DR MANSOOR AHMAD AJAZI

Leader of Opposition in Gujarat Assembly Shanker Sinh Waghela

has stated that RSS and BJP are misusing Muslims for terrorist
attack in the country (Dainik Hindustan, Patna, 14 Nov., 2013). BJP
leaders are making much hue and cry against this alleged state-
ment.
Inspite of hue and cry being
made by BJP leaders, the state-
ment of Waghela may not be
taken lightly and at the same time
it cannot be rejected outright as
Waghela has had been not only
closely associated with RSS- BJP
but he had held highest posts in
BJP-led Gujarat government and
party which includes the posts of
chief minister and state party
chief as well as membership of
the central BJP leadership. So he
knows all ins and outs of BJP as well as he is well-acquainted with
all strategies, tricks and foulplays of RSS- BJP.
In Bihar also, leaders of various non-BJP political parties have
similar opinion about the saffron party. It is a matter of concern why
not a single leader of even lowest level belonging to BJP did sustain
a simple injury during the bomb blasts. No bomb blast occurred
within the Gandhi Maidan premises. SSP of Patna has clarified that
the bomb was not for Modi. Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar,
while briefing the press, said: Terrorism helped BJP, otherwise the
rally was a flop show.
If one goes through the history of BJP since Jan Sangh days,
one can draw conclusion that BJP and communalism are insepara-
ble twins. Hindu-Muslim riots have been always beneficial for BJP.
Now-a-days terrorism has taken the place of riots but the ben-
eficiary is still the BJP. Muslims are generally the victims in riots, but
terrorist attacks are double whammy as both victims and accused
are Muslims.
Naturally, there remains no place of sympathy for Muslims. Be
it an attack on mosque or temple, Muslims are automatically
accused.
After reading the above-mentioned statement of Waghela, the
true story behind Pupri (district Sitamarhi) riot suddenly flashed in
my mind, which was narrated decades ago by a former senior
office-bearer of Jan Sangh who had joined Congress then. In the
general elections of 1967, Raja Nasiruddin Haider Khan was elected
to the Bihar assembly from the Pupri constituency on Congress tick-
et. A mid-term poll was to be held in 1969. Victory of Raja Nasir was
a forgone conclusion. His contest was with the Jan Sangh candi-
date. A senior leader of Jan Sangh came to Pupri where he found the
prospect of his candidate dim. He directed his party workers to
polarise voters on communal lines. To achieve this goal, the said
leader prepared a blue-print of riot and he himself went away from
the place. You will be surprised to know how the riot was ignited. A
pit was dug on the private land of a Muslim gentleman in the dark of
night. Then a maund of gram [chick pea] was laid down into the pit
and water was poured on the gram. A statue of Hanuman was plant-
ed on the piled-up gram in the pit. Finally, the pit was covered with
soil and the land was dressed up so as to look normal. Soon the wet
gram fattened and slowly pushed up the statue upwards. Next day
early in the morning, conspirators visited the site. On seeing the stat-
ue coming up, they shouted
Hanumanji has appeared!
Villagers gathered and the land
owner and his supporters too
came on the site. Quickly an
skirmish started and tension
mounted in the area. The
Administration too reached the
spot. A senior bureaucrat was
so impressed by the appear-
ance of Hanuman that at first,
he saluted Hanuman with fold-
ed hands. Encouraged by this
gesture, arti and bhajan-kirtan started there. Consequently, Pupri
experienced worst-ever riot in its history. But this riot proved very
fruitful for Jan Sangh. Its candidate won the seat! Muzaffarpur dis-
trict at that time comprised of the present day Muzaffarpur,
Sitamarhi, Vaishali and Sheohar districts, having 28 assembly seg-
ments. The only Muslim sitting MLA lost and the lone Jan Sangh
candidate in the whole district got elected from Pupri and no Muslim
was elected in Muzaffarpur district.
If we co-relate this incident with the statement of Waghela, we
find that Waghelas version seems trustworthy.
Yasin Bhatkal is behind bars but the headquarters of Indian
Mujahideen (IM) is still not traced. Why cannot we presume that IM
is handled by remote control and misled Muslim boys are playing
as puppets in the hands of the remote-control managers. They are
misused to malign Muslims and implicate innocent and talented
Muslim youths.
To finish terrorism it is necessary to locate the headquarters of
IM. Late Hemant Karkare drastically changed the direction of inves-
tigations and revealed saffron terror. Ultimately, he paid with his life.
These days every terrorist attack is easily directed towards
IM. We should pray for an honest and dutiful officer like KarKare
to appear on the scene and succeed in solving the mystery of IM.
Without such a miracle, every Muslim parent will continue to be
dumb, praying for the safety of his/her children.
Muslims are apprehended simply on receiving calls on mobiles
and entertaining guests. So much so that one now fears if the per-
son whose call he has received or a guest whom he has entertained
is found involved in any terrorist attack and his mobile number is
detected, he will be implicated in the incident.
In Bihar, especially after the departure of BJP from government,
it seems as if whole of Bihar has become a centre of terrorism and
every Muslim is a terrorist. May Allah save and protect Muslims.
The writer is a retired public servant of Bihar
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Letter from Prison
Buried alive,
feeling choked
Dear brother: We wish you the best of health. You are a torch-bear-
er of justice. You are following the path of goodness. May God
Almighty bestow success upon you in both the worlds, may your
paths and the Day of Judgement be easy.
Dear brother: we are writing this letter to you with the faith that
God is Omnipresent and Omniscient. If we tell lies and mislead you,
may the rest of our lives and our Hereafter be doomed. Our request
to you is to help us thinking that you are doing all this in His name.
All the four of us have been writing letters to you earlier also. All of
us, Naseem, Shakeel, Aziz and Irfan, are locked up in Naini Central
Jail, Allahabad, and, as we had written earlier, you are aware of
every thing.
We want to say that in spite of our complete innocence, we
have spent eight years in this jails Anda [high security] barracks
and suffered extreme cruelties and excesses. We simply request
you, who are holding high posts, to help provide justice to us.
1. If we are guilty, even one percent from the legal point of
view, we may be hanged, but if we are innocent in the eyes of court
and totally free from all guilt, which we no doubt are, and all of us
will meet in the Court of God. So kindly arrange to set us free. We
want this justice.
Here in this jail, LIU [local intelligence unit] people are after our
lives. They have government prosecutors to back them. Mulayam
Singh Yadav had openly declared on the open stage that govern-
ment lawyers and prosecutors will not oppose us. Months have
passed on this assurance but here the position is quite different.
Government lawyers are our bitter enemies as if we have commit-
ted a crime against their own persons. On our face they say that
you have been framed, hence you will be acquitted but it appears
that they somehow want to simply dispose of the case.
After eight years of hearings, following facts have become
clear: (a) Police has no case against us; (b) Nothing has been
found or recovered from us to find or declare us guilty; (c) No wit-
ness has so far come who knows or recognises us or in any way
considers us guilty; (d) All records of U P Police are fake, totally
false and concocted; (e) When we sent queries to different depart-
ments through more than 100 RTIs, it was proved from their replies
that policemen are extremely cruel, liars and mean; (f) In reply to
every accusation of police, we have records of separate depart-
ments which any sincere and expert person can see and verify and
after examining all documents and replies etc, which we have
received, they will be greatly surprised to find how day has been
turned into night and how white has been turned into black. We are
locked up simply for nothing. We feel as if we are buried alive here
and we are feeling choked. Please help us for Gods sake.
We are: Maulana Naseem s/o Firozuddin
Shakeel Ahmad s/o Nazeer Ahmad
Muhammad Aziz s/o Muhammad Bashir
Dr Irfan s/o Aslam Khan
Naini Central Jail, Allahabad - 8 Nov. 2013
(Translated from Urdu by MG staff)
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DR. JAVED AKHTAR
What is more necessary: mental or
physical happiness in life?. In my opin-
ion, a majority of people will opt for the
first choice which, unfor tunately, is rap-
idly declining. The desire for physical
pleasure is increasing by every passing
day and this is visible in the shape of
two, three or even four mobile phones
dangling in many peoples pockets.
Many cars are parked on lawns and
streets, people own more than one flat but are such people
happier today as compared to their earlier life some thir ty or
for ty years ago? If somebody says, yes, he is the greatest
lier.
A disease has inflicted such peoples minds which
makes them yearn for making huge earning in shor test of
time. This disease has become an epidemic.
As a result, both forms of happiness, mental and physi-
cal are disappearing fast though it may be said that mental
happiness has totally disappeared from our lives.
It is obvious that to grab more money, one has to take
political shelter as someone said that that politics is the best
tool to become rich in shor test time. There are so many
scams amounting to ill-gotten money to the tune of thou-
sands of crores.
The situation in terms of belief in God, communal har-
mony and peaceful co-existence is going from bad to worse.
The worst condition is that of the second biggest major-
ity, commonly known as minority which for the last 65
years after independence has been only counting the declin-
ing numbers of Muslim MPs and MLAs. At the time of every
election they count how many Muslims are given tickets by
this or that par ty but these nave people are unable to calcu-
late what difference does it make. Cer tainly, not any. If a
winning candidate is sure of getting the ticket for a second
time, its enough in his eyes. There are many examples but
we leave them for lack of space. I do not remember if any
MP or MLA had resigned at the time of Babri Masjid demo-
lition or at the time of opening of the Israeli Embassy in
Delhi.
Muslim leaders, Muslim officers in Police or other agen-
cies become a source of misery and misfor tune for
Muslims. When I met a very senior Muslim leader of the rul-
ing par ty at the Centre after the Batla House encounter and
expressed to him my concern as to how one of the
deceased, Chota Sajid, had received all the shots on top of
his head, whether this was done by a helicopter or from a
hole in ceiling on top of that floor or by a robotic gun, or by
a laser-guided bullet which can change the angular direction
as desired?... After a while, this Muslim leader replied that
during the encounter this boy was lying flat on the ground
with his eyes closed and was pointing his skull towards the
police par ty and firing. I was surprised by this answer but it
suddenly dawned on me that I was talking to a loyal Muslim
minister. Later, when I met a senior person of the same min-
istry and asked the same question, the man was intelligent
enough to keep quiet with a sarcastic smile on his face.
This cringing policy of Muslim ministers and officers is
an additional misery for the Muslim community. This might
anger some people but kindly incorporate your hear t with
your mind to consider what I have said.
Muslim youth interested in modern education are
harassed. They are terror masterminds. They are arrested
on fake grounds on the basis of mobile numbers. All his
Muslim friends become suspect and placed under strong
surveillance but his Hindu friends, whose mobile numbers
are also saved in his phone are lucky as they will never be
enquired about or interrogated. The arrested youth will be
accused of keeping Jihad literature, of keeping books about
Osama ben Laden that he was surfing cer tain websites, that
he was having the cell number of such and such person in
his diary. Judgment is pronounced by the media from day
one, stories are concocted and the whole situation is falci-
fied. After arrest, such youth are incarcerated in various jails
across various states.
Justice delayed is justice denied is found only on paper
these days. Somebody like Himayat Baig is convicted. He was
fortunate enough to appeal in the higher court and he was for-
tunate enough to purchase some time before being hanged.
Media and agencies which were very sure about his
photograph in the CCTV footage now say the man in the
video is a different person. It is said that he has confessed
and that he can recognise the place where the blast took
place.
Isnt it a fact that the accused had confessed, be it the
accused in Makkah Masjid, Malegaon, Ajmer Sharif or
Samjhauta Express. And all had recognised the sites of the
blasts. I have a personal experience of a false FIR against
me.
On the top is the diversity of top Muslim leaders. I am
talking about those who claim that they are not directly
attached with politics but after getting a suitable position
everything is fine in their eyes.
Finally, I want to clarify that I have a lot of respect for
cour ts because judiciary still remains the best institution in
our country.
I am addressing this to all Indians, not to Hindus or
Muslims. Hindus are our brothers. Many of them are fight-
ing for our cause and there are innumerable Hindu friends
whom I like and love. Therefore, let no one try to muddy my
statement with unfounded claims. This will frustrate the
whole purpose of my writing.
Therefore, I make a strong appeal on behalf of WMELA to
have a broader dialogue between sensible people of various
communities to try to rectify the whole situation in order to cre-
ate a conducive atmosphere for every citizen of India to ensure
peace and harmony which are needed for the countrys
progress. We must avoid maligning religions and communities.
I do not have any readymade method and mechanism. Let us
put our heads together to chart a new course.
We have made enough progress in terms of education
and material well-being but we are miles away from the
required peace and tranquillity.
I invite all to come forward to consider all bad things in
totality without attaching a religious, caste or creed tag on it.
Times is running out. If we fail in this duty we will be
creating a generation which will not have any relationship
with humanity and will not be afraid of Police, Law or cour ts
frustrating our dreams to become a world super-power. If
we fail to take note now, soon we will have to deploy a
policeman for every person which is neither possible nor
viable. Anarchy will rule the roost.
Jinhen naaz hai hind per wo kahan hain?
The writer is president of the Azamgarh-based Association for
Welfare Medical, Educational & Legal Assistance (AMWELA). He may
be contacted on 09415839506 / amwela09@yahoo.in.
Sexual harassment at a workplace by the CEO or a high-ranking
individual is not a big deal but when it involves a person who
espouses the very cause through his magazine for which hes
now disgraced, it is indeed an irony.
Tarun Tejpals sexual misconduct is all the more glaring
because hes associated with the media and has always revealed
other peoples sexual and other misdemeanours through his high-
ly questionable sting operations. Now hes guilty for the same
offence. Whats more disturbing is the involvement of an active
mediaman.
In these times of rampant sexual crimes and misadventures,
medias role as a crusader is very much required and desirable. If
someone from this field does something of sexual nature, it
shakes our faith in that very sphere and institution.
Tejpal misused his position and trivialised media ethics by
indulging in an act that calls for severe condemnation from all
quarters. Now the main question is: This news has come out and
caught Tejpal unawares. Doesnt it stand to reason to believe that
it couldnt be an isolated episode and many such instances may
be happening without the public getting to know about them?
Its really a matter of concern because it puts a question mark
on the safety and modesty of a woman. Is she really safe and
secure anywhere? Many cases of sexual harassment go unno-
ticed because women deliberately dont report to police for fear of
social backlash. The Czech-British social psychologist Dittmar
Reynolds observed that Workplace sexual harassment when
becomes public, it indeed carries such prior murky attempts. Its
seldom the first one at the organization and by the perpetrator.
Going by this observation, it makes one think whether Tejpal did it
for the first time and unfortunately he got caught? One thing is
as sure as the rising of the Sun in the east that sexual exploitation
by the bosses is quite common and this has increased of late
because of changing social and sexual ethos.
Need To Develop A Scientific Temperament
Bajrang Dal and VHP, Mangalore Unit, have urged the Karnataka
state government not to introduce the Anti-Superstition Bill as itll
hurt the sentiments of majority Hindus. But even if this pragmatic
Bill is introduced, will people change their belief system? Will they
be enlightened or evolved overnight? Will they be able to see the
glimmer of rationality?
To get rid of superstitions, not only education but scientific tem-
perament is a must. Very many of us are educated. Theyve a bagful
of degrees. Yet they go to astrologers and wear stones despite know-
ing that astrology has failed to come up as science.
Sir Karveth Reid wrote in his magnum opus Man and his
superstitions that therere two types of superstitious people:
Blatantly superstitious and subtly superstitious. Those, whore
uneducated and illiterate are blatantly superstitious. But those
whove a semblance of education, will also follow superstitious
practices but on the sly.
To cut the matter short, were all incorrigibly superstitious and
often unknowingly! Its just the difference in degrees that some of
us are embarrassingly superstitious and some are superstitious
but theyve a plausible logic to defend their irrational beliefs.
The question is: Why do we believe in things that have no
basis? Mans basically ill-evolved and woefully unscientific in his
approach to the numerous worldly phenomena.
Like animals, we too suffer from herd mentality. When we
see that very many people are doing something, however foolish
or idiotic it may be, our mind sends signals that we must also fol-
low those irrational peoples preposterous practices.
Its the fallacy of majority that works here along with the fal-
lacy of duration to bring about a completely intoxicated state when
mind forgets to distinguish between whats logical and whats
illogical. Moreover, were all governed by an atavistic fear of
unknown and this fear regulates our lives to act and behave like
living zombies sans our own volition.
The Karnataka Bill is good and very timely but thousands of
years of accumulated stupidity and ignorance cannot go away so
easily. It takes time, a very long time at that. Man needs to be
evolved to understand that superstitions have wormed into human
consciousness and psyche and before the promulgation of any
such Bill, its imperative to realise that only WE can thwart super-
stitions before government intervenes with a litany of Bills.
SUMIT PAUL
sumitmaclean@hotmail.com
Tarun Tejpals Sexual Misadventure
An Open Letter to Every Indian
Time is running out. If we fail in this duty we will
be creating a generation which will not have any
relationship with humanity and will not be afraid of
Police, Law or courts frustrating our dreams to
become a world super-power. If we fail to take
note now, soon we will have to deploy a policeman
for every person which is neither possible nor
viable. Anarchy will rule the roost.
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 1-15 December 2013 3
Respond now if you care about your
community
White Paper on Terrorism
The issue of fake terrorism charges and the unjust arrests and defamation of our community,
especially since 2001, is the biggest challenge facing the community ever since. A grand con-
spiracy hatched by the powers that be, IB, Police and media, has sullied and defamed our com-
munity. This campaign has affected our lives, peace of mind and has thwarted our efforts to
progress and educate our children to join the national mainstream.
Our efforts so far to present our case, to bring out our innocence and force the national and
state governments to listen to our grievances have mostly failed. All we have received are a few
words of solace which have no real meaning and have not changed the situation on the ground.
Our children by their thousands are still languishing in jails on the basis of fake confessions
obtained through torture and blackmail.
As a long-term solution and a serious response to this problem thrust upon us, AIMMM
decided last year to bring out a white paper on the Muslim-related terrorism in the country.
The work is going on with all seriousness and many researchers, scholars and journalists are
busy preparing writeups on various aspects of this issue, covering the history, genesis, com-
munalism, vested interests in various related fields, analysis of various laws like TADA, POTA
and UAPA, fake encounters, narco tests, torture, acquittals, IB & Police role, media attitude,
case studies, statewise surveys, SIMI, Indian Mujahidin, Hindutva terror, individual tragedies
of victims, Azamgarh, Bhatkal, Malegaon, Darbhanga modules, some basic documents, etc.,
etc.
The target is to bring out this white paper during the next seven months and to release it in
a big convention at Delhi as a combined effort of major Muslim and civil rights organisations,
and thereafter present this huge document of over 600 large format pages to politicians, media,
human rights organisations, especially outside the country, in order to enlighten public opinion
at home and abroad as well as to build pressure on our blind and deaf government.
The estimated cost of this white paper is Rs 35 lakh divided as follows: Rs 15 lakh cost of
preparation and payments to contributors plus six months salaries to researchers and experts;
Rs 15 lakh for designing and printing the document in a world-class format; while the grand con-
vention at Delhi will cost at least 5 lakh. Effort will be made to release the White Paper in some
state and world capitals also.
You can help this effort in four ways,
1. To buy copies of the White Paper on Terrorism in advance to help defray part of the huge cost
of research, printing, publication and distribution of at least one thousand complimentary
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Islamic conference and
exhibition in Allahabad
Allahabad/Azamgarh: Islamic Educational & Research Organization (IERO), which runs Al-Taqwa School
in Allahabad, organised an Islamic Conference and Exhibition in which eminent scholars spoke on vari-
ous topics ranging from Islam say Doori kay Zimmedaar kaun to Kya Daawat-e-Deen Farz Nahin?.
The inaugural address on 12 November was delivered by Khaliq Ahmad Khan. Athar Khan spoke on
the first topic. Dr. Mahmood Husain Rehmani was the chief guest. Ms. Asma Shams, Principal of Al-
Taqwa School, addressed the congregation of ladies on Millat-e-Islamia kay adwaar-e-urooj on
13 November. Through well-illustrated power-point presentation, she emphasised the great work done
by Muslim scientists and reminded the gathering, in particular girls, about the misconception created by
Westerners about Muslims contribution to modern Science. She pointed out the subtle game of Western
scholars in the westernisation of Muslim names like Al-Khwarizmi (Algorithm), Ibn Sina (Avicinna) etc.
Quoting from Al-Quran, she exhorted youths to come forward to do scientific research and to come out
of their deep slumber as a result of despair and false propaganda. Ms. Asmas talk was preceded by a
little girl, Haleema Ashraf, who showed exemplary confidence in delivering her speech in front of the con-
gregation. Haleemas action reflected the good work being done by Al-Taqwa School. Her teachers
deserve appreciation.
On 13 November, Laxmi Shankracharya extolled the virtues of the Prophet (pbuh) speaking on
Prophet of Mercy. He blamed Muslims for their pitiable state and admonished them for straying from
the path shown by Rasoolullah through his life-long practice. He cited examples of Rasoolullahs extreme
tolerance and patience in dealing with adversities. Slogan-mongering, quarrelling,abusing and downright
lying Muslims cannot be successful in this life because they show their love for the beloved Prophet only
symbolically through processions causing inconvenience to fellow beings.
In the afternoon of 13 November, an Islamic exhibition through models interpreting teachings of the
Quran was inaugurated. It continued till the end of the conference. The best way to teach is, of course,
through models and the abilities of teachers and students of Al-Taqwa School were evident in organis-
ing the exhibition and through the confidence exhibited by students in explaining the themes of their mod-
els.
This Islamic exhibition should be organised in different places of our country. Persons interested may
contact Mr. Ziaus Shams, Chairman, Taqwa Islamic School at ieromailin@gmail.com (Salman Sultan).
AFMI & Ajmal Group join hands for educational development
Guwahati: The Ajmal Group has started a silent revolution in the field of education in the rural areas of
Assam. This fact came out from the deliberation of Maulana Badaruddin Ajmal MP at a meeting held in
Guwahati on 15 November. Ajmal said he is now all set to establish a university, a medical college, a
B.Ed College besides establishing a girls hostel in Guwahati to enable girl students from rural areas to
pursue their higher education in the city. The meeting was organised as a curtain-raiser to the American
Federation of Muslims of Indian Origin (AFMI) holding its 22nd convention and award programme in
Guwahati on 28-29 December. This would be the first time that this annual event will be held anywhere
in the North Eastern region of India. Muslim rank holders at the Board and
Council examinations of all the 28 Indian states and seven Union territo-
ries are awarded medals, certificates and cash rewards on this occasion.
Ajmal Foundation and Markazul Maarif are host-partners with AFMI for
the December event in Guwahati.
Agnivesh at The Oxford Square
New Delhi: Syed Qaisar Mahmood, Chairman of the Jamia Nagar-based
Oxford Square School (recently described by the Milli Gazette as one of
the best educational institutions in the country), said on 29 October that
India needs a Western-educated, broad-minded leader, not an illiterate
rustic to lead the nation through the 21st century.
Addressing an impressive ceremony organised in the school to hon-
our the President of the World Council of Arya Samaj Swami Agnivesh,
Mr. Mahmood, former President of the Aligarh Muslim University
Students Union and a former advisor in the Gulf states, said that the wall
of Indias integrity and unity could not be demolished by the axe of
hatred.
The conscience of the people of India is not a commodity that could
be bought by a deceptive buyer keen to promote his trade by doctoring
communal strife, Mr. Mahmood told a gathering of intellectuals, social
workers, academics and politicians.
Swami Agnivesh gave his best wishes to the first batch of Class X
students of the Oxford Square preparing to appear in the CBSE examina-
tions in 2014.
All the students of the Oxford Square, a charitable school, are from
families living in slum areas. Students living in cemented accommodation
are not entitled to get admission in the school.
Swami Agnivesh lamented that female foeticide was still being prac-
ticed in India. He called for Hindu-Muslim Unity and asked students all
over India to develop right thinking. (This unique institution may be contacted
at theoxfordsquare@hotmail.com)
Mumbai: Inaugurating a national conference on Urdu at
Bhiwandi on 23 November, Vice President Mohammad Hamid
Ansari stressed the need for development of the beautiful lan-
guage.
There are five crore speakers of Urdu which is the sixth
largest language in the country. Its strength lies in four char-
acteristics. It is the language of revolution, language of love,
language of deep culture and also the language of war, Ansari
said at a conference on Urdu in the 21st Century which coin-
cided with the silver jubilee celebrations of G.M. Momin
Womens College.
The Vice-President drew attention to words from other lan-
guages being adapted by Urdu which has grown exponential-
ly due to Internet and is now reaching the whole worldUrdu
is a historical language. After 1947, Urdu developed selective-
ly in India. It developed well in some parts but lagged behind in
others, he said.
Regretting that Urdu could not become popular the way it
should have been, Ansari said Maharashtra is one place where
the language developed well.
Urdu could not get popularity and progress more due to
lack of institutional structure and trained teachers. But it sur-
vived on its inherent strength, Ansari observed.
Stating that Urdu was not restricted to India and Pakistan
but has become a global language, he said, Use of Urdu in
film industry has added to its strength and a book could be
written on it.
Stating that development of Urdu should begin at home, he
said, One should take responsibility to spread Urdu by speak-
ing it at home and place of work. It is the responsibility of each
person to spread this beautiful language.
Vice President Ansari also released an Urdu poetry book
written by school children of G.M. Momin Womens College.
The conference focusses on how to link Urdu with technology.
Vice President Mohd. Hamid Ansari releasing an Urdu
poetry book (as seen in photo above) written by school chil-
dren of K M E societys G.M., College Bhiwandi, at inaugural
function of National conference on Urdu in the 21st Century,
at Bhiwandi Dist. Thane, Maharashtra on November 23, 2013.
The Governor of Maharashtra, Shri K. Sankaranarayanan and
other dignitaries are also seen. (ummid.com)
Urdu is the language of love and deep
culture: Hamid Ansari
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78 complete
translations of the
Quran into English
New Delhi: Prof Abdur Rahim Qidwai,
Director of UGC Academic Staff College
in Aligarh Muslim University and an
exper t in Quranic translations into
English said while delivering
Prof. M. Mujeeb Memorial lecture in
Jamia Millia Islamia on the occasion of
this institutions Foundation Day on
30 October that the history of the
Qurans English translations is about
400 years old. During this period about
78 complete translations of the Quran
into English have been made of which 8
translations have been made by western
orientalists, 7 by Qadianis and 63 by
Muslims of whom 4 are neo-Muslims.
The interesting thing is that in recent
years the trend of translating the Quran
into English among Muslims has
increased very much, seeing that during
the past 13 years only as many as 25
English translations have been made.
Shedding light on different trends of the
Quranic translations into English he
said that first translations of the Quran
by Muslims were in reaction to the
translations done by orientalists but
now many excellent and standard trans-
lations have come out. Arrangements
for Prof Mujeeb Memorial lectures were
made by JMIs Zakir Husain Institute of
Islamic Studies and this memorial lec-
ture was chaired by Jamias acting Vice
Chancellor Prof SM Sajid. Head of Zakir
Husain Institute of Islamic Studies,
Prof Akhtarul Wasey said in his wel-
come address, while introducing Prof
Mujeeb, the memorial lecture associat-
ed with him and guest speakers that
Zakir Husain Institute has the distinction
that its first Prof Mujeeb Memorial
Lecture was delivered by (late) Prof
Mushirul Haq who was at that time the
Vice Chancellor of Kashmir University
and he also had spoken on the Qurans
translation. Prof Akhtarul Wasey said on
this occasion that Prof Qidwai has spe-
cial interest in the Quranic translations
and he has done very impor tant work in
this connection.
Prof S M Sajid while remembering
Prof Mujeeb said in his presidential
address that only one memorial lecture
every year is not enough to recognise
his services and there should be more
programmes in his memory, par ticularly
his masterpiece Indian Muslims should
be published in Hindi which has not
been done so far. He said that he would
like the exper t translators of Jamia to do
this work (Hindi translation of Prof
Mujeebs Book) as a project so that it
could be published as a fitting tribute to
him.
Alleged suicide in
police custody
Gwalior: Nasir Khan alias Chohote Khan
(30), who was accused of killing his wife
Amreen (22), is reported to have commit-
ted suicide while in police custody. Three
policemen have been suspended and a
judicial enquiry has been ordered.
Sahil, Amreens cousin, accused
Nasir of killing his wife. He accused the
police of Nasirs death while in police
custody. Nasirs brother, Sabben Khan,
also holds a similar opinion. According to
police, however, the deceased used his
belt to hang himself which the police had
failed to notice while arresting him.
With post mortem reports of both the
deceased it has become clear that Amreen
did not die because of Nasirs beatings nor
did she die of smothering. Possibility of her
suicide (by hanging) is not ruled out. Her
body had injury marks. Similarly, Nasirs
family, from the very beginning, holds police
responsible for his death. Sabban Khan said
that he had a mobile chat half an hour prior
to his alleged suicide and at that time he did
not appear to be depressed. Nasir was
drunk and depressed at the time of arrest,
according to police.
New Delhi: Congress-led central government now proposes to introduce a bill
in Parliament in the forthcoming winter session, set to start from 5 December
for setting up Equal Opportunities Commission for providing benefits to reli-
gious minorities which it had been avoiding so far, to fulfill its promises made
in its election manifesto on the eve of the last general elections in 2009. It is
also proposed to broadbase this Commission in order to include private sec-
tor companies also in case of discrimination in employment or under treat-
ment of employees on religious ground. Though there have been demands
many times in the past for setting up this Commission as recommended by
Sachar Committee but the government had so far been avoiding it because of
objections raised by the law ministry on the ground, that it may be in violation
of the Constitutions basic features in view of the fact that it (Constitution)
does not recognise any kind of benefits on religious grounds. To counter this
fear, minorities affairs minister K. Rahman Khan had suggested to law minis-
ter Kapil Sibal that this Commission is being set up in accordance with the rec-
ommendations of a government appointed committee (Sachar Committee)
and also of the Group of Ministers which too was set up by the prime minis-
ter within the legal framework. These suggestions were discussed in detail by
the two ministers and differences sorted out after which the law ministry also
approved this proposal. Another factor that came in the way of the setting up
of this Commission was that it may have some adverse affect on the working
of National Commission for SCs / STs and OBCs.
