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Terrorism: Chasing The Wrong Shadows

FIRDAUS AHMED
An op-ed in the venerable Times of India, No More Chasing Shadows (9 September, 2011), has the head of a so-called group on C4ISRT (Command, Control, Communications and Computers Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting) in South Asia casting the net of prospective terrorists wider, but not wide enough to possibly net the more likely suspects. The writer considers the public stereotype of the terrorist as a desperately poor, illiterate, uneducated, rural-based or ghetto-based, religious fanatic, a single young man in his late teens or early twenties as inadequate. Madrassa students from poor families are no longer the usual suspects. Instead, he alights on those who have no criminal records; are usually highly educated professionals such as engineers, doctors and architects; are usually married men with children; and have never displayed any religious extremism. As I read all this I got a feeling hes describing me. He goes on to say, chillingly for me as I read on, that terrorists come from upper middle class families and exhibit only moderate religious behaviour. According to him, I am now half way down to becoming a terror activist. Casting the net to include both the poor, illiterate and the rich, educated leaves out the hypothetical poor, educated and rich, uneducated, perhaps to be placed in the dragnet over the next two blasts. Muslim women, Ishrat Jahan notwithstanding, have got away unscathed. He goes on to enlighten us, Most of them joined the SIMI or HuJI only a few weeks earlier, and their families, colleagues, and close friends had detected no indications of their having done so. To him, Even their families and friends would have no inkling of their having been recruited. This means that you dont really know if I have joined up or not as yet. You will only know when I commit my first terror act which to him will be the first illegal or immoral act which they have ever committed. Apparently, elsewhere it has taken years but only three weeks for the likes of me to carry out a terror attack to avenge the perceived discrimination. Luckily, my employers have not discriminated against me professionally nor have I been denied entry in social circles commensurate with my education. Thankfully, I have no reason to be a terrorist, on this score at least. That is a relief. But, not for long though. Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, the author, has more. Commending the Indian state for the brilliant manner in which the Indian government used the Jat Sikhs in the police and armed forces to work on the Jat Sikhs in the Khalistani secessionist organisations, he recommends setting up educated Muslims against Muslim terrorists. What the Sachar and Ranganath Mishra Committees could not do and what Harsh Manders Centre for Equity Studies report has not managed to dent, this honcho from the intelligence community urges of the state: It is high time that intelligence agencies and police recruited large numbers of Muslims of various sects in the middle to senior positions, and built bridges That should get the educated unemployed a job,
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catching terrorists. And I having passed the average age of such would-be terrorists, could perhaps land one such job. The logic apparent is set a thief, to catch a thief, or more intellectually, the phrase Delhi has historically been conversant with, divide et impera. As an educated middle class Muslim, I have often had to hear, Stand up and speak out! I was required to speak out against the usurpation of my religion by fanatics and condemn terrorism. I now choose to follow the advice. I begin by emulating SR Epiglottis Khan, I am not a terrorist! I venture further than my brief, Nor are my coreligionists! Let me explain why. By his cryptic designation, Mr. Rao, appears to be a denizen of the shadowy, intelligence world. His world view is perhaps representative of the intelligence community. On that score it needs dissection. He quotes profusely from the Band of Boys theory of Marc Sageman, a forensic psychiatrist who has worked for the CIA in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also approvingly points to the UK polices surveillance of congregations in mosques. Clearly, great gains have been made by Mr. Chidambarams trips overseas in terms of emulating homeland security measures elsewhere, as indeed they must. But how far are the conditions there replicated in India and corresponding counter measures import worthy? The intelligence agencies can be likened to someone who has lost his car keys in the dark and proceeds to look for them under the light of the lamp post only. While no effort needs to be spared in getting terrorists to book, this is applicable for terrorists of any hue. The problem is in assuming the blasts that have taken place as having the minoritys signature. This is true only to an extent. A proportion of blasts can now be irrefutably attributed to majoritarian extremists of the Abhinav Bharat variety. It may be worth investigation if the Abhinav Bharat is merely the tip of the iceberg, with its underwater mass perhaps stretching into the state and its intelligence agencies. There are several blasts yet unexplained. These include the horrendous ones in metropolitan cities of 2008. The holes in the Batla House encounter story do not lend confidence to close these cases as attributable to Aqil and his Azamgarh cohort, now largely eliminated. The pre-CWG shooting of Taiwanese tourists (actually TV journalists), the High Court blast of earlier this year and now the latest, the nineteenth, blast in Delhi, cannot necessarily be ascribed as minority perpetrated violence. In other words, the net needs to be cast wider. Why? The 2008 blasts were in the run up to national elections. The narrative sought could have been that the UPA was soft on terror because of vote bank concerns. Likewise, this time round, the Supreme Court mandated investigations in the Gujarat carnage case are set to culminate soon. There is disarray in the right wing mainstream. The Anna agitation provided a momentary respite. It is perhaps reckoned that it is time to get back to the main story. In other words, a crime has been committed, a motive exists. Evidence must then be sought. When the soul of India is at stake, in so far as the perpetrators are concerned in upsetting the status quo,

lives are expendable. There is a case for setting the NIA to look for the keys where they are as likely to be found as anywhere else. The government in not owning up to a strategy makes of Digvijay Singh, a maverick. The question of motives needs to detain us just a little longer, in order to flesh out a case for NIA intervention. First, what could be the possible gains for minority-based terrorists, in case they are assumed to be behind all this; and, second, what are the gains for majoritarian terrorists? Taking Muslim terrorist formations as a reality and as strategic actors, it can be said that in so far as they were motivated by a desire for reprisal for perceived structural violence and actual direct violence against Muslims, their case has long ceased to have credibility. The earlier blasts, in which Muslims have had a role, albeit one externally abetted, have sufficed to sublimate this hate and desire for revenge. Retribution cannot be open ended. Therefore, taking the campaign into yet another decade makes little sense. Second, the government is one that is responsive to minority demands. Cornering it and giving the opposition an opportunity to do so makes no sense. Third, the contrived connection that some, including denizens of intelligence agencies and media stalwarts seek to establish between homegrown, external agents and international terror is just that, contrived. The idea that a green flag can unfurl atop Red Fort is as farcical as a saffron one atop it in as diverse a country as India. Giving Muslim terrorists such wide ambitions is to help justify ghettoisation of the minority for right wing political purposes. This brief strategic analysis indicates that Muslim terrorists, nor the community, can hope to gain by taking to violence and to such extents as is being portrayed. Next, what are the gains for the majoritarian terrorists and the political formations that they serve? They gain, as just mentioned, by cornering the minority. This helps create the Other (Muslim) for the Us (Hindu). It helps with the cohesion of the majority. The cohesion sought can then be translated into votes and political power. Taking over the state can then help change its configuration, legitimately, transparently and more effectively. This aim can do with some Chanakyan ruses, such as black propaganda by deed in which bomb blasts are portrayed as minority perpetrated. Consequently, the TOI op-ed writer is right in demanding original innovative thinking on part of Indias intelligence agencies, but wrong in pointing them towards an appreciation of the psychology of urban Indian Muslim professionals. That he does so stinks of an attempt to put the intelligence agencies off the smell. The purpose, now easier to discern, is to intimidate into silence engaged Muslim voices pointing out that the emperor is without clothes. With this piece of propaganda occupying prime place in a leading national daily, it can be irrefutably said that the fringe has gone mainstream. At such junctures, Niemllers phrase comes readily to mind, Then they came for the Jews, and I didnt speak out because I wasnt a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. Unless, of course, secular Hindus stand up and speak!

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ISSUES / OPINION

Return of the colonialists to their former Muslim-Arab colonies

KALEEM KAWAJA
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oon after World War I, the Europeans (Britrish, French, Italians) with help from their advanced technology snuffed out the Muslim Ottoman empires rule from the Muslim-Arab countries. They installed puppet regimes with figurehead Muslim rulers in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan and the Arabian peninsula. The puppets served their colonial masters well. The colonialists dictated policies to these Muslim countries, stationed their troops there and made the namesake Muslim rulers subservient to them. Their loot continued. Then in 1950s a series of nationalist revolutions occurred in these Muslim countries. The Baath Partys leaders overthrew the kings in Iraq and Syria. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser and his band of military officers overthrew King Farooq in Egypt. Col. Qaddafi overthrew King Idris in Libya. These nationalist leaders were steeped in the love of their countries and wanted to bring power and the countrys wealth back in the hands of their people. They were young, idealistic and full of patriotic fervour. They literally threw out the western colonizers and thumbed their collective noses at the mighty colonialist powers. Muslims all over the world were overjoyed that finally Muslim-Arabs were incharge of their own lands. The discovery of oil in the region became a boon to some of the new nationalist rulers and they set about implementing a new order. To develop their countries they hired western companies for their technology but gave employment to a large number of people from the third world, many of them Muslims. That was a relief and an opportunity for the poor Muslims of third world countries like Egypt, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Philippines and the stateless Palestinians. They flocked to these Muslim-Arab lands of opportunity. In these lands they were in the midst of an Islamic society everywhere. They felt comfortable and adjusted to living in the Arab lands under the reassuring sway of Islamic culture. It lasted for about four decades. Then as the 21st century dawned the western powers started planning to recapture power in their former Arab-Muslim

These nationalist leaders were steeped in the love of their countries and wanted to bring power and the countrys wealth back in the hands of their people. They were young, idealistic and full of patriotic fervour. They literally threw out the western colonizers and thumbed their collective noses at the mighty colonialist powers. Muslims all over the world were overjoyed that finally Muslim-Arabs were incharge of their own lands.
colonies and get a hold on their vast oil wealth. They played strange games, sowed seeds of hatred and put the Muslim countries at each others throats. Thus Muslim Iraq and Iran were made to fight a very damaging eight years war in which about a million Muslims were killed and much losses to the infrastructure and economy of both the countries took place. Then came the western invasion of Iraq on a totally false and cooked up allegation and the ruse that they wanted to bring democracy to Iraq. Half a million or more Iraqis were killed, many at the hands of Al Qaeda that mindlessly bombed the Muslim citizens themselves. At the end, the oil rich country of Iraq came under the sway of the western colonialists who maintain a weak puppet Iraqi government that claims to be democratically elected. The next shoe dropped in Libya where the colonialists similarly instigated a disenfranchised tribal minority population to rebel against the erratic 40 year old regime of Col. Gaddafi. The western colonialists bombed Libya to smithereens and strangled the country from all sides with the support of the ragtag rebels. So now oil rich Libya is again under the control of the western colonialists. The next scenario is being played out in Syria. Syria has no oil but it is a very strategic country with very rich Arab and Muslim heritage and history. It is a thorn in the paw of the Israeli Zionists. It remains to be seen how this game of democracy and human rights plays out in Syria.

The question arises why the Arab-Muslim nationalist renaissance that lasted sixty long years, and that was endowed with huge oil wealth did not help these countries to build durable, modern, democratic, industrially advanced nations? Nations that could sustain themselves on their own. Why did they suffer such bitter divisions, tribal rivalries, religion-based (Shia-Sunni) internecine feudal conflicts and so much violent in-fighting? Why did the rulers not give opportunities to all and remove complaints of discrimination? Why did the rulers become so brutal against those whom they considered their rivals? Why did the rulers impose one-family dynastic rule without letting other people rotate in top leadership positions of power and let democracy flourish? As far as can be surmised, the nationalist young leaders of 1950s and their successors who had thrown away western colonizers, squandered away a great opportunity to build their Muslim nations as among the most egalitarian nations on earth. The western colonizers were laying traps for them all along and they did not take actions to undo those traps. Instead of distributing power among their people they concentrated power in their own hands and tried to perpetuate their and their familys rule. When the western colonizers were sowing seeds of discord among their people the rulers took no counter-measures. Now that in the name of democracy the western colonialists have forced themselves on their former colonies in Arab World, one wonders how long this western colonialist rule will last in Arab-Muslim lands. What is the worth of the so-called Arab Spring when Arab lands are again about to become colonies, albeit under the faade of democracy, and not be the masters of their own destiny. Is the Arab Spring being exploited by the colonizers? Perhaps a long time will pass until another set of messiahs have the requisite ability, courage and foresight to correct this aberration. Meanwhile the lands of the Muslims continue to remain under the sway of others, the ordinary Arab-Muslims remain disenfranchised and the Muslim ummah laments the loss of six decades of opportunity to make the Muslim commonwealth first among equals among the comity of nations.

Why Afzal Guru shouldnt be hanged

DR SUMIT S PAUL
At the outset, I must make it clear that I dont sympathise with Afzal Guru but Im certainly against capital punishment. If Afzal is on death row for hatching the plan that led to the attack on the Parliament, why wasnt Vinayak Damodar Savarkar hanged for conspiring, nay masterminding, Gandhis assassination? Gandhi, known as the father of nation, was even greater than any institution and if ND Apte was hanged along with Nathuram Godse for being involved in Gandhis assassination, Savarkar should also have been meted out the same treatment at least life imprisonment. But he got the benefit of doubt and was acquitted. This rabid Hindu Brahmin begged to be pardoned when the British exiled him to the cellular jail in Andaman. He promised never to raise his voice against the English again. The tone of his letter to the Queen was so embarrassingly servile that Nehru had to intervene, never to make it public. Didnt Justice Khosla refer to that letter and ask Savarkar during the trial at Lal Qilla: Howll you defend yourself when therere clinching proofs of your changed fawning attitude towards the British and your condemnation of Muslims? A person whos not true to his principles can go to any extent and I seriously question your integrity and implication in Mr Gandhis assassination... (Court proceedings: Gandhi assassination, 1950). Godse and Apte categorically stated before Justice Khosla that Savarkar had a very strong role in Gandhis assassination. Dr Nagendra Singh, the first and only judge from India to be appointed as a judge at International Court of Justice at the Hague, (Netherlands), wrote that, Had Savarkar not been a freedom fighter (he apostrophed freedom fighter), hed certainly have been severely punished for his dubious role in Gandhis assassination. But I hasten to add that conspirators must get benefit of doubt because of their indirect involvement in a case. Whenever a conspirator is awarded capital punishment and that punishments carried out, it leaves a lot many questions to be answered. Why was N D Apte hanged? According to Justice Tahreer Arshad, Savarkar enjoyed much greater public sympathy (in fact, sympathy of Maharashtrian Brahmins) and was much more powerful than relatively unknown Apte. Someone, apart from just Godse, needed to be hanged from a considerably large group of participants. So Apte was chosen. He too should have had benefit of doubt like Savarkar as he didnt fire at Gandhi. When Kehar Singh was hanged along with Satwant Singh for the assassination of Mrs Gandhi, Ram Jethmalani called it a miscarriage of justice because Kehar Singhs role in the whole conspiracy was rather unclear. Satwant Singh fired at Mrs Gandhi along with his slain accomplice Beant Singh. Kehars name was dragged at a later stage and he was hanged. Likewise, Afzal Gurus involvement in the attack on Parliament hasnt been proven without a shred of doubt. Therere many loopholes and legal insinuations suggesting Gurus peripheral implication in the whole issue on which the man can be acquitted or his execution commuted to life imprisonment.

Causes of Muslim non-involvement in non-Muslim issues

It would be ideal if Muslims were more involved in issues that are not exclusively Muslim. But there are deeper reasons behind this sad state of affairs. Muslims have priorities that are very different from that of non-Muslims. The most important is the fear of communal riots that takes precedence over all other issues, including corruption. This in turn is connected to their ghettoization in almost all Indian cities. The world view of an average Muslim is sharply different from that of an average non-Muslim. Those Muslims who succeed and break out of this ghettoisation, prefer to avoid identification with the general Muslim masses. The best case is of Khojas and Bohras, both of whom are highly literate and upper middle class, but avoid calling themselves Muslims. This also applies to professional Muslims who succeed. An example is President Abdul Kalam who is very popular with Hindus, but most unfortunately has avoided Muslims as much as possible. Same is true of Bollywood stars, top bureaucrats and corporate chiefs. No wonder Muslim leadership, by default, falls in the wrong hands. What is needed is a deeper commitment of upper middle class Muslims to the uplift of the community, through quality education and business. This involvement must be emotional, for the community responds once it is convinced that the leader has a genuine empathy for the masses. At the same time we have to take the ulama with us, for with hostile Maulanas we can never reach the Muslim heart. Finally, we have to find ways of reducing the RSS hatred of Muslims. That alone can give confidence to the average Muslim to break out of the mental and geographic prison into the larger world of Indian democracy. But it is very difficult. I tried it between 1992 uptil 2002, exercising tremendous patience and care. The last step was a demand from the RSS in Baroda, that I speak on Veer Savarkar on February 26, 2002, which is his birth anniversary. With great caution and prayer, I accepted. My last words were: the country has only two choices: the path of Gandhi, in which every Indian child will feel that this country belongs to him. The other path is that of Savarkar, wherein many Indians will feel that this country is not ours, and that may destroy the unity of India. To my sorrow, the Godhra train incident occurred twelve hours after my speech. My house was the first to be attacked in Baroda. I barely escaped death. The decadelong effort to build a bridge failed. J.S.BANDUKWALA, Baroda, Gujarat drbandukwala@yahoo.co.in

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Indian Muslims: a US perspective via Wikileaks

he hard-line Deobandi school of Islam has the support of only around 20% of Indias 16-18 crore Muslims and most Indian Muslims prefer Sufi flavoured versions, Timothy Roemer, the then Ambassador to India, told Farah Pandit before her first visit to India as Obamas Administrations Special Representative to Muslim Communities. In a thorough analysis of Indias Muslim population, Roemer pointed out that despite this, the more liberal, Sufiinfluenced Barelvi school and the Shia feel neglected by the Congress party, which has been more bent towards the Deobandi school. Roemer pointed out that though only 20% of Indias Muslims supported the Wahabi (hardline Arab) school or its Indian counterpart, Western UPs Deobandi school, political fortune has always favoured this segment as it had the Congress Partys ear. The Barelvi school, which proudly promotes the Sufi ideal of pluralism, has a following of over 75 percent of Sunni Muslims in India. Many Barelvis converted to Islam from Hinduism and Sufi influence allowed them to retain elements of their prior faith and culture. Unfortunately, they tend to lag behind economically and educationally. Imam Mazhari blamed the Barelvis current lot on the Partition - before Indian independence, Barelvis sided with the Muslim League that supported the creation of Pakistan. The Interfaith Harmony Foundations (IHF) Khwaja Iftikhar Ahmed agreed, adding that the move was in reaction to the Congress Partys alliance with the Deobandis. Barelvi contacts lamented that Partition heartburn has left them politically orphaned. To this day, Barelvis resent the perceived Deobandi influence over the Congress Party and its allies, and the very public support the Congress Party has thrown behind their rivals, including the appearance of the Home Minister and National Security Advisor at Deoband rallies over the past year. This chip weighs heavily on the Barelvis shoulders, despite the fact that all 29 Muslim MPs and five Muslim cabinet members are Barelvi, Roemer said in the cable. The report noted that Indian Islam is heavily influenced by the mystical and tolerant strain of Islam known as Sufism. Though Sufism originated outside India, he noted, it had many similarities with Hindu religions -- such as its liberal, accommodating and mystical nature. This, he pointed out, helped it coalesce with the Hindu religions that were present in India. Noted Islamic scholar Imam Mohammad Mian Mazhari noted that the Sufi unorthodox approach, which accepted the local customs of South Asia, including Hindu influences, facilitated its spread in India. When Sufi Muslims came to India as far back as the 12th century, they embedded older South Asian traditions within a syncretic Islamic tradition, he pointed out. He added that unlike in some countries in the Middle East, which look down upon Sufism as a corrupt or unauthentic version of Islam, Sufism is still considered mainstream Islam in India by both Sunnis and Shias. While the Barelvis are heavily influenced by Sufism, Roemer pointed out that the Deoband school has tried to purge such influences to create a purer form of Islam.

