholar Dr
ZAKIR NAYEK, famous hockey player Padma Shri
ZAFAR IQBAL, film actor FAROOQ SHEIKH, film
producer and director MUZAFFAR ALI, MAULANA
KALBE SADIQ, Dr MERAJUDDIN AHMAD, former
UPs minister (elected 5th time), Chairmen of Delhi
Waqf Board, U P Sunni Central Waqf Board, Bihar
Waqf Board, Rajasthan Waqf Board CHOWDHARY
MATEEN AHMAD, ZAFAR FAROOQI, IRSHADUL-
LAH, LIAQAT ALI KHAN respectively and many oth-
ers.
JAWED IQBAL KHAN, popular
social, milli and political leader
who is also general secretary of
Rashtriya Lok Dal (Chaudhary
Ajit Singhs Party)s Delhi unit
has been appointed by govern-
ment of India a member of
Airports Advisory Committee, Luckow. He is also a
member of AMU Old Boys Association, Delhis
Executive Committee.
SABA PARVEEN, a student of
class XII of Jafarabads Zeenat
Mahal S K Viddyalay, New Delhi
who topped in her School with
an aggregate 93.6 percent
marks in CBSEs 12th class
examination is one of the 200
toppers of the country to whom Indian government
will be giving Rs one lakh as award for good per-
formance in the examination. Her father is an
employee in a small hotel who sometimes faced dif-
ficulties in paying her school fees.
MEN & WOMEN IN NEWS
OBITUARIES
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Asloob Ansari gets
Bahadur Shah Zafar Award
Aligarh: Delhi Urdu Academy has given its pres-
tigious Bahadur Shah Zafar Award to eminent
scholar, critic and educationist, Prof. Asloob
Ahmad Ansari, a retired professor of English,
AMU. The award was given to him by Nawab
Ibne Saeed of Chhatari and Padma Shri Prof.
Akhtarul Wasey, Vice President of Delhi Urdu
Academy. Addressing the felicitation pro-
gramme organized on 26 May at the UGC
Academic Staff College, AMU, Prof. Akhtarul
Wasey said that Prof. Asloob Ansari has been
selected for the prestigious award for his life-
time contribution to the development of literary
criticism in Urdu and English. He said that Prof.
Ansari has served academics without any lust
for name or recognition and the award was a
small tribute to his academic dexterity and criti-
cal approach. He said Prof. Ansari is an author-
ity on Allama Iqbal.
Mr. Anees Azmi, Secretary of the Delhi Urdu
Academy said that Prof. Asloob Ansari deserved
the award and it was a proud moment for the
Academy to express its indebtedness to the tall
literary figure whose works will keep illuminat-
ing minds of scholars and critics in Urdu. He
said that AMU has given the largest number of
great literary personalities to the Urdu language
and they have also received highest
awards and recognitions.
Padma Shri Prof. Hakeem Syed
Zillur Rahman said that Prof. Ansari
was Aligarhs pride and Aligarh was
recognized around the world as the
home city of Prof. Ansari. Prof. A. R.
Kidwai, Director, UGC Academic
Staff College highlighted many
facets of Prof. Ansaris life and pre-
sented a sketch of his life as a
teacher and his academic pursuits.
Prof. Asloob Ansari has pub-
lished 33 books in Urdu and
English. He has received Pakistan Presidents award for his work on Allama Iqbal and an hon-
orary D. Lit. from Gorakhpur University.
AWARDS
President Award
Goes Hamstrung
Lucknow: In what has turned out to be a case of
tragedy of errors, is the way the President
Award for the outstanding services in the field of
literature, has come out in the open. Professor
Khan Muhammed Atif of the Persian
Department, Lucknow University, was nominat-
ed for the award in 2012 and this was duly
announced on 15 August, 2012. The news was
received with jubilation here and the Professor
received dozens of congratulatory messages
and letters but soon the cheers turned into
gloom.
The award, apart from being given by
President Pranab Mukherjee, was also to be
accompanied with some cash, a commendable
gesture for learned scholars and intellectuals.
The story began when a letter from the
office of the President came to Professor Atif as
a nominee for the Certificate of Honour award
2012. The letter also announced that apart from
the award, an amount of Rs five lakh would
accompany the award. Bureaucracy came into
play with the first dispatch of a cheque for Rs
50,000, and then, on March 31, 2013, another
cheque for Rs 4,50,000 arrived. But all merri-
ment was short-lived. Only two days later, a
phone call from the Rashtriya Sanskrit
Sansthan, New Delhi, brought a chill down the
Professors spine, as an anonymous caller
asked him to desist from submitting the cheque
to the bank, for the amount to be given stands
suspended. The Professor thought it a prank, as
there was no written communication about the
same. But, ironically, the caller turned out to be
real. The cheque had been refused to be
encashed. Courtesy: the government of India.
The issue involved is that prior to 2012 the
government policy was to send Rs 50,000 an
year for the recipient's whole life. Later it was
decided that a consolidated one-time amount of
Rs 500,000 would be more appropriate. An offi-
cial letter from the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan
on March 28, 2013 confirmed that Human
Resource Ministry has decided that scholars of
Arabic, Persian and Pali/Prakrit would also get
one-time award money of Rs 500,000 as par
the amount given to Sanskrit scholars receiving
Cer tificates of Honour for the year 2012.
Accordingly, Professor Atif too received his
cheque. But soon the government changed its
mind and withdrew the cheques already issued.
This has made the award a joke and it is
humiliating that the government has indulged in
such a cheap gimmick, that too with the most
learned section of society.
Said Professor Atif, We are living in hard
times. A one-time amount could have helped in
these times of growing consumerism. He
added that he felt so disenchanted that he wants
to return to the government even the Rs 50,000.
Such behaviour of the bureaucracy forces an
honest writer, intellectual and littrateur to think
about the very utility of his or her existence,
rued Professor Atif who is credited with a num-
ber of books on Persian literature.
However, what merits a particular mention
is that the whole policy of the government on
this award mechanism is flawed to the core, as
there is no provision of any continuation of any
fund to the widow of the recipient, and if in a
given situation, the recipient passes away after
the announcement of award and before the
arrival of the cheque of Rs 50,000, the amount
stands cancelled. Tragically, this has actually
happened in the case of Professor Shams
Tabrez Khan of the Arabic Depar tment of
Lucknow University who passed away on Jan
19 this year. (Haider Abbas)
New Delhi: For the Guru Nanak College ground
in Chennai, an spectacular performance was
coming from a youth who had a close shave of
being implicated in a terror case three years
ago. The all-rounder Parvez Rasool of Kashmir
was giving his careers best performance for
Board Presidents XI against the visiting
Australian team -- 28 overs, 45 runs and 7
wickets.
His off-spinning skills resulting in the
incredible figures of 7/45 hogged the limelight.
In the three spells he delivered, he helped Board
Presidents XI bowl out the visiting side for a
modest 241 in 88.3 overs.
In November 2009, Parvez Rasool hit the
national headlines for all the wrong reasons. But
when on Jan. 6, 2013, India A squad for the
one-day game against England, was announced
Rasool was one of the proud members.
But in 2009 - when Rasool was under-22
cricketer representing the Jammu & Kashmir
(J&K) junior team, he was living on the premis-
es of the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.
Some low intensity serial blasts outside the sta-
dium took place and Rasool was among those
who were detained, allegedly after traces of
explosive material were found in his kit bag.
However, a few days later, forensic reports
cleared him, and Rasool tried to get back to life
and cricket. But it wasnt easy.
It was the toughest period of my life being
detained by police in Bangalore. I was very dis-
turbed, but my cricketing progress is because of
my familys support. Whatever has happened,
has happened. Now, give it your all on the field,
they told me. I am heeding their advice and it has
helped me recover from the trauma, Parvez told
Mid-Day.
In seven matches, last season, the 23-year-
old all-rounder, who hails from Bijbehara district
in southern Kashmir, has scored 594 runs at an
average of 54.00 and taken 33 wickets at an
average of 18.09.
But his proudest moment came in
December 2012, when he was declared man of
the match for leading J&K to their first Ranji
Trophy win in over three years.
In an interview with The Indian Express,
Rasool gave former India skipper and J&K coach
Bishan Singh Bedi a lot of credit. He called me the
best spinner in J&K and has taught me many
things, especially the ability to flight the ball. But
bowling the doosra is disallowed. His mandate is
simple. (muslimmirror.com)
Once a terror suspect, Rasool is now
shining star of Indian Cricket
AFMI to hold next convention at Guwahati
SPECIAL REPORT The Milli Gazette, 1-15 July 2013 13 www.milligazette.com
Human Chains
symposium on education
New Delhi: Over the last few decades civil society groups and
organisations have played pivotal role on a range of issues from
fighting for justice, civil liberties and equality to working at grass-
roots level to bring positive change in peoples lives. Civil soci-
etys exponential growth led to concepts like withering away of
borders and demise of State. These developments have produced
a great literature on the role of civil society and impact of global-
ization on both the internal and external affairs of societies.
A major focus area of civil society has been the advocacy of
educational opportunities for all. It was specially with this per-
spective that the Human Chain, a Delhi-based NGO working for
social uplift and mobility, convened a symposium on The Role of
Civil Society in Promoting Education on 20 June at the head-
quarters of All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat here.
Speakers emphasized on the need for action rather than rhet-
oric. Speaking on this occasion, Sirajuddin Qureshi, president of
India Islamic Cultural Centre, asked people to contribute towards
society whichever way was possible for them. He said that con-
tribution did not mean merely giving financial support. Sparing
time and offering suggestions are also great contributions. He said
that relying only on government schemes would not help.
Muslims need to find their own ways to better their educational
and economic condition. Terming sincerity as a precondition for
desired results, he lamented that Muslims talked a lot about prob-
lems but not about solutions.
Prof. Akhtarul Wasey of the Jamia Millia Islamia said that a
Muslim should not be told about the importance of education as it
was a Quranic injunction for him to acquire knowledge. He said
that the reason for Muslims backwardness is their loss of aca-
demic leadership. There is no need to blame the government for
the sorry status of Muslims that has been shown in the Sachar
report. He added that before the Committees report it was com-
mon to blame the government that it was indulging in minority
appeasement. When the report came, it silenced those voices.
Prof. Wasey, who is also patron of the Human Chain, asked
the members of the society to work and not to blame others for
the pitiable status of Muslims. He rued the fact that education and
health were being handed over to market
forces.
In his keynote address, Mahbubul
Hoque, Chancellor of University of Science
and Technology, Meghalaya, stressed on the
need for establishing good schools along
with universities. He said that Muslims did
not have their share in the policy making
institutions because of which they were
deprived of the benefits of many schemes.
He appealed to Muslims to work in a
planned way with some 10- year future proj-
ect.
KSA-based Asif Rameez Daudi,
President of the Overseas chapter of Human
Chain, laid stress on social awakening as a
solution to academic deprivation among
Muslims.
Chairman of Human Chain, Engineer
Mohammad Aslam Alig, presented a brief
review of socio-economic and educational
status of Muslims and said Muslims were no less responsible
than government for their backwardness.
Journalist and founding member of Banat Education &
Welfare Society, Bhopal, Manzar Imam elaborated on the signifi-
cance of civil society and its role in the development of the poten-
tial of an individual and its recurring advantage to society at large.
Journalists Abid Anwar and Mudassir Alam, members of
Human Chain, Dr. Khalid Mubashshir, Minnat Rahmani, Tarique
Sufyan also shared their views. Certificates of Excellence were
given by Human Chain to columnist Abid Anwar, Tariq Sufyan,
Mujahid Akhtar and Salam Anwar. MANZAR IMAM
MG/Yusuf
Guwahati: The American Federation of Muslims
of Indian Origin (AFMI) will hold its 22nd
International Convention on Education and Gala
Award Programme on 28-29 December, 2013 in
Guwahati in association with Markazul Maarif
and Ajmal Foundation.
A press conference was held at the
Guwahati Press Club on 22 June. It was
addressed by key office bearers of AFMI
Dr. A. R. Nakadar, AFMI USA trustee, Ayub Khan,
AFMI Canada President and Shaikh Mohammed
Quraishi, AFMI USA trustee. Maulana
Burhanuddin Qasmi (Director of Markazul
Maarif Education & Research Center, Mumbai),
Mr. Khasrul Islam (Manager Ajmal Foundation)
and Mr. Shamsul Haque Chaudhury (Vice
President, Markazul Maarif) also addressed the
press and welcomed AFMI to Guwahati - the
gateway to seven northeastern states of India.
AFMI is a philanthropic, service-based and
issue-orientated organisation formed by Muslim
Americans of Indian origin in 1989. It strives to
work towards the educational and economic
uplift of Indian Muslims by seeking cooperation
among American and Indian relief and educa-
tional organizations.
AFMI strives to achieve 100% literacy
among Indian Muslims. Towards this goal, AFMI
has built schools in many Indian villages and has
adopted many schools, with students numbering
in thousands. For motivation to excel in educa-
tion AFMI has awarded over 2,000 gold, silver,
bronze medals and certificates to meritorious
students of Standards X and XII of each state of
India. It also provides scholarship to needy and
deserving students. Towards the social empow-
erment, AFMI has built hospitals, conducted
medical camps, provided relief and rehabilitation
either due to epidemics or due to man-made dis-
asters or natural disasters.
For the last 22 years, AFMI has been holding
these gala award programmes for Muslim top-
pers of X and XII standard board exams in vari-
ous cities of India. The programme has been so
successful that it is now being replicated by sev-
eral other organizations at various levels.
This is the first time that AFMI will hold its
educational convention in Guwahati. Muslim
toppers from each Indian state will be honoured
at the convention and will receive their medals
from prominent dignitaries.
In addition, the convention will also feature
sessions on various aspects of education and
these will be addressed by experts in the field. A
special session will be dedicated on the chal-
lenges and prospects facing Muslim education
in the North East. Another session will focus on
educating the girl child.
Rihai Manch is a phenomenon
in political protest
Lucknow: Rihai Manch
(Release Platform) is
unique gathering of left-
ist, socialist, Muslim,
human rights and other
groups and individuals
who are fighting for inno-
cent Muslims imprisoned
in the name of terrorism
in the country. They
came together last year
under the leadership of
Mohammad Shoaib
Advocate and UP PUCLs Rajiv Yadav and Shahnawaz Alam. Basically the Manch started agitating to
demand the release of the Nimesh Commission report which was presented to the state government
on 31 August last year but a government which had come to power on the promise of setting free the
innocent Muslim youth unjustly imprisoned in various jails of the state but even after the submission of
the Nimesh report it preferred to sit on it untill it was leaked and it became clear that it has exonerated
Tariq Qasmi and Khalid Mujahid and has heavily indicted the police and security agencies which framed
a fake case against them and others.