The proposed Commission will try to ensure that deprived people or com-
munities are given equal opportunities, entitlements or rights available in
accordance with the Constitution, laws or schemes of the central or state gov-
ernments and that there is no discrimination against them in matters of
employment in public or private sector enterprises, education, admissions in
educational institutions, social justice etc or any other fields considered fit by
the government. According to the bill it (Commission) will be empowered to
investigate against any institution or its officers if a complaint of any discrim-
ination is received against any institution or its officers. In such a case the
Commission can order them to make amends against discriminatory behav-
iour or practice. If some people from the minority communities find that
though they are otherwise qualified for jobs or admission in schools, colleges,
courses etc but they are denied such opportunities because of religious dis-
crimination, they can complain against such discrimination or approach this
Commission for redressal of their rightful grievances. The Commission,
according to this bill, will also be empowered to impose a fine of upto Rs one
lakh on that institution (or officers) if found guilty of not complying with its
orders, instructions etc.
Ulama and Qazis to start movement
against non-Sharaee customs
Kanpurs Ulama and Qazis have very seriously taken on cudgels against non-
Sharaee customs and practices like dance, songs, excessive fireworks etc in
Muslim marriages and decided to start a campaign against all these. Many
organisations of Ulama and Masjid Imams have suggested that in order to pre-
vent these evil practices, such functions should be boycotted and that Namaz
offered behind Imams who take part in such marriages should be declared
invalid because such prayers are in gross violation of Islamic teachings and
Shariat commands. City Qazi Maulana Reyaz Ahmad Hashmati described
these evil practices in marriages as extravagant and suggested that in order to
prevent these, some associations should be formed and Ulama and Imams
should boycott such marriages and that creating awareness against these
among the youth will be more effective. He said that a meeting of Ulama and
Imams will be held soon and the necessary decision will be taken so that such
social evils could be eradicated.
Another city Qazi Maulana Muhammad Alam Raza Khan Noori said that
band bajas, fireworks and shamelessness of boys and girls while dancing is
extremely regrettable to stop which a meeting of Ulama and Masjid Imams will
be held at the earliest and they will be instructed to warn the people in their
sermons in mosques against the evils of non-Sharaee customs. Regarding
non-participation of imams and ulama in such marriages he said that this step
will not be proper now but if even after such speeches and sermons people
do not stop such practices, strong steps like boycotting such marriages by
imams and ulama will have to be taken. General secretary of Gharib Nawaz
Council Maulana Muhammad Hashmi Ashrafi said that along with ulama and
imams, intelligentsia of Muslim society also should start a movement jointly
because without peoples support the problem cannot be solved with speech-
es only. He further said that heads of every family, particularly parents should
pay greater attention to the environment in which they bring up their children
and if their marriages are solemnized in accordance with Islamic ways or not.
If their marriages are solemnized in an un-Islamic manner, incidents like bitter-
ness and differences in conjugal life and disobedience of parents are bound to
take place after marriage, as is being commonly seen in Muslim society today.
Hence, alongwith Ulama and Imams people also should jointly come forward
to remove this curse from our society.
Maulana Muzaffar Husain Misbahi, president of Sunni Jamiatul Ulama of
Kanpur, Maulana Tahseen Raza Qadiri, general secretary of All India Masjid
Imams Organisation, Kanpur also said more or less the same things as stated
above. Maulana Tahseen Raza Qadiri further said that acting in accordance
with the Prophet (pbuh)s commands, ulama and imams should first stop
such practices by force, and if not by force they should try to stop these
through speeches and sermons in mosques. He said that the situation at pres-
ent is that in spite of all the speeches and persuations, non-Sharaee practices
like dances, songs, fireworks and many other useless and evil practices are
fast increasing which provide occasions to people of other communities to
raise accusing fingers at us. Hence ulama and imams along with their follow-
ers and supporters should start a campaign against such marriages and boy-
cott them. And if any imam or religious leader participates in such functions,
they should not offer Namaz behind him because it is improper to offer Namaz
behind an Imam who indulges in non-Sharaee activities or support non-
Sharaee activities by participating in these.
N. A. ANSARI
Govt to set up Equal Opportunities Commission before polls
New Delhi: Communal riots, though on a minor
scale, erupted in Buland Shahar and
Moradabad, both in UP and riots at both these
places erupted on the occasion of Muharram. In
Buland Shahar, as the sanitation and cleaning
work at Karbala was going on a day before
Muharram, some people from the majority com-
munity reached there and objected to the sanita-
tion and cleaning work. People there explained
that it was nothing new and every year this work
is done for burial of tazias. But it appears that
they had gone there with only the intention of
making mischief. In spite of this explanation
they objected and hot words between the two
groups were exchanged. This took an ugly turn
and stoning began from both sides in which
about a dozen persons from both sides received
minor injuries. When news about this incident
spread to other par ts of the city there was great
confusion and people began to down their shut-
ters, in panic. On receving information about
these riots, top police officials along with a force
reached there and they had to use some mild
force to bring the situation under control. Police
and PAC personnel were posted in the affected
areas and other areas also as a precautionary
measure. Violence was brought under control
though tension prevailed for a day or two.
In Muradabad also, communal peace was
shattered, when the tazia procession reached
Hanuman Mandir area where mischievous
persons from the majority community tried to
dishonour it and pelted stones at the tazias
and people in the procession, which led to
stoning from both sides. This led to a sense of
great fear among people of the minority com-
munity (Muslims) many of whom left their
homes and went to other neighbouring places
for safety. Mischievous elements set fire to
many houses and many persons were injured
also. When news about this incident reached
Muradabad city, conditions there also became
tense but nothing serious happened. With the
protection of police patrol, tazias were taken
to Karbala. People of Daud Bagh village
blamed village Pradhan Shobha Ram, a BJP
man and his suppor ters who very often vitiate
the atmosphere of the village. People of this
village in their written complaint to the police
blamed village Pradhan and his men, about 40
in number, for these riots. On the basis of this
complaint police immediately arrested 7 per-
sons. Even some members of majority com-
munity also blamed the Pradhan and his men
for the riots. High ranking police officials are
camping in Muradabad and police and PAC
personnel have been posted in Daud Bagh and
other villags. Police has described 30 villages
as sensitive places. Both communities have
filed complaints against about 200 unknown
persons each i.e. a total about 400 unknown
persons. Police however took 15 persons into
custody for questioning. Schools in Daud
Bagh and some other villages have been
closed by the authorities. However because of
police vigilance no untoward incidents after
the first incident on Muharram has taken place
but polic posting and patrol continues. (N. A.
Ansari)
MP elections: Muslim factor
With the release of three lists by both rival parties the picture of number of
Muslim candidates is clear. The two to other parties have fielded six candi-
dates (1 BJP + 5 Congress). Since Arif Beg (BJP), the former union minister)
is pitted against Arif Aqil (Cong) in Bhopal (North) it is obvious that one of the
two Arifs will certainly win (unless a miracle takes place). Interestingly, Bhopal
(centre) goes to Arif Masood (Cong) who will contest against Surendranath
Singh (BJP) - three Arifs in Bhopal. Local leaders are not happy with Arif Aqil
who has been representing the constituency since 1998 without any worth-
while contribution. He won in the name of religion only and used his win to
amass money and muscle power. Just for the sake of defeating the BJP he
may win again.
This has given a big jolt to Muslims in the state. Both the parties have cut
the Muslim aspirants to size. While Congress, who has been claiming to be
minority friendly, has given five tickets to Muslims (i e. 2.1%) representation;
the BJP has given only one ticket (ie. 0.4%) despite its boast of wooing the
minorities - the skull cap and burqa clad enthusiasts.
Among remainig contenders of Congress are Yusuf Kadapa from Jaora
(Ratlam district), Abdul Mujeeb from Rewa, Firoz Ahmad from Mudwara. The
party has totally overlooked claims of party workers in densely populated
Muslim localities such as Ujjain (North) Indore (3), Jabalpur, Bhopal and
Burhanpur. Noorie Khan from Ujjain (North) was dubbed an outsider.
Though born and brought up in Nagda (Ujjain) she is married to an MLA in
Assam - hence an outsider though she has been at the forefront in all agita-
tions at Ujjain against BJP govt.
Muhammad Salim, convenor Minority cell of the Congress, expressed his
disappointment and apprised that 89 office bearers had tendered their resig-
nations. Accusing the big bosses of betraying Muslim aspirations he said that
this would inevitably boomerang on the party.
Muslims in MP see Shivraj as the moderate face of BJP in contrast to
Modi. Various government schemes such as Kanya daan Yojana (marriages of
poor girls) or tirth yatra (pilgrimage) yojna did not deprive Muslims, they too
were beneficiaries. Donning the skull cap, though symbolic on Id-ul-Fitr made
Muslims appreciate the gesture. However, this good will was heavily damaged
by Modis Maha Kumb rally. His anointment as would be PM has again thrown
Muslims into their shells.
Pointing out to the record of minority minister Ajay Bishnoi HMH Zaidi
said, . has done little for the upliftment of the community. He acquired
graveyard land in Bhopal to construct a community hall. But neither the
graveyard nor the community hall is usable. Nargis Zaidi feels that there will
be unwarranted interference of Modi in MP. Her feelings are echoed by histo-
rian Syed Akhtar Husain.
A. G. KHAN
More communal riots in UP
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Muzaffarnagar riot refugees continue to rot in refugee
camps while criminals are felicitated by riot party
Rehabilitation of riot-affected people and
group marriages in relief camps goes on
Muzaffarnagar: Relief and rehabilitation of riot-affected people of
Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and other places by Muslim organisations like
Jamiatul Ulama-e Hind and others is going on for more than a month
and side by side arrangements for marriages of girls in these camps
whose marriages were fixed before the riots but could not take place
because of riots, death and destruction, are also now being arranged
by these organisations in groups so that the couples could start a new
life. In Shamli group marriages of 18 couples who were living in relief
camps were organised by Jamiatul Ulama-e Hinds UP branch on
20 October. All these girls who were married in groups were given
essential household goods with the joint help of individual Muslims as
well as Muslim organisations. In addition to household goods,
Maulana Syed Arshad Rashidi, JUH chief of UP branch also gave Rs
5000 to each girl on behalf of JUH (UP) and assured the displaced
people that in these difficult times Jamiatul Ulama was with them and
that their organisation is fighting legal cases against the rioters and
even if the cases go upto the Supreme court, they would continue
their fight for justice. In Badhana town also Qari Obaidur Rahman
Qasmi, manager of Jamia Husainia under the sponsorship of Qaumi
Islahi Anjuman solemnised the marriages of 75 girls who have been
living in refugee camps along with their family members. These newly
married couples also were given essential household goods and in
addition, Haji Muhammad Gulzar and Muhammad Ehsan Dehlwi gave
Rs 1100 in cash to each girl as gifts. Haji Nawab Quraishi gave
Quran and musallahs (prayer carpet) to each girl. Qari Obaidur
Rahman said on this occasion that starting religious education in relief
camps is also very necessary because people in such camps are
leading a life of helplessness and it is the responsibility of all of us to
take care of all their needs including education so that the helpless
children may be able to improve their spiritual and material life. At the
end Qari Obaidur Rahman exhorted Muslims to lead a simple and
righteous life because today there is great need of milli unity and
organisation to defeat the evil designs of communal forces. He final-
ly prayed for a happy conjugal life of the newly married couples and
safety, progress and prosperity of Muslims. It is said that about 300
such marriages have been solemnised in the camps spread at many
places.
Jamiat Colonys 72 houses handed over
to Muzaffarnagar riot-affected people
Khampur: Jamiat Colonys 72 houses built a Khampur, about 10
kilometres away from Muzaffarnagar were given to riot-hit families
who had been living in refugee camps but not willing to go back
to their houses and villages out of fear of the villagers, on 18
November by Jamiatul Ulama-e Hind president Maulana Arshad
Madni at a function held for this purpose. It may be stated that
foundations of these houses were laid by Maulana Madni on
6 October i.e. about 40 days ago and work for building these
houses was going on war footing round the clock 24X7 so that
people and families living in refugee camps who could not go back
to their ancestral homes in the villages could be accommodated in
these houses at the earliest. More than 200 labourers and builders
were working day and night to build these houses.
In the first stage of their permanent rehabilitation 72 houses
were built in which it is estimated that 80 families can live. Each
house built approximately on 80 sq yards of land and consisting
of a big hall, one verandah, bath room, toilet, kitchen etc and for
meeting all other basic necessities, costs about Rs 3 lakh, includ-
ing the land. Cost of land alone is about Rs 1,75,000. After hand-
ing over the keys of houses to the heads of families, he made a
brief speech in which he said that he had not made any appeal for
financial or other contribution (eg supply of building material etc)
for building this colony but sympathetic people and well wishers
voluntarily came forward and rendered all kind of help and with
their help and prayers this colony had been completed. He
thanked the local people particularly Mr Sayeeduz Zaman and his
relatives and family members for their valuable help.
He made it clear that Jamiatul Ulama is purely a religious
organisation which has nothing to do with politics and so does not
expect something in return for doing some favour or rendering
some humanitarian services. He said that his organisation is moti-
vated to provide help to people in distress and has done many
such work in the past also. About future plans he said that JUH
plans to purchase more land for building another set of about 45
houses in that very colony so that more people could be accom-
modated in houses which they can call their own. He said there
would be no end to communal riots in India and these will go on
taking place in different parts of the country. Hence leaving ones
homes and villages is no solution of this problem. What is need-
ed is that an atmosphere of communal harmony and brotherhood
is promoted everywhere for which social workers and men of
goodwill should come forward. He also said that there is a school,
mosque and madrasa also here. About houses he said that they
purchase land in the name of Jamiatual Ulama and after building
houses, execute a deed in the names of allottees.
Jamat-e Islami to build 200 houses
for Muzaffarnagar riot victims
New Delhi: After Jamiatul Ulama-e Hind (JUH), it is now Jamat-e
Islami Hind (JIH) which plans to build 200 houses for riot-hit people
who were rendered homeless in communal riots that erupted in
Muzaffarnagar and neighbouring towns and villages in September. A
high-level delegation including responsible members of JIH and led by
its general secretary, Nusrat Ali toured riot-hit areas and relief camps
and after assessing the need of relief and rehabilitation activities,
decided to build 200 houses for them. The delegation members also
met riot-affected people, persons incharge of relief camps and after
assessing their needs, assured them of meeting their needs. The
Jamat had arranged about one thousand water-proof tents, two thou-
sand beds and quilts each and in addition, also set up a medical camp
in relief camps equipped with a team of doctors from Muslim
Educational Societys Medical College, team of volunteers from
Keralas Ideal Relief Wing, medicines including some costly ones. It
also arranged for a mobile medical van which is rendering 24 hours
service in relief camps.
Jamats relief committee had also conducted a detailed sur-
vey of relief camps to assess the loss of lives, household goods
and immovable properties like houses and according to its survey
report, a total of 113 persons were killed in these riots and about
30 persons are still untraceable. Among those killed are 97
Muslims and 16 non-Muslims. Leader of the delegation Nusrat Ali
consoled them and said that their bad days will Insha Allah come
to an end soon so they should face these difficulties with patience
because Jamat Islami and other Muslim organisations will help
them in whatever way they can. They told them that God never for-
gives the oppressors and cruel people and hence they should
have patience and faith in God.
The delegation members visited relief camps in other places also
like Budhana, Basi Kalan, Shahpur in addition to Loee camp.
Addressing the people in different camps Nusrat Ali demanded of the
government to take all necessary steps at the earliest for complete
rehabilitation of uprooted people and ensure their return to their
homes at the earliest and make foolproof arrangements for their safe-
ty and honourable living. He also demanded the government give
these people maximum compensations in view of their bad condition.
He said that Jamat feels that it is the duty and responsibility of the
government to instil confidence in the riot hit people along with peace
and goodwill among people, and bridge the gap of hatred and distrust
created by fascist and communal forces between Muslims and Jats.
He also said that religious leaders and sane people among Jat and
Muslim communities must come forward to promote and strengthen
the feeling of brotherhood and goodwill and foil the devilish attempts
of their enemies for their narrow and selfish ends. He told them that
legal assistance is also being provided through the NGO, APCR to
those people who are falsely implicated in these riots as well as legal
steps are being taken against criminals responsible for spreading
communal hatred and instigating riots. FIRs lodged against such ele-
ments are being examined for bringing these people to justice.
UP governments claim: 41000 riot-
affected people return to their old houses
New Delhi: UP government in a report has informed the Supreme
Court that out of 50,955 Muzaffarnagar riots-affected persons
who were accommodated in 58 relief camps at different places,
about 41000 people have gone back to their ancestral homes in
their villages. In a report submitted by Saharanpurs Divisional
Commissioner, it has however been admitted that about 10 thou-
sand people are still living in relief camps because people belong-
ing to six villages who were affected by Muzaffarnagar district
riots are not willing to go back to their villages out of fear, but gov-
ernment is seriously doing every thing possible to remove their
fear and instilling confidence in them. It is stated in this report that
because of the nature of riots that had taken place on 7 and 8
September in Muzaffarnagar city and neighbouring areas these
people are still feeling insecure and fear for their lives. Hence the
government, while impressing upon them the need to go back to
their houses also announced compensation of Rs 5 lakh to each
family for their rehabilitation at places of their choice, if they
signed an affidavit giving up rights to movable and immovable
assets. In this report, which will be taken up for hearing by
Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice P. Satyasivam on
30 November, it is further stated that so far 581 persons have
been arrested who are accused of involvement in violence, arson,
looting, murder etc and FIR registered against them.
Group marriages: 72 in Loni and Shamli
Loni / New Delhi: Group marriages of 72 couples whose parents were
affected by the Muzaffarnagar communal riots were organised in the
Islamic and simple way in Madrasa Arabia Zeenatul Islam here on
27 October when this Madrasa's Relief Committee gave household
and other necessary goods worth Rs 35000 to each couple. Nikah
ceremony was solemnised by this Madrasa's teacher Mufti
Muhammad Hasan. Haji Zakir Ali, MLA who also participated in this
function said that on an earlier occasion also this Madrasa's Relief
Committee had organised group marriages of 20 couples after which
requests are coming for more group marriages of this kind. Madrasa's
rector Haji Munawwar Baig said that this is the third humanitarian
work of this Madrasa. The first was setting up of relief camp in the
Madrasa for the riot affected people; second was solemnization of
group marriages of 20 couples and third work is again organisation
of group marriages of 72 couples. After the solemnization of mar-
riages prayers were offered for the blissful and happy conjugal life of
couples. Maulana Taiyyab Pasha, general secretary of Ghaziabad
Jamiatual Ulama called upon the newly married couples to lead their
life in accordance with Islamic teachings. He said that more of such
marriages should be organised so that people who were rendered
homeless and had lost every thing and are not in a position to arrange
for the marriages particularly of their daughters which are becoming
costlier day by day get much relief in this way and also there are
occasions of happiness and pleasure in the life of people who are fac-
ing great difficulties in refugee camps.
NSA withdrawn from persons complicit
in Muzafarnagar riots
Baghpat: Last month during communal riots in Baghpats Wajidpur
village rioters had attacked namazis in a mosque and had shot at
Shoaib and Iqbal because of which Shoaib had died on the spot and
Iqbal had later died in the hospital. More than six other persons offer-
ing namaz in the mosque were injured. Police had booked five insti-
gators of riots Sushil, Subodh, Amit, Om Prakash and Pramod and
had filed cases against many unknown persons. The above men-
tioned five persons were arrested and National Security Act (NSA)
was invoked against them and their cases were entrusted to Lucknow
NSA Advisory Board but this Board withdrew NSA from them and by
this, way has been paved for their release on bail.
In yet another such case, BJP-MLA from Meeruths Sardana con-
stituency Sangeet Som who was booked for delivering inflammatory
speeches was released on bail by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate
Navneet Giri. NSA was invoked against him but withdrawn from him
as well as Suresh Rana, another BJP-MLA by NSA Advisory Board,
Lucknow. Many Muslims have questioned SP governments action
on withdrawing NSA from these persons who were not only instiga-
tors but also perpetrators of cruelty and murder. Many Muslim lead-
ers have strongly criticised and condemned withdrawal of NSA from
these criminals who are main instigators and perpetrators of commu-
nal riots. According to them, withdrawal of NSA from 5 leaders, two
of whom are BJP-MLAs is a conspiracy of UPs Samjwadi Partys
government against Muslims, adding that instead of putting balm on
the wounds of Muslims it is rubbing salt on their wounds. They fur-
ther say that the way BJP has welcomed withdrawal of NSA, thereby
paving the way for their release shows that there is some secret
understanding and dealing between the two parties.
N. A. ANSARI
Riot party honours riot-accused
The Bharatiya Janata Party on 21 November
honoured two legislators, who were allegedly
involved in inciting communal riots in Uttar
Pradesh.
Sangeet Som and Suresh Rana, BJP MLAs
from Muzzafarnagar who were accused of
fuelling violence during the recent clashes there
and charged under the National Security Act,
were felicitated at a rally in Agra, hours before
the BJPs prime ministerial candidate, Narendra
Modi, arrived there to address a public meeting.
The felicitation ceremony for the two MLAs,
who are now out on bail, was presided over by
senior BJP leader Kalraj Mishra before Mr.
Modis arrival on the Kothi Meena Bazar
ground.
In Agra, Mr. Modi made no reference to the
Muzaffarnagar riots, but accused the Congress
of indulging in vote bank politics and pursuing
divisive policies.
RAM PUNIYANI
ram.puniyani@gmail.com
In the last week of October-
first week of November, we
saw two contradictory
processes. On one side the
foundation stone was laid
for the statue of first Deputy
Prime Minister of India,
Saradar Vallabhbhai Patel,
being called Statue of
Unity. On the other side, the BJP in Bihar was
taking out Asthi Kalash (Pitcher of Ashes) of
the blast victims in Patna. These victims died
while the blasts took place in Modis Hoonkar
rally.
While Patel completed the last lag of Indias
unity as a nation, BJP combines Asthi Yatra
Kalsh Yatra has meanwhile taken further the
techniques which are divisive, and are an attack
on the values of Fraternity ingrained in our
Constitution. How do we understand the unity of
India to begin with?
Indias unity begins with the coming of
British. Pre-British sub-continent made a journey
from the tribal society, to pastoral society to
kingdoms of different hues. Unfortunately, there
is a lot of confusion between kingdoms and the
modern nation-state. Pastoral society had differ-
ent logic, while kings were sitting on the top of
the structure in which the poor peasant was pro-
ducing and large part of his produce was going
to the king via the landlord. The poor peasants
were semi-slaves at the mercy of the whims of
the landlords.
For the younger generation, the life in this
period can be gleaned partly from the classics of
the literary stalwarts like Munshi Premchand.
The British in their project to plunder this
country introduced the policy of divide and
rule and so introduced Communal
Historiography. This pattern of looking at kings,
through the prism of the religion, made matters
worse for us as the kings now are looked at as
Hindus or Muslims. And the period when some
of the kings were ruling part of the area is called
as Muslim period. The Muslim kings, ruled here,
lived here and became part of this soil, while the
British ruled from their head-office in London,
plundered the country then went back from
where they came.
There was no concept of Nation- State at
that time. Different kingdoms, fighting against
each other, trying to expand their boundaries on
the strength of the sword.
With the British, their plunder project led to
the introduction of railways, communications
and modern education. Whatever be the motives
of the British, this laid the foundations of the
geographical unity of India. The India we call
today started taking shape with those develop-
ments.
But there is much else which transformed
the warring kingdoms to the Indian state. The
British policies led to discontent and the British
system also opened some window of articulat-
ing that discontent. Unlike the period of
Kingdoms, in the colonial period many an asso-
ciation of the rising classes, industrialists, work-
ers and others started coming up. They formed
organisations for the first time. Amongst the
early organisations were Madras Mahajan
Sabha, Pune Sarvajanik Sabha and Bombay
Associations.
At the same time Narayan Meghaji Lokhande
and Singarvelu started organising the workers.
All these organisations were veering around
trade, occupation and work -- not religion. These
were having people from all regions and all reli-
gions. On the material foundations laid by the
British, these efforts added flesh and blood and
an Indian identity started taking shape. This is
the foundation of the emotional and civilian unity
of India and building on the geographical unifica-
tion.
This foundation of India got the walls of unity
from the anti-colonial and anti-British national
movement. It was the national movement with
participation of people of all religion, all regions,
all castes, all linguistic groups, women and men.
Thus real Indian identity came to be rooted in our
psyche and in our civilian life. This India as a
nation in the making movement has been the
biggest-ever mass movement in the world. This
movement was based on the values of Liberty,
Equality and Fraternity, the principles which
became the basis of Indian Constitution. This
was the Indian unity emerging from opposition to
the British rule; this was the unity for aspiration
of building a secular democratic India with com-
posite culture.
This struggle led to our freedom with the
partition tragedy accompanying it. This was the
main structure of Indian unity. Some jobs were
still remaining.
With freedom nearly 650 princely states,
which were associated with the British rule, had
to make their decision, to merge with India or
Pakistan or to remain free. It is here that Sardar
Patels final contribution of uniting India, as it is
today, came as the icing in the cake, the plaster
on the walls of national unity. This unity was
emotional, civic and national. It included people
of all religions and thats how Gandhi, Nehru,
Patel and Maulana Azad stuck together despite
their diverse backgrounds and different expres-
sions of values and created the Indian nation
state.
Contrary to the hints dropped by Modi that
Patel would have dealt with Muslims better, the
approach of the great leaders of Indian freedom
movement was overlapping. Patel was the one
to give the provisions for minority institutions.
Gandhi said about Patel, I know the
SardarHis method and manner of approach to
Hindu-Muslim question, as also several other
questions, is different from mine and Pundit
Nehrus. But it is travesty of truth to describe
him as anti-Muslim.
This process of emotional and civic unifica-
tion, which began with the formation of various
associations, went through the freedom move-
ment and found its culmination in the integration
of the princely states into the Union of India.
The process of unification also began and
saw a miniscule process of divisiveness even at
that time. This divisiveness began with the reli-
gious nationalism of the Muslim League and
Hindu Mahasabha-RSS. This group came from
the landlords and nawabs (led by Nawab of
Dhaka and Raja of Kashi respectively) and was
later joined in by a section of the educated mid-
dle classes elites in the form of Jinnah, Savarkar
and the founders of RSS.
While Gandhi and national movement united
all, the communal groups spread hatred against
each other. This hatred led to communal vio-
lence, the worst of which were to be seen in the
Calcutta and Noakhali killings amongst others. It
was Gandhi, who left the statecraft to Nehru and
Patel and went to douse the communal fire.
After some gap, the process of violence
began again with Jabalpur riot of 1961. At the
root of violence is the hatred of the other prop-
agated through word of mouth, through
shakhas, through textbooks amongst others.
This creates a social common sense which is
totally negative against religious minorities and
acts as a fertile ground on which communal vio-
lence takes place. Various techniques were
devised to orchestrate communal violence like
pig into a mosque or beef pieces in a mandir
(temple), killing of cow, playing loud music in
front of a mosque, spreading rumour about
molestation of our women
A new pattern was added to this. After the
siege of Babri in October 1990, the tragedy led
to the death of the kar-sevaks. VHP took out the
asthi kalash yatra and it left behind a trail of
blood. After the Godhra train burning (who did it
remains an enigma as many theories abound)
the tragedy was used to divide the communities.
The dead bodies were handed over to the VHP to
take out a procession from Godhra to
Ahmedabad. A mass hysteria was created dur-
ing the procession. Rest is too well known. Thus
society was divided along religious lines.
Despite diverse claims, division between
amongst Hindus and Muslim is a matter of con-
cern in the country in general and in places like
Gujarat in particular.
Lets now come to Kandhmal. Swami
Laxmanand was killed. No debate about who did
it. The VHP took out a procession of Swamijis
body through a long route. Violence against
Christians followed. Further perfecting the tech-
nique, now after the Patna blasts, whosoever did
it, the dead bodies were taken out in procession
through various routes. Was it to pay homage to
the poor victims despite whose deaths the rally
continued, or the goals are to divide the society
along communal lines? This is social disunity.
Sardar Patels statue and life were for social
unity, this and other acts of BJP combine are just
for opposite goals. Hypocrisy at its best or worst
is at display here.
Commemorate the Sardar who united India
not just by merging the princely states, but by
being a part of freedom movement which was
united Indians.
Also remember that unity of India does not
mean only the merger of the princely states --
that was the last phase of the unity process. You
celebrate that event and at the same time take
out Asthi Kalash which is aimed to divide the
community! Political ambitions have strange
ways. (pluralindia.com)
Statue of Unity on one side, Asthi Kalash Yatra on the other
6 The Milli Gazette, 1-15 December 2013 NATIONAL www.milligazette.com
How Modi Govt
Flouted Rules to Dole
Out Land To Adani
The following is a short and edited version of the sec-
ond story released by ANHAD in the series of Kachcha
Chittha (Misdeeds) of Modi:
Many stories have been written about the myth of Modis develop-
ment. Perhaps parts of what we will be releasing in these stories
would have already appeared in various places but what has so far
not come in public domain are the documents relating to blatant
breach of rules and constitutional norms.
The data and documents will also make it clear where the corpo-
rate love for Modi is originating from and break the myth of good
governance and transparency.
All the original documents pertaining to the data below are avail-
able in Gujarati with their English translation at the following links:
Kaccha Chitta 2 documents English:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uj9jola25n9shye/kachcha%20chittha%20sto
ry%202%20documents%20English.pdf
Kaccha Chitta 2 documents Gujrati:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ebrnw5facwi9l82/kachcha%20chittha%20st
ory%202%20documents-%20Gujarati.pdf
Revenue Dept Notification English:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6skfhzrtu4xiabn/Revenue%20Dept%20Notifi
cation%202008%20English.pdf
Revenue Dept Notification Gujrati:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/iq72d0e4iewf03a/Revenue_Department_Not
ification_06_06_2003%20Gujarati.pdf
Stamp Duty Annual Statement of Rates 2006, District Kutch published by
Superintendent of Stamp and Valuation Department, Govt of Gujarat:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2dw6oc1n6ufvqc3/KACHCHH_RURAL%20st
amp%20duty.pdf
Examples:
* 5,46,56,819 sq mtr (5465 HECTARE) of land was sold to Adani
through 30 orders from 2005 to 2007 for SEZ.
* All rules were bent backwards. Twenty five applications for land
were submitted on two consecutive days - 22 & 23 /12/03 and the
other five on 23/12/2003, 5/10/2004, 23/06/2006, 3/07/2006
and for the last application date is not available.
* 23 orders for sale of land were released on a single day
15/07/2005
* The price of land charged from Adani was between Rs. 2.5- Rs
25 per sq meter when the market rate was between Rs 1000 to
Rs.1,500 a square metre.
* The District Valuation Committee set up by the Gujarat Govt set
the price very low so that land could be given at cheap rates. Even
then the rates charged in most of the cases are much lower than
the rates prescribed by the valuation committee.
* A large portion of the land sold was pasture land.
* As per the Government Circulars/Resolution/Regulations, the
Collector does not have the authority to allot or sell such a huge
area of land nor can he/she grant it without conducting public auc-
tion.
