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MAHTAB ALAM
L
ast year, on 3 June 2011, Bhajanpura vil-
lage of Forbesganj block (Araria district,
Bihar) witnessed police firing on a num-
ber of villagers while they were protesting
against the blockage by a private company of a
road that connected their village to the Idgah,
Karbala and market. The firing was ordered by
the then Superintendent of Police (SP), Garima
Malik. In the firing at Bhajanpura, four civilians,
including a woman and an infant, were killed on
the spot and nine were badly injured.
During my visit to the village, I was told that
in addition to the SP and the SDO, a local coun-
cilor (with political links to BJP and Deputy Chief
Minister, Sushil Kumar Modi) was also present,
and not only did he instigate the police, he him-
self personally fired upon the villagers. The pro-
testors were chased into their homes and killed.
Later, a gruesome video recording of a police-
man jumping and trampling upon the bodies of
the injured, half-dead young men, exposed the
depths to which the state machinery had plum-
meted in the name of upholding law and order,
and the reality of good governance propagated
by Nitish Kumar government.
A year after the brutal killings, the victims
are still waiting for justice. The one-man
Commission instituted to investigate the matter
is yet to submit its report, though it was sup-
posed to do it within six months of its institution.
Similarly, the report of the fact-finding team of
the National Commission of Human Rights
(NHRC), which visited the village in the month of
July last year, is yet to be made public. So far,
compensation has not been granted on the plea
that the matter is under investigation. Not a sin-
gle officer or police personnel or private parties
involved in the firing have been suspended or
charged. Moreover, when a PIL was filled at the
Supreme Court of India seeking CBI enquiry into
the matter, the Bihar government did not initially
take serious notice of the Supreme Court, and
later, through an affidavit, it termed the killings
as a minor incident. But this is not the first time
that the state and its apparatus have denied jus-
tice to its citizens. Looking at various cases of
police firing and state-supported violence, it is
evident that it has become a pattern of gover-
nance.
Take the case of Gopalgarh village of
Bharatpur district of Rajasthan. On
14 September last year, ten people were killed
and 38 injured by police firing while praying
inside the Jama Masjid. The incident took place
when the police resorted to indiscriminate firing
on the mosque amid tension between Gujjars
and Muslims. Some of the policemen even
joined the armed Gujjar mob which stormed into
the mosque and lynched the worshippers. The
firing was ordered by the Bharatpur Collector
Krishna Kunal. After much pressure and
statewide protests, the Collector was suspend-
ed for his failure to control the communal vio-
lence. But recently, in a quiet move following a
stay granted by the Central Administrative
Tribunal (CAT), the Congress-led Government
in Rajasthan has reinstated Krishna Kunal!
The list of massacres and impunity does not
end here. Here is another story from the south-
ern state of Kerala. On 17 May, 2009, the Kerala
police entered a Muslim fishermen colony at
Beemapalli and opened fire at the locals, killing
six and injuring 52. The deceased included a 16-
year-old boy playing cricket at the beach, who
after being shot at, was attacked with the bayo-
net of a gun. Three years down the line, nothing
has yet been done. The judicial commission
instituted under the chairmanship of Justice
K Ramakrishnan in August 2009, which began
functioning on 17 March, 2010 and collected
evidences from almost 60 witnesses, submitted
its report to the Chief Minister on 4 January,
2012. However, the report is yet to be made
public, leave alone the question of implementing
its recommendations. The firing took place when
the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM)-led
Left Democratic Front government was in
power. Now, the state is ruled by the Congress-
led United Democratic Front, with the Muslim
League as its major ally. Despite the change in
power, the secular Congress, and the
Champion of the Muslim Cause -- the Muslim
League -- being at the helm of affairs, there is no
sign of justice. The way government after gov-
ernment try to hush-up the cases indicates that
they are nothing but partners in crime.
Here, one is also reminded of the cases of
communal violence in Rudrapur (Uttarakhand),
Moradabad (Uttar Pradesh), and many others
like them. However, the classic case out of all
these is the case of Hashimpura, a town near
Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh, which took
place 25 years ago. On 22 May, 1987, in
Hashimpura, 42 innocent Muslims were killed in
cold blood by the personnel of Provincial Armed
Constabulary (PAC). Vibhuti Narayan Rai, the
then Superintendent of Police of the nearby dis-
trict Ghaziabad, and one of the witnesses of the
massacre, told this writer once, There are some
experiences that stick with you throughout your
life. They always stay with you like a nightmare
and sometimes are like debts on your shoul-
ders. He added that the experience at
Hashimpura massacre was such an experience
for me.
Trial in the case, which was transferred from
Ghaziabad court to Tis Hazari, Delhi, on the
orders of the Supreme Court, is yet to conclude.
Advocate Akbar Abidi, additional special public
prosecutor told this writer last year that the case
was in the last stages of the presentation of
prosecution witnesses. There were around 140
witnesses in the case, out of which more than
20 died during the last 24 years. Eighty three
witnesses have already been produced before
the court. Even the accused, 19 in all, got
reduced to 16; three died during the course of
this period. Despite all this, the matter is still in
the court and the victims are still in the hope of
getting justice.
Forbesganj, Hashimpura, Beemmapalli,
Gopalgarh, Rudrapur and many other parts of
India might not have any direct geographical or
political connection but there is something which
connects them all together: massacres and
impunity. Crime, nay terror and violence
unleashed by the State and its various agen-
cies, denial of justice to the victims of these
massacres and killings. At all these places,
while the victims live in fear, the perpetrators are
roaming free under the patronage of the state
governments. Notably, it does not matter which
political party is in power. It includes, from the
secular Congress to the communal BJP to the
torchbearers of social justice, the JDU and BSP
to the Marxist - CPM. When it comes to punish-
ing police personnel and state officials, all are
alike. In short, it can be said that all these gov-
ernments may be divided by parties but are unit-
ed in massacres and impunity!
The author is a civil rights activist and freelance
journalist based in Delhi.
United in massacres and impunity
Forbesganj, Hashimpura, Beemmapalli, Gopalgarh, Rudrapur and many other
parts of India might not have any direct geographical or political connection
but there is something which connects them all together: massacres and
impunity. Crime, nay terror and violence unleashed by the State and its various
agencies, denial of justice to the victims of these massacres and killings. At all
these places, while the victims live in fear, the perpetrators are roaming free...
The latest episode in a section of our
administration's war on the Muslim com-
munity in the name of fighting terror has
just taken the toll of a young Muslim terror-
accused lodged in the most secure area of
a high-security jail in Pune. This crime in
custody took place in the morning of the
day he was to be returned to Delhi because
Maharashtra ATS headed by an officer
known for his nexus with the underworld
failed to find an evidence against him.
Speculation is now rife that the good
underworld, i.e., its Hindu brand, has liqui-
dated Qateel Siddiqui inside the high secu-
rity jail. Even his murderers have claimed
to have committed their crime as soldiers
against terrorists.
There is no reason not to believe that
Qateel, who was only an accused until his
murder, was eliminated by the ultra-nation-
alist ATS using ultra-nationalist criminals
belonging to the tribe who served Bharat
Mata by exploding bombs in Malegaon and
Ajmer etc. Their cohorts in the
legal profession were forcefully
preventing advocates from fight-
ing the cases of youths picked up at ran-
dom with little proof. Politicians and judges
too were pitching in by refusing to show
any understanding to the terror-accused
even though there would be no shred of
evidence against them as most of the time
the evidence was cooked up post-detention
and confessions obtained through third
degree torture.
Qateel too was badly tortured even
while in the custody of the notorious
Special Cell of Delhi Police. He relatives
saw and photographed his injuries and
marks of torture during his appearances in
courts in Delhi but he told the judges that
he was not tortured because he feared that
he will be subjected to more torture if he
told the truth.
Qateel's murder is an albatross round
the neck of our dubious democracy and a
telling testimony that life and honour of a
Muslim is no longer safe in India.
ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN
MURDER MOST FOUL...1,4,13 DR ABDUL HAQ...12
Murder Most Foul
MG/Yusuf
Let us start
Lok Sabha
election
preparations
from here
Kosi
Kalan
Communalism
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MUSHTAQUE MADNI
If dreams have an old habit of dying unceremoniously, cherished
dreams have a worse habit: killing others mercilessly. If Indias
forefathers and freedom fighters were ready to lay their lives for
a secular Independent India, their successors in the Congress,
barring few, are ready to make India contrary to the freedom fight-
ers dreams.
It is hardly surprising then that the brave Union Home
Minister P. Chidambaram who, not long ago, had publicly spoken
about the menace of the Hindutva terrorism. But he is now silent
after RSS progeny BJP took him to task for committing the grave
sin of crossing the Lakshman Rekha. In its unending onslaught
in Parliament last winter, which resulted in the loss of hundreds of
crores to the public exchequer, BJP, in the garb of nailing him
down in the 2G scam, saw to it that Chidambaram could not open
his mouth during the entire session.
But what is surprising now is that after that unfortunate inci-
dent, both the warring parties, especially BJP which was baying
for Chidambarams blood, seem to have arrived at a mutual
understanding of safeguarding each others interests. And the
basis of this secret understanding seems that Chidambaram
would never again make a mention of Hindutva terror; in return
the BJP would not take him to task in Parliament.
But, the drama that unfolded many a secret between the two
doesnt stop here. With NCTC in the offing, Chidambaram, a
Tamil Brahmin, seems to be determined to launch it at any cost.
Small wonder then, that the strongest opposition, apart from
many a chief minister, came from none but Narendra Modi, a
Shudra belonging to the Teli caste and a permanent victim of
RSS Brahminical conspiracies. He seems to have understood
that NCTC is nothing but a glorious version of Manusmiriti,
Brahmins deadliest weapon against non-Brahmins and unques-
tionable law unto itself.
Chidambaram, ostensibly, also chose to ignore the Ram
Pradhan Committee report about 26/11 that clearly mentioned
that IB, the premier intelligence agency, received specific infor-
mation with longitude and latitude details about the expected
arrival of the Pakistani terrorists. But IB chose not to pass such a
specific information either to the Western Naval Command or to
the Mumbai Police to whom it mattered most.
Chidambaram, given the compact and all alert network he
must be presiding over, also must be in the know of the book
Who Killed Karkare written by S. M. Mushrif which squarely
blamed IB for staging the carnage with the single aim to have
Hemant Karkare liquidated and protect the identities of the mas-
terminds of the bomb blasts that could well be respected celebri-
ties of the Sangh Parivar. In many a function held across the
country, Mushrif openly stated that 26/11 was a meticulously
planned and systematically staged mayhem. It seems nobody,
including the Union Home Ministry, wants to take cognizance of
such a grave charge despite Mushrif challenging the entire sys-
tem for an open and live public debate on any TV channel.
Understandably then, the media conveniently shut its doors, win-
dows and gates in the face of Mushrif.
Mr. Chidambaram also appears to be uncomfortable with
another book, Godses Children - Hindutva Terror in India, which
has thoroughly documented research work by Subhash Gatade,
a Maharashtrian writer. But since Chidambaram happens to be
an integral part of the system that invariably has deep and com-
mitted sympathy with the Hindutva brigade, he couldnt find time
to release the latter book dealing with a strictly taboo subject
while only days ealier he had found time to share the dais with
BJPs Arun Jaitley to release a novel on the fictitious Indian
Mujahidin authored by a scribe from the Indian Express, the so-
called leader of journalism of courage.
It is now an open secret that the Sangh Parivars talented off-
shoots Abhinav Bharat and Sanatan Sanstha were constantly
engaged in bomb blasting and terror activities across the country
and government of Maharashtra had even recommended to the
Centre to ban Sanatan Sanstha. But Mr. Chidambaram failed to
find courage to ban the Sanatan Sanstha while renewing the ban
on SIMI on fictitious grounds and proofs cooked by some fertile
minds in his ministry and later parroted by police stations in vari-
ous places which filed identical reports. Chidambaram is also well
aware that in Bhonsla Military School of Nasik and Akanksha
Resort of Pune over five hundred Hindutva terrorists were trained
by serving and retired Army personnel including Lt. Col. Purohit
Prasad. But despite these facts no attempt was ever made even
to question let alone arrest them and shut down these dubious
places. They are so bold that they are now holding an open con-
ference in Goa to convert India into a Hindu rashtra and one of
their ilk has just been released in the Malegaon 2008 case.
Cant we then, the lost sheep of erstwhile Bharat, from the
above cited stray examples, draw a logical conclusion that
Mr. Chidambaram has surrendered to the forces busy to convert
India into an Aryavart Hindu Rashtra. Is it not high time we wished
him good luck and goodbye?
The author is the editor of Usool, Pune
How long will it take to establish Hindu Rashtra, Mr. Chidambaram?
It is now an open secret that the Sangh
Parivars talented offshoots Abhinav Bharat
and Sanatan Sanstha were constantly engaged
in bomb blasting and terror activities across
the country and government of Maharashtra
had even recommended to the Centre to ban
Sanatan Sanstha. But Mr. Chidambaram failed
to find courage to ban the Sanatan Sanstha
while reneweing the ban on SIMI on fictitious
grounds and proofs cooked by some fertile
minds in his minitry and later parroted by
police stations in various places which filed
identical reports...
MANSOOR AHMAD AJAZI
Some narrow-minded people not only question the necessity of
article 370 in the Constitution of India, but they demand its
removal. Antagonists of article 370 should know that there is also
an article 371 in the Constitution of India which is similar in nature
of article 370.
Let me first explain what is article 370? Article 370 has been
incorporated in our constitution to grant some special status and
privileges to the state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). These include
the sanction to frame a constitution for the state and restrict the
power of Parliament to frame laws for J&K. It is a historical fact
that when the Maharaja of J&K decided to accede the state in
India, provision for a separate constitution for the state was also
included in the agreement with Govt. of India.
Our nation is like a flowerpot of different religions, castes,
races, languages, cultures, traditions and customs. The founding
fathers of our constitution were wise people with a distant vision.
They felt that a uniform law cannot be enforced in the length and
breadth of the country. It is why the constitution was made flexi-
ble and sentiments of all were kept in mind. In part iii under the
head of fundamental rights vide article 15, discrimination on
grounds of religion, caste, race, sex or place of birth is prohibit-
ed, whereas under article 29, citizens of the country have been
empowered with right to protect their languages, scripts and cul-
tures.
In the light of the above-mentioned rights some relaxations
have been granted to a number of states and regions. Many peo-
ple may not be aware of the fact that when the land reforms act
1950 was enacted in united Bihar, zamindari was abolished
whereas in some parts of Bihar, which is now Jharkhand, zamin-
dari in tribal areas was left intact and this continues till date. In
Jharkhand for Chotanagpur region Chotanagpur tenancy act
and for Santhal Praganas region Santhal Praganas tenancy act
is in vogue. In the name of Mundari Khuntkatti, Korkar,
Bhuinhari and others zamindari still continues in that region. In
1969 Bihar Scheduled Areas Regulation Act was passed by
which tribals of the region, which is now Jharkhand, were given
rights to take back land free of cost which were transferred to
non-tribals 30 years before the enactment of the said act. Though
these laws are contrary to articles 13 & 31(A) of the constitution
but these have been legalised constitutionally by incorporating
them in article 31(B) & ninth schedule of the constitution. In the
ninth schedule of the constitution, there are altogether 284 acts
which have been included to validate special provisions for the
citizens of almost all the states of the Indian Union. In addition to
this, protagonists of uniform civil code should know that in Kolhan
area of West Singhbhum district of Bihar, now Jharkhand, civil
procedure code is not in vogue. In Kolhan area, civil cases are
decided by a special law called Kolhan act.
Thus the state of J&K is not an exception for which special
provisions have been made in the constitution. In fact, special
provisions have been made vide article 371 of the constitution to
protect the rights including culture and custom of various states
of this country. Whereas article 370 is a temporary arrangement,
article 371 has special status. Under article 371, people of differ-
ent states have been accorded special concessions as is obvious
from the following facts:
Vide article 371, provisions have been made to establish
development boards for Vidarbha, Marathwada and Saurashtra
regions of Maharashtra and Kutch region of Gujarat, as well as
for equitable and adequate facilities in technical education, voca-
tional training and adequate opportunities of employment in govt.
services in these regions.
Vide article 371(A) and371(G), special provisions have been
made for the states of Nagaland and Mizoram by which no act of
parliament in respect of their religion or social practices, custom-
ary law and practices, administration of civil and criminal justice
involving decisions according to their customary laws, ownership
and transfer of land shall apply to the states of Nagaland and
Mizoram unless the legislative assembly of the respective state
by a resolution decides so.
Vide article 371(B & C), specific provisions have been made
to constitute special committees and other privileges for the trib-
al areas of Assam and Manipur. According to article 371(D),there
are special provisions in respect of the state of Andhra Pradesh
for equitable opportunities and facilities for the people belonging
to different parts of that state. Vide article 371(H), governor of
Arunachal Pradesh has been empowered with special responsi-
bility for law and order in that state. Besides these as per article
371(F & I), special provisions have been made for the states of
Sikkim and Goa respectively.
From the perusal of above-mentioned facts it is crystal clear
that the article 370 for J&K is not the only such provision insert-
ed in the constitution. Rather, special provisions have been made
vide article 371 for other states also, viz., Assam, Andhra, Tripura,
Manipur, Goa, Sikkim, Nagaland, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Beside these, there are 284 laws pertaining to almost all the
states and Union territories of the country which are contrary to
Constitution of India but they have been legalised and protected
by a special article 31(B) in the constitution. Over and above
these, laws have also been framed for the tribal areas of Assam,
Meghalaya, Tripura and Manipur vide articles 244 & 275. As such
the question arises why so much hue and cry to repeal the article
370? Why not the antagonists of article 370 demand repeal of
articles 31(B), 244, 275 and 371 also. Justice demands that all
those articles should be repealed or they all should continue to
facilitate the people of all parts of the country to come together in
the national mainstream and prosper.
The author is a former Joint Secretary to Govt. of Bihar
Many peple may not be aware of the fact that when
the land reforms act 1950 was enacted in united
Bihar, zamindari was abolished whereas in some
parts of Bihar, which is now Jharkhand, zamindari
in tribal areas was left intact and this continues till
date. In Jharkhand for Chotanagpur region
Chotanagpur tenancy act and for Santhal
Praganas region Santhal Praganas tenancy act...
Why Only Article 370?
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012 3
NATIONAL
New Delhi: A delegation of Darul Uloom
Deoband on 25 May met Prime Minister Dr.
Manmohan Singh seeking his attention to the
terror-related arrests of innocent Muslim youth.
The delegation, headed by Maulana Abul
Qasim Nomani, Rector of Darul Uloom
Deoband, demanded setting up of fast-track
courts for speedy disposal of terror cases.
The delegation told the prime minister that
Deoband has always condemned terrorism but
it also condemns the arrest of innocents in the
name of terrorism. Many such innocent people
have been acquitted by courts, showing the
fact that the related investigating agencies did
not fulfill their responsibilities well before arrest-
ing these youth, and in the events of terrorism,
a particular community has been targeted on a
pre-planned basis. Innocent people arrested
like this are still rotting in many lock-ups and
jails, and a number of them, despite having
been acquitted by courts, are yet to be
released. The delegation sought PMs special
attention to the terror-related arrests
and demanded the government to:
Start of trials of those people
who are in the prisons on terror
charges in fast track courts;
Stop the arrest of innocent peo-
ple as well as curb the mindset
of accusing a particular commu-
nity after every terror incident.
Reject the proposal to set up
central madrasa board.
Review the provision of Direct
Tax Code and exempt Mosques,
Madrasas, Maktabs and reli-
gious institutions from taxation
as before.
Play an effective role in support-
ing the Palestinian cause
Exempt madrasas from RTE
The delegation comprised of the following:
Mufti Abul Qasim Nomani, Rector of Darul
Uloom Deoband and the President of All India
Rabta Madaris Islamia Arabia, Maulana
Rahmatullah Qasmi, member of governing
body Darul Uloom Deoband, Maulana
Mahmood Asad Madani, former MP, Maulana
Shaukat Ali Qasmi, General Secretary of Rabta
Madaris Islamia Arabia & teacher in Darul
Uloom Deoband, Maulana Muhammad Salman
Bijnori, teacher in Darul Uloom Deoband.
Deoband ulama meet the Prime Minister
A recent report of Dr Vijay Raghvan and Roshni
Nair of the Centre for Criminology and Justice
at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)
shows that Muslim population in Maharashtra
jails is 36 percent while the Muslim population
in the state is just 10.6 percent.
Commissioned by the State Minorities
Commission as a follow-up to the Sachar
Committee report which lamented that in
Maharashtra Muslims account for 10.6% (2001
survey) of the general population, yet they com-
prise 32.4 % of the prison population (the cur-
rent prison population is 36%), the report is
being hotly debated among government offi-
cials. At a recent meeting called by minorities
affairs minister Naseem Khan, officials dis-
cussed a number of measures to not just pre-
vent Muslim youth from committing crimes but
also to provide legal aid to the imprisoned and
rehabilitate them post-release. Among the
plans in the pipeline are free legal aid to
inmates, vocational training, sensitising the
police and counselling and career guidance for
Muslim youth in general.
Based on interviews with 339 Muslim inmates
in 15 prisons, the TISS report does not address
the oft-raised question of alleged discrimination
against Muslim offenders at the time of register-
ing the case. Our teams questions were first
approved by the jail authorities, says Raghvan.
A source reveals that at first some officials at
Mantralaya were not in favour of allowing a
headcount of, and interviews with, Muslim
inmates. However, when the Minorities
Commission and TISS team persisted, the offi-
cials relented on condition that they would vet
the questionnaire. They deleted the questions
related to alleged torture and discrimination by
the police, says the source.
Raghavan and senior criminal lawyer Majeed
Memon point out that if offenders were aware of
the Prohibition of Offenders Act, 1958, which
can be invoked to avoid imprisonment if the
offence is minor, many of them would not have
been jailed. An accused can give a bond of 12
or 24 months to the court, which then appoints
a probation officer who monitors his behaviour,
explains Memon. Only if he is found guilty of
repeating an offence is he punished with impris-
onment.
The report appears to bear out the fact that
some of the offences could well be minor.
Raghvan says that 75.5% of the respondents
were arrested for the first time and 24.5% were
repeat arrestees. This shows that majority of
the respondents were not career criminals,
says the report. Adds Raghavan, We found
that over 30% of the prisoners were not allowed
to talk to their relatives at the time of arrest. This
violates the rights of an accused.
The pertinent question remains: Why do so
many Muslims join crime? The report discusses
several reasons such as lack of resources and
income opportunities, peer pressure and con-
flict with the police. An important one is the area
of residence -- many respondents who were
involved in repeat offences came from neigh-
bourhoods where, they said, they were witness
to the flourishing of illegal activities since child-
hood. A considerable number were arrested for
alleged forgery of documents, making fake cur-
rency notes, cheating and fraud. Since many
Muslim ghettoes are blacklisted by the banks,
even better educated people forge documents
to get loans. Some of them paid agents to
make fake documents in order to get the loan,
explains the report.
Although Dr Raghvan declines to discuss in
detail the alleged police discrimination against
Muslims, a few confessions do pertain to it.
Sajid, a prison inmate with a criminal record,
told the researchers: I am trying to make a new
beginning. Every time I start some work, the
police arrest me on some charge or the other.
They also demand money from me. Those who
can pay are set free. The police are very pow-
erful and can do anything. The TISS report
says that most Muslims echo these sentiments:
They view the police as an unjust system using
unfair methods in the performance of their
duties. (Excerpted from Mohammed
Wajihuddins report in Times of India, 3 June,
2012)
MG comment: It may be added here that this is
only a sample of what prevails all over the
country. In almost every jail, the Muslim popula-
tion far exceeds its ratio in the state population.
This fact was known to the Sachar Committee
but it preferred to suppress it on the erroneous
assumption that publication of such data will
criminalise the Muslim community while the
fact is that it will only criminalise the Indian state
and society which maltreats its largest minority.
The Indian Muslim is subject to arbitrary arrests
on flimsy charges. Being unable to arrange
adequate legal defence, he loses the case and
being unable to arrange surety, he cannot get
bail. The lot of the Indian Muslim is somewhat
similar to that of the blacks in the US. It is time
for the Indian government and national and
international human rights organisations to take
note of this gross violation of the human rights
of Indias largest religious minority (Zafarul-
Islam Khan)
36% of Maharashtras prisoners are Muslims
Quote,
Unquote
[By demoishing the Babri Masjid] The BJP
may have built its vote bank in the Hindu com-
munity or may have refurbished the image of
Hindutva... But what the party demolished for
a few seats was the Muslims implicit trust in
Indias secular polity. The common man realis-
es, if not the BJP, the harm it caused to the
countrys integrity.
Kuldip Nayar
G.M. Banatwalla Saheb
M.Com., B.Ed., LL.B.
Born: 15 August 1933; Died: 25 June 2008
Former Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
Former President, Indian Union Muslim League
with profound reverence and respect from:
Dr. Haji Fahim Ezaz Haji M Yusuf Lala M.S. (Opthal.)
City Eye Hospital, Opp.: New G K General Hospital, Lotus,
Bhuj-370001 Kutch Gujarat Mobile Number +91-9825812060
E-mail: dr_fmlala@yahoo.co.in Visit us: www.cityeyehospitalbhuj.com
Since 1997, the Coordinator of Centre of
Professional Courses at Aligarh Muslim University
has been appealing to AMU Vice Chancellors, Uttar
Pradesh State Medical Faculty and to other con-
cerned officers that the students of Paramedical
Courses at AMU are unfairly treated for no fault of
theirs. They are not entitled to apply in U.P.
Government jobs because these courses are not
listed in U.P. State Medical Faculty, Lucknow. They
appealed time and again that something should be
done to deal with this lacunae.
Regarding this problem, the
Association of Indian Universities wrote
to AMU way back in 1998 that
degrees/diplomas awarded by
Statutory Universities are recognized
courses to be equated with the corre-
sponding awards of other Universities in
the country. There is no need to seek
any fresh recognition from any outside agency.
Despite this clear-cut clarification students of AMU
paramedical courses continue to face the same
problems.
Committees, meetings, consultations, corre-
spondences have failed to solve this problem
which is faced by the students of the following eight
paramedical courses at AMU: Diploma in
Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Medical Lab Technology
(Pathology, Microbiology, Biochemistry), Operation
Theatre Management, Dialysis Technique,
Ophthalmic Assistance, Medical Lab Technology
(Radiology) and Certificate in Dental Hygiene.
In each reply, AMU administration repeats the
line that Section 6 of the AMU Act states that
degrees, diplomas granted by it shall be recog-
nized by Central and state governments and hence
its students should not be discriminated for jobs in
Central & state Governments. But this assertion
does not solve the students problem as they con-
tinue to be discriminated against by
U.P.
The stand of U.P. State Medical
Faculty is that it is possible to enlist
AMUs paramedical courses as recog-
nized only if the structure and content
of the courses are according to their
guidelines and the examinations of
the courses are held through them.
The U.P. State Medical Faculty gives the example
of Diploma in General Nursing at AMU which is run
according to their guidelines and is recognized.
It is hard to understand how this status quo will
change. Will AMU move or the U.P. State Medical
Faculty change its position. This imbroglio contin-
ues for the past 15 years and nothing has changed
causing immense suffering to hundreds of stu-
dents. Perhaps the new VC will look into the matter
and find a solution.
Paramedical courses at AMU suffer
from bureaucratic apathy
NATIONAL
4 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
Women in J&K paid Rs 30
per month to clean toilets
Satya Devi who has been cleaning school toilets and
fetching a bucket full of water from a distance of 50
meters for the last 12 years gets a salary of Rs 25-30
a month which is in contrast to the fixed amount of
wages of Rs 125 a day for unskilled workers as per
government norms. In the absence of running water
supply in the school, Satya Devi has to make at least
three trips to fetch water irrespective of all odds. The
government has clarified its position on the issue by
saying that the minimum wage criteria is only applica-
ble to those workers who at least work for six hours
daily and that is why Satya is not eligible for it because
she is working on a temporary basis and that too for an
hour daily. Ironically, the Jammu and Kashmir legisla-
tors salaries and pension were doubled last year to
meet expenses due to rising prices but no one even
thought of increasing the wages of 15000 water
women, mostly widows. Om Prakash, Trade Union
leader in 2006 made an attempt to highlight their griev-
ances by bringing these women together under the
banner of Water and Mid Day Meals Workers Union.
Midday meal cooked in school with
toilet water
At a time when lots of emphasis is put on the need for
quality education with the help of RTE and compulso-
ry education there is a higher primary school in
Sundarapalys in Karnatakas Kolar district where the
midday meal is being cooked in toilet water. The plight
of students does not end here because at times even
wooden pieces are chopped off from the school door
and used to cook the meal when there is no gas avail-
able. There might be many more schools where the
situation could be even worse than what one can see
or imagine. Schools continued to ignore quality infra-
structure despite repeated raps from the High Court.
This school in Kolar district has got only one tap to fill
water and that too in the toilet. The filters supplied to
all schools in Kolar district so far remain unpacked.
Surprisingly, only 10 students get midday meal as
against 85 claimed by the authorities. Rs 137.1 crore
allocated for the Akshara Dasoha which is part of the
midday meal scheme in 2003 was increased to Rs 330
crore in 2011. But despite the hike in allocation there
has been no visible difference in these schools which
narrates the realities and problems implementing the
schemes aimed at quality education. The allocation for
midday meal by the centre for 2011-12 was Rs 507.20
crore. Rs 90 crore was allocated for the up-gradation
of kitchen facilities. Going by the report of meals
cooked in school in toilet water it portrays that there
has been a complete breakdown of the implementing
mechanism to support these schemes for desired
results.