The Rihai Manch has been sitting on an indefinite dharna since 22 May this year for several relat-
ed issues: to protest against the wrongful arrests made by the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) and the Uttar
Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on false stories made up by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), to press for
the release of innocent youths imprisoned and for the arrest of responsible police officers and actual
offenders. The dharna was spurred by the cold blooded murder in custody of Khalid Mujahid by UP
Police. The Nimesh Commission report has found him innocent but the Police preferred to silence him-
for ever before he could be released. Rihai Manch has been demanding action by the Samjwadi Party
government on the basis of the Nimesh report.
Various political and religious leaders and human rights activists from across the county have come
to Lucknow and joined the protest from time to time which is held daily in the protest area in front of
the UP Assembly in Lucknow.
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or by email at rihaimanchlucknow@gmail.com
Lecture on Syria
and Turkey
MG Editor Zafarul-Islam Khan
deliverd a lecture on the situ-
ation in Syria and Turkey at
the Jamaat-e Islami Hind
headquarters in Delhi on 15
June. He explained the deli-
cate situation in both the
countries saying that an anti-
people regime in Syria is fac-
ing the wrath of its people
while in Turkey a western-
ised, secular miniscule
minorty is fighting agaisnt a
popular government.
L-R: Aslam Alig, Sirajuddin Qureshi, Prof. Akhtarul Wasey, Asif Rameez & Mahbubul Hoque
Women activists and relatives relatives at the dharna on 25 June
The govt is
too bad,
they dont
care about
the
cleanliness
of Muslim
areas
AFMIs Nakadar (centre) and Ayub Khan (extreme right) at the press conference
Dr Khan making a point during the lecture
Raid on Katihar Medical College Dir
Patna: Ahmad Ashfaq Karim, Chief Managing Director of Katihar
Medical College was arrested after a police raid on his residence
on the night of 15 June. Commenting on this Maulana Wali
Rahmani, Sajjada Nashin of Khanqah Rahmani, Moonger said that
this action of the police team was a conspiracy to weaken Katihar
Medical College, and to prevent and discourage Muslims from
acquiring higher and professional education to build a bright
future. He said that every year 50-60 Muslim youths become doc-
tors after passing out from this medical college, which gives them
a bright future and also render good service to patients. He said
that people who do not want Muslims to progress are indulging in
such conspiracies to destroy Muslim institutions in order to pre-
vent Muslims from moving ahead in life. He said that the govern-
ments attitude is also partial and biased. He said that in addition
to Katihar Medical College there are many other medical colleges
in this state and in these colleges set up in the name of minorities,
non-minority professors and heads are occupying important posts
but the government pays no attention to such colleges but wher-
ever there are Muslim institutions and Muslim heads, some peo-
ple belonging to a particular community begin to feel nervous and
worried. He said that even the government does not want Muslim
institutions to progress and build new Muslim institutions.
He said that educated people, particularly Muslims should pay
special attention to Katihar Medical College and the action taken
against its chief, Ahmad Ashfaq Karim. He said that in recent
months Karim Saheb had started a campaign Kosi Bachaao
Morcha which was to affect 8 districts. He said that this step
which was for the good of people may not have been to the liking
of the Bihar government for which Ashfaq Karim had to pay the
price. He said that his sympathies were with this College.
Uzma Bari, a social worker and Congress leader said that the
police raid on the residence of Ashfaq Karim, Chief Mg Director of
Katihar Medical College is part of a conspiracy by the government
to project Muslim educational institutions in a bad light and to
harass Muslims and their institutions. He said that the existence of
two or 2.5 crores of rupees in such a big educational institution or
at the residence of its Chief Mg Director or Chairman is nothing
surprising or a big deal because the presence of such amounts at
the residence or office of big educational institutions or their heads
is quite normal but targetting such a big educational institution of
professional education is a conspiracy. He asked why such police
raids were not conducted on the residences or offices of non-
Muslim educational institutions or on the residences of Directors
or Chairmen of these institutions and why only a Muslim institu-
tion or its chief was targeted? He said that in addition to Muslims,
non-Muslim students or youths also benefit from Muslim educa-
tional institutions but since the conspiracy was to project only
Muslims and their educational institutions in a bad light, this raid
was conducted simply to defame them. He also said that there are
many non-Muslim educational institutions where education is
imparted and promoted as a business to earn huge amounts of
money but no such raids have ever been conducted on these insti-
tutions or on the residence of their heads.
It may be stated here that though no reason is given why the
police raid was conducted on the residence of Ashfaq Karim, from
the statements of people mentioned above it appears that police
might have been informed by some one secretly that a large
amount of money was kept at the residence of Ashfaq Karim,
police raided it considering it unaccounted money.
No proper representation of Muslims in UP police force
Faizabad: Irrespective of the tall claims made by the UP govern-
ment and responsible police authorities about proper representa-
tion of Muslims in the state police force, the ground reality is that
all such claims are on paper only. The common thinking among
Muslims about the UP police is that the state police adopts double
standard as regards employment of Muslims in the police depart-
ment. According to Muhammad Athar Shamsi, RTI activist, and
advocate, the UP government had issued two orders, one on 18
July 2007 and the other on 8 August 2011 for the appointment of
Thana Incharges in police Department. According to these orders
the principles or rules of reservation should have been implement-
ed and persons belonging to scheduled castes and backward
classes, which included Muslims also, should have been appoint-
ed for the posts of Thana Incharges, but the actual position is quite
different.
In this connection when the list of Thana Incharges appointed
in Faizabad Zone was sought from the DIG office of Faiabad Zone
under RTI on 25 April 2013, it was found that in Faizabad Districts
18 Thanas, only one Muslim is the Thana Incharge, and that too in
the Mahila (Ladys) Thana where (Ms) Aasima Majid was posted
in Faizabad Citys Mahila Thana. As regards Scheduled castes
Thana Incharge or Thanedaar, there are only two out of 18 thanas
whereas on the basis of reservation there should have been 4
instead of only 2. The same condition is found in Faizabad Zones
Sultanpur district where out of 17 Thanas only one Muslim is
Thana Incharge or Thanedaar and only one Thana Incharge
belongs to the scheduled caste. In case of Ambedkar Nagar dis-
trict where also information was sought under RTI, the police
department did not furnish any reply. In Barabanki districts 22
thanas, three thana incharges are Muslims and only one thana
Incharge belongs to scheduled caste.
Muhammad Athar Shamsi has made a demand to UPs chief
minister that in order to rectify and prevent the biased attitude
prevalent in the UP police with regard to Muslims, it is very essen-
tial that for all posts in UP police department, representation of
Muslims shouldl be in proportion to their population and suitable
steps should be taken to achieve this.
Nasreens sensational rock wall climbing
Indore: Newly recruited police cop Nasreen stirred up a sensation
when she climbed a 45 feet rock wall and surprised everyone by
her skill. CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan and state home minister Uma
Shankar Gupta were among the dignitaries who witnessed
Nasreens adventure at the PTC grounds. Impressed by her
progress, after a mere two day practice, the CM announced a
reward of Rs 25000 for her. (A.G. Khan)
He spent all his savings to set up a hospital for poor people
Ahmedabad: Momin Husain of Tilao village in Ahmedabad district
left his village when he was only 20, in order to earn a living to
bring up his family. He reached Gandhi Nagar and after learning
motor repairing work started his own business there on a small
scale. He worked very hard from the very beginning and after
working there for 16 years he returned to his native village with a
saving of about Rs 7 lakh, after having met the expenses of his
family and household members. His ambition was to build a hos-
pital in his village for poor people. After returning to his village he
continued his motor repairing work. As his business prospered, he
tried to fulfill his ambition and started building a hospital on his
ancestral plot of land of about 1200 sq yards. This land was situ-
ated at a prime location, and some people were prepared to pay
upto even Rs 10 crores but instead of selling it and leading a com-
fortable life he preferred to fulfill his lifes ambition of building the
hospital.
He was no doubt a self-made man. This unlettered mechanic
got in touch with Dr Kartik Shukla, a well-known orthopaedic sur-
geon of Ahmedabad and confided in him, his ambition of building
a hospital. Dr Shukla not only willingly agreed to render his serv-
ices in the hospital but also helped him in setting up the structure
etc of the hospital. Along with him some other doctors also, when
they came to know about Momin Husains lifes ambition, agreed
to render their services in the proposed hospital gratuitously at
least for a few hours daily. Two years ago the hospital was com-
pleted and started functioning. Now there are more than a dozen
expert doctors in different disciplines and departments of medical
sciences.
In the beginning Momin Husain wanted that no fee should be
charged from the patients but ultimately had to agree to charging
a nominal amount, in order to meet the expenses of running the
hospital but no fixed fee or charges were to be demanded. It is a
unique multi-speciality hospital in the sense that patients are
asked to pay whatever they can easily afford for the treatment.
Momin also aptly named this hospital as Adarsh Hospital i.e. ideal
hospital.
PG Degree Course in Islamic banking
Lucknow: Graduate Degree Course in Islamic Banking has been
started in MONAD University with effect from the current academ-
ic year. President of Jamiatul Ulama-e Hind Maulana Arshad Madni
inaugurated the Department of Islamic Banking, Finance &
Insurance in this University. Speaking on this occasion he said that
because of increasing number of engineering and MBA pass stu-
dents there will be lesser or reduced chances of employment for
youths, which is a matter of concern. Under such circumstances
introduction of Islamic Banking, Finance and Insurance Course by
Monad University at international level for strengthening econom-
ic system augurs well. Vice Chancellor of Monad University, Dr
Mian Jaan said that this course would be very easy and useful for
students who pass from Darul Uloom Deoband. Mazahirul Uloom,
Saharanpur, Nadwatul Ulama, Luckonw etc.
Another death in police custody: 8 policemen suspended
Ghaziabad: One Shakeel (42) of Ghaziabad districts Dasna village
was arrested by the police for questioning after the theft of an auto
in Ghaziabad. According to Shakils father Khalil, on the morning
of 13 June Incharge of Kavinagar Thana, Sudhir Tyagi and 7 or 8
police personnel reached his residence and took his son Shakil to
the police station for questioning. According to police, at that time
Rs 61,000 and two mobile phones were found in his pocket which
Khalil described as a completely false accusation. Next day when
he along with some other people reached the police station of
Kavinagar they found that Shakeel was being beaten mercilessly.
The police version is that as he was being taken to Farrukhabad in
connection with the recovery of the stolen auto, his condition
began to worsen and he was got admitted to Sarvoday Hospital
but finding that his condition was deteriorating he was referred to
GTB Hospital in Delhi but before reaching the hospital Shakeel
died. Khalil (Shakeels father) lodged a complaint against the
police for his son Shakeels death because of the merciless beat-
ing and torture. His family members reached the Kavinagar police
station and indulged in slogan shouting against the police.
Khalil also wrote in the complaint that when they had reached
the police station and found that Shakeel was being mercilessly
beaten, he (Shakeel) asked them to somehow save him otherwise
he would die. When Khalil beseeched the police to release him as
he was innocent, they demanded Rs 80 thousand for releasing
him. Khalil then said that he could only manage Rs 10 thousand
and not 80 thousand because he was not in that position. Police
then asked him to come again at night for this but before that
Shakeel died.
After the agitation and anti-police slogan shouting by the fam-
ily members at the Kavinagar Police Station. Kavinagar Thana
Incharge Sudhir Tayagi and seven other police personnel were
suspended and FIR filed against them. Samajwadi Party Supremo
Mulayam Singh was informed about Shakeels death in police
custody and agitation by his family members by Dasna Town Area
Chairman over the phone after which Mulayam Singh Yadav
directed District Magistrate Ranga Rao to take strong action
against the guilty police personnel. The Task of enquiry in this mat-
ter was entrusted to Circle Officer Rajesh Kumar Pande and the
task of departmental enquiry was given to S P (village) Jagdish
Sharma.
CBI to chargesheet IB officer in Ishrat case
New Delhi: The CBI has issued summons to IB officer Rajendra
Kumar, to interrogate him in the Ishrat fake encounter case.
Though he has already been grilled, the agency is not satisfied
with the info he provided. This time he has been summoned as an
accused. Rajendra Kumar was posted in Guarat in 2004 when the
encounter was staged. It was his report that provided details about
a possible Lashar-e-Taiba attempt on CM Narendra Modis life,
which prompted the Gujarat police to undertake the encounter.
His grilling has generated political protest. Not only has Arun
Jatly opposed the move even N. Modi strongly criticised the move.
In the recent meeting of state chief ministers he urged the P M to
target him instead of playing game with agencies.
New Delhi: Communal riots erupted in Shamli after the gangrape
of a girl by some bad elements in which goons of the Hindu
organisations like BJP, VHP, Shiv Sena, Bajrant Dal etc indulged in
clashes, looting and burning of shops and other disruptive activ-
ities against Muslims because of which Muslims suffered loss of
crores of rupees. After large scale looting and burning of shops,
vehicles and other movable and immovable properties the unso-
cial elements, among whom, were some BJP MLAs and other
responsible persons like Babu Hukum Singh, MLAs Suresh Rana
and Pankaj Malik etc sat on Dharna in Shamli Kotwali, demand-
ing the arrest of guilty persons. Mischievous and anti social ele-
ments of these organisations indulged in fighting and beating up
any Muslim they came across on the road or other places.
It is alleged that a couple reached Shamli late at night on 15
June (Saturday) and was looking for a hotel to spend the night.
Some youths, alleged to be Muslims, came forward to help them
but tried to misbehave with them. Suspecting some trouble by
these so-called helpers, the boy fled from the place, leaving the
girl at the mercy of the youths who allegedly gang raped her. At
about 2 after midnight she was released by them after which she
reached Kotwali and lodged a complaint. She told the policemen
at the Kotwali, that after a fight with her family members at a vil-
lage in Roorki she came to Shamli along with her friend on their
way to Jind in Haryana but because she had reached Shamli late
at night, they decided to stay in Shamli and while looking for a
hotel they came across some people who misguided them and
raped her. She further said that she belongs to Balmiki communi-
ty. Next day when the news spread that a Balmiki girl was raped
allegedly by some Muslims, the Balmiki fraternity rose up in revolt
and indulged in disruptive activities like looting and burning of
shops and houses of Muslims, vehicles etc and mercilessly beat
up Muslims wherever they found them. Hindu organisations men-
tioned above, though not Balmiki (people of lower castes like
sweepers etc) but in their effort to fish in troubled waters, also
indulged in these subversive activities. BJP leaders and MLAs
mentioned above sat on dharna in the Kotwali demanding imme-
diate arrest of the guilty persons. Looting and burning of shops
and other properties of Muslims and thrashing of Muslims took
place on a large scale in the presence of the police but on the
whole they (police) remained silent spectators. Top police offi-
cers reached the place and tried to control the situation. Police,
no doubt at some places resorted to lathi charge on the rioters
after the arrival of top officers but on the whole their role was pas-
sive. Some Muslims alleged that the girl herself appeared to be of
doubtful character because both she and her companion wanted
to go to Amber Hotel which is notorious for being a centre of ille-
gal and immoral activities and she appeared to be a call girl. As
she herself stated above, she had a fight with her family members
after which she wanted to go to Jind in Haryana via Shamli.