* According to the Government of Gujarat, Revenue Department,
Resolution No. JMN /392003 /454 /A dated: 6/6/2003, Collectors
Extended authority (considered effective w.e.f. 1-8-2001) was to
sanction sale of land up to 2 hectare and 15 lakh, before that
Collectors authority was two hectare and 6 lakh.
* Even according to the new Revenue Dept Resolution of 2008
(order No: OFM/102008/82/B, dated 12/12/2008), such decision
was to be taken only by the Additional chief secretary/principal
secretary or secretary to the state government.
* These lands were given before the 2008 Order came into exis-
tence, but the question arises here is that even if this 2008 order
was in place no one below the rank of secretary level had the
authority to sanction land of value over 25 lakh. Even after break-
ing the land into 30 smaller pieces as seen in the list pasted below
the cost is over 25 lakh for each piece of land in 2005. Was it only
at the level of collector? Or could a secretary take the decisions to
bifurcate the land into 30 portions to avoid formal auction of land
or refer it to the cabinet and even after this exercise when it did not
fall within the rules who took the decision to just dump the rules
and allow the sale.
* The orders were obviously coming from the top and the collec-
tor was just a pawn who was asked to implement them is very
clear as many of the letters mention the resolution of the revenue
dept.
* More Land than Demaded by Adani: According to Order no
land/5/industry/vashi/2313/2005 as against the request of
833885 sq meters Governments Resolution reference 5
gauchar land of survey No. 183, 184 amounting to 853917 sq mtr
@ Rs 4 per sq meter has been approved. Why was government
so benevolent as to hand over 20,032 sq mtr more land than
demanded?
* According to a submission made in MB Shah Commission by
local Kutch public representative: In 2005 the land rate for com-
mercial purpose as described in the Jantri was Rs 1,000, but the
state governments rate review committee recovered only Rs 7.50
per meter instead of prescribed rate of Rs 300 per meter consid-
ering 30% premium rate. Since this was gauchar land the govern-
ment should have collected Rs 1300 per meter, but instead it
recovered only Rs 7.50 per meter. For 49.17 lakh square meter of
gauchar land, the government should have charged Rs 147.46
crore but state governments committee charged only Rs 3.68
crore. Commission should recover Rs 143.77 crore the differ-
ence, the amount from Adani at 24 per cent interest.
Cost of Land And Stamp Duty
According to the Gujarat Govt site: http://www.gicl.in/duties.html
stamp duty on sale of property is Rs 8.40%. As is visible from the
documents, the stamp duty for example in the village Shiracha
was for gamtal ( 155), for residential ( 220), commercial (330),
industrial( 285) and agricultural (22). The land in Shiracha has
been sold at Rs 4 per square meter. The cost of land taken from
Adani is Rs 4 per sq meter, which is less than even the stamp duty
(8.40% of the actual land rate)! What could be a bigger fraud?
Pasture Land
* A huge amount of pasture land was sold off to Adani totally
ignoring the required pasture land requirement thus destroying the
animal husbandry in the area.
* 14 villages in the project area are dominated by Rabaris (a tra-
ditional cattle /buffalo rearing community relying entirely on ani-
mal husbandry) Gujarat government order (2002) directs that
every village has to have 40 acres of gauchar land for 100 ani-
mals. The gauchar land available in these villages from which
gauchar was sold was already inadequate, further selling of the
gauchar has totally destroyed the animal husbandry, which is the
main livelihood of the community.
Degradation of natural resources, have resulted into shrinking
of livelihood resources for coastal communities in Gujarat. In
past 15 years migration has increased by 59% in coastal vil-
lages
The Mundra SEZ has already displaced 56 fishing villages and 126
settlements. Not only have the fishermen lost their customary
rights as a result of this development, but the farming villages in
the area have also been stripped off their livelihood. The Adani
group got the land for industrial use and port development, but it
sold/leased out a significant portion of it to other corporate groups
at much higher rates, flouting norms. Leasing out or selling such
acquired land is illegal according to the purchase deed, yet no
action was taken against them by the govt. (Researched by
ANHAD team)
(For full version of the report, documents, references and charts
visit: http://www.anhadin.net/article204.html)
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 1-15 December 2013 7 www.milligazette.com
ASHISH KHETAN & RAJA CHOWDHURY
An important covenant in a democracy is that
those voted to power shall protect the weak and
the vulnerable. That is why when the system
fails to protect a Nirbhaya or do justice to a
Jessica Lal or protect the children of Nithari,
even the most compromising among us take to
the streets and demand a reckoning. That is why
we collectively called for stricter laws and
swifter punishment for crime against women
and children in the wake of the brutal Delhi gan-
grape.
This story is, however, not about the inade-
quacies of the system or its indifference. It is far
more sordid. This story is about the misuse of
police machinery and powers of the State by a
top minister in the Gujarat government to stalk a
young woman from Bangalore, subjecting her to
constant surveillance for reasons not immedi-
ately apparent.
Gujarat IPS officer G. L. Singhal, who is an
accused in the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter case
(Ishrat was killed, along with three others, by
Gujarat Police in 2004) and out on bail, has
handed over hundreds of recorded telephonic
conversations to the CBI revealing how three key
wings of the Gujarat Police - the State
Intelligence Bureau, also known as CID
Intelligence, the Crime Branch and the Anti-
Terrorist Squad - misused their powers to stalk
an unmarried young woman from Bangalore,
whose parents were staying in Gujarat.
The entire surveillance-cum-phone intercep-
tion operation was mounted in August 2009 on
oral orders, without any valid legal authorisation,
and was meant only to serve the interests of
someone whom the then minister of state for
home, Amit Shah, addressed as Saheb.
The illegal spying operation, in which
Singhal has confessed to his key role, was initi-
ated on the instructions of Shah sometime in the
month of August 2009 and continued for sever-
al weeks thereafter.
The 267 audio recordings submitted to the
CBI primarily contain telephonic conversations
between Shah and Singhal, who was at the time
posted as SP with the ATS.
In at least half a dozen conversations, Shah
is alluding to his Sahebs acute personal interest
in the snooping of the woman. The conversa-
tions suggest Shah was passing minute-by-
minute details gathered through this snooping
operation to his Saheb.
A close confidant of Narendra Modi, Shah
held his office as Minister of State for Home for
seven years between 2003 and 2010. Modi
besides being the CM has also been Gujarats
home minister since October 2001. Shah was
arrested in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case
in 2010 and is out on bail, looking after BJPs
poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh.
Investigative news por tals Gulail and
Cobrapost have accessed both the entire set of
recordings and the three explosive self-incrimi-
natory statements given by Singhal before the
CBI between April and June this year. We also
have the 10-page panchnama prepared by the
CBI, as the agency took possession of the phone
recordings from Singhal. All conversations were
recorded by Singhal who at that time was close
to Shah.
Apparently, it was only after the CBI arrested
him in the Ishrat Jahan killing case in February
this year that Singhal cracked up and chose to
cooperate with the CBI.
To protect the identity of the victim, we have
decided to not reveal her name or present loca-
tion. For the purpose of this story, we call her
Madhuri.
Along with Madhuri, a senior IAS officer
from Gujarat named Pradeep Sharma was also
put on watch, illegally.
In the latter half of 2009, when I was post-
ed as SP (Operations) in the Anti-Terrorist Squad
(ATS) at Ahmedabad, Shri Amit Shah had
directed me several times to watch the move-
ments of Shri Pradeep Sharma, who was then
posted as Municipal Commissioner, Bhavnagar.
He had also asked me to put a watch on a young
woman named Madhuri. I had deputed some
men of the Crime Branch (as ATS was short of
subordinate staff) to follow her, as directed by
Shri Amit Shah, reads Singhals statement
recorded by the CBI on 17 April, 2013, a copy of
which is with us. Singhal was released on bail in
the last week of May 2013.
On 9 June, 2013, Singhal handed over the
phone recordings to the CBI.
In furtherance of my statement dated
17.04.2013, I state that I have produced today
before you the following: A pen drive containing
267 call recordings in the month of August-
September 2009 (beginning 04.08.2009 and
ending 10.09.2009) between me and Shri Amit
Shah primarily, barring some between me and
Shri A. K. Sharma, me and Shri Vaishnav (DySP
CID Intelligence), and me and Shri Rajendra
Asari (then SP Bhavnagar). These conversations
pertain to watching the young woman Madhuri
at Ahmedabad and watching Shri Pradeep
Sharma.
In the last paragraph on page 8 of the panch-
nama prepared by the CBI on 9 July, 2013, the
agency says: Shri G. L. Singhal informed that
these files contain telephonic conversation
between him and Shri Amit Shah, the then MoS
(Home), Gujarat State, in the month of August
and September 2009 relating to misuse of the
police for extra-legal purposes in miscarriage of
justice.
Singhals statements and phone recordings
are now part of the Ishrat Jahan fake encounter
case papers.
The tapes indicate that for at least over a
month the Gujarat Police apparatus used its
sweeping powers to rigorously monitor every
private moment, every personal conversation
and every daily movement of Madhuri. Singhal
has told the CBI that the surveillance was illegal
and was carried out only on the oral instructions
of Shah. The recordings reveal that Madhuri was
tailed even as she visited shopping malls,
restaurants, ice-cream parlours, gyms, cinema
halls, hotels and airports. She was followed
even when she visited her ailing mother in a hos-
pital in Ahmedabad. When she boarded a flight
out of Ahmedabad, orders were issued to put
cops on the flight so that she was not out of
sight even when she was flying. Strict orders
were given to closely observe and profile those
who met her. Shah was particularly interested in
knowing the men she was meeting and whether
she was alone or with some man when she
checked into a hotel in Ahmedabad. Her phones
and that of her family and friends were tapped.
Every bit of information was conveyed to Shah in
real time, who in turn claimed to be relaying it to
his Saheb.
Listening to the conversations leaves no
doubt that the people involved in the operation
knew who this Saheb was.
Such was the importance attached to the
surveillance operation that many senior state
police officials were instructed to personally
supervise the movements and activities of the
woman.
Besides Singhal, who was at that time post-
ed as a Superintendent of Police with the ATS,
the then IG (Intelligence) A. K. Sharma, the then
Deputy SP (CID Intelligence) DB Vaishnav and
then DCP (Crime) Abhay Chudasama were some
of the other senior officers who were roped in for
the operation. At present, Sharma is posted as
Joint Commissioner of Crime in Ahmedabad city.
While Vaishnav has retired, Chudasama is cool-
ing his heels in jail on charges of stage-manag-
ing the Sohrabuddin Shaikh encounter.
The phone recordings in possession of the
CBI primarily contain conversations between
Singhal and Shah. Some conversations are
between Singhal and other state police officers
such as A. K. Sharma, Vaishnav and the then
Bhavnagar SP Rajendra Asari. All these conver-
sations were recorded by Singhal between
4 August, 2009 and 6 September, 2009.
At many places in the tapes, Shah can be
heard complaining that Singhals men were not
doing a thorough job as Saheb was obtaining
information about her movements from his inde-
pendent sources and his information network
was at times more efficient than that of Shah.
For instance, on 9 August, Shah in a panicky
call to Singhal said, I talked to Saheb and he got
to know from someone that they did go outside
twice. I think our men are not watching properly.
They are still there. They went for shopping as
well and also moved out along with that boy who
came to see her.
A little later, Shah again rings up Singhal to
say, Today they are going out for a meal in a
hotel. Sahib received a phone about this. So
watch out as she is going with someone. It is the
boy who is coming to see her. Pay proper atten-
tion. The fact is that Saheb gets all the informa-
tion, so our loopholes might get found out (if our
input is late).
The tapes also reveal that Shah had instruct-
ed Singhal to mount surveillance on a senior IAS
officer, Pradeep Sharma, and tap his phones to
find out if he was meeting with Madhuri, some-
thing that Singhal has also admitted before the
CBI.
Unaware of the existence of these tapes,
Sharma had independently filed a writ petitionin
the Supreme Court in May 2011 alleging that he
was being framed in bogus corruption cases by
the Gujarat government and the reason for this
was Chief Minister Narendra Modis association
with a young woman.
It now emerges from Singhals statements
and tapes that the name of the woman men-
tioned by Sharma in his petition is the same as
the name of the woman who was kept under
watch by Shah & Co.
At several places in the tapes, both Shah
and Singhal have named the woman leaving no
doubt about her identity.
The question that arises here is: whether it is
just a co-incidence that the name of the woman
Sharma alleges to have been associated with
Modi matches with that of the woman put under
surveillance. Or, there is something more to it
than meets the eye?
In one of the phone recordings, Shah is also
heard telling Singhal to put a man, who was
meeting Madhuri, behind bars for a period longer
than served by former DIG of ATS D. G. Vanzara
who has been in jail since 2007 on charges of a
slew of fake encounter killings.
When the conversation between Shah and
Singhal took place, Vanzara had already been in
jail for more than two years. What is significant
is that within three months of this surveillance
operation, Sharma was arrested by the state
police on various corruption charges in the wee
hours of 1 January, 2010.
The disclosures in the Singhal-Shah tapes
raise several disturbing questions:
* Who wanted Madhuri to be watched and why?
* Why were Madhuri and Sharma snooped
around at the same time?
* Is it a co-incidence that within three months of
this snooping, Sharma was arrested on corrup-
tion charges?
* Why the cops from the ATS, CID Intelligence
and the Crime Branch, whose job is to protect
the life of ordinary citizens, were used instead to
snoop around a woman, who was not wanted in
any crime and did not pose any threat to law and
order.
Not once did any officer involved object to
the blatant illegality involved in the surveillance-
cum-phone interception operation or expressed
displeasure for violating an individuals privacy.
It needs to be remembered that Singhal has
clearly stated before the CBI that the entire
snooping operation was illegal. The explanation
that it was being done for Shahs Saheb was a
good enough for the top police officials such as
Singhal to toe the line. The question is who
Shahs Saheb was and what were his motives?
The tapes also reveal how phone tapping
guidelines as laid down by the Supreme Court in
several landmark cases were blatantly violated. It
also brings the telecom companies under a
cloud, as they willingly obliged the Gujarat Police
to tap the phones without any valid legal orders
or written permission.
In his statements, besides accusing politi-
cians like Shah, Singhal has incriminated him-
self. He has confessed to have played a part in
planting arms on the person of Ishrat Jahan and
three others. He also disclosed that D. G.
Vanzara had told him that the killings of Ishrat
Jahan and her associates were cleared by
safed [grey] and kali [black] dadhis
[beards], the alleged code names that Vanzara
had, respectively, for Modi and Shah-a charge
which has to be proved in a court of law.
Singhal has also provided a 70-minute audio
recording of a meeting held in the office of
Gujarat Advocate General Kamal Trivedi and
attended by two of Modis ministers - Pratapsinh
Jadeja (MoS, Law) and Praful Patel (MoS,
Home) - and a former cabinet minister,
Bhupender Chudasama. In the meeting, Singhal
and his co-accused in the Ishrat Jahan killing
were assured of the best possible legal protec-
tion by the state. According to Singhal, expen-
sive encrypted cell phones were purchased and
distributed to select government officials like
G. C. Murmu (Secretary to Chief Minister),
P. P. Pandey (suspended ADG of Gujarat Police
and now prime accused in the Ishrat Jahan
encounter case), A. K. Sharma (JCP,
Ahmedabad city) and Singhal himself, who
could then discuss over these secured phone
lines the tactics of subverting the investigations
into encounter killings.
Singhal has further revealed in detail how he
was used to threaten two key prosecution wit-
nesses against Shah in the Sohrabuddin fake
encounter case. The witnesses were threatened
in the presence of Bhupendrasinh Chudasama, a
senior member of the ruling party and a former
minister. Thus reads his statement given to the
CBI on 17 April, 20013:
Shri Bhupendrasinh Chudasama had stated
that he had directions from the Chief Minister
Shri Narendra Modi for these two witnesses to
turn hostile, in lieu of which he had stated that
the Chief Minister had promised all protection
and immunity.
Since people like Shah and Chudasama con-
stantly reassured him that their actions had
Modis blessings, Singhal indulged in various
illegal activities. Says Singhal in his statement to
the CBI, I restate the fact that previously I had
been coerced to participate in and help in certain
activities intended to obstruct the process of
law. Although illegal, unethical and improper, I
had not declined to follow instructions because I
was under a cloud in this case and Shri Amit
Shah used to wield his authority by making it
appear that I and my subordinate officers were
being protected from incarceration by his and
the Chief Ministers efforts.
At this point of time, Gulail and Cobrapost
have no means to independently verify these
charges.
Whether Singhals statements and evidence
stand the scrutiny of the courts or not, they
nonetheless reveal a chilling modus operandi of
the Modi regime. Officers like Singhal who were
willing to do all the dirty work would take
instructions from Shah who would freely use
Modis name and mandate them to indulge in all
kinds of criminal activities.
The question arises: was all this happening
without Modis knowledge? Is Madhuri the only
private citizen to have fallen victim to the states
secret surveillance? How many more people-
political opponents, human rights activists, jour-
nalists, witnesses, police officers-have been
snooped around? One also wonders how did the
snooping operation on Madhuri end? Why did
Singhal record his conversations with Shah for
just over a month and not beyond that? How the
information procured about her was put to use?
This is a closet that only opens from the
inside. Singhal has cranked it open, but just a bit.
Perhaps, the full scale of illegal snooping that
may have gone on for years in Gujarat will never
be fully known.
Ashish Khetan is Editor, Gulail.com,
Raja Chowdhury is a Senior Correspondent with
Cobrapost.com. Related video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roVZrT2_xuc
What kind of India would it be if Narendra Modi and his minions come to rule
us? Not much different from Hitlers Third Reich or Indiras Emergency era.
Indicators are legion, from overseeing a state-sponsored pogrom, to finish-
ing off his rivals in the party, to offering bali (human sacrifice) of innocent
Muslims in fake encounters in the name of protecting the Boss, to marginal-
ising a whole minority all over the state he rules... Now comes another
shocker, if one was indeed needed, of the kind of person the party-with-a-dif-
ference has chosen as its prime ministerial candidate. A pervert and mani-
ac who has many skeletons in his cupboard. Its now clear from the many
details tumbling out that there is a sordid angle to the illegal stalking done
at the behest of the Boss violating all rules in the book. Persecution of the
IAS officer Pradeep Sharma and related exposures have opened a Pandoras
Box which seems to contain a lot we are yet to see about this model
pracharak thrown up by the Sangh Parivar. Other details are now coming out,
about how the Boss treated Gujarat as his personal property, gave away
state and farmers lands for a song to the corporates, are enough to open our
eyes about the dangers lurking ahead (Zafarul-Islam Khan)
The Stalkers
Islamic finance has emerged as a viable
alternative world over after the financial
meltdown of the west .it is growing at the
rate of more than 15%.Not only Muslim
countries but modern, secular and indus-
trialized countries like UK, France, Japan,
Singapore and Hong Kong have become
hub of Islamic finance &banking. Even
World Bank considers it as a priority area.
Islamic finance-an alternative and logi-
cal fit for infrastructure-Standard &
Poors
Our country needs US$ 1 trillion to
upgrade its infrastructure in order to
achieve its target of an annual growth of
9.0% - 9.5, almost double in the 12th Five
year plan than the 11th year plan.
Standard &Poors document released
on Oct 13 2011 - Will Islamic finance
play a key role in funding Asias huge
infrastructure task? - mentions that convention-
al lending markets being jittery the world is now
looking towards alternatives to conventional
finance and Islamic finance is one such alterna-
tive.
In a report published by the Economist-
Economist intelligence unit, Report- GCC trade
and investments are flowing towards emerging
markets like China and India instead of US and
Europe.
In another recent report of Standard& Poors
entitled Can Indias developing infrastructure
keep pace with the Economic Growth?- its
credit analyst Raju Viswanathan talks of Indias
inadequate infrastructure to be a major road
block to the countrys target of achieving 9.0 -
9.5% annual growth in 2012-2017.The coun-
trys twelfth five-year plan for the period 2012-
2017, targets on removing some of these road-
blocks and creating a framework for private-sec-
tor participation, but it depends on the ability of
Indias leaders to execute these plans, it added.
Prospects of Islamic Finance
An estimated $1.5-trillion funds sloshing around
the Middle East, largely from higher oil prices
which is going to increase by about 7 Trillion by
2020.Our country is emerging as a global eco-
nomic power. As per the Planning Commission
report, there is a huge gap of US $ 300 billion
(30% funding Gap) to meet the financial require-
ment of infrastructure sector up to 2017. Islamic
financial products are ideally suitable for the
much needed funding for the long term invest-
ment in various sectors including infrastructure
sector. These tools -called Sukuk, are in use, by
both the developing countries like Indonesia and
Malaysia and developed countries like U.K.,
France and Germany. India should also make
use of the resources awaiting investment.
Inclusive Growth Of Marginalised-Aam Aadmi
Even after forty years of nationalization of the
banks,60% of the people do not have access to
formal banking services and only5.2%of the vil-
lages have bank branches. Marginal farmers,
petty traders, landless labourers, self-employed
and unorganized sector enterprise, ethnic minor-
ity and women - AAM AADMI of the country -
continue to form the financially excluded
class.
According to Sachar Committee Report, banking
sector has categorized Muslims and Muslim
dominated areas as Negative Zone. This exclu-
sion is partly due to reasons of their faith, inter-
est being not permitted .Reports also reveal that
in relation to those who have dealings with
banks, thousands of crores of their interest
money is lying idle in the banks and these sav-
ing are not ploughed back by them into econom-
ic activity of the country.
Islamic Finance is for All
In countries where Islamic finance has been
allowed, it has attracted both Muslims and mem-
bers of other faiths because it is seen as encour-
aging ethical and socially responsible invest-
ments. In Malaysia,
for instance, more
than 40% investors
and 60% borrowers
are non-Muslims
and in Britain the
figure is about 20%.
Nomenclature
Call it Islamic
Finance or alternate
finance as in UK,
participatory finance
in Turkey or interest
free finance &bank-
ing, in other coun-
tries, but it should be
based on principles
of Shariah-risk shar-
ing and asset based
with real economic
growth and not financial engineering and abhor-
rence to the investments in businesses dealing in
alcohol, drugs, gambling, armaments etc which
are considered unlawful or undesirable.
Dr. Raghuram Rajan Committee recommends
Interest free finance
High level Committee on Financial Sector
Reform-CFSR of the Planning Commission of
India (2008) headed by DrRaghuram Rajan has
recommended interest-free finance and banking
to be introduced in the main banking sector for
growth with inclusion and innovation.
Kerala Government has announced to tap unuti-
lized funds from NRIs to open up Islamic Finance
for huge Infrastructure development as well as
allowing an NBFC Al-Barakah to function on
Shariah principles. Recent High Cour t
Judgement of Kerala has also cleared the way.
Andhra Pradesh Government has announced
that it is launching interest free loans to help
SHGs and Microfinance Institutions.
India Needs Reforms
It is high time that India should reform policies
concerning project execution and long term
funding as urged by S&P Report. It has to devel-
op Islamic Sukuk market for Infrastructure
Development as developed in Malaysia, Middle
East & Europe and introduce interest-free
Islamic finance and banking for inclusion of the
marginalized and the minorities either by an
executive order or amending the regulations.
Need Of The Hour
As Suggested by Standard & Poors report and
recommended by Raghuram Rajan Committee:
Government of India - Finance Ministry & RBI -
should now re-examine the stand on Islamic
Finance and create an attractive environment for
Islamic Finance investors to participate in the
market as undertaken in modern secular coun-
tries and also for inclusive growth of the margin-
alized and the minorities.
If London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong and
Singapore can become hub and house of Islamic
finance and Banking , Why not India? (Indian
Centre for Islamic Finance)
Prospects of Islamic Banking in India
No Islamic banking
permitted in Kerala: RBI
New Delhi: Reserve Bank of India, in response to a query by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy under
RTI, clarified that it has not given any permission to a Kerala firm or any other company to start
Islamic banking or interest-free banking for financial transactions. It may be recalled that a few
months ago it was reported by some newspapers that M/s Cheraman Financial Services Ltd (CFSL),
a firm floated by Kerala State Industrial Development Corpo-ration a state government undertaking
was allowed by RBI to operate on Sharia principles as a finance company based or, in other words,
to carry on its financial transactions without giving or taking interests on loans given by it or on
deposits made to it.
When the idea of CFSL was first mooted by the then LDF government of Kerala to work on inter-
est free principles, many right wing groups like Hindu Aikya Vedi and persons like Surbamaniam
Swamy who was at the time president of Janta Party, had strongly opposed it and he (Swamy) had
filed a petition in the Kerala High Court alleging that the state government was promoting a firm on
religious grounds which is in violation of principles of secularism as enshrined in the constitution.
The High Court, in response to Swamys petition had first stayed CFSLs launch in 2010 but subse-
quently rejected Swamys petition and allowed this firm to operate, saying that it would do no harm
to principles of secularism.
The launch of CFSL to work as a finance company to invest in equities and later to extend its
activities to the fields of setting up projects, infrastructure and manufacturing and RBIs permission
for it to function in these fields was in fact misunderstood and taken to mean as functioning on
Islamic principles. CFSLs Mg. Director, Mahmood Haneesh, an IAS officer himself says that Islamic
banking is not possible in India unless Banking Regulation Act is first amended to allow Islamic
banking.
When the newspapers recently misreported that RBI has allowed CFSL to operate on the prin-
ciples of Islamic banking, Swamy sought an answer from RBI through RTI about the nature of
CFSLs business and if RBI has allowed it to work on the principles of Shariat and Islamic banking,
RBI in its reply of September 2013 to Swamy replied that it has given no permission to CFSL to
operate on the principles of Islamic banking. It clarified that under Banking Regulation Act or any
other Act all banking companies and institutions operate under RBI Act 1939 or Banking Regulation
Act 1949 all of which work on the principles giving and taking of interest. It clarified that it (RBI) had
given CFSL the status of a non-banking financial company only. The news that CFSL was allowed
to operate a Isalmic banking system was in fact a misunderstanding and was wrongly reported.
It is interesting to note that RBIs reply to Subrananian Swamy was sent in his name at his res-
idential address in Nizamuddin East, New Delhi, and in it he is shown as Minister for Commerce,
Law & Justice, whereas he is neither or ever was a minister in any government. (N. A. Ansari)
8 The Milli Gazette, 1-15 December 2013 NATIONAL www.milligazette.com
President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat
sent the following letter to the RBI governor on
30 October 2013. The letter remains unacknowledged
till date:
Dr. Raghuram Rajan
Governor, Reserve Bank of India
Central Office
Mumbai 400 001
Dear Dr Rajan,
Please allow me, though belatedly, to offer you my best wishes for
accepting the post of the RBI Governor in difficult times. I am also
relieved to see that a turn-around has already begun under your
leadership.
It is my firm belief that our country enjoys all the ingredients,
from manpower to natural resources, to emerge as an economic
power on the world scene. I look forward to a day when our coun-
try will attract internal and external investments to make this
dream a reality.
To achieve this dream, we should think out of the box. And
one of the ways is to diversify and embrace other forms of eco-
nomic models which have proved their efficacy and relevance in
other countries. This does not mean to do away with the current
models but to offer the investors and financial institutions another
alternative. This alternative model is the so-called Islamic
finance which may also be termed as alternative or ethical
finance as it is based on non-exploitation and offers profits instead
of interest on an investment. This model is now accepted in
dozens of countries around the world and there are hundreds of
Islamic banks or special windows in commercial banks offering
this alternative way ensuring better return and security. Only today,
UK has decided to introduce this form of finance with a declared
aim to become the world hub of Islamic finance. Prime Minister
David Cameron has announced that Britain will be the first coun-
try outside the Muslim world to issue its own Islamic bond, known
as sukuk and London Stock Exchange is launching an Islamic
Market Index. I wonder why we cant make India the hub of this
finance to benefit ourselves and the world, especially because we
have great resources for this kind of finance from inside our coun-
try and in our immediate neighbourhood like the Gulf which is
awash with surplus funds looking for such investment opportuni-
ties.
As the apex body of Indian Muslim organisations, we know
that millions of Indian Muslims (180 million according to the 2001
census) do not invest in the economic activity in a proper way and
prefer to keep their money at home or in current bank accounts
because they do not believe in taking or giving interest. We know
that hundreds of crores of interest money belonging to Indian
Muslims lie idle in Indian banks as they do not want to withdraw
it. I believe that if an alternative is offered many will participate in
the economic activity in a positive way.
I am also aware that you, as the chairman of the Committee
on Financial Sector Reforms-CFSR of the Planning Commission
way back in 2008, had recommended Interest-free finance and
banking to be introduced in the main banking sector for growth
with inclusion and innovation. I look forward for your initiatives to
make this happen and open avenues for a more inclusive econom-
ic participation by all Indians. The long experience so far shows
that this is a win-win situation. Even when western economies
were facing a melt-down situation recently, the Islamic banking
sector emerged unscathed.
With best regards,
Yours sincerely,
Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan
President, AIMMM
Mushawarats letter to the RBI governor
An estimated $1.5-trillion funds sloshing
around the Middle East, largely from high-
er oil prices which is going to increase by
about 7 Trillion by 2020. Our country is
emerging as a global economic power. As
per the Planning Commission report, there
is a huge gap of US $ 300 billion (30%
funding Gap) to meet the financial require-
ment of infrastructure sector up to 2017.
Islamic financial products are ideally suit-
able for the much needed funding for the
long term investment in various sectors
including infrastructure sector. These tools
-called Sukuk, are in use, by both the
developing countries like Indonesia and
Malaysia and developed countries like
U.K., France and Germany. India should
also make use of the resources awaiting
investment.
NATIONAL The Milli Gazette, 1-15 December 2013 9 www.milligazette.com
26/11: Indias 9/11
The Siege of India by the Intelligence
MUSTAFA KHAN
One of the reasons why a siege like that of the attack on the Taj
will happen again and again is because people are not taking
26/11 seriously enough. Author Adrian Levy says further that
there is not a serious response to a seminal event like 26/11. The
sacrifice by people, and also the stigma of the attack on the city,
and it is one of the first of many things that will happen now.
(1)
But why does he or for that matter his co-author Cathy Scott-Clark
feel so? Such things did happen in Nairobi subsequently, but the
moot question is: did not such things happen before? To illustrate
the point with instances: like what happened on 29 September
2008 or 8 September 2006? Even the top cop they lionise, DCP
Rajvardhan Sinha (now ACP), played a significant role in
Malegaon 2006 blasts case. If the authors justify that the
Americans had given enough tidbits to the Indians who did not
care to join the dots to decipher the honey bee and the mice
in India, did they not do so in the earlier cases too?