Dalit families leave Haryana due to
boycott
Dalits of Bhagana village in Haryana have left their
homes because of social boycott and are now sitting
outside the Hisar district administration headquarters
to protest against the upper caste villagers. Seeing the
gravity of the situation, Police have been deployed in
the village to prevent any further incident. Other back-
ward communities of the village are also supporting
these Dalits. The Dalits of the village had to rush in to
the district headquarters after a low caste farmer was
stopped from using a village pond by the members of
the upper caste. After realising the threat from upper
caste members the Dalits left the village to protect
themselves and also to protest against upper caste
discrimination.
Delhi is the capital of missing children
According to a data released by the Union home min-
istry in Parliament, as many as 5,111 children have
disappeared from Delhi last year and on an average
14 children go missing in the capital daily which makes
it the capital of missing children. No measure in place
seems to have been working on the desired scale
because till April 15 this year as many as 1146 children
have gone missing. What is more surprising is that the
governments figures are three times higher than what
was claimed by an NGO Bachpan Bachao
Andolan(1575). Of the total missing children in 2011
there has been no trace of 1359 children. Initially, it
was thought to be another ghost of a Nithari but the
detectives have so far ruled out any possibility of
Nithari like situation. B Bhamathi, additional secretary
in the ministry has written letters to the concerned
authorities saying that seeing the complex nature of
the problem it requires attention of both Centre and
states because these missing children are vulnerable
to exploitation, abuse, begging, prostitution, pae-
dophilic nets, organ trade and human trafficking.
MG NEWS DESK
N
ew Delhi: The Iranian government has cleared a long-standing
Indian proposal to open an Indian cultural house in Tehran. It
had been a long-standing demand of both ICCR and Indian external
affairs ministry to open an Indian cultural house in Tehran to promote
Indian culture there on the lines of the Iranian cultural houses that
are functioning in India to promote Persian language and culture
here. Reliable sources said that this demand has now been taken
note of and consequently the Iranian Government is finally going to
allow India to open its culture house in Tehran. Iran currently runs
three official cultural houses in India, at Delhi, Mumbai and
Hyderabad.
Officials in the Indian external affairs ministry are of the opinion
that Iran is finally accepting this request due to the strains that have
developed with India ever since the US tried to force Delhi into a sit-
uation where India has to choose between Iran and US. These offi-
cials are of the opinion that Iran has till now been delaying Indian pro-
posal because despite Indian cultural ties with Iran being thousands
of years old, there are certain aspects of Indian culture which are
seen as un-Islamic in Iran. Dance and some forms of music are seen
as un-Islamic by the clergy. Add to it certain restrictions that are there
on Iranian people in interacting with foreigners due to all-out attempts
by Western countries to influence these people against their own
government.
Recently, Indias relations with Iran have got further strained in
the wake of the attack on the Israeli embassys car in New Delhi and
charges that certain Iranian nationals were involved in the attack.
New Delhi has come under pressure from Washington to join inter-
national sanctions to force Iran to stop its nuclear programme. Indias
historical ties with Iran, and its reliance on Iranian oil, have posed a
severe foreign policy dilemma.
Fiercely independent in its foreign policy and wary of angering its
huge Muslim population, India says it will only respect sanctions
approved by the United Nations Security Council. This continues to
be a public stance despite evidences that India is gradually drifting
towards US due to pressure. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar
Salehi visited New Delhi last month. (RNI)
India to open cultural house in Tehran
New Delhi: Communal riots broke out in Kosi Kalan, a town of Mathura
district on Friday, 1 June, in which on the first day two Muslim youths
were killed. On the first day, the situation became very explosive when
cases of stoning, firing, looting and torching of shops and vehicles took
place. A state of almost complete lawlessness, even in the presence of
police, continued till night. Over two days, i.e., 1 and 2 June, according
to official sources four persons were killed (unofficial sources claimed
that 5, 6 or even 10 deaths had taken place). As many as 20 persons
were injured.
As happens in most cases, minor incidents led to large-scale riot-
ing. About the origin of the Kosi Kalan riots it is said that on the first day
water (according to some reports, sharbat) stored in a big bucket was
being served to people near Thana Wali Masjid in Nakhasa mohalla.
Two jat youths allegedly after urinating nearby happened to pass by the
place and the duo trying to wash their dirty hands put them in the buck-
et. Some Muslims who were there offering water to people objected to
this act. An argument followed. According to some reports, the duo
were beaten up. However, seeing the large number of Muslims around
the Masjid the two youths went away. Soon thereafter the duo returned
with a large crowd. By that time, people were coming out of the
mosque, the crowd attacked these people as well as the mosque.
Taken aback by this sudden attack, people went helter skelter and
stone-pelting started between the two groups. The crowd not only
attacked Muslims, it also set some Muslim shops on fire. They also
used fire arms and other weapons like swords etc. in addition to lathis
and stones. Soon the riot spread to other areas.
This orgy of violence continued till night and many more houses
and shops belonging to Muslims were torched. Police was present on
the scene but according to reports, behaved like silent spectators. In
view of the gravity of the riots curfew was imposed in many areas.
Next day, 2 June, the situation was brought under control, though
curfew and police patrolling continued. PAC and RAF were deployed.
On the night of 1 June on the pretext of combing, houses in Muslim
mohallas only were searched and the inmates including ladies and chil-
dren were harassed and household goods damaged. Distress calls
from many Muslims were made to mediapersons and police stations
saying that Muslims have been surrounded on all sides by rioters.
Muslim leaders like Delhi Jama Masjids Imam Maulana Ahmad
Bukhari and Maulana Mahmood Madni of Jamiat Ulama-e Hind rushed
to the town and were continuously in contact with Mulayam Singh
Yadav and top police officers of U.P. At some places they were stopped
by DMs and police officers when they wanted to meet Muslims in
affected localities. However, they were subsequently allowed to visit
these areas and meet the people who narrated their tales of woe and
the unhelpful attitude of the police. When they were told that injured
persons cannot be taken to hospitals because of curfew, they spoke to
police officers who somehow arranged for the injured to be taken to
hospitals while curfew was on. These leaders found that a feeling of
fear, terror and insecurity prevailed in all Muslim localities and some
people had even fled to other cities and villages for safety.
In such cases, truth is also a casualty. Different sources provide
different information. Official sources always provide the minimum fig-
ures for loss of life and properties whereas media and other sources
offer different figures about the numbers of the dead and loss of prop-
erties. According to police, four or five persons (all Muslims) died, but
according to media accounts, six or even ten persons were killed in
these riots. Similarly, according to some media reports about two
dozen shops and houses were set on fire whereas according to some
media reports hundreds of shops were looted and set on fire.
An analysis of the riots shows that the violence was preplanned. In
view of the fact that riots spread to far off places in such a short time
on the very first day and the two Jat youths who returned alongwith a
large crowd and used swords, country-made guns and pistols lends
credibility to this belief that there was some preplanning.
It is considered that after the defeat of the BSP in the recent U.P.
assembly elections, some goons and leaders including Chaudhary
Lakshmi Narain Singh, are finding it difficult to digest their defeat and
hold Muslims responsible for the same, as Mayawati too had pointed
to this factor. Some S.P. leaders, including district president Govind
Singh, are also being seen with suspicion. It may be recalled that soon
after the S.P. government was formed in U.P., a number of minor riots
and clashes took place at different places in the state for which S.P.
members were held responsible. It is also reported that Jats do not
appear to be happy with Muslims. Hence, violence was planned before
hand and only an opportune moment was being awaited. In this con-
nection the role of the two Jat youths, who knowingly polluted the
water, appears to be suspicious.
Mufti Mukarram Ahmad, Imam of Fatehpuri Masjid, Jamaat Ahle
Hadeess Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mehdi Salafi, Milli Councils gener-
al secretary Dr. Muhammad Manzoor Alam, Markazi Jamiat Ulamas
secretary Maulana Firoz Akhtar Qasmi, Maulana Israrul Haque Qasmi,
M.P. etc. while expressing their deep grief, strongly condemned these
riots and said that these riots were preplanned. They urged the state
government to keep a close vigil on the activities of communal ele-
ments.
Top police officers claimed that the perpetrators of violence have
been identified. They will be held soon and tried under Gangster Act
and National Security Act (NSA). Licences of fire arms which were
used for shooting will be cancelled. As a punitive action, U.P. govern-
ment has removed Mathuras District Police Superintendent Dharam
Vir and Mrs. N.R. Padmaji has been appointed in his place. Mathuras
District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar also has been removed and replaced
by Alok Tiwari. Compensations of Rs. 5 lakh each have been
announced for the families of those killed in these riots and Rs. 50,000
has been announced for each injured person from the Chief Ministers
Relief Fund. Maulana Mahmood Madni has, however, demanded com-
pensation of Rs. 25 lakh and Rs. 5 lakh each for the families of persons
killed and for the injured. He also demanded that I.G., DIG, ADM, S.P.,
CO etc. should be dismissed.
According to subsequent reports, Chowdhary Lakshmi Narain,
agriculture minister in the Mayawati government, his younger brother
and M.L.C. Chawdhary Lekhraj and another person called Nardev
have been booked for the death of two brothers and charged with
incitement, attempt to murder, murder, rioting etc. on a complaint by the
victims brother Saleem. Seven FIRs have been filed which name
about 70 persons and about a thousand others unnamed accused.
However, only seven persons have been arrested in the first instance.
(NAAnsari)
Communal riot in Kosi Kalan
Pune: Bangalore Chinnaswamy stadium
blast-accused Qateel Siddiqui was on 8 June
strangled to death inside the high security
Yerwada jail in Pune by two inmates, includ-
ing one who is incarcerated on murder
charges.
Siddiqui, claimed to be an Indian
Mujahideen member, was allegedly involved
in several terror attacks in Delhi, Bangalore
and Pune. He was arrested last November by
the Delhi Police for his alleged involvement in
the Bangalore blast. The reason and motive for his killing are being
investigated by the police but it is widely believed that he was killed on
purpose so that his forced confession could be used against other
accused in the same cases. He was scheduled to be sent back to
Delhi same day as the Maharashtra ATS had completed its investiga-
tions and interrogation with him.
Qateel Siddiqui was among a group of people arrested for alleged
links to an explosion outside Bangalores
Chinnaswamy stadium during a cricket match
and another blast near Delhis Jama Masjid in
2010.
He was moved in May to Punes Yerwada
Jail by the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad,
which claimed that Mr Siddiqui was allegedly
involved with a failed attempt to plant a bomb
at a Pune temple in February 2010, on the
same day when a bomb exploded at the citys
famous German bakery in which 17 people
were killed. But evidence shows that Siddiqui was present on that day
in his village in the district of Darbhangha in Bihar.
Muslim and human rights organisations across the country have
reacted sharply against this murder which they consider calculated
and executed through using criminals as has been done earlier in
Sabarmati, Arthur Road and Jaipur jails.
See AIMMM reaction and press conference on page 13
Terror-accused killed in high-security jail
Qateel, His wife and child
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012 5
NATIONAL
NA ANSARI
New Delhi: Reacting to A.P High Courts verdict
setting aside 4.5 percent sub-quota for minorities
out of the 27% reservation quota of OBCs, promi-
nent legal expert Prof. Tahir Mahmood, said in a
statement here on 30 May that 4.5 percent quota
for minorities granted by the central government is
in no way unconstitutional from the point of view of
any part of the Constitution of India. Rather it is
very much in accordance with the fundamental
principles of the Constitution, he said.
In December 2011, a few months before the
assembly elections in five states including UP, the
central government had granted 4.5 percent sub-
quota for minority OBCs which included not only
Muslims but also Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and
Parsis out of 27% quota for OBCs. This was
because although included in the list, minority
OBCs were edged out by other powerful and well-
connected OBCs in the list. This step of the cen-
tral government was challenged by AP Backward
Class Welfare Associations president
R. Krishnaiah and others in a PIL filed in A.P. High
Court. The Court quashed the 4.5 percent sub-
quota saying that the governments decision of
granting it was based on religious grounds and
not on any other consideration.
Prof. Tahir Mahmood further said that in this
particular case, the verdict of A.P. High Court is
completely erroneous, though not unexpected,
because judicial mindset of this type in that state
has been prevalent since long. He said that earli-
er also such steps of the state government have
been repeatedly declared unconstitutional by
courts there. He said that under Ranganath
Mishra Commissions report, in the first place,
15% reservation for all minorities and 10% for
Muslims was recommended which, in our consid-
ered view, was in no way in violation of any sec-
tion or article of the Constitution but even then,
knowing very well that communal mindset will not
be able to tolerate this bold recommendation, we
had made an alternative recommendation that out
of 27 percent quota of OBCs, a sub-quota of 8.4%
may be set aside for minorities, of which six per-
cent should be reserved for Muslims. In any case,
if at all there is any section in the Constitution
under which reservation can be allowed for
Scheduled Castes belonging or confined to partic-
ular religions but not for religious minorities, this in
itself is irrational and unjust which clearly violates
international laws of human rights. In such cases,
in order to remove such unjust clauses and provi-
sions from the Constitution, the same should be
amended so that we may prove our system to be
just to the world.
Dr. Zaraful-Islam Khan, President of the All
India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat expressing his
views on A.P. High Courts verdict said govern-
ments awkward position and problem is of its own
creation because, firstly, it made the announce-
ment of 4.5 percent reservation without doing its
homework properly and secondly, the case was
not properly argued in the A.P. High Court. He said
that Muslims need not go to the apex court in
appeal but leave the problem to the government
and insist on their demand of the implementation
of Ranganath Mishra Commissions recommenda-
tions of 15% reservation for all minorities of which
10% is for Muslims who are socially and educa-
tionally backward. He said that 4.5% reservation
announced by the government is truly speaking a
trick of the Congress so that OBC groups should
fight among themselves. All this is because the
Congresss intentions towards Muslims are not
sincere.
Asaduddin Owaisi, Majlis Ittehadul
Muslimeens chief and MP from Hyderabad,
whose party is supporting UPA government at the
Centre, strongly reacted against the A.P. High
Courts verdict and described it as erroneous
and based on wrong hypothesis. He also criticised
the central government for not taking the matter
seriously and deputing a junior lawyer to argue the
case in the A.P. High Court.
Many Muslim leaders and organisations have
expressed their strong reaction against A.P. High
Courts verdict and demanded that the govern-
ment should amend the Constitution so that
nobody, including courts, could find any room to
find any objection about giving reservation to
Muslims. Central government, represented by
Salman Khurshid, Union minister for law and
minorities welfare, is all set to challenge the A.P.
High Courts verdict in the Supreme Court.
Reservation for minorities not unconstitutional: Mahmood
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Babri Masjid: The story of crime # 197/1992
HAIDER ABBAS
Lucknow: The 20th anniversary of Babri Masjid
demolition is approaching, and there is a dearth
of exact information as to how the cases pertain-
ing to demolition have fared during these two
decades. The focus of this piece is to reconcile
the legal progress in the concerned issue. For
records sake, it may be stated that the Babri
Masjid demolition case stems from two cases:
Crime No. 197/1992 and Crime No 198/1992.
This piece is to get out the various nitty-gritty of
the first case. To begin with, on the day of dem-
olition of Babri Masjid, on Dec 6, 1992, a First
Information Report (FIR)-197/1992 was lodged
at 5:15 pm by Privambada Nath Shukla (50
years), Station Officer at Police Station (PS),
Ramjanum Bhumi, Ayodhya, against lakhs of
Karsevaks - names and addresses unknown -
Under Section (U/S) 395 (dacoity), 397(dacoity
or robbery with attempt to cause death), 332
(causing hurt to deter public servants), 337, 338
(grievous hurt), 295 (injuring or defiling a place
of worship with intent to insult religion of any
class, 297 (trespass in any place of worship)
and 153-A of Indian Penal Code (IPC), which
makes promoting enmity between different
groups inter alia of religion, read with Section 7
Criminal Law Amendment Act. This eventually
led to 49 FIRs being filed against 49 persons
with respect to cognizable offences and one FIR
relating to non-cognizable offence committed
against mediapersons who were recording the
demolition of the Babri Masjid and whose video
cameras etc were snatched and broken/robbed
by the Karsevaks.
On Dec 13, 1992, this case was entrusted
for investigation to the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI). Later Crime No. 198/1992
also was assigned to the CBI for investigation.
Both the cases were obviously related, hence
they were bunched together.
On Sept 8, 1993, the UP government, in
consultation with the High Court, created a
Special Court at Lucknow (also known as CBI
Court), and on 9 Sept 1993, in consultation with
HC, the state government referred Crime No.
197/1992 and 47 other cases to the Special
Court headed by Additional Chief Judicial
Magistrate (ACJM Ayodhya Prakaran) at
Lucknow.
Now, since both the cases were under the
ambit of CBI, hence it filed a consolidated
chargesheet in Crime No. 198/1992, as well as
against thirty-two others accused in Crime No.
197/1992 and in 47 other related cases.
By Aug 27, 1994, all the cases referred to
above were committed by ACJM, Lucknow to
the Lucknow Sessions Court. CBI also filed a
supplementary chargesheet on Jan 11, 1996, in
which it accused another nine persons who
were later committed from ACJM, Lucknow to
Lucknow Sessions Court on April 10, 1996.
These nine persons were a part of the overall 49
accused. All this continued for yet another year
and a half, until on Sep 9, 1997 ACJM Ayodhya
Prakaran (Session Court), Lucknow charged the
accused U/S 147, 153-A, 153-B, 295, 295-A,
505 read with 120-B (conspiracy) IPC. It would
be interesting to note here that for the first time,
in the history of the case, the conspiracy charge
was leveled.
This order was challenged by the 33
accused at the Lucknow bench of Allahabad HC
through Criminal Revision No. 199/1997
(Moreshwar Save vs. State of UP, 201/97 (Uma
Bharti alias Gajra Singh vs. State of UP, 211/97
(RN Srivastata vs State of UP) and 255/97
(Ashok Singhal vs. State of UP) which led to
Justice Jagdish Bhalla at the Lucknow bench of
Allahabad High court say that the reference of
Crime No. 198/1992 was not done in consulta-
tion with the HC, hence, the Session Court was
not in a position to try the accused. This order,
which came on Feb 12, 2001, derailed the entire
prosecution process. The technical lacunae
could have been easily cured but the political
dispensation chose to look the other way. The
whole prosecution process of nine years came
to a naught, resulting in further impeding delay.
The fallout of Justice Bhallas order came to
the rescue of the accused, as on May 4, 2001,
the CBI Court, Lucknow ordered the proceed-
ings to be dropped against 25 accused including
the eight accused in the Crime No. 198/1992
alongwith 13 of Crime No. 197/1992, on the pre-
text that these persons were covered by Crime
No. 198/1992 in respect whereof the CBI court
has no jurisdiction. Thus, the first glimmer of
reprieve to the prime accused was signaled but
CBI chose to rise against the order and filed a
Criminal Revision 217/2001 CBI vs. Balasahab
Thackaray in June 2001. It took for itself a good
seven years to reach to a point when the same
Criminal Revision was decided and finally on
May 20, 2009, Justice Askok Kumar Singh
found it fit to be dismissed. Against the same
order CBI has gone to the Supreme Court (SC).
This happened largely due to the persistent
demand of the All India Muslim Law Board (AIM-
PLB) and All India Babri Masjid Action
Committee (AIBMAC) for the same. AIMPLB
has been looking after the Babri Masjid cases
since 1993. It is learnt that right now notices
have been issued to the concerned persons.
It can be no ones guess that the CBI steps
until today have been nothing but tardy. The
prosecution agencys tactics to delay the legal
process has been its only hallmark. It does not
at all seem to be either serious or concerned to
bring the accused to justice, said Mohammed
Azam Khan, one of the pillars of the Babri
Masjid campaign.
The last date when the issue was taken at
the SC was on Oct 14, 2011, in which an objec-
tion had come that some of the accused have
already died in between. The CBI should have
deleted their names but found it convenient not
to do so, Khan added.
What genuinely is expected of CBI is that it
should keenly pursue the case in the SC, as in
case the application is allowed, it would begin
the start of the trial in Lucknow, of those who
have as yet got relief, which would definitely
benefit the ends of justice, said Zafaryab Jilani.
Jilani and Azam had been the co-convenors of
BMAC. The trial at Lucknow has as yet exam-
ined 64th witnesses.
The long arm of law during all these years
failed Ramchandar Paramhans, Vijayaya Raje
Scindia and DB Rai who died during these long
years. Considering the snails pace of the legal
process, it is unlikely to find any of the accused
to be ever brought to justice, and even if that
happened, an appeal in HC and later in SC
would follow, loathed Azam Khan.
The long arm of law during all these years failed Ramchandar
Paramhans, Vijayaya Raje Scindia and DB Rai who died during
these long years. Considering the snails pace of the legal
process, it is unlikely to find any of the accused to be ever
brought to justice, and even if that happened, an appeal in HC and
later in SC would follow, loathed Azam Khan.
NATIONAL
6 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
RAM PUNIYANI
ram.puniyani@gmail.com
Time and time again, while
interacting with youths
from Kashmir, what comes
forth straight and strikes
most is their pain and
anguish, their frustration,
the realization of brutality
of the system in which they
live in Kashmir. Youths from Kashmir coming to
different parts of India for various meetings and
interactions generally display a high level of
understanding of the issues involved and are
vocal about the restlessness over their present
and future. What have we done to be labelled
as terrorists, is one of the questions on their
mind and lips. Why we in Kashmir have to face
torture from different quarters, including the
Indian army. The restlessness is so evident that
one can gauge the depth of their feeling about
the role of the armed players, the militants and
the Indian army in different measures.
What are the causes of the frustration of the
youth and others from Kashmir and what is the
way out? Recently (May 2012), the recommen-
dations of the group of interlocutors, Dileep
Padgaonkar, Radha Kumar and M.M. Ansari
have been made public. This team has given its
recommendations about which the Government
is non committal at the moment, while the BJP
has rejected them on the ground that it is a dilu-
tion of the accession of Kashmir to India. The
separatists find it lacking. They say that there is
no political settlement of the issue. Essentially
while the team has rejected the return to pre-
1953 position, it has also made significant rec-
ommendations which are in the direction of
restoring the autonomy of Kashmir. Being close
to the Pre-1953 position, the team suggests that
the parliament will not make any law for
Kashmir unless it relates to the internal and
external security of the state. Significantly, it
gives the status of special instead of tempo-
rary to Article 370, which is the bone of con-
tention for the ultra-nationalists like the BJP.
Very correctly the team says that the proportion
of officers in the state should gradually be
changed to increase the weightage of local offi-
cers. It also talks of creating regional councils
with financial powers, and measures to promote
contacts across the Line of Control (LoC) while
talking of resuming dialogue with both Huriyat
and Pakistan.
It seems that the team has done quite a bit
of its homework and while addressing the issue
of discontent in J&K, they have also tried to reg-
ister the realities which have emerged during
the last six decades. It seems to be a major
effort around which debates for the initiative
needed to restore calm in the state can be seri-
ously discussed. Undoubtedly, the people of
Kashmir have suffered severe violation of their
human rights all through. The treaty of acces-
sion giving full autonomy to J&K had come
under heavy strain from communal forces in
India. Right from the beginning, right wing ele-
ments, the founder of Bhartiya Jan Sangh, the
previous reincarnation of BJP, Shyama Prasad
Mukerjee supported by communal groups had
initiated the move to merge it fully with India,
doing away with the provisions of autonomy,
which were part of the agreement between India
and Kashmir. The pressure of communal ele-
ments and the sentiments of emerging Indian
nationalism forced the Indian government to
keep diluting the clauses of autonomy of
Kashmir over a period of time. The culmination
of this was downgrading the status of the chief
executive of the state from Prime Minister to
Chief Minister.
In the face of communal elements baring
their fangs in India, in the form of the murder of
Mahatma Gandhi and intimidation of minorities,
Sheikh Abdullah wanted to explore other
options for Kashmir and for this he was impris-
oned for 17 long years. This alienated large sec-
tions of Kashmiris, youth in particular. Equally
serious was the threat posed by interference
from Pakistan. Pakistans support to the dis-
gruntled youth and to militancy in the initial
phases added to the problem in no mean way.
Pakistan was duly supported by the imperialist
designs of the United States which wanted to
impose its hegemony in the region. Kashmir
being a geographically strategic place, US did
its all to vitiate any possibility of a peaceful solu-
tion to the issue.
The situation worsened further in the
decade of 1980s, when foreign militants, started
infiltrating into Kashmir. They are the ones who
communalized the regional problem. The issue
of Kshmiriyat was converted into Jihad against
Kafirs by the US-trained Al Qaeda. Both the
words, Jihad and Kafir, were distorted by the
US-supported madrassas on the Pakistan-
Afghan border where these terrorists were
trained. The increased militancy was matched
by the suppression of democratic norms in
Kashmir and the state government was reduced
to a satellite of the central government. The par-
allel process of Indian army being sent in large
numbers to curb the militancy was to become
the main problem in the times to come. Military
was to add to the problem as it dug its feet in the
state, and the force which is meant to fight an
external enemy was ruling the roost in civilian
areas. The torture of innocent Muslim youth
knew no bounds. The military methods ran
havoc in the state with the phenomenon of wid-
ows and half-widows coming to the fore. Every
youth was a suspect. Thus ruining the lives and
careers of many of them was pass.
Somewhere along the line, the communalization
of the issue also led to Kashmiri Pundits feeling
insecure and encouraged by Jagmohan, the
then Governor of the state, there was an exodus
from the valley. Not to undermine the fact that a
large number of Muslims also left the valley to
escape the intimidation from guns of different
forces.
Today the major obstacle to the normal
growth of the state is the conversion of civilian
areas into military barracks, army breathing
down the necks of civilians all over.
In India, communal forces turned this into
another Hindu-Muslim issue. An issue of purely
regional and ethnic character came to be looked
at through the prism of religion, adding to the
misery of the Muslim population. Today what
we need most is proactive peace in the region
and this peace can only begin with the internal
withdrawal of the military, supplemented by a
process of dialogue with dissidents and
Pakistan. Kashmir has been looked at as a real-
estate issue by both India and Pakistan. The
people of Kashmir need to be given primacy
while working out a solution to the vexed issue
affecting the peace in South Asia.
What we need to keep uppermost in the
mind while discussing the recommendations of
interlocutors is that will these recommendations
reduce the anguish of the Kashmiri people in
general and the Kashmiri youth in particular?
Nearly two generations of Kashmiri youth have
suffered at the hands of the military and mili-
tants. US-Pakistan nexus has also been a major
player in spoiling the broth. A healthy debate
around this report can be a good starting point
to restore peace in the region.
Anguish of Kashmir and the wayout
Right from the beginning, right wing elements...initiated the
move to merge it fully with India, doing away with the provisions
of autonomy, which were part of the agreement between India
and Kashmir. The pressure of communal elements and the
sentiments of emerging Indian nationalism forced the Indian
government to keep diluting the clauses of autonomy which were
part of the agreement between India and Kashmir. The pressure of communal
elements and the sentiments of emerging Indian nationalism forced the Indian
government to keep diluting the clauses of autonomy of Kashmir over a
period of time.
SUHAS CHAKMA
The Central governments attempt to empower its agencies with
the power of arrest must not be countenanced as the same is
being done by infringing the sacrosanct principles of federalism
and undermining the supremacy of the judiciary. A number of bills
currently being discussed in Parliament reflect the dangerous
precedents. The Finance Bill of 2012-13 not only seeks to retro-
spectively amend the Income Tax Act with effect from April 1962
under the Finance Bill of 2012-13 to nullify the Supreme Court
judgement in the Vodafone tax evasion case, it also proposes to
amend Section 104 of the Customs Act, 1962 and Section 13 of
the Central Excise Act of 1944 to make all offences that attract
more than three years of imprisonment cognisable and non-bail-
able.
The Supreme Court in its judgement on September 30 2011
in the case of Om Prakash vs. Union of India ruled that all
offences under the Excise Act and the Customs Act should be
made non-cognisable and bailable.
Obviously, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has been ill-
advised by the Central Board of Excise and Customs which lob-
bied for the amendments on the ground that even those smug-
gling arms, ammunitions and fake currency have been getting
bail. This is despite that there are stringent provisions under the
Indian Penal Code, Indian Arms Act, the Unlawful Activities
Prevention Act and host of other legislations to sternly deal with
smuggling of arms, ammunitions, fake currency etc.
The Rajya Sabha is also currently considering the Border
Security Force (BSF) Amendment Act, 2011 under which
Sections 4 and 139 of the BSF Act, 1968 are being amended to
extend the area of operation of the BSF to include such parts of
the territory of India as are notified by the Central government
given that the BSF, according to the Government, is deployed (a)
to counter insurgency operations and anti-naxal operations; (b)
for internal security duties (including duties during elections, com-
munal riots, maintenance of law and order).
Once the Amendments are passed, the BSF will have the
power to arrest under Sections 41(1), 46, 47, 48, 49, 51(1), 52,
53, 74, 100, 102, 129, 149, 150, 151 and 152 of the Criminal
Procedure Code.
The sacrosanct principle of Indian federalism wherein law
and order is a state subject will be withered. At present, the BSF
personnel are empowered to arrest, search and seizure within the
prescribed border belt, which is 80 kms in the state of Gujarat,
50 kms in the State of Rajasthan and 15 kms in the states of West
Bengal, Assam and Punjab. No such limit has been prescribed in
the case of Jammu and Kashmir and five North Eastern states,
viz., Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur.
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police deployed along Indo-China
border and the Sashastra Seema Bal deployed along Indo-Nepal
and Indo-Bhutan borders have already been empowered with the
power to search, seizure and arrest in border areas under the
Customs Act, the Passport Act, the Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Act and the Criminal Procedure Code.
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) 1958, which
is imposed in Jammu and Kashmir and North East India already
empowers the army to (c) arrest, without warrant, any person
who has committed a cognisable offence or against whom a rea-
sonable suspicion exists that he has committed or is about to
commit a cognisable offence and may use such force as may be
necessary to effect the arrest.