Indian Muslims constituted 180 million in 2001 Census: US

New Delhi: The United States believes that there are many more Muslims who live in India than is being officially stated here through census, and that Islam here presents a series of dichotomies like most issues affecting the worlds largest democracy. The US views on Indian Islam and its interpretation found place in one of its diplomatic cables, leaked by WikiLeaks recently. Referring to various contacts in India, the cable says that most of them believe that the official figure (Census 2001) of over 138 million Muslims in India is under representative as actual number is substantially higher -- closer to 160 to 180 million. Taking sympathetic views of Indian Muslims for their liberal approach, the cable, originating from the American embassy in New Delhi in February 2010, says that a majority of the Muslims live in very poor conditions despite some of the millionaires from the community, like Azim Premji, influence the Indian market. It says: Iconic celebrities such as Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan attract legions of fans, while millions of Muslims languish in poverty. Since Independence, three Muslims have been appointed as President, but Muslims are grossly underrepresented in Parliament and other elected bodies. The US embassy cable also refers to the Justice Sachar Committee report which in 2006 revealed that Muslims in general fare worse in economic terms than Indias Dalits. These seeming contradictions reflect overall socioeconomic trends in India: a tiny percentage of Muslims thrive, while the vast majority struggles to support themselves. The cable, however, noted that Indian Muslims are eager to catch up with their compatriots. Their Sufi heritage, promoting pluralism and tolerance, should leave them well-equipped to compete in secular India. However, lingering resentment from the partition and external influences threaten to divide the community. US diplomats in their dispatch to Washington also noted in detail the composition of Shia and Sunnis and the existence of tension between two Sunni movements - Barelvi and Deobandi - rooted in differences in ideology, wealth, education and views on reforms. On political front, the dispatch says that Shia and Barelvi leaders have, of late, discussed forming a political alliance to counter Deoband and the increasing influence of Wahabism. The alliance would balance each groups strength: Barelvis have the numbers and Shias have a higher level of education and more contacts with the Indian elite, the cable said. Deobandis, who make up approximately 20 percent of Indias Sunni population, follow a more puritanical version of Islam,

shunning many Sufi traditions. Deobandis mainly reside in western UP and are the elite of Indian Sunnis. The Deoband school, based in UP, has become a model of Islamic scholarship and graduates have founded Deoband institutions throughout South Asia and beyond. Compared to their Barelvi compatriots, Deobandis more closely resemble Wahhabis in their austere interpretation of Islam and more conservative stance on social issues, including the role of women. Deobandis have tried to distance themselves from Wahhabism because of the stigma associated with conservative Arab Muslims. Imam Mazhari estimated that less than five percent of Indian Muslims are true Wahhabis, but he fears the numbers are growing, he explained. The Sunni Muslims, such as the above two, make up around 85% of Indias Muslim population, with the remaining being contributed by sects such as Shia (related to Persia, rather than Arabia). Historically, Shia enjoyed the status of Indias landlords. Unfortunately, this linked their fate to the decline of the landed property system after independence and Shias lost their political and economic clout. [Expert Zafar] Agha admits that compared to Sunnis, Shia failed to adapt to the new democratic India, where numbers (i. e. votes) matter and Shia fall short. They have struggled economically because employment had been viewed as beneath the Shia landholders, he noted. Roemer did not forget to mention that Shia are changing rapidly, especially in matters such as womens empowerment. Shia youth, especially women, are changing the mindset in the community and exploring career opportunities in both high tech and traditional fields. Shia are searching for a new political identity as well. According to Agha, Indian Shia tend to be more liberal and cosmopolitan and feel a kinship with higher caste Hindus, he noted. However, the historic support of Shia for the Congress too is starting to change, he added. Historically, they have supported the Congress Party. Given the patrilineage of their imams, Shias easily relate to the dynastic politics of the Congress Party, including Congress heir Rahul Gandhi of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. In certain elections Shia have thrown their support behind other parties, including the BJP, in retaliation for Congress cozy relationship with Deoband. Both Agha and Imam Mazhari noted that Shia and Barelvi leaders have discussed forming a political alliance to counter Deoband and the increasing influence of Wahhabism. The alliance would balance each groups strength: Barelvis have the numbers and Shias have a higher level of education and more contact with the Indian elite, he noted. Roemer added that India is likely to have around 160 to 180 million Muslims (about 15% of the population). States with the highest Muslim population include: Jammu and Kashmir (67 percent), Assam (30.9 percent), Kerala (24.7 percent), West Bengal (25.2 percent) and Uttar Pradesh (18.5 percent). Uttar Pradesh (UP) has the most Muslims with a population of 30 million, he pointed out. (http://rtn.asia)

In Bangladesh, Urdu has its past and present but no future

ew Delhi: In Bangladesh the new generation of Urdu speaking people is around 4 lakh only, and the population of Urdu speaking people is culturally not only unorganised but is unaware of this language and its literature. Among these Urdu speaking people the number of those Indians is more who had migrated to East Pakistan from India of whom large number of Urdu speaking people were from Bihar and Bengal. Al Falah, Bangladeshs executive director Ahmad Ilyas who conducted a survey of Urdu speaking people says in his review that though Bangladesh is not a racial state, after making changes in the fundamental principles of 1972 Constitution Bengali nationalism was replaced by Bangladeshi nationalism in 1975 but even then the guarantee of non-discrimination under Art 28 of fundamental rights has been restricted to sex, race, caste and religion and nowhere the word language has been used. In his view a report covering a period of four decades i.e. after the emergence of Bangladesh in 1972 after this important amendment Ahmad Ilyas has reviewed the past, present and future of Urdu in Bangladesh with reference to teaching and learning, compilation, publication, literary discussions and poetic symposiums etc. His review was published in Kolkatas quarterly magazine Tarkash in its latest issue. The important aspect of

this review is that in Bangladesh there are 173 racial, religious, linguistic and cultural minorities whose total population is about 30 lakh and many of these have not been recognised constitutionally. In this background a demand is being made for a constitutional amendment in the national language. According to Ahmad Ilyas, head of Parliaments 17-member Constitutional Reforms Committee, Rashid Khan says that while making Bengali the official language, an addition may be made that the progress and promotion of languages of other minorities should be equally patronised and promoted. He says that Bengali intellectuals too have started thinking that giving political colour to languages is tantamount to promoting racialism. Bengali lady intellectual Dr. Momina Hasan says that we should promote the culture of tolerance and patience with each other. After the creation of Bangladesh when Urdu speaking people began to face discrimination and difficulties, they were compelled to migrate to other countries where Urdu was being spoken. Under the tripartite agreement between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Urdu speaking people began to be sent to Pakistan. This process continued upto 1993 and about two lakh Urdu speaking people migrated to Pakistan. Thereafter in 2002 Urdu speaking people who were left in Bangladesh became a stateless community whom neither India nor Pakistan nor Bangladesh was prepared to accept. After a judicial verdict of May 2008 Urdu

speaking people were granted Bangladeshi citizenship but according to that countrys Constitution there is discrimination against Urdu. In Ahmad Ilyass review it is stated that in Bangladesh neither any Urdu drama has been written nor staged in the past 40 years of this countrys history. As regards Urdu prose like novel, fiction etc. condition is very disappointing but in poetry there is some progress. In 1971 when Bangladesh emerged as a separate and independent state, Urdu schools were closed down because of which primary education in Urdu was not possible. In higher education, optional paper of Urdu was also discontinued since 2002 because Urdu teachers and books were not available. In Islamic madrasas however, Urdu is being taught even now. (NA Ansari)

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Modi eyeing bigger national role: WikiLeaks

New Delhi: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is eyeing a bigger national leadership role and is positioning himself for a power struggle in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), say US diplomatic cables made public by online whistleblower WikiLeaks. Modi is using his strong base in Gujarat to position himself for the BJP power struggle and to crow about Gujarats investmentfriendly (but certainly not minority-friendly) record, says one of the cables which were uploaded late last month by Wikileaks. The cables sent by US diplomats in New Delhi focus on Modis rising stature in the BJP and claim that Modi has his eyes on bigger things. In an assessment going back to 2005, the cables suggest Modi could be the most popular BJP leader and a potential PM canIn a BJP beset by internal struggle, Modis revival sets him up nicely to influence the kingmaking when the time comes. Having recovered from the crisis invoked by our visa revocation and his tyrannical management style, Modi is positioning himself as a national leader by reminding people that Gujarat has done a fine job of economic governance, notwithstanding the black stain the (2002) riots left, a cable says. At present, Modi appears stronger than at any time, a cable says. Modi was a star campaigner for the BJP in the 2009 elections which the Congress and its allies won. Alluding to the cancellation of the visa application, the cables say Modi bears permanent resentment against the US for the humiliation.

Hefty fines, jail term for showing illegal [Islamic] channels!

New Delhi: Cable operators broadcasting channels like Peace TV and Quran TV, whose programmes are popular but illegal as they do not have government permission to transmit them, will now face hefty fines or a one-year jail term. The Union cabinet on 30 August approved amendments to the Cable Television Regulation Act, which now provides for stringent clauses for operators violating it. The decision comes as a step to rein in illegal transmission of a host of channels like Pakistan-based ARY TV, Peace and Quran TV that have a following in J&K and other parts of the country. At least 25 channels are known to be broadcasting illegally. These channels had applied for permission to the I&B Ministry in the past but the Union Home Ministry has opposed it on security grounds. Even Qatars Aljazeera is not allowed in India on security grounds although channels from all over the world could be seen in India on various dishes and through cable operators. Until now, the so-called banned channels were being transmitted illegally since the penalty provisions were minor - a few thousand rupees in fine. The new provisions state cable operators will have to pay Rs one lakh fine for the first offence and a Rs 3 lakh fine for the second. For the third offence, they will not only lose their licence but will also be sentenced to a maximum of one-year jail term. No permission for prayers in historical mosques New Delhi: Culture Minister Kumari Selja, denied in a statement in Rajya Sabha on 7 September replying to a question raised by Ahmad Saeed Malihabadi that the Prime Minister had assured (Muslims) that they will get permission to perform prayers in historical mosques. Authrorities went back on an earlier permission by Indira Gandhi. In an earlier reply in Rajya Sabha on 17 August, the Culture Minister had said that there are 3,676 centrally protected monuments/sites in the country under the jurisdiction of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), which comprise a variety of monuments including prehistoric sites, proto-historic sites, megalithic burials, rock-cut caves, bridges, stupas, temples, ghats, mosques, churches, forts, water systems, pillars, inscriptions, bas reliefs, monolithic statues, sculptures, etc. She said, the Archaeological Survey of India conserves, preserves and maintains centrally protected monuments/sites on regular basis, depending upon their special needs, within the available manpower and financial resources. The centrally protected monuments/sites are in a fairly good state of preservation. But the minister failed to inform that only Muslims are denied to offer prayers at their places of worship controlled by ASI.

didate. Anecdotal evidence suggests Modi could be the most popular leader in the BJP and there is increasing momentum to make him the party figurehead and next choice of PM, says a cable sent after Modi was denied a US visa in 2005. The cable also claims that the BJPs move to make Modi the prime ministerial candidate would unite the secular parties.

Anna Hazares Jan Lok Pal Bill represents fascist thinking

New Delhi: A seminar on Lok Pal: Alternative Voices jointly sponsored by ANHAD, Sadbhavna Mission, Lohia Vichar Manch,Jagriti Mahila Samiti etc. was held at Constitution Club here on 27 August. This seminar was not in support but against Anna Hazares much touted Jan Lok Pal Bill. Film director-producer Mahesh Bhat, while speaking at this seminar said that this bill is indicative of fascist thinking and a product of such thinking. He said that just as fascist forces insist and say that we shall build the temple here only in the same way Anna Hazare and his supporters insist on getting only this bill passed (in the Parliament). Hence, this attitude of his is not in accordance with democratic traditions. He said that fascist thinking has given birth to this bill. Hitting hard at many people, he said that many corrupt and hateful faces who spread communalism have joined Annas team in disguise and he knows many such people who are now in the forefront in the fight against corruption. He also said that when Anna Hazare had raised his voice against corruption he also had supported him but when he extolled Narendra Modi, he kept himself away from his (Annas) campaign. ANHADs chief (Mrs.) Shabnam Hashmi said while speaking on this occasion that the objective of this movement is not only to get the Jan Lok Pal bill passed but also to destroy the constitutional and democratic structure of the country. She said that RSS was behind starting this movement and thereafter middle class people joined this movement who want to make India like Pakistan. Criticising the media she said that today the media is echoing the voice of those people who are taking the country to the dangerous precipice and that those who cannot unite the society are now talking of Jan Lok Pal Bill. She said that she neither supports Annas movement nor his Lok Pal Bill which wants to paralyse law making institutions. Noted human rights activist and senior lawyer of the Supreme Court Mrs. Vandana Grover said that Jan Lok Pal bill will turn out to be more dangerous than a super thanedaar, adding that if Jan Lok Pal bill is passed, it will destroy the democratic system on the one hand and on the other hand the countrys bureaucracy will toss you like a ball. She said that Lok Pals concept will never be beneficial for the people. Social scientist Dr. S.K. Datta said that if today there is widespread corruption, increasing dearness and unemployment it is because of the blind race for globalisation. He said that bringing the prime minister within the purview of Lok Pal is dangerous both for the future of the country as well as democracy. Jagriti Mahila Samitis Mrs. Nirmala Sharma said that Anna Hazares attitude of getting only his bill passed otherwise he will not break his fast is not at all correct. She said that corruption cannot be brought to an end as long as land mafia is not finished off. Khudai Khidmatgaars Faisal Khan said that he does not accept Annas leadership because when Gandhijis principles were being torn to shreds in Gujarat, he was sitting quietly in a temple and when dalits were being oppressed in Maharashtra, then too he kept mum. He said that if Anna says that he doesnt want anything because all leaders and governments are corrupt, why did he accept Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan awards? Taking a dig at the media he said that when Prashant Bhushan had declared Batla House encounter as fake the entire media had dubbed him a traitor but today the same media is trying to declare him the biggest patriot. Accusing the organisers of Annas movement he said that these people have taken Rs. 25 lakh from Jindal Steel for sustaining this movement, the same Jindal Steel which is grabbing maximum lands of the peasants. Among others who also spoke at this seminar were Prof. B.K. Tripathi, Nikhil Kumar (advocate), Muhammd Hasan, Mrs. Natarajan, Mr. Diwakar. (NA Ansari)

Muslim leaders condemn Delhi blast

New Delhi: Terming the bomb blast outside Delhi High Court as a barbaric and inhuman act, Muslim organisations and leaders across the country demanded strongest punishment for the perpetrators of such crimes. They said that police must arrest the real culprits without any bias against any community. They asked the government to ensure the safety of the citizens and make proper arrangements to keep vigil on anti-national elements who disturb the peace and tranquility of the country. The occurrence of the second blast within four months at an important public place like High Court indicates the barbaric and cruel mentality of the perpetrators. It is tragic that people who come to seek justice have been made victims of the most inhumane attacks, said Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in a statement. The Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Ahmad Bukhari while condemning the blast in unequivocal term said that it was unfortunate that in every blast innocent people are killed. He, however, said that after every blast instead of arresting real culprit, innocents are arrested. Until and unless the real terrorists are arrested the incidents of terror would not stop, said Bukhari adding that investigating agencies must also keep an eye on those who were found involved in Makkah Masjid, Ajmer, Samjhauta and other similar blasts in the country. Both factions of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind strongly condemned Delhi High Court blasts saying it was a barbaric, inhuman and cowardly act. Maulana Usman Mansoorpuri, President of the Mahmood Madni faction, while expressing grief over the loss of innocent lives, maintained that such dastardly acts are result of failure of our intelligence agencies. For strong commitment to combat terrorism, government must include all terrorist organizations under its scanner. In this regard, the recent Mumbai session courts verdict convicting two persons belonging to supremacist Hindu organization Sanatan Sanstha and the statement of Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram expressing fears about the growing danger of homegrown Hindu terrorists cannot be overlooked he said. He appealed to people to remain calm and stand united in this hour of grief and pain. Unity of the nation and communal harmony must be preserved al all costs in order to defeat their designs. Expressing sympathy towards the victims of blast, the chief of the other faction of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, Maulana Arshad Madani said there were people around us who want to disturb communal harmony and peace of the country. Madani, who cancelled his Eid Milan function planned in the evening of same day, asked for an impartial government probe inot the blast. MP and president of All India Talimi and Mlli Foundation, Maulan Asrarul Haque Qasmi said in a statement that Governemnt must arrest those who kill innocent people. Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadis, Peace party of India and other organisations also condemned the Delhi blast and expressed sympathy towards the victims.

AIMMM statement on the Delhi blast

New Delhi: Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, Working President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations, forcefully condemned the terrorist and criminal attack outside the Delhi High Court on 7 September which resulted in so many innocent casualties. He said in a statement issued on 8 September that the AIMMM demands an honest probe taking into account all possible beneficiaries of this criminal act. He cautioned that the past practice of quickly pointing to some so-called Muslim organisations should not be repeated in order to allow the real criminals to cover their tracks. The AIMMM Working President further demanded that people directly responsible for intelligence and security in Delhi must be punished by immediate suspension and should be sacked if, after an enquiry, found negligent and guilty. Failure to install CCTVs at the High Court gates and other similar places in the capital clearly shows the criminal and negligent attitude of the police and security agencies despite the recurrence of terrorist attacks in the capital. The AIMMM Working President said that merely offering of compensation to the dead and injured is not enough. Those responsible for the lax security should also pay the price so that the lax and carefree attitude of the bureaucracy, police and security agencies could be checked. Dr. Khan demanded that the unaccounted huge funds placed at the disposal of intelligence and security agencies should be rigorously audited by independent auditors because these secret funds have created a vested interest and these funds are not being properly utilised for the purpose for which they are released to these agencies.

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Two killed in Ujjain communal riots

ommunal riots broke out in this ancient city of Madhya Pradesh on Friday, 2 September in which one youth (Amman Khan) was killed and another youth belonging to the other community was stabbed and was taken to hospital but died there. The origin of the riot, according to Ujjain Jama Masjids head, Zahid Khan, started in a shop which was the property of Old Citys Qalandari Masjid. This shop was given on rent to a non-Muslim who unexpectedly put the statue of Ganesh in the shop and he and some others started worship, aarti etc. Some Muslims objected to this, saying that singing and sound of bells and shankh etc. will disturb the namazis in the mosque and requested them to stop it but their request went unheeded. Some more non-Muslims also assembled there. Verbal arguments turned into heated arguments and clashes. This was followed by

heavy stone pelting from both sides. Police arrived at the scene, got the idol of Ganesh removed from the shop and dispersed the crowd but again after some time a larger crowd assembled and riots and violence spread to more areas. The crowd pelted stones at police vehicles. A Muslim youth, Amman Khan was standing near his shop when two persons on a motorcycle came there and shot him, he died on the spot. In another incident a non-Muslim youth was fatally stabbed and died in the hospital. Police took strong preventive steps to prevent the situation from deteriorating further which had the desired effect.It imposed a curfew initially in six police thana areas and as a precautionary step curfew was extended to 10 thana areas. Police confirmed the death of two persons but said that these were because of personal

enmity and taking advantage ot the riots they were killed by their rivals and that their deaths were not related to riots. It is difficult to say how far the police version is correct. Anyway, according to initial reports, at least a dozen persons from both sides were arrested and at least 16 persons, including D.I.G. Manik Jain and three other police personnel were injured. District hospital where the injured were admitted also became a scene of disturbances and some people indulged in disruptive activities. District authorities declared a holiday on Saturday 3 September in all schools and colleges as safety measure. As the situation began to improve, day curfew also was relaxed for 2 to 3 hours in different localities. On the first day City Qazi praised the role of the police, saying that had the police not arrived in time and taken strong steps the situation would have become very bad. deferred awaiting U.P. results. The RSS had decided to return to aggressive assertion of Hindutva. Presence of 200 top leaders of BJP and Sangh including Gadkari, Advani, Rajnath Singh, Venkaiah Naidu, M.M. Joshi have given the signal that the party is going to encash not only the recent developments e.g. G-2 and Anna Hazares fast but also the Communal Act 2011 for generating heat. Never was Congress showing in M.P. more shabby. (AG Khan)

Jamiatul Ulama (M) Chief Muhammad Usman Mansoorpuri condemned Ujjain communal riots and expressed sorrow over the loss of life and property. Criticising mischief makers he said that knowing the sanctity of the mosques and sentiments of Muslims, putting the idol of Ganesh in the premises of Mosque and joint worship there was a deliberate act of provocation.

peace committee meeting was also held in which Divisional Commissioner Arun Pande said that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has sanctioned Rs. 2 lakh as compensation to the family of each person killed in the riot. On Sunday 4 September condition was almost normal and curfew was relaxed for a total of eight hours. However, night curfew is still in force. There is, however, a sense of fear of arrest and harassment among Muslims on the basis of footage of riots by police. I.G. of Police Bhupendar Jain, however, assured that no action will be taken against innocent people. (NA Ansari)
country, clean society and political situation. He also said the RSS will undertake a determined fight against the proposed communal violence bill, and has been asking MPs of all political parties to reject the proposed Communal and Targeted Violence (Prevention) Bill 2011 when it is brought in parliament. The National Advisory Council headed by the Congress president Sonia Gandhi had drafted the dangerous and draconian bill that is explicitly biased against the majority Hindu communities, he alleged adding that Through the bill it attempts to widen the gulf and acrimony between communities and thus it would be a fodder for anti-national and anti-Hindu forces...The bill aimed at only to punish the people belonging to Hindu after any incident of communal violence. He said the RSS has set up over 5,000 Ekal Vidyalaya (single teacher school) in seven northeastern states to provide education among the tribal, backward and children living in far-flung areas. The RSS also runs several projects for the tribals, uneducated and backward people and people living in the remote and hilly areas of the northeastern region, he added. The projects include, running of free hostels, health care and medical centres, Banabasi Kalyan Ashram (farmhouse for the forest dwellers) and mini artisan training centres.