In the interview to Rediff, Levy praises the policemen who
did fight the terrorists. Did the same police fight the terrorists
in 2006 in Malegaon? Enough warnings, though not like the 26
warnings as in the case of the 26/11, were given in advance. What
is more, a local leader and former MLA had given direct informa-
tion of the impending bomb attacks of 8 September 2006 with
even the name of the train by which the terrorists would travel to
Manmad en route to Malegaon. What is most astounding it was
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Sigh, who addressed the chief min-
isters of the states of India and the governors thereof on 5
September 2006 and 17 September 2008, cautioned them of the
possible bomb attacks? His predecessor, AB Vajpayee, too had
warned of possible attacks as on the Parliament a day before the
13 December 2001 attack.
In the case of Malegaon, it was most amusing. If this advance
warning was true, then those who were detonating the rocks en
route from Manmad to Malegaon in widening the road were
stopped and workers were dispersed in hurry and the same was
the case near the quarries in Malegaon itself where deepening the
wells was in progress by blasting mines. Who shooed them
away? This writer had put the same question to Pramod B Mane,
NIA officer, on 14 June 2011. The officer had a sketch of the route
drawn with the hill between Manmad and Malegaon marked and
shown to him where the blowing of rocks was underway. It was
too obtuse for him.
Have Levy and Clark done the big picture? What happened in
Pakistans Red Mosque in 2007 and Marriot hotel on 21
September 2008 are for the Pakistanis to bother.
Why do we in India fail to relate 26/11 to 8 September 2006
and 29 September 2008 in India itself?
If the jihad factory of Al Qaida was active in 1998 in Kenya,
then there was no such factory in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu where
native Muslims tried to avenge the criminal murder of their rela-
tives injured in the riots. They were admitted in hospitals where
extremist Hindus attacked and killed them while they were being
treated for their wounds. Hence, Muslims chose the hospitals as
their target. There was no pan-Islamic movement here as is mis-
construed by some.
Indian terrorist scenes have a different setting and there is no
jihadi factory within India as it is in Pakistan or in al Qaida bases
in the Middle East and Africa.
Furthermore, the police informer Zabiuddin aka Abu Jindal
had helped in importing huge quantities of RDX and weapons
including AK47s on 9 May 2006 to Mumbai, Malegaon and Verud
near Aurangabad. Apparently, no police officer was involved in
planting the material. But a resident of Malegaon, Shakeel Ahmad
Mohammad Yusuf, gave an affidavit to the MCOCA court alleging
that it was ACP Rajvardhan Sinha who had used Pius Agarwal and
others to plant the arms in a dry-well near Ankai on 9 May 2006.
And it was at the instance of Sinha that the material was removed
and local Muslims were arrested at the instance of Agarwal and
other local Hindus. A copy of the affidavit is with the Milli Gazette.
During the hearing in the court in the third week of November
2013, the police officer who arrested some of the accused at
Verud, said that there was no road that went through the temple.
The defense lawyer Wahab asked him: then how did he come
inside and intercept the arms laden car. (Fuller report in Inquilab,
22 November 2013).
Police informers have played havoc with intelligence agen-
cies. Zabiuddin, Sajid Ahmad, Abrar Ahmad and hundreds of oth-
ers from the Muslim community fell victim of the police network
of spies for snooping.
The heart of the matter is: who employs them and why to
carry out terror activities. To do the larger picture in the words of
Devy it is also to reverse the logic of his assumption: Why dont
you use me assumes Levy as Headley to be saying to FBI, as
the Trojan Horse? I look like a white guy, as you say like a gora. I
have an American passport. And he said, I will stake out a city
for you and I will choose places where there is an international
crowd and I will enable you to attack India but also to appease Al
Qaeda, the people who are enamoured with Al Qaeda, by broad-
ening the base of the attack out, attack the West, attack America,
attack the British, attack Jews. We all find somewhere like that and
I propose that the place to do that is the metropolis.
Were the Americans, the Israelis, the Pakistanis, really spoil-
ing for such a big operation for their future strategic use by out-
sourcing it to the LeT and the honey bee and the mice for
assorted reasons?
Thirteen February 2009 is a memorable day as the Mumbai
Police Commissioner Hassan Gafoor admitted as fact that 16
Pakistanis including Indians apar t from Fahim Ansari and
Sabauddin were involved in 26/11. The same day, Pakistan also
accepted that part of the conspiracy was hatched on its soil.
Narendra Modi had accused the Central government of hiding
the Indian involvement for its vote bank politics. That would mean
that the local involvement was of Muslims and not Hindus in the
attack. As it later turned out, Fahim and Sabauddin were framed
and hence the remaining accused dead or alive were both
Pakistanis and also some Indians. Several foreign agencies also
helped India like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Scotland
Yard, the Singapore police, the French police and the German
police.
DGP AN Roy had taken control of the events though he had
no operational responsibility. He set up his control room at NCPA
while Gafoor was at the Leopold Caf and Maria operated from
Crawford market Police commissioners head office. What is
worth noting is how did Maria behave in the crisis period. When
Gafoor ordered him to remain at his post, the head of the Crime
Branch became incandescent(
2)
, i.e., extremely angry at the
Commissioner. He wanted to rush to the Nair hospital to interro-
gate Kasab who was brought there. The Commissioner said that
the Additional Commissioner of Police Tanaji Ghadge was already
dispatched because the hospital was in the jurisdiction of Ghadge.
Even then Maria sent a DCP to shadow Ghadge. According to Levy
and Clark, Maria wanted to see that Ghadge did not screw it up,
meaning fail to interrogate Kasab properly. The question arises:
why would Ghadge fail? Or, did Maria have a brief on what and
how to interrogate?
This also became quizzical when during the trial, Judge
Tahilyani did not record when he questioned Kasab whether he
knew Faheem Ansari who allegedly had supplied a hand-drawn
map according to the Mumbai Police but according to the Levy,
the terrorists had a Google map to guide them and they had cus-
tomised it before they left Karachi. Why did the judge also ask
everyone to leave the court room before he questioned Kasab in
camera? This angle of conspiracy within a conspiracy or intrigue
within an intrigue is a serious aspect.
Levy and Clark have simply not taken it in record nor did
Pradhan Commission bother about it in its skimpy 64 page report
on 26/11. However, SM Mushrif did deal with this aspect. His
book is anathema to others. Even Levy and Clark ignored it.
It is relevant in this context to quote in detail Mushrif who
approximated in hinting at the honey bee of Levy and Clark:
The beginning of the 21st century witnessed a series of
bomb blasts across the country; their blatant wrong and exagger-
ated reporting in the media, apparently at the instance of the pre-
mier intelligence agency of the country (the IB), the uncalled for
interference of the IB in the investigation of bomb-blast cases with
ulterior motives; the self-detected Nanded blast case of 2006; the
absolutely honest and transparent investigation of the Malegaon
blast case of 2008 by the then chief of the ATS Maharashtra, late
Hemant Karkare, exposing a nationwide terror network; the inter-
ruption of the Malegaon blast investigation by the Mumbai terror
attack of 26/11 which was a result of the deliberate blocking of an
extremely specific piece of intelligence by the IB, the dastardly and
brutal killing of the ATS chief Hemant Karkare; the post-haste
appointment of the highly controversial officer KP Raghuvanshi as
Hemant Karkares successor; the doubtful investigation of CST-
CAMA Ranghbhavan Lane part of the Mumbai terror attack by the
IB and the FBI, with the Crime Branch Mumbai merely acted as a
puppet, and so on.
(3)
Mushrif was Inspector General of Police in Maharashtra and
should know the way the police and the intelligence agencies
work. His statement shows that 26/11was stage-managed in
order to stop Karkare from continuing his exposure of the network
of Hindutva terrorism all over the country when he found the
Hindutva hand in Malegaon September 2008 attack.
It is corroborated by Karkares smiley farewell of 24
November 2008 interview to the Indian Express. He referred to
threats to his life and family and reportedly sought help/sanctuary
from the US embassy.
Abrar Ahmad, one of the nine accused in Malegaon 2006
blasts, says that [the so-called battled hardened] Rajwardhan
Sinha had given mobile phones to him and his wife Jannatunnisa
and recorded fake conversations he ordered Abrar to make. These
fake conversations implicate innocent youth of Malegaon. One of
such youth is Zahid, another accused in the same case. This is a
clear case of perjury on the part of both Abrar and Rajwardhan
Sinha. Sinha made Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit hear it when Abrar was
under illegal detention in Jagtap Mala in Nashik. Even more dis-
turbing is that ATS kept Abrar in a hotel in Dadar in Mumbai. The
same Sinha met Abrar along with deputy ATS officer Subodh
Kumar Jaiswal and another ATS officer Sachin Kadam on 1
September 2008. They assured Abrar that they would get him out
on bail after they finished their mission of removing those who
were disproving what they had written in their chargesheet against
the nine accused. Urdu-speaking Abrars words in his native
tongue clearly show Sinha as the very opposite of what Levy and
Clark say of him. Abrar quotes these officers as saying, Hum
logon ka ek mission hai do dhai mahiney men pura hojaye ga. Phir
beech men kutch log tang ada rahay hain; koi nahin rahey ga (We
have a mission which would be over in two and half months. Then
there will no one be left who is creating obstacles in our path. It
is after accomplishing this mission that the three would see that
Abrar gets bail. When Abrar questioned what relation was there
between their mission and his bail, they clarified that they had
made investigations and written a chargesheet on the 2006 blasts
which the new comers in the ATS like Hemant Karkare were
changing. This would mean that the three officers were staunch
advocates of the Hindutvadi ideology which says that only
Muslims are terrorists; Hindus cannot be. This development clear-
ly buttresses what Mushrif has said in his book. Unfortunately this
requires a different inquiry which is beyond the ambit of the courts
of law. Only a neutral foreign investigation agency or commission
can unearth but our courts and the law ministry would never
agree.
Another instance of this stalemate is that of Himayat Baig,
convicted and sentenced to death in Pune German Bakery case.
Baig wrote a letter to the High Court asking it not to give Yasin
Bhatkal to ATS Maharashtra custody because the ATS would tor-
ture Bhatkal and make him confess under duress that he was with
Baig in planting the bomb at the German Bakery.
(4)
The ATS under
Rakesh Maria/Raghuvanshi was totally biased against Muslims
and had been trained by Purohit to prove only Muslims as terror-
ists. That was what Purohits training the ATS in counter-terrorism
amounts to. How does the ATS do it is spelled by Baig as third
degree treatment and force. Levy and Clark lift the veil when
they observe the characteristic modus operandi of Rakesh Maria,
in charge of Crime Branch during the 26/11 and ATS chief during
the German Bakery blast and the trial. Methods of torture: sleep
deprivation, near drowning [the notorious in-human water board-
ing as in the case of Khwaja Yunus], mock executions [as in the
case of Fahim Ansari, another person falsely implicated in 26/11]
and electrocutions [as in the case of Noorulhoda, an accused in
Malegaon 2006 blasts] in secret locations (p. 82).
In fact, when Maria met Kasab first time he pointed his knuck-
les and threatened him to tell everything without being killed.
Can the likes of Maria, Sinha and Raghuvanshi let anyone do
the larger picture? The Pradhan Commission on 26/11 is an eye-
wash as it is based on what the cops wanted it to say.
Footnotes:
(1) http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-exclusive-
i n t e r v i e w - 2 6 1 1 - w h y - a m e r i c a - s a c r i f i c e d -
mumbai/20131111.htm?pos=1&src=NL20131112
(2) The Siege: The Attack on the Taj. Andrian Levy and Cathy Scott-
Clark. Penguin India, New Delhi, 2003. P. 148.
(3) Who Killed Karkare, the real face of terrorism in India. SM Mushrif.
New Delhi, Pharos Media, 2009.
(4) Dont give Bhatkal to ATS: Baig. The Times of India Nashik edition
24 October 2013.
Police informers have played havoc with
intelligence agencies. Zabiuddin, Sajid
Ahmad, Abrar Ahmad and hundreds of others
from the Muslim community fell victim of the
police network of spies for snooping. The
heart of the matter is: who employs them
and why to carry out terror activities. To do
the larger picture in the words of Devy it is
also to reverse the logic of his assumption:
Why dont you use me assumes Levy as
Headley to be saying to FBI, as the Trojan
Horse? I look like a white guy, as you say
like a gora. I have an American passport....
AFSANA RASHID, SRINAGAR
Asking for revisiting Vajpayee-type dialogue on Kashmir, Hurriyat
(M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has said that the conglomer-
ate is committed to any dialogue aimed at resolving the Kashmir
issue. The former Prime Minister had emphasized on resolving the
dispute within the ambit of humanity.
If Vajpayee-type dialogue is revisited, then there is scope for
talks, Mirwaiz has been quoted as saying, November 14, adding,
Hurriyat is on the cards to any dialogue aiming at resolving the
vexed Kashmir issue. He added there are two possible ways to
find a solution to the Kashmir issue. Either UN resolutions should
be implemented in letter and spirit or a triangular dialogue should
be started.
Mirwaizs statement came a week after the separatists met
Pakistan Prime Ministers Advisor Sartaj Aziz in New Delhi.
Appreciating the move, mainstream political parties hoped for
a meaningful dialogue in future between separatists and
Government of India. National Conference senior leader Ali
Mohammad Sagar, told CNS, local news gathering agency,
November 15, that New Delhi should encourage separatists espe-
cially Mirwaiz for a dialogue so that peace prevails in the state.
PDP spokesperson, Naeem Akhtar, November 15, said that
Government of India must seriously address the issue and open
all channels of dialogue with the separatists. Awami Itihaad Party
president, Er Rashid said it is the duty of Mirwaiz to take Hurriyat
(G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani and JKLF chairman Mohammad
Yasin Malik into confidence before starting any dialogue process
with the government.
Meanwhile, Malik, while addressing a gathering at Kangan-
Ganderbal November 8, cautioned that Kashmir would turn into
another Afghanistan if the Kashmir issue wasnt resolved on pri-
ority basis. While addressing European Parliament through a video
link November 13, he said the European Union and Parliament
cant evade its humanitarian obligation to resolve the Kashmir
issue.
Hurriyat (G) spokesperson, November 9, said that the amal-
gam in principle is not against the dialogue-processes between
India and Pakistan, however, until the Kashmir issue is resolved in
accordance with the wishes of the people the dialogue process is
futile. Geelani, while addressing a public rally in north Kashmirs
Kupwara, November 8, said Kashmir isnt a border dispute
between India and Pakistan and it has to be resolved in its histor-
ical perspective keeping in view the aspirations of the people.
Addressing a rally in south Kashmirs Parigam-Pulwama
November 13, Geelani said gun remains an option in resolving
the Kashmir issue.
Sagar, told local news gathering agency KNS November 17,
that Geelani must desist from issuing any statement that could
disrupt law and order in the state. State Congress chief Saifudin
Soz, addressing a rally in Lalan Ganoor in south Kashmir
November 16, said, There are certain Hurriyat leaders who are
not against using the gun for the solution to Kashmir issue. But let
me make it clear that we dont need gun, we need peace, prosper-
ity and dignity. We will crush the gun.
Geelani was again put under house arrest, November 16, after
being released from house confinement, October 29.
Dukhtaran-e-Milat chairperson Aasiya Andrabi, November 15,
said dialogue with New Delhi will never be acceptable until it
accepts the disputed nature of Jammu and Kashmir.
Furthermore, Mirwaiz, November 18, offered to hold dialogue
with New Delhi, asking the Central government to create con-
ducive atmosphere for talks. He added the atmosphere can be
created by acting on the demands theyve put forth. The demands
include revocation of Armed Forces Special Power Act, demilita-
rization and release of political prisoners.
Former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Chief A S Dulat,
November 15, told KNS that he always wanted Hurriyat to take a
stand of its own and participate in the dialogue process on
Kashmir. Mirwaiz is an important figure. He has a strong follow-
ing in Kashmir because of the platform he has.
Muharram procession taken out
Amidst tight security and restrictions, Muharram processions
were taken out, here. Various political and religious organizations
condemned the ban by the government on the processions
terming it as religious-interference.
Restrictions were imposed by the government in several areas
in Srinagar, November 15, to foil several Muharram processions.
Almost all roads leading to city-center, Lal Chowk, were blocked.
Spools of concertina-wire were laid and barricades erected to
stop the movement of people. However, processions were car-
ried-out in other parts of the valley.
Normal life was disrupted here, November 13, even after gov-
ernment imposed restrictions. Scores were injured and dozens
detained when police used force on 8th Muharram processions,
say media-reports. For the past more than 20 years, authorities
here have been disallowing procession on 8th and 10th of
Muharram. Every year Muslims recall the martyrdom of Hazrat
Imam Hussain (AS), the beloved grandson of Prophet Mohammad
(SAW), in the battle of Karbala on the 10th of Muharram, fourteen
centuries ago.
Hurriyat (G) chairman Syed Ali Shah Geelani, November 14,
said Kashmiris arent communal, but administrators have differ-
ent parameters for different communities. Huge funds are utilized
for the safety of Amarnath pilgrims but if Muslims dare to take out
processions they are beaten and arrested.
Shia-Sunni Coordination Committee, November 13,
denounced, what it said, the unprovoked police action against
Muharram mourners and said that dozens of mourners were
injured as a result of baton-charge and teargas shelling by police.
Awami Ittihaad Party president, Er Rashid, November 13, said
that the official machinery remains on its toes during the
Amarnath yatra, but when it comes to religious rights of natives,
restrictions are imposed by the state.
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, November 15, said the ban
must go once and for all and mourners should be allowed to use
their traditional routes as has been the practice for decades before
the ban was enforced. The government, however, November 13,
said restrictions imposed in city were inevitable as it had inputs
that miscreants could misuse the processions for rioting.
Abdullah claims PDP-Modi nexus
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has alleged that there is a hid-
den contact between PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
and the BJPs prime-ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to
seek power.
PDP wants to sail in two boats to seek power but their boat
will sink due to the weight of its own falsehood, said the Chief
Minister, while addressing a gathering at Keller-Shopian in south
Kashmir, November 17. He added National Conferences associ-
ation with UPA led by Congress is firm and will continue in
future. He asked separatists to get involved in the dialogue
process for amicable resolution of the political issues.
The partys provincial president, Devender Singh Rana,
addressing a rally at Mendhar in Jammu, November 17 alleged
that Sayeed was using a former Director of IB, who happens to be
advising the BJP on security-related matters, a women social
activist running an NGO, close to Mehbooba Mufti and a Delhi
based senior elderly journalist who happens to be Muftis close
friend to be the conduits between the PDP and the BJP.
Lashing out at the Chief Minister, PDP president Mehbooba
Mufti, while addressing a gathering at Wadipora-Handwara in
north Kashmir, November 18, said theyve nothing to hide as peo-
ple know well as to who formed an alliance with the BJP at the
Centre to seek power in the past. For these people BJP was
sacred then and now it has become unholy. She added the party
has no contact and relationship with BJP and it isnt power hun-
gry.
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Reshma
Khanakti aawaaz mein woh jaadu hai
Tere jaane ke baad bhi sada goonjti rahegi
(The ringing voice has that magic/ Even when
youre no more, itll continue to echo in hearts
and minds).
The great Urdu poet Ahmad Faraz wrote this
couplet when he first met the young Reshma in
Lahore way back in 1966. The word sada
means: sound or echo. Both the
connotations are applicable to Reshmas
deathless voice. Farazs prophetic words,
uttered nearly 50 years ago, ring true. It was
Reshmas untrained, raw voice that captivated
the people of the Sub-continent. Her voice
wasnt shrill. Neither was it piercing. It didnt
grate on ears. Untrained voices in music have
their own beauty and charm. Take the example
of Kishore Kumar, whose basic knowledge of
music was almost zilch, but his voice enthralled
many a music-lover and is still loved and
appreciated.
Born near Bikaner in western Rajasthan,
Reshma belonged to a vagabond (Banjara) tribe
that converted to Islam and migrated to Pakistan
after partition. Those whove heard the desert
music of Arabia sung by the bedouins, Arabic-
speaking nomadic people of the Middle Eastern
deserts, will be able to relate to the free-flowing
voice of Reshma, whose ancestors belonged to
the Thar desert of western Rajasthan. It was
because of no pretensions, her voice seared into
the hearts of the listeners. Whether it was
Dama dam mast qalandar, Hai O Rabba nahio
lagda dil or Lambi Judai (film Hero, 1982), she
struck an instant rapport with the listeners.
Unassuming and self-effacing to a fault, she
never understood, rather liked, why people
slotted her in Sufi genre. Main toh bas gaa leti
hoon (I just sing) was her standard refrain. She
was very close to the late Mehdi Hasan, who
also hailed from Jhunjhnu in western Rajasthan.
The great Hasan offered to teach her how to read
and write Urdu and also the nuances of ghazal
gayaki, but she was happy in her own world of
folk music and told Mehdi that too much
sophistication in singing wasnt her forte.
Though she was unlettered, she was above
the petty politics of country and creed and never
considered India to be a different country from
Pakistan. Its a little known fact that Reshma
could play sarod very well. When Subhash Ghai
approached her for singing a folk song Lambi
Judai in 1982, he asked her about her
remuneration. The magnanimous singer told
Ghai that she got her remuneration by singing in
a Hindi movie. Mujhe mera mehantana mil
gaya (Ive got my remuneration), shes said to
have said this to Ghai.
The rusticity of her voice was the key to her
success. She never learnt the ABC of any kind of
music but it was integral and intrinsic to her. She
was very quick to pick up a tune, however
difficult it might be. Malika-e-tarannum
Noorjahan, not known to be very generous in
praising other singers, also conceded that there
was something in Reshmas voice that was hard
to be found in other singers.
Reshma always sang from the recesses of
her heart and never cared for the popularity of
her numbers. Shed often say, Kuchh khaas
hoga toh khud-ba-khud mashoor ho jaayenge
(If theres something special in my songs, theyll
be automatically famous). Ironically, such a
great human being and a singer par excellence,
suffered from throat cancer and the Big C
ultimately claimed her life. Au revoir, Reshma.
Well continue to listen to your perennial
numbers and even in this time of sheer
cacophony and outright obnoxious music, your
relevance will remain undeniable.
Parveen Shakir
The best of men cannot suspend their fate / The
good die early and the bad die late, English
novelist Daniel Dafoes pithy epigram applies to
the greats who often shuffle off the mortal coil at
the zenith of their creativity. English poets and
contemporaries Shelly, Keats and Byron died
young with a definite but unfulfilled promise to
give the world of literature, particularly English
poetry, sublimer poems to enrich its corpus.
Similarly, Urdu poetry of the second half of
the extremely creative 20th century lost more-
to-come creativity of an exceptionally talented
poetess who died in a car accident at the young
age of 42 on 26 December, 1994. She was
Parveen Shakir. Born on 24 November, 1952,
Parveen detonated the myth that beauty and
brains never went hand-in-hand. She was a
double MA in English and Linguistics with a
doctorate degree and was a very high ranking
officer who was blessed with exquisitely coy
looks. Her face had the beauty of a
Shakespearean sonnet and her mannerisms had
an unmistakable stamp of elan, eclat and elitism.
Shakir had her own ideology and she wrote
pouring her heart out. The web world is teeming
with her numerous poems, ghazals, couplets
and verses and many of them are actually not
hers!
Years ago, a Pakistani friend of mine mailed
me a ghazal written by Parveen when she was a
student of MA, Previous. One
of the couplets of that beautiful
ghazal is embossed on the
palimpsest of my heart and
mind. Heres it for you: Kitni aasaani se kah gaye
bhool jao mujhe / Tum se ye mumkin hai, par
mujh aurat se nahin (So nonchalantly you said,
forget me / It could be possible for you, but not
possible for me, a woman). Well-versed in
English literature and well-acquainted with the
poetry of Romantics, one can detect a mild
inspiration from Lord Byrons Mans love is of a
mans life, a thing apart / Tis a womans whole
existence (Don Juan) on this couplet of Shakir.
Parveen admirably depicted a womans longings
and cravings as well as her complaints and
unhappiness in her poetry.
She wrote on social stigmas and feminism
as well but her feminism wasnt boisterous and
roof-top screaming type. It had its own dignity.
She was a prolific poet and a precocious one,
whose first collection of poems Khushboo
(Fragrance) hit the stands in 1976. I remember
one of the lines from her maiden collection:
Jaane ki baat karte ho / Mere daaman se aansoo
ponchhte ho / Apni dasti toh de do / Kya sirf tum
hi rote ho? (You talk of departure / And wipe
your tears with my dupatta (diaphanous cover) /
Please give me your hankie/ Are you the only
person to weep?).
Softness was her metier and spontaneity
was her forte. Parveen got everything in life. Yet
she could write on all human emotions as if she
had personally experienced them. Who can
forget her immortal nazm Roz dekhti hoon:
Muflisi tumhare pairhan se dikhti hai / Chehre pe
lekin noor-e-Khuda hai (Your clothes bespeak
your penury / But your face has the glow of
God). Alas, such a magnificent and ber-
sensitive poet died so young and so tragically.
SUMIT PAUL
Tributes to a singer and a poetess par excellence
Notwithstanding all the democratic hype
raised about Indian politics, it is indeed an
irony that leaders here do not practice it fully.
Undeniably, Mahatma Gandhi remembered
as Father of the Nation took many democrat-
ic steps to reach out to the Indian people and
identify himself with them. One of these was
his decision to don the Indian dress, called
dhoti. Without doubt, in todays era too, several Indian politi-
cians can be seen with yards of this cloth wrapped around
them, in different styles. Though their dhoti adds a regional
stamp to their political identity, it is difficult to link it with
todays democratic spirit.
The explanation is simple. The dhoti can no longer be
described as a common Indian citizens dress. The majority of
men in cities as well as villages are seen in shirts and
trousers/jeans. Even ladies across the country now prefer
wearing shalwar-kameez and are seen in sarees only on spe-
cial occasions.
Certainly, Indian politicians have the right to opt for Indian
dress they feel comfortable in. But it would be erroneous to
view this decision as a part of their democratic appeal to reach
out to Indian voters. Rather, the style of each reflects his/her
political image he or she is trying to promote. This stands out
in different ways that the dhoti is worn by P. Chidambarm,
AK Antony, Mulayam Singh and other leaders. Similarly, the dif-
ferent ways in which sarees are worn by Sonia Gandhi,
Jayalalitha and Mamata Bannerjee cannot be ignored. The style
of their wearing their Indian dress has definitely added to the
political identity of each. The dress-styles reflect their own
political identity and not that of common Indian citizens.
The use of a dress as a political tool in todays India is very
much off the democratic path which Mahatma Gandhi used it
for. And this is just a symbolic indicator of the importance
accorded to common Indians in the countrys politics. Despite
various leaders claiming to be peoples voice, common Indians
leader and other such rhetoric, the divide between their identi-
ty and that of Indians at grassroots cannot be sidelined. Indeed,
it is an irony that on one hand, strides in communication tech-
nology have made it possible for Indian leaders to reach out
almost continuously to Indian citizens. Most Indian leaders and
parties have been engaged in this exercise throughout their
campaigns for assembly elections. Through recorded mes-
sages, they have reached out to Indians. The same importance
has not been accorded to listening to the voice of the Indian cit-
izens. In essence, this reflects the absence of true democratic
link between leaders and the people.
Howsoever white, clean and/or starched the respected
leaders dress may appear to be, the same cannot be said
about political standards maintained and promoted by most of
them. The stings and scams that have caught several politi-
cians on the wrong foot are just a minor indicator of their own
political record being hardly as white as their dress.
During their electoral campaign, politicians have started
giving considerable importance to the dress of people seen at
their political functions. For instance, the unwritten rule being
practiced by most is that Muslim men must wear their attire
with their skull caps and women must put on the long, black
cloak called burqa. The primary purpose of this drive is to
display support of Muslims for these leaders. Here, the dem-
ocratic gap between display of these Muslims presence and
their being viewed as representatives of Indian Muslims cannot
be missed.
Undeniably, displaying large gatherings at their rallies and
other such programmes is an important part of electoral cam-
paigns. But to what extent can crowds actually add to the dem-
ocratic credibility of such leaders. It may be recalled, sometime
back, Anna Hazare dominated Indian politics and media. He
apparently derived his democratic strength from presence of
a great gathering of common Indians at his functions. In certain
areas, Hazare began to be hailed as the second Mahatma
Gandhi. Now, Hazare does not seem to enjoy the same political
support. His ride atop political waves was apparently a tempo-
rary phase. If Hazares political strength was really based on
the democratic support of common Indians, most probably his
name would have been used today also to attract crowds.
The political image displayed by most leaders through their
dress, rhetoric, crowd at their functions and other means does
not establish their democratic credibility among common
Indians. It is easy for practically any politician in the fray to
claim himself to be leader of the people. He may also ride atop
political and media waves for a while primarily on the basis of
what he claims. But if his claims do not win him support of peo-
ple, he is likely to fail democratically.
In todays Indian politics, there is a major democratic gap
between politicians projecting themselves as peoples leaders
and their actually being recognised as such by the majority. The
democratic gap is between their politics and that which is
understood as well as desired by common Indians.
Speaki ng Out
Democratic Gap
in Indian Politics
NI LOFAR SUHRAWARDY
New Delhi: Senior Supreme Court Advocate
Vrinda Grover delivered the Third Prof. Iqbal
Ansari Memorial Lecture on Communal
Violence and the Question of Justice: Notes
from the Field and the Courtroom at FTK-CIT
Hall of Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi on
22 November in Delhi.
Speaking on the occasion, Advocate Grover
said, The crisis in the Indian judicial system is
self-evident. The fact that the Supreme Court is
forced repeatedly to constitute Special
Investigation Teams (SITs) is an admission by
the court that the present machinery is complic-
it and essentially unaccountable. Transferring
cases outside the concerned state is also a
pointer that in fact it is the law which is running
like a refugee.
Following is a gist of the lecture:
The victims of the recent communal violence in
Muzaffarnagar have only joined the victims of
Delhi anti-Sikh massacres, Hashimpura,
Maliana and Gujarat 2002 pogrom in waiting for
the due course of justice to prevail.
While the Indian Constitution is a watershed
in upholding equality before law and justice to
the victims of individual or collective violence,
the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a colonial legacy,
lags behind the spirit of the Constitution. While
there are provisions against citizens if they turn
against the State, the law does not really envis-
age the State committing crimes against its citi-
zens. Public servants can be prosecuted for
individual crimes or misconduct, but the State
doesnt lend itself to be questioned and prose-
cuted. This is evidently in discordance with the
Article 3 of the Constitution which ensures fun-
damental rights against abuse of power.
Therefore, the criminal legal system runs con-
trary to the kernel of the fundamental ethos of
the Republic.