While the Central government has virtually empowered its
forces to arrest, there is no protection for ensuring the rights of
those detained by the army and the armed forces. The Guidelines
issued by the Supreme Court in the case of DK Basu vs. State of
West Bengal do not apply to the armed forces and the army. The
army and armed forces are not required to maintain basic records
of the persons arrested or detained. Further, there is no external
oversight over these security forces.
The Supreme Court has also failed to address the need for
protection of those who are arrested by the army. In its judgement
of November 27, 1997, while upholding the constitutional validity
of the AFSPA in the case of Naga Peoples Movement for Human
Rights vs. Union of India, the Supreme Court held that A person
arrested and taken into custody in exercise of the powers under
Section 4(c) of the Central Act should be handed over to the offi-
cer in charge of the nearest police station with least possible
delay so that he can be produced before nearest Magistrate with-
in 24 hours of such arrest excluding the time taken for journey
from the place of arrest to the court of magistrate. However, in
reality, those detained by the army and the armed forces are sel-
dom handed over to the nearest police station with the least pos-
sible delay. The detainees are mostly handed over only after
interrogation.
In conflict situations, once the detainees have no further intel-
ligence value after interrogation, they are killed in fake encoun-
ters.
The powers to arrest without ensuring the rights of those
detained and/or arrested by the Central forces constitute a clear
violation of Indias obligations under the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights ratified by India. By equating customs
and excise offences like duty evasion with terror offences with
respect to grant of bail under the Finance Bill of 2012-13, India is
setting a dangerous precedent on deprivation of personal liberty.
If the Government of India continues to circumvent the Supreme
Court judgement on personal liberty in such a manner and further
empowers all its security forces to arrest, India will soon become
the de facto police state ruled by the Centre.
The writer is director, Asian Centre for Human Rights
India is moving towards a new police state
Tthe Central government has virtually empowered its forces to arrest, there is no protection
for ensuring the rights of those detained by the army and the armed forces. The Guidelines
issued by the Supreme Court in the case of DK Basu vs. State of West Bengal do not apply to
the armed forces and the army. The army and armed forces are not required to maintain basic
records of the persons arrested or detained. Further, there is no external oversight over these
security forces.
Truck with 20
tonnes of
explosives goes
missing in MP
The Madhya Pradesh police is looking for a
missing truck loaded with 20 tonnes of ammo-
nium nitrate. According to police, the driver
might have sold the explosives to insurgents in
Chhattisgarh or the illegal mining mafia.
However, local people of two villages in
Umaria district near Chhattisgarh have found
220 gunny bags filled with a white crystalline
substance. These people thought it to be urea
and brought it over to use them in their fields.
The police have raided many places to trace
the driver. The forest guard informed the police
who found it to be ammonium nitrate. The truck
was initially loaded with 30 tonnes of ammoni-
um nitrate. The driver started from Indore on
19 April and was asked to deliver the ammoni-
um nitrate to Singrauli.
MG NEWS DESK
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012 7
NATIONAL
New Delhi: Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari,
president of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH), said in
a press meet held here on 2 June that JIH has
launched a countrywide campaign against
Muslim youths illegal arrests and violation of
their basic human rights.
Maulana Umari said, even after 64 years of
independence the situation of rule of law in the
country is not satisfactory. Weaker sections,
especially the Muslims, are continuously being
harassed by different government agencies.
They are trying to tarnish the image of Muslims
as a community. The educated Muslim youths
are being illegally kidnapped or arrested and
tortured to own up crimes they never committed,
and dozens of false cases are slapped against
them. He quoted the example of the latest
episode of Engineer Fasih Mahmood who was
abducted or arrested on 13 May by representa-
tives of some unknown Indian intelligence
agency with the help of Saudi Arabian authori-
ties.
Maulana Umari said, this episode is being
discussed by the media and under review by the
Supreme Court. For over 20 days, neither the
Home Ministry nor the External Affairs Ministry
explained as to on whose order the Engineer
was arrested and for what allegation or crime.
Only on 31 May, the Home Minister Mr.
P. Chidambaram stated that no Indian intelli-
gence agency has detained Mr. Fasih.
He raised the questions, Was it not the
responsibility of our Home Minister to let the
world know who detained Fasih? And on whose
request the Interpol has issued a red corner
notice to arrest him? During this period who kept
him in its custody? He further said, such inci-
dents are a source of mental torture for the
entire Muslim community and every peace-lov-
ing citizen.
Citing another example of illegal arrests of
Muslim youth, the President of JIH said, in the
morning of 24 May at Aligarh railway station, two
Kashmiri students, Mohammad Waseem Bhat
and Sajjad Ahmed Bhat who were studying at
the renowned institute of higher Islamic learning
Jamiatul Falah at Bilariaganj, Azamgarh, were
abducted by some government agency in the
presence of thousands of eye witnesses from a
general compartment of Kaifiyat Express.
He said had it been a legal arrest, the stu-
dents should have been presented before a
court of law within 24 hours? He stated, it is yet
not known under whose order and under which
law ATS or special cell or some other agency
conducted the arrest, which was nothing but an
illegal abduction. No body or agency is ready to
own up this illegal act.
Maulana Umari said, after widespread
protests, demonstrations and pressure from
media, the two students surfaced in Jammu and
were taken to Sopore, and allowed to meet their
fathers. If there had been no public pressure,
these youths could have been killed in some
false encounter.
Maulana Umari said, the government of
India, in the light of Sachar Report and under
the Prime Ministers 15-point programme, made
a special scheme for 90 selected districts for
welfare and economic and educational progress
of minorities. In this respect, Mr. Harsh Mander,
a prominent member of National Advisory
Council (NAC), has submitted a report which
states that the Muslim community is not getting
the benefit of this scheme. The Multi-Sectorial
Development Parliamentary Committee seized
with this matter has approved this report.
Therefore, it has been recommended that this
scheme should be made Muslim-specific so that
it may benefit the Muslim community.
Otherwise, this scheme will fail in its objectives.
A suggestion has also been given that this
scheme should be extended to those districts
where Muslims are 15%. During the last three
years, for the welfare of minorities Rs. 3780
crore had been sanctioned out of which Rs. 840
crore, i.e, about 25 percent, has been returned
as unutilized.
Maulana Umari demanded that this scheme
should be made Muslim-specific so that it may
address the problem of Muslim backwardness
and the Ministry of Minority Affairs must spend
the total amount of the budget.
Back-Breaking Inflation: The President of JIH,
expressing serious concern about ever-increas-
ing and back-breaking inflation, said a consid-
erable part of the countrys population is forced
to lead its life below the poverty line. They are
not getting their share from the economic
progress of the country. Large numbers of peo-
ple lack basic facilities and are compelled to
lead their lives without human dignity. In this sit-
uation a 10 percent increase in the price of
petrol will further fuel inflation. The price of
cooking gas also has been steeply raised.
These government moves are anti-people and
smack of lack of sympathy on the part of the
government. He demanded that the government
must roll back the increase in the petrol price.
Riots in Kosi Kalan: Mr. Mohammed Ahmed,
national secretary of JIH, while giving details
about the riot that erupted in Kosi Kalan town in
Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh the previous
day informed that at least three Muslim persons
including a woman have been killed so far
according to reports. He said, the dispute
began on a minor matter and suddenly it took
the shape of a dangerous riot which nobody had
expected. According to reports, Muslims
arrange Sabeel (free cold drinks arrange-
ments) in front of a Mosque before every Friday
prayer. Before the prayer this past Friday, a per-
son washed his hands with the cold drinks, and
this sparked a minor dispute which was
resolved by some sensible men. But when
Muslims came out of the Mosque after offering
the prayers they faced a different situation. A big
mob of Hindus had started attacking the
Mosques, houses and shops of Muslims. Soon
it started burning houses and shops belonging
to Muslims. The rioters were armed with home-
made bombs, sharp weapons and wooden
staffs. All this while the local administration was
playing the role of a silent spectator. Muslims
were being attacked and their homes were
being torched while the local administration was
watching for about six to seven hours. After this,
a force and high ranking police officers reached
the town and managed to control the situation.
Ahmad added that the riot could have been
averted in the initial stage itself if timely action
had been taken by the local police.
Mr. Ahmed said that JIH strongly condemns
the whole incident and demands: 1) Rs. 20 lakh
compensation per died person and 5 lakh to
each injured; 2) Appropriate compensation to
those whose shops or houses were damaged;
3) Exemplary punishment to those who took
part in the riots; 4) Necessary action against ele-
ments of the local administration who did not
take timely action and 5) Protection to the life
and property of Muslims.
JIH to launch campaign against youths illegal arrests
KANEEZ FATHIMA
H
yderabad: After the 1969 Telangana Movement, the sec-
ond phase of the Telangana movement started in the
last days of 2009. This movement was basically domi-
nated by students with real aspirations and willingness;
there was no political aim. The only aim was to achieve a sepa-
rate Telangana state.
Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) was formed for the sole pur-
pose of achieving a separate Telangana state and its chief archi-
tect is Prof. Jayashankar.
Seeing students spreading the movement without any sup-
port from any political party, K Chandrasekhar Rao became active
in this movement by sitting on fast unto death. With this, common
people also started participating in the movement from all kinds
of background irrespective of caste, class and religion.
In the initial stages itself, Prof. Jayashankar had said that,
Until I am alive, I will not allow any injustice to the Muslim com-
munity in Telangana state. Telangana movement is incomplete
without Muslims; separate Telangana cannot be formed without
the contribution of the Muslim community.
Though almost all parties had orally declared that they will
support the Telangana bill if presented in the assembly, but when
the time came all parties backtracked including TDP and
Congress. Moreover, Congress government at the Centre initially
issued a statement in favour of a separate Telangana, but it
immediately withdrew its statement. The regional opposition party
TDP also took anti-Telangana stand.
Due to these reasons, BJP and RSS took advantage of the
prevailing conditions and entered into this movement. Then
onwards this movement slowly moved towards Hindutva.
People pressurized political parties and their candidates who
were in favour of Telangana to resign from their positions and
build pressure on the central government to form a separate
Telangana state. Thus, all the MLAs of TRS and candidates of
other parties resigned their positions.
In 2010, by-elections were held for all those vacant positions.
The BJP candidate contested from Nizamabad constituency. But
the fact is that without the Muslim votes, BJP would not have won
the seat. Even though Muslim community underwent the pain of
Gujarat genocide because of BJP, yet they not only campaigned
but whole-heartedly voted for the BJP candidate only for the sin-
gle aim of achieving a separate Telangana state. That itself
proved that Muslims are real secularists by nature.
But by the time the by-elections came up in 2012, the condi-
tions of the Telangana movement had changed drastically. From
the time of BJP entry into the movement, RSS started propagat-
ing Hindutva ideology and spread hatred among the non-Muslim
community in the Telangana region especially in Hyderabad. The
major example is the Hyderabad riots in the year 2010 on the eve
of and in the name of Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti, leave
alone several other small incidents of hate.
The spread of Hindutva ideology and hate against the Muslim
community reached its peak during the by-elections in A.P. espe-
cially in the Telangana region.
When the name for Mahboobnagar constituency was decid-
ed, Kodandram Reddy suggested to withdraw Ibrahims name
because he wanted to field Srinivas Goud as he is closely asso-
ciated with Reddy. This was to gain benefits politically. However,
KCR thought of larger political gain. He wanted to target two birds
with one stone. So, on one side he wanted to show sympathy to
Muslims to gain their votes for all the seats and on the other he
wanted to show Congress that TRS is not with BJP. For this rea-
son, he neglected Mahboobnagar campaign. He fielded a Muslim
candidate for namesake to appease Muslims and challenged BJP
that it cannot win the particular seat. In clear terms, we can say
that KCR offered Mahboobnagar seat to BJP on the platter.
As chairman of Telangana political JAC, the role of
Kodandram Reddy was to give a call of support to TRS candi-
date. But, as mentioned earlier, he wanted to field his own candi-
date and on the other side as BJP candidate was a Reddy, he
declared that he is taking a unilateral position by saying that this
is a fight for Telangana so vote for whoever you want. So, a per-
son who claims to be secular and rights activist has gone to such
a biased and communal position. Telangana NGOs JAC openly
declared support and campaigned for BJP candidate because
Srinivas Goud belongs to the TNGOs JAC and he was denied
Mahboobnagar seat by TRS. BJP during its campaign had
declared that Mahboobnagar election is Indo-Pak cricket match
and we should defeat Razakars. Such statements were not con-
demned by anyone. This alone proves that TRS party, T-JAC, its
members, various other JACs, forums and all the so-called secu-
larists and democrats have soft corner towards Hindutva. Not
only this, during the legislative council elections, another Muslim
candidate from Hyderabad, Mahmood Ali, minority wing president
who is a sincere and senior member of TRS, lost the seat just by
three votes and these three people who did not give him their
votes were from the TRS itself. Even that time, KCR did not take
any action against those three persons.
The sad affair of Indian society is that Muslims have to prove
their secularism again and again at different times. Is this the
responsibility of only Muslims? If Muslims have to prove their sec-
ularism, they also expect non-Muslims to be secular towards
them. Instead, larger sections of non-Muslims can remain com-
munal and spread the same; there is no one to question them.
Blame is always on Muslims. When Muslims can vote for a BJP
candidate, why cant non-Muslims vote for a Muslim candidate?
Why is such double standard maintained by the politicians, secu-
larists, democrats, civil society etc towards Muslim community?
Now, it is high time for Muslims to think over Telangana
movement. Because it is no more a democratic and sincere
movement. Everyone is in the race for personal benefits in the
name of Telangana. The so-called democrats and secularists
double faces have been exposed and the real faces are in front
of us. Now, it is time to recognize these faces and choose our
own way.
Even after such blackmailing and backstabbing Muslims, nei-
ther KCR nor Kodandram Reddy feel ashamed. Instead, they are
celebrating this defeat and Hindutva victory as peoples victory. In
one sentence we can say that Telangana movement failed in the
litmus test of secularism and democracy and turned completely
into Hindutva fascism. Muslims confidence has been shaken.
Now it is time for KCR to take the responsibility of Mahboobnagar
election defeat. Not only this, KCR should resign from the
Presidentship of TRS and Kodandram Reddy should resign from
Chairmanship of Telangana Political JAC. Then only the move-
ment will move ahead. Otherwise, people especially Muslims will
give them the right answer.
Time to rethink Telengana
Even after 64 years of independence the situation of rule of law in the
country is not satisfactory. Weaker sections, especially the Muslims, are con-
tinuously being harassed by different government agencies. They are trying to
tarnish the image of Muslims as a community. The educated Muslim youths
are being illegally kidnapped or arrested and tortured to own up crimes they
never committed, and dozens of false cases are slapped against them.
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8 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
SYED ZAFAR MAHMOOD
info@zakatindia.org
In 2006, the Prime Ministers High Level Sachar Committee and in
2008 the Central Governments Mishra Commission have duly doc-
umented, supported by most authentic data, that in our beloved
country the plight of Muslims is pitiable. Muslim representation
ranges from one-fourth of the communitys share in the national
population to one-fifth or even less than that in each arena of life,
be it parliament, state assemblies, local bodies, educational institu-
tions, economic status, corporate employment, public sector, hous-
ing, or the like. In some areas Muslims are starkly invisible. Even
basic infrastructure is mostly unavailable in Muslim settlements.
Harsh Mander, member of UPAs National Advisory Council and
a former IAS officer who had resigned protesting against the 2002
Gujarat pogrom, has narrated in Promises to Keep*, his 91-page
report of year-long survey conducted in 2011, the reasons why nec-
essary initiatives have not been taken to improve the condition of
Muslims even after five years of the presentation of Sachar Report.
He says that the officials of central and state governments and
those in the districts are fully aware that the Sachar Committee had
been appointed for the sake of completing electoral formality but its
implementation does not figure in the Governments political calcu-
lations.
The institutional structures designed to implement these initia-
tives - right from the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs down to the
implementing officials in districts and below - lack conviction, clout
and even a clear mandate to directly battle the socio-economic
structural discrimination and denial encountered by the community.
Consequently, the schemes enunciated in the light of Sachar rec-
ommendations were thinned out to all the minorities, reducing their
Muslim-specific viscosity to either nil or bare minimum. Then, major
portion of the billions of rupees worth of their annual budgets are
incurred in areas where there are hardly any Muslims or even other
minorities.
Twenty vital recommendations made by the Sachar Committee
and the JPC on Waqfs were ignored while drafting the Waqf Bill
2010. On top of that, bending rightward, the official draftsmen came
up with a self-styled amendment that delimits the confined to
Muslims Waqf usage and opens up access to the usufruct of Waqf
properties to all and sundry. On the other hand, the website of the
Ministry of Minority Affairs shows that in the new government
appointments made during the last five years after the submission
of the Sachar Committee Report, the total minority representation
makes only seven and a half percent. This is against nineteen per-
cent of the total minority population in the country. Obviously the
Muslim share is much less. Nonetheless - riding roughshod over
serious reservations expressed by the UPSC, most of the state
governments and majority of the central police organizations - a
new scheme has been put together in 2011-12 by the Union home
ministry to recruit hundreds of additional IPS officers that would
bring down the existing pitiably low Muslim presence in the elite
cadre to either zero or to such a small figure that it could easily be
counted on ones fingers.
Why are we, Muslims, being subjected to these miseries for
decades - with no let up in sight despite multi-cornered election-eve
promises to the contrary? What is the remedy? There are tens of
thousands of chains of bureaucrats and politicians where legisla-
tive, judicial and executive decisions are taken every day at central,
state, regional, district and local levels. In more than ninety percent
of these chains there is no Muslim. Hence these decisions are
taken in the absence of Muslims, without any heart beating for them
and often at cross purposes with their interests.
One vital factor of this widely prevalent anti-Muslim apathy and
protracted injustice is surely the ridiculously low Muslim represen-
tation in the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. Out of the
552 seats in Lok Sabha, Muslims should occupy 74 seats in propor-
tion of their 13.4% share (as per the Census statistics of 2001) in
the national population. However, on the average, Muslims have
been able to occupy only 27 seats, which means that they are
deprived of around two-third of their rights during the last 65 years.
Their parliamentary representation from some states remains nil.
The period of more than six decades since Independence general-
ly reflects that the political parties have been avoiding giving tickets
to Muslim candidates. Most of those Muslims who do succeed in
obtaining the tickets face defeat.
Fifteen percent of the Lok Sabha seats are reserved for sched-
uled castes (SC) while the executive wing of the Government,
unconstitutionally and surreptitiously, excluded Muslims from the
list of scheduled castes in 1950. This is despite the Muslim commu-
nity always consisting of a good complement of sweepers, cobblers
and blackmiths etc. On the other hand, as the second anti-Muslim
jeopardy flagged by Justice Sachar Commitee, the Lok Sabha and
Assembly constituencies having huge population of Muslims but
very low SC presence have been reserved for scheduled castes.
Conversely, the constituencies having huge SC population but neg-
ligible Muslim presence have not been so reserved. Muslims suffer
big loss in either case. Thus, for the last 65 years, Muslim voice has
not been reverberating - in proportionate pitch and rhythm - in the
houses of parliament and state assemblies and such vacuum has
been transducing itself into bureaucratic and judicial apathy leading
to Muslim deprivation in different walks of life. The characteristic
anti-Muslim couldnt-care-less attitude has, unfortunately, become a
part of the national culture bordering apartheid; the Indian state-
craft as well as the ethos of private life have practically written
Muslims off their mind. This phenomenon has rendered Muslim
presence even in the bureaucracy to the pathetically low percent-
age of less than three.
There seems to be a ray of light at the end of the dark tunnel.
Thank God, in some quarters - during the sixth and seventh
decades after Independence - there has been some talk of Muslim
reservation though confined to government jobs and admission in
educational institutions. Asaduddin Owaisi, MP emphatically advo-
cated reservation for Muslims on the occasion of celebrating sixti-
eth anniversary of parliament. This gives some solace to Muslims
though too late and too meagre. There is every reasonable ground
of reservation for Muslims not only in the governments executive
offices and the judiciary but also in parliament, assemblies, district
boards, municipal corporations and boards, pancahayat samitis,
gram panchayats, educational institutions and government housing
projects.
The allegation that the Central Governments 4.5% OBC reser-
vation orders issued in December 2011 two days prior to the provin-
cial elections were a mere lollypop was recently contested by a cen-
tral minister. Let us make a fair analysis.
As mentioned above, Muslims make 13.4% of the population in
India. The Sachar Committee used the data provided by govern-
ment agencies and documented that in each field Muslims are lag-
ging behind the followers of every other faith. The Mishra
Commission too deliberated on the same lines. Still the 4.5% OBC
sub-quota spans all the minorities and that too is confined to the
central government jobs and admission in centrally-run educational
institutions. It would also be recalled that the Mishra Commission
had recommended 15% reservation for minorities in educational
institutions out of which 10% was recommended to be reserved for
Muslims. But even in this paltry 4.5.%, no space was earmarked for
Muslims. So, this minuscule reservation of uncertain percentage
reluctantly doled out after 65 years of blatant deprivation could at
best be described as the proverbial lollypop for Muslims.
To ensure that even this lollypop survives judicial scrutiny and
does get implemented at the ground level no preemptive or proac-
tive mechanism was devised by the government. As a result, the AP
High Court didnt need more than the fall of a hat to roll it back; we
can separately discuss the nuances in another writeup. Even other-
wise, the 4.5% sub-quota has been meeting intermittent executive
disregard. For instance, the advertisement published in March 2012
regarding the recruitment of additional IPS officers had no mention
of 4.5% minority sub-quota. Likewise, during the same period, there
were Muslim candidates available for the reserved 4.5% seats for
the MBA admission in Indian Institute of Mines, Dhanbad. But, rais-
ing a technical objection, the seats reserved under this quota were
left vacant presumably to be filled in due course by non-minority
candidates. This leads one to the assumption that, despite the for-
mal issue of 4.5% sub-quota orders for OBCs among the minorities,
the cross-national ambience has yet to undergo a benevolent tran-
sition for its heartfull implementation.
In any case, such small half-hearted quotas here and there
cannot make up for the oppression and injustice meted out to the
Muslims over 65 years and the spree still continues unabated.
Reverting for a while to the eve of Independence one finds that
the legendary Dr Ambedkar had got approved some historical res-
olutions at the All-India Scheduled Castes Conference held in 1942
at Nagpur. The Conference strongly demanded Separate
Electorate for Scheduled Castes returning to the parliament, state
assemblies and local bodies such number of SC members as
squarely correspond to their share in the population. These resolu-
tions sponsored by Dr Ambedkar also demanded reservation for
scheduled castes in the bureaucracy according to the proportion of
their population. Subsequently, Mahatma Gandhi went on fast. This
led to the Poona Pact between him and Dr Ambedkar based on
which special provisions were incorporated in the Indian
Constitution. The scheduled castes were accorded reservation in
the parliament, state assemblies, local bodies, government offices
and educational institutions. Thanks to Dr Ambedkars 1942 inter-
vention, there is huge presence of scheduled castes in each arena
of Indian life today.
Conversely, todays Indian Muslims are in a miserable condition
- much worse than the condition of scheduled castes that obtained
before Independence.
In his article, Persistent Political Under-representation of
Muslims in India** published in the research journal Law and
Ethics of Human Rights, the well-known social analyst Professor
Rajiv Bhargava, Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, has written that Muslims should be given proportional
representation wholeheartedly. He has also suggested that the
methodology to do this is to chart out special multi-member con-
stituencies with provision for preferential voting.
We, Muslims, must now have proportional reservation in the
parliament, state assemblies, judiciary, district boards, panchayat
samitis, gram panchayats, central/provincial/district government
offices, all non-minority educational institutions and all government
housing projects. However, should this not be forthcoming, then we
would prefer to go in for Babasaheb Ambedkars 1942 recipe of
separate electorate for the parliament, state assemblies and all
local bodies etc. For that purpose, necessary modifications need to
be incorporated in the Constitution. To conclude, I invite the read-
ers attention - men, women and youth - to take inspiration from
Faiz Ahmad Faiz:
Chashm-e-num, jaan-e-shoreeda kaafi nahin
Tohmat-e ishq-e posheeda kaafi nahin
Aaj bazaar mein pa-bajaulaan chalo!
Merely moist eyes and a disturbed spirit will not suffice,
Just being accused of latent love is not good enough;
Lets us go out in public in shackled feet!
*For a 4-page summary of Harsh Mandar Report, please visit:
http://www.zakatindia.org/images/HARSH%20MANDAR%20STUDY%20ON
%20NON-IMPLEMENTATION%20OF%20SACHAR%20REPORT.doc)
** http://www.clb.ac.il/workshops/2005/articles/rajeeb.pdf]
Proportionate Muslim Reservation, or Ambedkars recipe
On 24 May 2012, Indias human rights record
came under renewed international scrutiny during
its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at
the UN Human Rights Council. Amnesty
International welcomed the recommendations
made to India by the reviewing states. Amnesty
International said in a statement on 1 June that it
is disappointed that despite Indias assertion that
it sees the UPR mechanism as one of construc-
tive engagement, the government did not imme-
diately accept any of the recommendations
made, some of which were put forward in 2008
during Indias first UPR. Amnesty International
urged India to demonstrate by September 2012, a
genuine resolve to deliver on its outstanding
human rights commitments and the UPR recom-
mendations, when the report on Indias second
UPR is formally adopted at the 21st session of the
Human Rights Council.
Amnesty further said that India must
strengthen national safeguards against torture.
During the review, India received no less than 17
recommendations to ratify the Convention against
Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (CAT). Having signed
the CAT 15 years ago, India should now ratify
without further delay both the CAT and its
Optional Protocol. India stated, as it did during its
first review in 2008, that it is in the process of rat-
ifying the CAT, and attributed the delay to the
drafting of the domestic Prevention of Torture Bill,
which has been pending before Parliament since
May 2010.
The Amnesty further said that the Prevention
of Torture Bill falls short of the requirements of the
CAT in several respects, for example with regard
to the definition of torture and the inclusion of a
statute of limitations. During the review, India
asserted that its existing laws provide adequate
protection against torture. Amnesty International
strongly contested this assertion.
Amnesty International urges India to act on
recommendations to ratify the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from
Enforced Disappearance, which India signed five
years ago. India should also accept the recom-
mendations that it sign and ratify the Second
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition
of the death penalty, establish an official morato-
rium on the use of the death penalty, or abolish
the death penalty. No executions have been car-
ried out in India since 2004, but recent rejections
of several mercy petitions of prisoners currently
on death row have increased fears that execu-
tions may resume. This would constitute a major
setback to the countrys alignment with the global
trend away from the use of the death penalty.
Amnesty International welcomed the recom-
mendations made that India repeal or review the
Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 (AFSPA),
as also recommended by a government-appoint-
ed panel six years ago following widespread
demands in north-eastern states and Jammu and
Kashmir. During the UPR, the Indian delegation
failed to adequately address impunity under the
AFSPA, which grants security forces in specified
areas of armed insurgency powers to shoot to kill
in situations where they are not necessarily at
imminent risk. The Indian Supreme Court recent-
ly ruled that security personnel could not invoke
the AFSPA to avoid prosecutions for alleged
human rights violations. However, under the
AFSPA, prosecutions cannot take place without
approval by Indias federal government.
The Indian delegation failed to respond to an
advance question from Norway on whether India
would consider repeal of the Jammu and Kashmir
Public Safety Act, 1978 (PSA), under which hun-
dreds of persons suspected of involvement in
protests, political leaders and activists remain in
detention without charge or trial in Jammu and
Kashmir. Amendments made to the PSA in 2012
have still not brought detention practices in
Jammu and Kashmir fully into line with Indias
human rights obligations under international law.
Amnesty International reiterated its call on
the Government of India to ensure that the
Jammu and Kashmir authorities repeal the PSA,
end the practice of administrative detention in the
state, and free all detainees unless they are
charged with a recognizable offence under the
states ordinary criminal law.
In September 2011, India issued a standing
invitation to the UN Special Procedures, and its
facilitation of recent visits by the Special
Rapporteurs on human rights defenders, and
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, is
welcome. Amnesty International urged India with-
out further delay, to address the backlog of out-
standing mission requests from other Special
Procedures, and in particular to facilitate visits by
the Special Rapporteur on torture, whose request
to visit has been pending since 1993, and the
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Several
states called on India to implement the recommen-
dations of the Special Rapporteur on human rights
defenders following her visit in January 2011 and
to ensure that human rights defenders are able to
carry out their legitimate and peaceful activities
without fear of harassment and intimidation.
Amnesty International called on India to
demonstrate its constructive engagement to the
UPR at the Human Rights Councils 21st Session
in September, and act swiftly to give effect to
these recommendations.
Further information on the second UPR of India can be
found at:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/INSession1
3.aspx%20
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/INSession1
3.aspx?
Amnesty International, India: Accountability, impunity and
obstacles to access to justice, Submission to the UN
Universal Periodic Review, (Index ASA/20/048/2011),
November 2011: ? HYPERLINK
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA20/048/2011/en
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA20/048/2011/en?
India must deliver on its rights commitments: Amnesty
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NATIONAL
MG Editor DR ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN delivered this lecture at
Istanbuls Kemerburgaz University on 16 May 2012
India, Pakistan and Peoples Republic of China emerged almost
at the same time. They represent oldest civilisations but in their
present form, India and Pakistan emerged in 1947 while China
emerged three years later in 1950.
Bilateral relationship between India and China started in 1950
after the success of the Communist Revolution when India was
among the first countries to break relations with the Republic of
China and recognise the Peoples Republic of China.