Muslim leaders also accuse BJP and VHP etc leaders of being
responsible for starting and escalating riots in order to harm and
frighten Muslims.
The riots continued for two or three days intermittently
and after initial promulgation of section 144, curfew was
declared at many places when the situation took a serious
turn. The position is still not clear, how many persons were
injured, how many were arrested and how much loss was
incurred as a result of looting and arson. No loss of life was
however repor ted.
And in Rajasthan
New Delhi: Communal riot and tension took place between two
groups of people belonging to different communities on the night
of 15 June. In order prevent deterioration of the situation section
144 was declared in the affected areas. Next day i.e. Sunday
16 June also the rioters set a car and some shops on fire. After
police lathi charge there was a stampede in which some people
were injured. It is said that after heated arguments between two
persons one of them fired a shot. No one was killed in this riot but
clashes between Hindus and Muslims took place in different
localities in spite of deployment of police called from different
neighbouring thanas. Police patrol continued in the affected and
neighbouring areas and the situation was brought under control.
(N. A. Ansari)
Communal riots in Shamli
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Ishrat Encounter:
FIR drafted prior to encounter?
Ahmedabad: The CBI suspects that FIR lodged in the police was
drafted prior to the actual encounter. In this contest it has grilled
public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatta thrice. The last interroga-
tion lasted six hours. Since Brahmbhatta was in the good books
of all the police officials, including D G Vanzaara, he had drafted
the FIR and then G L Singhal formally lodged it at the police sta-
tion.
There are two theories. According to one, G L Singhal has
spilled the beans and named Sudhir Brahmbhattas role in the
affair. According to another theory CBI suspects that Sudhir knew
that the four persons had already been taken into custody and the
fact is supported by call details at the time of encounter accord-
ing to which Sudhir G L Singhal and a prominent politician had
been in touch with one another. The pertinent question is who
asked Sudhir to draft the FIR.
It is believed that Nizamuddin, retired police constable, who
was a witness to Sadiq Jamal encounter as well as Ishrat
encounter ultimately, after his arrest, has spilled the beans. The
possibility of his becoming crown witness cannot be ruled out.
It is interesting to note that Sudhir is a regular visitor to the
crime branch ever since he assumed office. He pays at least, one
visit every day while leaving for home in the evening at the crime
branch office. (A. G. Khan)
HC orders to continue construction of mosque in Meerut
Allahabad: A 2-member bench of Allahabad High Court consist-
ing of Justice Anil Ambwani and Justice Bharat Bhushan, after
hearing detailed arguments of senior advocate M. A. Qadeer that
under the Constitution every citizen has a right to follow any reli-
gion of his choice and to build a place of religious worship, ruled
that under Articles 45,46 and 48 the petitioner has a fundamental
right to build a place of worship. It may be stated in this connec-
tion that in Kalina village of Meerut district some Muslims had
jointly purchased plot No. 490 from Opender Singh and started
building a mosque on this plot. As the construction of the mosque
was in progress, the village Pradhan and some others, with the
help of police not only stopped the construction work but also
filed a case in court against the construction of the mosque.
The population of this village is about 5 thousand and the
population of Muslim in this village is about 500. There is not a
single mosque in this village because of which they (Muslims)
had to go to another village, which is many kilometres away, for
offering namaz. When the village Pradhan and others filed the
case in the court, advocate M A Qadeer pleaded on behalf of
Muslims of the village and submitted the arguments as mentioned
above (in para1). He also said that in view of this, police has no
right or authority to stop construction of the mosque.
After hearing the arguments of advocate M A Qadeer the
bench of Justices Anil Ambwani and Bharat Bhushan ruled (as
stated above) that construction of the mosque is a fundamental
right of the other party. In support of their verdict the honourable
judges referred to many verdicts of high courts and Supreme
Court in favour of the arguments of Muslims advocate Qadeer.
They directed the police and other authorities not to place any hur-
dles in the construction of the mosque. Commenting on this ver-
dict, advocate M A Qadeer hoped that wherever and whenever
such problems arise, this verdict would be helpful.
More than 24 lakh students receive education in madrasas
New Delhi: It is found in consequence of surveys conducted in the
country during the past ten years that Islamic madrasas are play-
ing an important role in spreading education among Muslims.
According to a report of the HRD ministry, prepared on the basis
of statistics collected by District Information System for
Education (DISE), more than 24 lakh (24, 75, 550 to be exact)
boy and girl students receive education in recognised (or
approved) and unrecognised madrasas of the country. Further,
according to DISE survey there were 5797 recognised and 2392
unrecognised madrasas in the country last year. On this basis the
ratio of boy and girl students receiving education in Islamic
madrasas is 9.7 percent. According to this report there are 430
districts in the country and the number of districts where 25 per-
cent Muslim children read in madrasas is 68. In other words,
there are 68 districts in the country where 25 percent Muslim stu-
dents study in madrasas. Union HRD ministrys 21-member
Standing Committee of its National Monitoring Committee for
Minorities Education in its report recently submitted to this min-
istry has recommended that under the central governments
Scheme to Provide Quality Education in Madrasas (SPQ, EM),
more facilities should be provided in those districts of the country
where greater number of Muslim students join madrasas to study.
An important feature of madrasas, most of which provide
only religious education, is that there is not much gender inequal-
ity i e there is not a wide difference in the number of boy and girl
students. Though there is no co-education in madrasas and there
are separate madrasas for boys and girls, the number of boy and
girls students in madrasas is almost the same, rather in some
cases the number of girl students is more than boys. This is evi-
dent from the figures given above, i.e. the total number of boy stu-
dents in both recognised and recognised madrasas is 12,10,882,
and that of girl students in recognised and unrecognised
madrasas is 12,64,667.
Singhal gets bail
Ahmedabad: It was being whispered that IPS officer G L Singhal
might turn approver. The CBI did not file any chargesheet against
him within the stipulated period of 90 days. This enabled his
advocate to seek bail for him which the CBI court granted on a
surety of Rs. 1,00,000. He will have to report at the police station
every month and surrender his passport
It is being guessed that by allowing Singhal to turn approver
the CBI is trying to implicate Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in the
Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case.
Farmers vow to oppose Modis project
Ahmedabad: Narendra Modis dream project at Dhalera, Special
Investment Area, has met with strong resistance from the farm-
ers. Villageres of 44villages have vowed that they would not part
with their land even if it meant laying down their lives. They even
threatened to gherao Gandhinagar if the project is not cancelled.
Villagers and women belonging to Bahuchraji Mandal, Detroj and
Patdi have strongly opposed the government scheme of acquiring
farmers land.
Are Muslims being fooled in the name of minority universities
New Delhi: Union minister for minorities affairs K. Rahman Khan
has time and again declared that the central government (his min-
istry) will set up five minority universities in the country. He
named Mallapuram (Kerala), Murshidabad (W. Bengal) Kishan
Ganj (Bihar), Ajmer (Rajasthan), Rai Barelli (U P) and a place in
Karnataka as the places where the minority universities will be set
up. It may be stated in this connection that AMUs centres or uni-
versities at Malappuram and Murshidabad had already been set
up and functioning mainly with and due to the efforts of AMUs
former VC, Prof P. K. Abdul Azis, much before Rahman Khan
became minorities affairs minister. Till the time of P K Abdul Aziss
departure from AMU, though Kishan Ganj was being mooted as
the place for the third centre of AMU there was uncertainty about
it because of Bihar governments uncertain attitude about provid-
ing land for this centre and Hindutva outfits agitation and opposi-
tion to setting up AMUs centre there. When AMU centres, or uni-
versities have already been set up at Mallapuram and
Murshidabad after HRD ministrys approval and are also function-
ing, there is no point in including them among 5 new minority uni-
versities, even if further building and construction work may be
going on or will be undertaken there in future.
The Thorat Committee appointed by Rahman Khan last year
to prepare the feasibility report about setting up minority universi-
ties and to suggest ways for removing legal and constitutional
hurdles, difficulties in the way of setting up these universities and
also to suggest suitable locations for these proposed universities
had clearly stated that the constitution does not allow setting up
universities exclusively for particular religious communities
(Muslims) with the public or tax payers money and hence
Parliament cannot enact any such law for setting up universities
exclusively for Muslims with public or tax payers money. Instead,
it (Thorat Committee) had suggested setting up central universi-
ties in which, like JNU, preferential treatment, like concessions,
privileges or grace marks in entrance examinations for admission
of Muslim students in universities or other educational institutions
can be given. After these suggestions by the Thorat Committee,
how can Mr Rahman Khan openly say that 5 minority universities
will be set up. Moreover, the locations being mentioned for these
universities in addition to Mallapuram, Murshidabad and Kishan
Ganj are Ajmer, Rae Bareilli (in U P) and the Tipu Sultan University
in Karnataka. This makes six universities, instead of five. So, how
many more minority universities are planned instead of five?
Chairman of NCMEI, Justice Suhail Siddiqi and Vice Chairman
of Urdu Academy, Delhi Prof Akhtarul Wasey, however said that
the intentions of Mr Rahman Khan are quite sincere and he cer-
tainly does not intend to mislead Muslims. They suggested that
the government should amend the relevant law and for this
Rahman Khan should press the government so that there is no
legal or constitutional hurdle in setting up minority universities.
Maharashtra government is anti-minority
Mumbai: Maharashtra Samajwadi Partys president and state
MLA Abu Asim Azmi while accusing the Maharashtra government
of being anti-Muslim said that in the next assembly election
Muslims of the state will unitedly by remove the present Congress
- NCP government from power. He said that right from the Babri
Masjids demolition till date the atrocities and oppressions heaped
on Muslims by the Congress-led state government are indescrib-
able. He said that the time has now come for them to unite and
throw this cruel and anti-Muslim government out of power.
Addressing Insaaf Chahiyye Abhiyan meeting at Nagpada
junction here on 8 June he said that at the time of par tition of
the country crores of Muslims had decided of their own free
will to live in this country and the sacrifices rendered by their
forefathers for the country are totally forgotten and ignored. In
spite of the assurance given to Muslims at that time that there
will be uniform laws and equal treatment for every body and
every community the unending series of discrimination and
maltreatment against Muslims in every matter has not been
stopped.
Speaking about the bomb blasts in 2008 in the powerloom
city of Malegaon he said that in these bomb blasts 32 Muslims
were killed but in spite of this Muslims themselves had become
suspects in the eyes of police and educated Muslim youths of
Malegaon were arrested because, in the eyes of (a communal
minded) police and administration every Muslim is a terrorist and
whenever and wherever bomb blasts take place, only Muslim
youth are arrested. Taking the state government and its anti-ter-
rorist squad strongly to task he said that after the confession by
Swamy Aseemanand, the culprits in the Samjhauta Express bomb
blasts, those associated with saffron organisations were arrested
for Malegaon bomb blasts and they were also charge sheeted two
times, but the state government till date did not file any appeal in
the court in order to honourably free the innocent Muslim youths,
arrested for these bomb blasts.
Malegaon 2006 blast: no charge against Pragya / Purohit
Mumbai: The NIA filed charge sheets against four accused -
Lokesh Sharma, Dhan Singh, Manohar Singh and Rajendra
Choudhari. Ramji Kalsangra has been declared an absconder. The
agency filed a five volume charge sheet in the court of MCOCA
special judge Prathvi Raj Chavan.
What is surprising is the point that Abhinav Bharat activists
responsible for the 2008 blast at Malegaon ie Pragya Thakur, Lt
Col Shri Kant Purohit and Swami Aseemanand do not figure in this
chargesheet. It is believed that a supplementary chargesheet is
likely to be filed in which Pragyas name is likely to be included.
Other absconders are Sandip Dange and Amit Halka. Manohars
involvement was ascertained on the basis of Chaudharis grilling.
Shehla could have embarrassed govt
Indore: Shehla had obtained information from the CVC which
could have embarrassed the state government. The information
was pertaining to Advani, which she had threatened to make pub-
lic at a rally at the boat club Bhopal on 16 August 2011 but she
was killed before she could reach the meeting. The state govern-
ment was trying to persuade her, was even pressurising her
through politicians to refrain from making this disclosure, Saba
Farouquis pleader argued in the court. Dhruvs friend Sanjay
Gupta was grilled for the first time for three hours.
The government had accused Shehla along with Mahira
Salimuddin, Bhopal corporator, of being ISI agents. Anil Dave
became his sworn enemy. In a startling revelation Sabas advo-
cate Sunil Shrivastav, wanted to ascertain whether RTI activist
had married Shehala adopting the name of Akram and had
planned to settle in Delhi. Shehla has even been accused of deal-
ing in fake currency notes.
Ayodhya / Faizabad: Supreme Court by its orders in various
cases has forbidden any kind of religious activity by unautho-
rised persons at the disputed place in Ayodhya where a make-
shift Ram mandir has been built. In its orders of 24 October in
connection with Ismail Farooqi case, in Bhoray case of 3 March
2002 and in Hafiz Siddiq case of 9 May 2011 the apex court has
clearly stated that only the court-appointed pujari can worship in
the temporary structure of the sanctum sanctorum. By the
courts order every week or every 15 days inspection of the dis-
puted place is undertaken in the presence of Faizabads
Commissioner also, who is also the Court-appointed Receiver,
when honourable judges, all the parties to the dispute, their
lawyers or nominees are also supposed to be present to see to
it that the Supreme Courts orders are followed and no violation
of any kind takes place. But this order of the Supreme Court was
violated on 9 June (Sunday) when Shankaracharya Swamy
Saroopanands advocate, who is also a senior advocate of the
High Court, Ranjana Agnihotri, advocate M M Pande, Triloki Nath
Pande etc went to the make-shift temple and participated in the
worship and aarti that was going on there. This was clearly in
violation of the Courts orders. It was reported that this was not
an exceptional case but very often people who had participated
in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in broad day light, in clear
violation of Supreme Courts order indulge in such activities.
Probably they want to show that they are above the law and that
the court cannot do any thing against them.