Seen in this light, the rampant impunity
does not really come across as some surprise.
Cases like that of Bilkis Bano [from Gujarat,
which ended in conviction of the accused] are at
best exceptions and not an example of the best
prevailing practices. It took many years of
relentless efforts on part of the activists to
ensure justice. So I dont hail it as a success of
the judical system.
The term riot as defined in the IPC is
grossly inaccurate and does not capture the pre-
meditated and organised killing of the minority
communities. A corollary to amending it would
also be to include the abetment of such violence
in its purview and bringing such culprits to the
book. We need a new language to describe the
nature of communal violence and its dynamics.
One does not really need to invent such lan-
guage. Some part of it is evolving in the expand-
ing contours of the judiciary, but importantly, a
lot has to be incorporated from the international
conventions and understanding on the issue.
The crisis in the Indian judicial system is
self-evident. The fact that the Supreme Court is
forced repeatedly to constitute SITs is an admis-
sion by the court that the present machinery is
complicit and essentially unaccountable.
Transferring cases outside the concerned state
is also a pointer that in fact it is the law which is
running like a refugee in the country. It is a
recognition that the present mechanism is not
working. The crisis is also manifested in the
non-existence of an independent investigating
agency. CBI is not such an independent body. I
appeared in a 1984 case in Karkardooma Court
some three years back, filed by a Sikh widow
whose husband was killed by a mob being
supervised allegedly by Jagdish Tytler himself.
His name appeared in the CBI chargesheet in the
column which indicates absence of evidence
and hence non-feasibility of FIR. For every sin-
gle witness in the case who says he saw
Jagdish Tytler instigating violence or people
being killed by his goons, there were three other
witnesses saying they did not see, in the same
chargesheet. The point is: is it any way possible
for three persons in the event of a riot to narrate
different versions even if they were at the same
place and the CBI should have followed up on
the line which pointed at active instigation and
organised violence. I saw no such diligence on
part of the CBI in the case.
Institutional Bias of the Prosecuting agencies
The burden of collecting and producing evi-
dence falls in such cases squarely on the vic-
tims themselves. The power to do so lies with
the CBI but it is severely compromised. The
recent letter by the Home Minister Sushil Shinde
saying that Muslims should not be targeted
might have been wrongly worded but it did
reveal that there is an institutional bias against
the minorities. JTSA has come up with empirical
evidences of such bias in its reports.
My plea to the National Commission on
Minorities is that it should conduct independent
research to bring out the truth of such systemic
bias. Institutional bias emerged in England in Sir
Mcpherson Commission appointed to deal with
a black boys killing by a white boy. The parents
insisted that it is not just an individual crime and
reflects the systemic bias.
In India, there is similar institutional bias
against minorities, Adivasis, Dalits and poor.
And this bias goes much beyond the police.
Unabated Impunity
The government officials cannot be prosecuted
until the complainant succeeds in getting the
governments approval to do so. This is called
sanction for public servants which is only a
continuation of the colonial vintage sanctions
for the servants of the crown with just the title
changed. Why this legal impunity? Why the peo-
ple who are running the system have no faith in
judiciary that if they have done no crime they
will come out unscathed?
The prosecutor does not have institutional
or functional autonomy in India. In the
Hashimpura case, we got a special public pros-
ecutor after much travail. Ninety families filed
600 RTIs demanding the Annual Confidential
Reports of the accused police officials. There
was no mention in the ACRs of any ongoing
murder case against them. Why is the police
entirely insulated from accountability?
In fact, it is the activists who have made
great contribution in expanding the justice sys-
tem. Accountability of the command and control
system must also be ensured. The heads of the
system should be held accountable if they
indulge in or are unable to stop targeted vio-
lence.
In the Kandhamal incident, the rioting fol-
lowed the map of procession that the Hindutva
groups organised with the dead body of Swami
Lakshmananand. The local officials must have
sensed that it would provoke further violence
but still allowed it to happen.
The law isnt faulty just because of the bias,
but also because of the structure. It is interest-
ing to note that a students witness in the case
was accepted by the court even after a long
time had lapsed, as the lawyer said that the per-
son studies Sanskrit and Sanskrit students have
better memory! And most amazingly, this argu-
ment was accepted by the court.
The proposed Communal Violence Bill by
the Congress Party in 2004 has not been
passed even under the UPA-II. The Bill creates
communaly disturbed areas much like the
AFSPA and gives more power to the same state
machinery which has been found to be institu-
tionally biased and complicit. I personally think
the government is not really serious about the
Bill, hence it has brought a version which they
know will be opposed by the BJP. Instead of pro-
tecting the minority group, let the law protect
just anybody. We are asking for accountability in
the system and that aspect should be strength-
ened. A robust victim-witness protection is of
more importance.
The second pillar of the Bill is reparation
where it again fails to address the grossly
arbitrary system of state government deciding
relief and compensation on its own whims.
Even in a road accident, the compensation is
fixed.
Chairs Remarks:
In her chairs remarks, Prof. Farida Abdullah
Khan, who herself has engaged with communal
violence issues for years, said that there was
much for us to reflect upon on the issues raised
by Adv Vrinda Grover, especially in the light of
the developments following the Muzaffarnagar
violence. These were questions linked funda-
mentally to the future of democracy itself. Can
the safety and security of Muslims be ensured
only through Muslim police officers, and only in
Muslim concentrated spaces?
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Question of Justice
While there are provisions against citizens if they turn against
the State, the law does not really enivsage the State committing
crimes against its citizens. Public servants can be prosecuted for
individual crimes or misconduct, but the State doesnt lend itself
to be questioned and prosecuted.
The government officials cannot be prosecuted until the com-
plainant succeeds in getting the governments approval to do so.
This is called sanction for public servants which is only a con-
tinuation of the colonial vintage sanctions for the servants of the
crown with just the title changed. Why this legal impunity? Why
the people who are running the system have no faith in judiciary
that if they have done no crime they will come out unscathed?
AZIM PREMJI of Wipro and SHIV NADAR of HCL (Hindustan
Computers Ltd) Technologies are among the five great philanthro-
pists who have donated large sums for philanthropic works in differ-
ent fields like promotion of education, social development, rural
development etc. Of these 5, Azim Premjis contribution is the great-
est i.e. a total of Rs 8,000 crores followed by Shiv Nadar whose total
contribution is Rs 3000 crores. Both these companies are in the field
of information technology (IT) and the philanthropic work of both is
also for the promotion of education: academic, technical, profes-
sional. Contributions of all others are less than Rs one thousand
crores.
HAMEED PATEL, secretary in Maharashtra government, has been
appointed Principal Secretary in state governements ministry of law
and justice at Mantralay, Mumbai. Sarting his service as under sec-
retary in state government, he became secretary in 2008 and now
appointed as Principal Secretary.
JUSTICE IQBAL ANSARI has been appointed a judge of Patna High
Court. With his taking over as a judge of Patna High Court the num-
ber of judges in this High Court has gone up to 33 against the sanc-
tioned posts of 43 judges.
Dr YAHYA NASHEET and RASHEED ANJUM have been appointed
Visiting Fellows in Jamia Millia Islamia, Department of Urdus Tagore
Research & Translation project. Rasheed Anjum is a dramatist, poet
and fiction writer. His many collections of dramas, poems, fictions,
English to Urdu translations (8 books) and Hindi translations (2
books) have been published. Yahya Nasheet, on the other hand, is an
Urdu and Marathi languages scholar and his many books in these
languages have been published. He has also been honoured by
Maharashtra Urdu Sahitya Academy, Mumbai. Under Tagore
Research & Translation Project many of his (Tagores) novels,
essays, poems etc have been translated into Urdu.
Prof QAZI ZAINUS SAJIDEEN, scholar and educationist of Meeruth
has been appointed Chairman of UP Madrasa Education Board. This
information was given by Azam Khan, states minister for urban
development and minorities welfare. He said that in addition to chair-
man, six members of this Board including Ghulam Shabbir Faridi,
Principal of Ballias Madrasa Ghausia have already been appointed
and three more, one each from government of India, states legisla-
tive assembly and legislative council (Upper House) will be appoint-
ed soon. Prof Zainus Sjideen is the City Qazi of Meeruth and a for-
mer Dean of AMUs Faculty of Theology.
Prof (Dr) (Ms) SAMI RAFIQUE, Associate Professor of English in
AMU is the first Indian who for the first time presented English trans-
lations of Urdu poems and also delivered a lecture on Feminist
Success in English translations of Womens Writings in Urdu at
American Translators Associations 54th Annual International
Conference held in St Anonio (New Texas), USA which was attend-
ed by about 1500 prominent translators of different languages of the
world like, among other well-known languages, Chinese, Japanese,
Hebrew, Slavic, Spanish, Turkish etc. She was also invited to pres-
ent English translations of Urdu poems of important poets in anoth-
er function held in a caf.
Thirty-eight year old (Ms) NUZHAT GUL of J&K, who holds Degree
in Horticulture, Landscape and specialization in turf management
from the University of Massachusetts is the first woman in India who
is a Turf Manager at the 18-hole Royal Springs Gold Course (RSGC)
in Srinagar which she describes as one the best golf course in India.
Though a male dominated sport, she is working in that capacity for
more than a decade and has now been promoted as secretary of
RSGC which has the best scenic beauty in the country, situated near
Chashmashahi Gardens, overlooking Dal Lake. She is the first
woman, and also the first Indian to be a certified turf-grass profes-
sional and a Member of Board of Directors of the Indian Golf
Industry.
MAULANA ZAFARUDDIN, rector of Jaffarabad (Delhi)s Madrasa
Babul Uloom was unanimously elected president of Jamiatul Ulama,
Delhi state consecutively for the sixth time at JUHs meeting held in
this madrasa on 10 November.
(Ms) AYESHA KIDWAI, Professor at the Centre for Lingustics,
School of Languages, Literature & Culture at JNU, New Delhi and
SHIRAZ NAVAL MINWALLA, Professor in Dept of Theoretical
Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai are
among the seven scientists and academicians who were hon-
oured with Infosys Prizes for 2013 in recognition of their out-
standing contributions and researches in different academic and
scientific fields. Whereas Ms Ayesha Kidwai won the Prize for lin-
guistics, Shiraz Minwalla won the Prize in the field of Physical
sciences. These prizes, awarded every year by Infosys Science
Foundation include a cheque for Rs 55 lakh, a cer tificate and a
Medal.
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NAND KISHORE VIKRAM, prominent fiction writer from India and
(Ms) NISAR AZIZ BUTT, equally prominent fiction writer from
Pakistan were honoured with Alami Farogh-e Urdu Adab Award
2013 at a function held at Hotel Sheraton, Doha (Qatar) this
month. Names of these two litterateurs were selected by a jury
headed by Prof Gopi Chand Narang in India and another jury head-
ed by Mukhtar Masood in Pakistan. This is a regular annual func-
tion being held every year at Doha from 1996 onwards. There was
also the 17th annual mushaira function. The awards carry a cash
prize (cheque) of Rs 1,50,000 to each winner.
WAHEEDA RAHMAN, veteran film actress of yesteryears has
been unanimously selected by a 5-member jury for being hon-
oured with first Centenary Award for Indian Film Personality of the
Year at the International Film Festival of India being held in Goa.
This Award has been instituted by the Govt. of India in commem-
oration of completion of 100 years of Indian cinema. The 77-year
old actress acted in dozens of films including Guide, Saheb Bibi
aur Ghulam, Chaudahvin ka Chaand, Pyasa etc. This Award car-
ries a citation, a certificate, a shawl, a medal (silver peacock) and
a cheque of Rs 10 lakh. She has also been honoured with Indian
governments civilian awards Padma Shri (1972) and
Padmabhushan (2011). It may be stated that Indian film industry
completed 100 years on 3 May 2013 and the first film Raja
Harishchandra produced and directed by Dada Saheb Phalke was
shown in 1913.
Prof MUHAMMAD ANEES of AMUs Department of Botany was
honoured with Indias prestigious Prof Panchanan Maheshwari
Padak 2013 in the Indian Botanical Societys 36th annual
Conference held at Deen Dayal University, Gorakhpur in recogni-
tion of his valuable works and researches in the field of Plant
Biotechnology. Prof Aneess more than 150 research papers and
treatises have been published in national and international maga-
zines. He has also been honoured with many other prestigious
awards and honours like Vigyan Ratn Samman of Council of
Science & Technology, UP in 2010 and Scientist of the Year
Award-2007 of National Environmental Science, New Delhi in
addition to many important Fellowships.
MUHAMMAD WAQAS (of India Today), ARIF AZIZ (of Nadim,
Bhopal) and AHMAD IBRAHIM ALVI (of Urdu daily Aag) are
among many journalists who were selected for National Awards
announced by Press Council of India headed by Justice
Markandey Katju for Excellence in Journalism. These awards were
instituted in 2012 and carry different cash amounts for different
categories.
(Ms) KAAREHA JAVED of Kashmir and HANIF USMAN of
Maharashtra are among the 23 children who were honoured with
National Awards on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary of
Indias first Prime Minister Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru for their
extraordinary achievements in art, culture, sports and education-
al fields. These awrds are of two categories for which Rs 20,000
in cash and a gold medal and Rs 10,000 and a silver medal are
given to children between 4 and 15 years of age. Whereas Ms
Kaareha Javed was awarded for her excellent performance in
martial art and educational field, Hanif Usman was awarded for
his excellent performances in inventions in technical field. Both
were given awards of the second category i.e. Rs 10 thousand
and a silver medal each. The awards were given by Mrs Krishna
Teerath, Union minister for women and child welfare
ZAHID AZAD of Jhandanagar (Nepal), Urdu poet has been hon-
oured by Urdu Development Organization and United Muslim of
India with Hafeez Meeruthi Aalami Yaum-e Urdu Award in recog-
nition of his services to Urdu in Nepal.
SALAMAT MIAN, chief editor of a Hindi newspaper Dainik Yug
was honoured with Best Editor Award by Newspapers
Association of India (NAI) at a function held at Delhis Constitution
Club on 6 November.
Four Javed Habib Awards: Javed Habib Award for Journalism,
Javed Habib Award for promotion of Urdu, Javed Habib Award for
promotion of poetry and Javed Habib Award for Urdu Teacher
were given to senior journalist AL HAJ ATHAR ABBASI; HAJI
RASHID ALI KHAN, Manager of Muslim Inter College; poet SAHIL
Seemaab and MASTER JAVED ALAM RAHI respectively. These
awards were given by Dr Rahul Deepankar who had come from
Chicago and was the chief guest at the award giving function at
Buland Shahar. The awards were sponsored by Muslim Youth
Convention.
AWARDS
SHEIKH HAFIZ ZUBER ALIZAI of Jamat Ahl-e Hadees
famous religious scholar, researcher, author of many
books and chief editor of monthly Al Hadees magazine
died in Mau Nath Bhanjan. His writings and researches on
Hadees run into many volumes. Among his countless
books, Noorul Ainain is very famous and is almost like an
encyclopaedia on Hadees. He was well versed in reading,
writing and speaking Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Pushto,
English, Greek etc languages.
NAJMAL BABU, noted ghazal singer died at his residence
in Malappuram on 6 November at the age of 65 years after
a prolonged illness. He took part in ghazal programmes all
over the country. He leaves behind his wife and two chil-
dren.
MAULANA MUHAMMAD NASRULLAH, religious scholar
and author of many books died in Mau on 10 Novemebr at
the age of 59 years. He was a teacher in Madrasa Faizul
Uloom, Mahmudabad Gohna (near Azamgarh). In addition
to writing many books he also compiled many articles and
treatises.
ABDUL HAMEED SHAMSI, senior journalist, author, social
worker and chief editor of Urdu monthly magazine Shamsi
Aawaaz died in Muradabad on 14 November at the age of
63 years. Author of more than 100 short stories, he also
worked in Haji Mastans newspaper Mastaan Times for
many years. He is survived by his wife, four sons and four
daughter. He renderd great service to Urdu.
ZAFAR ADEEM, poet, novelist, fiction writer and senior
journalist died of heart attack in Delhi on 16 November at
the age of 65 years. As poet many anthologies of his
poems including Deewan-e Adeem, Lala Rukh, Bhini Bhini
Mahak and others have been published. As a journalist he
started his career in this field from Muzaffarpur in Bihar
and worked with many newspapers and literary maga-
zines like Urdu daily Tej Akhbar-e Nau, Filmi Sitaray,
Inqilab, Qaumi Awaaz, Bisween Sadi, Rooby. He also
translated many English books of Gandhiji, Jawaharlal
Nehru and other leades into Urdu. He leaves behind his
wife and four children. He was also honoured with many
government and non-government awards.
Syed Tufail Ahmad Manglori (d. 30 March
1946), an alumnus of the MAO College,
Aligarh which he had joined in 1879, was
more actively engaged with the Duty Society
(founded in 1890) of Sahibzada Aftab
Ahmad Khan and also with the All India
Mohammedan Educational Conference
(AIMEC, founded in 1886). He founded the
City High School of the Aligarh Muslim
University (AMU). He also launched
Soodmand, a journal to encourage trading
habits among Muslims. He was a member of
the UP Legislative Council when he wrote a
popular book on self-government (Swaraj).
In 1937, Tufail Manglori published
Musalmanon Ka Raushan Mustaqbil, a reli-
gious, economic, educational and political
history of Indias Muslims roughly since 18th
century. This book became so popular that
by December 1945 it brought out its fifth edi-
tion, with major additions. The fifth edition
became more well-known because of its sharp opposition of the
Muslim Leagues separatist politics. Ali Ashraf could find a reprint
of the fifth edition in mid 1980s in Islamabad, got a fund sanc-
tioned by the ICHR (New Delhi) and rendered it into English, with
substantial help from Prof. Iqtidar Alam Khan, Dept. of History,
AMU. The Peoples Publishing House, Delhi,
published the English translation in 1994
(Towards a Common Destiny: A Nationalist
Manifesto). Mangloris outlook is coloured
by deep religiosity uncompromising anti-
imperialism, secularism and nationalism.
Tufail Ahmad based his opposition [to the
idea of Pakistan] on more secular arguments-
Indian Muslims interests being an integral
part of the interests of the whole nation and
wholesale transfer of populations not being in
the realm of practicability, the creation of
Pakistan would leave the problem of Muslims
in the remaining part of the country where it
was and make it even worseConcerning
the circumstances which helped and paved
the way for the demand for Pakistan, Tufail
Ahmad, too, like Abul Kalam Azad, attaches
importance to the Congress refusal to form
coalition government with the Muslim League
in the UP in 1937, and to Jawaharlal Nehrus
statement regarding the absolute sovereign rights of the proposed
Constituent Assembly; thus nullifying the agreement with the
Muslim League on the Cabinet Mission Plan.
However, Manglori also published another book, Rooh-e-
Raushan Mustaqbil, in January 1946. This was probably pub-
lished by the Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Hind, and distributed by the
Nizami Book Agency, Badaun.
The most significant aspect of the Rooh-e-Raushan Mustaqbil is
Mangloris comprehensively well-argued critique of the idea of
Pakistan (pp. 160-188). Interestingly, this particular portion stands
translated by Ali Ashraf (pp. 371-91) claiming it to be a part of the
1945 edition of the Musalmanon Ka Raushan Mustaqbil. This sec-
tion on the critique of Pakistan has sub-headings like: Historical back-
ground; Pakistan as big hurdle; How were Muslim majority areas
turned into Muslim minority provinces [in the Lucknow Pact, 1916,
by Jinnah]; Nature of Pakistan; Economic Aspect of Proposed
Pakistan; Educational Aspect of Pakistan; Pakistan as an Islamic
Province; Transfer of Population; Pakistan from the viewpoint of
Central Government; Resemblances in the views of Agha Khan and
Jinnah regarding Pakistan; Prospect after the formation of Pakistan;
and Prescription and Treatment. A similar critique was offered by a
Jamiat Ulama cleric, Maulana Hifzur Rahman Seohaarwi (d. 1962), in
his Tehreek-e-Pakistan Par Ek Nazar, published probably in 1945 by
Jamiat Ulama. Seohaarwi was publishing such contents in the
Madina, Bijnore. The lead in bringing out sharp critiques of the idea
of Pakistan was, however, taken by Maulana Sajjad (1880-1940) as
early as December1938 to April 1940, through his columns in
Naqeeb Urdu weekly of the Imarat-e-Shariah (Patna). Maulana
Sajjad was the founder of the Jamiat Ulama-e Bihar (1917), also
called Anjuman-e Ulama-e Bihar. (Mohammad Sajjad, AMU -
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SYED TUFAIL AHMAD MANGLORI
Mushawarat delegation visits Muzaffarnagar, distributes relief
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New Delhi: A high-level delegation of the All-India Muslim Majlis-
e Mushawarat visited Muzaffarnagar and Shamli districts of west-
ern Uttar Pradesh on 20 November for the fourth time since the
outbreak of the anti-Muslim violence in that area last September
and distributed relief to the inmates of a number of camps.
The delegation comprised of AIMMM President Dr Zafarul-
Islam Khan and AIMMM Central Committee member Dr Anwarul
Islam. The delegation included a number of social workers and
journalists. The delegation distributed 300 razaees (woolen
duvets) and 300 woolen mattresses worth around 2.5 lakh
rupees.
This time the delegation visited the refugee
camps at Malakpur, Sunaithi Camps No. 1, 2 and 3,
Bibipur, Barnawi and Noorpur. The delegation found
that the inmates are left by the authorities without
any help or amenities. Most are living in plastic
tents which are unable to withstand the harsh cold
weather and rains. The camps woefully lack toilets
and hygienic conditions. Only scanty and irregular
government aid has reached these people. Ration
too reaches them intermittently and in insufficient
quantities.
The delegation found that these camps house
people even from far-away districts which were not
reckoned until now as riot-affected areas like
Saharanpur, Panipat and Meerut districts where the
communal tension and attacks grew to such an
extent that Muslims had to flee from their villages and take shelter
in Muslim majority areas nearby.
At present, these people are camping on private or govern-
ment (forest deptt) land. Such people should be settled on private
land purchased for the purpose. Jamiat Ulama-e Hind and
Jamaat-e Islami Hind are meeting this challenge to some extent
while the need is much greater.
The delegation also came to know that people in general are
not accepting the state government's offer of a compensation of
Rs 5 lakh to the victims from a select list of villages which saw
worst violence, murders, rapes and violence. To get even this
compensation, the victims are required to sign an affidavit under
which they agree to relinquish their "movable and immovable"
properties in their villages and agree not to return to their erstwhile
homes and also to leave the present camps at the same time. This
compensation is limited to the families of some nine villages while
the camps house refugees from some 200 villages mostly in the
districts of Muzaffarnagar, Shamli and Baghpat.
The delegation also found that the refugees are in urgent need
of a lot of help of various kinds, especially of water-proof tents,
blankets and mattresses. But their paramount need is land of their
own where they can pitch their tents and start building their small
dwellings to live fearlessly because the owners of the private land
and the forest department will soon start pressurising them to
leave their present places.
Charity Alliance, headed by Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, is also
offering help to the refugees in various ways since the outbreak of
the violence and is negotiating now to purchase
land in the area where each family could be
given a 50 sq. yard plot to settle. Each such plot
of 50 sq. yards will cost around Rs 35,000.
Charity Alliance has helped open a central coor-
dination office for the riot victims at Kairana to offer information
and guide help. Charity Alliance is also trying to provide profes-
sional tools to artisans and professional workers like tailors,
stone-cutters, building workers and carpenters etc in order to help
them resume their professions.
New Delhi: Vice President Hamid Ansari released here on 21 November a book on the life and
services of Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai, the veteran Congress leader who honorably served the
country in various capacities like Rajya Sabha MP, chairman of Union Public Service
Commission and governor of the states of Bihar, Orissa, Haryana and Punjab.
The book "Me'mar-e Qaum" [Builder of a nation], is authored by Mufti Ataur Rahman
Qasmi and published by Shah Waliullah Institute.
The book release was held at the India Islamic Cultural Centre. Vice President Hamid
Ansari said that services of Kidwai cannot be forgotten by the people of the country. He said
Kidwai enjoys serving people, an spirit rarely found in people these days. He helped many. One
of his historic initiatives was to start Mewat Development Board.
While speaking during the function, AR Kidwai said his character has been shaped by
Jamia Millia Islamia which he joined in 1924 as a student of class 2. He was fortunate to get
the attention of an educationist like Dr Zakir Husain.
The function was chaired by the former Union minister and the present general secretary
of Congress Party, Shakil Ahmad who said that the services of AR Kidwai are such that one
yearns to emulate him. He said that a characteristic of Kidwai is that he never exhibits his
work.
Ataur Rahman Qasmi, the author of the book, said that Kidwai added to the stature of any
post he held. He never compromised on his principles. These days it is rare to find such ser-
vants of the people.
The function was attended by a sizeable number of Delhi elite which bore witness to the
popularity of Kidwai who is now leading a private life after offering an example of how Muslims
can selflessly serve the country with honesty and dignity.
London:The University of East
London conferred an honorary doc-
torate in Business Administration on
Dr. Qaidjoher Ezzuddin (73), the eld-
est son of the Dawoodi Bohra com-
munity's spiritual head, HH Dr.
Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin.
He is the Chairman of the state-of-
the-art Saifee Hospital in Mumbai
and also the Chairman of Saifee
Burhani Upliftment Trust (SBUT)
that has taken up the multi-million
redevelopment initiative to uplift the
standard of the densely-populated
and economically depressed Bhendi
Bazaar neighbourhood in south Mumbai that would
enhance the quality of life of some 20,000 residents
living in the area.
Senior Advisor to the Vice Chancellor at the
University, Lord Kamlesh Patel, a former minister in
the Labour government, read out the citation which
said that Dr. Ezzuddin has been awarded the
Doctorate in recognition of his dis-
tinctive areas of leadership, "busi-
ness and entrepreneurship, serving
the public and educationThrough
this leadership within the Dawoodi
Bohra Muslim community, he has
influenced their business and entre-
preneurship, community develop-
ment and educational opportuni-
ties."
Under Dr. Ezzuddin's guidance
and leadership, he has brought
recognition to a hitherto minority
community, devoting the last 50
years to building a strong spiritual,
peaceful, socially and economically sound value
base for his community around the world.
"My father has taught me all I know and am for-
ever grateful to him" said Dr. Qaidjoher Ezzuddin. He
is the rector of Al-Jamea-tus-Saifiyah, Fatimi Arabic
Academy, a renowned institute that has branches in
Surat, Mumbai, Karachi, Nairobi and London.
Doctorate for Bohra scion
Book on Akhlaqur Rahman
Kidwai released
Children of Green Valley
National School and PU
College students were
invited to Rashtrapathy
Bhavan on 16 November
2013. Seventeen students
and five staff led by the
Managing Trustee Syed
Abdu Khader and Principal
John Mathew led the team
which was received at the
special conference room at
Rashtrapathy Bhavan by President Pranab Mukherji who was
briefed by the Principal on the work done to enhance good educa-
tion at a remote place like Shiroor and highlighted the quality of
educational opportunities available for students. The President
was invited to Green Valley by the Principal. The President
appraised the students on the need to harness their potential for
the benefit of society and motherland. He highlighted the need for
students to learn from the
history of our country and
advised them to uphold
the richness of our her-
itage while visiting histori-
cal places in and around
Delhi. The meeting was
followed by high tea and a
guided tour of the Mughal
Gardens and Rashtrapathi
Bhavan. Green Valley stu-
dents and teachers were
on a nine-day visit to Delhi.
The Green Valley students also met Shrimati Sonia Ghandhi,
President of Indian National Congress during this visit. She inter-
acted with the students and enquired about the school and stud-
ies. She also advised the students to benefit from opportunities to
learn more through opportunities at their disposal and gladly
accepted the invitation to visit Green Valley.
PHOTOS: NADIM AHMAD
Green Valley students meet President
This master stroke
will surely boost our
vote score!
Data of minority communities youth
sought by UP government
Gorakhpur: A couple of days before Mulayam Singhs much tout-
ed election rally in Azamgarh on 29 October, a circular was sent
by the state government to heads of employment offices of all dis-
tricts to send to Lucknow within 24 hours detailed report on the
information / data about the number of unemployed youths
belonging to minority communities registered with employment
exchanges who receive unemployment allowance and how many
of them got different jobs in the last two years. Because of the
urgency of the above information needed (within 24 hours), the
entire staff was busy till late night in collecting the needed infor-
mation and finally sent the report to Lucknow in time. It was also
clearly written in the circular that a detailed list of unemployed per-
sons after Sachar Committee report and Ranganath Mishra
Commission report should be furnished.
According to this report at Commissionary level, in Gorakhpur
district the number of registered educated unemployed Muslim
youth is 1910 of whom 1901 get unemployment allowances and
in addition 4 Sikhs, 3 Christians and 1 Budhist youth also get such
allowances. Similarly in Deoria district, total number of registerd
educated unemployed youths is 1262 of whom unemployment
allowance is given to 1257 youths of whom 1252 are Muslim, one
Sikh, two Christian and one Budhist. In Maharaj Ganj district total
number of such youths (who get employment allowance) is 984
of whom 959 are Muslim, 8 Sikh, one Christian and 13 Budhist. In
Kushinagar district total number of such persons is 1332, unem-
ployment allowance is given to 1319 Muslim youths, 8 Budhists
and 4 Christians. In his election speech 0n 29 October at
Azamgarh he must have mentioned this to show to the people SP
governments achievements. It may also be mentioned in this con-
nection that Samajwadi Party had taken out two rath yatras for
backward classes. One was Insaf Rath Yatra on 24 October and
the other was Samajik Nyay Yatra which reached Gorakhpur on 27
and the other Rath Yatra on another day.
Corpus fund of Maulana Azad Education Foundation increased
New Delhi: Central government has approved a proposal to
increase the corpus fund of Maulana Azad Education Foundation
(MAEF) from the present Rs 750 crores to Rs 1250 crores in the
12th Five Year Plan. Though announcement to this effect was not
made officially because of the Central Election Comissions model
code of conduct which is now in force, because of the assembly
elections in five states before the end of this year, a reliable source
confirmed that the union cabinet in its meeting held recently has
approved augmentation of this fund from the existing Rs 750
crores to Rs 1250 crores during the current i.e. 12th Five Year
Plan. Out of this fund, Rs 160 crores will be released in the cur-
rent financial year (2013-14). By the way, it may be stated that
MAEF is entrusted with the task of implementing educational
schemes for the promotion of education among educationally
backward Muslims in any part of the country. This is in addition to
central or state governments schemes for the promotion of edu-
cation, training, opening of new schools and colleges, scholar-
ships, supply of computers for the general public. MAEFs
resources for financing educational schemes are exclusively for
Muslims which are also obtained from interests accrued on cor-
pus fund deposited in bank/s.