India and China share two important characteristics. They are
the worlds most populous countries (China has a population of
1.3 billion while India has a population of 1.2 billion) and they are
also among the worlds fastest growing economies. China with a
GDP of $11.299 trillion ($8,382 per capita) is growing currently at
8.1 percent annually while India, with a GDP of $4.469 trillion
($4,001 per capita) is growing annually at 6.1 percent. This
achievement has increased their importance on the world map
and also for each other on the bilat-
eral level. (In contrast, Pakistan
has a population of only 177 million
with a GDP of $488.580 billion (per
capita $2,787) and its current
annual growth rate is much lower at
3.39 percent.
India and Chinas cultural and
economic ties go back thousands
of years into history. The famous
Silk Road served both countries and helped spread Buddhism in
China and neighbouring regions. China suffered during the so-
called Opium Wars in the 19th century which were being conduct-
ed by the British India. The two countries cooperated against the
Japanese military expansion during the Second World War.
India-China problems
There are a number of outstanding problems between India and
China. On top is the border issue which may erupt anytime.
Indian media from time to time reports border violations by China
but India does not react to them sharply, in clear contrast to its
behaviour towards Pakistan for similar violations. India claims
that China is occupying 37,000 sq. kms of Kashmir territory
(Aksai Chin), while China claims the whole of the Indian state of
Arunachal Pradesh which it has been occupying partly since
1962. Moreover, Pakistan in 1963 ceded to China north
Kashmirs Shaksgam Valley in the Karakoram region (3180 sq.
km.). (Kashmir comprises of 222,236 sq. kms. which is divided as
follows: India controls: 101,378 sq. kms; Pakistan controls 78,114
sq. kms while China controls 42,735 sq. kms.).
During 1981-87, eight rounds of talks were held to solve the
border issue with no success. In October 2008, Britain changed
its position on Tibet and accepted Chinas sovereignty over this
territory. This affected Indias position on its north-eastern territo-
ries because the Indian claim is based on the Simla Accord of
1914 signed between British India and Imperial China.
Other problems between the two countries are the huge trade
imbalance in favour of China; Pekings close relations with
Pakistan and more recently Indias oil exploration in South China
Sea which China has sharply criticised.
India and Chinas border disputes erupted soon after the
emergence of the Peoples Republic when China demanded a
revision of the McMohan Line agreement between Imperial
China and British India, saying that the imposed agreement was
detrimental to the interests of China which was weak at the time.
India refused to renegotiate and this led to the eruption of the
First India-China war in October 1962 during which China occu-
pied vast chunks of the north Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh
as well as parts of the Aksai Chin region of Kashmir which India
had started showing as Indian
territory in its maps only since
1954. China claimed 104,000
km2 of territory which Indian
maps showed as part of India.
Ever since, skirmishes keep tak-
ing place from time to time and
China keeps building infrastruc-
ture in the disputed area, like
roads and airstrips, eliciting only
weak Indian protests.
India, under Nehru, followed a Resurgent Asia policy which
included India and China and promoted Non-Aligned Movement
based on Panchsheel (the Five Principles, viz., 1. Mutual respect
for each others territorial integrity and sovereignty, 2. Mutual non-
aggression, 3. Mutual non-interference in each others internal
affairs, 4. Equality and mutual benefit, 5. Peaceful co-existence).
India tried to neutralise China psychologically by raising the
slogan Hindi-Cheeni bhai bhai (Indians and Chinese are broth-
ers). India thought that these initiatives and ideas were shared by
China too but the 1962 war shattered this illusion.
India had already angered China when it did not recognise
Chinas annexation of Tibet in 1950 which since British times
served as a buffer zone between India and China. India allowed
the Tibetan ruler Dalai Lama to enter its territory in 1959 along-
with thousands of his followers and to establish a government-in-
exile at Dharamshala in India which still functions today.
Since late 1980s, the two countries decided to focus on trade
relations despite the border dispute. Since mid-1990s bilateral
relations saw further improvement. In early 2000s, Indo-Chinese
trade relations really took off reaching $10 billion in 2004. By
2008, China had emerged as the largest trading partner of India.
The current bilateral trade between the two countries reached a
record US$ 74 billion which is massively in favour of China. The
bilateral trade target for 2015 is US$ 100 billion.
Since June 2009, India and China are working together under
BRIC (an economic bloc consisting of Brazil, Russia, India and
China, which now South Africa too has joined since August 2010).
The two countries are also developing military ties and have
been conducting joint military exercises while the perception in
India is that China is Indias
biggest enemy and would
attack it militarily during the
next 10-15 years when it
grows confident enough to
challenge other world pow-
ers. Despite these relations,
China keeps reiterating its
claim to Indian territory in
north India and keeps on making regular incursions there.
In 1998, shortly after the Indian nuclear test, the then defence
minister George Fernandes had said that China is Indias num-
ber one threat, hinting that the Indian nuclear arsenal was meant
to meet the Chinese threat. China was one of the strongest crit-
ics of the Indian nuclear tests.
Pakistan-China relations
As India-China relations plunged in early 1960s, Pakistan turned
its energies to improve relations with China despite being a
staunch ally of the West in general and the US in particular. A
pragmatic China was quick to answer Pakistani overtures and
soon close relations were in place and China started offering gen-
erous economic and military aid to Pakistan. Between 1967-
1971, China built an all-weather road linking Pakistan with its
Xinjang Uyghur Autonomous
[Eastern Turkistan] region
through territory claimed by
India. At the same time, China
started supporting secessionist
movements in Indias northeast
close to China, while accusing
India of helping secessionists in
Tibet. Maoist (Naxal) movement
in India received Chinese sup-
port during its early stages after
its emergence 1967.
In 1971, China sided with Pakistan in its conflict with India
and opposed the creation of Bangladesh but it did not offer
Pakistan any tangible material help.
India-China relations, cut off in 1962, were re-established in
1979. Now China chose to modify its pro-Pakistan stand on
Kashmir as well as chose to remain silent over Indias annexation
of the Sikkim region in the north-east as well as tacitly accepting
the special advisory relationship India has with Bhutan. China
recognised the Indian annexation of Sikkim in 2003.
India-Pakistan relations
Very few countries have the kind of relations India and Pakistan
share in terms of history, culture
and language. Yet they are peren-
nially bogged down in disputes
and quarrels. Their problems are a
direct result of the hasty partition
imposed by the British on undivid-
ed India in 1947. The unjust parti-
tion leaving vast Muslim-majority
areas like Gurdaspur, Pathankot in
the north and Murshidabad in the
east within India, large-scale dislo-
cation of people amid bloody riots
(nine million people crossed borders from both sides) and unre-
solved issues like Kashmir and water kept the relations boiling so
much so that the two countries fought four wars within five
decades - 1949 over Kashmir, 1965 again over Kashmir and
other issues, 1971 over East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and
Kargil in 1998 which was a localised war but had all the ingredi-
ents of turning into a full-fledged conflict.
Kashmir issue
After a brief war in 1948, India took the issue to the UN where it
promised to hold a referendum but has failed to redeem this
promise to date. Only an armistice holds between the two coun-
tries in Kashmir and the ceasefire line dividing between the two
parts of Kashmir is called Line of Control (LoC). It is not a per-
manent or international border. A UN military observers group
(UNGOMOIP) operates on both sides of the LoC here, though
India since 1972 does not cooperate with this force, yet its office
is open in Srinagar where agitators frequently go in order to reg-
ister their protest and present their memorandums. Pakistan
never pulled back its troops from its part of Kashmir, which is a
precondition for conducting a referendum in Kashmir. In the
beginning, India gave autonomy to Kashmir but over the years
this autonomy was heavily eroded and now the state of J&K does
not enjoy even the powers wielded by other Indian states.
Kashmir, with a Muslim majority, remains the biggest con-
tentious issue between India and Pakistan. The issue of water too
is related to Kashmir as all Pakistani rivers flow through the Indian
part of Kashmir and Pakistan feels threatened by Indian plans to
build dams, canals and power-generation plants. Pakistan looks
at these plans as a direct threat to its survival. Agriculture in
Pakistan is totally dependent on the water flowing through the
Indian part of Kashmir. With World Bank participation, Indus
Water Agreement was signed between the two countries in 1960.
India got the right to use the waters of the Eastern Rivers (Ravi,
Chenab and Beas) while Pakistan got the right to use the waters
of the Western Rivers (Indus, Jhelum and Chenab). Despite this
agreement, there are disputes between the two countries over
the sharing of the water of these rivers (e.g., over Baglihar
Hydroelectric Plant, Kishengang Hydroelectric Plant and Wullar
Barage). In 2009, the editor of a leading Pakistani newspaper
said that Pakistan is ready to resort to a nuclear war in order to
secure water from the rivers flowing through the Indian part of
Kashmir. Without this water, he said, Pakistan will turn into a
desert.
There is an unnecessary arms race between the two coun-
tries. Both now posses nuclear arms (since 1998) and ballistic
missiles in addition to other traditional and sophisticated arms.
There are eight contentious issues on the official agenda of
the two countries. These are:
1. Peace & Security in the region;
2. Jammu & Kashmir;
3. Siachen region in north Kashmir;
4. Wullar Barrage in Kashmir;
5. Sir Creek area, a small gulf
in the north-west between the
Indian state of Gujarat and the
Pakistani province of Sindh;
6. Terrorism exported from
beyond the borders (in Kashmir
by Pakistan, in Balochistan etc. by
India, as well as the activities of
the two countries espionage
agencies (RAW and ISI) in the
other country.
7. Smuggling of narcotics;
8. Economic and cultural cooperation;
This agenda was set during a summit between the prime minis-
ters of the two countries in June 1997 but the dialogue has suf-
fered suspension time and again in the wake of every crisis, e.g.,
after Kargil conflict in 1998, then after the terrorist attack on the
Indian Parliament in December 2001, and again after the terrorist
attack on Mumbai in 2009.
As a result of the stalemate in the Kashmir issue, Indian mis-
management, steady erosion of autonomy and habitual rigging of
elections, armed militancy erupted in Kashmir in 1989. It has kept
India busy since, and has exacted a heavy political price from
New Delhi. India pressed around 700,000 armed personnel into
Kashmir to crush the militancy and has provided the soldiers with
questionable immunity through a law called AFPSA which
allows soldiers to kill and violate human and civil rights at will.
According to various estimates, around 80,000 persons have
been killed during this phase of the Kashmir conflict and around
10,000 Kashmiri youth have disappeared without trace during
these past two decades. Mass and unidentified graves containing
bodies of thousands have been discovered across Kashmir
recently giving rise to a belief that partly these graves contain the
bodies of the disappeared youth in Kashmir.
Over the years, India rejected a number of international and
Pakistani proposals to solve the Kashmir issue, especially those
put across by the then President of Pakistan Gen. Musharraf to
settle the Kashmir issue for good. A brave attempt at Agra sum-
mit in 2000 failed to take off. General Musharraf in December
2003 offered to forget the UN Resolutions on Kashmir and nego-
tiate a deal with India. In Nov. 2005, the General offered another
landmark proposal: to demilitarise Kashmir and give it autonomy.
This too was rejected by India.
India also rejected the autonomy and self-rule proposals put
forward by pro-Indian political parties in Kashmir.
The militancy has made it clear that apart from India,
Pakistan and China, there is a fourth party to the Kashmir issue:
the Kashmiri people who demand their right to self-determination
promised by India at the UN in 1949.
Continued on the next page
China, India, Pakistan relations
India tried to neutralise China psychologi-
cally by raising the slogan Hindi-Cheeni
bhai bhai (Indians and Chinese are broth-
ers). India thought that these initiatives
and ideas were shared by China too but
the 1962 war shattered this illusion.
Very few countries have the kind of rela-
tions India and Pakistan share in terms of
history, culture and language. Yet they are
perennially bogged down in disputes and
quarrels. Their problems are a direct
result of the hasty partition imposed by
the British on undivided India in 1947.
Kashmir, with a Muslim majority, remains
the biggest contentious issue between
India and Pakistan. The issue of water too
is related to Kashmir as all Pakistani
rivers flow through the Indian part of
Kashmir and Pakistan feels threatened by
Indian plans to build dams, canals and
power-generation plants.
India and Pakistan will not be able to keep up with the Chinese pace as both of them besides
their rivalry, suffer from some very serious and basic internal disorders. Both of them suffer
from very high levels of corruption in all walks of life. Moreover, while communalism (mainly
anti-Muslim policies of the State and Hindu nationalist forces) eat away into the Indian society,
Pakistan suffers from anachronistic feudalism.
NATIONAL
10 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
AFSANA RASHID, SRINAGAR
Recommendations put forth in a report by the Centres appointed
interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir have evoked a mixed
response from separatists and mainstream political parties here.
The report of the three-interlocutors, Dileep Padgaonkar,
Radha Kumar and M M Ansari that was made public on May 24
recommends greater financial autonomy and cooperation across
the Line of Control to improve the financial condition of state and
establishment of special economic and industrial zones and pub-
lic-private partnership projects and favours resumption of dia-
logue process between the Centre and Hurriyat. The report was
earlier handed over to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram,
October 12 last year.
Rejecting the report, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, chairman
Hurriyat (M) said that the same has tried to divide Kashmir into
fragments. Weve seen another attempt being made to confuse
and complicate the problem, said the Mirwaiz while addressing
the media here, May 24.
He added Kashmir issue has to be solved outside the con-
stitutions of India and Pakistan. There is need of political will for
solving it and the solution should be according to the aspirations
of the people. It has to be resolved through tripartite dialogue or
UN resolutions.
There is nothing for people in this report, said Syed Ali Shah
Geelani, chairman Hurriyat (G), adding that Jammu and Kashmir
is a disputed territory and the same should have been accepted
in the report. Geelani added, India has promised people of the
state the right to determine their political future. There have been
18 resolutions of the UN Security council on Kashmir, which have
been accepted both by India and Pakistan.
He further added they are actually implementing the
designs of the RSS to make Ladakh a union territory, grant spe-
cial status to Jammu and then Kashmir will be turned into a mili-
tary state and people will be forced to migrate.
Mohammad Yasin Malik, chairman JKLF said, Theyve tried
to divide the state on ethnic and religious lines which would be
disastrous not only for the state, but for the entire South Asia.
Kashmir is a political issue and needs to be resolved according to
the aspirations of the people.
PDPs chief spokesperson, Nayeem Akhtar said that they are
satisfied with the suggestions on cross-LoC trade and making
Article 370 a permanent feature of the Constitution of India. But
lots more need to be done, he said.
BJP staged a protest in many parts of Jammu region against
the report and burnt its copies, May 25. Senior Congress leader
and Rajya Sabha member, Dr. Karan Singh emphasized the need
for a debate on the report.
Ruling National Conferences party spokesperson, Tanvir
Sadiq said that the party would make its reaction public only after
a careful study of report.
Jagmohan Singh Raina, chairman All Parties Sikh
Coordination Committee, May 26 said although the interlocutors
have admitted to the problems faced by people since the 1947
partition, but have stalled the solution under cover that makes
their manifestation more political than realistic. He urged that
without a permanent solution of the issue, problems instead of
getting resolved will continue to pile on.
BJP delegation visits Kashmir
Complaints of rampant corruption are prevalent in Jammu and
Kashmir, said former BJP president Rajnath Singh. Singh head-
ed a party delegation that was on the states study tour from May
28-June 2. The team comprised of parliamentarians and legisla-
tors including Ravi Shanker Prasad, V Raj Patil, Ashok Khajuria
and Shamsher Singh.
The delegations we met have talked about rampant corrup-
tion in the state. There is a lot of general feeling of discrimination
whether it is Jammu, Kashmir or Ladakh, said Singh, while
addressing the media here, June 2.
He added BJPs stand is clear that Jammu and Kashmir is
an integral part of India and we want its solution within the ambit
of justice and humanity. Asked if trifurcation of the state is a pos-
sible solution, Singh said, If I divulge everything here, what are
we going to say in the report?
Terming the interlocutors report ambiguous Singh said that
there is lack of clarity regarding various issues and many areas
have been left untouched and required more discussion.
He added that they want better relations with all their neigh-
bours. Friends can be changed, not neighbours. India is talking
with Pakistan on terrorism. I dont know whether Kashmir is on
the agenda or not. The delegation also called on the chief minis-
ter Omar Abdullah. They also advocated the increasing duration
of Amarnath yatra.
Week of the Disappeared
International Week of the Disappeared was observed here by the
Association of Parents for Disappeared persons from May 27 to
June 2. The commemoration started with a special meeting of
prayers and reflections on May 28, said Tahira Begum,
spokesperson of the Association, adding that the meeting was to
reflect the struggles, achievements, failures, response of India
and the international community.
The Association urged religious leaders to hold special
prayers for disappeared persons and their families on June 1 and
organized workshops for their psychological rehabilitation and
capacity-building training of family members of the disappeared.
It also reflected on the orders issued by SHRC in two mat-
ters relating to 3844 unmarked graves in Poonch and Rajouri dis-
tricts and graves relating to the Al-Faran kidnappings of 1995.
The Association believes non-responsiveness of the government
and police authorities in the Al-Faran case reflects the insensitiv-
ity and non-seriousness which is perpetual, it said.
The spokesperson informed that petitions related to cases of
disappearances from Baramulla district and FIRs pertaining to
unmarked graves in Kupwara, Baramulla and Bandipora districts
were submitted to SHRC.
Meanwhile, accusing the government of being responsible for
the disappearance of 9500 persons in the past 20 years, Hurriyat
(M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said that incidents like Al-
Faran kidnapping, Chattisinghpora massacre and Machil fake
encounter are the handiwork of government agencies aimed at
defaming the Kashmir movement.
Pointing towards a book authored by two journalists, Mirwaiz,
while addressing the Friday congregation at the historic Jamia
Masjid here June 1, said that it has exposed killing of foreigners
by government agencies.
Javaid Ahmad Mir, chairman JKLF (H), while addressing a
public meeting at south Kashmirs Qazigund, May 31 said,
People of Kashmir are eagerly waiting for the intervention of
international human rights organizations to ensure an end to
human rights abuses and punishment to the perpetrators.
Hurriyat developments
Castigating the government for
stopping him from offering Friday
congregational prayers, chair-
man Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Shah
Geelani termed it as direct inter-
ference in religious affairs and
worst kind of barbarism.
International conspiracies are being hatched to divide the
Muslim community on basis of geography, linguistics and oth-
ers, said Geelani, while addressing the media here, May 25.
Referring to the Ulama meet, he said, Everyone on his part
owes it to shun differences and work for unity. We had decided
to meet on May 24 again but the police foiled it. On the might of
the police and military Raj they dont allow us to express our
resentment against this illegal rule. Conspiracies are hatched to
house arrest leaders and jail young people.
Referring to interlocutors report, he said, Kashmir issue
can be solved only when the right to self-determination is given
to the people. The conglomerate wasnt expecting any miracles
from it. The Government of India should adopt a realistic and
pragmatic approach towards the issue.
Meanwhile, Hurriyat (M) led by Mirwaiz Umar Farooq initiat-
ed action against its several leaders for acts of indiscipline and
violation of Hurriyat constitution on May 31.
Conglomerates executive council meeting presided over by
Mirwaiz observed that in view of issuing irresponsible state-
ments, creating ruckus and violation of Hurriyat constitution, it
was decided that Prof Abdul Gani Bhat, Nayeem Ahmad Khan
and Azam Inquilabi should be served a show-cause notice as to
why action shouldnt be initiated against them.
It added Hurriyat leaders have been asked to explain their
position within 10 days and senior Hurriyat leader Shabir Ahmad
Shah would be communicated through a letter to refrain from
making public his suggestions and issues pertaining to
Hurriyat.
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Interlocutors report evokes mixed response
India has used the militancy in Kashmir to blame Pakistan for
all kinds of terrorism in India. India did not even stop at faking ter-
ror incidents and blaming Pakistan for the same (e.g.,
Chattisinghpora, Pathribal, Al-Faran episode etc.).
Due to mutual mistrust as well as constant American pres-
sure, the two countries have failed to agree on the Iran gas
pipeline which is hanging fire since 1996.
In recent months, India has toned down its rhetoric. Militancy
has weakened in Kashmir while Hindu terrorists have been
exposed who committed acts of terror and blamed Muslims and
Pakistan for the same. Now there is some serious movement
towards the normalisation of relations, especially in the commer-
cial and cultural fields.
Pakistan-China relations
Pakistan sought Chinas friendship in early 1960s as Pekings
relations worsened with India. China too found this relationship
desirable from the same point of view which moved Pakistan:
enemy of an enemy is a friend. China needed Pakistan on its side
against India. Over the years, China has provided huge econom-
ic, military and political support to Pakistan but refrained from any
real help when Pakistan needed it badly like during the India-
Pakistan war in 1965 or during the 1971 crisis or during the Kargil
war in 1998.
It is a fact that Pakistan hedges on its relations with China as
a balance to its worsening relations with its traditional ally, the US.
The Pakistani contention is that if it has to make a choice
between US and China, it will prefer China any day. But China, on
its part, does not want to develop its Pakistan ties to a point
where it would look as an anti-India alliance. Chinas compulsion
to develop and secure its western region, especially Muslim-
majority Xinjiang, also prompts it to keep good relations with
Pakistan. At the same time, China is alarmed about the political
instability, armys undue influence, and growing terrorist activities
in Pakistan and ISIs involvement with some terror outfits. As a
result of frequent attacks on Chinese workers, Peking has
scrapped some of its projects in Pakistan.
Chinas long-term plan is to open land routes to the Gulf, Iran
and Europe through Pakistan. For this, it is helping develop Gilgit
and Baltistan areas and has constructed a major new sea port at
Gwadar on the western side of Pakistan.
Both China and Pakistan are interested in bleeding India con-
tinuously. For this, they cultivate relations with Indias neighbour-
ing countries with a view to encircle India. Recently, India failed to
effectively intervene in the Maldives during a quasi-coup, fearing
adverse Chinese reaction.
India-Pakistan rivalry has not allowed the South Asian bloc,
SAARC, to emerge on the lines of ASEAN. India has joined BRIC
(now BRICS with the addition of South Africa to Brazil, Russia,
India and China). But this new economic bloc too is not moving
fast enough as a result of the Indo-Chinese rivalry and mutual dis-
trust.
The Future
The future looks bleak for a peaceful South Asia. Indian-Pakistani
rivalry seems to be permanent as there are forces in both coun-
tries which want the divide and disputes to continue and grow.
This leaves China as a country concerned about its interests to
emerge as the superpower of Asia through gaining the required
economic clout and status. While it remains friendly to Pakistan
for its own reasons, China is working slowly to capture Indian ter-
ritories it claims.
Astate of arms race will continue between India and Pakistan
depriving them both from realising their true potentials and in the
process both will keep their societies backward on all parameters
of modern life while China continues to make great strides to
prosperity and progress.
India and Pakistan will not be able to keep up with the
Chinese pace as both of them besides their rivalry, suffer from
some very serious and basic internal disorders. Both of them suf-
fer from very high levels of corruption in all walks of life.
Moreover, while communalism (mainly anti-Muslim policies of the
State and Hindu nationalist forces) eat away into the Indian soci-
ety, Pakistan suffers from anachronistic feudalism. Economic
policies of both India and Pakistan encourage an steady accumu-
lation and concentration of wealth into a few hands, leaving the
vast majority in abject poverty and backwardness. For these rea-
sons, both India and Pakistan may never achieve the kind of sta-
tus they eagerly aspire to in the world today while China steadily
gallops to its cherished goal.
Continued from page 9
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012 11
ANALYSIS
I
ronically, communalism has yet to be defeated in
Gujarat and secularism is being put to test here once
again, with assembly elections scheduled for later
this year. How can communalism be considered as
defeated here till ghost of Gujarat carnage 2002 contin-
ues to haunt Muslims living in the state? True, ten years
have passed and the state has not witnessed the same
phase of anti-Muslim communal violence again. But,
surely it is wrong to assume that secularism of any level
can be judged by Muslims not being subject to communal
violence. Too many questions linked with Gujarat car-
nage cannot be swept aside as a dark chapter in this
countrys, and of course the states, secular history.
The tragic irony is that Gujarati Muslims continue to
be denied a fair and just trial where 2002 carnage is con-
cerned. All those responsible for those communal riots
have not yet been declared as guilty and punished.
Muslim victims have not yet received suitable compensa-
tion for lives lost and property damages they suffered
during that phase. It is indeed a serious matter that not
much attention is paid to compensating sufferings faced
by Indian Muslims for no fault of theirs. They face the
trauma and usually the actual criminals are not even
declared guilty. Rather, the underground networking is
such that extremist elements responsible for targeting
Muslims are actually awarded by right-wing anti-Muslim
groups inciting them for the purpose.
This networking is believed to be the primary
cause responsible for the gruesome manner in which the
2002 carnage was planned and executed targeting only
Muslims. Greater punishment should be given for those
responsible for inciting the apparent frenzy with which
groups of people deliberately and selectively victimized
Gujarati Muslims.
True, secular Indians, including non-Muslims and
Muslims, have repeatedly raised their voice through vari-
ous means to draw attention to what led to the Gujarat
carnage and sufferings undergone there by Muslims. Yet,
justice and compensation still elude most Muslim victims
and real criminals continue escaping punishment. The
latter includes Narendra Modi, who was the state chief
minister and still holds the same position.
Politically, it was the responsibility of Modi and his
government to ensure that secularism is practiced in
Gujarat, communal orgy is not allowed to prevail and
those responsible for violating these principles are pun-
ished. Despite holding the reins of Gujarat government,
what has prevented Modi from ensuring a just treatment
for the states Muslims and punishment for the guilty?
There is only one answer to this question: Modi apparent-
ly has no regrets for Gujarat carnage. How can it be for-
gotten that not too many years ago, Modi gave the
impression of being a strong champion of transforming
India into a Hindu Rashtra, a Hindu State. In all probabil-
ity he still nourishes this ambition and has his eyes set
on assuming the power at the Centre for the purpose.
That is his vision, which fortunately has limited
prospects of being accepted by the rest of the country.
And this explains the slight change in his recent political
campaign for Gujarat assembly elections.
Modi is making efforts to attract Muslim voters to his
party, the BJP. Seriously speaking, considering that
Muslims form around 10 percent of the states population
and there is no district in Gujarat with more than 25 per-
cent of Muslim population, Modis political strategy
seems to be nothing more than an eyewash, a mere polit-
ical rhetoric. His attempt to attract Muslim votes may
have been viewed as a wise political strategy if several
important political parties were in the race for Gujarat
assembly elections. The political terrain here is dominat-
ed by only BJP and Congress.
W
ithout Modi making virtually any noise about the
Gujarat carnage or even displaying any remorse or
sense of guilt for what happened 10 years ago; without
explaining why hasnt he taken any action against actual
criminals and in helping Muslim victims, what has
prompted Modi to give a new importance to their votes?
Modi apparently is convinced that these attempts are
going to make little impact in convincing secular
Gujaratis, Muslims and non-Muslims, about his secular
credentials. Yet, he is indulging in this exercise deliber-
ately to at least superficially cleanse his own image of
communalism. Political ambition for the prime ministerial
chair has prompted Modi to try and don a secular mask
and expect the rest of the country to be convinced by his
politico-secular appeal.
Modi has probably forgotten that the Gujarat carnage
prompted voters across the country to turn against BJP,
pushing this partys alliance out of power. This led the
Congress-led coalition to assume power in the first
national elections held after the Gujarat carnage. That
electoral verdict carried a significant message. The rest
of the country was against the Gujarat carnage and it
being repeated elsewhere in India. Modi has also forgot-
ten that BJPs secular allies have not allowed him to cam-
paign in their state elections of which Bihar is a major
example. Whatsoever be the purpose of the secular mask
being donned by Modi to woo Gujarat Muslims, it is least
likely to help him at the stage of national politics.
Speaki ng Out
Modi & Gujarati
Muslims
NI LOFAR SUHRAWARDY
Justice is a luxury beyond the reach of
the poor, minorities and tribals, writes
MOHAMMAD ZEYAUL HAQUE
O
ver the last few weeks things have
happened which have confirmed our
belief (if we had any doubts) that in
India justice is not generally available
to the poor and the powerless. There are any
number of glaring instances of institutional
denial of justice to people seriously harmed for
no fault of their own.
On June 2, the CBI filed closure reports in
three FIRs filed in 2010 against SPS Rathore,
former director general of police, Haryana. This
man was given an 18-month prison sentence for
molesting and torturing a school girl, Ruchika
Girhotra. The sentence came after 19 years of
hide and seek of the legal game. After serving
six months of his prison term he got out on bail.
This influential person did everything to
make an ass of the law. In 1990, after she com-
plained that Rathore had molested her, she was
expelled by her school for indiscipline. The
schools game was out soon as it was found that
she had been expelled under the pressure of
the omnipotent and almighty policewalla.
Soon, the police started filing false cases
against her brother Ashu and torturing him in
police custody. Under severe pressure and
already broken by humiliation, she committed
suicide in 1993. This was a clear case of abet-
ment to suicide and destruction of evidence on
part of Rathore and his henchman. Despite all
that, the CBI court in Panchkula has found no
evidence to substantiate the charges and closed
the files.
After 22 years of chasing justice, Ruchikas
family has accepted its fate and the CBI closure.
However, a Good Samaritan called Anand
Prakash, whose daughter was Ruchikas friend
and witness to the molestation, has fought the
case so far and got Rathore sentenced for his
misdeed. He has announced that he would file a
PIL soon against the CBI courts decision. With
people like him around we have the reassur-
ance of God being just and fair.
There is another police horror story which
makes ones hair stand in fear. A famished trib-
al school teacher in Dantewada called Soni Sori
was seen by the all-knowing police as a
Naxalite. That was reason enough for the police
to do everything to destroy her honour and
human dignity.
According to a report in The Times of India-
Crest, the police stripped and raped her, insert-
ed stones in her vagina and rectum and gave
her electric shocks. A Kolkata hospital reported
two foreign bodies of size 2.5x1.5x1.0 cm each
from the vagina and foreign body of size
2.0x1.5x1.5 cm was removed from the rectum.