A few years ago Ashok Singhal, former president of VHP, had
gone upto the disputed and forbidden place along with his com-
mandos. No action was taken against him but the SDM and
some policemen who were posted there to ensure that the
Supreme Courts order is implemented had to pay the price and
they were suspended for not preventing Singhal from going
there. On that particular day i e 9 June 2013 Ranjana Agnihotri
who had gone there along with an ASI team for inspection of the
disputed place left the ASI team and joined the Ram Lalla wor-
ship and aarti. This action of hers was frowned upon by Justices
T. M. Khan and S. K. Singh. Haji Mahboob representing the
Muslim party, and lawyer Ranjeet Lal Verma and Swamy
Hardayal Shastri, representing the Hindu party also disapproved
of her (Ranjanas) attitude.
When Haji Mahboob, Babri Masjids litigant, objected to this
act of Ranjana Agnihotris, VHP leader Tirloki Nath Pande tried to
defend Ranjana by saying that this is a matter of our aastha
(faith). At this Haji Mahboob retorted by saying that if Muslims
too do some thing in the name of their faith, conditions will take
a serious turn. Seeing the strained atmosphere, Commissioner
Sanjay Prasad, who is also the court-appointed Receiver direct-
ed Ranjana to move away from the aarti. Justices T M Khan and
S K Singh also sternly directed all persons to strictly maintain
status quo and see to it that the Supreme Courts orders are not
violated in any way.
When tempers cooled down and the situation became nor-
mal, some people were heard saying that Ranjana Agnihotri is
fond of hogging in media headlines and that is why she indulges
in such acts.
MANZAR MEHDI
Pooja at make-shift temple in Ayodhya in
violation of Supreme Courts order
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FRANKLIN LAMB
Beirut: Many Lebanese and Syrian supporters of the regions
Resistance culture, increasingly led by Hezbollah, are chastising,
for a number of reasons, their former Islamist ally Hamas.
Pillorying them with accusations that the latter are ingrates who
are creating a host of problems for Hezbollah and its support for
the Syrian regime, during the continuing crisis. Unnecessary
problems, it is frequently asserted, that inure to the benefit of their
mutual arch enemies, the Zionist colonizers of Palestine and their
American and Arab enablers.
An outsider living near the center of the Hezbollah security
zone in Dahiyeh, South Beirut, as does this observer, hears from
friends and neighbors both sides of this rancorous domestic
argument. Having respect for, and being a supporter of both, one
feels a bit awkward-- rather like a good friend of a married cou-
ple, who are engaged in an increasingly acrimonious marital spat.
While sympathetic to each friends seemingly legitimate com-
plaints with the other, one does not want to take sides for, among
other reasons, the risk of appearing disloyal to mutual friends and
alienating perhaps both while being labeled a weak, friend
betrayer.
Yet one cannot disagree with the Palestinian community in
both Syria and Lebanon who repeatedly assert that they want to
stay neutral in the Syrian crisis which appears unlikely to end any-
time soon. Palestinian refugees, in Palestine as well as in Syria
and Lebanon, want to stay out of internecine conflicts and focus
on trying to survive and confronting their real enemies, those who
stole and are still living on their land.
Some supporters of Hezbollah and the Palestine Resistance
seek to avoid exhibiting dirty laundry to public view, but given the
voracious craving of media outlets linked to various local parties
as well as foreign sponsors, there is much pressure and opportu-
nity to condemn each side for, some real but many illusory,
Hezbollah-Palestinian cross-border conflicts. This mutually
destructive phenomenon appears to be spreading.
Hezbollahs local Palestinian problem started to form in the
spring of 2011 as the Syrian crisis quickly gained momentum.
Some Palestinians joined the rebels and nearly 28 months into the
maelstrom, continue fighting the Assad government. The num-
bers appear to this observer to be a tiny fraction of the unem-
ployed, discouraged Palestinian youth. Some have succumbed to
the allure of $200 per month, free cigarettes, and an AK-47 and
have joined one or the other of literally hundreds of jihadist mili-
tias operating in Syria, some currently scoping out Lebanon.
Some point out that those Palestinian refugees in Syria should
not be seen as betraying those who have helped them most. The
undeniable fact is that Palestinian refugees in Syria have for more
than six decades been granted by the government rights to edu-
cation, medical care, housing, employment, and in many
instances, preferential treatment. In addition, Syria has granted
them identity and travel documents, to an extent that no other
Arab League country has. This despite decades of Arab poten-
tates blathering interminably about supporting the bloodstream
and sacred cause of Palestine. So there is festering resentment
when certain media blare that Palestinian groups such as Hamas
are with the rebels and are insisting that Hezbollah fighters not
enter Syria under any pretext. Hamas stands accused of closing
their Damascus offices, accepting a $400 million grant from
Syrias nemesis Qatar and of joining the US-Israel axis by harm-
ing their own people as well as undermining the resistance to the
Zionist regime in the process. Certain other Palestinians in camps
such as Yarmouk in Syria and Shatila in Lebanon tacitly accuse
Hamas of abandoning the Palestinian cause and misguidedly
sparking sectarian strife with Hezbollah. Others argue just the
opposite and blame Hezbollah.
Some Palestinians are also said to be carrying guns for the
Saida-based, Lebanese Salafist cleric Sheikh Ahmed al-Asir, the
imam of Saidas Bilal bin Rabah Mosque, while supporting his
anti-Hezbollah-Assad regime which is trying to unite Sunnis who
make up roughly 85% of the worlds Muslim population, to elimi-
nate all Shia Muslims.
Syrian government forces claim that Hamas has even trained
Syrian rebels in the manufacture and use of home-made rockets.
Some Hezbollah fighters complain that they taught Hamas many
of their battlefield skills which they turned around and used
against Hezbollah forces in al-Qusayr and are preparing to do the
same, with larger numbers, in the coming battle for Aleppo,
Syrias largest city.
Many supporters of Hezbollah believe Hamas and some other
Palestinian factions were being needlessly provocative when a
few officials issued an unusual admonishment of Hezbollah on
June 13, demanding it direct its firepower at Israel and withdraw
from involvement in the Syrian conflict. We demand of Hezbollah
to withdraw its forces from Syria and call on it to leave its
weapons directed only at the Zionist enemy, read a statement
allegedly from Hamas, posted on the Facebook page of its deputy
political leader Moussa Abu Marzouq.
Despite its withdrawal from Syria in early 2012, Hamas, as an
Islamic organization, has been wary of publicly criticizing
Hezbollah for its military support of the Assad regime. On June
13, the London-based daily Al-Quds Al-Araby reported that a
schism existed within Hamas regarding its attitude toward
Hezbollah. Hamass military wing, the Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam
Brigades, reportedly endorsed the alliance with the Syria-
Hezbollah axis, while its political leadership opposed it. Some
have questioned the accuracy of this report.
Other more petty accusations have been made by some
Hezbollah supporters, for example that some Palestinian camp
residents in Ein el Helwe camp near Saida and Jalil camp near
Baalbek, were encouraged by Hamas to burn refugee aid pack-
ages provided by Hezbollah for Syrians and Palestinians forced to
flee Syria. The reasons cited by the Palestinians for this odd act
were that they felt they could not, given moral Islamic values,
accept blood gifts, even of much needed food.
This observer met with some Palestinian leaders from differ-
ent factions and is satisfied by their explanations that this was not
the case. Hezbollah has given emergency aid to all the Palestinian
camps. What happened with the symbolic burning of a few
parcels was entirely politically motivated and organized by certain
Salafists in Saida and a few troublemakers from the pro-Saudi/US
factions, including rump elements from the pro-western March
14 alliance. That issue has now been resolved by Palestinian pop-
ular committees and the Hezbollah donors. Hopefully it will not
recur.
Some Hezbollah partisans complain that certain Palestinian
factions have circulated rumors in the media accusing Hezbollah
of wrongdoing and thereby are in effect collaborating with the US
and Israel to divide and weaken the National Lebanese
Resistance.
Yet additional criticism of certain Palestinian factions, specif-
ically Hamas, relates to the nature of the movements relationship
with the state of Qatar which is accused of essentially appointed
itself godfather of all the Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood move-
ments in the region. According to some, this has caused Hamas
to lose the credibility and popularity that it once enjoyed from
diaspora Palestinians.
The Palestinians Hezbollah problem
Revisiting the marital spat analogy, some of the accusations
against certain Palestinian groups mirror those made against
Hezbollah. Some Lebanese analysts and some camp Palestinians
have warned that Hezbollahs foray into Syria is fueling a Sunni-
Shiite polarization that threatens to feed extremism on both sides
and catapult the conflict to the wider region. Syrian opposition
groups reported on May 30 that Hezbollah had ordered Hamass
representative in Beirut, Ali Baraka, to leave the country immedi-
ately because of Hamass public support for Syrian rebels fight-
ing Assad. Baraka denied the report, telling Lebanese media (and
his neighbors) that there was no change in the relationship
between the two organizations. As of today, this observers
kitchen balcony overlooks the Hamas office in central Haret Hreik
and it is clear that it is still functioning.
The Hamas disagreement with Hezbollah still stands but both
parties have agreed to discuss it by holding a series of meetings.
In response to a question on this subject, former Foreign Ministry
undersecretary in the ousted government in Gaza Ahmad Youssef,
pointed out that Hamas needs and very much wants the support
of all the powers and sides in the region to face the colonial
Zionist implantation, what some refer to as the 9th Crusade.
Youssef explained: We needed and still need Iran and Hezbollah.
However, the movements position is that this behavior had dam-
aged the relations which we wanted to be close and strong with
the party. Next month, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,
who has his own problems with Hamas, will reportedly visit
Lebanon to meet with Palestinians who fled Syria and is expected
to attempt a Hamas-Hezbollah musalaha (reconciliation).
The resistance to the Zionist colony has multiple pillars, two
of which are Hezbollah and the Palestine National Movement.
Both of these as well as a growing number of others, including
hundreds of militia now fighting in Syria, share one principle
objective, to liberate occupied Palestine and ensure the
Palestinians right-of-return to the 531 villages that were ethnical-
ly cleansed 65 years ago, by whatever means required.
Neither Hezbollah or those Palestinians now fighting each
other in Syria, and, God-forbid, soon in Lebanon if the US-Israeli
is successful in achieving its divisive project, need 2-cents worth
of advice from this foreign observer. But surely, most from each
camp will agree that this is not the time for Hezbollah and the
Palestinians to use their scant resources to battle each other over
perceived wrongs. There will be time enough to discuss these, if
either group is still feeling wronged, after Palestine is freed from
its racist colonial yoke.
Franklin Lamb is doing research in Syria and Lebanon and can be
reached c/o fplamb@gmail.com
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Hezbollahs Palestinian problemand vice versa
Former French Foreign Minister:
The War against Syria was Planned
Two years before The Arab Spring
GEARID COLMIN
In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French
minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: Im going to tell
you something. I was in England two years before the violence
in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who
confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria.
This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an
invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I
was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to par-
ticipate. Naturally, I refused, I said Im French, that doesnt inter-
est me.
Dumas went on to give the audience a quick lesson on the
real reason for the war that has now claimed the lives of tens of
thousands of people. This operation goes way back. It was pre-
pared, preconceived and planned in the region it is important
to know that this Syrian regime has a very anti-Israeli stance.
Consequently, everything that moves in the region - and I have
this from the former Israeli prime minister who told me well
try to get on with our neighbours but those who dont agree
with us will be destroyed. Its a type of politics, a view of histo-
ry, why not after all. But one should know about it.
Dumas is a retired French foreign minister who is obliged to
use discretion when revealing secrets which could affect French
foreign policy. That is why he made the statement I am French,
that doesnt interest me. He could not reveal Frances role in the
British plan as he would be exposing himself to prosecution for
revealing state secrets. There have been many disinformation
agents in the British and French press, many of them well known
leftist war correspondents and commentators, who have tried
to pretend that Israel secretly supports Assad. Those who make
such arguments are either stupid, ignorant or deliberate disinfor-
mation agents of NATO and Israel.
Israels support for Al Qaeda militants in Syria has even been
admitted by the mainstream press. For example, Germanys Die
Welt newspaper published a report on June 12th on Israels
medical treatment of the Al Qaeda fighters. Israel planned this
war of annihilation years ago in accordance with the Yinon Plan,
which advocates balkanization of all states that pose a threat to
Israel. The Zionist entity is using Britain and France to goad the
reluctant Obama administration into sending more American
troops to their death in Syria on behalf of Tel Aviv.
Of all the aggressor states against Syria, Israel has been the
quietest from the start. That is because Laurent Fabius, Francois
Holland, William Hague and David Cameron are doing their bid-
ding by attempting to drag Israels American Leviathan into
another ruinous war so that Israel can get control of the Middle
Easts energy reserves, eventually replacing the United States as
the ruling state in the world. It has also been necessary for Tel
Aviv to remain silent so as not to expose their role in the revo-
lutions, given the fact that the Jihadist fanatics dont realize they
are fighting for Israel.
This is the ideology of Zionism which cares no more for
Jews than it does for its perceived enemies. The Jewish
colony is determined to become a ruling state in the Middle
East in the insane delusion that this will enable it to replace
the United States as a global hegemon, once the US collaps-
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An outsider living near the center of the Hezbollah security zone in Dahiyeh, South
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corous domestic argument. Having respect for, and being a supporter of both, one feels
a bit awkward-- rather like a good friend of a married couple, who are engaged in an
increasingly acrimonious marital spat. While sympathetic to each friends seemingly
legitimate complaints with the other, one does not want to take sides for, among other
reasons, the risk of appearing disloyal to mutual friends and alienating perhaps both
while being labeled a weak, friend betrayer.
[I too face the same problem, being a friend of both Hamas and Hizbullah, it is difficult to
me blame anyone of them - both are wrong at present; one by siding with the fascist
Assad regime and the other by opting for Qatar whose role in the Arab world is dubious to
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YAMIN ZAKARIA
London: In times of conflict, religious, ethnic, linguistic traits are
accentuated and the sectarian dimension is no exception. With the
direct involvement of Hezbollah, Iran's proxy, the Syrian conflict
accelerates towards becoming a sectarian one and small skirmish-
es along the sectarian line have already occurred across the bor-
der in Lebanon. The Shia axis of Iran, Hezbollah, and the Alawite
regime is balanced by the Sunni-dominated rebels, supported by
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt and the Gulf states. Assad is no more
an Alawite Shia as was Saddam Hussein a devout Sunni, both sub-
scribed to the doctrine of socialist-orientated Arab nationalism,
devoid of Islam. A dubious ideology when you consider that Arab
civilisation began with the birth of Islam.