Sangh gears up for 2014 polls

Ujjain: Assured of a cake walk in the forthcoming 2012 elections in M.P., Sangh is concentrating on parliamentary elections. At the recent three-day-meet of RSS and BJP stalwarts deliberated on name(s) to be projected for the Parliamentary polls. Thanks to factionalism in the Congress, BJP is fully confident of returning to power for the third time, and to repeat Modis triumph in Gujarat. The Shivraj model of development has been widely applauded by national bodies and even at international forums.BJP is so sure of its returning to power in the state that Prabhat Jha, the state chief, claimed that Congress would meet its waterloo in Jhabua, Kantilal Bhurias citadel so far. The Daang strategy of winning the tribals to Hindutva is working quite successfully. Not only are the tribals participating in all religious activities with great fervour; they feel highly esteemed when they are given the benefit (and privilege of high caste Hindus) of yagyopurt. This Rakshabandhan many were granted the so far denied privilege. The kanwarias who march on foot covering long distance include a good number of tribals. Gaurishankar Bisen, a state minister, very confidently declared that with a few crores at his disposal he would trounce Kamalnath if Hema Malini is allowed to canvass for the party in the region. How serious is the Congress towards the election is evident from the fact that most of the district level posts are still vacant as no consensus could be arrived at, for the names. Patients in Kasrawad hospital had a pleasant surprise when two rival factions organised two separate programmes of fruit distribution on Rajeev Gandhis birthday. Fights at Ujjain became ludicrous where local M.P. Premchand Guddu is being strongly opposed by the local leaders and rival camps paraded their woes in the Delhi Darbar. It seems that Modis prayer at the Mahakal temple has been answered and there is a growing consensus towards his name for the highest post. Though a few top BJP leaders are strongly opposing his candidature but it seems that in course of time they too would toe the Sangh formula. Suresh Joshi, the Sangh Karyavah, though denied any discussion of names; it is quite clear that the final decision is being

RSS supports Hazares stir

Agarthala: Backing the stir by Anna Hazare against corruption, the RSS on 27 August said, The RSS has, through a resolution passed at its national meet at Puttur in Karnataka in March this year, exhorted its Swayamsevaks to fully support all the initiatives in the country against corruptions in all forms, RSS leader Ram Madhav told reporters here. While the proposed Lokpal addresses one major dimension of the problem of corruptions, there are several other dimensions to it like the influence of black money and short-cut methods to get the works done, said Madhav while on a tour to the northeastern states. He said that the RSS has launched a countrywide campaign to educate the people against fraudulent acts and to make India a corruption free

RTI, thy name is suicide

Bhopal: On the slogan front the whole nation is fighting corruption. The front is galvanised by Anna Hazare. However, the ground reality is totally different. Who so ever wants to fight corruption or expose it through RTI is doomed to pay for it with his life. The latest to join the fallen dead is Shehla Masood RTI activist. Before she could expose the corrupt a killers bullet silenced her. She was to leave for America, her flight was already booked. She was to meet her sister there. Courageous and fearless, Shehla had exposed several cases and that is why she was on the hit list. This was disclosed by her father Masud Sultan alleging that three high profile persons were behind her murder.

Masud Sultan apprised us of the fact that his daughter had arrived from America. An advocate friend of hers told him that the mining mafia of Chhatarpur was behind her murder and she had collected evidence which she wanted to deliver to her at Delhi. Masud Sultan recalled that Shehla had met D.G.P. on August 10 and apprised him of the fact that she suspected an I.P.S. officer who wanted to eliminate her. The D.G.P. had ordered to register a case based on her complaint but the matter was referred to a junior officer and the complaint received, was put in cold storage. Shehla used to run Miracles Event Management from her M.P. Nagar office close to Axis bank. She was also chairperson of an NGO UDAY which used to work for conservation of environment. She had recently studied the issues relating to Forest management, specially deaths of tigers for which she had been

collecting evidence through RTI. Recently she had procured facts about the death of a tiger due to collision with a Gypsy at the Bandhavgrh National Park. The day she was shot dead (16 August) she was to attend court proceedings. It is alleged that a ministers son was an accused in the Gypsy incident. The murder is being probed with a new twist. The police is to question BJP M.P. Tarun Vijay. Bhopal range I.G. Vijay Yadav informed that a team would leave for Delhi soon. Till now 50 persons have been arrested. Taking a serious note of the incident P. Chidambaram, union minister for home affairs, said that the matter would be handed over to the CBI when a formal request from M.P. was received. Poilce began interrogating people on the basis of call details from her mobile and Tarun Vijay would be questioned because of her friendship with him. He has agreed to provide whatever facts he has in his possession. Police has also questioned a BJP M.L.A. and a senior I.P.S. officer. (AG Khan)

Blasting The Terror Narrative

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n a first, the NIA has been launched from the very outset to probe a bomb blast at the Delhi High Court. It has earlier been grafted onto cases already being pursued by the police. In yet another useful precedent, the government has been careful not to point fingers prematurely. These two suggest an improvement in Indias response to terrorism, even if yet another blast is a case of one too many. As is usual by now, informed analysts are taking it upon themselves to dwell on the helpful pointers in the email purportedly received from the perpetrators. The HuJI has apparently claimed responsibility, with the blasts intended to force the release Afzal Guru from death row. With newspapers carrying the identity kit portrait of a bearded suspect with upper lip clean shaven, the know-all analysts rest their case. But the governments initial caution bespeaks of a wider set of suspects. By its two

acts the government has broadcast that the net cast will be much wider. It will hopefully include majoritarian terrorists, even as the HuJI angle is pursued to its logical conclusion. The implication is that there is more to the Abhinav Bharat case than out in the open. It is lazy analysis and worse crime forensics to assume that emails from unidentified sources serve as evidence of culpability. For one, an earlier email for instance had the sender identifying himself as al Arbi, corruption of al Arabi, quite like the current one does. Al Arabi incidentally was a renowned sufi. Second, arrest of a cyber caf owner in Kishtwar suggests a link to Kashmir, the email could be merely to take advantage of the occasion to press home the case for Afzal Guru. Third, that the emails have incendiary content against the majority could equally indicate a desire for deepening the rift, an aim that saffron extremists mirror. Any creative writer can put together such emails. Questions surrounding the Batla House

encounter make the explanation of the blasts in the cosmopolitan cities in 2008 unpersuasive. The blasts that did not occur in Surat remain unexplained. Perpetrators of the blast of May this year in the court premises and those involved in the drive-by shooting of the Taiwanese tourists (actually TV journalists) prior to the CWG remain unknown. One nationalism-inspired anchor asked if vote-bank politics holds back the government. He is right in sensing that it does, but wrong in his unstated understanding, an understanding seemingly widely shared with his viewers and, therefore, left unstated, that it is the minority vote at stake. Instead, the governments reticence stems from its inability and unwillingness to beard the majoritarian terrorist in his den. That would cost it credibility with the majority, misled for over a decade of mediafanned minority baiting. The decade since 9/11 formed the perfect backdrop for the campaign. The government is rightly circumspect, but

on the right track. Its noose, with a little help from the Supreme Court, is closing in on an opposition stalwart. The extreme right, with subterranean linkages with the political right, is mobilising silently to thwart it. Behind the current attack can be read once again a diversionary gambit; now that Mr. Anna Hazare is back in Ralegaon Siddhi. The popular narrative is flawed. It carries little conviction with the minority community. This is itself evidence of the inter-community distance opened up over the last three decades, index of the success of the as yet unidentified standard bearers of Hindutvas challenge to secular culture. The government, run by centreright party cannot, as the well-worn clich will have it, run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. It needs taking the opportunity offered by the investigations to open up Indias violent recent past to a warts and all scrutiny. This will fetch it votes of the non-denominational secular majority.

6 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2011

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Botched up investigation of Haren Pandya case

MUSTAFA KHAN
t all began with the chief secretary PK Mishra asking intelligence chief RB Sreekumar on June 7, 2002 to find out which minister had revealed the secrets of the meeting in the house of chief minister Narendra Modi. The secretary insidiously suggested the name of Haren Pandya the revenue minister. He also supplied the phone number of Pandya. Of course, the intelligence chief found out, that it was indeed Pandya. But Sreekumar refused to give in writing as it was not morally correct to tell on the minister and official decorum was against it. Pandya had won three consecutive elections from the Ellis Bridge constituency. Modi denied him a ticket for the fourth time in the December 2002 elections. No sooner did Modi become the CM than he dropped Pandya from his cabinet. More important than this was the discomforting fact that Pandya was emerging as the most potent rival to Modi. It was he who had revealed the crux of the matter that Modi had instructed his police to let Hindus wreak revenge on the Muslims for three days to teach them a lesson and turn the tide of history once, and for all in favour of Hindus. Therefore Modis vendetta against Pandya had begun in full steam till he was killed on March 26, 2003 while he was taking his morning walk in Law Garden locality of Ahmadabad. The finger of suspicion naturally points in the direction of no other than Modi. Thereafter commenced the crafty cover up ala the post Godhra violence. Modi had ushered in a regime of venality which he successfully tried for some years to use to silence his rivals. To carry out his personal vendetta under the glamour of anti Muslim fight against terrorism there was no dearth of pliant and tainted administrative officials. For example, OP Mathur, IGP (Administration and Security) had already supplied the phone number of Pandya (9824030629) to the chief secretary. Sreekumar did not comply with the request of the chief secretary for he knew quite well what motivated the request. It came from the highest echelon in the government. As the Supreme Court has already blamed Modi for the subversion of justice it is more than confirmed by the acquittal of the 12 convicts in the murder case of Pandya. Modis vendetta falls into a pattern. If Ahsan Jaffri opposed him in his canvassing in Rajkot election of 2001-2002 Jaffri must be finished. Pandya had opposed him so he must go. Nowhere in the world would a chief minister like Modi and a minister of state for home like Amit Shah behave the way they did. This was facilitated by the government of the same party, BJP, ruling at the centre also. PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee chose not to take any action as his home minister LK Advani flagrantly protected his protg. So brazen is the BJP and particularly Advani and Modi that they had no qualms that the bereaved father Vithalbhai Pandya contested election against no other than Advani on the issue that his son who had fallen a victim to Modi vendetta and that it was a political murder and nothing else. Pandyas wife also questioned the investigation into the murder of her husband. She contended that her husband was shot from close range and did not lie in a pool of blood as the official version would have us believe. She said that there was no blood stain in the car. How could that be? Jagruti believes that her husbands murderers are at large and Modi and BJP, nay, Advani must give her justice. The brazenness of the rulers and the police are alike. The CBI took a full three years to complete investigations into the Malegaon, Maharahstra, blasts of 2006 but did not make any breakthrough in the case. The judge chided them for this immoral response to a task assigned to them. They took another year and came up with a charge sheet with a cosmetic addition and put its rubber stamp on the completion of the investigation. In a similar way the CBI did the investigation into the murder of Pandya. As the judges observed What clearly stands out from the records of the present case is that investigation in the case of the murder of Shri Pandya has throughout been botched up and blinkered and it left a lot to be desired. The investigating officers ought to be held accountable for their ineptitude resulting in injustice, harassment of many persons and enormous waste of public resources and time of the courts. There is a generalized pattern whereby the investigation agencies and the ATS have framed Muslims as terrorists. In the case of Malegaon 2006 Zahid was framed as the one who planted the bomb at the graveyard mosque because his brother was caught in the arms haul case in Malegaon, May 2006. Two others, Asif Khan and Mohammad Ali, are also accused in 7/11 local train blasts in Mumbai. Zahid was not in Malegaon but in Phoolsangvi, Yawatmal. The police have charged that he was present in Malegaon and attended the conspiracy meetings and assembled the bombs in Shabbirs workshop and also planted them. As a matter of fact he led prayers five times on September 8, 2006 in the mosque of Phoolsangvi where he worked as an imam. The police used their informer Abrar to ask his friend Hamid Iqbal to speak to Abrar and now they say that it was the
Pandya

It is now an open secret that Modi used his staff and friends like the joint director of IB Rajinder Kumar to influence the investigations into the pogroms as well as fake encounters. Investigators must throw their nets wider to catch the bigger fish.
voice of Zahid. Then the police asked Abrar to use another friend to utter the sentence hum musalmano ke saath gaddari mut karo warno achcha nahin ho ga (Dont betray us Muslims otherwise it would be dangerous for you). Abrar asked a friend Mohammad Shafi Mohammad Sadiqu to utter the sentence but he refused and also gave this in an affidavit to the court. Could such a shoddy way of framing Muslims stand, in a court of law? There is also growing despair among the Muslims that their youths languish in jails across India and lose prime time of life which they could have better used in earning their bread. Those arrested in the Pandya case in 2003 have lost eight years and those who were imprisoned in Malegaon case in2006 have lost five years. When their innocence is proved could they get back their youth. Some of them had got married just days before the arrest! Many of them were the sole breadwinners of their family. In the Pandya case too those who were suspected and accused of attempting to kill Vishwa Hindu Parishad activist Jagdish Tiwari on March 11, 2003 in the Bapunager area of Ahmadabad were also automatically charged of the murder of Pandya fifteen days later. How could they remain in the city and strike again in such quick succession, is left for you to guess. Is it logical and probable that the same group would dare to kill the revenue minister within a fortnight of fatally attacking Tiwari is for the public to ponder over. Was the Gujarat of 2002 so devoid of fear for the Muslims that they would take such risk and strike so soon, is a question that is also left to the imagination of those who are not part of the juggernaut of development. The Muslims were damn scared even to raise their heads and look at Hindus squarelly, or in their eyes let alone going for the VHP leader or the minister. So the motive of murder had nothing to do with revenge of a community. What the CBI did in the Pandya case was what the new Home Secretary of Modi, Manoj Antani, had done in 2002. Antani was the DSP of Bharuch. He had clubbed the two cases of Bahar ki Undai and Haji Khana Bazaar and presented the arrested Muslims youths as jointly accused of the two attacks which took place simultaneously. The two areas of Bharuch are far apart. The judge of the high court chided Antani for this botched up case. In order to avoid embarrassment and focus of public attention as well as the court strictures Modi transferred Antani. Later Antani joined a central government job and earlier in August 2011 Modi appointed him as his Home Secretary. It is strange that Modi and his administration can fool all the people all the time! The CBI has finalized its finding and prepared the charge sheet in which it shows that the twelve accused in the attack on Tiwari are also accused in the case of Pandya without any substantiation of the crimes! In all these cases the police and the investigation agencies have taken Muslims for a ride. Even the judges have taken a dig at the agency: In fact, the investigation clearly appears to have been so botched up and misdirected that the confessional statements recorded during the police remand could not be safely relied on for convicting any of the appellants for commission of, abetment of, or conspiracy to commit murder. Even in the other now famous cases of frame up, the material evidence could not be corroborated. The material evidence on record could not support the conclusions drawn in the impugned (trial court) judgment as far as the killing of Pandya by Ashgar Ali was concerned. Therefore the confessional state-

ments extracted through means of torture in detention could not be a substitute for material evidence. There was only one eye witness whose evidence was full of inherent contradictions and improbabilities; independent evidence could not support what he had said. Under such circumstances, one set of weak and doubtful evidence of the sole eye-witness and the ballistic expert could not find corroboration and support from other weaker pieces of evidence in the form of confessional statements, ruled the judges. What Anil Patel, the only eye witness, said is as improbable as Sajid Shaikh witnesss statement. He is a native of Malegaon who overheard the Kashmiri accused in 7/11. He was sitting on one platform and they were on another at Secundrabad and he says that he overheard them saying in colloquial Kashmiri that they wanted to attack in Mumbai! The Kashmiri youths have been languishing in prison since then. A pertinent point in question in framing innocents, is who is ultimately accountable for it. The MIM president and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has voiced concern over it. In the Pandya case five people- Asghar Ali, Abdul Bari, Abdul Raoof, Shafiuddin and Syed Iftikhar- are from Hyderbad. They were picked up by the Andhra Pardesh police. Why did the AP government not ascertain if they were guilty or not? Why did it facilely cooperate with Gujarat government of the day when it was clear that it was neck deep in sponsoring of pogroms of Muslims in 2002? After all it has a moral duty to citizens of its state. Similarly why had the chief secretary PK Mishra asked Sreeekumar to give in writing? Had he a personal axe to grind in the case of who spoke to the Citizens for Justice and Peace Commission on the meeting of February 27, 2002? If he was doing it at the behest of the CM he should be interrogated to establish the chain of command responsibility. As in the case of Sohrabuddin and Kauser Bi the five accused from Hyderabad were also held at a farm house in Hyderabad, in what, in international terminology would amount to extraordinary rendition. They were tortured and then handed over to the Gujarat police. Such humiliation and torture they suffered that one of them currently on bail, Abdul Raoof, says that I dont know whether the scars of accusations and trial will ever heal. It is now an open secret that Modi used his staff and friends like the joint director of IB Rajinder Kumar to influence the investigations into the pogroms as well as fake encounters. Investigators must throw their nets wider to catch the bigger fish. That, the order came from above in the words of KK Mysorwalla even in the case of the fake encounters is well known now. Pandya also was a victim of fake encounter. It was not that he was killed by Muslim terrorists to avenge the pogroms. For example, Asghar Ali was not convinced that he could strike Pandya on those grounds. He would not have been unnerved by the hawkers and morning walkers and college-going youths if he had taken a vow. This did not come to him naturally. If at all it was Sohrabuddin who used Kalimuddin to kill Pandya. Further if we have any inkling of the affairs it would be that Tulsiram Prajapati did not act alone when he pulled the trigger on Pandya, but others were there too, most likely from the police department. It was not Pandya who was a rabid hater of Muslims but Modi. The CM had instructed that DGP DG Vanzara should be transferred to the border district where it was planned to have Prajapati killed. The superscription on the files bears witness to this. Senior cop Geetha Johari was to interview him the next day in connection with Sohrabuddin murder and before Prajapati could spill the beans he was murdered. Johari also came under the heinous influence of the CM who had got her husband threatened with a legal suit to be filed against him if she went ahead. It was also she who hinted that it was Kalimuddin who was the third person on the bus from Hyderabad to Sangli. All this could not be going on in the CMs Office without his nod. Moreover the anti Muslim atmosphere in the state was brewed by Modi as Slobodan Milosevic had done in the former Yugoslavia. The family of Pandya and even others have averred that he did not have any entrenched hatred for Muslims. Had it been true, why would he have disclosed the secret to the Commission headed by justice Krishna Iyer? It was Modis Achilles heel that the disclosure would betray him out. The two persons Modi really feared are the slain Pandya and Sanjiv Bhatt. It was this fear that made Modi tell a lie that Bhatt did not attend the meeting because he was not senior most in the intelligence department. This mouthing of the lie is threatening to become the Albatross around his neck. However, elaborate preparation Modi and his aides made, they left pugmarks of the demagogue dragon. It is in this regard that one has to see why the hawkers were removed from the Law Garden where Pandya was killed the very next day. Subsequently the hawkers were allowed to reoccupy the public space. This gives credence to the suspicion that Modi and the higher echelon of his administration and police were very much involved in the murder and so it was a fake encounter.