Nehru Fellowship for former VC of Jamia
New Delhi: Former Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, Prof
Mushirul Hasan was conferred Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship by
Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund on the occasion of 124th birth
anniversary of Indias first prime minister. The topic of
Prof Mushirul Hasans fellowship project is Roads to Freedom -
Prison, Prisoners and the Raj.In his book he will indicate how jails
during the British rule in India were used for breaking down the
freedom fighters physically, mentally and morally. Prof Hasan is
an eminent historian and has extensively written on the partition of
the country. He got his Masters Degree from AMU and PhD
Degree from Cambridge University. He was honoured with Padma
Shri by the Govt of India and rdres des Palmes Acdemiquesby
the French government in 2010. He was also Director of National
Archives of India for 3 years till his retirement in May 2013.
Teachings of Christianity in Muslim institution anger Muslims
Lucknow: Al Hoda Model College set up by Al Hoda Educational
Society in 1983-84 is a unique Muslim educational institution in
Lucknow where along with modern education, religious education
also is imparted under ICSE Board but after the appointment of
Mrs Arzoo Baker, a Christian as Principal about one and half years
ago, Islamic education is gradually being eliminated and education
about Christianity is being provided. She is so over powering that
neither teachers, boys nor their parents dare say any thing against
it and if some parents or teachers dare say any thing against dis-
couraging Islamic education and thrusting education about Jesus
and Christianity on students she behaves very rudely with them
and threatens to rusticate their children. If students question about
it she threatens to remove them from the school and if any teacher
opposes it, she threatens him of showing the door. She has been
so emboldened that she says that no body can do any thing to her.
Many people have complained against her to concerned govern-
ment authorities but no action is being taken against her, and if any
angry parents argue with her about ignoring Islamic education and
thrusting missionary education, she threatens that by writing bad
character on their certificate, she will spoil the career of students.
Before her appointment as Principal of this college, Mrs
Rizwana Rahmani was the Principal but she was retired on the
pretext of her age of superannuation but she (Mrs Baker) being of
the same age, was appointed in her place. Similarly, Tanveer
Hasan, a mentally-harassed teacher, who had been teaching in
this school for 20 years, decided to relinquish her job. Many com-
plaints against her were made to school Manager Dr Shakeel but
he said that there is no such thing for which people should com-
plain and if parents have really some complaints against her at all,
they should make complaints in writing and if the complaints are
true, she will be turned out. Parents on the other hand say that
they do not know if some Dr Shakeel is the Manager. They say that
they have been told that Dr Kausar Usman is the Manager of this
school. In any case, a wave of anger is brewing against the
Principal and it may take some violent form some day.
Rs 2 lakh from PM Relief Fund to Shahid Ansaris widow
Saharanpur: Rupees two lakh were given to Mrs Asma, wife of
Muhammad Shahid Ansari from the Prime Ministers Relief Fund
in addition to Rs 10 lakh given by the UP government. Her hus-
band Shahid Ansari of Gangoh town of Saharanpur district who
had gone out for some work was killed on 8 September by rioters
in the riots that had erupted in Muzaffarnagar and other places in
the first week of September. The state government had given her
a cheque of Rs 10 lakh as compensation and also a job. After
completion of Iddat period (about 4 months) she will join UP gov-
ernment service.
Supernatural objects to be excluded from Punjab textbooks
Chandigarh: Punjab School Education Board has decided to
remove stories or mention of supernatural or mythical objects like
angels, ghosts, devils and such other things from the syllabus of
junior classes in order to promote rational and scientific thinking
and root out superstition among students of junior classes. The
Board has taken this decision on the advice and recommendations
of a rationalist organisation called Punjab Tarksheel Society which
submitted a detailed report to the Punjab School Education Board
pointing out these fallacies. This Society in its report covered text
books of classes I to VII in government schools of Punjab.
The Society in its report suggested to Board members that the
minds of young children should be moulded on scientific thinking
and approach and they should not be taught about superstitious
beliefs and events. President of this Society, Jarnail Singh Kranti
says that except mathematics books it has been found in almost
all books that such supernatural things are mentioned. He said that
his Society had prepared a report and submitted it to the Board
recommending that stories or incidents about gods, fairies, angels
and fictitious stories of kings, queens, witches, religion etc should
not be mentioned in text books. He further said that a meeting was
held between officials of the Board and his Society a few months
ago and thereafter the report was prepared and sent to the Board.
Three students of JMI receive record pay package
New Delhi: This year students of Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) have
received good packages in Campus Placement as compared to
last year. According to Rehan Suri, incharge of Campus Placement
Cell the first stage of campus placement will continue upto
20 November. So far a total of 23 Indian and foreign companies
have visited JMI including Maruti, Mahindra, Larsen & Toubaro
and others. Two B. Tech students have been offered an annual
package of Rs 28 lakh by a Japanese company, Hikari Tushian.
Another student, of computer science has also received an offer
of Rs 28 lakh per annum. Last year the maximum package per
year was Rs 16 lakh offered by Microsoft.
Qurans digital version released
Mumbai: Haji Arafat Shaikh, vice president of Raj Thackereys
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (Manse) presented the first set of
digital Quran to Raj. The set comprises a digital pen and a reader
which will enable the reader to listen to the text and its translation
in Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bangla, Telugu, Tamil and
Malaylam in addition to French, Chinese and Pashto.
The pen is connected with earphones and a battery.
Impressed by the enterprise Raj Thackerey promised to study the
Quran so as to have a better understanding of the Quran and
Muslims.
Woman set ablaze for Rs 2000
Khandwa: A money lender set a woman ablaze when she failed to
repay a loan of Rs 2000 only. Najma Bi (45) had obtained a loan
of Rs 2000 from Kalim Malik three months ago which she could
not repay because of her financial circumstances. When she
expressed her inability to Kalim he poured Kerosene over her and
set her ablaze. She was rushed to hospital where she succumbed
to her burns. Kalim has been arrested and produced before the
court.
Opening of new primary Urdu medium schools recommended
New Delhi: The Standing Committee of National Monitoring
Committee for Minorities Education (NMCME) has recom-
mended opening of new primary schools in different states
where students should be taught in Urdu medium. It has also
recommended that the central government should take steps to
streamline the appointment and training process of teachers for
such schools as the quality and number of existing teachers is
not at all satisfactory. The Committee has stated in its repor t,
as is commonly known, that many schools in Delhi, though
Urdu medium, do not have teachers who know Urdu language
and has recommended that Delhi government should make it
compulsory that only those teachers who have studied Urdu till
12th class should be appointed as Urdu teachers. It has also
stated, which too is a common complaint, that Urdu medium
schools in Delhi are only in name because neither are there
enough Urdu teachers who can teach in Urdu nor text books
are available in Urdu in time for many years. The Committee
has pointed out a gross mistake, that there is no policy of Delhi
government for appointment of teachers knowing Urdu. It may
be noted that Delhi government had last time appointed perma-
nent teachrs of Urdu medium schools about 2 decades ago.
The Committee has recommended that 250 out of 2500 pro-
posed Model Schools to be built under PPP (Private-Public
Par tership) scheme, should be reserved for religious minori-
ties.
It must be pointed that this report of the Standing Committee
has been made public at a time when many assembly elections
and general elections (next year) are to be held. Hence it may be
an election ploy. Secondly, these are only recommendations and
their implementation or non-implementation depends on the gov-
ernment. Thirdly religious minorities in the last line of the above
para does not imply only Urdu but other languages also, particu-
larly Gurmukhi (or Punjabi) which already must be enjoying better
facilities than Urdu.
Unemployment in Bhiwandi due to closure of power looms
Mumbai: President of Maharashtra branch of Jamiatul Ulama-e
Hind, Maulana Hafiz Nadeem Siddiqi said here that because of the
closure of lakhs of power looms in Bhivandi, people engaged in
the cloth making industry are facing great difficulty. Closure of
power looms is mainly because of black marketing in cotton yarn
and big increase in power rates and crores of people engaged in
this trade and their families are on the verge of starvation but the
government is insensitive to their problems and difficulties. In
protest against this, the union of bunkers proposes to take out a
big demonstration. Trade union leaders have made an appeal to
their members not to succumb to such difficulties and false prom-
ises of government and other self-centred people and organisa-
tions to abandon their demonstration plan. Maulana Nadeem
Siddiqi has assured them of rendering all cooperation and support
for their cause in this hour of crisis. Jamiat leaders including
national general secretary Maulana Mahmood Madni propose to
apprise Maharashtras chief minister Prithvi Raj Chauhan of the
acute difficulties being faced by the bunkers and their families and
request him to take immediate and necessary steps for the
removal of their difficulties.
New Delhi: A delegation of Central Council of Masjid Imams met
K. Rahman Khan, union minister for minorities affairs and Jaipal
Reddy, minister for science & technology separately. The delega-
tion included Councils President, Hafiz (Qari) Muhammad Ali
Qadiri, general secretary Mufti Naseem Ahmad and Qazi
Muhamad Ali, President of Karnataka branch of the Council.
Rahman Khan was told by delegation members that there are
more than two lakh imams and muazzins of Masjids and request-
ed that their salaries be given in accordance with Supreme Court
order, i.e. equal to those of clerks in the central government. They
also told Rahman Khan that Supreme Courts order was passed
many years ago but in spite of that they were still not getting
salaries according to SC order because of which they were fac-
ing extreme financial difficulties and the future of their children
was bleak because of the low salary but neither of them gave any
categorical assurance. Rahman Khan however said that accord-
ing to the new amended Waqf Act, hd would view their demand
sympathetically and give it serious consideration. Jaipal Reddy
also said that their demands are quite justified and serious efforts
will be made to fulfill their demands. The delegation also plans to
meet union ministers Salman Khurshid, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and
Digvijay Singh, Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi in this connec-
tion.
Meanwhile, Maulana Umair Ilyasi, President of All India
Masjid Imams Organisation, though not a member of this delega-
tion, said separately but in the same connection that Millat and
particularly Auqaf has ignored the economic needs of Imams,
seeing that even in these days of increasing dearness in no state
of the country monthly salaries of Imams are more than 6 or 7
thousand rupees and any body can imagine how on this meagre
salary any Imam can meet the daily needs of his family and pro-
vide standard education to his children. He also said that his
father (late) Maulana Jameel Ilyasi, realising this basic necessi-
ties of Imams had approached the Supreme Court and also had
tried to convince the government about the difficulties faced by
them but the government paid no attention. Ultimately, after pro-
longed efforts and hearing the arguments of lawyers the Supreme
Court had given its historic verdict in 1993 according to which
Imams of the entire country were considered equal to class I offi-
cers and had accordingly ordered Auqaf to give salaries to Imams
on the same scale. He said that at that time on that basis their
salaries stood equal to Rs 25000 per month. He said that after
that 6th and 7th Pay Commissions were appointed but it is still
not decided the poor Imams come under which commission. He
said that after the Supreme Courts verdict, Auqaf of the entire
country said that their income and economic condition does not
allow them to pay such high salaries to Imams, though this reply
is wrong. (N. A. Ansari)
Demand for payment of salaries to Imams
and muazzins according to SC order
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Poems of lyricist Javed Akhtar translated into French
New Delhi / Mumbai: Some literary (non-film) poems of poet
Javed Akhtar have been translated into French language. It is for
the first time that Urdu poetry, though on a very small scale, of
any poet has been translated into French language. French trans-
lation was done by (Ms) Vidya Venkatesh and (Ms) Anne Sinha.
Eight poems of Javed Akhtar have been translated. They will be
part of a book that is to be published at the end of this year. Javed
Akhtar, who is now 68, was in Paris at the time of release of his
poems in French.
Conspiracy to gradually abolish Urdu from NCERT
New Delhi: A conspiracy is being hatched to gradually abolish
Urdu from National Council for Educational Research & Training
(NCERT) which prepares and prescribes books in all subjects in
government schools. whereas on one side Urdu syllabus books
for Urdu medium schools are deliberately published very late, and
on the other side the number of books published in Urdu is being
drastically cut down. Not only this, Urdu editorial staff also is
being progressively reduced. Students of Urdu medium schools
as well as their parents have been complaining for years that Urdu
students get Urdu books very late, very often by the end of the
academic year or even a year late, with the result that they are left
far behind in education or are compelled to read Hindi or English
books which are always published and available in time. Hindi and
English books are generally published from 15/20 March and
become available before or by the end of March. According to
available information, work on selection and compilation of Hindi
and English books starts much earlier because of which these
books are available in time but work on Urdu books starts very
late - by June or July, with the result that these books are avail-
able only by November or December or even next year. Obviously,
under these circumstances, students of Urdu will not sit idle and
wait for the availability of books and perforce have to purchase
Hindi or English books.
According to another source, Urdu books prescribed in syl-
labus are being published, of course, deliberately in very small
number, sometimes between 50 and 100 only, when there are
thousands of Urdu students because of which cost per book is,
naturally, very high and in most cases beyond the reach of many
students and their parents. The result is that again they are com-
pelled to purchase Hindi and English books. With this wily strate-
gy those in NCERT are contributing their bit along with the entire
political and administrative set-up in discouraging and gradually
eliminating Urdu. Biased officers then get the excuse of telling the
higher authorities that cost of publishing Urdu books is very high
and students also do not buy Urdu books hence their publication
should be stopped. According to NCERT sources, there is also
great shortage of Urdu editorial staff and as compared to English
and Hindi, editorial staff of Urdu are not even 50 percent. In addi-
tion to books for Urdu subject, there is also a great shortage of
books in Urdu for other subjects also like history, geography, sci-
ence, maths and others. Also, even those Urdu books which are
available contain too many spelling and other mistakes. When
Prof Akhtarul Wasey, Vice Chairman of Deli Urdu Academy and
others were contacted for shortage or even non-availability of
Urdu books, he admitted that as compared to Hindi and English,
Urdu editorial staff is not even 50 percent and said that our
demand to the government is that the number of editorial staff
members be increased at the earliest and that Urdu syllabus
books be prepared and made available by the middle of March.
Chaudhary Munawwar Saleem, MP and members of HRD min-
istrys Standing Committee said that he had raised these points in
HRD ministrys meetings and in Parliament also and will raise
these points again. But these people know very well that such
demands have been made by many others also and many times
too but had no effect at all. Similarly Chaudhari Saleem and many
others also raised these points in Parliament and other forums
and meetings but their demands and calls proved to be as cry in
the wilderness. Hence mere raising questions in meetings and
Parliament will not do unless some aggressive steps should be
taken.
Sadiq Jamaal Encounter: Sandhu quizzed
New Delhi: Nehchal Sandhu, deputy National Security Advisor
(and former IB chief) was interrogated by CBI about Sadiq
Jamals transfer from the custody of Mumbai crime branch to
Gujarat police to facilitate his encounter. Holding IB responsible
for stage managing the encounter the CBI, in its first charge
sheet, sought to clarify the inexplicable decision about his
transfer to Gujarat police. The IB input had alerted the Gujarat
police about Sadiq Jamaals alleged mission of killing N. Modi and
other VHP leaders. The SIB (Subsidiary Intelligence Bureau) found
S. Jamaals link with D - company. However, they had concluded
that Sadiq lacked the capability to carry out the terror strike. The
Gujarat police kept him for ten days in its custody and then killed
him in an encounter on 13 January 2003.
Notice to def. ministry in Hashimpura case
New Delhi: A city court in Tees Hazari issued a notice to the sec-
retary in defence ministry in Delhi to produce Major Pathania in
that court at the time of the next hearing of Hashimpura commu-
nal riot case as a witness. Major Pathania is considered an impor-
tant witness in Hashimpura communal riot case as at that time he
was posted there on duty but now he is in hiding for many years.
The court issued summons to him many times to attend the court
as a witness but he did not attend. On the last hearing of this case
an army officer had attended the court and had assured the hon-
ourable judges that on the next hearing Major Pathania would be
produced in the court but on 28 October when this case was
taken up for hearing, neither any officer from the army nor Major
Pathania himself was present in court. The court therefore issued
a notice to union defence secretary to produce Maj. Pathania at
the time of next hearing.
It may be recalled that violent communal riots had erupted in
Meeruth on 22 May 1987, Jumatul Vida day, when a hoard of pigs
had entered a mosque (or were manipulated by unsocial elements
to make the pigs enter the mosque) when large number of
Muslims were there for Namaz. In Hashimpura and Maliana local-
ities of Meerut, inhabited by Muslims, PAC on the pretext of
combing operation had dragged Muslims from their houses and
ordering them to stand in a row and had shot dead as many as 42
Muslims and thrown their dead bodies in the Hindon canal / river
to conceal their ghastly crime. Some Muslims among them,
though badly injured had succeeded in escaping and on their
complaint a case had been filed. The case was pending in a UP
court for many years and when no hearing had taken place and
the case inordinately delayed, this case was transferred to a court
in Delhis Tees Hazari. After about 26 years when this case was
again taken up on earlier occasions, the lawyer of the victims
pleaded that Major Pathania who was at that time posted on duty
in Meeruth be presented as an important witness. The court had
issued summons to Major Pathania to present himself in the court
as a witness but he has been avoiding it and went underground.
When after summons and reminder summons Maj Pathania did
not appear, Justice Rakesh Siddarth of Tees Hazari court sent a
notice to the defence ministrys secretary to search for him and
present him in the court as a witness.
Relief to journalist Kazmi by High Court
New Delhi: Delhi High Courts, 2-judge Bench headed by Justice
Pradip Nandrajog stayed the transfer of journalist Muhammad
Ahmad Kazmis case from Tees Hazari court to Delhi Polices spe-
cial cells special court at Patiala House till further ruling. It may
be stated that journalist Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi was arrested
on 6 March 2012 for his alleged complicity in the bomb attack on
the car of an Israeli diplomat on 13 February 2012 and his case
was pending in Tees Hazari court of Delhi which was to be taken
up for hearing soon but was transferred to Delhi Special Cells
court of Additional Session Judge at Patiala House. Kazmis
lawyer Mahmood Paracha had challenged this transfer to Patiala
House court on the ground that because of large number of cases
being transferred to any court, the courts are overburdened with
the result that it takes too long for a case to be taken up for hear-
ing and the pronouncing of a verdict. Hence his clients case may
be allowed to remain at Tees Hazari Court. Prachas plea was
taken up for hearing by the High Court bench headed by Justice
Nandrajog who stayed the transfer of Kazmis case from Tees
Hazari court to Patiala House court and said that the High Court
is the competent authority to decide where the hearing of special
cells cases should be held. It may also be stated that in response
to an application in the Supreme Court for granting bail to Kazmi,
Supreme Court had granted him bail on 19 October 2012. The
next hearing of his case will be taken up on a date to be fixed by
the High Court.
AAP chiefs meeting with Jamaat-e Islami chief
New Delhi: President of Aam Aadmi Party, Arvind Kejriwal met
Ameer of Jamat-e Islami Hind Maulana Jalaluddin Umari in the
Jamaats office at Okhla on 30 October when the countrys polit-
ical and social conditions were reviewed and discussed, includ-
ing the problems being faced by the Muslim community and
efforts of communal and fascist forces to divide the society along
religious and communal lines. Explaining the objectives of AAP,
Arvind Kejriwal said that his party wants that good people should
come forward in politics and defeat fascist and corrupt forces and
organisations. He said that with this objective in mind his party
has selected Irfanullahn Khan as its candidate from Okhla con-
stituency. Maulana Umari said that we all know him and he is the
right man from this area.
Maulana Umari, speaking about the aims and objectives of
Jamaat-e Islami said that our mission is to preach truth and
righteousness and fight against corruption and communalism and
many programmes of creating awareness among people against
these evils have been held. He assured Kejriwal of his organisa-
tions support to his movement and said that important members
of Jamaat-e Islami will remain in contact with him.
Arvind Kejriwal also expressed his interest in interest-free
banking at which Maulana Jalaluddin Umari promised to furnish
complete information and literature to him.
It may be noted that a few days ago he (Kejriwal) had also
met Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan, leader of Barelvi sect in Bareily
to seek his support for his party and Maulana Tauqeer Khan also
had promised his groups support to him.
Abdul Kalam asks students to aspire and fly high in life
Allahabad: Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam in his 40-
minute address on the occasion of 10th Convocation of Motilal
Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) here on 31
October exhorted the students to fly high, not literally but figura-
tively, in life. He said that citizens of a country are like a banyan
tree. Banyan seeds in the ground, if given proper nutrition, help
each other in germinating and growing into a towering tree.
Similarly, government and democracy are potent factors in the
development of its citizens in a country. In other words, in a dem-
ocratic country students get full opportunity of improving their
mental and other faculties so as to develop their best selves and
contribute in the progress of the country. At the same time they
should think high, aspire high and work with determination; then
only they can achieve soaring heights in life and make India a
developed country by 2020.
In this convocation students who had topped in their classes
or had achieved distinctions in other fields were given gold
medals. One student, Shobhit Shrivastav of B. Tech Computer
Science and Engineering was given the Institute Medal and in
addition, he was also given two Gold Medals for topping in
B. Tech CSs Final Year. In this Convocation Degrees were given
to 693 students of B. Tech, 77 of MBA, 9 of M Sc, 6 of MSW, 404
of M. Tech and 34 other students were given PhD Degrees.
Earlier MNNITs Director Prof P. Chakrabarty gave a descrip-
tion of this institutions successes from the inception till date. He
said that 84 percent students of this institution got services and
that this institution completed research projects worth about Rs 2
crores in a year and published 322 research papers in 2012-13.
He further said that this institution was also honoured with many
Awards like National Leadership Award, National B. School Award
and outstanding Engineering Institute Award. At the same time
about 10,00 eboxes were linked with the library.
Gujarat address on the plastic bag containing bomb
Patna: NIA and Bihar police, in their investigations of the bomb
blasts in BJPs hunkar rally on 27 October in Patna are in search
of persons in different districts of Jharkhand and Bihar and have
arrested persons suspected of having links with Tahseen Akhtar
and Imteyaz Ansari or whose mobile Nos were found in the
mobiles of these two. Investigations of NIA and Bihar police are
focussed almost entirely on Indian Mujahideen. Meanwhile, dur-
ing search operations in Gandhi Maidan after the bomb blasts a
plastic bag containing a bomb was found which was immediate-
ly defused but the address written on the plastic bag was that of
Gujarat which has given a new turn to this incident because till
before the discovery of the plastic bag and bomb therein, atten-
tion of the investigating agencies was on Bihar and Jharkhand but
the address: Rose Plastic, GIDC, 135 Halol on this plastic bag
gives rise to the question as to how this bomb wrapped in a plas-
tic bag containing a Halol (Gujarat) address reached Patna and the
bomb was wrapped or put in this plastic bag. Till that time these
agencies had been focussing their attention on IM only and claim-
ing that the entire planning of the bomb blasts was done in Ranchi
for weeks and months. They must now investigate as to how it
came from Halol to Patna and who else may be involved in this
conspiracy.
Mumbai: Discrimination against Muslims in many fields is being
practiced covertly as well as overtly by many groups and organ-
isations. Recently this discrimination was noticed when an
advertisement was issued by a real estate agent in Mumbai
clearly saying Flats for sale but not for Muslims. This advertise-
ment was shown on a website named Ninety-nine Acres by Jiye
Sintha Real Estate. This advertisement was subsequently
removed but till the morning of 8 November dozens of such
advertisements were on display. In the Jiye Sintha Real Estates
advertisement in was clearly mentioned that Two-bedroom flats,
furnished, airy and with natural light for sale for Rs. 3 crore, but
not for Muslims. When Maharashtras Minorities Commission
was informed about this, Chairman Munaf Hakeem said that
such discrimination against Muslims is nothing new, adding that
during the past one year many complaints of this kind have been
received by them. The Commission is now contemplating as to
what action can be taken against the agent who has issued this
advertisement. He said that in the past also they have taken
action against such societies and in this case also, after talking
to the concerned persons he would take action, if needed. A
social worker, Shahzad Poonawala also had complained against
this advertisement to National Minorities Commission (NCM). He
said while talking to a TV channel can you imagine the level of
discrimination in Mumbai against a Muslim wearing a cap or hav-
ing a beard? Chairman of NCM, after getting this complaint said
that the adver tisement was highly objectionable because
Muslims have been described in it as if they are part of a furni-
ture. He said that they were considering what action would be
taken about this advertisement.
According to observers, many people and societies in
Mumbai and other big cities avoid renting out or selling flats
to Muslims. Many film stars like Imran Hashmi and others
have also complained about such discrimination against
Muslims. These flats are obviously situated in a Hindu Colony
whose people claim that only vegetarians are made members
of their societies but according to some social workers, this
is simply an excuse to keep Muslims away from their soci-
eties.
Meanwhile, after public complaints by many people and
news about Minorities Commissions thinking of taking suitable
action against such discriminations on religious basis, Jiye
Sinthe Real Estate said in a clarification that this was done by
mistake and if any Muslim wants he too can buy the flat. The
agency while expressing its regret said that this was a minor
mistake but it is being presented as a very big mistake and being
given undue publicity. (N. A. Ansari)
Minorities Commission for drastic action
against no flats for Muslims ads
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ZAFARUL-ISLAM KHAN
Israel is a de facto, not a de jure, entity. League of Nations
Mandate to Britain to turn Palestine into a Jewish homeland
was as baseless in law and morality as was its successor, the
United Nations partition plan of November 1947 because the UN
charter does not give that body any right to divide countries and
create new ones. Even that dubious partition plan was later sus-
pended and a high-level UN representative (Count Bernadotte of
Sweden) was despatched to Palestine in 1948 to try to find an
amicable solution but he was murdered in broad daylight by
Jewish terrorists in Jerusalem on 17 September, 1948.
Thereafter, the UN abandoned its efforts to find an amicable and
just solution to the Palestinian problem. Hence the Jewish state,
which unilaterally appeared on 15 May,
1948 after forcibly expelling the majority of
the rightful inhabitants of the country and
what was accepted by its neighbours as a
result of the Armistice agreements in April
1949, was only a de facto reality and will
remain so until its Palestinian victims
accept it. Israel is the only state in the
world which even to this day does not
define its borders in its constitution
because it believes in continuous territorial
expansion at the expense of the
Palestinians and other neighbours.
Israel was accepted as a member of the
United Nations after giving solemn pledges
to the world body that it will allow the
Palestinian refugees to return to their
homes, farms and orchards but this
solemn pledge remains totally unfulfilled to
this day while Jews from any part of the
world are offered automatic citizenship of
Israel by the virtue of its Law of Return
of 1950. Even Palestinians living inside the
pre-1967 borders of Israel do not enjoy full
citizenship rights as they cannot buy
Jewish lands and are continuously under
threat of expulsion by Jewish politicians
who do not tire of reiterating that Israel is a
Jewish state and must remain so. Arab
homes and Islamic heritage sites inside
Israel are demolished at will and their lands
are confiscated as a matter of routine.
With the exception of the October
(Ramadan) 1973 War, which was started
by Egypt and Syria to liberate their lands
occupied by the Zionist state since 1967,
Israel has started every single war in the
Middle East in order to expand at the expense of its neighbours.
With blind American and western military and economic support,
Israel has won every war against regular armies while it has lost
every war against popular movements as seen in May 2000 and
again in June-July 2006 when it failed to defeat Hizbullah despite
continuing its aggression for 32 long days. It again failed to defeat
Hamas in Gaza Strip in the no-holds-barred war during December
2008-January 2009 using every possible armament for 22 days
against an unarmed, impoverished and exposed population and
primitive resistance. Both Hizbullah and Hamas are the only
movements which forced Israel to seek cease-fire and to with-
draw from South Lebanon and Gaza Strip respectively in 2000
and 2005.
Here is a clear lesson for us that the extraordinary Zionist settler-
colonial project in Palestine can be pushed back and defeated by
popular resistance movements using unconventional tactics and
not by under-armed regular armies whose governments are sub-
ject to regional and international pressures.
Israel has been able to continue its occupation, oppression and
continuous expansion as a result of the vicious exploitation of the
Nazi Holocaust and the cultivated fake image of a small country
surrounded by powerful enemies. Today, this image lies shattered
and the world is increasingly questioning the Israels expansion-
ist and colonial policies and there is a question mark over the
legitimacy of the Zionist project at the expense of the Palestinians.
There is an extraordinary show of support to the people of Gaza
from around the world as people have realized the reality of Israel
and its ruthless colonial policies as a western proxy. Today, Israel
is the only democracy exercising racist policies and denying
rightful Palestinian refugees of their natural right to return to their
homes and lands.
Also, there is a clear realisation all over the world today that the
Palestinians are fighting a just war against an occupying power
and that this is a legitimate resistance which is a sacred right of
all occupied people. This right is enshrined in the Hague
Agreements of 1899 and 1907, the Geneva Protocols of 1925,
the International Human Rights Declaration of 1948, UN General
Assembly resolution No. 1514 of 1960 and Article 51 of the UN
Charter.
Today the world has also revised its policies towards Hamas, the
main resistance force in Palestine. Many countries and interna-
tional organisations have started contacts and negotiations with
Hamas, directly or indirectly, because it has proved to be a pop-
ular resistance movement, and also a sensible and responsible
party ruling Gaza Strip since 2007.
Whatever international support and acceptance Israel has beyond
western capitals is due to the Oslo Accords by which Israel was
able to show to the world that it has made peace with its victims
and has solved the Palestinian problem while, in reality, Israel has
only created two Bantustans in Palestine on the South African
apartheid model. While the Palestinian Authority (PA) areas in the
West Bank have 560 Israeli army checkpoints today and witness
an ever-increasing Jewish settlement activity on what is sup-
posed to be PA land, Gaza Strip remains under strict and almost
total economic and humanitarian blockade since early 2006 when
Hamas won a clear victory in democratic elections. In effect, the
lot of the areas known as PA is worse than the South African
Bantustans but the PA authorities do not have the guts and
courage to say so publicly and tell the whole world that the whole
idea of the Oslo Accords has collapsed and failed due to the
Israeli insincerity and that a new and serious beginning should be
made to solve the Palestinian problem. The endless process of
negotiations between Israel and PA interlocutors for the past
two decades demonstrates that this barren route is going
nowhere even if it continued for another two decades. The only
option under this process is to surrender to the Israeli dictates.
The PA, in its present form, serves only two purposes: it shows
to the world that the Palestinian problem has been solved to some
extent, and it provides security to Israel and prevents resistance
activity in the West Bank. Even Yossi Beilin, the Israeli interlocutor
during Oslo negotiations, advised President Mahmood Abbas in
December 2012 to disband the failed PA in order to expose Israel.