The US intervention in Iraq and the subsequent altering of the
balance of power has resulted in the Shia-Sunni tensions; a dom-
inant Shia-led regime emerged replacing the Sunni denominated
Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein bringing a long line of Sunni
rule to an end. The end result is seen through the tit for tat bomb-
ings between Shia and Sunni killing many innocent civilians.
Across the border, Iran has been building up its military capability
to its credit, increasingly asserting itself as a regional power.
The US stance has shifted from a pro-Sunni position during
the heyday of Ayatollah Khomeini, when Shias were the extremists,
to a more pro-Shia stance in Iraq, against the militant Sunni-
inspired Al-Qaeda type movements of the post 9/11 era. It is rem-
iniscent of a former British Prime Minister's remark - no nation has
permanent friends or enemies but only its interests.
The Sunnis in Saudi Arabia have also suppressed the large
Shia population located in the lucrative region of the eastern part
where the oil fields are. During the oil embargo in the 1970s, the
US even entertained the idea of dividing Saudi Arabia along sectar-
ian lines, which also reflects division of resources in line with US
oil interests. It also gives credence to the recent conspiracy theo-
ry of an emerging Shia crescent that encompasses Iran, eastern
Iraq, Bahrain, Eastern Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. This is unlikely
to be the work of Israeli-dominated US foreign policy, since a
strong Sunni or Shia state does not serve Israeli hegemony. In that
light, one has to ask: is there an impending conflict brewing that
threatens to engulf the entire region?
"Divide and rule" worked well for the British empire; thus, ignit-
ing and prolonging the war along sectarian lines would serve the
Israeli-US policy best - the only caveat being, the oil fields and its
protectorates (the wealthy Sheikhs) are not to be touched. We all
witnessed the US resolve to protect the Kuwaiti elites back in 1991.
Despite the motive, one cannot just blame foreign powers
manufacturing a wider sectarian conflict; the roots of this schism
go back to the early period of the Islamic Caliphate. The Shia
argued the line of succession should go through the Prophet's fam-
ily, whereas the Sunnis argued that leadership should be based on
consultation and merit. I may be accused of being biased as a
Sunni, but any neutral observer will see that hereditary rule has no
place in any monotheistic religion, because nepotism is one of the
sources of corruption. Even Imam Ali, revered by the Shia as the
legitimate divine successor to the Prophet, obeyed the first two
Caliphs and participated in the election, but he lost to the third
Caliph and continued to obey him as a ruler according to both Shia
and Sunni sources. In subsequent years, the political differences
combined with theological differences have led to the gap between
the Shia and the Sunni becoming wider.
Historically, Shia-Sunni conflict zones have been confined to
Lebanon, Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and in recent
times, this has been seen in Afghanistan (Hazara Shias vs. Taliban)
and in Pakistan which has a significant Shia community who are
suffering from indiscriminate Sunni bombings. Over the centuries
the balance of power has altered in various ways. The Shia rule
over Egypt and North Africa during the Fatimid era was brought to
an end by the Sunnis during the Crusade era. In contrast, Iran, Iraq
and Bahrain became Shia dominated states post-1500. Iran
became the first Shia-dominated state of our time, despite the glar-
ing contradiction with Shia theology which states only the divinely
inspired Imam can rule. The more Orthodox Ayatollahs argued
against Ayatollah Khomeini for taking up political leadership as
they believed they should wait for Imam Mehdi to arrive.
From a position of minority, the Shia had been working to gain
Sunni converts, Iran has always suppressed its Sunni minority
despite all the rhetoric of unity, and its media channels are always
propagating the Shia point of view, and attack the Salafi- orientat-
ed movements supported by Saudi-Gulf petro dollars, concealing
a subtle wider attack on the Sunni world. In recent times, Shia mis-
sionaries have been targeting the large Sunni Muslim population in
Africa; Nigeria has a nascent Shia community now. If gaining polit-
ical unity is the real issue then why spend so much time, effort and
money on theological and historical differences. The rhetoric of
Saudi being an American puppet is no more than Ayatollah Sistani
in Iraq siding with the US through his infamous fatwa of not resist-
ing the US forces during the US-led invasion of 2003. Iran also
cooperated with the US over the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
With the passing of time, the notion of unity at any level in the
Muslim world vanishes. A sectarian conflict - regardless of its ori-
gin would be another nail in the coffin of the One Ummah.
Is there a Shia-Sunni conflict brewing in the Middle East?
Understanding The Latest
Leaks Is Understanding The
Rise Of A New Fascism
JOHN PILGER
In his book, Propaganda, published in 1928, Edward Bernays
wrote: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized
habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in dem-
ocratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of
society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling
power of our country."
The American nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays invented the
term "public relations" as a euphemism for state propaganda. He
warned that an enduring threat to the invisible government was the
truth-teller and an enlightened public.
In 1971, whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leaked US government
files known as The Pentagon Papers, revealing that the invasion of
Vietnam was based on systematic lying. Four years later, Frank
Church conducted sensational hearings in the US Senate: one of the
last flickers of American democracy. These laid bare the full extent
of the invisible government: the domestic spying and subversion
and warmongering by intelligence and "security" agencies and the
backing they received from big business and the media, both con-
servative and liberal.
Speaking about the National Security Agency (NSA), Senator
Church said: "I know that the capacity that there is to make tyranny
in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies
that possess this technology operate within the law so that we
never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is
no return."
On 11 June, following the revelations in the Guardian by NSA
contractor Edward Snowden, Daniel Ellsberg wrote that the US had
now "that abyss".
Snowden's revelation that Washington has used Google,
Facebook, Apple and other giants of consumer technology to spy
on almost everyone, is further evidence of modern form of fascism
- that is the "abyss". Having nurtured old-fashioned fascists around
the world - from Latin America to Africa and Indonesia - the genie
has risen at home. Understanding this is as important as under-
standing the criminal abuse of technology.
Fred Branfman, who exposed the "secret" destruction of tiny
Laos by the US Air Force in the 1960s and 70s, provides an answer
to those who still wonder how a liberal African-American president,
a professor of constitutional law, can command such lawlessness.
"Under Mr. Obama," he wrote, "no president has done more to cre-
ate the infrastructure for a possible future police state." Why?
Because Obama, like George W Bush, understands that his role is
not to indulge those who voted for him but to expand "the most
powerful institution in the history of the world, one that has killed,
wounded or made homeless well over 20 million human beings,
mostly civilians, since 1962."
In the new American cyber-power, only the revolving doors
have changed. The director of Google Ideas, Jared Cohen, was
adviser to Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state in the
Bush administration who lied that Saddam Hussein could attack the
US with nuclear weapons. Cohen and Google's executive chairman,
Eric Schmidt - they met in the ruins of Iraq - have co-authored a
book, The New Digital Age, endorsed as visionary by the former CIA
director Michael Hayden and the war criminals Henry Kissinger and
Tony Blair. The authors make no mention of the Prism spying pro-
gram, revealed by Edward Snowden, that provides the NSA access
to all of us who use Google.
Control and dominance are the two words that make sense of
this. These are exercised by political, economic and military
designs, of which mass surveillance is an essential part, but also
by insinuating propaganda in the public consciousness. This was
Edward Bernays's point. His two most successful PR campaigns
were convincing Americans they should go to war in 1917 and per-
suading women to smoke in public; cigarettes were "torches of
freedom" that would hasten women's liberation.
It is in popular culture that the fraudulent "ideal" of America as
morally superior, a "leader of the free world", has been most effec-
tive. Yet, even during Hollywood's most jingoistic periods there
were exceptional films, like those of the exile Stanley Kubrick, and
adventurous European films would have US distributors. These
days, there is no Kubrick, no Strangelove, and the US market is
almost closed to foreign films.
When I showed my own film, The War on Democracy, to a
major, liberally-minded US distributor, I was handed a laundry list of
changes required, to "ensure the movie is acceptable". His memo-
rable sop to me was: "OK, maybe we could drop in Sean Penn as
narrator. Would that satisfy you?" Lately, Katherine Bigelow's tor-
ture-apologizing Zero Dark Thirty and Alex Gibney's We Steal
Secrets, a cinematic hatchet job on Julian Assange, were made
with generous backing by Universal Studios, whose parent compa-
ny until recently was General Electric. GE manufactures weapons,
components for fighter aircraft and advance surveillance technolo-
gy. The company also has lucrative interests in "liberated" Iraq.
The power of truth-tellers like Bradley Manning, Julian
Assange, and Edward Snowden is that they dispel a whole mythol-
ogy carefully constructed by the corporate cinema, the corporate
academy and the corporate media. WikiLeaks is especially danger-
ous because it provides truth-tellers with a means to get the truth
out. This was achieved by Collateral Damage, the cockpit video of
an US Apache helicopter allegedly leaked by Bradley Manning. The
impact of this one video marked Manning and Assange for state
vengeance. Here were US airmen murdering journalists and maim-
ing children in a Baghdad street, clearly enjoying it, and describing
their atrocity as "nice". Yet, in one vital sense, they did not get away
with it; we are witnesses now, and the rest is up to us. (countercur-
rents.org)
John Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker, based
in London. He has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, and
his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US
KARAMATULLAH K. GHORI
Making a mountain out of a molehill is a
centuries-old adage. But anyone looking
for its full meaning in ample display need
only look at the western medias cover-
age of the recent demonstrations in some
major cities of Turkey, staged by people
unhappy with the Turkish governments
decision to undertake some construction
work at Istanbuls GeziPark-an area adja-
cent to the historic Taksim Square.
The demonstrations, initially trig-
gered by bands of Istanbuls youths unhappy at the proposed
changes around Gezi Park, were latched on to by the western
news media as a manifestation of alleged seething discontent
against the policies and style of governance of PM Recip Tayyip
Erdogan, who has been at the helm of Turkey for the past ten
years.
The western media-as if electrified by angry demonstrations
of a very small segment of the Turkish population-went instantly
to town to paint a largely localised expression of unhappiness at
the re-modelling of an iconic landmark of Istanbul as the begin-
ning of Turkeys Arab Spring. Reams of stories appeared regular-
ly in both print and electronic media across the Atlantic likening
Taksim Square with Cairos Tehrir Square which was in the van-
guard of the Egyptian peoples uprising against the regime of
Hosni Mubarak.
However, using that analogy-equating the minuscule Taksim
Square flare up with the massive revolt of Tehrir Square-also gave
out the mal-intent of the western medias agenda and game plan
against the popular government of Turkey, led by a charismatic
leader like Erdogan.
It was sheer non-sense to hold a parallel between the situa-
tions in Egypt and Turkey; it spoke volumes of the malicious intent
of the media campaigns perpetrators in the west.
The Hosni Mubarak regime was repressive, autocratic and
cruel. It was guilty of suborning the interests of the Egyptian peo-
ple to the dictates of Mubaraks western imperialist paymasters.
Mubarak was never a popularly elected leader and didnt rule with
the consent or approbation of his people.
The AK (Justice and Development) Partys government in
Turkey represents the majority will of its people. First elected in
2002 with a 34 per cent of popular vote, it raised its popularity
stock to 47 per cent in the 2007 elections, and subsequently to 50
per cent in 2011.
PM Erdogan is a dynamic leader who has done an admirable
work in elevating Turkey to a level where its achievements of the
past decade are admired by friends and foes alike. Turkey had an
struggling economy in 2002, with a massive and crushing burden
of debt owed to western lending institutions. It suffered, in 2002,
from rampant inflation and degradation of its currency, the Turkish
Lira.
In ten years of unstinted miracle performance Erdogan has
changed all that. Turkey, today, is free from any burden of debt. Its
currency has gained in value and its hard currency holdings,
today, are more than 134 billion dollars, up from around 25 billion
in 2002 when Erdogan had stepped in. Turkish economy, in ten
years, has grown by leaps and bounds, so much so that its, today,
the second most robust economy in Europe, just behind Germany.
Yesteryears sick man of Europe (which was the denigrating
moniker of Turkey in western propaganda) is now the most
dynamic and robust man of Europe with an economic health that
puts many in the European Union to shame.
But Erdogans wonder is not only confined to Turkeys eco-
nomic miracle. His biggest achievement, so far, is in laying to rest
the western myth that Islam is incompatible with modern western
democracy and an open society based on the rule of law.
Erdogans Turkey is an open society run on the western prin-
ciples and practices of democracy while reinforcing the tradition-
al, Islam-based cultural identity of the Turkish people. US, in par-
ticular, has regularly held out the Turkish example as a unique
blend of Islamic moorings and western democratic ethos. At the
height of the Arab peoples latest revolt-the so-called Arab Spring-
the Turkish example was cited, ad nauseam, as something that
should inspire the Arabs as a model worthy of emulation for their
own reformist schemes. Washington hailed Turkey as a bridge
between the west and the Islamic world that could serve the inter-
ests of both by bringing them together on a workable platform.
Erdogan has laid solid foundations for the continuity of an
Islamic democratic dispensation in Turkey by clipping the wings of
the Turkish generals who had been the biggest obstacle to the
evolution of a grass-roots democratic system of governance in
the country. The Turkish military-revelling in its self-granted role of
preserving Kemal Ataturks putative secularism-had made it a
habit to intervene in the political process at will and hold it to ran-
som. Three martial laws were witness to their arrogance of power.
It was the Turkish military brass that had driven from office
Turkeys first genuinely Islamist PM, Necmeddin Erbakan, in the
mid-1990s. However, they couldnt do it to Erbakans spiritual
protge, Erdogan, because of his massive support in the heart-
land of Turkish Anatolia.
So Erdogan has enemies in spades inside Turkey itself, espe-
cially among the old Turkish elitist establishment dominated by the
military brass and the defanged Republican Party arrogating to
itself the title of standard bearer of the Kemalist values and tradi-
tions of secularism.
The Republican Party had been hand-in-glove with the power-
hungry Turkish generals in subverting Erbakan and his Islamist
followers. These two anti-Islamic forces also unquestioningly
served the interests of western imperialist agenda at the expense
of those of the Turkish people. As such, the rise of AKP and its
leadership role of the Turkish people has been a thorn as much in
the side of a discredited Republican party as the arrogant gener-
als cut to size by Erdogans massive popularity.
It was the Republican Party that saw an opportunity to corner
Erdogan in the brush fire lit at Taksim Square. They stoked its
ambers and were gleefully joined in by western propagandists
with their own axes to grind against Erdogan.
The western news sources eulogised the bands of disgruntled
youth resisting Erdogans autocratic style. They talked of
Erdogan the dictator who was more of a pharaoh than Hosni
Mubarak ever ways. They stooped low to decry Erdogan as a
neo-Sultan of Turkey. All rubbish, all hogwash.