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Kaleem Kawaja Washington DC

The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2011

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Bharat Sarkar toh ********** hai!

HAIDER ABBAS

aheer Alam Falahi, around 60 years old, and Muhammed Aslam, of around same age, are both distraught. They have sulken eyes and downcast shoulders. Both were once quite spirited and forthcoming, as in early 2008, when they were making frantic efforts and visits to Lucknow, the state capital, from their ancestral villages in Jaunpur and Azamgarh, which lie in the eastern part of UP. The reason being that the formers real nephew Khalid Mujahid, had been arrested for being involved in the serial blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad and he remains under arrest allegedly from Barabanki on 22 Dec., 2007. He is charged in case no. 1891/2007 under sections 121, 121-A, 122/ 124A, 325 of the Indian Penal Code and under section 4/5 of the Explosive Substances Act along with sections 16, 18, 20, 23 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. The defence side claims that he was actually arrested on 16 Dec., 2007 near his village. The latter is the father-in-law of Tariq Qasmi who too is charged with similar crimes and is also in jail since 22 Dec., 2007. His defence lawyers, too, rubbish the police theory and assert that he was actually arrested on 12 Dec., 2007 by UP Special Task Force from a different place than that claimed by the police. Their trials are going on in Lucknow, Barabanki and Faizabad courts. For this purpose, they are routinely transported to appear before the respective court every fifteen days, from Lucknow District Jail where they are lodged. Tariq is also made to appear before the court in a case in Gorakhpur too. So what is the cause of concern now? I am worried about any harm which may be done to my nephew. Police is still engaged in torture and psychological intimidation to Khalid. The latest application brought to the notice of the court in Barabanki is a stark rejoinder to the fact as to how police is dealing with the accused, says

Adv. Suman

Khalid Mujahid

Tariq Qasmi

Complaint of Tariq and Khalid against the police inspectors threats to kill them

Zaheer Alam Falahi. Both Khalid and Tariq have given it in writing to the Additional Sessions Judge, ECT Barabanki, SM Tiwari, on 20 August that they were subjected to the worst foul language and abuses on the basis of their religion by the police personnel while they were being transported to appear before the court on 20 August. Randhir Singh Suman, their counsel in Barabanki court, explains: It has been pleaded to the court that on 20 August at about 9:15 am, while the duo were being carried from Lucknow District Jail, Police Inspector Shyam Krishna Mishra chose to hurl the worst expletives on the basis of religion and threatened to kill the two persons. The police officer also said that Bharat Sarkar toh Maadar**** hai jo tum logon ko zinda rakhye huey hai. Tumko

turant goli maar deni chahiye (Indian government is a mother****** to keep you alive as you should be shot dead immediately). The inspector stopped the vehicle thrice during the journey, saying that they should be shot down, said Suman. There is a distance of about 40 kms from the jail to Barabanki court. Suman has, therefore, pleaded with the court to debar Shyam Krishna Mishra from transporting the accused to the court as it is in all likelihood that he might kill them during one of these journeys and enact a farcical drama. The Additional Session Judge ECT SM Tiwari has ordered the district government counsel to probe the matter and file a reply on the same during the next hearing slated for 3 September, added Suman. He is unable to understand why the police is behaving like this at this juncture. They duo are in jail for the past four years and have undergone worst inhuman torture. They have placed their grievances with the RD Nimesh Commission too, which is probing the triple blasts of 2007. My clients belong to respectable families who could not bear insults and abuses to their religion. Our police is quite capable of such morality! My clients have put their genuine anxieties to the court. This has happened perhaps for the first time in any court in India. The best thing is that now the court has been informed and the usual meek surrender to the police wrong-doings will not go unreported, added Suman. Coming back to the elderly pursuants. We travel in Ramadan during the hot days to be able to meet our kins. What makes us do it despite all odds? It is our faith that our children have been framed in false cases and are a victim of fake crimes. We fight against the injustice perpetrated on them and we will not sit until justice is done. What to say about the innumerable losses our families have incurred during this continuous ordeal, said Zaheer Alam Falahi. Our fight against terrorism is our only point of delivery, said Suman concluding his statement.

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How could the chief minister be unaware of the events taking place in his state, nay in the city where he dwells and from where he rules? It shows how well planned and sanctioned from the chief ministers office the operation dealing with Sohrabuddin, Pandya, Tulsiram, etc was. For example, Bhatt had come to know that Sohrabuddin had first contacted Asghar Ali to kill Pandya. When Asghar could not, Tulsiram identified Sohrabuddin to the police who killed him. Then Tulsi was killed to remove proof of the entire operation of killing Pandya. So one after another those who had played a pivotal role and knew the secret of the arrangement to kill were silenced so that it would not be known that it was done at the behest of the government. To do all this Modis most trusted officer DG Vanzara played an important role. He also pretended that he was doing it for patriotism (he dubbed it deshbhakti). It was a cover up right from the day Mishra called Sreekumar to give in writing what Pandya was talking on his phone about the gunning down of Tulsiram. Such was the atmosphere of fear for the Muslims that no one would have dared to attack even ordinary Hindus to avenge the murder of nearly 2000 Muslims. Of course, above all, was the minister of state for home and the most trusted lieutenant of Modi, Amit Shah. When Bhatt told him about Tulsiram killing Pandya, that Tulsi carried out the job Shah turned pale and nervous. Shah sounded very disturbed over the telephone and asked me not to speak about it to anyone. Bhatt was in charge of the Sabarmati prison where Asghar Ali was kept. Bhatt put the fact in a report and submitted it to the home department. Shah was so scared of all that he must have told Modi about it and to hush up the matter Bhatt was transferred. Such a transfer could not be done without the knowledge of Modi. Modi had already eyed Pandya with intense hatred and wanted him removed and when the matter got involuted he must have thought of the final solution of liquidating him at all cost. Even the intelligence chief of the state DGP Sreekumar has asserted According to the intelligence inputs we had at that time, Pandya was not on the hit list of terrorists (who wanted to avenge the Gujarat riots) at that time. It doesnt matter if he was not. He must be made to fit in the subversion of justice and the topsy-turvy system ushered in by Motidva-Hindutva. In fact ATS in Maharashtra and Gujarat and the Special Cell of Delhi police under Rajbir Singh also did just that. Therefore the trial court judges scoffed at the experts of forensic department as well as on ballistic experts who strove to prove their worth in an objective assessment of the seven

wounds including the glaring wound number 7 which showed an entry hole in the left of the scrotum of Pandya and the bullet track went through the spinal cord. How precisely must have the assassin aimed at the left testicle! (Which leg went up in the driver seat?) Even so the judges would naturally use it to justify that there was no sex jealousy here or any revenge motive of any love affair or rivalry. The assailants acted in a tizzy all in few seconds and left no blood marks. The widow and the bereaved father must learn to know that the clothes act as bandages which prevent profuse bleeding which can naturally be understood only by the rustics like PW 55, Anil Patel. Justice Akshay Mehta is the role model. Modi tried judges one after another to bail Babu Bajrangi out of the prison. The man had led the mob to kill more than a hundred Muslims in the most barbaric manner. And yet he was allowed to abscond to the Gujarat government guest house of Mount Abu by no other than the Chief Minister of Gujarat. One of the judges told Bajrangi that for the crimes he had committed at Naroda Patia he would have awarded him two life terms in jail. Ultimately Mehta came and granted him bail with impunity. Of course the reward did not have to be kept secret. He was made one of the judges who would sit on Nanavati-Shah commission of inquiry into the pogroms of Muslims in the aftermath of the Godhra incident. He is still enjoying the windfalls of his service to Moditva. Why would not the trial court judges emulate him! Most startling of all development was that Modi had justified the killing of Sohrabuddin and dared the government in Delhi to arrest him. In 2007 he collected votes in the name of killing a man whom he described as a terrorist caught with a cache of AK 47. Sonia Gandhi called Modi a merchant of death. The development grew into a crescendo of tension and climax. But what is shaping investigation and court hearing is proving to be an anticlimax in which the heroes and saviours of the people are turning out to be the devils who have bedeviled the whole nation with their canards. There is every likelihood that the high drama will end in a whimper. First the killing of Pandya is linked to that of Sohrabuddin. When Azam Khan revealed it in 2010 he was kidnapped and made to retract. Who had brought about the retraction if not Amit Shah who was extremely nervous about what Asghar Ali had told Sanjiv Bhatt that Tulsiram Prajapati may have killed Pandya. There is also the statement of ACP Abhay Chaudasma, who disclosed that he had an affinity for Sohrabuddin and had saved him from the murder case of Pandya. These revelations may lead to the exposure of full-fledged racket that the minister of state (Home) was conducting with

approval from his immediate boss and patron Modi who was also the Home Minister of his own government. Aristotle said the subject of tragedy is not impossible probability but probable impossibility. It would mean that the two ministers were running the racket for fabulous amounts of money as they were administering the richest state of the country. So the marble lobby in Rajasthan and the builders lobby in Gujarat gave money for the killing of Sohrabuddin. In the meantime Amit Shah must also have realized that Sohrabuddin knew a great deal of the racket and was a danger in the future and so he was removed in a fake encounter. He knew that Amit Shah wanted Pandya killed for which purpose Sohrabuddin had gone to Hyderbad and had contacted Asghar Ali. The Hyderbadi did not have courage for the task or did not feel upto doing it. Chaudasma had procured a gun for the purpose. The mission was aborted. So Prajapati was used to finish off Pandya.

Hazares movement financed by US & other agencies

New Delhi: It has been revealed through RTI that Anna Hazares movement against corruption is being funded by some American and other organisations/agencies. According to Web portal Beyond Headlines, an NGO Kabir of Manish Sisodiya, a member of Anna team, many organisations are funding this movement, details of which are given below: Funding agencies Amount/Rs 1. Ford Foundation 86,61,742 2. PRIA 2,37,035 3. Manjunath Shanmugam Trust 3,70,000 4. Dutch Embassy 19,61,968 5. Association for Indias Development 15,00,000 6. India Friends Association 7,86,500 7. United Nations Development Programme 12,52,742 8. Individual donations/contributions 11,35,857 The above amounts are not only for this movement of Anna but for other anti government movements also in the past between 2007 and 2010. With the help of these funds volunteers or participants are being provided with mobiles, SMSs, T. shirts, caps, flags, eatables and drinks. It is believed that the American agency, Ford Foundation is in a league with the secret and spy agency CIA. Some Congress members had accused America of backing Annas movement against corruption and against the government. America, on its part, had stated that it is not backing this movement though it supports peaceful protest demonstrations anywhere. (NA Ansari)

8 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2011

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CBI enquiry to tarnish the AMU image

CBI enquiry has been ordered against the AMU Vice Chancellor Prof. PK Abdul Azis. Section 13 of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) Act 1920 makes a mention about an enquiry to be made in respect of any matter connected with the administration or finances of the University. The Act speaks about an enquiry against the University. It does not speak about an enquiry against the VC, PVC, Registrar or any other employee of the University. But an enquiry against the University, in essence, means an enquiry against an employee of the University who is alleged to have committed administrative or financial Abdul Azis irregularities. It is spoken of as, in the legal parlance, the principle of piercing the veil. The CBI enquiry is a sequel of the interim report dated 17 March 2011 submitted by a fact-finding committee consisting of Justice (Retd) BA Khan (chairman) and Justice (Retd) AN Divecha which was constituted vide a Visitorial notification issued on 4 February 2010 to enquire into certain allegations against the VC levelled by eight members of the Executive Council (EC) of the AMU and also to enquire into certain counter-allegations against these eight members of the EC levelled by as many as 23 members of the AMU court, some members of the EC and some senior professors of the University. The allegations against the 8 complaints EC members were that of extracting undue benefit from the University, blackmailing the VC, their past conduct and creating a quorum problem for the EC meetings to blackmail and harass the VC and the University administration. The fact-finding enquiry was, in fact, a doubleedged weapon but the edge against the eight complainants was dexterously and conceitfully blunted by the HRD ministry where some members of the eight complainants have easy access. The visitorial notification stated that the enquiry will cover the past conduct of the eight complainants for a period of two decades. It is relevant to mention here that the first fact-finding enquiry committee consisting of Justice (Retd.) Fakhruddin and Akbar Jung could submit nothing as there were differences of opinion between them and because of this they could not pull together though they held several hearings, all at Aligarh and not a single one at Delhi and charged nothing towards their remuneration. The first presidential notification had authorised them to fix their own remuneration to be paid by the AMU. Similar was the case with the second verbatim notification appointing the second fact-finding committee which has submitted the interim report. Before dealing with the impropriety committed by the enquiry committee, the HRD ministry and the findings of the interim report, it is pertinent to go into the brief background of the whole ugly incident which is sure to damage the otherwise immaculate image of the AMU. Background Prof. PK Abdul Azis joined as the AMU VC on 11 June 2007. His earlier posting was as the VC of the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT). He was a popular choice of the Muslim community of India. The AMU court, the supreme governing body of the AMU, is a representative body of the Indian Muslims and he had got maximum number of votes for appointment as AMU VC. Some of the eight complainants too were proactive in his appointment and one of them had even gone to Kerala to meet him as a sycophant. There is a strong vested interest group on the AMU campus which consists of a powerful teacher-buildercontractor nexus. On assuming the charge, Prof. PK Abdul Azis, little realising that this powerful group will be adversely affected, took some unprecedented strong administrative measures aimed at doing away with the rampant corruption. The building contract was transferred to the CPWD. The uniform contract was given to the Khadi Gram Udyog. The central automobile workshop was privatised etc. One member of the eight complainants was heading the purchase committee which was now broadbased by adding some more members to it. These drastic steps, taken in the larger interest of the University, antagonised the vested interest group. A deep-rooted conspiracy was hatched to entrap Prof. PK Abdul Azis and create a situation for him to resign and go back to Kerala. Backed by the builder mafia, they complained to the Visitor of the University (President of India) through the HRD ministry. As stated above, 23 members of the AMU Court/EC also complained to the Visitor through the HRD ministry against the anti-university past conduct of these eight complainants. For example, one of these complainants was the beneficiary of the building contracts. Another member of this group had manipulated his date of birth. Action was to be taken against him in the EC meeting. All the major decisions to run the University are taken by the EC which is chaired by the VC. For dual purpose of preventing the EC from taking any action against the manipulator of his date of birth and for harassing and blackmailing the VC, the eight complainants, who were members of the EC, saw to it that its meetings are not held for lack of quorum. They came to Aligarh, stayed in the University guest house, claimed TA/DA but did not attend EC meeting with

the malafide intention to harass the VC who is the chairman of the EC. One of the allegations against the VC is that he held the EC meeting without the required quorum. The interim report The interim report dated 17 Feb. 2011 is the basis of CBI enquiry and an audit enquiry by the CVC. The member and the chairman of the fact-finding enquiry committee have written separate judgements. The committee, suo motu, selected only four allegations against the VC out of many other allegations, heard the parties and delivered a split judgement. Justice Divecha found the VC guilty on the four counts whereas the chairman Justice Khan found the VC not guilty of any financial irregularities on the four selected counts. The four allegations The four selected major allegations on which the split interim report was submitted are as follows: 1. The VC claimed and was paid TA/DA of an amount of Rs. 81,650 on his first joining which is not legally permissible as the same is in violation of Rule 30 of the AMU Travelling and Halting Allowances Rules which does not allow TA to any person for the journey to join his first appointment. 2. The VC claimed and was paid Home Travel Concession (HTC) of an amount of Rs. 93,053 for sending his family back home to Kerala within four days of joining. 3. The VC visited the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as the Chief Guest of the 26th All India ASU Conference for which he charged fare via Kochi and claimed TA/DA of Rs. 61,143 and taxi charges of Rs 12,797 hired in Kochi; the total amounting to Rs. 76,940, and 4. The VC claimed and was paid expenses of Rs. 15000 for hiring taxi for private use in and around Thiruvanthapuram. Report of the member Without going deeper and taking a superficial and mechanical view of the allegations, oblivious of the status of the AMU VC, and most importantly, his dislike and aversion for the University advocate who, according to the Honble member, misrepresented and lied before the enquiry committee, the Honble member found the VC guilty of financial irregularities on the four counts. In his zeal to fix the AMU VC, he has taken into consideration extraneous facts and factors and has even transgressed the terms of reference of the enquiry. During the conduct of the enquiry, his aversionist attitude towards the University counsel was apparent. He has indicted the said counsel in strong words. Instead of being an objective report based on facts, evidence and legal acumen, the 27-page report penned by the Honble member Justice Divecha has become a personalised and subjective report as per the wish of the HRD ministry. That is why he has used hard words like embezzlement and personal gain forgetting that only a fool will try to gain by claiming TA/DA in thousands when he had the opportunity to do the same in lakhs and crores in opening the AMU centres at Mallapuram and Murshidabad involving expenditure worth several hundred crores. The annual budget of the University itself is about Rs 400 crores. There might be many easy avenues for the VC if he really wanted undue financial gain. Chairmans report In his 24-page erudite judgement, Justice Khan has taken a holistic, deeper and post-mortem like view of the allegations, facts and circumstances surrounding them. He has tersely penned his public-oriented judgement which can hardly be faulted. Only one example will suffice. Dealing with the first allegation, while he, like Justice Divecha, has rejected the universitys stand that the VC Azis was not on his first joining but was rather on transfer from the CUSAT to AMU, and holding that the claim of TA/DA of an amount of Rs 81,654 was against Rule 30, Justice Khan has taken into consideration the fact that several past AMU VCs, including Mr. Hamid Ansari, the Vice President of India, have availed such TA/DA for which the University had put documentary proof on record. The VC is a victim of wrong precedent. There is no malafide intention on his part to cheat the university or to illegally gain. He weighs holding the VC guilty on this count in the constitutional perspective of Article 14. According to the Honble

chairman, singling out one VC out of many similar incidents will violate the clear mandate of Article 14 of the Constitution of India which prohibits discrimination amongst similarly situated persons. He too has indicted the university counsel but has given an unbiased, balanced and objective report based on facts, evidence and constitutional propositions. About the Enquiry Committee About Rs. 95 lakhs have been spent on securing an interim report which, as per the order of the HRD ministry, was paid by the university. Both the judges claimed salary of a sitting High Court judge, though both of them were drawing pension at the time (legally, full salary and pension cant be claimed simultaneously). Monthly salary was claimed though the sittings of the committee took place at a maximum of four hearings a month. The university also provided cars to them, rent of the venue (IICC) where hearings took place, office expense, TA/DA of Justice Divecha (sometimes including his wife) from Ahmadabad to Delhi and back, his stay in a posh hotel and good food. etc. Thus, per se, is a subject of enquiry. Illegalities committed by the HRD Ministry The communal elements in the ministry and in other Govt. departments are always on the look out to find an opportunity to malign the AMU. After receiving the interim report, the HRD ministry recommended to the Visitor a CBI enquiry against the university at the instance of the complainants, one of them is known to be close to the HRD minister. The Visitor ordered an enquiry by the CBI and the CVC. The CBI has taken up the preliminary enquiry without formally registering a criminal case. The enquiry was ordered under section 13 (1) of the AMU Act, 1920. Subsections (2A) to (5) of Section 13 speak about the manner in which a report is to be dealt with. Instead of ordering for a CBI enquiry, the proper course for the HRD ministry/Visitor was to forward the result of the enquiry to the EC through the VC with its advice. Thereafter, under sub-section (4), the EC shall communicate through the VC to the Visitor such action, if any, as it is proposed to take or has been taken upon the result of such inspection or enquiry. As per sub-section (5), where the E C, within a reasonable time, does not take action to the satisfaction of the Visitor, the Visitor may after considering any explanation furnished or representation made by the EC, issue such direction as he may think fit and the EC shall comply with such directions. Two options open Since the interim report was a split report about only for major allegations ignoring any interim report on counter allegations, the HRD ministry/Visitor should have ordered for a full-fledged enquiry or should have forwarded the report to the EC through the VC to be dealt with under sub-sections (2A) to (5) of section 13 of the AMU Act, 1920. Reputation of AMU in jeopardy On hearing about the CBI enquiry, the anti-VC group celebrated in the University campus. Little realising that in the pursuit of mindless personal vendetta against the VC, they are causing unfathomable harm and injury to their own institution. The danger to the AMU has always been from within, hardly from outside. The soul of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan must be languishing in utter pain and despair. This is the first CBI enquiry against a central university in India. It will have an adverse effect on the placement companies who make on-the-spot recruitment at the AMU campus. The anti-VC group has become anti-University as it is not allowing the VC and the university administration to complete selection committees. If the selections are not done, a large number of posts will lapse. Discrimination A CBI enquiry has been ordered by the Visitor on the aid and advice of the HRD ministry with regard to TA/DA and even with regard to appointment of provosts. At the investigation of the same the vested interest group misguided students with the aid of outsiders, had put the VC lodge on arson and had looted his laptops and smashed other articles. The VCs life was somehow saved. This was a pre-planned attack with the help of ladder, kerosene oil and petrol. Yet, there was no CBI enquiry. Some mysterious murder of students took place but there was no CBI enquiry despite a demand for the same. But, now, the AMU has been put on a CBI enquiry for small financial irregularities, raising of the boundary wall, CCTV cameras, purchase of furniture and car etc.