Israel should be taken to the World Court and other courts wher-
ever possible and tried for its war crimes committed, especially in
Gaza Strip where a totally unnecessary and one-sided war was
waged on an unarmed and impoverished
civilian population which has been resist-
ing against occupation and unjust block-
ade. Israel should also be made to pay
reparations for the wanton damage to life
and properties it inflicted on Gaza and con-
tinues to cause due to its illegal blockade
and intermittent attacks.
Israel is threatening to wage another, more
ferocious, war on Gaza Strip. Even if Israeli
war criminals prosecution at the World
Court is thwarted by its western backers,
a peoples tribunal should be established
to try the Israeli war criminals in absentia
in order to put their crimes on record the
way Bertrand Russells tribunal tried the
American war of aggression in Vietnam.
Time has come to punish Israel for its
crimes and force it to become an ordinary
state in the region forsaking its hegemonic
dreams of overlording the whole Middle
East and acting as a western policeman in
the area. A megalomaniac Israel has itself
presented this golden opportunity and our
failure to use it to punish the Zionist war
criminals and bring the Zionist state back
to its senses will be tantamount to wasting
away a great opportunity. Already, Israel is
feeling the heat. A committee has been
formed in the office of the Israel prime
minister to tackle this very likely eventuali-
ty and Israeli army officers and political
leaders, who had a role in war crimes, are
being advised by the Israeli government to
skip certain capitals where they may be
arrested and tried for their war crimes.
As Oslo Accords are long dead and there
is no hope that any other two-state solution based on the ideas
of the Quartet or other regional or international forces will ever
succeed due to the refusal of Israel to give away fruits of its past
aggression and its current supremacy over all of Palestine tram-
pling over the rights of the Palestinians, and ignoring hundreds of
UN resolutions and trashing Oslo accords signed by its own offi-
cials.
The time has come for the project of the two-state solution to be
buried forever. The time has come to revive the original plan of a
single democratic state in Palestine where both Jews and Arabs
would enjoy equal political and democratic rights. This is the only
solution to solve the problem of the Palestinian refugees, the ille-
gal Jewish settlements on stolen lands and the illegal immigrants
flooding Israel who are most vocal to expel the original inhabitants
from their own historical homeland. This practical, just and
humanitarian solution will also contain the current Israeli expan-
sionist and threatening entity which has become a threat and dan-
ger to the peace and stability of the whole region. The Middle East
will have no security or stability without the de-zionization of
Palestine.
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Palestine: Time to bury the two-state solution forever
The PA, in its present form, serves only two purposes: it shows to the world that
the Palestinian problem has been solved to some extent, and it provides security
to Israel and prevents resistance activity in the West Bank. Even Yossi Beilin, the
Israeli interlocutor during Oslo negotiations, advised President Mahmood Abbas
in December 2012 to disband the failed PA in order to expose Israel.
Boycott Naot Shoes
Naot Shoes has a factory outlet store locat-
ed in the illegal Gush Etzion colony (i. e.
settlement) block located on occupied
Palestinian territory between Jerusalem and
Hebron in the West Bank. The Gush Etzion
block is a group of 22 colonies with about
70,000 Jewish Israeli colonists.
The Naot Shoes factory outlet store
plays a role in strengthening and legitimiz-
ing the Gush Etzion colony. The Naot Shoes
Outlet provides employment for the
colonys residents, and attracts both inter-
national tourists and Israeli customers to
the Gush Etzion complex. The Naot Shoes
Outlet thereby not only serves to legitimatize
the colony and sustain its economic
growth, but also enables the colony to
absorb new colonists.
Almost 66 percent of Naot Shoes is
owned by Shamrock Holdings, which also
owns nearly 18 percent of AHAVA Dead Sea
products, currently being boycotted as well.
Shamrock Holdings is the investment branch of Disney enterpris-
es and is a large holding firm committed to Israels growth.
Shamrock Holdings is further entangled in
not only other illegal Israeli colonies, but
also invests in the construction of Israels
Wall.
Israels Wall has had massive reper-
cussion on the humanitarian welfare of
Palestinians living in the West Bank, and
was unequivocally condemned by the
International Court of Justice in 2004.
In July 2005 over 170 Palestinian civil
society organizations issued a call asking
the international community to boycott
Israeli products in order to promote recog-
nition of the Palestinians right to self
determination. The Palestinian call asked
the international communityto impose
broad boycotts and implement divestment
initiatives against Israel similar to those
applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.
*PAJU holds a boycott vigil in front of
the Naot shoe-store at 3941 St. Denis
Street in Montreal on Saturdays between 1
PM and 3 PM. (cjpme.org)
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ARSHI KHAN
Year 2013 is quite important in the chapter of
the Turkish Republic as it is the 90the anniver-
sary of its foundation and the 90th anniversary
of the Lausanne Agreement that it signed with
the Allied Powers in 1923. The vast Ottoman
Empire got squeezed into a small country main-
ly due to the weakness of the Ottoman Sultans
and the inimical policies and actions of the Allied
Powers like Britain, France, Italy in addition to
Greeks, Russians and Armenians. French,
British and Italians had made four secret agree-
ments during 1915-1917 on the basis of which
the forced ottomans to sign the Sevres Treaty of
1920 which it refused. On the other hand, they
instigated Armenians against Turks and created
separate Armenia in 1918 which was occupied
by the Soviet Union in 1920. The Allies also
played crucial role in creating the first Arab
Spring against the Ottomans on the false prom-
ise of the West that they would have independ-
ence. This Arab revolt brought shifted them from
the fry-pan to a big oven characterised by the
Mandate System, sponsored ruling families,
suppression of Iraqis in
1920s and beginning of the occupation of
the Palestinian lands. After, the Turkish forces
forced the Allied troops out of the present
Turkish territories, the nationalists signed the
Lausanne Treaty in 1923.
The central Ottoman territory of Anatolia
was called for the first time as Turkey in 1921
and converted into the Republic based on the
combined forces of nationalism and the princi-
ples of the Lausanne Treaty of 1923. Nine
decades cruise of the Republic has been both
turbulent and promising towards exercising its
influence within and outside the borders. Some
have always looked into contentious issues
while some contemplate Turkey to be the com-
peting political force vis-a-vis the Western stan-
dard of diplomacy and power-politics.
Since 2002, Kemalism has shifted to
democratism after a long political struggle of
civil society against the dominance of the army
in politics. The Turkish community underwent a
new phase of drastic transformation at socio-
cultural and political levels under Mustafa Kemal
formally known as Ataturk who established the
bitter legacy of military control over and above
the Turkish State and society. Even after his
death in November 1938, Kemalist elite contin-
ued to guide the young nation through a partic-
ular prism which was incongruent to the needs
of the larger section of society.
Turks, with the Ottomans legacy, had never
thought of the identity problem and cultural cri-
sis which were the main concerns of Kemalism.
The Kemalist controlled State always had the
problem of endorsing the civilian controlled pol-
itics resulting in the disruption of democratisa-
tion on at least four occasions. The Armys take-
over of the elected government more directly on
three occasions in 1960, 1971, and 1980 and
indirectly in 1997 obstructed the growth of the
democratic forces which were experiencing
multi-party system, coalition politics and the
formation of the minority government.
Even before the rise of the Adalet ve
Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development
Party) in 2002, elected democrats like Adnan
Menderes, Necmettin Erbakan, Bulent Ecevit,
Suleyman Demirel, Turgut Ozal, Mesut Yilmaz
and Tansu Ciller emerged as competing political
forces in enhancing the role and the status of
Turkish democracy in world affairs. Turks have
never been sluggards and have remained dialec-
tically opposed to stasis. They were the first
Muslim majority country to have recognised
Israel in 1949 but they also they also recognised
the PLO in 1976. In 1990s, they signed security
and strategic agreements with Israel but they
also strongly protested against the killings of 10
Turks navigating Flotilla by Israel in the High Sea
in June 2010.
Presently the new leadership, with the third
consecutive high electoral gains in 550-member
Parliament, seems to be seriously engaged with
certain political issues like the reframing of the
constitution, establishing complete civilian con-
trol over the army, addressing the suspicion of
the neo-Kemalists fearing Islamism, dealing with
the rights and autonomy aspects of the Kurdish
community in South-eastern Turkey, its political
party-BDP and the leader of Kurdish militancy,
the PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Moreover, over
12 European parliaments have passed resolu-
tions on the alleged Armenian genocide.
Despite the European selective policy of
ignoring the Algerian genocide by France in
1950s and pressing Turkey over the Armenian
issue as well as taking confessional approach to
include the divided island of Cyprus into the
European Union and not giving clearance to
Turkey over negotiations on several chapters for
its accession to the EU, Turkey has continued to
maintain the policy of promoting interactions
than isolations with the West. It is a fact that
Turkey is the first Muslim country to have joined
the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in 1952
and extended security excessive support to the
West for decades during the Cold War era. It
was the part of the US led coalition against Iraq
in 1991 and openly sided with the US on the pol-
itics of war against terrorism. It also took the
risk of changing its foreign policy in the case of
Libya and Syria particularly on the issue of no-
fly zone and military interventions.
Such kind of support was never provided by
any country to the West but the latter does not
seem to reciprocate Turkey for painful sacri-
fices. The US policy in West Asia seems to be
camouflaged by another country possessing
hundreds of nuclear weapons in West Asia. The
EU is determined to create a defence alternative
to NATO and dwarfing the role of Turkey. It is
also using carrots for Greece and Greek
Cypriots while forgetting similar treatment for
Turkey. Turkey is known for its determination to
do what it wants to do. It forced the invading
English, French, Italian and Greek forces out of
Turkey soon after the end of World War I. It has
developed strong ties with the US and the EU
and helped maintaining the human face of NATO
in Afghanistan. Unlike the US, it maintains rela-
tions with Israel carefully. It has succeeded in
developing good relations with Armenia and with
the countries in the Caucasus, Central Asia,
Caspian Sea and the Black Sea regions. It has
already developed strong relations with the
Russian Federation and China.
Being the fastest growing economy in
Europea and least affected by the economic
slump of the West, Turkey has turned towards
conservative democracy signifying the role of
economy, harmonisation with EU laws, taking
the comments of the European Court of Human
Rights seriously. But this shift is basically aimed
at democratising the governance through elect-
ed bodies and non-conventional policy deci-
sions over the inclusion of Kurds and exclusion
of the culture of the supremacy of military in
Turkish politics. This political shift is not free
from the risks of more expectations and the
nature of limited response by the nation-state.
The author teaches International Relations in the
Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim
University, He was recently in Turkey and delivered
three lectures at the Inonu University, Ankara
University and Ataturk Arastirma Merkezi
Meteoric Turkey in the midst of opportunities
The US policy in West Asia seems to be camouflaged by another country possessing hundreds of
nuclear weapons in West Asia. The EU is determined to create a defence alternative to NATO and
dwarfing the role of Turkey. It is also using carrots for Greece and Greek Cypriots while forgetting
similar treatment for Turkey.
Jewish State implies
ethnic cleansing of
Palestinians
KHALID AMAYREH
Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu has once again demanded
that the Palestinian Authority (PA) recognize Israel
as a Jewish state. Speaking during a joint press
conference with visiting French President Franois
Hollande in Occupied Jerusalem earlier this week,
Netanyahu said he would travel to Ramallah in
order to demonstrate Israel s desire for peace. He
called on PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to recipro-
cate by visiting Occupied Jerusalem, addressing
the Knesset and recognizing Israel as a Talmudic
Jewish state where non-Jews can only maintain a
precarious survival depending on Jewish toler-
ance and magnanimity.
Netanyahu is a professional liar par excel-
lance. He is a master of prevarication, quibbling
and verbal juggling. Devoid of simple honesty and
rectitude, the Israeli premier has a zero credibility.
First of all, Netanyahus occupation army occu-
pies every street and neighborhood in Ramallah
and the rest of Palestine from Lebanon to Gaza
and from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean .
Hence, he doesnt need a permission from
Mahmoud Abbas to go to the capital of the PA
administration.
Furthermore, Netanyahus pretension about
longing for peace is absolutely false. In the final
analysis, a country that truly desires peace does-
nt build hundreds of colonies in occupied territo-
ries nor does transfer hundreds of thousands of
its citizens to neighbors territories in order to live
on land that belongs to another people.
But what do Netanyahu and other Israeli offi-
cials really mean when they keep invoking the
mantra of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state?
They surely dont have in mind the encapsu-
lation of equality and justice in Israeli laws, nor the
necessary absence of any systematic discrimina-
tion based on ethnicity and confessional affilia-
tion. The truth of the matter is that when Zionist
leaders invoke the Jewish state mantra, they
have two things in mind:
First, completing the ethnic cleansing of the
indigenous Palestinians, the native inhabitants of
the land, which began in 1948?
Israeli spokespersons and intellectuals often
express remorse for not completing the job they
started 65 years ago. They are so sorry that Israel
allowed a quarter of a million Palestinians to stay
in their homes. These 250,000 Palestinians have
grown in number, reaching 1.6 million people in
Israel proper alone. They now constitute about
one fourth of Israel s population.
Israeli demographers and strategic planners
view the very existence of this large non-Jewish
demographic mass as a painful thorn in Israel s
side. If added to the Palestinian population in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinians constitute
an absolute majority of about 51% of the popula-
tion west of the River Jordan. Hence, the Israeli
dilemma. The other issue behind incessant Israeli
demands for a Palestinian recognition of Israel as
a Jewish state is the right of return for millions of
Palestinian refugees uprooted from their ancestral
homeland when the Zionist entity was established
more than 65 years ago.
The right of return is considered the ultimate
anathema for Israel and Zionism. After all, Israel
wouldnt have survived and grown had it not been
for the expulsion and dispersion of these
Palestinians all over the globe. Yet, the right of
return represents the essence of the Palestinian
problem as no durable solution to the conflict can
be imagined in the absence of repatriating the
refugees. To his credit, the late Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat resisted all Israeli and American pres-
sure to cede the right of return for the refugees. He
told the Americans on several occasions that ced-
ing the right of return could cost him his life.
KARAMATULLAH K. GHORI
The recent decision of the incumbent
Nawaz government in Pakistan to put for-
mer military dictator, General Pervez
Musharraf, on trial for subversion of the
countrys constitution, seems to have
opened a proverbial can of worms. Under
article 6 of the Pakistan Constitution such
an act is treason and punishable by death.
Musharraf has the dubious distinc-
tion-outrageously unique even by Pakistans loose standards of
constitutional sanctity-of having flouted and disparaged the high-
est law of the land twice in his ignoble rule of more than eight
years. He subverted the constitution, first, in October 1999 when
he overthrew the elected government of the same Nawaz Sharif
who today seems ready to come up with the rope to hang him.
Musharraf had used the trumped up alibi of his plane being
hijacked on Nawaz orders-a claim subsequently found bogus.
Musharraf repeated his heinous act with even greater
vengeance and cupidity eight years later when, on November 7,
2007, he suspended the constitution again and imposed
Emergency Rule. This time around his hubris took on more
vengeful stance when he put the entire team of Pakistans
Supreme Court honourable judges-including the much-venerated
Chief Justice, and Musharrafs nemesis, Iftikhar Chaudhry, under
house arrest. Only days earlier, Musharraf has had the audacity to
have himself re-elected as President of Pakistan for another five
years in utter defiance of the constitutional provision prohibiting
anyone in the service of Pakistan from running for any elected
office. Several petitions had been filed before the apex court to
annul his dubious election. Musharraf was scared that the court
would unseat him and acted, pre-emptively, to stall that.
Musharrafs first breach of the constitution had been given a
sort of legal cover by the then apex court on the highly dubious-
but in the Pakistan parlance something done a number of times
before as a matter of norm-grounds of necessity. Musharraf sub-
sequently had his rubber stamp National Assembly bless his sac-
rilegious act with the cachet of law under the 17th constitutional
amendment in 2002. However, the parliament that was elected in
April, 2008, when Musharraf was on his last leg, threw out that
deceitful and dishonest constitutional amendment in 2010.
Musharrafs emergency was declared unconstitutional and
void by the Supreme Court within hours of its promulgation. The
parliament, on its part, never accorded any legal indemnity to his
crime of trampling the highest law of the country under his boots.
For this reason, the government wants him tried solely for his sec-
ond crime, while ignoring the first. The Chief Justice of Pakistan
has constituted a special trial court, comprising three judges of
the High Courts of Sindh, Punjab and Baluchistan, to hear the
case. One of the countrys top most lawyers, Barrister Akram
Sheikh, who played a key and prominent role in the lawyers-led
mass agitation against Musharrafs emergency, has been named
the governments special prosecutor to lead the legal charge
against Musharraf. The ball is all set to roll against what one hopes
would be the last episode in a long and, for Pakistans national
cohesion, bitter saga of military adventurers-Pakistans much-
touted Bonapartes-lording over the nation with impunity and
hubris and treating its laws as straws to be scattered in the wind.
What Musharraf did in incarcerating the apex court judges
proved to be the last straw on the peoples back and triggered his
political demise; his crime, of recent provenance and still fresh in
the minds of the people of Pakistan, has long been a hot topic of
debate in Pakistan invariably raising the logical question why the
Bonaparte was not being put in the dock? Why was he being
given the long rope in spite of mountain of evidence against him?
In his latest-third-stint in power, Nawaz Sharif, whod suffered
more under Musharrafs arrogant autocratic rule than any other
Pakistani politician, Nawaz has been consistently under enormous
popular pressure to put his and the countrys unrepentant tormen-
tor in the dock. Nawaz for reasons best known to him had been
postponing it but eventually seems to have decided to bite the bul-
let and let the judicial process take its own course.
However, in a country as deeply divided as Pakistan it hasnt
taken long for a controversy to have kicked in on the issue, with a
minority of Musharraf partisans and aficionados decrying the
decision as politically motivated. A more die-hard band of the for-
mer dictators fans has even had the temerity to call it a personal
vendetta of Nawaz against the Bonaparte.
Musharrafs fan club is being filliped by a section of
Pakistans unbridled news media-the television part of it, in partic-
ular-known to be in hog to their western sponsors and bank-
rollers. These Musharraf fans are from that class of vested inter-
est hed spawned during his autocratic rule to underpin his power
base. Most of them hail from the pro-western segments of
Pakistans minuscule intelligentsia who think their mentor was an
enlightened and moderate Muslim. Thats precisely how
Musharraf was portrayed and praised by George W. Bush and his
cohorts after Musharraf had blindly agreed to dovetail into their
mindless war on terror and delivered Pakistan on a platter to
them.
The Musharraf brigade is cavilling that the trial against their
man is politically-motivated and Nawaz wants to make political
capital out of it to salvage his tottering government. Their objec-
tion is against the timing of the announcement which, they argue,
has been synced with the nasty and bloodied sectarian flare-up in
Rawalpindi a day before the government suddenly announced of
its decision to put Musharraf on trial.
But the charge of Nawaz trying to cover up his governments
failure to avert the most violent sectarian strife in the history of
Rawalpindi-on the sacred day of Ashura, the 10th of Muharam,
when the majority Sunnis and the minority Shiias spilled each
others blood in the heart of Rawalpindi, within hailing distance of
Islamabad-is no more than nit-picking and opposition to Nawaz
for the sake of it.
Yes, the government bungled on the sectarian aspect of the
monster of religious fanaticism that has been holding court in
Pakistan with abandon in recent years. The sectarian fault lines
have gone on widening and running through the length f the coun-
try, from one end of it to another. But, then, who bears the primary
responsibility for unleashing the demons of sectarianism in
Pakistan?
The trail of the quest to know what triggered the demons of
religious fundamentalism, of a very bloodied kind, leads to the
door of Musharraf at the pinnacle of his unbridled power. His sole
decision to plunge Pakistan, head-long, into the Bush war on ter-
ror spelled the birth of gory and bloodied fundamentalism. More
than that, it triggered the monster of terrorism of a myriad nature-
suicide bombers, bomb blasts et al-which has been the bane of
Pakistan ever since. Pakistans civil society has been set upon
with vengeance by the weird tribal sense of justice. The blood-
thirsty Taliban of Pakistan are but a down-stream spin-off of
Musharrafs policy to tie Pakistan up with Americas unending
war on terror. Pakistan continues to pay a horrendous price for
the hubris of Bonaparte Musharraf and his lust for autocratic
power.
The American drones-the merciless beast that has been
drawing so much blood of innocent civilians-is another legacy of
Musharrafs. The Pakistanis know it for a fact-and something cor-
roborated dozens of times by the American lawmakers in
Congress-that Musharraf was complicit in the deadly drone
attacks against Pakistan. In fact, U.S. drones used to take off from
the Pakistani military bases, inside the country, for as long as
Musharraf was in power. Hed given a carte blanche to his
American mentors to target any area in the tribal belt with impuni-
ty. It was only the civilian government, which followed his one-
man rule, that eventually mustered up enough courage to boot out
the Americans from the bases he had pawned o them.
However, drone attacks against the Pakistan territory havent
diminished in intensity or ferocity. They continue to bleed
Pakistan, and protestations of the aggrieved government continue
to be ignored by the Americans with contempt and disdain. This
is notwithstanding the claim, from Nawaz advisor on foreign
affairs, Sartaj Aziz, that the Americans had given Nawaz assur-
ances, in his visit to Washington last month, of tapering down
these attacks.
If anything, the attacks have only added on greater frequency
and barbarity, in so far as targeting hapless civilians is concerned,
in the months since Nawaz has been in saddle. At least 11 drone
attacks have been recorded in the months since May when Nawaz
returned o power in the tribal areas, killing a least 65 civilians and
only a handful of terrorists.
The latest drone attack has targeted not the tribal area-where
the writ of Pakistan has always had a question mark over it-but the
settled area of Hangu, killing 8. It came only two days after the
news of Musharrafs upcoming trial for treason. In their own way,
the Americans, too, seem to be expressing their anger on putting
their trusted minion on trial for trifling the countrys constitution.
This was the first attack against a settled part of Pakistan in 4
years; the last such attack, in Bannu, in 2009, also took place on
Obamas watch. But he still claims to be a friend of Pakistan.
Sophistry and nit-picking aside, its an open-and-shut case
against Musharraf. He imposed the emergency rule in the country
only to perpetuate himself in power at a time when the rising tide
of popular discontent against his autocracy was threatening to
submerge his throne. He did so in complete self-assurance that
his American patrons would have no objection to his brazen insult
to the dignity and sanctity of the Pakistani laws. More than any-
thing, he resorted to his subversion of the constitution in full
knowledge of the fact that the people of Pakistan had had enough
of him and wanted to see the back of their power-inebriated
Bonaparte.
But when Musharraf stands in the dock before the special trial
court, it will not be one individual or former ruler. Alongside
Musharraf, there will be others like him. On trial will be all those
Bonapartes who preceded him in power-and unbridled power, at
that-in uniform, in total violation of the law of the land which
explicitly forbids all men in the service of Pakistan from having
anything to do with running the country according to their sweet
will, or dictating its policies at home or abroad.
On trial will be the history of Pakistan, which has nurtured one
military autocrat after another, while democracy-which the people
of Pakistan have time and again opted and voted for as their sys-
tem of governance of preference-was allowed to wither on the
vine and wilt through sheer neglect or insufficient attention to nur-
ture it. The future historian, whenever he gets down to penning an
unbiased and un-blinkered history of Pakistan, may well say that
November 16, 2013, was a red letter day for the people of
Pakistan when their elected leader finally answered their hankering
for accountability from an autocrat in uniform still nursing an
ambition to become their leader. It doesnt matter whether
Musharraf is hanged or not; its still a question of conjecture and
academic reasoning what fate would await him at the end of a trial
on which not only the attention of the Pakistanis will be glued; the
world will also be watching the trial with great interest. But what
the people of Pakistan-and all those wishing Pakistans long-over-
due progression as an open, judicious and democratic polity-will
be pining for is that at the end of this historic trial they will have
succeeded in burying the demon of Bonapartism which has
caused them so much grief and strife and robbed them of their
place of a democratic entity in the comity of nations.
On Trial in Pakistan will be its Bonapartism
18 The Milli Gazette, 1-15 December 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.milligazette.com
The trail of the quest to know what triggered the demons of religious fundamentalism, of a very bloodied
kind, leads to the door of Musharraf at the pinnacle of his unbridled power. His sole decision to plunge
Pakistan, head-long, into the Bush war on terror spelled the birth of gory and bloodied fundamentalism.
More than that, it triggered the monster of terrorism of a myriad nature-suicide bombers, bomb blasts et
al-which has been the bane of Pakistan ever since. Pakistans civil society has been set upon with
vengeance by the weird tribal sense of justice. The blood-thirsty Taliban of Pakistan are but a down-stream
spin-off of Musharrafs policy to tie Pakistan up with Americas unending war on terror. Pakistan continues
to pay a horrendous price for the hubris of Bonaparte Musharraf and his lust for autocratic power.
Ideological Onslaught
against New World
Order
J MUHAMMAD
New Delhi: Renowned Islamic scholar and thinker, Dr Javed Jamil
has called upon Muslims to launch an all-out ideological
onslaught against New World Order. He was delivering the keynote
address in the inaugural session of 28th Annual Workshop organ-
ized by Muslim Educational Trust in collaboration with Islamic
Development Bank. Speaking on "The Dignity of Ummah",
Dr Jamil said that the dignity of Ummah can be restored only
through a "multidimensional, multisectoral, sustained and coordi-
nated effort in every field of action." He said that Anthropic
Principle of Advanced Theoretical Physics says that man got cre-
ated because if man was not there, none would have described
the beauty of the universe. He lambasted atheistic sciences to
give Anthropic Principle a purely God-less definition. He said that
Quran gives the true version of Anthropic Principle stating that
man was not simply created to admire the beauty of the universe
but to recognize that this beautiful system could not have been
possible without a Master creator who knew in advance every-
thing, and to submit to the commands of the Lord of the Universe.
He explained that while "Hamd, Tasbih, Sajdah, Taqdees meant a
natural unconscious submission to the commands of God, Ibadah
was specifically for men and jinns which meant a conscious sub-
mission to God by choice".
Dr Jamil argued that "Quran is a book of action" and used the
word "Amal" 360 times. And Quran did not just talk of "Amal-e
Salih" meaning good deeds but exhorted its followers to do
"Ihsaan" meaning excellence. He said that integrity, honesty in
work and all-out efforts in every field are the key to success.
Dr Jamil said that economy needed special attention as Quran
presented a "dynamic theory of Economics", which did not just
bank on welfare economics but talked of wealth generation within
the parameters of Islam. He said that unfortunately "Islamic
Economics has not yet been presented in full, and needs to be
presented as an alternative to the current economic order. This
requires a campaign against commercialization of human vices, a
taxation system based on Islam and an active involvement in busi-
ness at every leve"l. He said that Prophet Muhammad was a high-
ly successful businessman, exporter and importer in his younger
age before staring is mission of Risalah. He argued that "Islams
three dimensional system of Fundamental Rights, Fundamental
Duties and Fundamental Prohibitions" needs to be propagated at
the global level. He cited figures to show the success of Muslims
in Britain where they have involved themselves in business in a big
way.
Dr Jamil argued that "Muslims will have to work on a compre-
hensive Model of Development involving action in every field, with
distribution of work". He said that if "despite many weaknesses,
Muslims are the most civilized community of the world, it is
because of their following the Islamic system of Haram and Halal.
If they follow the system in perfection, they can achieve what God
wants them to be.
Dr Jamil argued that Indian Muslims have three statuses.
"Constitutionally, they are minority deserving minority rights, ide-
ologically they are he second biggest majority, and socially they
are part of the deprived majority". If Indian Muslims have to
achieve a dignified status, they will have to focus on all the three
statuses. He asked Muslims to come out of the minority syn-
drome and inferiority complex and to use their ideological posi-
tions to change the national policies in all the fields. He said that
while socioeconomic empowerment is the need of the time, it
should also be accompanied by "Ideological empowerment".
Unless Muslims understand the Islamic ideology with all its intel-
lectual dimensions, they cannot challenge the un-Islamic ideolo-
gies.
The inaugural session was also addressed by Mr Tariq Azam
of Malaysia and Maulana Matadar of Gujarat.
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OLIVIA STERNS (CNN)
From coffee to cranks, items we couldnt live without
today are Muslim inventions. Modern hospitals and universi-
ties both began in 9th century North Africa
Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teach-
ing centres, come from 9th century Egypt --professor Salim
al-Hassani
London: Think of the origins of that staple of modern life, the cup
of coffee, and Italy often springs to mind. But in fact, Yemen is
where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins.
Along with the first university, and even the toothbrush, it is
among surprising Muslim inventions that have shaped the world
we live in today. The origins of these fundamental ideas and
objects the basis of everything from the bicycle to musical
scales are the focus of 1001 Inventions, a book celebrating
the forgotten history of 1,000 years of Muslim heritage.
Theres a hole in our knowledge, we leap frog from the
Renaissance to the Greeks, professor Salim al-Hassani,
Chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and
Civilisation, and editor of the book told CNN.
1001 Inventions is now an exhibition at Londons Science
Museum. Hassani hopes the exhibition will highlight the contribu-
tions of non-Western cultures like the Muslim empire that once
covered Spain and Portugal, Southern Italy and stretched as far as
parts of China to present day civilization. Here Hassani shares
his top 10 outstanding Muslim inventions:
1. Surgery
Around the year 1,000, the celebrated doctor Al Zahrawi published
a 1,500 page illustrated encyclopedia of surgery that was used in
Europe as a medical reference for the next 500 years. Among his
many inventions, Zahrawi discovered the use of dissolving cat gut
to stitch wounds -- beforehand a second surgery had to be per-
formed to remove sutures. He also reportedly performed the first
caesarean operation and created the first pair of forceps.
2. Coffee
Now the Western worlds drink du jour, coffee was first brewed in
Yemen around the 9th century. In its earliest days, coffee helped
Sufis stay up during late nights of devotion. Later brought to Cairo
by a group of students, the coffee buzz soon caught on around the
empire. By the 13th century it reached Turkey, but not until the
16th century did the beans start boiling in Europe, brought to Italy
by a Venetian trader.
3. Flying machine
Abbas ibn Firnas was the first person to make a real attempt to
construct a flying machine and fly, said Hassani. In the 9th cen-
tury he designed a winged apparatus, roughly resembling a bird
costume. In his most famous trial near Cordoba in Spain, Firnas
flew upward for a few moments, before falling to the ground and
partially breaking his back. His designs would undoubtedly have
been an inspiration for famed Italian artist and inventor Leonardo
da Vincis hundreds of years later, said Hassani.
4. University
In 859 a young princess named Fatima al-Firhi founded the first
degree-granting university in Fez, Morocco. Her sister Miriam
founded an adjacent mosque and together the complex became
the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque and University. Still operating almost
1,200 years later, Hassani says he hopes the centre will remind
people that learning is at the core of the Islamic tradition and that
the story of the al-Firhi sisters will
inspire young Muslim women
around the world today.