So what is it, really, that raises the hackles in the western
world-its news media, in particular-against Erdogan? What has he
done, if anything, to invite the wrath of the western media gurus
and pundits?
The main casus belli against Erdogan for a western news
media in hog to the well-oiled Zionist propaganda and dis-infor-
mation campaign is that he is a fearless defender and promoter of
the Palestinian peoples rights and freedoms.
Erdogan became public enemy number one to the Zionists
and their cohorts and camp-followers the day he publicly took on
and berated the Israeli President, Shimon Peres, in Davos,
Switzerland, for the reign of terror let loose upon the hapless
Palestinians living under the Israeli occupation for the past 4
decades.
The Zionists and their western minions-who dont believe that
Israel can do any wrong-were stunned at the outspoken and
courageous Erdogans temerity in calling a spade a spade. They
were used to undemocratic and repressive Arab rulers always
ready to kowtow to them and ready to short-change the
Palestinians. But there was this elegant Turk looking them straight
in the eye and telling them, to their face, that the day was over for
their unchallenged repression of the Palestinians.
In 2010, the arrogant Netanyahu clique in Israel attacked a
Turkish mercy ship, Mavi Marmara, in international waters and
killed 9 Turkish human rights activists on a mission of mercy to
carry relief goods for the incarcerated and besieged people of
Gaza.
To Netanyahu and his unquestioning and uncouth western
backers that act of piracy and murder on the high seas may have
been a routine display of Israeli muscle power and its habitual dis-
regard of norms of international law and jurisprudence. But to
Erdogan-and all other peace-loving and law-abiding people of the
free world beyond the west-it was an outrage and affront to the
dignity of an oppressed people that couldnt be allowed to go
unchallenged.
Erdogans riposte was swift and meaningful. He immediately
suspended diplomatic relations with Israel and demanded an
unconditional apology for the outrage on the high seas against
innocent people. Netanyahu has only recently tendered that apol-
ogy-three years too late. But Erdogans bold and forthright stand
and his steadfast refusal to buckle under any pressure from
Israels western supporters and mend fences with Israel without
an apology from Netanyahu has paid off the political and diplomat-
ic dividends he had set out to achieve. Turkeys principled oppo-
sition of Israeli repression of the Palestinians has won the day for
Erdogan and the government he leads.
It may be true that the police in Istanbul has been guilty of
using disproportionate and excessive force in trying to quell the
demonstrations at Taksim Square. Which may be one reason why
the situation worsened and the agitation gathered more weight and
following than anybody, including its perpetrators, may have ini-
tially imagined.
Erdogan, too, seems to have erred in taking inordinately too
long to get to its root-cause. His decision to hold a referendum on
the issue of proposed changes on the site of the historic Gezi Park,
after a thorough review by a technical committee, is belated
recognition that the protesters at least needed to be heard.
It may be hard to deny that, of late, some arrogance has crept
into Erdogans style of governance and demeanour. But it isnt
entirely unusual for successful leaders whose services to their
people are not only quantifiable but also visible and admired to
become narcissistic and self-centred. Success has the habit of
spoiling those in whom it resides, and Erdogan doesnt seem to
be an exception to this convoluted rule.
Those conscious of his massive contribution in the cause of
transforming Turkey and changing its fortunes, so dramatically,
maybe pained to see Erdogan going down the slide that has con-
sumed many before him in the pantheon of iconic leaders and
rulers. Yet, those same well-wishers and admirers of him may
also wish that this unsavory brush with reality should help bring
him down to earth and cut him down to the size that suits his sta-
tion in life and his place in Turkeys history.
Erdogans mission is by no means fully accomplished. Turkey
still has a long way to go. Its long quest to enter the closed
Christian club that EU really is still remains elusive, although
Erdogans accomplishments - in both economic performance and
Turkeys democratic transformation - has rendered nonsensical
and inane the long held European objections to Turkish member-
ship.
There is, then, the thorny question of the Syrian peoples
uprising against their repressive and autocratic regime, next door
in Syria, which is still going nowhere after more than two years of
a bloody confrontation. Erdogan has been at the forefront of those
advocating a regime change in Syria, which doesnt help the
Syrian peoples cause, much, but plays right into the hands of the
Zionist and western enemies of Syria.
Friends of Erdogan have long been apprehensive that his inor-
dinate involvement in the Syrian crisis-on the side of those eager
to oust the Assad regime-is threatening to land him into unchart-
ed terrain. A report in the Los Angeles Times of June 21 has
revealed that CIA has been providing operational training, for
months, to Syrian rebels in Turkey and Jordan. That means
Erdogan is becoming overtly partisan with the Zionists and impe-
rialists in an agenda that may ultimately work against Turkeys
regional interests in the long run. Thats something out of sync
with Erdogans circumspection.
The Turkish people-especially in the heartland of Anatolia
which is also the font and bastion of Erdogans and AKPs sup-
port-themselves dont seem to have much enthusiasm for their
leaders stand on this ticklish problem and have been demanding
change in it.
One should hope that Erdogan has learned his lesson in the
Taksim Square bush-fire. It should chasten him and inject more
humility in his style of governance. At the same time, one would
also expect him -sobered by the Taksim experience-to have a
fresh and hard look at where he has steered Turkey in relation to
the Syrian crisis and make the necessary amends in it warranted
by the latest developments.
Blatant and insensitive use of force was counter-productive in
the Taksim Square fracas; it could be just as unproductive in com-
ing to grips with the Syrian imbroglio. Great leaders have been
known in history as much for their timely course-correction in the
face of adversity as for their achievements at the crest of power.
What Problem has West with Turkey of Erdogan?
Friends of Erdogan have long been apprehensive that his inordinate involvement in the
Syrian crisis-on the side of those eager to oust the Assad regime-is threatening to land him into
uncharted terrain. A report in the Los Angeles Times of June 21 has revealed that CIA has been
providing operational training, for months, to Syrian rebels in Turkey and Jordan. That means
Erdogan is becoming overtly partisan with the Zionists and imperialists in an agenda that may
ultimately work against Turkeys regional interests in the long run. Thats something out of sync
with Erdogans circumspection.
18 The Milli Gazette, 1-15 July 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.milligazette.com
100-Year-Old Israeli
General: We Razed Arab
Villages, So What?
Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Pundak is celebrating his hundredth
birthday. Pundak was the commander of the 53rd Battalion of
the Givati Brigade in the War of Independence and went on to
supervise the establishment of the Armored Corps. He was also
Ambassador in Tanzania and a founder of Arad.
In an interview on IDF Radio, Pundak confirmed that forces
under his command razed Arab villages in 1948. My con-
science is at ease with that, because if we hadnt done so, then
there would be no state by now. There would be a million more
Arabs, he said.
Asked why he still finds it so important to lecture to soldiers,
at his advanced age, he explained: Just like in 1948, the coun-
try is in a state of danger - and if the Jews do not fight as we did
in the War of Independence, the state is in danger. He predict-
ed that if a war breaks out again, Jews will be capable of the
same kind of self-sacrifice as in 1948.
When there is a war, people unite, he explained.
Afterward, they form parties and become divided.
He spoke with pain of the 145 soldiers who were killed under
his command over the years, and said that if they woke up
miraculously and saw the divided country of today, they would
run back to their graves.
And yet, when asked if he feels proud of his country, he said
that his pride runs as high as the rooftop.
Pundak, who was the governor of Gaza in the early 1970s,
said that the credit that is usually given to Ariel Sharon for stop-
ping Arab terror in Gaza in 1971 is mistaken. He said that Sharon
was an unnecessarily cruel commander who once said at a
meeting with officers that he would offer champagne to whoev-
er killed an enemy fighter - and whoever brings him a wounded
enemy will drink soda.
He said: I told him, You are not my commander, I am not
coming to your meetings. (Gil Ronen, Arutz Sheva -- informa-
tionclearinghouse.info - 14 June 2013)
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SHAHNAAZ BEMATH
Thinking positive can work miracles. You may have been told to
guard your thoughts, but felt the advice to be pointless. After all,
your thoughts are private. How can they possibly affect someone
else? The fact is, thoughts do seem to boomerang in some mys-
terious ways. Science has not found a way to measure them as
they have invisible sound waves.
In order to understand how positive thinking works, and how
to use it efficiently, it is important to understand the power of neg-
ative thinking.
Negative thoughts and tensions are like birds. We cannot
stop them from flying near us but, we can certainly stop them
from making a nest in our mind.
The mind can be directed towards positive thinking or nega-
tive thinking. The power of thought is neutral. The way one thinks
determines whether the results are positive and beneficial or neg-
ative and harmful. It is the same about energy acting in different
ways.
Persistent inner work can change habits of thoughts. You
must be willing to put energy and time to avoid negative thinking
and pursue positive thinking, in order to change your mental atti-
tude.
Think of those things which are true, honest, just, pure, love-
ly -- in other words, fill your mind with noble, good thoughts, leav-
ing no room for negative ones to take root. Always think good
about others.
The Noble Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) reported
that Allah, The Most Wise, said: I treat my servant as he thinks
of Me (Bukhari/Muslim). In other words, Allah Taala treats His
servant in the way he thinks of Allah, what he hopes from Him and
how he sets his hopes on Him. So, those who come positive with
a great hope to the door of Mercy of the Almighty Creator will,
Insha Allah, not return empty-handed.
The most powerful weapon you have at your disposal is dua
(supplication). Use it most often. The basis of supplication is to
lift ourselves and our situations to Almighty Allah. It is an inner act
of visualisation. A further step is to contemplate on the beautiful
teachings of Islam. This involves controlling and directing our
thoughts. A simple way to think of this is to imagine your mind to
be like a garden. That garden can be spoilt and overrun by nega-
tive and destructive thoughts (weeds), or it can become an abode
of peace and harmony by the cultivation of flowers (uplifting
thoughts).
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can
grow flowers. Or you can grow weeds.
Are you prone to depression? Do you see your life as a hope-
less mess... Do you consider yourself a failure? If you do, then
you will close your mind, see no opportunities, will behave and
react in such ways as to repel people and opportunities. You will
let the power of negative thinking rule your life. Try replacing such
negative thoughts with positive ones. Talk to your beloved Allah.
Allah did not create a lock without a key, and ALLAH didnt give
you problems without solutions. Trust Him!
While recognising these problems, picture yourself as master-
ing each one. Visualise yourself handling each situation creative-
ly, being a success; gradually allowing your given potential to
blossom.
The beloved Messenger of Allah (Sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam)
advised us: if you look forward to good things, it will happen in
sha Allah.
Thinking positive is a very important in Islam. Always think
that Allah has a plan for you. If something goes wrong, it will lead
you to something good. He is working things out for you, teach-
ing you, guiding you, even if you dont feel it. Have faith and be
ever-thankful. Where faith and hope grows, miracles blossom.
At first, this kind of thought control may seem like an inner
game -- but youll be surprised at how, slowly but surely, your
outer circumstances begin to change. For thought precedes
action, and the right thoughts precede a chain of good actions.
Destructive thoughts, on the other hand, act as poisoning agents.
They embitter and limit the thinker, preventing him or her from
developing good relationships, because others sense the wrong
thoughts telepathically, and shy away from such persons instinc-
tively.
Conversely, if you greet people with the thought that theyll
probably be nice to know, such a positive thought will affect their
response. If youre afraid of someone, replace that fear with a
thought which recognises that the persons given potential core
is probably hidden under layers of unhappiness and negative
thinking. Silently bless and pray for that person, and ask that his
or her true self be given a chance to manifest.
A friend was once terribly upset because someone was
spreading false rumours about her. She could not deny the rumour
publicly. All she could do was pray for the woman, try to think
about her charitably and visualise her acting differently. She did
this consistently for some weeks. One day, unexpectedly, the
woman phoned her to apologise and say shed been mistaken.
Subhaan ALLAH! It seemed like a miracle! But right thinking can
work miracles... Life has many different chapters for us. One bad
chapter doesnt mean the end of the book. Be positive and keep
your faith in Allah. Once we function in harmony with Allahs beau-
tiful laws of love, compassion and forgiveness -- and this includes
spreading good, true and beautiful thoughts and forgiving people
-- our lives will flower as they were meant to.
Think positive, Think different. Dont waste your precious
energy on negative thoughts.
Decide that from today, from this very moment, you are leav-
ing negative thinking behind, and starting on the way towards
positive thinking and behaviour. It is never too late. Soon your life
will turn into a fascinating, wonderful journey. Wake up every
morning with the thought that something beautiful is about to hap-
pen.
Lets welcome each day with a smile and bid it farewell with
a smile. We thank Allah for His blessings. Take advantage of our
positive energy and employ them in doing well in this life and pre-
pare for the next life which is eternal. Lets learn, read and after
that, we will find the entire universe will extend to us its heart and
the whole world will hug us with its beauty... Subhaan Allah!
There is something beautiful in life. You just have to discover
it....be positive and it will find you!
Please send feedback or any constructive comments to:
feedback@eislam.co.za
The Miracle of Positive Thinking
Always think that Allah has a plan for you. If something goes wrong, it will lead you to
something good. He is working things out for you, teaching you, guiding you, even if you
dont feel it. Have faith and be ever-thankful. Where faith and hope grows, miracles
blossom.
Decide that from today, from this very moment, you are leaving negative thinking
behind, and starting on the way towards positive thinking and behaviour. It is never too
late. Soon your life will turn into a fascinating, wonderful journey. Wake up every
morning with the thought that something beautiful is about to happen.
For the first time after 18 years
of marriage, she prepared the
worst dinner for her husband,
the vegetables were over
cooked, meat was burned and
salad was too salty.
At the dinner table, her hus-
band kept silent while he was
eating.
After that, when she was in
kitchen washing dishes he
came to her, smiled at her and
kissed her on her forehead why is this kiss for? she asked
him not believing what he did.
Tonight your cooking reminded me of your cooking in
the first days of our marriage! It reminded me of your cook-
ing as a new bride, so I want-
ed to treat you as if you are a
new bride
This is the good righteous
husband who turned the mis-
takes of his wife to positive
sides in their life together,
because the best Muslim man
is the one who is best to his
wife and should make her feel
that she is so special to him.
Narrated Abu Hurairah that
Prophet Muhammad (sallAllahu alaihi wa sallam) said: The
believers who show the most perfect faith are those who
have the best disposition and the best of you are those who
are best to their wives. [Tirmidhi]
A touching message
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Book: Khuda Ki Basti Mey: Safarnama Lahore wa Islamabad (In
the Land of God: A travelogue of Lahore and Islamabad)
Author: Dr Obaidullah Fahd Falahi
Publisher: Al Qalam Publications, Baramulla, Kashmir.