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The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2011

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BJP and RSS joined Anna bandwagon to topple govt

MOHAMMAD NAUSHAD KHAN
New Delhi: Corruption has taken its roots at all levels and more or less it has become a way of life. The call for a mass movement by Anna Hazare was timely and the people in general needed someone who is least corrupt as compared to others to lead the anti corruption crusade. People wanted the crusader to emerge from among the common people and not from the political circles. It may take too long to decide as to who will gain from Annas crusade. On face value it looks as if both Congress and BJP have got fair chance to extract political mileage from the agitation. At the onset of the agitation team Anna displayed a collective team effort without any element of personal interest attached to it. But, towards the end, team Anna was caught up between moderates and hardliners within. Team Anna is at present divided for one or the other reason. It is still not clear as to who pitched Anna and with what motive. Was it simply to get rid of corruption or something else under the guise of corruption? In both circumstances it was only government on tenterhooks. Anything against the government was calculated as a bonus point for the opposition backed by the RSS. After having seen Anna in Gandhian fashion the impression we got was as if Bapu has once again walked on the face of the earth while on the contrary there is also feeling that he is covertly backed by the RSS, an organisation charged for killing the Mahatma. Many of us may not agree to this view for the simple reason that the comparison is extreme. But the components and the nitty-gritty of the agitation do compel us to think in that direction, as people with vested personal agenda have fuelled the direction of the anti corruption crusade and contributed to make it successful. The direction in which Annass campaign has moved can be said to be dangerous in one sense that the move has provided more space for the opposition. It is projected as if the tirade is against the government in particular and corruption in general. It is believed that such an approach may end up helping the right wing party in the end. Even though Anna is assisted by clever people but there is always a possibility of being highjacked by the right wing forces. The more the confrontation the greater was the possibility of the crusade tilting in favour of the opposition. It is believed that the strategy of the RSS was to keep their cadres behind the scene and push forward the BJP to the centerstage of the corruption movement in order to turn the course of the movement to their side. Even though BJP supported Annas campaign officially but the RSS is not convinced by the manner in which BJP raised the issue or supported the campaign. There is a feeling in the RSS that the BJP lost the opportunity to corner the government inside and outside the parliament. RSS is also pained and irritated by the fact that when members of the RSS and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) openly supported Anna Hazares movement and were present at the Ramlila ground, the BJP leadership remained out of the scene. There are also reports that of the total supporters present at the Ramlila ground at least 10 percent supporters were from the RSS. Another report to substantiate the claims that Sangh Parishad supported Annas campaign was that the members of the Dharma Yatra Mahasangh, a youth wing of the VHP served food to 20000 people daily from their stalls at the Ramlila ground. he RSS in a resolution passed at its national meet at Puttur in Karnataka in March 2011 had asked the Swayamsevaks to completely support the agitation against corruption. Ashok Singhal, chief of Vishwa Hindu Parishad recently said that the right wing organisation was involved in Annas campaign against corruption. He further lauded their efforts in making Annas agitation a success. Top brass of the BJP and RSS met recently at Ujjain to consolidate their support to Anna in its resolution. It was only after the Ujjain meet BJP president officially pledged his support. Mangeram Garg, old time RSS confidant and ex-BJP Delhi unit chief was in-charge of the Sanghs operation room at the Ramlila ground. Kumar Vishwas who was earlier stage manager for Baba Ramdev was also doing the same job for Anna at the Ramlila ground. Tejinder Pal of Partys Yuva Morcha, youth wing of the BJP organized the protest outside Congress leaders residence. Apart from VHP cadre, food for the protestors was also funded and served by the RSS offshoot Goraksha unit. The motive behind making inroads into Annas campaign apart from other reasons seems to be that the BJP while doing so had in mind to exploit the wave that emanated from Annas agitation. BJP after having seen the massive turnout of people at the Ramlila maidan to support Anna wants to politically cash it by chanting Anna Anna in order to revive Ram Ram in Uttar Pradesh keeping an eye on the upcoming assembly elections. BJP wants to count on their support to Anna and also to see effects of Annas agitation in the state. In this regard, BJP has planned to take up Vijay Sankalp Yatra from Mathura to Lucknow and from Varansi to Lucknow. The Yatra which is scheduled to begin on 13 October will be led by Rajnath Singh, Vinay Katiyar, Kalraj Mishra and Uma Bharati. It will end on 21 November. In addition to it, BJP will also take up as many as 350 small yatras in assembly segments in the state. After the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 the party had then coined the slogan Abhi to ye Jhannki hai, Kashi aur Mathura Baaki hai (This is just a glance Kashi and Mathura are still on the cards.) BJP over the years has maintained that these two places of worship were not on its agenda but the destination chosen and the people assigned to lead the yatra gives an impression that efforts could be made to revive old issue in a clandestine manner. Although BJP is gearing up for the coming assembly elections and general elections but the party is in a dilemma as to who to name as the prime ministerial candidate. RSS is not in favour of naming a prime ministerial candidate but senior leaders of the BJP are of the opinion that it is essential because people put faith in a leader and not just a party. There is also a feeling in the BJP camp that not projecting a leader may turn out to be politically incorrect and damaging. RSS is reluctant to name the prime ministerial candidate because all those who experienced, do not stand true to the expectation and parameters of the RSS. It becomes evident from the recent Wikileaks expose which says that RSS suspected the Hindutva credentials of senior BJP leaders like Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, Arun Shourie, Yashwant Singh and Venkaiah Naidu and that is why it chose Nitin Gadkari as the partys president. The cable said that RSS tightened its hold over the BJP after the partys debacle in the 2009 general elections. As per leaked document Gadkari was a surprise choice as BJP president because RSS wanted a leader who could focus on party-building and remained loyal to its ideology based on Hindu nationalism. In that perspective, Gadkari was the perfect choice. None of the second-tier leaders in Delhi - Jaitley, Swaraj, Arun Shourie, Yashwant Singh and Venkaiah Naidu - have an RSS background, and none are indebted to it, the secret US cable had said. And in that capacity naming anyone out of the box may result in infighting and groupism. With all these developments it becomes clear as to what extent RSS interferes in the functioning of the BJP and the helplessness of the party with the difference.

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Progress unaffected Despite tough opposition, attack on his life, remaining in Aligarh without his family for fear of their lives, and himself remaining in constant fear, it stands to the credit of Prof. Abdul Azis that he has helped establish two AMU centres functional at Mallapuram and Murshidabad. Other AMU centres too will be functional from the next year. Number of PhD awards has gone up. Lot of progress is there for raising the Dr. Zakir Hussain College of Engg. & Technology to the status of IIT, and JN Medical College to the status of the AIIMS. Task before the Muslim community The reputation of the AMU is at stake by the CBI enquiry as if some big scam has taken place there. Prof. Abdul Azis will return to Kerala in January 2012 but the institution remain for ever. Bigger financial bunglings are reported from other universities. Why the AMU has been singled out for a differential treatment? The CBI enquiry must be stopped. It is for true Aligarians and community leaders to represent to the PM, Dr. Manmohan Singh, and the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to stop this cruel joke with the AMU. While the CBI has already taken up the case for a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) without registering a regular case, and has demanded the relevant records which have been supplied by the AMU, the HRD ministry, through the under secretary Shri Jugal Singh has slapped a palpably illegal and misconceived notice on 10 August, 2011 on the AMU through its Registrar Prof. V. K. Abdul Jaleel. This notice is based on the directions of the Visitor of the AMU. According to the notice, Prof. P. K. Abdul Azis, the Vice Chancellor of the AMU, who is completing office on 17 Jan. 2012, be restrained from making any appointment and promotion, as also from taking any policy decision which may have long term financial or other implications on the executive and academic functioning of the university. In the second para of the notice, it has been clarified that the directions of the Visitor issued by this ministry vide Show Cause Notice No. 3-29/2010 - Desk (U) dated 17 Dec. 2010 to keep the meeting of the university operation court in abeyance, are still in operation. The third para of the impugned notice says, In view of the above directions of the Visitor, it is requested that the University may call a meeting of the Executive Council to draw the requisite panel of names in terms of statue 2 (1) of the statutes of the university and then submit a formal proposal to this ministry for seeking the Visitors permission to hold the meeting of the university court for preparing a panel for appointment of the Vice-Chancellor. Notice Void AB Initio The notice under question is void ab initio as none of the directions of the Visitor contained in the said notice is within the power and jurisdiction of the Visitor of the AMU. It is a direct attack on the autonomy of the university. The powers of the Visitor are contained in Section 13 of the AMU Act. As stated earlier, the Visitor has the power to cause an enquiry or inspection of the university; the Visitor may send the result of the enquiry alongwith his advice for action to the VC who shall communicate the same to the EC; the EC shall communicate through the VC to the Visitor such action, if any, as it is proposed to take or has been taken upon the result of such inspection or enquiry; if the EC does not take action to the satisfaction of the Visitor, the Visitor may issue directions and the EC shall comply with such direction but before issuing such directions, the Visitor shall consider any explanation or representation made by the EC. Thus, in view of the above explicit provisions, the role of the Visitor comes into play only after the result of the CBI enquiry is before her. The Visitor can exercise her power only after some material is available to her for proceeding against the University or the VC. She cannot act arbitrarily and capriciously and issue the impugned directions. The notice is a result of non-application of mind and a revengeful attitude of the HRD ministry to fix the defenceless AMU Vice Chancellor at the behest of the anti-VC lobby. The order of the Visitor is not lawful and hence the VC and the university authorities can ignore the same and hold the court meeting to elect the Chancellor, Pro Chancellor, Treasurer and six members of the EC and, only thereafter, start the process of preparing a panel of prospective candidates for appointment of next VC of the AMU. The Visitor can intervene in the affairs of the AMU only when there is notation of the Act or Ordinances of the University. The Show Cause Notice dated 17 Dec. 2010 was justified as 35 days statutory notice had not been issued. The university rightly cancelled that meeting and with the cancellation of the meeting, the notice dated 17 Dec. 10 became non est (non-existent). The University was free to hold the court meeting after serving 35 days prior notice to the court members. Now, the Visitors insistence that the notice dated 17 Dec. 2010 keeping the meeting of the court in abeyance is still in operation is a direct attack on the autonomous functioning of the University. Curtailing the powers of the VC amounts to a punishment, and legally speaking, no punishment can be inflicted without some material, without some enquiry, without some reason, without affording a reasonable opportunity to the VC to defend himself. This is a blatant misuse of power by the Visitor on the misconceived and revengeful advice of the concerned ministry. As per the directions, the VC cannot hold Selection Committees as a result of which many posts/promotions shall lapse before his exit from the university on or about 17 Jan. 2012 causing unfathomable harm to the AMU. Selection of new VC While the anxiety of the ministry/Visitor to initiate the process for a new VC for the AMU is appreciable, its direction to hold the meeting of the incomplete EC and then seek the permission of the Visitor to hold the court meeting for selection of a new VC is simply illegal and unwarranted encroachment on the independent and autonomous functioning of the university. This is for the first time in the history of the AMU that such inroad in its internal administrative functioning has been made. (It is clarified that the EC prepares a panel of five names which is sent to the AMU court which in turn sends three names which are forwarded to the Visitor who appoints one of the three). Democratic functioning in jeopardy Democratic process must be completed before the initiation of the process for the selection of a new VC for the AMU. The EC consists of 27 members. Presently, there are only 16 members; 11 seats are vacant - two from lecturers category, six from the court category and one post of treasurer. In order to complete the full strength of the E C, it is incumbent to hold the AMU court meeting first to elect the six members of the EC from the Court itself, and the treasurer. Four vacancies of teachers category should also be filled. Only after the full strength of the EC is ensured, the process for selection of a new VC should start which will be in tandem with the democratic norms. The direction of the Visitor to hold the EC meeting first and court meeting later is tantamount to putting the cart before the horse. The real sympathisers of the AMU are so perturbed by the impugned notification dated 10 Aug. 2011 that they have issued a strong statement condemning the same. The statement signed by Prof. Irfan Habib, Professor Emeritus AMU; Prof. M. Saleemuddin, former PVC; Prof. Wasi Haider (Physics); Prof. Ramesh Rawat (Hindi); Prof. Sheerin Moosvi (History) Prof. S. Imtiaz Hasnain (Linguistics); Prof. S. Alim Husain Naqvi (Applied Physics) and Prof. Shamir Hasan, says, We hold that the letter of the ministry constitutes an illegal attack on the autonomy of the University and shows total disregard of the immediate and long lasting effects on the teaching and functioning of one of the major institutions of higher learning in the country. The statement, inter alia, appeals, We particularly request members of Parliament to intervene and ensure that the government strictly obeys the law legislated by the Parliament and abide by its provisions. Legal remedy The AMU needs an Anna Hazare to make the UPA government realise that it has committed patent illegalities and meted out big injustice to the autonomy of the AMU with far-reaching dangerous ramifications. Alongwith political solution, it is equally important to resort to legal and constitutional remedies. The university should challenge the notification. After all, at stake is the autonomy of the AMU. The notification has no leg to stand the judicial scrutiny.

10 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2011

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Modi tries to defame Governor, HC over Lokayukta

ABDUL HAFIZ LAKHANI, Ahmedabad

oday when the entire country accepts Anna Hazare, why RA Mehta is not acceptable to Gujarat Chief Minister? Narendra Modi is under great stress and tension from various sides. The issue of Lokayukta to probe his land scandals gives him sleepiness nights as he is being pulled up by his own men like Gorghan Zadaphia, Kanubhai Kalsaria, Sanjay Joshi and many more, of course Gujarat Congress leads from the front. When the central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party is supporting a strong jan lokpal at the Centre to curb corruption, in its own model state Gujarat it wants to rule by commissions. Whos afraid of the allegations of corruption as long as the Commissions of Inquiry Act, 1952 exists? Be it the Assembly elections of 2007 or the civic polls of 2010, he has played the development card with the Hindutva touch to success. He says, Hu khato nathi ane khava deto nathi. (I dont accept bribe and neither allow others to do so). But it is alleged that the Gujarat government is run by a few industrialists only. Rampant corruption is also alleged in land acquisition deals. The Congress has opened a new front against Narendra Modi by petitioning President Pratibha Patil for a CBI probe into the alleged corruption of Rs. one lakh crore during his one decade tenure. This can be a the different strategy of the Congress. For the last one decade, the Congress has labelled Modi communal. However, such branding has not yielded any positive results for the Congress in Gujarat. It seems that the next Assembly election in Gujarat, due in 2012, will be fought on the issue of corruption, though the Congress itself is facing a tough situation at the Centre. The Congress has already started tightening the noose around Modi as the whole Congress Legislative Party members, including the leader of the opposition Arjun Modhwadia, have approached the President and demanded CBI inquiry against Modi. The Stage seems all set for an open confrontation between the Gujarat government and Governor Kamla, with the latter deciding to appoint retired High Court judge R A Mehta as the new lokayukta. The Narendra Modi-led government has filed a petition in the Gujarat high court against the appointment of retired judge R A Mehta as Gujarats Lokayukta (Indian equivalent of the Swedish Ombudsman) without consultation with the state government. The state government has sought urgent hearing on the matter against the manner in which the governor was trying to force the centres agenda on the state government. The appointment was announced in the wee hours of Friday by state governor Kamala Beniwal, an appointee of the Congress

party, which is in control at the central government but in the opposition in BJP-ruled Gujarat. The post had been lying vacant for the past seven years since justice S M Soni resigned in 2003, soon after Narendra Modi and his BJP government was re-elected with a thumping majority. The state government had earlier rejected the name of justice S D Dave; and refused to ratify the appointment of Mehta in spite of two reminders from the governor. There has been considerable controversy over the vacant post following Anna Hazares movement for a central Lokpal. Mehta is considered a Hazare supporter; he had hosted Hazare at his residence during his last visit to Ahmedabad in May and has been closely associated with the India Against Corruption movement in Gujarat. The ruling party has blamed opposition leader Shaktisinh Gohil for avoiding discussion on theissue. On the other hand, the opposition maintains that the government has no role in the appointment of a Lokayukta, as the recommendation has to be made by the chief justice, the governor, and the leader of the opposition. State pleader Jani said the governments contention was that Beniwal had no power to act on her own and had to consult the council of ministers. The Governor was required to act only after the chief minister had concurred with the suggestion. The appointment assumes significance as the Congress has levelled serious allegations of corruptions in 17 instances involving money to the tune of Rs1,00,000 crore, against the Modi government. The state government appointed its own commission to probe the charges against it. The Congress has alleged that the government appointed the team to escape an independent inquiry by the Lokayukta. Cabinet spokesman Jaynarayan Vyas claimed that the state government had been trying to appoint a Lokayukta since 2006, but for one reason or another beyond its control the appointment could not be completed. The process of consultation is not yet over, and right in its middle, such an order has come, he said. The governors order came within a couple of hours of Beniwals talks with three senior state ministers who came to Raj Bhavan (the official residence of the governor) with a selection criteria that she ridiculed and rejected outright. The governor then took action under Section 3 of the Gujarat Lokayukta Act, 1986, which gives her the right to appoint Lokayukta without consulting the government. She based her decision on legal opinion given by the Attorney General of India, while avoiding talking to the Advocate General of Gujarat.

Modis crocodile tears for Muslims...

While attending a function organized by Ajmeri Education Trust in Ahmedabad to give away scholarships to Muslim students, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi said he loves Sufi Islam. He said if Sufi Islam was prevalent in Jammu and Kashmir, the situation could not be what it is now. Shri Modi told Muslims that they have been treated not as humans but as a vote-bank throughout the years by politicians. When elections come, they make you happy and praise you, but after the election they leave you to continue to stay in hell. It is our misfortune, and you people are most cheated, and I dont know for how long you will continue to be cheated, he said. Modi asked why does the prime minister speak from the Red Fort on 15th August using the labels such as Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Isai. Instead cant he simply say my dear countrymen?