Now, which law in India (or, for that matter,
anywhere else) allows this? A letter quoting the
Kolkata report was sent to Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh by Leisl Gerntholtz, executive
director, Womens Rights Division of Human
Rights Watch. The letter was signed by Noam
Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, Aruna Roy and Harsh
Mander. Brinda Karat of the CPM along with
several womens organisations, met President
Pratibha Patil to protest against it. The superin-
tendent of police directly responsible for Soris
sorrow has been honoured with gallantry medal.
In late May this year came the 25th anniver-
sary of a monumental crime committed by the
State in which no criminal has been apprehend-
ed so far. On the night of May 22, 1987 Uttar
Pradesh Provincial Armed Constabulary jawans
herded fifty young Muslims from Hashimpura in
Meerut in a truck, brought them to the Ganga
Canal at Murad Nagar near Delhi (and some to
the Hindon river nearby). They shot them and
threw their bodies into the canal. Five of them
survived and swam to the shore, later to be res-
cued by Ghaziabad police led by district police
chief Vibhuti Narain Rai.
In addition, they beat three Muslim youths to
death in their custody at the police lines and
instigated prisoners (possibly in connivance with
jail staff) to attack a group of Hashimpura
Muslims brought to Fatehgarh jail. The prison-
ers lynched five of them and seriously wounded
several others. Thus these eight deaths too
were directly caused by the State in the same
case. None of the uniformed criminals (identified
by the duty register, the vehicle used, the log-
book detailing travel and amount of fuel used for
the vehicle etc.) has been brought to justice.
This happens to be the highest number of
deaths in State custody, in which only the State
machinery was involved and no private citizen
was directly responsible for it. Many of the crim-
inals have been promoted for discipline and
playing kabaddi rather well. The wounds of
Hashimpura have been forgotten by the State.
The sadder part is that the society too has
forgotten them. The victims, several of whom
still carry the scars from the PAC attack (at least
one is paralysed from the heavy beating), had
been expecting some gesture of solidarity from
the society at large, if not from the Centre or
state of UP. They have been disappointed.
In a democracy, poor, weak and margin-
alised people often look towards the media with
some hope. Hashimpura expected some help,
but the media by and large decided to keep
quiet, even that part of the media which chirps
and chatters noisily, ceaselessly.
Even today, the victims have some hope of
bringing the culprits to justice and getting finan-
cial compensation at par with that for 1984 anti-
Sikh riots victims. The wheels of justice turn
slowly, sometimes so slowly that perpetrators of
crimes against humanity reach old age and die
a natural death before the so-called long arm of
the law reaches them.
The Weak Must Not Expect Justice
Both so-called national political parties and their
coalitions, UPA and NDA, are in serious disarray and
disintegration. Both have reached this stage by
antagonizing Muslim voters in states as well as on
national level. Their reputation has been so damaged
that election after election, the Muslim marginal vote
that could have saved them from going under, has
been irretrievably lost to them.
Muslim voters trump card has become very
aware, very choosy and very decisive. Muslim mass-
es have now fully realized that both national political
parties are nothing but communal Brahmin organisa-
tions and will never ever give any handle to Muslims
as long as they are in power. The regional parties,
though sprung from the same milieu, are now starting
from a clean slate and had come to full realization
that without Muslim support they can never come to
power.
National media has finally gathered courage to
project the disarray of both the national parties and
openly weave the Muslim factor into their disintegra-
tion scenario. The worst part is that both Congress as
well as BJP have become so committed to their anti-
Muslim policies that they just cannot make any
change in their policies - Congress with its communal
tradition, BJP with its Hindutva baggage.
This is the time, Muslims should start formulating
their own strategies, to reward only those that meet
their demands and/or form their own Muslim-led polit-
ical vehicles, however much inexperienced, untested,
under-funded, unorganized. Time is on their side.
GHULAM MUHAMMED
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
Muslims should start formulating their
own strategies, to reward only those
that meet their demands and/or form
their own Muslim-led political vehi-
cles, however much inexperienced
In a democracy, poor, weak and marginalised people often look
towards the media with some hope. Hashimpura expected some
help, but the media by and large decided to keep quiet, even that
part of the media which chirps and chatters noisily, ceaselessly.
Even today, the victims have some hope of bringing the
culprits to justice and getting financial compensation at par with
that for 1984 anti-Sikh riots victims.
The tragic irony is that Gujarati Muslims
continue to be denied a fair and just trial where
2002 carnage is concerned. All those
responsible for those communal riots have not
yet been declared as guilty and punished.
Muslim victims have not yet received suitable
compensation for lives lost and property
damages they suffered during that phase. It is
indeed a serious matter that not much attention
is paid to compensating sufferings faced by
Indian Muslims for no fault of theirs.
Signpost
Muslim Trump Card
Haji ABDUL MATEEN, a noted
social worker and messiah of the
poor and Imam of Chauhan Nagars
Bilal Masjid and of Jaffarabad
Welcome Colonys Eidgah was killed
by criminal elements on 8 May. After
the post-mortem, his body was hand-
ed over by the police to his family
members after which he was laid to
rest in the Panj Piran graveyard. He
was 51 years old and is survived by
his wife, two sons and four daugh-
ters.
Dr. NAJMUS SALAM Jalali, famous
doctor, social worker and secretary of
Zakat Foundation of India died of
heart attack in Delhi on 26 May at the
age of 58 years. Son of (late) Mufti
Abdud Daim Jalali, the great religious
scholar of the time had translated the
Quran which he had got published.
Recently when the refugees from
Burma who were driven away from
Vasant Vihar by the police he had
taken full care of them at Madanpur
Khadar transit camp set up by ZFI.
He was simultaneously associated
with many welfare institutions like
Adam Hospital, Happy Home,
Fatema Care House and many oth-
ers. He leaves behind his wife, one
son and one daughter. He was laid to
rest at Noidas graveyard.
MUHAMMAD YAQOOB ANSARI,
noted social worker, a famous per-
sonality of Old Delhi, general secre-
tary of Delhi State Momin
Conference who was also associated
with many social, milli, welfare and
religious organisations died on 26
May at the age of 68 years. He
leaves behind wife, two sons and two
daughters.
SHAH ALAM Aman Aurangabadi
(Buland Shahar), prominent poet
died of heart attack at the age of 55
years. He was a poet of all different
genres of poetry like nazm, ghazal,
naat, qita etc. He leaves behind his
wife, four daughters and one son.
KEFAYATULLAH Saifi, a celebrated
personality of Meerut died on 19 May
2012 after a prolonged illness at the
age of 76 years. He was held in great
respect by one and all because he
had devoted his whole life in the serv-
ice of his fraternity and the nation.
MUHAMMAD ISMAT, a student of Zenith Academy
School of the small state of Manipur and youngest
among seven brothers and sisters by securing 99
percent marks topped in the CBSEs 12th class
examination in which about 8 lakh students all over
the country had appeared. His individual marks are
100 each in Chemistry, Mathematics, Home
Science & Fine Arts and 97 and 98% respectively
in Physics & English, making an aggregate of 495
marks out of 500. Son of Bashirur Rahman, a pri-
mary school teacher with a monthly salary of Rs.
2500 only and a native of a backward and sleepy
town Lilong near the states Capital Imphal, he had
received much help and guidance from his teach-
ers and others. States minister for agriculture and
fisheries, Abdul Nasir announced a cash prize of
Rs. 1,11,111 for him.
ZEENAT, a girl student of Shafiq Memorial School,
Bara Hindu Rao has secured 98 percent marks in
CBSEs 10 class examination. Belonging to a very
poor family she lives in Katra Atma Ram near this
school in a small and dingy room on 4th floor
alongwith her four other brothers & sisters and
mother. This small room is the living room for six
persons, sleeping room, store room, her study
room etc. Her father died about six years ago after
which her mother somehow is bringing them up.
The scholarship of the Rs. 1000 that she is getting
for good performance in studies is helpful in meet-
ing her and other expenses alongwith the meagre
income of her mother. The family belongs to
Madhubani in Bihar. Zeenat aspires to seek admis-
sion in IIT for which she is preparing right from now.
Ms. HAMIRA ZAKI, a student of Rabia Girls Public
School situated in the narrow lane, Gali Qasim Jan
of Ballimaran locality in Chandni Chowk topped in
her class by securing 100 percent aggregate
marks in CBSEs 10th class examination.
Ms. SAMREEN JALAL, daughter of an ordinary
salesman in a village near Ranchi has topped in
CBSEs 12th class Science in Jharkhand state by
securing highest marks. Her feat is all the more
creditable seeing that living in a modest house in a
village she travelled 17 kms. each way daily to
reach her college in Ranchi and back, helped her
mother daily in household jobs including cooking,
took tuition, used to read in lamps light when there
was no electricity (which is quite frequent for hours)
and studied on an average for 10 hours daily.
Ms. UROOJ FATEMA of Shaheen Bagh, Jamia
Nagar and a student of Delhi Public School, R.K.
Puram, New Delhi has topped in her school in
CBSEs 12th class by securing 97% marks with
Commerce. A hard working and illustrious student,
she has been securing 1st position in her class
from 6th class. She is also a half Haafiza i.e. she
has memorised by heart the first 15 paras of the
Quran. She may become full Haafiza in due
course.
ALFA SHAMIM, a student of Delhi Public School,
Mathura Road topped in the School in CBSEs 10th
class by securing cent percent marks in all subjects
or 10 out of 10 in all subjects under grading sys-
tem.
Maulana Syed ARSHAD MADNI, chief of Jamiatul
Ulama-e Hind has been selected a Member of the
famous international organisation Rabta Alam-e
Islami. This is for the first time that a religious
scholar or teacher of Darul Uloom Deoband has
been selected a member of this great organisation.
MUHAMMAD EHSAN ABID has been made Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of Delhi Waqf Board. This
is however not his full fledged or whole time job.
Presently he is posted as ADM at Delhi. In addition
to his main job as ADM, he has been given the
additional charge of working as CEO of Delhi Waqf
Board.
WASEEM AHMAD KHAN has been appointed
Chairman of U.P. Pollution Control Board by the
new U.P. government. Surprisingly, his name has
never been heard in government, political or
bureaucratic circles. It is said that Delhi Jama
Masjids Imam Maulana Ahmad Bukhari pressed
the U.P. government to appoint him to this post to
which the government gave in. Maulana Bukhari
also confirmed this. All that is known about
Waseem Ahmad is that he is from Meerut and is in
meat business.
Dr. MUSHTAQ AHMAD, former Director of Central
Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM),
Hyderabad has been appointed by union health
minister as Professor and Head of the Department
of Unani System of Medicines in Cape Town
University (South Africa) for a period of two years.
He has already left for Cape Town.
Delhis chief minister Mrs. Shiela Dikshit in her
capacity as chairperson of Delhi Urdu Academy
has reconstituted Academys Governing Council on
23 May after which Prof. AKHTARUL WASEY,
Academys Vice President has been retained on
his post and he is again Vice President of Delhi
Urdu Academy
MUKHTAR ABBAS NAQVI, BJP leader and K.N.
WALA GOPAL, Rajya Sabha MPs have been
appointed Members of AMU Court as RS represen-
tatives for a period of three years (from 4 May 2012
to 3 May 2015) or till the period they are Rajya
Sabha Members. In addition to them, Prof.
MUZAFFAR A. SIDDIQI, Head of AMUs
Department of Electrical Engineering and Prof.
IKRAM HUSAIN, Head of the Universitys Physical
Health & Sports Education Department also have
been appointed Members of AMU Court on the
basis of their seniority in place of Prof. Imran Ghani
of the Department of Surgery and Prof. Mohibullah
of the Department Electrical Engineering whose
terms of Membership of the Court were completed.
Ms. RANA PARVIN SIDDIQI, a senior advocate of
Delhi has been elected a member of Bar Council of
India for the third time in succession. This election
is quite important seeing that 50 thousand lawyers
take part in this election. She has been in legal pro-
fession for the past 27 years and she is the only
Muslim woman member of Bar Council of India.
She was also elected as the chairperson of Bar
Council of Delhi.
HAFIZ MUHAMMAD YAHYA Dehlvi and Maulana
ASGHAR IMAM Mehdi Salfi were unanimously
elected Ameer (President) and General Secretary
respectively of Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees for the
third time consecutively at the meeting of its Majlis-
e Shoora held on 27 May at its central office in
Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. More than 200 Shoora
members from all over the country had participated
in this election meeting.
Allama SYED MEHDI Mian has been unanimous-
ly elected Head of All India Ulama wa Mashaaekh
Board at the Boards annual national Conference
held at Kachhochha Sharif in place of Syed Shah
Izhar Ashraf who died recently. After his unanimous
election he said that this Board is representing all
Muslims and is their true spokesman. He demand-
ed that government should constitute Madrasa
Board at the earliest.
Dr. MUHAMMAD KHALIQ QASMI and Maulana
MERAJ ALAM MUHAMMAD ANFAQ were con-
ferred PhD Degrees. Dr. Khaliq Qasmi of AMUs
Deptt. of Arabic was conferred the Degree by AMU
for his thesis on Sheikh Wajihuddin Alvi Gujaratis
Life and Services which ran into 500 pages. During
his researches Dr. Qasmi discovered 19 rare
Arabic manuscripts of Wajihuddin Alvi Gujarati
which were preserved in different libraries within
and outside India which are new additions to Arabic
language and literature. Maulana Meraj Alam of
Jamia Ibn Taimia of Bihar and Graduate from
Jamia Islamia, Madina Manauwara was conferred
the Degree by Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi on
his research work on Sheikh Muhammad bin
Saleh bin Nasheman aur unki Fiqhi Khidmaat
which he completed under the supervision of Prof.
Akhtarul Wasey of Jamia Millia.
Music Maestro, A.R. RAHMAN has been conferred
the honorary Degree of Doctor of Music by Miami
University (USA) at its 173rd Annual
Commencement Ceremony held at Oxford (Ohio
State). For Rahman this was his fourth Doctorate
Degree. From his address on this occasion it is evi-
dent that he received an invitation signed by
President Obama to come to White House to meet
him and his family members.
NEWSMAKERS
12 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
MEN & WOMEN IN NEWS
OBITUARIES
MANZAR IMAM
Linguist, Presidential Award winner and former
professor of Arabic at Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Dr. Abdul Haq succumbed to the
deadly cancer and breathed his last at a
Gurgaon hospital on 7 May. He taught Arabic
language and literature at JNUs Centre of
Arabic and African Studies during 1978-2001
Prof. Haq had studied at Al-Azhar and Cairo
University in Egypt, Princeton College of
London during the sixties of the last century. He
taught logic and Islamic philosophy at the
Islamic University in Libya. He contributed to
Arabic and Indian literature by writing several
books in Arabic. He also translated Vision of
India, Introducing India, Subramanya Bharti: His
Selected Poems and Prose, to name a few, into
Arabic. He was conferred the Presidential
Award for his services to Arabic in India in 2001.
Abdul Haq belonged to Amal Jahri village of
Purnea district in Bihar which is now part of the
neighbouring Uttar Dinajpur district of West
Bengal. He had to struggle a lot as his father,
Maulana Shujaat Ali, a known scholar of his
time had died while Abdul Haq was still young.
Abdul Haq was born on 3 May 1936 in the
present Uttar Dinajpur district. He received his
early education at his native place and then
went to Darul Uloom at Deoband from where he
obtained Fazil degree in 1955 with distinction
and was known for his debating skills.
As luck would have it, Qazi Muslihuddin,
one of the learned scholars of Purnea, helped
Abdul Haq to go to Cairo for higher studies. He
was the first student from his region to go
abroad for studies and hence became famous.
He did masters from Al-Azhar in both Arabic and
Islamic Studies and also got Licentiate (B.A.) in
Arabic from Cairo University. He then took up
teaching logic, philosophy and Arabic literature
at the Islamic University in Libya during 1962-
65. In 1966 he went to UK from where he got a
diploma in English from Princeton College. He
served as a lecturer in the Department of Arabic
and Persian at University of Delhi during 1969-
1974. He joined the Jawaharlal Nehru
University as a Guest Teacher in 1977 and was
soon appointed as Assistant Professor finally as
a Professor in which capacity he served until
May 2001. He remained associated with JNU
for 25 years during which he also did his PhD
from the University of Delhi in 1987. During
1969-1980 he was also associated as a guest
linguist and news reader for the Arabic services
of All India Radio.
His progressive views were not liked by
some orthodox ulama. However, he was deeply
associated with his university students.
According to Prof. Faizanullah Farooqi, a
professor at the Centre of Arabic and African
Studies at JNU who worked with him for 15
years, Dr Abdul Haq was a very friendly person
with great expertise in Arabic translation and
interpretation. He was highly influenced by the
British culture after spending some time in UK.
He was kind, considerate, jovial and respected
his colleagues, said Prof. Farooqi. He visited
many Arab, European, South East Asian coun-
tries and brought his experiences back home.
He chaired and participated in a large number of
seminars and debates in which he represented
his country on several international forums.
His original works in Arabic include: 1.
Arabic Studies in the Universities of Northern
India since Independence, published in 1989,
by Indian Institute of Islamic Studies,
Tughlaqabad, New Delhi; 2. Lectures on
Modern Arabic Literature, published in 1991; 3.
Modern Arabic Linguistics, published in 1986; 4.
Modern Arabic Lessons, published in 1989;
5. Modern Arabic Texts, published in 1988; 6.
Selected Arabic Lessons (for reading, composi-
tion and translation), published in 1991; 7.
Lectures on Modern Arabic Literature, published
in 1991; 8. Lectures on Arab Affairs,
published in 1984.
Prof. Abdul Haq also authored and translat-
ed some books in Urdu like Modern Arabic
Literature: Analytical Studies (1986), Stories of
Najeeb Mahfouz (1990) and Modern Arabic
Criticism (translated 1999).
P.P. Shrivastava, famous and senior Urdu poet, has been
selected by Sarva Bhasha Sanskriti Samman Samiti for being
honoured this year with Sahitya Shiromani Pundit Damodar Das
Chaturvedi Samman 2012 in recognition of his overall and valu-
able services to Urdu. This Award will be given to him by Vice
Chairman of Rajya Sabha at a function to be held at ICCR
Auditorium at Azad Bhavan on 16 June.
IRSHAD AHMAD TAJ, a noted social activist of Jammu and Vice
President of Jammu Fruit Producers & Sellers Association has
been honoured, alongwith many others, with the coveted Best
Citizens of India Award for his exceptional calibre and yeomans
services rendered by him. Irshad Ahmad has won many other
important Awards also like Bharat Jyoti Award and Glory of India
Gold Medal in recognition of his commendable and excellent
services in the field of trade and industry.
Mrs. ZOHRA SEHGAL stage actress who completed 100 years
of her life has been selected alongwith film producer RAMESH
SIPPY, producer of the famous film Sholay for being honoured
with International Film Academys Award in recognition of her
valuable services to film and stage during the 100 years of Indian
cinema. The Award will be given at a function to be held in
Singapore.
AWARDS
PROF. ABDUL HAQ
SPECIAL REPORTS
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012 13
New Delhi: Terror-accused Qateel Siddiquis
murder while in custody in a Pune high security
Yarvada Jail has shocked the Indian Muslim
community and civil society. It is uniformly
beleived that he was eliminated while in custody
so that his forced confession could be used by
the ATS and Special Cell against his co-
accused amid serious doubts about the wild
claims of these agencies about the so-called
Darbhanga Module whose mastermind is a
cycle-repairer and other members are semi-lit-
erate hand-to-mouth youth who hardly know the
intricacies of modern world and the politics of
terror. Many of them never left their village and
district yet they are accused of planning and
planting bombs in places thousands of kms
away. Murdered Qateel too was one such sim-
ple young man toiling to meet the basic neces-
siteis of life. He was the first in a series of 14
youths arrested on charges of planting bombs in
Delhi and Bangalore etc. Seven months have
passed since his arrest and systemic torture
All India Muslim Majlis-E-Mushawarat on
Saturday held Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh
Maria, the head of National Investigation
Agency Sarat Chandra Sinha and the Home
Minister P. Chidambaram "personally responsi-
ble for this cold-blooded murder" of Mohammad
Qateel Siddiqui in the Pune jail on Friday. The
umbrella body of Muslim organizations has
demanded a judicial enquiry by a sitting high
court judge. "We reject with contempt the mere
suspension of the jailor and a CID enquiry. The
jailor will be reinstated soon and the CID
enquiry will not go against their own ilk," said Dr.
Zafarul Islam Khan while addressing a press
conference here at the headquarters of
Mushawarat.
"The cold-blooded murder of Qateel
Siddiqui in Pune's Yarvada high security jail yes-
terday is yet another proof that the life of a
Muslim is no longer safe in India even behind
the walls of a high security jail," Dr. Khan said
while speaking to mediapersons. He said this is
the latest in a series of cases where security
agencies' high-handedness in dealing with
Muslim youth on flimsy charges and mere sus-
picion gives away the game of the administra-
tion's war against the Muslim community in the
name of fighting "terror".
He said that on 24 May, two Kashmiri young
students were kidnapped by unknown security
agencies at Aligarh and only one of them was
later released after their educational institution
filed a habeas corpus case in Allahabad High
Court. It is now almost a month since Fasih
Mahmood, an Indian Muslim engineer, sudden-
ly disappeared in Saudi Arabia at the request of
Indian authorities which are still not clear about
the charges against him. Earlier Journalist
Kazmi was arrested on unknown charges and
remains in custody while Hindutva terrorists are
getting bail and feeling confident enough to hold
a public conference in Goa, he said.
"The murdered accused, Qateel Siddiqui,
was a law-abiding citizen of this country.
Despite the passage of seven months on his
arrest, the agencies have not been able to file a
chargesheet against him, while he has been
consistently tortured in custody to force him to
sign a fake confession as happens now in
almost all such cases. His murder has been
arranged at the hands of a criminal already
incarcerated on murder charges. It seems the
reason is to use Qateel's fake confession in
courts against other accused since he will no
longer be there to deny and refute the forced
confession attributed to him."
Dr Khan said, "We hold the Maharashtra
ATS chief Rakesh Maria, the head of National
Investigation Agency Sarat Chandra Sinha and
the Home Minister P. Chidambaram personally
responsible for this cold-blooded murder. We
demand a judicial enquiry by a sitting high court
judge. We reject with contempt the mere sus-
pension of the jailor and a CID enquiry. The
jailor will be reinstated soon and the CID
enquiry will not go against their own
ilk," the Mushawarat head said while
appealing to the national and interna-
tional human rights organisations "to
take notice of the situation in India
where sections of the administration
are fighting a war against the country's
largest religious minority in the name
of fighting "terror", while the security
agencies themselves are the biggest
culprits and excel in fabrication of
cases and use torture to force the
accused to confess to crimes they
never committed. The aim is to demor-
alise the Indian Muslim community
and to slow down its educational and
social progress."
He said that this all is happening
because there is no government today
and this has given a free hand to peo-
ple of saffron mindset in the adminis-
tration and government agencies.
The press conference was also
addressed by Human Rights activist Mahtab
Alam, Historian Amaresh Mishra, Welfare Party
General Secretary Dr SQR Ilyas, Jamaat-e
Islami Hind secretary Mohammad Ahmad and
Akhlaq Ahmad, Secretary Association for
Protection of Civil Rights.
Mahtab Alam said that the attack on Qateel
was part of a series of attacks on Muslim terror-
accused in jails. Such undertrials were attacked
in Sabarmati Jail, in Jaipur Jail and also in
Arthur Road Jail. "So called patriotic criminals in
jails are attacking Muslims accused at the insti-
gation of officials," Alam said and demanded a
white paper from the government on all such
arrests in the last 10 years.
Akhlaq Ahmad of APCR said that India has
become a police state. He criticized media for
believing everything Police claim about Muslim
terror-accused. Giving information about the
grave poverty in which the family of Qateel has
been living, Ahmad urged media people to visit
homes of such terror accused and they will find
the truth themselves.
Qasim Rasool Ilyas of WPI said all this is
happening with a conspiracy to keep Muslims at
the receiving end. "If government wants, it can
stop it, but it is not doing so," he said. He called
upon the community to move a no-confidence
motion against the Congress-led UPA govern-
ment at the centre.
Historian Amaresh Mishra said that a sec-
tion in the Congress Party beleives in Sanghi
poilicies and it is responsible for this conspiracy
to criminalise Muslims. He warned that the
Congress party may split due to the conspira-
cies of these elements.
Jamaat-e Islamis Mohammad Ahmad said
that one of the bad effects of the propaganda
against the Muslim community in the name of
terror is that many ordinary Hindus have come
to believe that Muslims are terrorists and the
effect of this was seen recently in the ferocious
attacks on Muslims during the recent riot in Kosi
Kalan.
S
yed Akhlak Ahmad, Secretary of the
Association for Protection of Civil Rights
(APCR) said in a complaint to the National
Human Rights Commission demanded an
impartial enquiry into the killing of Qateel, regis-
tration of an FIR under section 302 against the
jail inmates and officials and the ATS person-
nel's who were responsible for the security of
the accused and payment of a an adequate
compensation for the killing in judicial custody.
Jamia Teachers Solidarity Association and
other civil society organisaitons said in a state-
ment issued on 8 June that custodial violence is
endemic and almost institutionalized;
Maharashtra jails are also notorious for attacks
on accused, particularly on those accused of
terrorism. The brutal violence unleashed on the
Mumbai train blasts accused in the Arthur Road
jail three years ago, at the behest of the jail
authorities, comes immediately to mind. The
statement called on the Mumbai High Court to
take suo moto notice of this killing and initiate
action in the matter.
Hyderabad-based Civil Liberties Monitoring
Committee said in a statement on 9 June that
Qateel Siddiquis murder is due to nexus
between Hindutva and Indian agencies adding
that Muslim youths are not safe in judicial cus-
tody. The Committee stated that Hindutva terror-
ists who are known as Nationalists are killing
Muslim youths in a well-planned manner even in
the judicial custody. This is a big question mark
on the Indian judiciary and it seems that Muslim
youths are not safe in judicial custody and judi-
cial system has failed to protect the life of the
Muslim youth. The statement went to say that
These types of incidents have become com-
mon in our system that a person is killed in the
judicial custody and then it is declared that co-
inmates killed that particular person due to
enmity. These types of murders take place
when the state or police want to kill someone
and for that reason, they carry out this work in a
planned manner by placing a killer in the same
cell.
MG/Yusuf
Qateels murder stirs community, society
Following is the text of the press
statement issued by Dr Zafarul-Islam
Khan, President of the All India
Muslim Majlis-E-Mushawarat during
the press conference held at the
Mushawarat central office in Delhi on
9 June:
The cold-blooded murder of Qateel Siddiqui in
Pune's Yarvada high security jail yesterday is
yet another proof that the life of a Muslim is no
longer safe in India even behind the walls of a
high security jail.
This cold-blooded murder comes in quick
succession after a number of cases where
security agencies' high-handedness in dealing
with Muslim youth on flimsy charges and mere
suspicion gives away the game of the adminis-
tration's war against the Muslim community in
the name of fighting "terror".
Only days ago two Kashmiri young stu-
dents were kidnapped by unknown security
agencies at Aligarh and only one of them was
later released after the educational institution
filed a habeas corpus case in Allahabad High
Court.
It is now almost a month that Fasih
Mahmood, an Indian Muslim engineer, sudden-
ly disappeared in Saudi Arabia at the request of
Indian authorities which are still not clear about
the charges against him.
Earlier Journalist Kazmi was arrested on
unknown charges and remains in custody while
Hindutva terrorists are getting bail and feeling
confident enough to hold a conference in Goa.
The murdered accused, Qateel Siddiqui,
was a law-abiding citizen of this country. Despite
the passage of seven months on his arrest, the
agencies have not been able to file a
chargesheet against him, while he has been
consistently tortured in custody to force him to
sign a fake confession as it happens now in
almost all such cases. His murder has been
arranged at the hands of a criminal already
incarcerated on murder charges. It seems the
reason is to use Qateel's fake confession in
courts against other accused since he will no
longer be there to deny and refute the forced
confession attributed to him.
We hold the Maharashtra ATS chief
Rakesh Maria, the head of National
Investigation Agency Sarat Chandra Sinha and
the Home Minister P. Chidambaram personally
responsible for this cold-blooded murder. We
demand a judicial enquiry by a sitting high court
judge. We reject with contempt the mere sus-
pension of the jailor and a CID enquiry. The
jailor will be reinstated soon and the CID
enquiry will not go against their own ilk.
We appeal to the national and international
human rights organisations to take notice of the
situation in India where sections of the adminis-
tration are fighting a war against the country's
largest religious minority in the name of fighting
"terror", while the security agencies themselves
are the biggest culprits and excel in fabrication
of cases and use torture to force the accused to
confess to crimes they never committed. The
aim is to demoralise the Indian Muslim commu-
nity and to slow down its educational and social
progress.
See we can do shilanyas,
inauguration, bhumi pujan
on the basis of religion
but we cannot give
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L/R: SQR Ilyas, Amaresh Mishra, Mohammad Ahmad, Zafarul-
Islam Khan, Shafi Madni, Mahtab Alam and Akhlaq Ahmad
COMMUNITY NEWS
14 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
Urdu to be introduced in schools
New Delhi: According to a report, Urdu may be introduced in
mainstream schools as a matter of central governments policy to
give a fillip to this language during the 12th Five Year Plan whose
documents are in the last stage of finalisation. A proposal to this
effect made by the steering committee is most likely to be includ-
ed in the Plan documents. It is suggested in this document that
Urdu should not be limited to madrasas only; rather it should be
taken to mainstream schools. For this purpose efforts should be
made to recruit and appoint Urdu teachers on a large scale in
mainstream schools managed and run by Central Board of
Secondary Education (CBSE) and Education Boards of different
states. It is stated in the steering committees document that in
view of the fact that Urdu assumes importance as a prominent
language and medium of learning, communication, thought and
culture of the country beyond social, religious and regional bound-
aries, efforts should be made to promote Urdu as a living lan-
guage in which economic and social transactions are made, in
addition to being a literary language.