Year of Publication: 2012
Pages: 232
Price: Rs 125
MUSHTAQ UL HAQ AHMAD SIKANDER
P
akistan and India were parts of the same united subconti-
nent before 1947. In 1947, the subcontinent got parti-
tioned and Pakistan was created. Since then enmity is
prevalent among these two nations. These countries have
also fought four wars against each other and the Kashmir issue
besides other issues still remains a bone of contention between
them.
Travelling to Pakistan still remains a contentious and difficult
task for most Indians, particularly Muslims. This travelogue under
review by a scholar is not a diatribe against the difficulties faced
in getting a visa to Pakistan, neither does it deal with the political
bickering between the two nations.
This travelogue by a seasoned academic who is a researcher
in Political Islam and Islamic Revivalist Movements, deals with his
travel to Lahore and Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on two dif-
ferent occasions. While dealing with his Lahore travels, the author
takes us back to 1988 when he was a research student and had
gone to Lahore to hunt for material and books related to his topic.
He relates his stay with Islami Jamiat Taulba cadres at Lahore who
also helped him out during his stay. He also talks about visiting the
injured mujahedin of Afghan Jihad who were fighting against the
Soviet troops in Afghanistan and were being hospitalized in
Lahore. He feels the impact of Ziaul Haqs Islamisation in Lahore.
He feels that the loud-speakers of mosques at the Friday congre-
gational prayers rebuff the faithful away from the mosques.
Dr Obiadullah also laments the fact that Indian film stars and
movies are quite popular in Pakistan and their influence can be
witnessed on the Pakistani movies and life too. He also relates that
one of his books was published in Pakistan without his consent or
permission and the publisher wasnt ashamed or remorseful.
He is critical of the fact and time and again that Pakistan
betrays its meaning of La Ilalaha Illallah (There is no God but
Allah) and it is a fact that West has conquered it culturally. He also
relates his meeting with the then President of Pakistan, General
Ziaul Haq. He both criticises and praises his policies.
He relates a painful experience he encountered on his return
at Wagah border, where most of his books were confiscated by
the Indian army personnel who labelled them as dangerous and
harmful for the interests of India. Such intellectual enmity and
suffocation is really condemnable.
The second part of the travelogue deals with his recent jour-
ney to Islamabad for a seminar on the Seerah writings
(Biographies of the Prophet) in present times. It was organized by
the International Islamic University of Islamabad (IIUI) during 26-
28 March, 2011. He relates that women writing on Seerah is more
popular in Pakistan than in India. In other fields too, womens par-
ticipation is quite good. Dr Obiadullah talks about the Muhajirs
(those who migrated from India to Pakistan) who were relating
their plight. He advised them that they should stop complaining
and must adopt fundamentals of Islamic fraternity and teachings.
Asking victims to inculcate these qualities would be adding insult
to injury, because dominant groups like Punjabis should have
accepted them with open arms in the first place. Muhajirs were the
people who sacrificed for the sake of Pakistan, but later on they
found that this land of the pure wasnt so pure and inclusive so as
to integrate and assimilate them too.
Dr Obaidullah criticizes Musharrafs policy of moderation. It is
a fact that the Pakistani dictator was rightly called Busharraf by
activists and writers of Pakistan. He was responsible for giving a
fillip to the clash between army and non-State actors that brought
Pakistan to the brink of disaster. He also records the debate about
the Blasphemy Law as promulgated and enforced by Ziaul Haq
regime and how the talk about its amendment led to the assassi-
nation of Governor Salman Taseer. He also talks about the media
war that is going on between India and Pakistan and how news-
papers and electronic media of both countries are involved in a
continuous propaganda war against each other. The Indian media
portrays Pakistan as a dangerous country that would fall apart
soon. Similarly, Pakistan media paints a bleak picture of India and
Indian Muslims. This kind of yellow journalism and biased report-
ing reinforces the hate among the people of these two nations that
diminishes the chances of any permanent peace.
Dr Obaidullah writes about his meetings with various person-
alities belonging to diverse fields of life in Pakistan, particularly
Islamic scholars like Dr Israr Ahmad, Maulana Amin Ahsan Islahi,
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, Zafar Ishaq Ansari, Dr Anees Ahmad,
Maulana Gauhar Rahman, Dr Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi and Prof
Khursheed Ahmad, besides the famous novelist Naseem Hijazi.
This book doesnt read as a travelogue but as a diary and it
deals less with events and what author witnessed during his trav-
els, but more about the Islamic personalities and books. The book
is an important source to know about books which have been
cited throughout the book particularly on the Political Thought of
Islam, given the authors background in this field. The author
could have made a comparison between his latest visit with the
previous one two decades earlier, but he fails on this count.
This book is related more with Islamic ideology, views of
scholars, Muslim Political Thought, proceedings of the seminar
and names of various books, that certainly doesnt make it a very
readable travelogue, but it can act as a reference book on various
aspects of Muslim Political and Religious Thought.
The book is well written, but more seriousness and less aca-
demic style would certainly have made it a good read.
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Pakistan with the eyes of an Indian Muslim
Travelling to Pakistan still remains a
contentious and difficult task for most Indians,
particularly Muslims. This travelogue under
review by a scholar is not a diatribe against
the difficulties faced in getting a visa to
Pakistan, neither does it deal with the political
bickering between the two nations....
The Indian media portrays Pakistan as a
dangerous country that would fall apart soon.
Similarly, Pakistan media paints a bleak
picture of India and Indian Muslims. This kind
of yellow journalism and biased reporting
reinforces the hate among the people of these
two nations that diminishes the chances of
any permanent peace.
Indian Plants of
Commercial Value
Book: Indian Plants of Commercial Value
Author: Dr. M.I.H. Farooqi,
ISBN - 978-81-923414-3-9
Pages, 272
Year: 2013 (First Edition)
Price: Rs. 300
Publishers: Sidrah Publishers, Lucknow - mihfarooqi@sify.com
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DR S.K. JAIN
The title of the present book by
Dr. M.I.H. Farooqi takes my
thoughts back to over a centu-
ry ago, when in 1908 the mon-
umental work Commercial
Products of India by Sir
George Watt was published.
That book was in many ways
an abridged version of Watts
own earlier (1889-93) six vol-
ume work Dictionary of
Economic Products of India
(DEP).
Soon after independence,
the Government of India very rightly decided to get Watts DEP
not only updated to incorporate developments during previous six
decades, but also to enlarge the scope of the work from merely
plants to all natural resources (such as animals and mineral)
under the wider title Wealth of India (1948-76, vols. 1-11).
Though this voluminous and useful work has undergone some
revision yet its price and bulk limit its market among individuals.
Dr. Farooqis present book provides a good solution and con-
tains all that is needed by a grower, trader, exporter, importer and
also a scholar/student, particularly from Ayurvedic or Unani col-
leges.
The book has 12 chapters namely, Spices, Medicinal Plants,
Fatty Oils, Aromatic Oils, Vegetables, Fruits, Dyes, Gums and
Resins, Timbers, Fibres, Starches, and Cereals. In all, the book
covers over 500 plants or plant products. The plants under each
category are arranged alphabetically by internationally accepted
scientific names of the plants. Popular names in English,
Hindustani as well as trade names are given followed by names
in major world languages/countries. The chemical constituents,
commercial use, trade, brief botanical description and availability
in India (natural or planted) are given.
To facilitate access to required plant, a consolidated index to
scientific, trade and more common vernacular names is provided.
A very useful aspect of the book is that it also offers the latest
accepted botanical names of the plants.
The sequence of chapters starting from an apparently less
important group of spices, and ending with the most important
group in our staple diet, the Cereals, may surprise some. The
good justification is the criterion of commercial value and volume
in export / import trade.
Considering the mine of information in the book. the price of
the book is very tempting.
The Author Dr. M.I.H. Farooqi has very well utilized the
resources of libraries, Internet as also his own long research
experience on economic plants. He deserves congratulations.
Undoubtedly, the book will soon find place in many libraries
as also in personal collections of hundreds of people.
It is important to note that Dr Farooqi is the author of some
internationally acclaimed books like Plants of the Quran,
Medicinal Plants in the Traditions of Prophet, and Dictionary of
Indian Gums & Resins
The reviewer, Dr S.K. Jain, is Director (Retd.), Botanical Survey of India,
Kolkata and INSA Hon. Scientist
Book on Kashmir history released
Srinagar: Flash Back-Kashmir Story since 1846 by noted jour-
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June 2. A compilation of 100 selected stories, the book, the
author hopes shall give readers a feel of peoples version of
Kashmirs history.
Introducing the book, the author said Kashmirs history has
been doctored and distorted by vested interests. He stated that
he has relied on eyewitness accounts, personal diaries of polit-
ical workers and unpublished biographies. Most of the stories
in the book shall go as foot notes in main book on Kashmir his-
tory I am working on.The book was released by a group of stu-
dents. (Afsana Rashid)
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Let 99 Muslims be hanged to death
I read the letter written by Mr. Rahul Raj with the title let 99 Muslims
be hanged to death rather than... in your edition of 1-15 th June.
Many of my non-Muslim friends question me and express doubts
about Islaam the way it is misunderstood by Mr. Raj. I really appreci-
ate your efforts for answering him in a convincing manner. I would
also like to humbly request Mr. Raj through your newspaper to read
and learn more about Islaam from authentic sources so that he would
get a wholesome image of this religion.
Rehana Shabbar Hussain, Indore (via email)
Dr. Engineer
I will also never forget that despite his huge engagements, Dr Asghar
Ali Engineer used to reply my letters in whichever language I wrote:
English, Urdu, Gujarati. S. Akhtar, Khanpur Deh 392150
Wrath of Almighty
In this hour of gloom and woe we should give heed toward the catas-
trophes occurred in Uttar Akhand, UP and Behar specially the religious
places as Kedar Nath and Badri Nath have been in the
floods.Thousands of houses broken and flown out like match
boxes.The rebellious water streams giving as if thousands of lions and
tigers collectively sent by God.Thousands of men and women are
missing probably died in the gusts of water and took the grave of
water. They will not come back to their houses. Even if some men will
come back they will not find their houses where they were standing.
We cannot imagine the plight of such people. The whole country
should feel the agony of the sufferers. But alas we do not see any
worry or sorrow in our country men. They are busy in their daily activ-
ities ,Thousands are viewing cricket matches, dancing and singing in
theatres ,clubs and gardens The NGOs are just spell bound Only the
Prime minister and Soniaji flew in copter to see the woes of the affect-
ed areas. The Pm has declared the aid of 1000 crores. This is noth-
ing but what more he could do. Now the most important question
arise why such calamities, catastrophes and disasters come across.
Though this phenomenon is not new but so far the scientists,philoso-
phers,intellectuals etc are still in dilemma. They are not in a position
to reply satisfactorily. They can reply it is by chance and no any valid
reason for this destruction. The holy Quran gives definite reasons for
such incidence. The almighty becomes angry when people worship
other than God ,or they worship several Gods along with one real God.
They reject the teachings of God sent through His messengers.There
are other sins ,murders ,rapes, gang rapes, drinking of wines, Justice
by the government is delayed or denied. apprehension of innocent
youths and putting them in jails for years together. The sins commit-
ted by the people and the government is responsible to enrage
Almighty. If the government is targeting a particular community or reli-
gion and the rest of the communities do not raise objection they face
the wrath of God. Now north Indians are more criminal therefore they
were hit by God.The only remedy is to take forgiveness of Allah and
stop the worship of false deities. Stop the oppression and injustice
towards Muslims. Dr AH Maqdoomi Hyderabad
Statement of Indian Muslim leaders against the Israeli President
Al-Hamdulillah! Allah (s.w.t.) is the best of planners. Let these cancer-
ous, arrogant and self-centred President and his stooges in India, who
are very few in numbers, learn and understand from history the fate
of such people/regime. Muslims, on the other hand, should contem-
plate and try to understand, as to why this Zionist, cancerous, arro-
gant and self-centred President/regime is being permitted by Allah
(s.w.t.) to openly utter such hate-mongering words, that too advising
an independent nation like India, which is 200 times bigger in popula-
tion. It is nothing but the result of our failure to fulfil our commitments
to Allah (s.w.t.), which is giving rise to discord, intimidation, division
and corruption within our Ummah. Then such creatures start barking
and the weak lions start running, not knowing its ability. O Muslims on
the upper deck! Please keep in mind that the ship will sink with you
too, if you fail to help in stopping the water gushing in from the holes
at the bottom of the ship. Let all of us be together, try to mend the
holes created by these hate-mongers of Islam and Allahs help will
surely come. We all should learn lessons from true Islamic history.
Pray Allah (s.w.t.) grant us all His forgiveness for our sins and guide
us to understand Islam in its true essence/sense, keep us united and
to overcome such hurdles with peace and progress. Amin.
Maldar S.A.
maldar101@gmail.com
JDU & BJP
It took seventeen long years for Mr. Nitish Kumar to realise that BJP is
a bad party. As a matter of fact, two things have started haunting him.
One is that the presence of Narendra Modi at the top level, will cut
drastically his own chances of becoming Prime Minister and second-
ly he will be losing a big vote bank of Muslims for the same reason.
Even now, Mr. Nitish praises Atal-Advani duo. Does he mean to say
that Mr. Vajpayee and Mr. Advani were good samaritans. Is it not a fact
that these two people were the chief architects of modern day com-
munalism and they only projected and protected Modi after Gujarat
carnage? Nitish could also have resigned from the union Railway min-
istry immediately after the Gujarat riots, if he really meant secularism.
Now the big question is , whether Mr. Nitish is going to offer only his
opposition to Modi as a sop to the Mulim vote-bank In other words,
will the Muslims of Bihar would remain content and placated by the
Modi factor alone and will they look forward to their development in
the fields of education and economics.
K. Malikul Azeez, Perambur High Road, Chennai
kmalikulazeez@yahoo.com
Big change in Bihar Urdu dailies character
There was anti-Muslim riot news on the first page on 5th June and the
news of the blocking of Masjid construction appeared on page 1 of
Bihar Urdu daily on 6 June. Hindus prevented Masjid construction at
Gaya and at Bhal Patti Darbhanga Hindus prevented Muslims from
calling Azaan in the Masjid on mike. Hindus attacked Muslims after
Maghrib. Earlier such news had been covered on the inner pages but
in recent days a vital change in the Urdu dailies character is seen
because Inquilab now without any government ads started in the
last week of May. S. Haque, Patna
Modi
Modi faithfully played the fascist tune, spiced with Gujarati sub-
nationalism, the common mans desire for economic development
and enjoyed the support of the business elite and the Gujarati diaspo-
ra in the West. But India will not prosper if it is dotted with forts and
fortress in constant conflict with each other. To save India, a reaffir-
mation of the basic values of our freedom movement and of our
Constitution, is needed. The creation of a truly secular state, estab-
lishment of a non-partisan administrative machinery and non-interfer-
ence into judiciary system are pre-requisite for Indias becoming
super power. Gujarat riot of 2002 is a test of our human sensitivity.