5. Algebra
The word algebra comes from the
title of a Persian mathematicians
famous 9th century treatise Kitab al-
Jabr Wa l-Mugabala which trans-
lates roughly as The Book of
Reasoning and Balancing. Built on
the roots of Greek and Hindu systems, the new algebraic
order was a unifying system for rational numbers, irrational
numbers and geometrical magnitudes. The same mathe-
matician, Al-Khwarizmi, was also the first to introduce the
concept of raising a number to a power.
6. Optics
Many of the most important advances in the study of
optics come from the Muslim world, says Hassani.
Around the year 1000 Ibn al-Haitham proved that
humans see objects by light reflecting off of them and
entering the eye, dismissing Euclid and Ptolemys the-
ories that light was emitted from the eye itself. This
great Muslim physicist also discovered the camera
obscura phenomenon, which explains how the eye
sees images upright due to the connection between the
optic nerve and the brain.
7. Music
Muslim musicians have had a profound impact on Europe, dating
back to Charlemagne tried to compete with the music of Baghdad
and Cordoba, according to Hassani. Among many instruments
that arrived in Europe through the Middle East are the lute and the
rahab, an ancestor of the violin. Modern musical scales are also
said to derive from the Arabic alphabet.
8. Toothbrush
According to Hassani, the Prophet Mohammed popularized the
use of the first toothbrush in around 600. Using a twig from the
Meswak tree, he cleaned his teeth and freshened his breath.
Substances similar to Meswak are used in modern toothpaste.
9. The crank
Many of the basics of modern automatics were first put to use in
the Muslim world, including the revolutionary crank-connecting
rod system. By converting rotary motion to linear motion, the
crank enables the lifting of heavy objects with relative ease. This
technology, discovered by Al-Jazari in the 12th century, exploded
across the globe, leading to everything from the bicycle to the
internal combustion engine.
10. Hospitals
Hospitals as we know them today, with wards and teaching cen-
tres, come from 9th century Egypt, explained Hassani. The first
such medical centre was the Ahmad ibn Tulun Hospital, founded
in 872 in Cairo. Tulun hospital provided free care for anyone who
needed it a policy based on the Muslim tradition of caring for
all who are sick. From Cairo, such hospitals spread around the
Muslim world. (edition.cnn.com)
Muslim inventions that shaped the modern world
Muslim inventor Abbas ibn Firnas designed a flying machine
in the 9th century Spain -- hundreds of years before da Vinci
drew plans of his own
Avicenna visiting a pharmacy
Revival in modern times (The Economist)
Alhazens camera obscuram Alkhwarizmis book on aljebra
A page from the Book of Animals by Al-Jahiz
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Saudi scholar ABDULLAH AL-RASHID revisits Egyptian
scholar Ali Abdel Razeqs controversial 1925 work on
political Islam to question the oft-touted revival of an
Islamic caliphate.
As Islamists and Salafists seek to re-establish Islam as a state and
not just a religion, the debate surrounding the role of Islam in poli-
tics remains as pertinent today as it was nearly one hundred years
ago, at the fall of the Ottoman Empire. For 1,300 years, the caliphate
was the dominant political system in the Arab-Islamic world. It was
embedded in the Islamic consciousness for so long that it became
the model of government and was linked in both private and public
memory with the glories of Islam and its greatest conquests.
However, by the early twentieth century a powerful perception
developed among Arab Muslims that Islam was being endangered
by a conspiracy orchestrated by the dominant anti-government
group in Ottoman Turkey, the Committee of Union and Progress,
which had ties to the Young Turks movement. Despite the dimin-
ished role of the caliphate toward the end of the Ottoman period, and
indeed the opposition of many Arabs to it, the Muslims of the empire
were concerned about the future of political Islam.
In 1922, these fears were realised when the newly formed
Turkish Grand National Assembly abolished the Ottoman Sultanate.
The assembly claimed that political power in Islam had no founda-
tion in religion and that power ought to be determined by the will of
the people. This was nothing compared to what followed. In 1924,
Mustafa Atatrk abolished the caliphate altogether. He sent the
caliph into exile and shut down the Awqaf (religious endowments)
and Sharia ministries, transformed religious schools into govern-
ment ones and declared Turkey a secular state. He reasoned that the
caliphate had lost its legitimacy after Muslim nations fought against
it in the First World War and that it had become a burden, draining
the finances and the men of Turkey, as well as becoming an obsta-
cle to the modernisation of the country. At this time, the Ottoman
caliphate was going through one of its worst periods. It was frag-
mented and divided, a faint shadow of what it once was.
However, Atatrks decision revitalised the idea of the caliphate
in the imagination of the Islamic world, as many felt they wanted to
hoist up the flag of Islam once again, even as Islamic society had
entered a period of decline.
This scene of the decline was described by the writer Abdul
Ghani Al-Rahal in his book The Islamists and the Illusion of
Democracy: A Comprehensive Study of the Islamists Participation
in Representative Councils. After the sun set on the caliphate in
1924 the Islamic nation became like an orphan, he wrote, It dis-
integrated, its parts were scattered and the nation had to put the
Sharia law aside and adopt imported circumstantial human laws.
Corruption was rife, and war spread among the Muslims.
In modern Islamic political theory, the caliphate is a very potent
symbol. The memory of the caliphate remains stuck in the shock of
Atatrks decision, weaving a web of longing and emotion to bring
back the glory of that political model in the present day.
Today, many movements have been established that aim to res-
urrect the caliphate. Some want to establish a new caliphate imme-
diately, whereas others rely on a gradual change.
The Tunisian scholar Al-Tahir ibn Ashur, who lived through the
end of the Ottoman caliphate, clarified its role in Islamic thought:
The caliph is almost the successor to the Prophet in establishing
Sharia, protecting religion, and ensuring it is followed by all people.
It is an expression of the Islamic nations commitment to preserv-
ing the principles upon which the Islamic state was founded. It is the
only system that truly draws the whole Islamic world together under
the promise of defending its interests and protecting its property.
The caliphate became the form of government on which
Muslim society came to depend. As a direct result of the caliphs
fall, the first mass Islamist movement, founded in 1928, had the re-
establishment of the caliphate as its fundamental aim. For example,
take the speech written by Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the
Muslim Brotherhood, for the movements fifth conference where he
said: The Muslim Brotherhood has placed the idea of the caliphate
and the work to reinstate it at the top of our priorities. They believe
that this requires many essential preparations and that the reinstal-
lation of the caliph will require many steps.
On March 3 this year, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Yawm Al-
Sabaa published a statement by the Brotherhoods general guide,
Mohammed Badie: We are working to revive the caliphate as soon
as possible. ...The re-establishment of the caliphate is one of the
interim goals identified by Imam Hassan Al-Banna to achieve the
movements ultimate goal, which is that the Islamic nation and that
Sharia should rule once again.
The philosophy behind the caliphate
We ought to be clear that the image of the caliph exalted by many
Islamist movements today differs slightly from the stylised, tradi-
tional image of the caliph - where there is one person and his
entourage - as the stereotypical images transmitted to us over his-
tory would have us picture him. Instead, the modern image of the
caliphate has adopted two fundamental objectives. The first is that
the religious authorities and the secular need to be united behind a
singular vision, as well as the necessity of obedience to this vision
as the legitimate representative of God and the legislator in Islam.
The second is that the caliphate should encompass the entire
expanse of the Islamic world with no fixed geographical borders or
artificial national boundaries.
Elaborating on the second point, the Sudanese writer Abdullah
Al-Sadiq wrote that Al-Bannas thinking was in line with that of
prominent Pakistani scholar Abul Ala Maududi in calling for the
return of the Islamic caliphate. Sadiq even went further, stating that
the return of the lands ruled under Islam from the first century after
the Hijra is a religious obligation, as well as the Balkans, the
Caucasus and Al-Andalus-now Spain and Portugal.
The notion of the caliphate
for Islamist movements is not
simply a method of governing a
defined, national entity, it is an
ideology based on the legacy of
the past.
While these questions con-
tinue to rage in the background of
the events of the Arab Spring, an
old book published in 1925 once
again has striking relevance. The
book criticized political Islam as
lslamist movements scrambled
to re-establish the caliphate fol-
lowing the fall of the Ottoman
Empire.
It was in these moments,
when the struggle between reli-
gion and State first raged in
Islamic thought, that an Azhari
Shaikh, Ali Abdel Razeq, complet-
ed his Islam and the Foundations
of Political Power (Al-Islam wa
Usoolul Hukm). Razeq was one of
the figureheads of the enlighten-
ment movement and an Islamic
thinker who most rattled estab-
lished Islamic thought and institu-
tions.
Islam and the Foundations of
Political Power
Following Turkeys decision to
abolish the caliphate, there was
considerable division within and among Islamic countries as they
struggled to come to terms with what had happened. A number of
Arab and Islamic leaders appeared eager to fill the vacant position
of caliph. In 1925, Egypts Al-Azhar University called on a number
of religious scholars to attend a conference in Cairo to discuss what
should be done about the caliphate. The conference concluded with
a number of resolutions stating that the caliphate was necessary for
Muslims as a symbol of their unity and society. The scholars stated
that in order for the caliphate to be effective, the caliph had to hold
both religious authority and worldly power.
At the same time, there was a movement to nominate King
Fouad, the king of Egypt and Sudan following Egyptian independ-
ence in 1922, as the next caliph.
The implications of Razeqs book reverberated throughout
Egypt. It was audacious in its contrast to prevailing Islamic thought
at the time. The book contradicted the feeling of heartbreak that had
spread through the Islamic world after the fall of the caliphate, and
posed questions that formed a milestone in Islamic political dis-
course. At its core, the book asked whether any part of the concept
and reality of the caliphate was a true component of Islam. Is there
anything called a system of government in Islam? Is Islam both a
state and a religion?
Razeq argued that the caliphate did not have its roots in Islam,
that it was a political entity rather than a religious one and that there
was nothing in the Quran or the Hadith that confirmed the need to
inaugurate or choose a caliph. Razeq even went so far as to say that
the caliphate was, and still is, a catastrophe that befell Islam and
Muslims.
At the time, the book created quite a stir and many scholars
rebuked Razeqs assertions. Unsurprisingly, King Fouad feared that
Razeqs book might prevent him from becoming caliph, so he swift-
ly handed down harsh rulings to Razeq with the consensus of the
scholars at Al-Azhar. Together they decided to expel him from the
university, dismiss him from his position at the judiciary and with-
draw his degree from Al-Azhar.
Is Islam a religion and a state?
Razeq set out to disprove the theory that Islam is a state as well as
a religion. An alumnus of Al-Azhar and Oxford, he was acutely
aware of the problems that such a dualism created, particularly for
the future of the modern nation of Egypt that had to find a new form
of government. His book and its original, serious and, at times,
humorous ideas heralded the start of an intellectual and political
debate in the traditional Muslim society.
Razeq had challenged the views of ordinary Muslims, as well as
scholars who held that Islam was a political entity. Razeq did not tire
of refuting the widespread claim that the caliphate is a religious
institution; instead, he saw it as one of the common misconceptions
that had spread throughout the Muslim populace. Razeq felt that the
continuation of this belief was to be expected, as he felt he was wit-
nessing the abdication of common sense among Muslims regard-
ing political thought and everything that involved the caliphate and
the caliphs. He explained that the perception supported by com-
mon sense and witnessed by history, both modern and old, is that
the establishment of religious rites does not depend on what schol-
ars call the caliphate, or on those whom people call caliphs. In fact,
Muslims interest in their religion does not depend on anything like
it -we do not need the caliphate to govern our religion or our world.
Ali Abdel Razeq pointed out that the texts of the Quran and the
Sunnah (the traditions of the Prophet) make no mention of the
caliphate: I have not found, among the writings of scholars who
support the establishment of the caliphate, anyone who tries to sup-
port his claim with a verse from the Quran. Were there a single
mention of it, then the scholars would not have hesitated to note it
and point it out. Or, were there in the Quran something resembling
a mention of the necessity of the Imamate, then we would have
found one of the caliphates supporters turning something like a
mention into a mention. But these fair-minded and
articulate scholars have failed to find a single argument
for their views in the Quran.
He again emphasised that the caliphate was not a
religious institution, and that what was said in this
regard was clear propaganda for a misconception that furthered the
interests of the sultans: It was in their interests to propagate this
error among the people to take protection from religion for their
throne and to make people believe that obedience to the Imams
came from obeying God, and disobeying them was like disobeying
God. While the caliphate has nothing to do with religion, neither
does the judiciary or any other government or civil service position.
These are all political and have nothing to do with religion at all.
Why did political science decline among Muslims?
In his commentary on the calls for the return of the caliphate,
Egyptian writer Salah Isa said that they reflect the Islamist move-
ments inability to devise innovative ideas: They are still trapped in
traditional ideals, despite the developments of time. The idea of the
caliphate has been outdated since the establishment of the modern
state in every Islamic country, and because it has been misused and
led to the division of the Muslims.
However, political science has always been the weakest of all the
areas of Islamic science. Razeq investigated that phenomenon eighty-
eight years ago. He said that the Arabs had a natural intelligence and
scientific endeavour, but that they stood perplexed at political science
and withdrew without really studying it. In their impatience, they over-
looked Platos Republic, and Aristotles Politics, even though they were
so enamoured with him that they named him the First Teacher. How,
then, were the Muslims left in complete ignorance of the Greeks prin-
ciples of politics and types of government?
Razeq answers this question through his analysis of the tyran-
ny of the king and the sultan during the age of the caliphate. Usually
surrounded by spears, swords and mighty armies, it was natural for
the sultan to become a beast, a serial killer, a demon and a giant
when his hand conquered those trying to disobey him or undermine
his throne. It was also natural for him to be a deadly enemy of any
scientific research that he imagined could threaten his power. He,
therefore, put pressure on the freedom of science and learning, and
the most at risk was political science.
The near-daily calls for the return of the caliphate are clear evi-
dence that Razeqs book failed to change anything, even though his
message made sense.
Islam and the Foundations of Political Power and its pertinent,
frank questions still ring true today. As the Egyptian writer Amar Ali
Hassan put it: The limit of its relevance has not been reached. It
hasnt been consigned to the annals of history-its still with us, as
though it had just been written. (majalla.com/eng)
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May Allah save Muslims
Havoc caused lies
Lies cause cries
They include telling untruth
And also half truth
Telling only one part of a saying.
Keep in the mind
Muslims are also not behind
In this devastating game
Which has put us to shame
About our Holy Prophets sayings
Thus attributing things to Islam
Which have nothing to do with Islam
May Allah guide Muslims
May Allah save Muslims.
S. Akhtar, Khanpur Deh - 392150
The Muslim who bats for Modi
Zafar Sureshwala is a representative of business class people from
Gujarat, who are not very deep into any ideology except when it translates
into hate and revenge stages. There is an invisible tug of war going on in
Gujarat and even all over India, between an ideology of Hindutva pitched
against Islam and Muslims. Though it will appear that Modi and Zafar both
are the two end of a tug of war, Modi's deeper ideological commitments,
especially while in power which he is ruthlessly misusing, cannot be
matched to Zafar's commitment of Islam and its wider impact on India and
Muslims of India. His tabligi background, nurtured in the backdrop of
British colonial efforts to wean Muslims from Jihad and restrict them to 5
times prayers, has no matching power to pull Modi in the tug of war to
Muslim side. The result is obvious. Zafar and the people like him do not
represent the existentialist-threatened-Muslims of India, who had lost to
British and then turned inward to keep their religious identity intact.
Muslims are once again are faced a similar threat from Modi and his
Hindutva and again their response will be to close the ranks against this
threat. People like Zafar will be left out of the community consensus,
enjoying their AUDI distributorship windfalls. The battle this time will last
much longer, as unlike British, Hindutva is not going anywhere and
Muslims will have to be prepared for a much longer period of trials and
tribulations. Those that value their faith and their religious identity, will con-
demn Zafar Sareshwala for breaking the ranks and submit to a worldly
power that is in essence grounded in a quagmire of hotch-potch of racism,
caste-ism, pseudo-nationalism. Good luck to both, Modi and Zafar. Let the
best side win. Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
II
Narendra Damodardas Modi owes his position to the Constitution of India.
In 2002 he failed to honour his pledge to protect and serve the people of
the state he still rules over. The use of official apparatus to spy on a pri-
vate individual shows that he considers Gujarat to be his personal fiefdom.
This is a feudal attitude which has no place in today's world.
Mukul Dube, Mayur Vihar 1, Delhi 110091
uthappam@gmail.com
Media not ready to divulge full facts of terrorism
In Ahmedbad bombs were hanged on trees and in Patna bombs were
sown in earth despite 30 CCTVs, and despite the presence of Bihar police,
Gujarat police and thousands of BJP workers and volunteers present at the
place in Patna. Police trapped Ayesha, a converted Muslim married to a
beedi merchant, and accused her of supplying the money used for the
serial blast in Patna. Every national daily mentioned Ayesha and her hus-
band for the money used in Patna serial blast etc but agencies mentioned
Vthat ikas Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Ganesh Kumar and Suresh Sachu were
arrested by police for Pak money trail from Lakhi Sarai. They had 215 ATM
cards and 35 passbooks and many incriminating documents etc. This is
the reality of media -- it is never ready to divulge full facts of Hindu terror-
ism. S. Haque, Patna
Union home minister Shinde on minorities
Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shindes 30th Sept. 13 letter to the
chief ministers calling upon them to see that no innocent Muslim youth is
detained in the name of terrorism appears to be shedding crocodile tears
coupled with political gimmick. Such fractured notices/letters both by
Central and state governments with no impact are very common during
election times with the only object: to garner Muslim votes and subjugat-
ing them after victory. The Home Minister understands and knows fully
well that all those linked with terrorism and some of whom were murdered
in fake encounters were never involved in any way in anti-naitonal activi-
ties and that the saffronised elements occupying big and small positions
in the security agencies and police throughout the country conspicuously
made them to suffer indefinitely by framing them under the draconian
UAPA. Faheemuddin, Nagpur - 13
Worth Praising
Media must be congratulated for its 48 hours relentless telecast of one
alleged rape story. Political stalwarts, legal experts, office bearers of pro-
tection of women's right at national level and so many others who claim
themselves as champion of Human Rights, especially of women, have
been very actively taking part in debates and discussions, issuing state-
ments and are coming out with their novel suggestions. They should also
be congratulated and commended from Aam Aadmi (General Public)
because they have done wonderful jobs, worth appreciating and reward-
ing. Same role was played by the afore said individuals and organizations
apart from Media in another rape case last year in Delhi and recently in
Mumbai. However, countless raped in Muzaffarnagar, Gujarat, Kashmir
and other parts of the country don't have any importance to them.
Because they are poor people and probably don't qualify to be seriously
thought by the above mentioned big guns. Perhaps it is below their stan-
dard and wasting their precious time and energy in giving some serious
thought about them will lower their stature. Why the same importance was
not given other cases? Afzal Ahmad Khan, Lucknow
afzalk1945@gmail.com
Patna serial blasts and judges concern
Justice-loving people of India must congratulate Syed Muhammad
Mahfooz Alam, retd. judge of Patna High Court, who raised pertinent ques-
tions and asked investigative agencies to solve these questions related to
serial blasts in Patna at the BJP in Gandhi Maidan. A series of blasts
occurred killing six persons and injuring hundreds. Justice Alam quoted
HT news published on 28 Oct & 31 Oct in which GRP and RPF catching
the suspect denied that CCTV picture could be helpful to find the fact in
which RPF Astt. Security commissioner B. K. Markatiya arrested Imtiaz
and denied recovery of any bomb from him. According to HT (1/11/13)
Inspector Ram Pukar Singh filed an FIR in which he said that the whole
meeting continued without any stampede and disruption. Retd Judge Syed
Muhammad Mahfooz Alam asked a question: just one day before Modi's
Hoonkar rally a suitcase was recovered and why forensic investigation
was not done? The wrapper of crude bombs bearing a Gujarat company's
name and where the watch used as timer brand was manufactured?
Pankaj was arrested in Gandhi Maidan on 27 Oct, public beat him up and
he was taken by police but this was not mentioned in media! Many such
questions must be closely analysed and circumstical evidence etc must be
scientifically tested, otherwise media has created a consciousness and on
the basis of majority consciousness courts deliver their decisions which
cannot be called "justice".
S. Haque
Patna
Not Feasible
I beg to differ with Mr Sultan Patel that 'As one of the ways to restrict soci-
ety's moral downfall regarding sexual misbehaviour, allow boys to marry
when they've a nocturnal discharge and girls, menses ' (MG, Letters, Nov.
1-15). He should be knowing that generally the first menstrual period or
menarche starts among the girls at the age of 11-12, though the starting
period is anytime between 8-15 (at times, even 7, though rarely) and noc-
turnal emissions or 'wet dreams' (aitelaam) among boys start at the age
of 13-14 (nowadays, even 12). Is this the age of marriage? Advent of sex-
uality cannot be equated with proper sexual awareness that comes much
later. To be able to produce and conceive offspring doesn't mean both (girl
as well as boy) are ready to shoulder huge marital responsibilities.
Moreover, there's no guarantee that married men don't and won't rape just
because they have wives to satisfy their lust at the drop of a hat. Mind you,
many men who choose to stay unmarried never rape or indulge in the
defilement of a woman. Sexual misadventure is precisely a socio-psycho-
logical problem which's less biological in its impact, outcome and ramifi-
cations.
Sumit Paul
sumitmaclean@hotmail.com
Is "Allah" different from "God"?
This has reference to Dr. Sumit Paul's write-up on the above subject (MG
1-15 November, 2013). A product is known by it's ingredients. Similarly,
certain terms have specific and unique denominations. Allah is God with
some very specific and exclusive attributes, one of which is "He begets
not, nor is He begotten" (Qur'an 112-3). Now if a Christian writer were to
refer Allah to be the father of Jesus then it would amount to compromis-
ing with this specific attribute of Allah's and therefore it would be incorrect
from the point of view of Islam. Similarly if some idol worshipper were to
refer his deity or idol as Allah it would amount to compromising with still
another attribute of Allah which is described in the holy Qur'an "No thing is
like Him" (Laysa ka-mislihi shaiya) Allah resembles no thing and therefore
His image impossible to be made.
Abdulaziz Vohra
Bhalej Road, Anand - 388001 (Guj.)
Barkha Dutt v/s Arvind Kejriwal - who is communal between the two?
In a NDTV interview with Arvind Kejriwal, on her program, the Buck Stops
Here, the usually cheerful and poised Barkha Dutt pounced on Kejriwal,
accusing him of playing communal politics by meeting with the Muslim
cleric Maulana Tawqir who is member of a 100-ulama committee that
deliberates and issues guidelines/advisories to Muslims in Fatwas and a
fatwa has been issued against Taslima Nasrin, a Bangladeshi citizen and a
pet of the Left Liberals. Taslima raised a storm, thus clearly meddling in
the internal affairs of India, especially in a very sensitive area of India's
democratic elections. Kejriwal responded, first by explaining that he was
not aware of any such antecedent of the Maulana when he met him;
though in one of his speeches, Maulana Tauqir has come out to be very
secular, very inclusive, very peaceful. Arvind promised to give Barkha a
CD of Maulana's speech and asked her to telecast that positive side of
people, rather going always for negatives. Kejriwal further countered
against the media that he has been going around to all religious places. He
visited temples. Media never objected. He visited gurdwaras. Media never
balked. He visited churches. Media hardly took notice. However, as soon
as he visited a Dargah and met a Muslim cleric, all hell broke loose with
the media. Now, let the people decide, who is communal - media or
Kejriwal? Needless to add, Barkha Dutt's face turned white.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
Legalizing prostitution
If the suggestion of the supreme court to legalize prostitution- the world's
oldest profession as the law has failed to curb it is accepted, crimes like
the all-pervasive corruption, thefts and dacoity should also be legalized by
the same logic as laws have completely failed to curb these crimes.
Legalizing prostitution is bound to bring the country to complete moral
anarchy and disintegrate our social fabric.
Dr. Hashim Kidwai, ex-MP, Delhi-110091
Firoz Khan - a great son of soil
According to Prabhat Khabar (20/10/13), Firoz Khan died for the country
on the border on 15 Oct when Pakistan shelling killed him. Army informed
his family about death but not with "Eid Mubarak". Prabhat Khabar writes:
"Media did not give importance to Firoz's great sacrifice for saving the
country. This is the real mentality of media dominated by saffron ideo-
logues.
S. Haque, Patna
Mushawarat
Al-Hamdulillah. Pray Allah (swt) keep us, all Muslims united like a leaded-
wall and bestow upon our "Supreme Guidance Council of the Mushawarat"
the strength, will and wish to act upon this opportunity, as it is envisaged
to be acted upon, for the welfare of all Muslims and ultimately to have a
peaceful social ambiance, all over. Ameen!
Shafiq Ahmed:
maldar101@gmail.com
Arab Spring
One of Arab Spring's most dramatic and traumatic offshoot was Saudi
Arabia's rejection of Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt and getting its own
small Salafist party to side with the anti-Muslim Brotherhood Army. The
news had shocked the Islamic world. Some could not figure out what went
wrong between the two foremost Islamist power centres. One guess was
Saudia's need for a strong Arab Army to defend its and other sister Arab
countries' interests, now that US is more or less out of the boots on the
ground style of invading Arab land to save or change regimes. However,
there is not yet any clear-cut public explanation as to what forced this part-
ing of the ways, that has more consequences for Saudia than for Muslim
Brotherhood. The following article is possibly the first analysis in a prime
Western media. It has to be read with all the caution this sensitive subject
would demand in Muslim world.
Ghulam Muhammed, Mumbai
ghulammuhammed3@gmail.com
Assembly elections
The constitution of India has been designed by human minds .So far it has
been modified and rectified 133 times for our benefits. We can make fur-
ther amendments for our facility .Now we are conducting assembly elec-
tions just 5 months before the general elections .If we can amend the con-
stitution and postpone the assembly elections we can save at lest 100
crors and time of govt servants .at the most we can take the help of pres-
ident of India to essue a presidential order to postpone the assembly elec-
tions . Congress party wants to ban on opinion pole .but it should know
that assembly elections serve the purpose of opinion pole and also exit
pole . The important point is that the party MLAs jump for getting min-
istries turn upside down ridiculed by the people .They are mad after power
.dance like puppets. The people abroad feel guilty on the character of our
politicians they are narrowly focused but in general elections such things
are minimized any way this the proper to think about the defective and cor-
rective mode of our constitution We should declare that we are not slaves
of the Indian constitution We can mold and amend whenever we need to
Only the divine Constitution which has been framed the Creator which is
sacrosanct cannot be amended .We have to face the brunt of its applica-
bility
Dr. AH Maqdoomi Hyderabad
drmaqdoomi@yahoo.com
II
As the political parties as busy campaigning for the forthcoming Delhi
Assembly polls, the fact is the parties should realize that the percentage of
youth voters has increased from 0.7 percent to 3 per cent of the total vot-
ers in Delhi. Youngsters' choice may turn out to be crucial for political par-
ties in the upcoming Delhi assembly polls as the number of first time vot-
ers has more than doubled from 98,000 during the municipal election in
2012 to over 3.5 lakh this year. However, it is not going to be easy for the
political parties to woo the youngsters as they feel the parties have not
been sincere in keeping their promises and addressing key issues. Their
issues are also not different from that of an average middle class person.
Corruption, inflation, unemployment, social and financial security are
some of the concerns which a number of students from leading universi-
ties say pervade their mind. For them, inflation does not come only in the
form of rising onion prices. It is reflected in rising house rents, higher cost
of education and rise in public transport fares as well. The coming time for
both the ruling and opposition party would be difficult, unless they gen-
uinely promise benefit the society at large they will fail to woo the young-
sters of Delhi.
Mohd Zeyaullah Khan, Jafar Nagar, Nagpur - 440013
writeziya@gmail.com
An Attempt To Slight Mohammad Rafi
All you guys are stupid. Rafi was great but lata was at least equal if not
more than rafi. Otherwise, I can easily say that you dont understand
music. This Sumit Paul or whatever is such an idiot with all stupid mus-
lims immediately running to fight her just because rafi is muslim.I doubt
milligazette or these so many haters would be interested in this if rafi was
by chance not a muslim. Guys.just try to understand rafi just happened to
a muslim. Dont try to pull religion into everything.
Neil Kash - neilkash@gmail.com (comment on MG website)
Mass murder of Muslims celebrated in Hyderabad & Kataka
What really hurts today is that though so-called Muslim leaders and Ulema
never raise the issue and educate Muslims about atrocities done by com-
munal-mided Vallabhai Patel and Indian army when they occupied Muslim-
ruled Deccan state.
Hyderabadi - aliuk789@gmail.com (comment on MG website)
Puppet Indian Muslim leaders are real problem
Muslims must keep a unbiased attitude towards all Muslim leaders belong-
ing to any party or group. They should not be allowed to go out of scan.
If they are found regularly scarifying Muslims merely for their own interest
they be silently ignored. Do not make it a issue in public else they will use
it again for their own game as the notorious BJP leaders do.
Md Zahiruddin - zahir_tatatinplate2007@rediffmail.com
(comment on MG website)
Raghuvanshis rampaging kin in Muzaffarnagar
Sanjay Dutt ne to weapon use bhi nahi kiya phir bhi jail mein hai, aur ye
Raghuvanshi ke khaandan wale khule kaise ghoom rahe hain?
Amir Khan - nawtyboss@gmail.com (comment on MG website)
II
"Rihai Manch further said that many riot affected Muslims told the RM
team that two members of Mumbai ATS chief K.P. Raghuvanshis family in
this village, Pintoo and Nitoo, were equipped with modern and dangerous
weapons as shown in films (possibly AK 56 or 47) were spreading panic
and terror in the village" -- this is very alarming. I do not think there is any-
thing different between Congress, BJP, SP or any other party. Things do
not change under them unfortunately and always RSS calls the shots. P.V
Narasimha Rao himself was a RSS supporter.
Hakeem Baig - hakeem.baig@gmail.com (comment on MG website)
Media highlights such Muslims
Muslims who try hard to get media attention follow the path of Hindus like
those Muslims who do puja of Ganesh, tie raksha bandhan or do other
Hindu worshiping. Media elaborately reports their worshiping and publish-
es their photographs. Though RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat asked Hindu
youths to shun and forget devi-devtas for 50 yrs (Ahmedabad, 17/10/13)
and Modi had said "shouchalya first, devalya later". Such Muslims are
hungry of publicity and media exploits them.
S. Haque, Patna
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