The steering committees report further says that appointment
of Urdu teachers needs to be further expanded, with adequate
funding, not only in madrasas but also in more mainstream
schools and colleges. It has also suggested that in order to
ensure best quality education and learning of Muslim children
beyond madrasas, efforts should be made in the 12th Plan to
have one residential school in line with Jawahar Nayodaya
Vidyalaya, which should be set up in a phased manner in minori-
ty (Muslim) concentrated blocks, towns and cities. Admission
norms in these schools should be such that at least 50 percent
children should be from minorities (Muslims). It also suggests that
bicycles should be provided to minority (Muslim) girl students so
that they are able to continue their studies (as is already being
done by some state governments).
Punjabi translation of the Quran released
New Delhi: A Punjabi translation of the Quran was released at a
function at Ahle Hadees Complex at Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia
Nagar Okhla, New Delhi on 23 April in the presence of ulama and
selected representatives of Markazi Jamiat Ahle-e Hadees from
almost all states. Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mehdi Salfi, general
secretary of Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e Hadees speaking on this occa-
sion said that so far no one had paid any attention to translating
the Quran into Punjabi language but Khwaja Ikram Saheb,
Maulana Arif and their colleagues by translating this holy book
into Punjabi language have done an important and great job.
Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, editor of Milli Gazette said while speaking
on this occasion that in the present age it is essential that the
Quran be translated in all the languages of the world so that peo-
ple are able to know and understand the true message of the
Quran and Islam.
Honesty of a riot victim rickshaw puller
Ahmedabad: Javed Shaikh, a rickshaw puller who lost all his
assets in 2002 riots, demonstrated rare honesty and integrity
when he returned a bag to its owner after a hectic search of two
days. The bag carried Rs. 86,000 in cash alongwith jewellery
worth Rs. 2 lakh. Javed Shaikh, resident of Dhobi Chawl on
Naroda Road, lives in a one room house covered with tin sheets,
he had dropped an aged couple - Mawji Bhai Ratnabhai Waghela
and his wife at MEMCO Rajeev Bhavan. While returning to
Kalupur another passenger, a woman, drew his attention to a bag
left behind. Javed instantly asked the lady passenger to get down
and he returned to MEMCO to locate the old couple. Unable to
find them he opened the bag to search for the address or mobile
number. To his surprise, he found the bag stuffed with cash and
jewellery. He also found a visiting card which enabled him to con-
tact the party and urged them to come to Ahmedabad to collect
their belongings. Next day the couple arrived to his one room
shelter with tears in their eyes. Javed and his wife offered them
tea and refreshment while returning them their belongings.
Overwhelmed by the honesty and kindness the old couple
blessed them profousely. It was their lifetime savings. In the days
of scams worth crores of rupees such honesty from a riot victim is
proof that Muslims regard faith more precious than pecuniary
gains or riches. May their tribe increase.
Muslims who want reservation should go to Pakistan
New Delhi: Pravin Togadia who is now interim president of VHP
said in the VHP-sponsored Mahapanchayat of Hindus held in
Talkatoras indoor stadium on 20 May that in the Indian
Constitution and law there is no provision for reservation on reli-
gious basis hence those Muslims who want and plead for reser-
vation for them should go to Pakistan. Against this demand of
reservation for Muslims he has now started a Hindu Roti aur
Talim Bachao movement. He has warned the government that it
will have to stop or withdraw this facility which it proposes to pro-
vide to them. Another speaker, Janata Partys president
Dr. Subramanium Swamy who also is very much opposed to
Muslims said in this Mahapanchayat that when Muslims have
ruled this country for 800 years and when Christians (Britishers)
have ruled for 200 years, why do they, particularly Muslims need
reservation? He instigated Hindus to stand upto and work against
the demand of Muslims (for reservation).
It may be recalled that earlier this year at the instance of RSS
his wings were clipped and he was deprived of the presidentship
of VHP. Because of this step of the RSS, Togadia has been con-
fined to his profession of a doctor in Gujarat, he wants to regain
the lost power in the name of Hindutva in pursuance of which he
has again started his job of spewing venom against Muslims.
Government hospital to be built in Okhla
New Delhi: Delhi governments health minister Dr. Ashok Kumar
Walia assured a Muslim delegation which met him on 11 May that
a large government hospital will be built in Jamia Nagar, Okhla. In
addition to that, the Unani dispensary, which already exists, will
be expanded and developed into a small hospital. The 5-member
delegation led by Delhi Minorities Commissions chairman Safdar
Husain Khan reminded Dr. Walia that recently he had announced
that eight new government hospitals will be built in Delhi but in the
list of these places the name of Okhla did not figure. He was told
that Jamia Nagar is a Muslim-majority locality, its population is
around 6-7 lakh but there is no government hospital here. He was
told that there are of course some big hospitals in and around
Okhla but they are all private and costly hospitals and beyond the
reach of common people. He was told that the densely populated
of Okhla region, in which proper arrangements of sanitation and
cleanliness, sewerage system are absent means, it is a disease
prone area and hence a government hospital with cheap and
quality treatment system is essential. The minister assured the
delegation members that the existing Tibbi dispensary will be
developed into a small hospital. As regards the other larger hos-
pital, he said that DDA and Land & Development Office will be
approached for allotment of a large plot of land in the area after
which necessary steps for the larger government hospital will be
taken. He admitted that such a large minority population cannot
be deprived of a hospital.
Raj. govt to provide land for AMU centre and set up 5 IITs
New Delhi: Rajasthans chief minister Ashok Gehlot said while
speaking at a function arranged by All India Muslims Educational
Conference here on 11 May that his government will provide
lands for an AMU centre and Islamic Cultural Centre in his state
and will also set up five IITs in Muslim majority areas for promo-
tion of technical education among Muslims. In this function
K. Rahman Khan, former Deputy chairman of Rajya Sabha,
Congress leader Digvijay Singh, minister of state for foreign
affairs E. Ahmad and other dignitaries were also present. He said
that the demands made in this meeting will be considered by a
committee of senior ministers and simultaneously reservation for
Muslims will also be considered. The committee will submit its
report within three months. Vice President of this conference,
Khwaja M. Shahid gave some proposals which included among
others the setting up of Khwaja Gharib Nawaz University and
Equal Opportunity Commission. Convener of the Conference
Dr. Azam Baig requested the government of India to implement
the Sachar Committee and Ranganath Commissions recommen-
dations without any delay.
Apex Court to decide if man-made laws applicable to waqf
New Delhi: Supreme Court has decided to consider if man-made
laws i.e. the existing laws passed by legislative bodies can be
made applicable to waqf properties. Supreme Court Bench con-
sisting of Justice Altamash Kabir and Justice Chlameswar (sub-
ject to correction), in response to a petition filed by some plaintiffs
saying that since waqf properties are dedicated to God and they
are Gods properties, governments cannot enact laws for these
properties or the existing laws made by legislative bodies cannot
be made applicable to these (waqf) properties, has issued a
notice to Maharashtra government. The plaintiffs have challenged
Mumbai High courts verdict according to which taxes levied by
Maharashtra government on waqf properties have been justified,
and filed an appeal against this verdict in the Supreme Court. In
its notices issued to Maharashtra government and also to plain-
tiffs, the Bench has asked the concerned parties to maintain sta-
tus quo regarding these properties till further orders by the Court.
The plaintiffs, while challenging Maharashtra Charity
Commissioners 2002 notification have also argued that Waqf
Properties Act, 1995 should now apply to all waqf properties reg-
istered under Public Trust Act.
396 cases filed in Delhi, Darul Qaza, 387 settled
New Delhi: A meeting of Darul Qaza (South Delhi) was held on
20 May in which its activities and cases filed during the past six
months were reviewed. It may be stated in this connection that a
review meeting of Darul Qaza is held every six months when its
activities and cases filed and decided during this period are
reviewed. The 20 May meeting was chaired by Darul Qazas
President Abdul Moid Khan. Darul Qazas secretary Musharraf
Husain while presenting the six monthly report said that during
the past six months 16 cases were filed of which eight cases were
decided and the remaining eight cases are still pending for hear-
ing and decision. It was also stated that in all, right from the time
this Darul Qaza was set up (when, not mentioned) till date 396
cases were filed of which 387 were settled and the remaining nine
are still undecided and are pending settlement.
Scope or nature of cases filed in Darul Qaza is mainly limited
to family disputes like marriage, divorce / khula, dowry, inheri-
tance, will etc. Maulana Muzammil Husain Qasmi, convener of
the Counsel Committee made an appeal to Muslims that in case
of any dispute or problem they should approach Darul Qazas for
settlement of their family or other disputes. He also made an
appeal to Masjid Imams to help Darul Qazas in all possible ways
and in Friday sermons urge Muslims to approach Darul Qazas for
settlement of their differences and disputes.
SC fines Gujarat govt. and a gorakshak
Gandhinagar: A bench of the Supreme Court fined the Gujarat
government and a gorakhshak Rs. 25 lakh each for unnecessar-
ily harassing an exporter on the false pretext of dealing in beef.
Royal Exporters, a Mumbai-based firm, had sent a consign-
ment. The cow protection lobby staged a traffic jam at Vapi alleg-
ing that the consignment contained cow meat (beef) while the firm
repeatedly stated that it was buffalo meat. The exporter filed a writ
petition in the Gujarat High Court. The High Court sought clarifi-
cation from the government which awaited FSL report to find
whether it was beef. Pending this report, the high court ordered to
detain the consignment pending FSL report.
Meanwhile an over-enthusiastic gorakshak (cow protector)
Rajesh Shah approached the SC claiming that the exporter was
smuggling beef on the pretext of buffalo meat. But the report from
Delhi FSL confirmed that as stated by the exporter, it was not
beef. The exporter pleaded that by such illegal detention the firm
suffered heavy losses to the tune of several crores. The SC
imposed a fine of Rs. 25 lakh each on both the Gujarat govern-
ment for not following the procedure as well as on Rajesh Shah
for harassment.
Expressing his annoyance, Rajesh Shah pleaded that the
penalty was too high which he was unable to pay and sought to
reduce it. It is common knowledge that such harassment has
been going on since long in various parts of the country. In this
case, Gujarat police and the gorakshak have connived to harass
exporters and extort money.
Valley Muslims saved Bhairav temple
Kashmiri Muslims living close to the 400 year old Bhairav temple
at Rainawari in Srinagar have not only saved the temple from
being sold by a mahant to a businessman but also have offered
the Kashmiri Pandits of the area to help them rebuild and reno-
vate the temple. After being warned by local Kashmiri Muslims
about the intention of the mahant of selling the land of the temple
to a businessman the local Kashmiri pundits sprang to action and
called on the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah to save the land.
Renovation of the temple has already started with the help of
some local Kashmiri Muslims. Initially, the walls of the temple are
being repaired. There is a sense developing in the locality that
this type of gesture would build confidence between Kashmiri
Muslims and Kashmiri Pandits. Local Kashmiri Muslims feel that
migration of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 was indeed painful but the
situation here is changing fast and under such circumstances
they would welcome all displaced Kashmiri Pandits to come back
with dignity and honour.
New Delhi: Madrasa Jamia Masoodia Noorul Uloom, a seminary
situated at Khwaja Syed Ibrahims mazar and Dargah land in a
dense forest at Mother Teresa Crescent Road behind
Rashtrapati Bhawan, was demolished on 24 May 2011. Ever
since the debris of the demolished madrasa were lying there.
The madrasa was in fact a storeroom originally which was built
by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Dargah land.
After completion of DMRC work, the storeroom was given to the
dargah/mazar authorities in which this madrasa was started and
education was being imparted. Suddenly DMRC staff and offi-
cers arrived there on 24 May last year and demolished the struc-
ture. Dargah authorities wanted to rebuild the demolished
madrasa by using the debris but could not do so because of
shortage of funds. According to Dargahs manager, Ghazi Noorul
Hasan, who is also incharge of the Madrasa Masoodia Noorul
Uloom, a group of about 15 army personnel came there on
23 May and illegally took away the one-year old debris of the
demolished madrasa which had been lying there after its demo-
lition a year ago. He said that since the debris were madrasas
property, armys action in taking away the debris was illegal.
Army, on the other hand, claims that since the Madrasa was built
on DMRC land, it took away the debris with the permission of
DMRC and hence its act in taking away the debris was legal.
Ghazi Noorul Hasan further said that Dargah Khwaja Syed
Ibrahim was built on a 16 bigha piece of land but after 1897 and
1899s chakbandi (delimitation of land) Dargahs total land had
increased to 31 bighas but since a project of DMRC was to be
started in 2010 at land adjacent to the Dargah, also dargah land,
part of the Dargah land was used for building a godown for
DMRC. This godown was subsequently given back by DMRC to
the Dargah because there was already a verbal understanding
between DMRC and Dargah authorities that DMRC will hand
over the godown to the Dargah in due course. Meanwhile, the
madrasa which was being run at a different place on the Dargah
land was shifted from there and accommodated in the godown.
Hence, the madrasas debris also were actually legal property of
Madrasa Masoodia. Now by illegally removing the debris, which
consisted bricks etc., the army wants to totally erase the very
existence of this madrasa. He said that attempts at removing the
madrasa have been going on for the past many years and a cou-
ple of years ago the road leading to the Dargah was blocked and
destroyed at the instance of army authorities. He said that elec-
tricity also is not being supplied to the Dargah inspite of various
written requests. (NAAnsari)
Year-old debris of demolished madrasa
removed by army
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Patient perseverance pays after 10 yrs
Ahmedabad: Fatima Bibi, a widow residing in the Dariyapur local-
ity of Ahmedabad, was granted relief following the 2002 riots.
However, the two cheques she received had expired by the time
they reached the beneficiary. After ten years of perseverance the
two cheques were deposited in the bank with the necessary cor-
rection of date. A local social worker Aziz Gandhi strived hard to
ensure his help. District Collector also deserves thanks for his
keen interest in the matter.
A family of 36 doctors
Kosamba: Faizan Parvez Shabbir scored 98.66 percentile marks
in std. XII examination and is keen on continuing the family tradi-
tion which proudly boasts of 36 doctors. This Kanuga family of
South Gujarat enjoys immense popularity in the region.
Dr. Shehrish 2nd Kashmiri lady to clear civil service exam
Jammu: 25-year-old Dr. Syed Shehrish passed this years civil
service examination with rank no. 118. she is the first Muslim lady
from Kishtwar district. She claims to be the second Muslim lady
of the state. Earlier, Ovaisha Iqbal had cleared the civil service
examination in 2010. Because of her rank she can join easily the
I.A.S. cader but she wants to join the I.P.S. as a doctor. A prod-
uct of Batra Medical College she is the daughter of Syed Asghar
Ali who had distinguished himself by being the first person from
the Kishtwar district to serve in the Kashmir Administrative
Service.
Twins tryst with misery
Patna: Sabah and Sarah Shakeel, aged 16 years, are conjoined
twins whose suffering goes on increasing with the passing of
time. They are now unable to move and spend the seventeen
hours while awake in great agony. Muhammad Shakeel, father of
the two miserable daughters, ekes out a humble living by running
a tea stall. They find even crying painful. Unable to witness their
agony he had even applied to the government for mercy killing.
Five years ago experts had opined that the two needed five or six
operations for their separation and either of the two would die. At
that time crown Prince of Abu Dhabi had volunteered to bear the
cost of the operation which the family did not accept.
Dr. Benjamin Karsen had diagnosed that while Farah had two
kidneys Sabah did not have even a single one.
An alert Khalid averted a major tragedy
Indore: Presence of mind on part of Muhammad Khalid, resident
of Tatpatti Bakhal, averted a major train tragedy. By pulling the
chain in time he helped 110 passengers escape death. Within
minutes the bogey was in flames. Survivors managed a narrow
escape though they lost all their belongings. The incident
occurred on Akola-Ratlam train in the wee hours of Wednesday
(30 May) when many passengers were fast asleep. Passengers
after noticing sparks in coach no. 88793 raised an alarm. Before
the fire could engulf the entire coach and the adjacent ones
Muhammad Khalid pulled the chain and asked the passengers to
jump off as soon as possible. The cause of the fire, could not be
established an FSL team has begun investigations.
Entry in Guinness Book for strong memory
New Delhi: In a competition jointly organised by India Islamic
Cultural Centre and Noble Education Foundation at IICC, New
Delhi Muhammad Faisal, a young Vedic Maths expert broke the
world record in remembering the names of a maximum number
of objects in one minute and by doing so, got his name entered
in Guinness Book of World Records. A certificate issued from
London confirmed that he (Muhammad Faisal) broke this record
at a grand function held at India Islamic Cultural Centre. After
receiving this certificate, head of IICC Sirajuddin Qureshi hon-
oured Faisal with a certificate and a Trophy. It may be stated in
this connection that Faisal had received training in the Memory
Development Workshop which is sponsored by Noble Education
Foundation every year in IICC. What had happened in this mem-
ory development competition is that people had selected 18 dif-
ferent objects and put them in a row from No. 1 to No. 18. He was
blind folded. After putting the 18 objects in a row number-wise,
the strap on his eyes was removed and he was asked to see all
those objects, memorise their order number serialwise in one
minute only, after which he was again blind-folded and all the
items or objects were juggled about juggled about in a higgledy-
piggledy position i.e. their serial order was disturbed. Thereafter
he was asked to put all those objects in their proper place in seri-
al order within four minutes blind folded. Faisal did it correctly in
two minutes and 58 seconds only, thus showing his great mem-
ory power. By doing so, his name was registered in Guinness
Book of World Records.
Muslims are less prone to cervical cancer
According to a study published in the Lancet, cervical cancer was
far less common in Muslim women than Hindu women in India. In
India, cervical cancer is targeting people in their adulthood that is
at a age as low as 30 years. Out of 5, 56,400 cancer deaths in
India in 2010 nearly 71 percent deaths occurred in people aged
between 30-69 years. In between 30-69 years the three deadly
cancerous deaths occurred was from oral (45,800) which is 22.9
percent, stomach (25,200) which is 12.6 percent and lung
(22,900) which is 11.4 percent. In women, deaths due to cervical
cancer were 33,400 which is 17.1 percent, stomach 27,500 which
is 14.1 percent and breast 19,900 which is 10.2 percent.
According to the findings of the report the possible reason for the
less occurrence of cervical cancer in Muslims women could be
Circumcision among Muslim men, which reduces the sexual
transmission of human papillomavirus. This is a likely explanation
although other factors might also account for this difference.
Court turns down Gopalgarh riot probe by NIA
The Rajasthan High Court has rejected the petition of Shafi
Mohammad seeking transfer of Gopalgarh mosque firing case to
NIA by saying that so far it is satisfied by the way CBI has inves-
tigated the case. In his plea, Shafi Mohammad had alleged that
the CBI was trying to save the main culprit and investigation was
carried out accordingly. Taking note of the petition complaining
and seeking a transfer of Gopalgarh Mosque firing case to NIA
Justice Mahesh Chandra Sharma of the High Court has instruct-
ed the CBI Director to investigate the case in a manner which is
fair and impartial. Taj Prakash Sharma, counsel of CBI in its
defence said that the agency was not shielding any of the
accused and investigating the case in an unbiased manner. The
petitioner alleged that investigation carried out by the CBI was
one sided because it was not probing the role of the district col-
lector and SP who were also named as accused in the 11 sepa-
rate cases. The petitioner rejected the claim that firing was done
from the mosque as false because none of the policemen were
injured. At least 10 people were shot dead by police while 38 oth-
ers were injured in clashes in Gopalgarh town of Bharatpur
NIA holds meet of ATS chiefs from across India
The National Investigation Agency in order to streamline the fight
terror against mechanism held talks with the chiefs of ATS from
all across India in the national capital recently when the debate
on the controversial National Counter Terrorism Centre has inten-
sified after every meet. The highlight of the meet was that top
ranking officials from ATS and STF from different states
exchanged and shared their experiences of terror probe and
prosecution of terrorism related cases. Officials who attended the
meeting also emphasized the need to find a roadmap that can
help them coordinate actions in order to provide an effective crim-
inal justice system to fight terror. The topics on which the discus-
sion took place was the challenges faced during the investigation
of terror related cases, insurgency in the North East, Left Wing
extremism, fake currency and terror funding. The meet was
attended by the Heads and senior officers of the ATS and STF
from 28 states and Union territories. Top officials from NIA and
other security agencies also participated in the meet.
Delhi to set up res. school for SC/ST, tribal and minorities
The Delhi government in its recent cabinet meeting presided over
by the Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has planned to set up a resi-
dential school for the Schedule Caste, Scheduled Tribe, OBC
and minority students in Delhi. Chief Minister during her visit to
Kalinga Institutes of Social Sciences (KISS) in Bhubaneswar felt
that schools on the nodal of KISS should also be set up in Delhi.
The school on the pattern of KISS is likely to come up soon in
Ishapur area of West Delhi. The existing school in Bhubaneaswar
is widely acclaimed to be the biggest residential school for tribal
children in India in which at least 10,000 tribal students are pro-
vided residential accommodation from KG to PG level. School
premises would be built by the PWD but would be managed by
KISS. Delhi government would provide infrastructure and finan-
cial support for five years and thereafter the school was expect-
ed to become self reliant to bear its own financial burden. Of the
total occupants in the school, 50 percent would be reserved for
SC/ST, 25 percent for minorities and another 25 percent for stu-
dents who are socially deprived. The school would come up and
managed by Kalinga(NGO) in Bhubaneswar.
Mosque in Raj. was demolished due to greed: report
Afact-finding team led by President of Jaipur based Irada Society
Prof. Mohammad Hasan has released its report which says that
the mosque was demolished because of the greed mining and
nexus between people involved in the mining business, corporate
houses, some Congressmen and clergy directly or indirectly
linked to the demolished mosque. The Rajasthan police have
already arrested Dharmendra Gupta; director of the Bhilwara
based Jindal Saw Limited and the chief and deputy of the
Anjuman committee of the century old rooftop mosque. Jindal
Saw Limited had bought the mosque from the Anjuman commit-
tee for Rs 65 lakh and got it demolished on 19 April to facilitate
the mining business by making way for mining on the Tiranga
Hills. Prof Hasan has raised valid points that the lease of the
mosque was given in a dubious manner by ignoring the presence
of the religious structure, archaeological importance including
natural resources in the area. The fact finding report also doubts
the intention behind the fatwa which was issued by a local imam,
saying that structure of the demolished mosque was indeed a
cluster of graves. The timing and the manner in which exchange
of letters took place between Anjuman and the Waqf board just
two days prior to the demolition has raised many doubts. The fact
finding team has asked the Anjuman to act and work in accor-
dance to the format of the Waqf and the provision laid down in
Shariah. Prof Hasan has also written a letter to the collector of
Bhilwara urging him to reconstruct the mosque and take immedi-
ate action against all those involved in the demolition of the his-
toric mosque.
Mamata scores point over Left on quota for Muslims
The Mamata government has tried to score more points than the
Left by granting reservation to Muslims under the OBC category
in a very short time as compared to the Left. The state cabinet
has cleared a proposal for inclusion of 35 more castes in the
state OBC list and notably out of the additional 35 in the list 33
are backward Muslims groups. The previous government led by
the Left had added 108 OBC groups in the list out of which 53
belonged to backward Muslims. Now the total number of back-
ward Muslim groups to receive OBC status in the state has
increased to 86. Furthermore, after announcing an honorarium to
imams and muezzins, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee now seeks job quota for Muslims. In order to press its
demand, the Trinamool Congress is likely to raise the issue
before the prime minister. Sultan Ahhmed, of Trinamool
Congress has recently said that his party is not completely satis-
fied with the present format of reservation for Muslims in govern-
ment jobs and therefore we will ask the prime minister for more
reservation. Trinamool is also likely to take up the issue of reser-
vation for minorities with other like minded political leaders like
Mulayam Singh, Nitish Kumar and Lalu Yadav because they
heavily rely on minority votes and are known as sympathisers of
minorities. According to Trinamool 4.5 percent reservation for
Muslims within 27 percent OBC quota is not sufficient. Opposition
holds that Mamata is trying too reach out to Muslims before the
upcoming panchayat polls and possibly for the Lok Sabha polls.
Islamic Banking workshop at Jamiatul Falah
Azamgarh: Student
Islamic Organi-
sation organized a
three-day workshop
here during 2-4
June on Islamic
E c o n o m i c s ,
Banking and
Finance at Jamiatul
Falah, Bilariyaganj.
After the formal inaugural, six academic sessions were held in
three days. A number of eminent economists and scholars
addressed the workshop followed by thorough discussions
through Q&A sessions. In the morning academic session of 3rd
June, Maulana Tahir Madni, Rector of Jamiatul Falah, spoke on
Islamic laws of inheritance: an economics perspective. He elab-
orated on the right of daughters in Islam but lamented the lack of
its implementation in actual practice. Stressing upon the necessi-
ty of will he, in particular, mentioned helping orphans who are not
entitled to inheritance. Workshop participants asked questions
which were satisfactorily replied by the speaker. Mr. H. Abdur
Raqeeb, General Secretary of the Indian Centre for Islamic
Finance (ICIF), spoke on Islamic Banking: Scope & Hindrance in
India. He emphasized the importance of Islamic interest-free
banking (IB) and spoke about its successful implementation in
Malaysia, Singapore, U.K., Switzerland etc. He said that Islamic
Banking is popular not only among Muslims but also among non-
Muslims and quoted figures of 55% Muslims, 45% non-Muslims
for Malaysia and 20% non-Muslims for UK. Thirty years ago,
Islamic banking (IB) was introduced as an alternative window in
the conventional banking system in some countries and it gained
popularity in view of 15-20% profit. It is important to understand
Shariat, jurisprudence and modern banking in order to discuss
IB. He said ill-effects of consumerism which exhorts spending
instead of saving and stressed on discouraging credit card cul-
ture. (Salman Sultan)
Deoband: Maulana Mahmood Madni, general secretary of
Jamiatul Ulama (Qari Usman-Madni group) has been receiving
death threats for about a week now at his Deoband residence.
On 28 May he lodged a complaint in the Deoband police station
against some unknown persons. In the complaint it is stated that
for the past one week some one is threatening to kill him and his
family members on his residence phone No. 01336-223000 from
Mobile No. 9845630254. It is also stated in the written complaint
that inspite of repeatedly asking the caller not to do so, he has
been receiving telephone calls for the past one week. It is also
stated in the report that Maulana Madni has received death
threats from Indian Mujahideen also for him and his family mem-
bers. Deoband C.O. Suresh Pal Singh said that after receiving
written complaints a case has been registered and soon, after
an enquiry, necessary action will be taken.
At the same time Ms. Shabnam Hashmi, noted social work-
er and ANHADs chief after speaking against Narendra Modi on
a T.V. news channel not only received a call at Delhi threatening
to kill her but some obscene comments were also made against
her through social a networking site against which she lodged a
complaint in the police station and demanded action against
mischievous elements. She also requested that face book
accounts of those making obscene comments be closed down.
It may be stated in this connection that on 24 May during a
programme on a T.V. news channel she had strongly criticised
the Modi government. It appears that Modi supporters did not
like this and in addition to threatening her they began to make
indecent and obscene comments against her. After being
informed about these Shabnam Hashmi first of all contacted
Delhi polices cyber crime cell, by which she was asked to reg-
ister her complaint at a local police station. After this she lodged
a complaint at Tilak Marg Police Station. According to her if the
police doesnt take any action on her complaint, she will knock
on the door of court. She said that such obscene words and
views against a woman smack of communalism. (NAAnsari)
Death threats to Maulana Mahmood Madni and Shabnam Hashmi
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16 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
Time to recognise the great injustice done
to the Palestinians
M. AZHAR ALI KHAN
W
hen I was a child my aunt wrote an
Urdu verse in my autograph that,
roughly translated, said:
Everything is happening in this
age of progress, what a horror, then, that Man
does not become a Human Being.
The world was then gripped by the Second
World War. Then followed by the dismantling of
the British empire -- and the slaughter of a mil-
lion people, simply because the killers viewed
them as having been born in the wrong religion,
and the uprooting of 15 million people.
Though the United Nations was established
to bring about world peace, freedom and human
rights, occupation, wars and human rights viola-
tions continued.
I grew up in Bhopal, India, where Hindus,
Muslims and others lived in friendship. The ruler
was a Muslim, most people were Hindu. My
father taught me Islam by his own example. Not
only did he pray, he valued integrity and helped
people. He sent me to a Christian school before
shifting me to a public school. He hired private
Hindu and Muslim tutors for me. We had Hindu
and Muslim servants. The Holy Quran taught me
that the best human was not necessarily born a
Muslim but whose words and actions were the
noblest. Some of my Hindu and Christian friends
were better persons than my Muslim pals.
This remained my experience when I stud-
ied in the Philippines and the U. S. and lived in
Pakistan and then in Canada. I have witnessed
enormous technological advances, man landing
on the moon, the internet connecting the world
instantly, and medications that produce miracu-
lous recoveries, however temporary.
In the United States and Canada I saw the
rule of law, freedom of religion and expression,
democratic and free elections and the equality of
citizens irrespective of race, religion or ethnicity.
But as a Canadian journalist and a refugee
judge deciding on asylum requests I also
observed discrimination, hypocrisy, hate, occu-
pation, oppression, torture and wars. I saw that
democracy enables people to choose their lead-
ers but that these leaders are often swayed by
political expediency, not by principles, integrity,
justice, wisdom and accountability.
Not long ago, Palestinians sought member-
ship in the United Nations. All hell broke loose.