...and Eid Mubarak to Khurshid

Nobody can beat Chief Minister Narendra Modi when it comes to smart moves, strategies and politicking. If hes in need, Modi can become friends with anyone and everyone, indeed. Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid realised this recently. It seems, this Eid, he received an interesting phone call. Khurshid, who was expecting AICC chief Sonia Gandhi to be calling him directly from the US to wish him, was surprised to find Modi from Gujarat on the other end. Eid Mubarak, janaab, Modi reportedly wished Khurshid, who was quite baffled and did not know how to react. It is not known whether Modi also called up Congress leader Ahmed Patel and wished him, but Khurshid was thoroughly surprised by the CMs greeting. Khurshid as the Law Minister is an important entity, and Modi who is entangled in so many legal battles knows it very well. But still, his move of making the first move seems to have hit the mark. It was just a courtesy call and nothing more, but Khurshid felt good, that Modi took the pains to call him up especially since BJP and Congress are at loggerheads on a variety of issues related to Gujarat - ranging from fake encounters to the appointment of the lokayukta. Whether the greeting will change Khurshids and his ministrys views about Modi, lets wait and watch. knowledge of Modi. Former BJP leader KN Govindacharya hit out at chief minister Narendra Modi for shying away from appointing a Lokayukta in the state though the party at the national level supported Anna Hazares agitation for a Jan Lokpal Bill (JLB) to curb corruption among ministers and government functionaries. A brilliant student should not be afraid of examination, said Govindacharya while talking about the differences between Governor Dr Kamla and chief minister Modi over the issue of appointment of the Lokayukta. Govindacharya, a political organiser and once part of BJP think tank, was on a visit to the state to address a workshop of the Mahagujarat Janata Party (MJP). He gave lessons on political organisation to MJP workers at Preksha Vishwabharti campus in Gandhinagar. He said that the episode (of Lokayukta appointment) had lowered the image of the BJP-ruled Modi government. A brilliant student is never afraid of exam and I am confident that Modi will show the confidence. The controversy should be solved through dialogue. He also said, One should not raise doubts over the legislative power of the Governor who is representative of the President. Big leaders of the party should intervene in the issue and Modi should seek help from a senior leader whom he believes to be senior to him. Replying to a question on corruption in Gujarat with respect to industrialisation, Govindacharya said, Im not able to find out truthfulness, but what impression is coming out in Delhi is that, over-centralisation of functioning is prevailing; secondly, unnecessary and improper benefits are being given to industrial houses and big BJP leaders. It is up to the Gujarat government to clear their impression. MJP president Gordhan Zadafia said, The Modi government has not accepted the governors ruling to appoint Lokayukta though the chief justice of Gujarat gave his concurrence on the matter. MJP plans an agitation from next week over the issue. (AH Lakhani)

Mehta has impeccable credentials

On the face of it, Mehta (74) has excellent credentials for the post of Lokayukta. As a young advocate, he assisted the Justice B K Mehta Commission which probed the Machhu Dam disaster in Morbi district of the state in 1976. He was appointed judge of the Gujarat high court in 1984 after about 10 years of legal practice. He remained in that position for 14 years; during which he passed some significant propoor judgments. These included abolition of carrying of night soil on the head by low-caste workers and regularisation of street hawkers in Ahmedabad. His judgements after the post-Godhra massacre of Muslims in 2002 were also considered judicially sound. The then Chief Justice of India, A M Ahmedi, had offered him the position of high court chief justice anywhere in India. However, he chose to stay on in Gujarat to take care of his ailing mother. He is said to be instrumental in modernising the Gujarat high court with computerisation before his retirement in 1998.He then served as chairman of Gujarat State Judicial Academy. Conducting a public hearing into the Surat floods in 2006, he gave a report indicting the then irrigation minister Narottam Patel for a man-made crisis. This is perhaps one of the reasons why the present government is not in his favour. In Gujarat the post of Lokayukta which was lying vacant for more than seven years, has been filled by the Governor. In such a situation Chief Minister and Gujarat government should stop coming in the way of appointment of Lokayukta. Gujarat has a debt of more than Rs 1.7 lakh crore. Chief Minister is giving away public property to a handful of his chosen people at throw away prices fraudulently. However, using all kind of publicity and propaganda Chief Minister is presenting a false picture of a successful administrator. During his visit of Gujarat, Anna Hazare was shocked to see the level of corruption and remarked that Modi has turned Gandhis Gujarat into Ghotale kaa Gujarat. When Annaji uttered this truth, one of his confidants Swami Agnivesh was attacked by a person who is a BJP MLA. This shows the autocratic personality of Gujarat Chief Minister who cannot tolerate a remark of even people like Anna Hazare. Chief Justice of Gujarat had suggested the name of former High Court judge R A Mehta for the post of Lokayukta. Anna Hazare had stayed at the place of R A Mehta during his Gujarat visit. This shows that he is honest and upright. Today when the entire country accepts Anna Hazare, why is R A Mehta not acceptable to Gujarat chief minister? Chief Minister has appointed a Commission to inquire charges against him. Through this ploy he is making a desperate effort to take his corruption cases outside the purview of Lokayukta. This shows that he is the most corrupt person in the country. The day when people will raise their voice against the highly corrupt Gujarat government, it will have no place to hide. Gujarat Chief Minister should take lessons from history and see the fate of people whether it is Kans or Hitler or Ravan or Musharraf. As an act of repentance, he should not come in the way of Lokayukta and allow it to probe corruption cases. In Gandhis land some Anna will certainly show up. In Gujarat the post of Lokayukta which was lying vacant for more than seven years, has been filled by the Governor. In such a situation Chief Minister and Gujarat government should stop coming in the way of appointment of Lokayukta. Barely a month after he returned to the BJP fold, former jails minister Jaspal Singh has dared to fight against corruption and chief minister Narendra Modi. Singh, a former police officer and four-time MLA from Vadodara, re-joined BJP after a gap of 10 years. While talking to the media, Singh said: I have not left the party, yet I came to meet Govindacharyaji. I do not want to make a compromise on the issue of corruption and Modi is not a trusted man. Flaying Modi, Singh said: Modi is a dictator and dictatorial rulers like Saddam Hussein, Col Gaddafi and Hitler did not last for a long time. Modis magic is eroding. He is also a dangerous person. He said, everything is centralised in the hand of one person in the BJP and a decision to give tickets even in panchayat polls is taken by him (Modi). Hailing Anna Hazare, Singh said, Anna has shown us the way and I will run on the path of Anna. My character is clean and I can fight alone. Singh had resigned from the BJP after he was not given a ministerial berth when Modi first became CM in October 2001. Singh, who was a 1957 batch IPS officer, was four-time MLA from Vadodara and was also a cabinet-level minister in the Keshubhai Patel government. Singh had filed a defamation case against chief minister Modi for calling him an agent of Pakistan. When he joined the party last month, he had said: I had abandoned the party out of anger but now Im ready to serve the people by joining the BJP. I will work according to the partys mandate. When asked if Modi had given a nod for his induction in the party, Singh said: Everybody knows that everything has been done in the

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HUMAN RIGHTS/TERRORISM

All the accused in Haren Pandya murder acquitted by High Court

New Delhi: All the 12 persons accused for the murder of Haren Pandya, former home minister of Gujarat and lodged in Gujarat jails for 5 to 7 years were acquitted by Gujarat High Court. They were all Muslims and belonged to different states like Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. Gujarat police had arrested them as suspects without any proof. Haren Pandya was murdered about a year after the Gujarat communal riots of early 2002 following Godhra train fire. It may not be out of place to mention here that Haren Pandyas father (who is no more now) had on many occasions firmly accused Narendra Modi of being the killer of his son and it was at his order that he was killed but obviously how could Gujarat police arrest him even as a suspect without proof but it was quite easy for it to arrest Muslims as suspects without any proof, which it had actually done. After their acquittal, Jamat-e Islamis general secretary Nusrat Ali, while expressing satisfaction at their release, demanded of the Gujarat government, to pay them suitable compensations for years of torture and hard life of jail for no fault of theirs. On this occasion he recalled 2002 communal riots of Gujarat and said that in view of the unprecented brutality, death and destruction suffered by Muslims of Gujarat the state government should have expressed its regret, shame and sense of guilt but on the contrary it adopted a vindictive policy towards Muslims and heaped more cruelty and injustice by way of fake encounters and false criminal cases. He also said that the honourable acquittal of the 12 Muslims in the absence of any proof against them demands not only payment of suitable compensations to them but also trial and punishment of criminal and biased police personnel who made their life hell without any proof. It may also be stated here that Jamat Islami-e Hinds Maharashtra branch had arranged free legal assistance for the 12 persons falsely accused of their involvement in Haren Pandya murder case. Similarly, Jamiatul Ulama-e Hind also had arranged free legal assistance for innocent Muslims who were falsely accused in many cases in different states, particularly in Maharashtra and Gujarat. Gujarat government of Narendra Modi neither felt any sense of guilt and shame over its genocide of Muslms in 2002 nor paid any compensation to those falsely implicated in Haren Pandya murder case, all of whom were honourably acquitted in the absence of any proof but Andhra Pradeshs chief minister Kiran Kumar Reddys government announced that all those accused persons lodged in A.P. jails and found innocent and acquitted by courts will not only be paid compensations but certificates of their being innocent will also be issued to them. Muslim youths of Andhra Pradesh who were arrested by Gujarat police for their suspected complicity in Haren Pandya murder case but acquitted by Gujarat High Court will also be given compensation and certificate of innocence by A.P. government. This gesture of A.P. government was very much appreciated by Jamat-e Islami and Jamiatul Ulama and other Muslim leaders. Jamiatul Ulama Maharashtras Legal Aid Committees secretary Gulzar Ahmad Azmi told media persons that Muslim youths of Maharashtra arrested in Haren Pandya murder case had appealed against POTA courts verdict in Gujarat High Court. A team of lawyers headed by Supreme Courts advocate and famous lawyer Mrs. Nitya Ramakrishnan and including advocates Khalid and Somnath Dutt was constituted who had argued in defence of those accused, in the Gujarat High Court. When their hearings in this Court were postponed many times, Jamiatul Ulama (Maharashtra) had appealed to Supreme Court to either take up their case for hearing in this (Supreme) Court or get them released on bail. In response to this request, Supreme Court had directed Gujarat High Court to expedite their case through hearings on daily basis. (NA Ansari) Rights violations. Further, Amnesty International welcomes the report based on investigations in four districts of north Kashmir, but reiterates the call for the Government of India to initiate thorough investigations into unmarked graves throughout the state. All unmarked grave sites must be secured and investigations carried out by impartial forensic experts in line with the UN Model Protocol on the disinterment and analysis of skeletal remains. Amnesty International also calls upon the Government of Jammu and Kashmir to ensure the safety of the 62 witnesses who have given statements to the police team and ensure that they, along with relatives of the disappeared persons, local human rights defenders and members of the police investigation team are not pressured, intimidated or subject to any reprisals. PDP leader Mahbooba Mufti has demanded concrete action and has also called for identification of the unknown martyrs buried in these graves. Omar Abdullah in view of growing protests has promised appropriate action upon the final recommendations from the officials of human rights watchdog. Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar in his article in TOI on 28 August has mentioned that most countries would have treated report of mass graves as major news, but our media barely took notice. Bored with unending tales of human rights violations in Kashmir, our media saw Anna Hazares fast and even Aishwarya Rai Bachchans pregnancy as more newsworthy. (Mohammad Naushad Khan) Home ministry trying to evolve consensus on AFSPA On one hand only 13 days of fasting by Anna Hazare was enough to force the government to concede to their demands while on the other no consensus as of now has been reached within the government to repeal ASPA even after 11 years of fast by Irom Chanu Sharmila. Even after repeated attempts from various departments the government has failed to arrive at a consensus on amending of the AFSPA. Many believe that the delay on the part of the government is due to lack of political will, or else issues gets resolved on the order of political importance. However, home ministry is making fresh efforts to build a consensus within the government before it approaches the Cabinet. Earlier, Justice Jeevan Reddy Panel was set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to study the law. On getting the report Prime Minister had promised to make the law more humane. Home minister while talking to reporters after presenting his ministrys monthly report card said that there is a statement of the prime minister that we will replace the existing law with a more humane Act and efforts are being made to build a consensus within ministries and concerned parties in this regard. For Kashmir, the home minister has suggested alternative ways in which he has asked the state government to withdraw the Disturbed Areas Act and if that can be done then the AFSPA will automatically go. AFSPA gives special powers to armed forces to detain or kill on suspicion. Presently, the law is imposed in Kashmir and some parts of Northeast. After having received an invitation from Anna Hazare to participate in his agitation against corruption Iron Sharmila has also invited Anna Hazare to Manipur to give a voice to the people of the Manipur. (Mohammad Naushad Khan)

83000 unsolved cases with Delhi Police

New Delhi: During the past about 3.5 years i.e. during the year 2008 and 30 June 11 about 1,76,000 cases were registered with Delhi police of which about 83000 are still unsolved. According to Delhi police, the unsolved cases form about 46 percent which are still pending with it. In the first six months of this year i.e. 2011 a total of 26,070 cases were registered of which about 50 percent have not been solved so far i.e. 11,360 cases have been solved but 14,710 cases are unsolved as yet. Similarly, last year i.e. in 2010 a total of 51292 cases were registered all over Delhi of which 24702 were solved and 26590 could not be solved so far.

Demand for enquiry by ATS into the Nanded blast

Nanded (Maharashtra): Human Rights Commission has issued an order for enquiry by ATS into the bomb blast in a biscuit godown in Nanded that had taken place four years ago whose file was closed by the police. It may be stated that on the night of 9 February 2007 a bomb blast had taken place in Gyaneshwar Manakwars godown in Shastri Nagar area of Nanded in which the entire godown was burnt to ashes. In this bomb blast two persons had died. In its preliminary enquiry police had described the cause of the blast a short circuit and after a superficial enquiry had closed this case file. But some social activists including Teesta Setalwad took up this matter further and sent all relevant documents and data to Human Rights Commission, Mumbai and requested reinvestigation of this case by a more reliable and higher agency/authority. After minutely examining all the relevant documents and some fresh data collected during the past three years, Human Rights Commissions Justice V. G. Munshi accepted the petition filed by Setalwad and others and ordered Maharashtra government to have this case re-investigated. According to subsequent information available in this case, the important accused in this blast, who was also the owner of this godown, Gyaneshwar Datatriya Manakwar had given his statement, recorded by police inspector Nitin Kumar Gave in front of a magistrate that in order to obtain the insurance amount, I in cooperation with my servant had tried to set the shop on fire. After sprinkling petrol on all goods of the shop as I was trying to kindle the fire with a match stick, the petrol suddenly caught fire. This is how this incident had taken place. CBI summons six cops in Ghaziabad encounter case A CBI court in Ghaziabad has summoned six policemen alleged to have killed two men, Rais and Firoz, in an encounter on 3 March 2009 at Indirapuram in Ghaziabad when they were allegedly trying to rob a car. The victims families have claimed that the two men were picked up by six policemen from Sahibabad vegetable market at night before they were killed in an encounter. After large-scale popular protests, police had lodged an FIR against six policemen on 5 March 2009. When polices final report denied allegations, victims families moved Ghaziabad court where six witnesses stated that they saw six policemen taking away these two men in a police van for questioning. The court has issued summons against six cops under section 302, 364, 201, 120b of the IPC. Efforts to saffronise school children in M.P. Bhopal: Madhya Pradeshs BJP government, by taking yet another controversial decision, is working to vitiate the communal atmosphere. In government primary schools of this state a magazine is now being taught to children. Thousands of copies of this childrens magazine called Devpatra have already reached 83400 primary schools of the state. This magazine is published by Indores Saraswati Bal Kalyan Nyay. It claims to have a circulation of 1.3 lakh copies, and has already published a supplement on M.S. Golwalkar, former chief of RSS and RSSs senior office-bearer Krishn Kumar Asthana is the head of the Trust which publishes this magazine. With the purchase of this magazine there will be an extra burden of Rs. 1.5 crore on the exchequer of M.P. government. M.P. Department of School Education in a circular to Block Resources Coordinators has ordered them to ensure supply of this magazine to all government schools. Every school will get two copies of this magazine. According to this magazines managing editor Vikas Dave, he has not made any changes in this magazine. Last year when BJP government of the state had implemented this proposal, Department of Education had expressed its concern that a large part of the budget for Education for all campaign will be spent on this publication. Congress Party on its part has described this step as a conspiracy to saffronise school children. In Delhi, general secretary of Welfare Party of India Dr. Qasim Rasool Ilyas while condemning M.P. governments steps to saffronise the states educational system said that religious minorities and secular elements are already opposing state governments Surya namaskar and Bhojan mantra schemes but instead of withdrawing these schemes it has expanded the RSS agenda by making the teaching of the magazine Devpatra compulsory in government schools. He said that the compulsory teaching of this magazine is not only against the countrys secular character but also against religious freedom of religious minorities which is guaranteed by the countrys Constitution. He said that what is needed is that religious minorities and all secular minded and justice loving people should foil such efforts of spoiling budding minds of the new generation by propagating RSSs hate mongering ideology by a common strategy.

No reply from M.P. government to centres objection to its employees participation in RSS shakhas
Bhopal: Union minister of state for Parliamentary affairs, Narain Swamy had sent a letter to Madhya Pradesh government objecting to the state government allowing its employees to participate in RSS shakhas, but the government did not reply to the central governments objection. This was confirmed by state government sources which admitted that a letter from Narain Swamys office raising objection to the state governments permission to its employees to attend and take part in RSS shakhas was received but a reply to the central governments objections is yet to be sent. It may be stated in this connection that M.P. government by an order issued in 2006 had permitted its employees to attend and take part in RSS shakhas. Central government had raised objection to this and its minister of state for Parliamentary affairs in a letter to the state government, while raising objection to it had stated, that this order was in violation of the principle and rule of government employees political impartiality. M.P. governments spokesperson, Brajesh Lonawat reacting to this letter of the central government, had stated that by issuing this letter, the central government has tried to drag a nationalist and non-political organisation like RSS into politics. He said that in Sangh shakhas lessons of patriotism, national unity and discipline are imparted. No anti-national activity is carried on in this organisation and its shakhas. Hence Congress governments objection and interference in this is meaningless and irrelevant. State Congresss media incharge Pramod Gogalia in a counter reply to Brajesh Lonawats views, while accusing it of propagating RSS ideology among government employees said that the act of M.P. government granting permission to its employees and officers to participate in RSS shakhas is against governments service rules. Fully justifying Narain Swamys objection letter he said that a similar mistake was committed by the Gujarat government also (of allowing its employees to attend and take part in RSS shakhas) but on central governments objection and advice, Gujarat government had withdrawn the controversial order. He said that M.P. government also should withdraw its objectionable order immediately. (NA Ansari)

Why different parameters for mass graves in J&K

News of detection of mass graves in any parts of the world provides ample ammo to keep the political pot boiling. But in India it is not more than another report or story. Has the report of findings of mass graves in Kashmir surprised anyone at all? The JammuKashmir State Human Rights Commission in its recent report has said that 2,156 unidentified bodies were found in graves in three northern mountainous regions, while 574 other bodies in the graves were identified as local residents. The report from the Commission is said to be the first instance of official admission that civilians killed in the decades long conflict may have been buried in unmarked graves. Political parties and various human rights groups are demanding an independent probe to ascertain the truth. Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir has said that the Commission should be assigned to probe each and every killing in the state in order to find out whether the killings were carried out by militants or security forces. Human Rights Watch has asked India to conduct an independent and impartial probe into the unmarked graves found in the states. The Amnesty International in its recent public statement issued said that the police report concludes that there is every probability that the remaining over 2100 unidentified graves may contain the corpses of [persons subject to] enforced disappearances. The report further clarifies that the only way to negate such a claim is to study the DNA profiles of the unidentified dead bodies and warns that in the absence of such tests, It has to be assumed/presumed that [the] State wants to remain silent deliberately to hide its Human

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ISSUES

Three years on, no flowers for martyred Kandhamal

JOHN DAYAL
john.dayal@gmail.com I would have liked to write that somewhere in India, some church Catholic, Orthodox, Syrian, Episcopal, Pentecost or Evangelical Independent held a prayer meeting on 23rd or 24th August 2011 for those martyred in the violence that began in Kandhamal, Orissa, on those dates in 2008. I was in Kandhamal during much of the week this year, as in past years, with local Nuns, pastors and catholic priests, so may have missed out on prayer services and observances elsewhere in Orissa and the country at large. I fear though, barring Masses and prayers on Sundays and weekdays in a routine manner, and perhaps a passing reference in some homily, there was no dedicated prayer service for Kanchanalak victims. This would be understandable in Kandhamal, where a terribly wounded peace filled with fear and apprehension is really no more than a technical absence of violence. But it is difficult to understand how a nation of a billion and quarter people, 2.3 per cent of them Christians and perhaps another similar number of admirers or private followers of Jesus Christ, could have forgotten the trauma of the victims. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its sister organisations, the Bharatiya Janata Party which was once a part of the ruling coalition of Orissa, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad or the Bajrang Dal, did not forget the day. It was the murder of their vice president, Lakshmananda Saraswati by Maoists in his second Ashram at Jalespata, that sparked off the violence. Bloodshed followed in forest villages along the route when his body was taken a couple of hundred kilometres. The Sangh Parivar as a matter of fact held the entire district hostage as part of its commemoration of that day. The police had practically cut off Kandhamal to ensure that outsiders did not enter the district, but political leaders from Cuttack and Bhubaneswar did enter, including Ashok Sahu, the former Police officer of the Assam Cadre who was a losing candidate of the BJP from Kandhamal in the last elections to the Lok Sabha. Interestingly, one of the key speakers was Manoj Pradhan, accused in several murder cases who is out on bail because the court says he is a Member of the Orissa Legislative Assembly and should therefore, not necessarily remain confined in jail till his cases are disposed off in the fast track courts. I was witness to RSS cadres on motorcycles keeping vigil along roads, questioning people, including journalists, and mobilising crowds for the rally on 23rd August. An early Janamashtmi festival in fact provided them a double occasion, for it was on the same religious festival three years ago that Lakshmananda was killed, and many traditional people mourned him on that holy day. The actual political outburst was on 23rd in the district headquarters at Phulbani where amidst police bundobast and policemen and Special Police Officers near major churches, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad held its memorial rally, and later submitted its memorandum to the Collector. The memorandum called for an enquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the killing of Lakshmananda Saraswati and a halt to conversions to Christianity. The memorandum also demanded prohibition of cow slaughter, and action against those seeking benefits by obtaining fake caste certificates, a phrase they use to focus on Panos, or Dalit Christians in government service. Laxman Panda, general secretary of the state unit of the VHP said they were upset as the main culprits in the murder case were still at large. Maoists who have claimed credit for the murder are in jail, as are ten or so Christians accused by the police of masterminding the murder. The last to be arrested was Azad, a Maoist leader, The High court at Cuttack has rejected bail for the Christians a couple of times even as the same court has released Manoj Pradhan on bail despite multiple murder charges against him. The Sangh Parivar however wants to implicate senior church leaders, as well as lay persons they have been targetting for several years, and they made this clear both in the rally in Phulbani and in a petition before the Orissa High court. The Orissa government had indeed ordered a judicial inquiry by retired high court judge Sarat Chandra Mohapatra. The crime branch investigated the murder. But the Sangh brotherhood said they were not satisfied with the pace of investigation and