The brutal and power-hungry killed innocent persons, exterminated
properties and used the body of women as the foremost battle ground
to wage their holy-war,.. and still there is no sign of regret or
remorse. With no love for democracy, with no belief in the rule of law,
with no respect for human rights Modi remains true to his convictions
and unapologetic to his deeds. This is worse than the original sin.
But the History shall record that in moment of trial, though belatedly,
Nitish Kumar, jeopardising his fate, disassociated its party from Modi
led BJP. Hats off to Nitish Kumar!
Naushad Ansari, Patna - 800 002
ruby.naushad@gmail.com
Ishrat Jahan murder
The Gujarat High Courts direction to the CBI, to ascertain the gen-
uineness of Ishrat Jahans encounter instead of focusing on the inputs
given by Intelligence Bureau (IB) is heartening. But what is depress-
ing was the telecast of a conspiracy story by a news channel -
Headlines Today, about a plot to kill Narendra Modi, at a time when the
CBI was closing in on Rajendra Kumar, a top IB officer for his role in
the alleged fake encounter. It is quite obvious that the IB has chosen
to distract the attention of the people by planting a story through a
media house, which boasted the concocted story as the result of
investigative journalism. Even in these tapes, Ishrat Jahan was nei-
ther a caller nor was she referred by the callers! Yet, the channel had
the audacity to shamelessly declare the telephone tapes as Ishrat
Jahan terror tapes. Doesnt ethical journalism entail a TV channel to
refrain from character assassination of an innocent person?
Syed Sultan Mohiddin, Kadapa (A.P)
sultan_awaz@yahoo.co.in
Sangh Parivar
In the family called the Sangh Parivar, the operative principle is pri-
mogeniture. Thus it is that observers have shown sympathy for Lal
Kishenchand Advani, born 1927, being pushed out by Narendra
Damodardas Modi, born 1950. All know that Modi was to a large
degree created by Advani, so thoughts of parricide cannot be distant.
Primogeniture does not seem to apply in relations between the RSS
and the BJP. Advani promptly withdrew his resignation(s) following a
phone call from Mohan Madhukar Bhagwat, the RSS Fuhrer. Bhagwat,
a former Akhil Bharatiya Sharirik Pramukh who now declares that
women should restrict themselves to doing household chores, was
also born in 1950. A friend remarked yesterday that one of the
brats, Bhagwat, is eminently qualified to handle the other, Modi, by
virtue of having studied veterinary science. This may not amuse
Advani, though.
Mukul Dube, Mayur Vihar 1, Delhi 110091
dube.mukul@gmail.com
Is it a Muslim appeasement or oppression?
English print media is playing a crucial role in favouring the govern-
ment policy of oppression towards the Muslim youths. Caste Hindus
which are rulers of this country are scared that Muslims may rise and
succeed gaining their share of power in India. Islam is slowly pro-
gressing in the most lower caste communities and highly educated
Hindu elites, The opponents cant ideological defeat Muslims. Islam is
spreading throughout the world. Even in America and Europe it is talk
of the day. Thousands of mosques are being constructed in Europe
and America. Proper timings, call of Azan on particular timings give a
sense of spiritual satisfaction to Muslims and even to non-Muslims.
Thousands of mosque have been constructed in cities and villages.
The non-Muslims also contributed for the construction of mosques.
But this state of affair is intolerable to the caste Hindus who are in full
control over the government and have caused thousands of anti-
Muslim riots killing lakhs of Muslims, gutting their shops and houses,
raping their ladies and killing them. The Gujarat genocide was moni-
tored by Narendra Modi.The Muslim youths especially practicing
Islam were targeted. The police have been given free hand to appre-
hend Muslim youths in the false charges of terrorism. Thousands of
them are in jails. The police can put some RDX rods and level the
charge of terrorism. After 5 to 10 years of jail, they are freed. This
gory game is being played by the rulers. They think that they have
adopted a successful strategy toward Muslims of India and Islam.
They do not have perfect parameter to assess whether they have
gained or what they have lost. They have forgotten that there is a
Supreme Power above them. He will do justice one day.
Dr AH Maqdoomi Hyderabad
Mazharul Haque university set aside
Bihar NDA government has been announcing development with jus-
tice and Mazharul Haque university has been kicked from one flat to
another and now it is imparting education in the Haj Bhavan but in this
year, two medical colleges - one at Madhepura, the other at Bettiah -
are going to start. Both UPA & NDA had a common plan to corner
Muslims by thwarting Muslims initiatives. S. Haque, Patna
Burma Nuslims
After the Human Rights Watch report on the genocide of Rohingya
Muslims at the hands of Buddhist terrorists in Myanmar, the apathy of
international community has once again, highlighted the fact about its
claims on the human rights issue that these are just empty and dead.
Human Rights Watch has confirmed in its report that massacre of
Muslims in Myanmar is not just a result of communal riots, but also it
is genocide of Rohingya Muslims. The most dangerous aspect of this
report is that Human Rights Watch has also held Myanmar President
Thein Sein responsible for the genocide that he has failed to take any-
one into account who was responsible for the riots. When the Human
Rights watch report came to light, it was the duty of the international
community to check with Myanmar about crimes against humanity,
but on the contrary the European Union has acted as if it has present-
ed a gift to Myanmar for this massacre. It may be mentioned that the
European Union has announced to permanently lift the ban imposed
on Myanmar. The announcement came on the very next day of release
of the Human Rights Watch report. The European Union had tem-
porarily lifted the ban on Myanmar in 2012, and opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi expressed her consent that reforms were being car-
ried out on merit, so the ban should be lifted permanently. Although
Human Rights Watch has warned the EU that lifting ban from
Myanmar government will be premature because the Myanmar gov-
ernment is involved in the massacre of Muslims and in crimes against
humanity, but the self-proclaimed pioneer of human rights, Europe,
did not consider the Human Rights Watch warning worthy of practice
and by lifting g the ban from Myanmar, it has sort of directly support-
ed the genocide of Muslims taking place in this country. However,
now when the detestable face of Myanmar government and police
have been exposed to the world, the United States, West, Arab coun-
tries, and the Indian government, which presented the resolution in the
United Nations against war crimes in Sri Lanka, must take strong
notice of it and pull all sorts of pressure on the Myanmar government
to ensure the protection of life and property of Rohingya Muslims and
give them all their rights. The European Union should also review the
decision of lifting ban on Myanmar; it should rather impose further
sanctions to stop massacre of Muslims in that country.
Abdul Haque Khan, Azad Gandhi Inter College, Kasganj-UP
Advani
Mr. Advani was the architect of the Babri Masjid issue. Now, the BJP
is well aware of the fact that this issue is no longer working. So they
wanted to get rid of Advani. The entire drama was being played out to
sideline Advani in order to bring Mr. Modi to frontline. It would be dif-
ficult for the BJP to project Narendra Modi as a prime ministerial can-
didate in 2014 Lok Sabha election in the presence of the founder of
the party. It should also be kept in mind that for the BJP, Rahul vs Modi
game appears to be stronger than Rahul vs Advani. But, perhaps the
BJP is taking it too lightly by projecting a controversial figure to its
national politics. They should not forget that the ghost of Gujrat riot
still haunts Mr. Modi. It is no hidden a fact that he has yet to clean his
hands from the Gujrat carnage. There is no doubt that the develop-
ment in Gujrat has been phenomenal but it doesnt exonerate him. He
is responsible for the killing of more than 1200 people. The alienation
of Advani may bring further crisis for the BJP, the result of which may
be disastrous in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election.
Salman Ghani, Patna
BJP feels pain at exposure of fake input of I B.
Whole BJP started screaming as news came that CBI was going to
quiz about input of Ishrat Jahan innocent to Let operative. RAW or IB
or CBI, SIT, police etc are not holy cow and have they immunity to hide
facts? If they are just Let them explain the facts because at last human
lives are precious. But media plays trick in hiding facts as NDTV aired
a programme on CBI quizzing IB about their input. In the panel 3
retired IB, RAW top boss one cong. MP, and BJP leader Ms Lekhi had
duet. This debate was worthless because in panel no fake encounter
victim was included like CP fake encounter relative, Khawaja Unus
fake encounter victims etc. Such victim in panel would have exposed
security agencies conspiracy. But media wouldnt listen such fare
voice barring few media groups. S. Haque, Patna
Modi as BJP supremo
By declaring the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as chairman of
its Election Campaign Committee for the 2014 polls, a move consid-
ered just short of making him the prime ministerial candidate, the
Bharatiya Janata Party, (BJP), has unfolded its real face. The 2002
Gujarat genocide wherein more than 2000 Muslims were massacred
in the state under Narendra Modis rule is a big blot on him which can
never be washed away. The so called aura of development in Gujarat
is nothing but fallacious and attempt by Modi and his supporters to
reshape his image as a champion of development from being a mass
murderer. The fact, in Gujarat the rural poverty of the state is still 51%
and there is no real development found in Gujarat, however, Modi and
his team keep on singing the same tune which is nothing but an
attempt to paint a rosy picture of the state to befool people. However,
a number of contrary vital statics about Gujarat speak otherwise as
the living standards of the common people, which is still abysmal.
Child malnutrition at 48 per cent in Gujarat, which is higher than the
national average, in fact, much higher than the poorest of poor nations
at African like Somalia and Ethiopia with 33%. The infant mortality rate
in Gujarat is 48 per thousand, which is the 10th worst in India,
Education, health and income levels in Gujarat is placed after 8 other
Indian states. However, Modi was no doubt successful in projecting
an image of Gujarat Shining under his leadership; however, the truth
is just the opposite. Though Modi has given huge concessions to big
industrial houses, giving them cheap electricity, land, etc. and has
built roads, etc. But the standard of living of the masses is still at
stake. If you look at the recent figures about Gujarat, they seem to be
very much dismaying. It is a sad day for one of the oldest civilization
in the world that India is seeing the elevation of person accused of
supporting a large scale massacre in 2002. He is so arrogant that he
has not even bothered to acknowledge the brutality and sufferings.
His arrogance is derogatory to the growth of our great nation. History
will never forgive the supporters of this man who does not even have
a family of his own and he seeks to rule the Great Indian family of a
100 billion. His speeches are taunting and far from being civilised.
Does this man love anyone other than himself? Do we really have no
one better than him, well if yes then it is a rather dark prediction for
this nation. The coming 2014 Lok Sabha elections people like Modi
and his party would give a befitting reply and stop Modi in his tracks
before he could unleash his destructive policies at the national level to
bring miseries to millions of people of this great country called
Bharat.
Mohd Ziyaullah Khan, Nagpur - 440013
writeziya@gmail.com
Punishment to Advani
What a pity that a senior most party leader who served the party more
than 50 years was dishonoured and his house was gheraod by mis-
creants. Advani had the greatest honour of demolishing the Babri
Mosque. The reward from the party was debar him from the chair-
manship of the parliamentary party board ..He served as deputy prime
minister and was aspiring to become the primeminister. He was a fit-
ting candidate for the assignment. The only drawback was that he did
not belong to the highest caste ie Brahmin ..It was a great injustice
done to him. The other point of view is that he committed a greatest
sin was the demolition ob Babri Mosque. Being a sheer politician he
could not understand the importance of Mosque in Islam ,what is the
spiritual impact on Muslims. What is the basic deference between a
temple and a Mosque ..Why Muslims gather 5 times to offer Namaz
collectively. He might have thought that if he demolish the he could
construct a grand Ram temple and Hindus make him a Hero. and
finally he will become the Prime Minister of India. But Allah who is God
of All false Gods failed Advani in all plannings. He was debarred from
his post. the Plan of construction of temple was not accepted by Lord
Ram Himself the motivation behind the demolition Mosque was pure-
ly political. The only way out the present plight is take forgiveness of
Allah and analogize Muslims of the world and advise the government
to construct the Moqsue on its previous place. Lest the country shall
break like BabriMosque. Non-Muslims of India are not aware of the
secret powers of Almighty Allah.
Dr AH Maqdoomi Hyderabad
drmaqdoomi@yahoo.com
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Help the victims
of floods in
Uttarkhand
A great tragedy has occurred in the flood- and
cloudburst-hit Uttarakhand over the past few
days. As of June 25, 822 bodies have been
recovered but the state's Chief Minister Vijay
Bahuguna said the final death toll could be in
thousands as many bodies are feared buried
under the debris. About 34,000 stranded people
have been evacuated till now while about 60,000
persons are still stranded in parts of the hilly state
where infrastructure including roads has been
washed off. The only to reach and rescue the
stranded people is by helicopter and planes. More
rains are expected from Monday which means the
misery will continue and evacuation operations
will be hampered. It is estimated that rescue oper-
ations will continued for the next two weeks.
Thousands are still not accounted for. Urgent
relief is required to those stranded as well as to
the natives of those areas and to rebuild life and
infrastructure there.
All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat has
called upon milli organizations to come forward
and offer whatever help is possible to the hapless
victims of the natural calamity.
Charity Alliance too is part of this effort and it
will offer all possible help. We appeal to you to
urgently donate (see page 17 inside) whatever is
possible to help our brothers and sisters in their
hour of need and to boost the government's
efforts to rebuild the devastated areas.
Whatever help comes, will be offered along-
with the milli organizations' donations to the
Prime Minister's relief fund as direct relief work is
not possible for ordinary persons in the present
circumstances where roads have been washed
off. According to the state CM, normal life will not
be possible in the area for a long time to come.
Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan
Chairman, Charity Alliance
President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat
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In April 2013 when two Murshidabad villages (West Bengal) were gutted by fire, 214 families homeless, we sought your
help and asked for donations for distributing corrugated sheets to them.
And this is what your donations can achieve, alhamdulillah
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Before After
T
he genesis of Charity Alliance in early
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continues without any break with the sup-
port of people like you, alhamdulillah. After
having distributed ration every week for
years in the area and offering medical aid to
them as well now alhamdulillah the people
there are in a must better situation.
We continue to run a Vocational
Training Centre there teaching tailoring and
zari embroidery. And Alliance School near
Jalangi in Murshidabad was started in
2009. The school currently has bamboo
rooms and needs pucca classrooms to
pass recognition requirements. Donations
to building fund are most welcome.
Apar t from Murshidabad, which
remains our main focus, we also offer
financial help on a smaller scale to poor
students and individuals for education and
medical help in Delhi.
Visit www.charityalliance.in for more
details or call 0-9818120669