Some Western governments, including Canada,
were horrified, as if membership in the UN was
a crime, or a terrorist attack. They told the
Palestinians to negotiate with Israel to seek an
end to Israeli occupation and to negotiate bor-
ders with the Israelis. This advice would have
made sense if there was a realistic prospect of a
just peace or if the Western governments had
pushed energetically for a settlement. In the
absence of both this amounts to advising the
Palestinians to continue to suffer an oppressive
occupation. If they resist theyd be branded ter-
rorist. If they turn to the United Nations theyd
face Western opposition.
West Bank and Gaza Palestinians have
been under occupation since 1967. There have
been negotiations. But Israel keeps violating
United Nations resolutions and violating interna-
tional laws. It continues to build illegal settle-
ments. A half a million illegal Israeli settlers live
in occupied territories, subsidized by the state,
harassing Palestinians. They are protected by
Israeli forces and roads have been built for their
exclusive use. Israel is building a massive wall
that goes well beyond the 1967 borders and
grabs more of the already fractured Palestinian
land. Palestinians are arrested at will and
detained indefinitely without charges. Numerous
checkpoints control their movements disrupting
their everyday lives. Gaza is kept under a strict
siege. There is no evidence that the Likud gov-
ernment has any interest in a just peace.
The U. S. response is to grant Israel every
year billions of dollars in military and economic
aid and intelligence, diplomatic and other assis-
tance that enables the Israelis to defy the UN,
control the Palestinians and dictate to other
neighbors.
Israeli leaders are now stating that they
might attack Iran if it continues its nuclear pro-
gram. The U. S. states that Israel has the right to
do whatever it wants for its security and the U.
S. will support it fully. Only Israel will determine
what it sees as a threat.
Specialists agree that even if Iran wishes to
build nuclear weapons it wont have that capac-
ity for at least one year. Israel and the U. S. have
the capability to down any missile or plane head-
ing towards Israel. There is no credible evidence
that Israel faces a military threat from Iran or
elsewhere. But it is targeting Iranian scientists
and researchers and sees them as a threat.
On the other hand, Israel is the only Middle
East country that has nuclear weapons, hun-
dreds of them. The U. S. is the only country that
has dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian cities
of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during the Second
World War. That hastened Japans surrender,
incinerated civilians and levelled the two cities.
Israel and the U. S. possess huge numbers
of mass weapons of destruction. Israel has used
them without restraint, even in civilian areas.
The U. S., prodded by Israel, attacked and occu-
pied Iraq on the basis of false claims, wreaking
massive destruction and deaths.
Undaunted, and their own nuclear arsenals
notwithstanding, they are talking of attacking
Iran. The U. S. is urging restraint on Israel for
now saying it hopes that Iran will give up its plan
because of sanctions and that, if it does not, the
U. S. will use force to stop Iran from developing
nuclear weapons.
The U. S., meanwhile, will keep showering
massive aid on Israel, its nuclear weapons, defi-
ance of the UN and obstruction of a just and
peaceful settlement with the Palestinians
notwithstanding.
Democracy gives people the right to choose
their leaders and enjoy freedom of expression
and vote. But the system also makes politicians
compete for the support of lobbies for votes, vol-
unteers and donations. This results in hypocrisy,
injustice and conflicts. After all, Britain and
France were democracies when they built their
empires and the U. S. is a democracy though it
attacks other countries, seeks to topple govern-
ments it doesnt like, and tries to have its way.
My aunt passed away decades ago. But the
words she wrote remain with me and remind me
of the imperfections of man even in this age of
technological sophistication.
Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan is a retired
Canadian newspaperman, public servant and
refugee judge.
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Israel Deploys
Nuclear Weapons on
German-Built
Submarines
A German shipyard has already built three
submarines for Israel, and three more are
planned. Now SPIEGEL has learned that
Israel is arming the submarines with nuclear-
tipped cruise missiles. The German govern-
ment has known about Israel's nuclear
weapons program for decades, despite its
official denials.
Germany is helping Israel to develop its
military nuclear capabilities, SPIEGEL has
learned. According to extensive research car-
ried out by the magazine, Israel is equipping
submarines that were built in the northern
German city of Kiel and largely paid for by the
German government with nuclear-tipped
cruise missiles. The missiles can be launched
using a previously secret hydraulic ejection
system. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak
told SPIEGEL that Germans should be
"proud" that they have secured the existence
of the state of Israel "for many years."
In the past, the German government has
always stuck to the position that it is unaware
of nuclear weapons being deployed on the
vessels. Now, however, former high-ranking
officials from the German Defense Ministry,
including former State Secretary Lothar Rhl
and former chief of the planning staff Hans
Rhle, have told SPIEGEL that they had
always assumed that Israel would deploy
nuclear weapons on the submarines. Rhl
had even discussed the issue with the military
in Tel Aviv.
Israel has a policy of not commenting offi-
cially on its nuclear weapons program.
Documents from the archives of the German
Foreign Ministry make it clear, however, that
the German government has known about the
program since 1961. The last discussion for
which there is evidence took place in 1977,
when then-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt spoke
to then-Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan
about the issue.
The submarines are built by the German
shipyard HDW in Kiel. Three submarines
have already been delivered to Israel, and
three more will be delivered by 2017. In addi-
tion, Israel is considering ordering its seventh,
eighth and ninth submarines from Germany.
The German government recently signed
the contract for the delivery of the sixth ves-
sel. According to information obtained by
SPIEGEL, Chancellor Angela Merkel made
substantial concessions to the Israelis. Not
only is Berlin financing one-third of the cost of
the submarine, around 135 million ($168 mil-
lion), but it is also allowing Israel to defer its
payment until 2015.
Merkel had tied the delivery of the sixth
submarine to a number of conditions, includ-
ing a demand that Israel stop its expansionist
settlement policy and allow the completion of
a sewage treatment plant in the Gaza Strip,
which is partially financed with German
money. So far, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu has met none of the terms.
Check back on SPIEGEL International on
Monday for the full English-language version
of SPIEGEL's cover story on Germany's
cooperation with Israel over its submarine
program.(spiegel.de)
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US Among Highest Child
Poverty Rates in Developed
Countries
A new report released this week by the United
Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reveals alarm-
ing child poverty rates within affluent, or 'devel-
oped', nations. The US ranks second highest
among all measured countries, with 23.1 per cent
of children living in poverty, just under Romania's
25.6 per cent.
The report Report Card 10 shows roughly 13
million children in the European Union (plus
Norway and Iceland) lack basic items necessary for
their development. 30 million children - across 35
countries with developed economies - live in pover-
ty. "The data reinforces that far too many children
continue to go without the basics in countries that
have the means to provide," said Gordon
Alexander, Director of UNICEF's Office of
Research.
As debates rage on austerity measures and
social spending cuts, a new report reveals the
extent of child poverty and child deprivation in the
world's advanced economies. Some 13 million chil-
dren in the European Union (plus Norway and
Iceland) lack basic items necessary for their devel-
opment. Meanwhile, 30 million children - across 35
countries with developed economies - live in pover-
ty. Report Card 10, from UNICEF's Office of
Research, looks at child poverty and child depriva-
tion across the industrialized world, comparing and
ranking countries' performance. This international
comparison, says the Report, proves that child
poverty in these countries is not inevitable, but pol-
icy susceptible - and that some countries are doing
much better than others at protecting their most
vulnerable children. In doing so UNICEF's Office of
Research tries to estimate what percentage of chil-
dren are falling significantly behind what can be
considered normal for their own societies.
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June 01, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- IT'S A true story. I
have told it once, and I shall tell it again. A friend of mine in
Warsaw, who is half Jewish, advised a well-known Polish journal-
ist to visit Israel, to see for himself. When the journalist came
back, he called my friend and reported breathlessly: "Do you
know what I have discovered? There are Jews in Israel too!"
He meant, of course, the Orthodox, with their black clothes
and large, black hats, who look like the Jews imprinted in Polish
memory. They can be seen in any Polish souvenir shop, side by
side with other figures from Polish folklore: the king, the noble-
man, the soldier etc.
As this foreigner noticed immediately, these Jews bear no
resemblance whatsoever to ordinary Israelis, who resemble ordi-
nary Frenchmen, Germans and, well, Poles.
THE ORTHODOX (called in Hebrew "Haredim", the "fearful",
those who fear God) are not part of the Israeli state. They don't
want to be. Most of them live in isolated ghettos, which fill large
parts of Jerusalem, the town of Bnei Brak and several huge set-
tlements in the occupied territories.
When one thinks of a ghetto (originally the name of a Venice
neighborhood), one thinks of the humiliating isolation once
imposed by Christian rulers. But originally it was a self-imposed
isolation. Orthodox Jews wanted to live together, separate from
the general population, not only because it gave them a sense of
security, but also - and mainly - because of their faith. They need-
ed a synagogue they could reach on foot on Shabbat, a ritual
communal bath, kosher food and many other religious requisites.
They still need them in Israel and elsewhere.
But most of all they need to avoid contact with others. In
modern times, with all the deadly temptations, they need it more
- far more - than ever. With the streets full of big ads featuring
unclad women, with TV spewing an endless stream of soft (and
sometimes not so soft) pornography, with the internet full of
tempting information and personal contacts - the Orthodox have
to protect their children and keep them away from the sinful
Israeli way of life.
This is a matter of sheer survival for a community that has
existed for 2500 years, and that until some 250 years ago encom-
passed practically all Jews.
ZIONISM, AS I have often pointed out, was among other
things a rebellion against Judaism, no less then Martin Luther's
rebellion against Catholicism.
When Theodor Herzl raised his flag, almost all East
European Jews were still living in a ghetto-like Orthodox atmos-
phere, ruled by the rabbis. All these rabbis, almost without excep-
tion, saw Zionism as the great enemy, much as Christians view
the Antichrist. And not without reason. The Zionists were nation-
alists - adherents of the new European doctrine that human col-
lectives are based primarily on ethnic origin, language and terri-
tory, not on religion. It was the opposite of the Jewish belief that
Jews are the people of God, united by the obedience to his com-
mandments. As everybody knows, God exiled his Chosen People
from their land because of their sins. Some day God will forgive
them and send the Messiah, who will lead the Jews, including the
dead, back to Jerusalem. The Zionists, in their crazy desire to do
so themselves, were not only committing a deadly sin, but actu-
ally rebelling against the Almighty who had expressly forbidden
his people to enter the holy country en masse.
Herzl and almost all the other Zionist Founding Fathers were
convinced atheists. Their attitude towards the rabbis was conde-
scending. Herzl wrote that in the future Jewish state, the rabbis
would be kept in their synagogues (and the army officers in their
barracks). All the leading rabbis of his time cursed him in no
uncertain terms. However, Herzl and his colleagues had a prob-
lem. How to get millions of Jews to trade in their old-time religion
for the newfangled nationalism? He solved it by inventing the fic-
tion that the new Zionist nation was merely a continuation of the
ancient Jewish "people" in a new form. For this purpose, he
"stole" the symbols of the Jewish religion and turned them into
national ones: the Jewish prayer shawl became the Zionist (and
now the Israeli) flag, the Jewish Menora (the temple candlestick)
became the state's emblem, the Star of David is the supreme
national symbol. Almost all the religious holy days became part of
the new national history. This transformation was immensely suc-
cessful. Practically all "Jewish" Israelis accept this today as
gospel truth. Except the Orthodox.
THE ORTHODOX claim that they, and only they, are the real
Jews and the rightful heirs of thousands of years of history. They
are quite right. The Founding Fathers declared that they wanted
to create a "new Jew". Actually they created a new nation, the
Israeli. David Ben-Gurion, an avid Zionist, said that the Zionist
Organization was the scaffolding for the building of the State of
Israel, and with the building complete, it should be discarded. I go
much further: Zionism as such was the scaffolding, and should
now be discarded. The pretense that this is a "Jewish" state is the
continuation of a fiction that may have been necessary at the
beginning, but is redundant and even harmful now.
This pretense underlies the present situation: the Orthodox
are considered by Israelis as a part of the Jewish-Israeli commu-
nity, while behaving as a foreign people. It is not just that they do
not salute the Israeli flag (as mentioned: the prayer shawl with the
Star of David) and refuse to celebrate Independence Day (much
like the Arab citizens, by the way) - but they also refuse to serve
in the army or perform any other national service.
This is now one of the main bones of contention in Israel.
Officially, the Orthodox claim that all their young men who are
liable to be drafted - some 15 thousand every year - are busy
studying the Talmud and cannot stop even for a day, much less
for three years, like ordinary students. One rabbi declared last
week that they actually serve the country more than ordinary
combat soldiers, because they assure divine protection of the
state. The Supreme Court - so it seems- is not so much
impressed by the divine protection and recently annulled a law
that exempts the Orthodox, causing a political scramble for alter-
natives. A new law circumventing the court is in the making.
Actually, the Orthodox will never allow their children to join
the army, because of the justified fear that they will be contami-
nated by ordinary Israelis - learning about night clubs, TV and -
God forbid - hashish, and, worst of all, listening to the voices of
female soldiers singing - considered an absolute abomination in
Jewish religious law.
The separation between the Orthodox and others - between
Jews and Israelis, so to speak - is almost complete. The orthodox
speak another language (Yiddish, meaning "Jewish") and have a
different body language, dress differently, have a different world
view. In their separate schools, they learn different stuff (no
English, no mathematics, no secular literature, nor the history of
other peoples).
Israeli alumni of state schools have no common language
with alumni of Orthodox schools, because they have learned
totally different stories. An extreme example: some years ago two
rabbis published a book called "The King's Way", which states
that killing children of non-
Jews is justified if there is any
fear that these, when grown
up, would persecute Jews.
Several senior rabbis endorsed the book. When pressed, the
police started a criminal investigation for incitement. This week
the Attorney General finally decided not to prosecute, on the
grounds that the rabbis only quoted religious texts.
An Orthodox Jew cannot eat in an ordinary Israeli home (not
kosher, or not kosher enough). He certainly will not let his daugh-
ter marry a "secular" Israeli boy.
The attitude towards women is perhaps the most striking dif-
ference. There is absolutely no gender equality in the Jewish reli-
gion. Orthodox men view their women - and the women see
themselves - mainly as means of
(re)production. The status of Orthodox women is determined
by the number of their children. In certain neighborhoods of
Jerusalem, it is quite usual to see a pregnant woman in her 30s
surrounded by a crowd of her offspring, carrying a newborn in her
arms. Families of 10 or 12 children are quite unexceptional.
A WELL-KNOWN Israeli commentator and TV personality
recently wrote that the Orthodox should be "squeezed". In reply,
an Orthodox writer poured his wrath on "secular" personalities
who did not protest, singling out "the untiring ideologue Uri
Avnery". So I should make my position clear.
As an atheist Israeli, I respect the Orthodox for what they are
- a different entity. One might say: a different people. They live in
Israel, but are not really Israelis. For them, the Israeli state is like
any other Goyish state, and Israelis are like any other Goyish
people. The difference is only that, by having Israeli citizenship,
they can milk the state shamelessly. We practically finance their
very existence - their children, their schools, their life without
work. My proposal for a sustainable modus vivendi is:
First, a complete separation of state and religion. Annul all
laws based on religion. Second, grant the Orthodox complete
autonomy. They should elect their representative institutions and
govern themselves in all religious, cultural and educational mat-
ters. They should be exempted from military service. Third, the
Orthodox should pay for their religious services themselves, with
the help of their brethren abroad. Perhaps there could be a vol-
untary tax for this purpose, which the state would then transfer to
the autonomy authority. Fourth, there would be no "chief rab-
binate" or other rabbis appointed by the state. These are anyhow
rejected and, indeed, despised, by the Orthodox. (The irascible
Yeshayahu Leibowitz, an observant Jew, once called Chief Rabbi
Shlomo Goren "the Clown with a Shofar".) I would, by the way,
propose a similar autonomy for the Arab citizens, if they so wish.
THERE REMAINS the question of the so-called "National-
Religious". These are the offspring of the tiny minority of religious
Jews who did join the Zionists right from the beginning. They are
now a large community. Not only are they ardent Zionists, but
they are ultra-ultra, leading the settlement enterprise and violent
right-wing Zionism. They don't just accept the state and the army
- they aspire to lead both, and have made considerable progress
in that direction.
Yet in religious affairs, too, they are becoming more and more
extreme, approaching the Orthodox. Some Israelis already use
the same term for both groups: "hardal" (which could be translat-
ed as "Nareor - National-Religious-Orthodox.) Hardal, by the way,
means mustard.) What to do with this mustard in an autonomy
dish? Let me think a moment.
BY THE WAY: when an Israeli Jew is asked by a stranger
anywhere in the world "what are you?" he always answers: "I am
an Israeli". He will never, ever, say: "I am a Jew".
Except the Orthodox.
Uri Avnery is an Israeli journalist, writer and peace activist
Zionism A Rebellion Against Judaism
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18 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
KARAMATULLAH K. GHORI
A lethal US drone attack against an
allegedly terrorist target in North
Waziristan region of Pakistans tribal north,
on 4 June left 15 people dead. The
Americans claimed that all the dead were
terrorists. The Pakistanis remonstrated, in
response, that those killed were civilians.
US drone strikes against targets inside
Pakistan have gone up in both numbers and intensity. The latest
strike included, there have been more than a dozen such strikes
against Pakistani targets since the Chicago conference, of last
May 20-21. The casualty toll of the Pakistani civilians in these
punishing attacks is close to 50, including a number of women
and children.
In the American lexicon, civilian casualties have a totally dif-
ferent connotation than what the Pakistanis or anyone else in the
world may think. To the war-mongers running the Washington
show, civilian casualties are just collateral damage which, to
them, is an unavoidable price of war.
Only a day or two before the June 4 attack exacted such a
heavy toll in blood from the Pakistanis, Barack Obama had
awarded the American Medal of Freedom to Madeleine Albright,
who was Secretary of State under Clinton-and was famously
quoted as saying, in response to a question about the gargantu-
an casualty toll among the children of Iraq because of historys
most stringent sanctions against that country, that the death toll
of half-a-million Iraqi children was a legitimate and justifiable
price of war.
Also honoured, along with Albright, at the impressive White
House ceremony was Israels Shimon Peres, who has been pre-
siding over the mass murder, torture and persecution of the
Palestinians groaning under a ruthless and punishing Israeli
occupation of their land. Obama does, certainly, know how crucial
its for his re-election bid to keep his Jewish friends on his side.
The inordinate spike in drone attacks against the Pakistani
targets is, undoubtedly, Obamas and Washingtons response to
Pakistans persistent demand that drone attacks be halted inside
its territory. Its one of the two main conditions-the other being an
unconditional apology-that Pakistan has been insisting upon as
the price for the resumption of US and NATO transit facilities
across its territory for war supplies destined for Afghanistan. The
transit corridor across Pakistan has remained suspended since
last November 26 when US air force, based in Afghanistan, struck
a Pakistani military check-post, at Salala, near the Afghan border,
at the dead of night, and killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Following the latest attack in the vicinity of Miranshah, the
administrative seat of North Waziristan where Washington
believes the Pakistani Taliban, especially the Haqqani group,
have their bastion, Washington has gone to town claiming that
one of those killed in it was the number two man of Al Qaeda, a
man by the name of Abu Yahya al-Libi over whose head
Washington had posted a bounty of a million dollars.
Interestingly, al-Libis death in US bombing raids has been
claimed on more than one occasion in the past, too. One such
claim that subsequently turned out to be false was made in 2009,
after a similar drone strike.
Of Libyan provenance, al-Libi became known as the new
number two of Al Qaeda, following Osama bin Ladens death last
year. But Libi had once been captured in Pakistan and handed
over to the Americans; this happened in 2004 or 2005. He was
jailed at the high-security US base at Bagram, outside Kabul.
However, he managed to break out of that top security prison two
years later. No one ever bothered to shed light on how a high-
value terrorist like Libi could have sneaked out of a maximum
security area? The explanation that he fled the prison had too
many holes in it.
Irrespective of whether Libi, said to be the main target of the
latest, June 4, raid against targets well inside Pakistan, was killed
in it or not, it is a subject on which the jury is still out and may
remain so for some time because of the number of earlier claims
about his death. But to the Pakistanis a more important and sen-
sitive subject is that Washington goes on heaping insult over
injury by ignoring Pakistans persistent demand that these drone
attacks-in total violation of international law-be halted for once
and all.
As for the second Pakistani demand that Washington tender
an unconditional apology for the brazen night attack which
snuffed life out of 24 of its soldiers-which is in tandem with the
drone issue-the Obama administration has so far shown no incli-
nation to entertain or honour the Pakistani demand. Obamas
apologists and votaries have argued that in this election year
when his opponents are looking for any chinks in his armour he
couldnt afford to be seen supplicating to Pakistan. To the
Pakistanis it may well be an issue of national honour. But to
Obama it would be an unaffordable price to pay to bow to a client
state-which is what Pakistan is to the Republicans and the hawks
in Obamas own coterie.
Obamas obvious problem, in this election year in particular,
is that he must portray himself as an effective commander-in-
chief with his finger on the trigger. In the macho Republican logic,
the president has to be hectoring and unbending in order to be
effective and respected.
Conscious of this compulsion on him to be Rambo-like, and
trounce all opposition to Americas global agenda of enforcing its
edict in the world with unrelenting muscle-power, Obama has
been striving hard to fit the paradigm of a strong leader.
In relation to the Islamic world, of which Pakistan is a key
component, Obama has been throwing Americas weight around
with abandon. He may have withdrawn US forces from Iraq-
because staying there was becoming much too expensive in
more senses than one-but in regard to Afghanistan he has been
playing exactly to the tune set for him by the Pentagon generals
and the CIA sleuths. Drone strikes against Pakistan-in the face of
constant disapproval of it from the Pakistani establishment and
the people of Pakistan-are an irrefutable evidence of Obama pan-
dering to the war lobby and, in the process, losing his marbles.
What a sorry spectacle its to the Muslim world that a man
who was given the Nobel Peace Prize, gratuitously, is, in practice,
even more hawkish and Muslim-baiting than his notorious prede-
cessor, George W. Bush. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran , Libya, Yemen,
Somalia and, lately, Syria are sterling evidences of the Muslim
worlds utter disappointment with Obama and his betrayal of his
own promises-the platform used by him to garner Muslim support
and sympathy at his election to the White House-to put paid to
Bushs undeclared crusade against the Islamic world.
However, the Pakistani leadership, in its own corner, is near-
ly as hopelessly hamstrung as Obama, for a variety of reasons.
The Pakistani establishment can fairly be said to have hoist
itself with its own petard.
The current civilian leaders of Pakistan, President Zardari
and PM Gilani, are both votaries of Washington and had been
doing their biddings with unflinching loyalty to Obama and his oli-
garchs until the situation triggered by the Salala massacre forced
them to take a stand on the side of the people of Pakistan.
The murder of 24 soldiers was seen by the Pakistani people-
already enraged over the persistent violation of their national hon-
our by US drone attacks-as cold-blooded and heinous. It was the
last straw on their back and quickly became the tipping point for
them to demand from their leaders to show some backbone, vis-
-vis their masters in Washington.
Both the civilian leadership and the military brass found a
safety valve in referring the matter to the Pakistani Parliament to
decide the shape of a new policy to deal with Washington. The
army, before that, had raised the ante of public protest, and pro-
vided it with direction, by clamping down on the transit facilities for
NATO across the Pakistani territory. That was deemed as the
least it could do to salvage its honour and redeem the nations
trust it seemed to have lost in the wake of Osama bin Ladens
murder at the hands of the Americans last year.
The Pakistani parliamentarians, sensing the agitated mood of
the people in whose name they were sitting in the parliament,
took nearly four months to come up with their set of recommen-
dations to launch the Pak-US relations on a new keel of sovereign
equality, mutual respect and trust. Fundamental to the new
approach, the recommendations deemed it ineluctable that
Washington should apologise for its high-handedness, as well as
put a total halt to the infuriating spate of drone attacks against the
helpless and indefensible civilian population of the tribal areas of
Pakistan.
The issue of resumption of transit facilities for NATO hangs
fire because Pakistan would, henceforth, like to be paid a fee of
at least 5,000 dollars for each truck-load of container using its
roads. This is deemed a fair price by the Pakistanis but exorbi-
tant by US. Leon Paneta, the Pentagon chief and Defence
Secretary, has virtually derided the Pakistani demand as highway
robbery.
That drone attacks are in violation of Pakistans sovereignty,
besides being indefensible, morally and ethically, is a perception
shared by all peace-loving and law-abiding people in the world.
There couldnt be a more telling approbation of Pakistans princi-
pled demand for the cessation of drone attacks against its people
than the recent decision by the US ambassador to Pakistan,
Cameron Munter, to ask for premature recall from Islamabad. In
an interview given to an American media outlet, Ambassador
Munter bemoaned the unenviable position he had been cornered
into by his own government.
Ambassador Munters parting words that he wasnt aware,
when sent to Pakistan, that his mission would also be to become
party to killing people should shame all those in Washington,
including Obama, who still insist that drone is an essential tool in
the war against terror.
Obamas personal responsibility and culpability in this crime
is beyond doubt. The latest disclosure that the order to kill, via the
demonic drones, has the presidents seal of approval after he
may have gone through the details of the target, or targets,
leaves not a shred of doubt that the killing machine gets its
license to kill from the occupant of the Oval Office.
Strained relations between Islamabad and Washington have
been given a further, and nasty, jolt by the case of a Pakistani
medical doctor found guilty of spying for US, and sentenced,
because of it, to serve 33 years in prison.
Dr. Shakil Afridi, of shady repute, had conducted a phony
polio vaccination campaign in the vicinity of the house where
Osama bin Laden was said to be holed in in Abbottabad. It was
his reconnaissance that confirmed OBLs presence there to the
Americans and paved the way for their operation to take him out.
However, Islamabads villain is a hero to Washington. The
Obama administration has reacted angrily to the punishment
awarded to their Pakistani quisling by a court in the tribal area. To
punish Pakistan for its temerity of taking their man to judgment,
US Congress has chopped off 33 million dollars from the pro-
posed amount of aid to Pakistan in the next budget-one million
dollars exacted as penalty for each year of the sentence given to
Dr. Afridi.
So thats where the tangled relations currently rest between
the two countries supposedly allied in the front trenches of the
war against terror. Their respective positions on all the divisive
issues are still poles apart. Both have painted themselves into
positions from where they could only climb down at some cost to
the moral high ground where theyre currently perched. Who
blinks first is now the million dollar question. As of now, all bets
are off on this thorny issue anchored in national honour and dig-
nity. The Pakistanis are learning, to their chagrin, how costly it
could be to trade punches with an unequal and unprincipled
ally.
Pakistan and U.S. are warring in nerves
Between December 1947 and September 1948,
up to 760,000 Palestinians were forced to flee or
were violently expelled from Palestine. Their
towns and cities were taken over; up to 500 vil-
lages were either destroyed or occupied by the
Zionists. In recent years, following the declassi-
fication of most official political documents of the
State of Israel from that time, a new critical con-
sciousness - much of it written in Israel - has
emerged about the war's catastrophic and crim-
inal impact on the Palestinian People.
The works of historians and sociologists
such as Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappe, and Baruch
Kimmerling have confronted and explored what
really happened in 1948. We now have official
confirmation of the violent expulsion of the
refugees and of the way that Israel prevented
them from returning home.
We also know much more about the
Israeli theft of refugee assets, property, land
and factories. All these were looted, expropri-
ated and sold, initially to the Israeli army and
later to the highest bidder. However, little
research has yet been done on the tragic
implications of the war for Palestinian culture.
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destruction of the Palestinian culture is the
Israeli National Library's handling of 70,000
valuable books that were looted from
Palestinian homes after the occupants had
been driven out. This priceless Palestinian
heritage was collected at the Library and
declared the 'property' of the library, then put
away in the National Library's storerooms. In
the1960s the cataloguing system intentional-
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Palestinian owners of these books, replacing
them with a new signature, "AP"
("Abandoned Property"). In this way, the
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This is only one example of how Israel
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of Palestine by force, emptying the country
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crimes, the victims and of their culture.
Adapted from the film: "The Great Book
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ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER
L
ast year I had gone to Afghanistan for a series of lec-
tures on womens rights and I also spoke on this sub-
ject in the gathering of distinguished Ulama and one
of the issues which came for discussion was about
women being naqisaatul aql (short of reason and naqisaat-
ul iman (short of faith). I said is it in the Quran, I do not find
it anywhere in the Quran? Is it in the hadith and the answer
was it is. I said any hadith which goes against the Quran
cannot be accepted as authentic.
All Ulama agree that the Quran gives equal rights to
men and women and both enjoy equal dignity, then how can
she be short of reason and faith? However, the alim who
was asserting that women are short on reason and faith,
could not reply yet murmured and sat down.
Recently, I was going through a book written by Maulavi
Nazir Ahmed, a great scholar of Islam with somewhat liberal
views and was given the title of Shamsul Ulama by the
British rulers. In this book he discusses the story of the cre-
ation of Adam and his being expelled from paradise for eat-
ing the forbidden fruit.
Maulavi Nazir Ahmed mentions that though Satan could
not mislead Adam as he was firm in his resolve not to eat the
forbidden wheat but he succeeded in misleading Hawwa
(Eve) as she was short of reason and she in turn persuaded
Adam and both ate the forbidden fruit and as a result were
both expelled from Paradise. It is highly surprising that a
scholar like the Maulavi did not bother to consult the Quran
which nowhere says that Satan succeeded in misleading
Hawwa. Instead the Quran directly blames Adam for being
misled and thrown out of Paradise.
Thus the Quran says, But the Satan made an evil sug-
gestion to him (Adam); he said: O Adam, shall I lead you to
the tree of immortality and a kingdom which decays not?
(20:121). And in the same verse the last line says: And
Adam disobeyed his Lord and went astray. Here Adam is
directly blamed for being misled and going astray while
Hawwa is mentioned no where.