The Sangh Parivar as a matter of fact held the entire district hostage as part of its commemoration of that day. The police had practically cut off Kandhamal to ensure that outsiders did not enter the district, but political leaders from Cuttack and Bhubaneswar did enter, including Ashok Sahu, the former Police officer of the Assam Cadre who was a losing candidate of the BJP from Kandhamal in the last elections to the Lok Sabha. Interestingly, one of the key speakers was Manoj Pradhan, accused in several murder cases who is out on bail because the court says he is a Member of the Orissa Legislative Assembly and should therefore, not necessarily remain confined in jail till his cases are disposed off in the fast track courts.
demanded a CBI inquiry, in the words of Priyanath Sharma, another VHP leader and a coordinator of the campaign. Perhaps a reminder is necessary of the magnitude of the violence that was unleashed in Kandhamal and 11 other districts of Orissa in August and September 2008, which also had repercussions in several other states, particularly Karnataka. In Kandhamal alone, over 56,000 people, both the Dalit Panos and the Tribal Kondhs - almost 99.99 per cent of them Christians by faith, were rendered homeless, spending several days each in the forests without food and water, before they could find their way to the safety of refugee camps opened at last by the state government. By Church count, almost 6,000 houses were looted, demolished or burnt down. Close to 300 big and small Churches, including most major Catholic Parishes, were destroyed as were several other convents, clinics, schools, hostels and social service institutions include the premier organisation in the district, Jan Vikas, which had organised the women of the backward district over several years of hard work. Civil society counted perhaps a 100 dead, though officials kept the count below 50. The number of injured was never really assessed. Neither was gender violence. There are at least three rape cases on record, but there certainly were many other women who were molested or raped. The formal court cases on rape proceed along at a snails pace. Almost no one has been sentenced for murder in almost two dozen cases that have so far come up before the two fast Track courts in Phulbani. The few convictions have been for abduction of a person whose body has not been found even now, but is presumed killed. Convictions have not come through because almost all significant eye witnesses have been scared to death by the Sangh Parivar. The remaining have been bribed. Despite complaints to the judges, the police have not been able to put into place a reasonable or significant witness protection programme. Reparations have also not been the best. The government has given compensation to the widows - Rs 2 lakh from the Prime Ministers office and Rs 3 lakh from the state government, but not every widow has received this compensation. There have been no job offers, no free houses. There is a distinction made by governments of various states, and the Union government too, when it comes to compensating widows of communal violence of various sorts. The government showed its worst face when it came to compensate victims of arson. It divided the houses into partially and fully damaged, even though it realised that partially damaged houses would often have to be razed to the ground and rebuilt. It offered Rs 50,000 for the fully damaged houses and Rs 20,000 for partially damaged, and that too in several instalments. Many people had to use the money for food. There was not just sufficient money anyway to rebuild houses which cost upwards of Rs 85,000 for a small brick house with a tin roof. The church willynilly was forced to come up with the balance of money. The Catholic Church and the Believers Church have built about 2,500 and 1,000 houses with other groups including the all India Christian Council also chipping in with about a hundred houses each. But over 2,000 houses may never be built unless new money is found. This of course does not include maybe several

hundred houses in remote villages or on disputed ground that have been listed in the official or church records. The church has gone to the Supreme court seeking proper reparations. Many of these lapses have been listed in detail in the report of the National Peoples Tribunal which held hearings around this time last year in New Delhi. The government has also failed in its duty on issues of employment and rehabilitation. The Supreme court has expressed its concern at the slow pace of rehabilitation. This is specially visible in areas such as Nandigiri in the worst hit Tikabali block. These are people who had to escape massive violence in the Batticola village. The Church and attached buildings were obliterated. The people were forced to be converted to Hinduism, or else assaulted. The violence ended, but the people just could not go back home. The government finally allotted them a piece of land under a hill several kilometres away from G Udayagiri. The Believers church made some houses for them, in three neat sterile rows. But here there was no land to till. Their fields had been left behind in Batticola. There were no jobs for the men, none at all for the women. Some had to travel to the nearby Udayagiri Town to find work as casual labour. That situation still prevails there. But peace still remains tenuous. And some of the threats come from the government, specially in Nandigiri. Thanks to the efforts of Gabriel brother Markose, a lawyer who is helping the victims,. The villages had almost completed a small building on common land to serve as a community house and a church. But these seem to have run against the whims of the local officials. The villages have been given notice to demolish the building forthwith. There is also serious trouble in the case of another church not too far away from Nandigiri, in the Raikia Block. The Baptist Christian community had been worshipping at their village church for more than 60 years. They have a graveyard on a plot adjacent to the church. During the violence of 2008, their church was badly destroyed, only a very small portion of the old church remains now. Rebuilding of the church began over an year ago. But Hindutva activists brought an earth mover and dug up the land between the church and the graveyard. The administration conveniently declared that it was disputed land. Revenue and police authorities repeatedly told the Christian community not to proceed with reconstruction work whenever they began work. On 23 August, the Revenue inspector came to the site to issue an order to the Christians to stop work. The third church affected is the one at Bakingia where the coercion comes from the local fundamentalist group, who seem to be protected by the authorities. Indian Currents in the past has also covered incidents of economic and business blockade of Christians, which specially injures the few Christian entrepreneurs. It is in this backdrop that the Church, with all its mistakes over the past three years in not being able to force the State government to rebuild houses and lives, but is trying to rebuild peace. Archbishop Raphael Cheenath, who led the community in the last three years returned earlier this year and has been succeeded by Archbishop John Barwa, SVD, a tribal from Rourkela. Archbishop Barwa is the first tribal Church leader of that rank in Orissa and is hoping that gives him an entry point for some serious work. In his talks with me and with Christian Media, Archbishop John Barwa has articulated his call to tackle religious intolerance, and adding that more work is needed to bring reconciliation in Kandhamal district. He maintains the Church is fully involved with the people and remains apprised of the goings on in the state. Three years after the incident, he finds the lowerranking officials disturbing Christians, but has hopes from higher-ranking officials who now seem more "cooperative". My message is clear: we need peace and tranquillity - no more violence, no killing. The Christian faithfuls have the right to be in Kandhamal. They are growing in faith, says the Archbishop, though a number of local groups in the district continued to create problems, blocking the supply of building materials and other supplies for Christian homes and churches. The focus is now on the Supreme Court of India where petitions are expected sometimes this year for a reopening of the cases of murder of Christians and for redressal of the miscarriage of justice in the fast track courts in Phulbani. real courts? Soon, the story is forgotten and the next one is being prepared. Thus, the verdict of the media is hurriedly passed. The verdict by the honourable courts should wait. The media is expected to, at least, not do a TV trial of a sub judice case. Courts should freely hear a case without external or public pressures. This is impossible in a case under media glare. Is this not contempt of court? Presumably our electronic media, after any incident of public outrage, construct a narrative that soon turns out to be completely bogus. Of late, its always the case that within hours of a blast the media starts mouthing terms like HuJI, LeT, IM and SIMI. As it turns out, the media just made up its mind about who has done it. Stereotypes shown by the popular media are polarizing society. Unknowingly, the electronic media is fuelling the agenda of forces which will eventually destabilize the country.

Media and Irresponsibility

A HAMEED YOUSUF
Media is the fourth pillar of democracy. As a mature democracy, India allows complete freedom to the media. The media was supposed to fearlessly and independently publish news and analysis that is unbiased. It was supposed to criticise government policy, be the means of conveying public grievances to the government, raise a voice when public interests had been disregarded during formulation or implementation of policies. In short, medias job was to be the societys ethical guard. Though media had to go through a turbulent time during the 1975 Emergency, it managed to survive and flourish. When the going got tough the tough got going, as they say. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay tried to suffocate independent media but they failed due to the brave men who ran the media. The atrocities of those times are recorded only due the work of the brave mediamen. The media kept the democracy alive. As a result, the Congress faced a humiliating defeat in 1977. With the advancement of time, media has grown in strength. The monopoly of the government over the news broadcasting has ended and there are hundreds of TV channels and thousands of radio stations providing minute-tominute updates to the audience. The industrialization and commercialization of the media and the resultant competition have extended its scope. There has been an addition in a kind of

investigative journalism. True to its name, this genre of media has successfully unearthed many scandals and several people involved in them. For the government institutions assigned to check irregularities, this would have been an uphill task. This kind of journalism sometimes is ahead of investigating agencies too. But there are occasions when investigative journalism has influenced public opinion even before there was any evidence. In electronic media, news channels are most popular. Most of the channels are run by big corporate houses which, naturally, have business interests. Consider the role played by the media after it has managed to expose a scandal. It behaves as an investigating agency, presents its case as a prosecutor and the gullible viewer passes his judgment based on the one-sided argument. Does this not affect the trial of the accused in

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ISSUES

Anna Hazare Movement a skeptics view

ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER
Lot has already been written on Anna Hazares fast both for and against but more for, than against. Why then the need for another article? Every article has a perspective and I have mine and also each article for or against throws light on some new facts not covered by earlier ones. I had written earlier also from the Gandhian perspective but more needs to be written. This, whether one agrees or not, is a very major movement having great implications for our democracy. First, on how far Hazare is Gandhian and how far his method is Gandhian? He is being described as Gandhian by the media apparently because he undertook a fast, which Mahatma Gandhi used to do. But can anyone become Gandhian just because one undertakes a fast? This is really debatable. The Gandhian fast was more about its spirit than its method or form. In my opinion mere undertaking fast does not make one a Gandhian unless other conditions are fulfilled. What are those conditions? Gandhi was very particular, nay insistent on relationship between means and ends. He strongly felt if means are wrong, ends cannot remain noble. Thus above all his point of view was ethical and means are as important as ends. Now what constitutes means? Is undertaking a fast, enough to put it under the category of ethical? For that we have to examine how Gandhi undertook his fast and under what conditions and for what purpose. Whenever Gandhi undertook a fast he called it either repentance or self purification. He never insisted that his demands must be accepted as it is much less at the cost of democratic institutions. In fact he did not fast against the Government. To say that only my demand is right and there can be no other point of view is not only undemocratic but an authoritarian stand directed against democratic institutions. Moreover, Gandhi never depended on anyone else when he undertook his fast. It used to be his decision and to end the fast was also his own decision. He never constituted any team and sought their advice nor asked anyone to negotiate on his behalf. Here not only did Hazare insist on his demand being accepted but also involved his team to negotiate and decide. Media also repeatedly referred to team Anna. Gandhi never depended on parading people in the thousands, much less in lakhs, to prove the legitimacy of his fast but his fast was never coercive and authoritarian. Anna had to depend on thousands or even lakhs marching to further strengthen coercive dimension of his fast. One of the members of team Anna even threatened on the 9th day of his fast, asking, who will be responsible if something happens to Anna? The implication was the Government will be responsible and hence Annas (which in fact means team Annas demand) must be accepted in toto. And ultimately this is what happened. Also, the people who were paraded came from the urban middle class, upper caste people and not representative of all sections of Indian people. Minorities, dalits, tribals and poor, not only did not participate (by and large) but even felt apprehensive about the consequences of Annas fast which undermined the supremacy of the Constitution and Parliament. These weaker sections of society definitely suffer because of corruption as much as other sections of society and they will support any fight against corruption. But this fight cannot be at the cost of other problems of minorities and dalits which appeared to be so in the case of Annas fast. They felt, that their existence and their fundamental rights are very much dependent on the supremacy of constitution and parliament. Anna Hazares movement, on the other hand, appeared to represent majoritarian ethos and got enthusiastic support from the main opposition party BJP and also RSS was seen advising BJP to lend full support to Annas fast and team Annas efforts. That made these weaker sections much more apprehensive. Also, RSS and main opposition support vitiated Annas fast ethically. It got politicized on one hand, and on the other, accepting support from a party whose members are deeply involved in corruption wherever it has its governments in states, particularly in Karnataka. How can Anna who is fighting against corruption accept enthusiastic support and large scale mobilization from a party which too stands accused of corruption. This seriously affects the ethics of Annas fast. Moreover Gandhijis fast remained a very serious effort to spiritualise politics whereas Anna and team Anna indulged in politics, accusations and counter-accusations thus eroding the ethicality of the end. Also, among the crowds there were people who were drunk and used abusive language. Also, as if all this was not enough, his supporters, at the instance of team Anna began to gherao M.P.s to accept Annas demands elseAnna himself approved of these acts. Even Prime Ministers house was gheraoed, eroding the dignity of the office of the premier authority in democracy. Also, serious accusations were levelled against team Anna that foreign funds were accepted to finance such a huge mobilization. Every day food and water was supplied to thousands or a lakh of people. Where did the money come from? Did the money come from clean sources? If so, why is it not being disclosed? Some even allege that the VHP was footing the food bill. If there is any truth in this why did Anna accept finances from these sources. Does he have any link with these sources. Why did he not ask his team not to accept financing from these sources? Anna, unlike Gandhiji, not only never undertook a fast against communal violence in the country, he is not even known to have denounced communal riots. He even praised the developmental model of the Modi Government who was responsible for the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002 and what is worse, he praised developmental model which benefits the rich at the cost of the poor which Gandhiji will never approve of. It is in fact liberalization and globalization and super-profits being made by the rich which is greatly responsible for corruption. In fact, today, unlike as in the past, it has become the main source of corruption. Gandhiji was basically concerned with the last person in society and he used to say that a development model which does not benefit the last man in the society is not worth it. And Anna praised the developmental model of Gujarat which is nothing but enriching and ensuring super-profit to multinationals and financial sharks. How then can Hazare be Gandhian? He used Gandhian tool but vitiated it with unethical and un-Gandhian ways. Anna is reported to have said on many occasions that the corrupt should be hanged. It means violence can be legitimately used for such purposes which itself is quite un-Gandhian both in form and content. He also asked his followers in his model village to beat with shoes those who drank liquor and also made them ride a donkey and blackened their faces. All these are violent methods which Gandhiji will never approve of. This clearly shows an authoritarian strain in Anna Hazare and he seems to be in a hurry to succeed. The same thing he tries to do with his fight against corruption. Corruption can be fought with laws and strong punishments. Hazare always insists on strong punishment. As pointed out by me in another article, it is more of a moral than legal issue. No amount of laws can even remove corruption. Even death penalty has not succeeded in reducing murder, let alone ending it. In fact our legal system is also corrupt. Our lawyers are ever ready to prove a murderer innocent. Gandhiji, on the other hand, maintained that a lawyer should never take up any case which he is not convinced is based on truth. And what is the guarantee that Strong Lokpal will not become corrupt and then corrupt lawyers and judges will not be ready to defend them and prove them not guilty? Corruption can be more effectively fought on moral grounds. And how can we have morally sound citizens when our whole educational system is corrupt, based on high capitation fees for admissions and on the very concept of money spinning? We need strong value based education to produce strong moral character than strong Lokpal though the latter may also be needed to an extent. But one does not hear from Annas mouth anything about morality whereas the whole emphasis of Gandhiji was on spirituality and morality. He would dig deep in his moral conscience for solution rather than talk of laws and punishment. One who is in a hurry to become a messiah does not give importance to the voice of ones conscience. He resorts to external remedies and punishments. To become Gandhi one must dig deep into moral conscience. (Secular Perspective)

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Demand to pay compensation to Muslim youths by deducting it from police officers salaries
Hyderabad: Mohammed Sirajuddin, President of the Minorities Dept of A.P. Congress on 8 September demanded the Chief Minister to pay compen- Junaid, Rahim and Raees: some of the youths case, sation to the acquitted in Mecca Masjid blastGovt ofdemanding public apology from the India innocent Muslim youths who were illegally arrested by the police in connection with the Makkah Masjid Bomb Blast Case and later exonerated by the court. He told the CM to deduct this amount from the salaries of the police officers who wrongly involved the Muslim youths in fake cases. Mr. Sirajuddin said that Muslims were killed in the Makkah Masjid blast and the police firing shortly after the incident but police arrested only Muslims. AP High Court and National Minorities Commission exonerated them and declared them innocent and recommended to pay Rs. 3 lakh as compensation to these youths deducting it from the salaries of police officers. Sirajuddin also demanded the CM to issue a good character certificate to these victims of police brutality. He further said that due to the inefficiency of the police, Government is getting a bad name. Referring to the Communal Violence in Adhone, he said that the miscreants damaged the property of the mosque but only Muslims are being arrested.

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ANALYSIS
Indians from extending their support to Hazare. Paradoxically, while members of Hazare-team have expressed shock at Singhals claims, as apparently they dont want their names to be linked with extremist groups such as VHP, they claim to have no knowledge of the groups which did set up food stalls at Ramlila Maidan. On this, Arvind Kejriwal - a key member of Hazare team - said: Sixseven organizations set up food stalls. They demanded ven though the saffron brigades support for Anna space (at Delhis Ramlila Maidan) and we gave them. I dont Hazares show at Ramlila Maidan was an open know if one of them belonged to any political group. secret, the BJP and other groups linked with Sangh ith due respect to whatever the linkage of Hazare Parivar refrained from making too much noise about and his core (anti-corruption) team be with Sangh this, while it lasted. Though, as Hazare claims, he has not yet Parivar, BJP is all set to cash on a similar line of totally called off his fast, but only put it on hold, now gradually greater attention is being given to the real drama that action for gains in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The state is was actually being staged at Ramlila Maidan. Sources indi- scheduled for assembly elections in less than a year from cate that Hazares fast was a farce as he was kept on a liquid now. The BJP and Sangh Parivar are apparently confident diet, including glucose. While the fast lasted, this report that success achieved in Delhi and several other parts of was not leaked as it would have reduced the news-value of the country will be repeated in UP. Here, it may be noted, they Hazares anti-corruption show even before his supporters are presumably measuring success by the media-attention their Ramlila-drama secured, the crowd gathered there and had claimed and celebrated their victory. With this part of Hazare-drama over, the BJP and other the government being compelled to give some importance to wings of the saffron brigade have begun planning their next Hazares demand. The government held a special parliamenline of action. Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) chief Ashok tary session to discuss Hazare-teams demands, following Singhal has claimed credit for supply of food to people at which a sense of the Parliament was conveyed to the Ramlila Maidan. Members of Dharma Yatra Mahasangh, a Standing Committee scrutinizing the bill. The much-talkedwing of the VHP, had opened stalls at Ramlila Maidan to offer about bill is still not near the stage of being voted upon in the food to over 20,000 people every day, he said. Please note Parliament. In other words, the government only created the the timing of his statement. It was made after Hazares show impression of having yielded to Hazares demands, celebratat Ramlila Maidan was over and he had broken his fast. ed as a victory by his supporters, when in reality such a step Singhal refrained from making the same claim earlier as he has not been taken. Nevertheless, BJP is apparently also probably did not want to take the risk of dissuading secular measuring Hazares success by this move of the government.