Despite this, Maulavi Nazir Ahmed and some of our
Ulama blame Hawwa for yielding to temptation and persuad-
ing Adam to eat of the forbidden fruit. The evidence of the
Quran is totally ignored and these ulama rely on hadith.
Why does this happen? The reason is our anti-woman
attitude and the thinking that women are inferior to men and
that men are the rulers. Where does this attitude come from?
Naturally, from the patriarchal values which are prevalent in
our society.
We would continue to think in this way quoting prominent
Ulama without understanding that our Ulama were the prod-
uct of a certain period and were prisoners of their time. In
other words, we have to adopt socio-cultural approach to
religion. What we call Islam today is not based only on the
Quran and Sunnah but also on our social and cultural val-
ues. The social structure of that time was not only patriarchal
but also those prevalent patriarchal values deeply penetrat-
ed our understanding of Islam and our theology and we con-
sidered our theology as divine.
Women in the past feudal and patriarchal structures of
society were subjected to severe restrictions including deny-
ing them any public role. Segregation of women and men
also became part of our treatment of women. During Prophet
(pbuh)s time, women played an active role, took part in var-
ious public debates and even accompanied the Prophet to
battlefields and at times played active role as combatants.
The battle of Jamal, as is well known, was led by Hazrat
Aisha.
However, all this changed once Islam entered the era of
monarchy and feudal culture became the dominant culture.
Monarchs maintained large harems and made women their
prisoners to be guarded by eunuchs.
It was in this environment that women lost their rights
which they were given in the Quran and Sunnah. Men were
now projected as superior, totally ignoring what the Quran
had to say.
The Quran gave equal rights to men and women in
every respect -- see verses like 33:35, 2:228 and so on. The
Quran did not use words like husband and wife but used
zawj instead which means one of a couple or pair.
Thus both husband and wife are referred to as zawj
and our ulama, later on, under the influence of feudal and
patriarchal culture began to quote a hadith that had prostra-
tion (sajda) been allowed for man I (Prophet, pbuh) would
have ordered the wife to prostrate before her husband.
The Quran avoided using the word bal (husband) as
in Arabic it also signified a deity. The Quran uses the word
bal only thrice and that too for narrating stories of the past,
otherwise it uses the word zawj for husband. It avoided the
use of the word bal lest it should be given the status of a
deity. Husband in Islam is no more than one of a couple, sig-
nifying equality of both husband and wife. But our Ulama
privilege husband over wife.
S
ince women were confined at home and their role was
reduced to that of a housewife, they lacked experience of
the outside world and also parents thought a housewife does
not need any higher education. She thus usually remained
illiterate or semi-literate and could acquire no experience of
public life outside her home and hence came to be described
as naqisaatul aql (short of reason). Today, conditions have
changed drastically and women are working in every field of
life and have become great achievers. In fact, they have
proved themselves to be superior to men in several fields. To
call them naqisaatul aql is to display one of being himself
short of reason.
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The Quran gave equal rights to men and
women in every respect -- see verses like
33:35, 2:228 and so on. The Quran did not use
words like husband and wife but used zawj
instead which means one of a couple or pair.
Thus both husband and wife are referred to
as zawj and our ulama, later on, under the
influence of feudal and patriarchal culture
began to quote a hadith that had prostration
(sajda) been allowed for man I (Prophet, pbuh)
would have ordered the wife to prostrate
before her husband.
Do women have less faith and less reason?
20 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012
The Prophets foster mother
Fatimah bint Asad belonged to the Hashimite clan. Her grandfather was
Hashim, the Prophets (pbuh) great-grandfather. When Muhammad was
only eight years old, he lost his grandfather, Abd Al-Muttalib who was
looking after him after he had lost both his parents. When Abd Al-Muttalib
realized that he was about to die, he called his son Abu Talib and entrust-
ed the young Muhammad to his care. Although Abd Al-Muttalib had many
sons at the time, he chose Abu Talib because Abdullah, the Prophets
father, was his full brother and because he knew Fatimah to be a kindly
and caring woman. She proved to be a great choice, as she looked after
Muhammad as well as she looked after her own children. In order to
appreciate how caring she was, we take the Prophets own words. When
she died, he prayed for her, saying: "May God have mercy on you, moth-
er. You were my mother after my own mother had passed away. You left
yourself hungry to feed me and in rags to clothe me. You deprived your-
self of the best food to give it to me. Your aim was to please God".
When the Prophet received his divine message and was told to call
on people to embrace Islam, Fatimah was one of the earliest people to
respond. We know that her son, Ali, was one of the first four people to
accept it. Fatimah is reported to have been the eleventh person to
become a Muslim. Needless to say, her knowledge of the Prophets char-
acter, whom she had brought up, was sufficient for her to realize that he,
who never told a lie, could not make a false claim about God.
The Prophet was the most dutiful of people. Whenever anyone did
him an act of kindness, he would repay it in the most generous way.
Fatimah migrated to Madinah with all members of the Prophets house-
hold, except his daughter Zainab who remained with her husband.
Fatimah was a widow at the time. The Prophet used to visit her at home,
and would even have an afternoon nap in her home. It was not long after
their settlement in Madinah that her son, Ali, married the Prophets own
daughter Fatimah. Thus she became the Prophets daughters mother-in-
law. She was very kind to her and helped her in every way she could.
When the Prophet had something to give as a present he did not for-
get to give her a share, treating her in the same way as he treated his
own daughter. Once the Prophet was sent a suit made of velvet. He
would not wear it, as he did not like to wear luxurious clothes. He gave
the suit to Ali and told him: "Make it as scarves and give it to the
Fatimahs."
Ali mentioned that he made four scarves: one for his mother,
Fatimah bint Asad, one for his wife, Fatimah bint Muhammad, and one for
his cousin Fatimah bint Hamzah, and the last for his sister-in-law,
Fatimah bint Shaibah, Aqeels wife.
When Fatimah bint Asad died, the Prophet prayed for her as we have
already mentioned. He took part in preparing her for burial, pouring the
water over her body for her final bath. He took off his shirt and put it on
her, wrapping her body with a suitable cover above it. He took part in
preparing her grave. He even lay in it. He then said: It is God who gives
life and causes death. He is the One who is always alive and never dies.
My Lord, forgive my mother Fatimah bint Asad her sins, grant her proof,
make her entrance wide. I appeal to You by the truth of Your messengers
and the Prophets before me. You are the most merciful.
The Prophet was asked why he did those things for Fatimah bint
Asad. He answered: Next to Abu Talib no one was more kindly to me
than her. I dressed her in my shirt so that she would be given suits from
heaven, and I lay in her grave so as to make her last dwelling easier for
her.
ADIL SALAHI
The Milli Gazette, 16-30 June 2012 21
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That will expose the real character of the Pakistani army
which is now seen in the West as a key ally in the war against ter-
ror. So Pakistans intelligence is desperate to scuttle the war
crimes trials in Bangladesh, says Arefin, who served in the
Pakistan army, then joined the Bengali Mukti Fauj (Freedom
Force) during the civil war and finally served in the Bangladesh
army.
We have reasons to believe that there is a concerted cam-
paign by Pakistani intelligence to disrupt and dilute our War
Crimes Trial. I will not be surprised if they are commissioning proj-
ects to distort the realities of our liberation war, Arefin told this
writer.
Thats a rather strong charge but Sarmila Bose promptly dis-
misses. I am only trying to question the existing narratives of the
1971 war in view of data I have gathered while working for the
book, Sarmila Bose told the audience at the Woodrow Wilson
Centre in US, where the book was launched. The entire book
launch programme is available on the Internet.
Suspect data
Bose, a Bengali herself, is a grand daughter of Indias independ-
ence war hero Subhas Chandra Bose, and is a senior research
fellow at Oxford. Her brothers, Sugato and Sumantra Bose, teach
history and politics at Harvard and London School of Economics.
I am only pointing to obvious exaggerations about the num-
ber of people killed or number of women raped by the Pakistan
army. A war narrative is always the narrative of the victors, and
1971 was no different, Sarmila Bose said at the launch.
But some of her data is clearly suspect.
Dead Reckoning suggests there were only 20,000 Pakistani
troops at the beginning of the civil war in East Pakistan, and that
rose to 34,000 towards the end of the war.
Bangladeshi narratives claim 400,000 women were raped by
Pakistani troops during the civil war between March and
December 1971, but how can 34,000 soldiers rape so many
women in eight months, contends Sarmila Bose.
Indian historian Jayanta Ray, whose 1968 book Nationalism
on Trial predicted the breakup of Pakistan, is furious at how an
Oxford researcher like Bose could get basic facts wrong.
Records indicate that just over 93,000 Pakistani soldiers sur-
rendered to the Indian army in December 1971. They were all
handed back to Pakistan. Thats thrice the number Bose sug-
gests, so is she fudging figures deliberately to prove that the num-
ber of rapes were much lower than suggested? Professor Ray
told this writer.
Bangladeshs anti-fundamentalist campaigner Shahriyar
Kabir says that Red Cross officials in 1971 testified to treating
nearly 200,000 rape victims. Many more women did not report
for treatment out of shame and embarrassment, Kabir told this
writer. They bore their indignities silently.
A Calcutta-based Bengali channel, Mahua TV, ran a full hour
discussion on the book, bringing together Bengalis from India and
Bangladesh. Hundreds of listeners from both sides of the border
called in to join the author-bashing.
The channels executive editor, Subir Chakroborty, says
Sarmila Boses mother, Krishna Bose, a former member of Indian
parliament, refused to join the panel.
She told us her views on the liberation war were already
known to everybody, so we put up in front of our cameras her
newspaper article on the Bangladesh war. That was very sympa-
thetic to the victims of 1971, Chakroborty said.
Allegations of bias
While Bangladeshis and Indian Bengalis are upset with Bose for
playing down the Pakistani atrocities, Indian officials are angry
with her contention that India was the only aggressor in 1971.
We intervened militarily only after all possibilities of stopping
the bloodbath failed. And when our forces entered East Pakistan,
the Bengalis complained why we have been so late, says former
chief of Indias eastern fleet, Vice-Admiral Bimalendu Guha.
How can she call us an aggressor, fumes Guha. The
Bengalis actually wanted us to intervene earlier to save them-
selves.
Former chief-of-staff of Indias eastern army, Lieutenant
General J.R. Mukherjee, goes a step further, who said: She has
very good reasons to defend the honour of the Pakistan army,
which she describes as a professional and a brave force. Can I
ask her why these brave soldiers surrendered to India in such a
huge number? Even now, Pakistani troops keep surrendering to
Taliban and other militants. Can you show one Indian soldier who
has ever surrendered to a militant?
P
rofessor Ray alleges that Bose is biased in use of sources.
Her sources are primarily Pakistani. She has interviewed
many Pakistani officers, but not those who were fighting them,
says Professor Ray.
Particularly upset with Sarmila Bose are Bangladeshs vast
numbers of freedom fighters - men from various walks of life
who joined the Mukti Fauj to fight the Pakistanis in 1971.
How can a Bengali, and that too from the family of one of our
greatest leaders like Subhas Bose, write such a horrible account
that tries to defend Pakistans brutal army. This is simply unac-
ceptable, said Haroon Habib, a freedom fighter who later rose
to head the countrys government-sponsored news agency,
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS).
No bookseller has so far put Dead Reckoning on their
shelves in Bangladesh. Even in Calcutta and other Bengali-dom-
inated cities in India, the book is not to be seen.
Bengalis across the border will only have hate for her, says
Bimal Pramanik, a freedom fighter who now lives in India and
runs a centre for research on India-Bangladesh relations. She is
untruthful and with a purpose.
Sarmila Bose denies all charges flung at her and says she
has only tried to correct the course of contemporary history. A
claim few will endorse in Bangladesh or Indian Bengal.
Stereotypes versus truth
Rubaiyat Hossains Meherjaan is innocuous by comparison, but it
has generated as much angst in a country which prides its
Bengali heritage and where the atrocities of the Pakistan army is
still recent memory.
Bangladeshs official history says nearly three million
Bengalis - Hindus, Muslims and Christians - died in the 1971 civil
war, and nearly half a million women were raped.
I liked the movie, but since I am a freedom fighter and scores
of my friends disliked the film, I decided to withdraw it from cine-
ma halls in Bangladesh, says Habibur Rehman Khan, the distrib-
utor of Meherjaan. That means the film will make no money,
despite a cast of stars from India, like Jaya Bachan and Victor
Banerji - both Bengalis, but big in Bollywood.
Bangladeshi feminist groups say the film trivialises the atroc-
ities on women by the Pakistani army when it runs the story of
Meher, a Bengali girl who falls in love with a Pakistani soldier, and
is then humiliated by her family when this is discovered.
I was raped several times by Pakistani soldiers, and I cannot
stand this soft corner for Pakistanis in the film, said sculptor
Ferdous Priyabashini.
Rubaiyat Hossain is candid about her woes. I tried to break
out of the stereotype of the Bengali hero versus Pakistani brute in
the backdrop of the 1971 war, and that is what my countrymen
are so upset with, she said.
What she thinks is stereotype is actually the truth. The
Pakistanis killed us like flies and raped our women like beasts.
They even massacred our intellectuals just before they surren-
dered, said Awami Leagues minister Jehangir Kabir Nanak.
Unlike Japan or Germany apologising for their military
excesses during the Second World War, Pakistan has not apolo-
gised for the atrocities of its army in 1971.
Many liberal Pakistanis, including cricket hero Imran Khan,
want Islamabad to do so and bury the bad blood of 1971. But the
Pakistan army top brass refuses to oblige.
Until that happens, neither Dead Reckoning nor Meherjaan
will find admirers in Bangladesh - or in Indian Bengal.
(aljazeera.com)
Book, film start debate in Bengladesh
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Dead Reckoning, written by Indian
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describe her as an apologist for Pakistans
brutal military.
Meherjaan, directed by Bangladeshi film-
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torts the historical context of the liberation
war.
Marginalisation of Indian Muslims
Book: Muslims in Indian Cities:
Trajectories of Marginalisation
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Muslim Brotherhood
It is good for the East and West the Brotherhood Win Who should
win the runoff Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, or
Ahmed Shafik, a former commander of the air force and Mubaraks
last prime minister. Many, criticisms of Muslim Brotherhood are
baseless. The Brotherhood has for decades declared itself fully
committed to democracy and pluralism. Since the 1980s, it has con-
sistently respected democratic norms, To imagine a huge anti-dem-
ocratic conspiracy among such a diverse group is fantastical.
Indeed, more radical Islamists have left the group, either in the past
to join underground splinters or more recently any of the numerous
Salafi parties. The other baseless Western worry about the
Brotherhood is that it would tear up the peace treaty with Israel. It is
a decidedly hypocritical opinion for the West to hold if it supports
Egyptians right to self- determination only so long as its outcome
corresponds exactly to American interests. On the contrary, it is
Shafik who the West should be more concerned about: He is the
greater threat to democracy and Egypts prosperity. He represents
the authoritarianism which Egypt strives to escape: We should
remember that the only reason Shafik was allowed to compete was
because the (military-backed) electoral commission overturned the
decision of the democratically-elected parliament to ban members of
the old regime. Shafik is a pretty dubious character with, to say the
least, questionable democratic credentials. The Brotherhood focus
on growth and investment, with concern for social justice and wel-
fare. This is what Egypt needs to reduce poverty. Shafiks platform
is clearer - it is the same corruption and crony capitalism which
Mubarak offered, and which has put Egypt in dire straits. But of the
two candidates the Brotherhood is a better bet for democracy and
prosperity in Egypt and promotion of democracy that the West
desires in the Middle East.
Kodimirpal (via email)
Jains are Hindus in disguise
Apropos the letter Jains and Gujarat riots (MG, May 16-31). Whore
Jains? Jains are Hindus in disguise. And mind you, they havent for-
gotten their Hindu past. Its embedded in every Jains conscious-
ness. Jains never belonged to a distinct religion, different than
Hinduism. Theyre the followers of Mahavir, whose very existence is
a matter of speculations. They follow all rituals, gods and goddess-
es of Hinduism, yet call themselves Jains and want minority status.
Its a classic case of eating the cake and having it too. Jains have
the same Hindu ethos, attitude, mentality and blood. No wonder,
they wholeheartedly participated along with their Hindu brethren in
that unprecedented blood-bath.
Dr. Sumit S. Paul, Pune
Poverty cannot block success
Patwatoli is outskirt village of Manpur, Gaya district where handloom
cotton weaving community live. But this village is producing 10 tians.
This year 13 students cracked IIT exam. They belong to poor fami-
lies. They studied in lantern. The first boy of this village Jitendra
Kumar cleared IIT in 1996 by sheer hard labour then he guided his
co-villager students. This led students getting success in IIT.
Success cannot be blocked by poverty. Muslim must know this fact.
Our students also can get success if Ummah reset their priorities.
S. Haque, Patna
Antipathy towards democracy
Our country is the largest parliamentary democracy of the world and
we must be proud of this fact and our devotion and dedication
should be reflected in all walks of our life. But it is unfortunate that
the Indian cricket world has opted for the obsolete and rotten monar-
chy as is evident from the names or nomenclature of five out of ten
participating teams in the recent I. P. L. cricket tournament. These
teams are Super Kings Chennai, Rajasthan Royals, Punjab Kings,
Royal Challengers of Bangalore and Knight Riders of Kolkata. What
else than clear anti-pathy towards democracy and strengthening the
hands of forces which are creating a climate of disdain against
democrary. Curiously the sixth team has been named as the
Daredevil Delhi as if Delhi is the abode of devils. One wished that
any of these teams where named after any institution of democracy
or after any important episode of Indian freedom struggle.
Dr M. Hashim Kidwai, ex-MP, Delhi-110091
Rahul Gandhi and Muslims
Since the time Rahul Gandhi made his appearance on Indian politi-
cal screen as a dynamic Congress leader and prospective Indian
Prime Minister he went on moving the whole country on war footing
spirit with different guise to prove his credentiality as future Indian P.
M. Whenever and wherever he goes, went, contacts, contacted with
the masses under different roles, the media never hesitate to play to
case opportunity by describing him the most worthy Indian Leader
the country had every witnessed. The U.P. Assembly election were
the acid-test for him as was expected that his charmer would lead
the Congress at the top but what happened lateron every body
knows. Now after a pause he like shrewd and seasond politian held
responsible his partymen for U.P. debacle without admitting that
people have rejected him also in the same way as they downplay his
party. It is to be noted that right from the day he took reins of
Congress he spoke untiredly on various subjects but never uttered
a single word on the matters relating to India Muslims, communal
frenzies, atrocities on Muslim masses, prevailing continued brutali-
ties and atrocities on Muslims, killing of lakhs of Muslims during 60
years and their continuity, demolition of Babri Masjid, arrest of well
educated Muslim youths, their false encounters, their detention in
jails for years together under the fabricated cases made out con-
gress ruled states biased police and subsequent imprisonment by
the same ranking judiciary under the supprt and direction of highly
communalised congressmen. He never tried to read the mind of
present Union Home Minister about Indian Muslims and finally dem-
olition of Babri Masjid for which the stone was laid by his deceased
father.
Faheemuddin, Nagpur
Azam-Bukhari row
This is with reference to an article by Mr. Md. Shahid on Azam-khari
row in a recent issue of MG. The writer affirms that the Ulama and
Imams should venture into politics and not remain confined to
madrasas and masjids. However, it is also imperative that the Ulama
and Imams while participating in politics in their personal capacity
should not exploit their institutions or even their religious positions
for proecting themselves. As equal citizens of a democratic country,
they have the right to participate in politics and even from a political
party but they should not use the pulpit or their religious post for
political propaganda.
Syed Shahabuddin, ex-MP, Delhi-110096
Muslim women
Muslim women of 21st century are divided among various Firqas.
Most of them are not highly educated. They live in Pardah without
understanding Islam. They cannot give answers to the questions
raised by people from other communities. People take them as
backwards. Educated women do not wear Hijab in many cases.
These educated women too have no knowledge of Islam. They fear
that Hijab indicates backwardness. Thus Muslim women are not on
the right path of Islam. Religious knowledge is very important. We
need strong Muslim women with good knowledge of basic principles
of Islam. They must know that Hijab protects them and gives
respectability to them. Allah loves women in modest dresses.
Women with good knowledge of Islam must come out and contact
women in the interior part of India. Women with their natural quality
of love and kindness can help us to unite. They can give good train-
ing to their children and make the future of Islam bright.
Nazneen O. Saherwala, Surat
nazsita@yahoo.co.in
Indian Muslims in jails
The Times of India, Mumbai, deserves credit for giving well-
deserved importance to TISS report reportedly at the behest of the
state minorities commission on the high detention rate of Muslims
(36% of the jail population against only 13% of Muslim population in
the state). However, both Times of India and TISS are guilty of ignor-
ing the gorilla in the room. It is the heavily communalized state
police that is heavily populated by extremist Hindutva elements.
Unless the communalized elements which are in overwhelming
majority in the police, are not acknowledged as such, exposed and
controlled, the state cannot escape being branded as police state.
TISS has blamed the supposed criminality of the Muslims on lack of
education and employment opportunities. That forms the basic rea-
sons of Muslim backwardness. But that does not automatically
translate into increased criminality of the Maharashtra Muslims. By
ignoring the hate and discrimination base line of all government and
political policies against Muslims, any attempt to eradicate the can-
cer of communalized demonization of Muslims will result in failure.
Both Sonia congress and Sharad pawars National Congress parties
feel no need to cleanse the police mentality and refuse to recruit
Muslims in the police force with a view to promote secular ethos in
security agencies. In fact, they stubbornly cling to their anti-Muslim
agenda in the state, openly flouting constitutional norms to treat all
people in this multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious
state/nation on equal footing. The hate campaigns especially in
police force should be legally banned and heavy penalties should be
imposed on communal elements who commit crime in the name of
fighting crime.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
Homosexuality
Homosexuality is only against civil society but even contrary to nat-
ural rules for all living ones. I. P. C. has several clauses which right-
ly interferes in self decisions affecting rights of the society. If free-
dom to enjoy gay sex among consenting adults is justified then
attempt to suicide should also be held justified on the ground that it
should be the right of the individual to get rid of his / her life accord-
ing to his / her desires. Legalising gay sex will pollute society, as
youths will become addicted to homosexuality either out of fashion
or being forced by others. Can a legal expert decide as how to do a
surgical operation on a patient? No. It should be left to a surgeon to
decide on such a matter. Can a surgeon or a university professor or
an eminent lawyer decide as 10 storey building be erected. Only a
civil engineer could better handle such matter why then it should be
assumed that members of judiciary are experts on all matters. The
basic argument in favour of homosexuality between consenting
adults is that the law banning it is 149 years too old, obsolete, based
on ancient religious scriptures and Victorian notions. If this is the
logic then laws relating to murder, rape, robbery should be done
away with as they are based on old legal books - religious and sec-
ular. Leading English dailies and several T.V. channels seems to
consider Delhi High verdict as a revolutionary event. This clearly
shows that unfortunately while aping the west they have totally
rejected morality which is the basis of our highly valuable national
culture.
Dr M. Hashim Kidwai, ex-MP, Delhi-110091
Maulana Azad National Fellowship
The Maulana Azad National Fellowship (MANF) is a fellowship for
the research scholars from minority communities in India funded by
Ministry of Minority Affairs and implemented by University Grants
Commission. This fellowship became very useful and has created
interest in higher studies among minority students. Currently, every
academic year only 756 seats are being distributed. When it gets
divided into States and Union Territories and further stream and sub-
ject wise it just become one or two in one subject state wise. Thus,
the competition level is quite high and every year UGC gets nearly
10,000 plus applications for it. As percentage in master degree and
research proposal being the basic criteria for this fellowship it has
been noticed that only few students who have higher percentage is
getting selected for this fellowship and lots of students are getting
disappointed. Thus it fails to reach its target student groups. Being
connected to the current academic scenario what we have found is
these 756 seats are not enough at all and there is an immediate
need of increasing seats of this fellowship. We dont want to com-
pare but there are 2000 RGNF seats for SC students and in addition
nearly 700 RGNF seats for ST students but in case of whole minor-
ity communities it is only 756 whereas minority communities consti-
tute about 20 percentage of Indian population. Right now for these
756 seats it hardly costs 15 crores to MOMA per one batch on each
academic year. So, what we like to request you is please increase
seats for MANF. It will be better if every minority student gets MANF
but if not possible right now at least 5,000 MANF seats will be rea-
sonable per year. So, for the betterment of minority community
research scholars and for a better socially and educationally equal
India it is very urgent to increase seats of MANF. At least we can
expect that Government of India & MOMA can effort to spend an
amount of 100 crores for one batch in each academic year for the
proposed 5,000 MANF seats. We believe in GOI and hope this can
easily be done. We are waiting for your earliest and positive
responses regarding this matter. If you think that you are not the
right person and have got this mail by fault or cant help in anyway
in this regard then please just ignore it.
Abu Saleh, Hyderabad, AP
abusalehenglish@gmail.com
The situation in Syria
I have been to Syria, have covered the early phases of the wars in
West Asia. Even a blind can see the way things are going and the
western press and the Indian TV news seem to be entirely in the pay
of Washington. I hope and pray that this beautiful country does not
go the Libya way.
John Dayal
john.dayal@gmail.com
Riots return to UP
This is a very unnerving report that in almost riot-free governance of
ousted Mayawatis BSP, within less than three months of newly
elected Government in UP the recurrence of communal riot report-
ed in Kosi Kalan town, in Mathura which took the lives of four
Muslims, the properties burnt and still the victims are terrorized.
More painful is that neither the CM Akhilesh Yadav nor any of his
cabinet ministers bothered to visit the riot affect town to have stock
of losses and the reason that triggered the communal divide. As it
happens in Congress rule, the Mulayam Singhs SP transferred the
DM and SP. It seems the centre has some blanket policy for Muslims
only minor scuffle changes the Govt. and whoever succeeds by the
overwhelming support of Muslims, follow the pursuit to ditch it sup-
port base of Muslims. The Congress would have made its mindset
changed against the SP after humiliating defeat in UP. By now, the
Congress appears in a fix to support SP and vice versa SP to
Congress in view the forthcoming presidential election followed by
Parliamentarian election in 2014. The next general election is bound
to produce a fractured mandate. The Alliance will work and regional
players like SP will play a major role for election of next President of
India and the formation of next Government. But, where is the
Muslims heartthrob Azam Khan? Why no exchange of allegations
between duo bete noir Imam Bukhari and Azam Khan on Kosi
Kalans riot. We appreciate that Imam Bukhari, the widely heard
voice on Muslims issues, this time protesting and condemning SP.
His strong worded protest was is in fact needed in support of riot vic-
tims in Kosi Kalan, Mathura, in UP. Likewise, we hope that Imam
Bukhari will sooner disassociate himself from his Son-in-Law a
nominated MLC of ruling SP over his remaining mute spectator on
anti -Muslim riot in UP
Suhail Reza
smsreza@hotmail.com
Muslims need Dr. Aziz Indori
Dr. Aziz Indori retired from Indores Islamia Karimia Degree College
in 1995. Then he started a school for teaching poor kids. Dr. Aziz
and his 4-5 friends are running a school in a building donated for this
noble cause by Dr. Azizs brother-in-law Dr. Abdul Rashid who is
working in Muscat. His school is situated in Khajrana Mohalla of
Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Muslims need Dr. Aziz type Indori not
other Indori who is state in the Sham-e-Ghazal programmes.
S. Haque, Patna
Murder of Qateel in custody
It is indeed deplorable that an under-trail on false cases has been
murdered in a full security jail. May his soul rest in peace. Ameen.
Afzal Shah, Lucknow
afzal65@rediffmail.com
Mr. Ban Ki-moon, U N Secretary General visited India and met
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and other ministers. He was
awarded an honorary doctorate by Jamia Millia. The important inci-
dent which mainstream media failed to cover barring a few.
Relatives of victims of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots demonstrated outside
the auditorium at Jamia Millia where Ban Ki-moon received an hon-
orary doctorate. The Sikhs said Mr. Ban should not hold talks with
leaders of Congress who they accused of killing innocent Sikhs.
They also asked Mr Ban not to shake hands with killers of Sikhs.
They also said that 30,000 Sikhs were killed and not a single
Congress man is convicted in genocide of November 1984. My point
is that we, the Muslims, should learn a lesson from brave Sikhs. In
Gujarat, thousands of Muslims have been killed, women have been
dishonored, property worth thousands of crores of rupees has been
destroyed. Infants and unborn babies have been killed mercilessly.
There are many similarities between anti-Sikh genocide 1984 and
anti-Muslim genocide 2002. I would like to state that many Muslim
religious and political personalities are visiting Gujarat on official and
private visits. These personalities have been donating generously to
the killers of Muslims and thus strengthening the hands of the anti-
Muslim forces. May I request these Muslim personalities on behalf
of victimized Muslim brothers not to: 1. share dais with the killers of
Muslims, 2. shake hands with them as their hands are soaked with
the blood of our brother, sisters and children, 3. donate and strength-
en the hands of anti-Muslim elements . I salute my Sikh brethren for
showing exemplary courage and raising their voice against the offi-
cial of an International body. Will the Muslim leadership learn a les-
son from Sikhs?
Farooq Abdul Gaffar Bawani, Rajkot, Gujarat
mohammed.galeriya@yahoo.co.in
Sugar coated poison 4.5% quota
Before U.P. assembly elections Congress announced 4.5% back-
ward minority quota in all central exams and in all central universi-
ties. During election Congress propagated it as 4.5 Muslim reserva-
tions. I.A.S. result and IIT result published Muslim could not reach
even 3% what is the purpose of 4.5% minority quota? Factually this
4.5 minority quota is nothing but sugar coated poison. Congress is
expert of distributing sugar coated poison among Muslims.
S. Haque, Patna
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