Speaking Out

N I L O FA R S U H R AWA R D Y

Hazare-drama with Saffron Support!

It wouldnt be a surprise if BJP succeeds in gathering a great crowd for the yatras planned in UP also. After all, comments coming from BJP leaders suggest that even in Delhi, people associated with Sangh Parivar came out in huge numbers to support Hazare. This does not imply that everyone supporting Hazare was linked with Sangh Parivar. There is, however, no denying that BJP aims to turn this political tide in its favour. As expressed by a BJP leader: The reports of our various wings being with Annas movements are true. The movement was a huge success against the Congressled United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The BJPs next agenda is to take forward Hazares movement in UP. As the Congress at the centre and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in UP are openly involved in various acts of corruption, we can certainly use the movement to our advantage, according to BJPs UP leader, Vinay Bahadur Pathak. he BJP has planned two major yatras and 350 small yatras in UP. The major yatras will be flagged off from Mathura and Varanasi on October 13. They will culminate in Lucknow on November 21 after traversing most parts of the state. A week before the main yatra reaches a particular assembly constituency, the local units of the party will start smaller yatras, which will ensure the presence of a large number of people there, Pathak said. Now, against this backdrop, it is yet too early to label the 13-day drama at Ramlila Maidan as a purely anti-corruption move. Rather, as political cards are being exposed, it is becoming more and more obvious that this show was more of a dress rehearsal ahead of the political strategy being worked upon by Sangh Parivar for electoral gains in UP and beyond.

SIGNPOST

Unequal in death, unequal on death row

Despite constitutional guarantees of equality before law and equal access to justice for all sections of citizenry, we remain a society marked by great inequality, writes MOHD. ZEYAUL HAQUE.
The din and bustle of Anna Hazares fast last fortnight muffled and pushed to the margins the stunning discovery of mass graves across four districts of Kashmir with 2,156 unidentified bodies. This piece of news, which deserved banner headlines in newspapers and days of blabber on TV, virtually got ignored. An immediate question that came to mind was, would it be the same if mass graves with so many bodies of young men were found in UP or Gujarat, Maharashtra or Karnataka? And would it be the same if the victims were not Muslim? The Constitutions high-mindedness notwithstanding, the sad fact that Indian Muslims have to confront everyday is that there is a heirarchy of sorrow, and their sorrow is not equal to that of others. Otherwise, how do we explain the grand unconcern over such a horrendous crime? We are told these bodies belonged to the youth who had disappeared (or, made to disappear by security forces and J&K police) over the years that the plague of insurgency had afflicted the unfortunate valley. They were among the estimated 8,000 young persons who vanished into thin air. We do not normally associate disappearances and extrajudicial killings by state machinery with a democracy. Mass graves are the handiwork of Hitler, Pol Pot and Milosevic, not democratically elected leaders. The mass graves are a clear, visceral negation of our claims to democracy. At the root of much of the misery is the use of excessive force by the state. Earlier investigations had brought out the fact that only around 2.5 percent of people eliminated by state machinery without due process of law had any relationship with extremism. The vigilantism of security forces and state police is enabled by the dreaded Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFPSA) and allied laws that have sidelined the accountability of persons in uniform. That a heirarchy of sorrow operates in our social life was glaringly visible for the first time in an observation by a survivor of the Gujarat pogrom of 2002. Taking advantage of the polarisation of the time Narendra Modi had ordered fresh elections and BJP won with a great majority. To that the survivor had said: It goes out to show that our sorrow does not matter. Yes, everybodys sorrow does not equally matter as everybody does not equally matter, Constitution or no Constitution, democracy or no democracy. Heirarchy permeats and envelops everything. Even states are not equal. What happens in Kashmir and Northeastern states in the name of security cannot be imagined in cowbelt states, except when the victims of state violence are minorities, Dalits or tribals. A certain level of inequality is understandable. It is, in fact, part of the way our minds are organised and our society is structured. Everywhere people begin to live in groups (families, tribes, villages, clans, castes, panchayats, nations) a certain heirarchy quickly takes hold. It is something like what ornithologists and es, castes and political organisations trying to keep their dominance intact have done everything that they can to ensure that the inequalities continue endlessly and weaker groups like minorities, Dalits and tribals are denied equality of opportunity, equal protection of law and equal access to justice. They would go to any length to achieve this by creating warped national narratives, by maligning and demonising the weak, by subverting the high principles of the Constitution, by blocking access of the weak to the media. Recently, when Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a resolution asking the Centre not to execute the Tamil killers of Rajiv Gandhi, J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah wondered in a tweet what would happen if J&K Assembly passed a similar resolution asking for the Kashmiri Afzal Gurus life to be spared. Omar knows fully well that even though J&K is also a state in the Indian Union, it will not be allowed to do as Tamil Nadu did. All states are not equal. It also goes on to show that Indians are unequal not only in death, but on death row as well. One of our political parties that had been straining at the leash to have Afzal Guru executed posthaste made one of its Muslim minions to lampoon Omar in public. That cheap gimmick, however, did not dent the validity of the point that Omar sought to make. In one of her articles the inimitable Arundhati Roy picked a lot of holes in the case against Afzal Guru and made the point that he should not be hanged amid so many unresolved questions regarding his culpability. On the other hand, persons convicted in Rajiv murder case have confessed to their crime. Despite that, the J&K Assembly cannot even be imagined to be doing what the TN Assembly has already done. This marked heirarchy is obvious in the justice delivery system itself. The promptness shown in sentencing the culprits (all Muslims) to long imprisonments in Mumbai blasts case of 1993 looks glaring when one considers the fact that nothing happened to the culprits (Shiv Sena leaders and workers, and men in khaki) of the massive anti-Muslim riots that preceded it, burning Mumbai for a whole fortnight. Bal Thackeray claimed credit for it, as he did for Babri Masjid demolition by Shiv Sena volunteers (among others). The accused of Ayodhya killings and mosque demolition went on to become national leaders, Union cabinet ministers, even deputy prime minister and law has failed to catch up with them. In a nutshell, the actors in the main drama - Ayodhya demolition, killings, Mumbai riots - go scot-free as the actors of the sequel (Mumbai blasts) cool their heels behind bars. That probably is not the best way to convince the weak that everybody is equal before law. Why it is that Irom Sharmilas 10-year long fast (she is being force-fed through a tube) catches nobodys imagination while Baba Ramdevs fast of a few hours does? Meanwhile, another young Baba dies fasting and nobody takes note. Why have things gone so awry, so askew? A former professor of political science, Prof. Zahoor Muhammad Khan, says there is a massive disconnect at the heart of the system - the political class, the bureaucracy, the judiciary, the power elite. We have a First World Constitution and system of laws, but a Third World way of implementing them. One would like to add that the First World Constitution and laws are being implemented with a mind-set conditioned by centuries of caste prejudices and institutionalised inequity.

...the stunning discovery of mass graves across four districts of Kashmir with 2,156 unidentified bodies. This piece of news, which deserved banner headlines in newspapers and days of blabber on TV, virtually got ignored. An immediate question that came to mind was, would it be the same if mass graves with so many bodies of young men were found in UP or Gujarat, Maharashtra or Karnataka? And would it be the same if the victims were not Muslim?
psychologists call a pecking order, a heirarchy of power, a command structure. In short, a clear understanding about who passes orders and who carriers the orders. This is what made Focault observe that all human relationship is power relationship: Parent-child, teacher-student, generalsoldier, superordinate-subordinate. Democracy is a way of softening and humanising that hard truth. A pecking order among birds is a given, but humans have the ability to reorganise the order of things. (By the way, a pecking order describes the dominance-subordination pattern in a group of, say, hens, geese and other birds. In a group of ten the most dominant bird will peck the second most dominant, the third, seventh, down to the ninth most dominant and the least dominant bird. The tenth will peck no one. The second will peck everyone except the first, the Alpha). That order is established after a lot of struggle and remains stable till the Alpha is removed from the scene through death or disability. In that case another violent struggle for reordering begins and rages till a fresh pecking order is established. Human beings being more intelligent, they have often tried to order their societies more fairly even though they create an international order that is no better than the wild ways of birds and animals. In our own democracy, more often than not, dominant class-

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JAMMU & KASHMIR

DATELINE SRINAGAR: AFSANA RASHID

Bodies in unidentified graves rattle J&K

August 31, Mirwaiz appealed to Anna Hazare to launch a country wide campaign about unmarked graves in Kashmir. JKLF chairman Mohammad Yasin Malik on August 22 said jungle raj has been exposed and needs to be probed. We will file Public Interest Litigation in court in this regard. DGP Kuldeep Khoda, while addressing the media in Jammu, August 22 said when unidentified militants are killed, they are buried in graves by local village committees or those perform their religious rites. ished according to Shariah. No member of Tehreek has any link to the killing.

MLA lobbies for Guru amnesty

General amnesty for stone-pelters

Announcing a general amnesty to stone-pelters, who were apprehended during last years summer unrest but werent involved in arson, chief minister Omar Abdullah said that this was being done to provide them an opportunity to lead a normal life. This wouldnt apply to those involved in arson or other heinous crimes, he said, while addressing the media here, August 28, adding those who exploited these youth for vested interests put a question mark on their future; used and threw them. But the government is concerned about them. However, amnesty would be available as a onetime opportunity. He informed that 1200 youth would benefit and advised those who have evaded arrest and are hiding to surrender before police, obtain bail and await of this benefit. Only 35 persons are presently in prisons under PSA, he said. Terming amnesty to stone-pelters as hoax and mere eyewash, chairman of Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani, August 29 said there was no justification to lodge cases against youth, who were expressing their dissent against a foreign occupation. Besides, Omar made no mention about civilians killed by the police and security forces last year. Geelani added 4800 FIRs have been registered by the government last year, 724 people have been booked under PSA during 2010 and 2011 and courts quashed 574 PSA detentions and 150 cases are pending. He also called for a two-day shutdown here on September 6 and 7 to protest the arrest spree of youth across valley.

More than 2100 unidentified bodies are buried in unmarked graves at 38 different sites in various parts of north Kashmir, says State Human Right Commission in its inquiry report here on August 21. Police investigating wing of the Commission found 2156 unidentified bodies buried in these graves. The report said 21 unmarked graves were found in Baramulla, three each in Bandipora and Handwara and 11 in Kupwara. 851 unidentified bodies were found in Baramulla, 14 each in Bandipore and Handwara and 1277 in Kupwara. It adds that all bodies were handed over by the police to the local populace for burial with bullet injuries, a few were defaced and charred and were described as unidentified militants. Welcoming the report, International Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights in Kashmir on August 29 demanded to widen the ambit of investigation to other areas of state and DNA of unnamed dead be matched with families of disappeared. Parveen Ahangar, president Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons on the eve of international day of disappeared on August 30 said mass graves is a separate issue and might hold corpses of those who have been killed along the Line of Control. Possibility of linkages between the two cant be denied in some cases but superimposition of the two is highly discouraging. An impartial and credible investigation into unmarked graves was demanded by Human Rights Watch. For years, Kashmiris have been lamenting their lost loved ones, their pleas ignored or dismissed as government and army claim that theyve gone to Pakistan to become militants, said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director at HRW, in a press statement issued from New Delhi on August 25 but these graves suggest possibility of mass murder. Amnesty International on August 23 asked the Government of India to initiate a thorough investigation into mass graves. Urgent action needs to be taken including preserving evidence and widening investigation across the state. Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti demanded DNA test and a probe in the matter. She along with her party workers held a demonstration, August 25 and demanded identification of people buried in these graves. Chief minister Omar Abdullah on August 22 said that government wants an answer to queries raised by the Commission. This is why we wanted to set-up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to know the facts about the killings by militants and security forces during the past two decades. Later Omar, addressing the media here on August 28 said that the Commission has asked a report from the government and the same would be submitted to it. Appropriate action would be taken after the Commission comes up with a final report. Pertinently, the Commission on August 23 clarified that an impression has been created that it has given its final report to the government regarding a matter pending disposal before it. It has directed for issuance of copy of the inquiry report submitted by SSP of investigation wing of the Commission to parties for filling their rejoinder and responses. Next date of hearing has been fixed for September 16. Meanwhile, rejecting chief ministers call for setting up TRC, chairman Hurriyat (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani said the government got the presence of unmarked graves confirmed through the Commission to save itself and New Delhi from international shame and hamper efforts of impartial agencies to probe the issue. He demanded a probe by UN War Crime Tribunal or any other impartial agency. Chairman Hurriyat (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on August 22 said barbaric acts of oppression and state terrorism committed by security forces have been unveiled. It should serve as an eyeopener for international human rights groups. In his Eid sermon,

After moving a resolution in the state Assembly on September 2 seeking amnesty for Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru, an independent legislator from Langate constituency in Kupwara sought the support of all political parties for its smooth passage in the ensuing session scheduled to begin from September 26. Government of India shouldnt have any problem if a resolution is passed, said Er. Rashid, while addressing media here, September 3, adding that the issue is humanitarian irrespective of political ideology. Legislators in Tamil Nadu passed a resolution seeking pardon for killers of Rajiv Gandhi but when it comes to Kashmir the story is different. Reacting to it, chairman National Panthers Party, Bhim Singh on September 3 said Assembly cant interfere with the process of law. The matter doesnt pertain to the state, it is pending before the President of India. Earlier, Omar had on microblogging site Twitter said if the assembly had passed a resolution seeking mercy for Guru on lines of Tamil Nadu Assembly, it would generate a muted reaction. Terming his comments unfortunate, BJP on August 31 maintained that a responsible leader like him shouldnt speak the language of Hurriyat leaders.

Another blueprint for Kashmir solution

Presenting a document Vision to settlement of Kashmir issue Rabia Baji, state representative All India Centre for Urban and Rural Development, said here on August 23 that the vision stands on a three-point formula. Prime concern is the resolution of Kashmir. India and Pakistan should understand that no solution is possible without making the state a party to it, said Rabia, while addressing the media here. She added we dont support bifurcation or trifurcation of the state, but it is based on a threepoint formulae and a few confidence building measures. About the three-point formulae, she said The document has been presented to Government of India, MOS Home Jitender Singh and Home Secretary. The Home Secretary said that he will go through it and then will accordingly revert back. CBMs include waiving off PSA against youth, assistance for widows, orphans and likewise.

Criminal militants killed Showkat

Like Prof Ramzan, former Jamiat-Ahle-Hadith president, Moulana Showkat too was killed at the hands of traitors among our ranks, says a report issued by Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) that was released to media by Jamiat Ahle-Hadith after a meeting of an All Party Probe Committee, formed to investigate Showkats killing. In its report, LeT on August 25 said initially, we thought he was killed by the Army and its agencies and had never imagined that the killers would be from among us. Elaborating further, it says Javaid Munshi aka Bill Papa, incarcerated in Srinagar central jail told Mohammad Imran, known as Fidayeen that they had killed Moulana and would soon kill JKLF chairman and others. After he was arrested by the police, Munshi claimed that Lashkars Sopore commander, Abdullah Yuni had helped him in the killing. Yuni had however, strongly rebuked Munshi when he discussed plans to kill Moulana. After Munshi killed Moulana, he tried to seek revenge by falsely naming Yuni and Lashkar, the report said. Moulana Showkat was killed in April this year when an IED went off outside a mosque here at Gaw Kadal just before Friday prayers. On July 15, police filed a chargesheet against eight people including Munshi and Abdul Gani Dar. A few days after LeTs report, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM) on August 29 said that two main accused, Munshi and Abdul Gani Dar had left the outfit long ago. In its report, it said Dar was its member till his arrest in 2001. After his release, he joined a political organization, Sout-ul-Haq, but he had to quit it after his relations reportedly soured with it. About Munshi, it says he was following the programme of the organization till 1998 but in 1999 he went to meet his family in Nepal, despite the fact that TuM Ameer, Sheikh Jameel-uRehman had prohibited him from going there. Munshi was arrested in Nepal and spent eight years in jail. His association with militancy was practically over. After his release in 2008, Munshi expressed his desire to join the armed struggle but Rehman asked him to stay with Sout-ul Haq. Soon he too was expelled. The report added killers of Moulana Showkat should be pun-

Conflicting statements by police and army

Contradictory statements were issued by police and army here on August 24 over a joint operation in Pulwama district. A joint operation was launched by police, 53 RR, 181 and 182 BN of CRPF in Daroo, Wala Sangerwani in Pulwama, said SP Pulwama adding, two Hizbul Mujahideen militants Shabir Ahmad Kalas alias Waseem and Liyaqat Ahmad Gorsi were arrested from a Doka (hut). A Srinagar-based defence spokesperson however, said a joint team of SOG and Army surrounded a house in SangerwaniPulwama wherein two militants had entered. On being challenged they immediately offered to surrender. Two grenades rocked the valley on August 25 killing a civilian, Abdul Gani Gojri and a BSF personnel, Hawaldar U Halder and injuring 14 others. The grenades were hurled at Batamaloo and Baramulla. Shahid Ahmad Khan, 25, resident of Batamaloo, who had sustained pellet injuries on his chest while fiddling with a 12 bore gun at Mujgund succumbed to his injuries in a hospital on August 30. Saleema, 45, who was injured during a gunbattle between militants and army in Handwara on August 22 also succumbed to her injuries. At least 73 persons, mostly youth were arrested and 10 motorcycles were seized during clashes that started at midnight in the old city on August 28 and lasted for five hours and six policemen were injured, said the police, adding while people were busy praying during Shab-e-Qadr, around 300 miscreants pelted stones on Nowhatta police station. Clashes broke out between security forces and youth after Friday congregational prayers here at Jamia Masjid and adjacent areas, August 26 as youth were commemorating Youm-eQudds and Youm-e-Kashmir. Police on August 30 claimed to have released more than 60 stone-pelters, on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr. Chairman of Hurriyat (G), Syed Ali Shah Geelani on August 31 said a protest campaign against arrests and continued detention of political leaders and youth will be released soon. High Court on August 25 quashed detention of 15 detainees under PSA including the patron of Dukhtaran-e-Millat, Asiya Andrabi.

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NEWSMAKERS
MEN & WOMEN IN NEWS
Dr. SAYYAD AHMAD, Congress leader of Maharashtra and a former minister of Maharashtra has been appointed Governor of Jharkhand by President Pratibha Patil. Born in a village of Ambedkar Nagar (formerly Akbarpur) district of U.P. about 66 years ago, he is also a noted poet, author and critic of Urdu and an author of many books. Pagdandi se Shahrah tak is his autobiography. His other books are Urdu Shairi ka Inqalabi Kirdar, Maqtal se Manzil tak, Qafas se Chaman tak. He has also been running and patronising many schools and colleges in his native district Ambedkar Nagar. He was sworn in as the Governor of Jharkhand on 4 Sept. 2011 by the interim Chief Justice, Justice P.C. Tatia. MAAZHIRUL HASAN, an old teacher of Insan School, Kishan Ganj founded by Dr. Sayyad Hasan, has been appointed Deputy Director of this School. After his appointment to this post, he said that he will continue to carry forward the mission of Sayyad Bhai. Prof. AKHTARUL WASEY, vice chairman of Delhi Urdu Academy, has been appointed a member of Executive Board of National Council for the Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL). It may be stated that this Executive Board was recently constituted by HRD ministry's order No. L-III dated 01/07/11. Chairman of this Board is Kapil Sibal, HRD minister and there are eight members of the Board - three official and five public representatives. In addition to Prof. Akhtarul Wasey, other public representatives of this Board are: Prof. WASIM BARELVI, vice chairman of NCPUL, Dr. MUHAMMAD ABDUL HAKEEM AZHARI (Kerala), Sayed WEQARUDDIN (Hyderabad) and SHEIKH ALIMUDDIN (Delhi). Names of official representatives have not yet been announced. Dr. KALEEM AHMAD, prominent physician of Saharanpur was unanimously elected President of All India Medical Association (IMA)'s local chapter on 27 August. M.O. HASAN FAROOQ, former chief minister of Poduchery, has been appointed Governor of Kerala in place of R.S. Gawai who has retired after holding this post for three years. Mr. Farooq (74) was sworn in as Governor on 8 September by Kerala's Chief Justice J. Chelameshwar at a simple ceremony at Raj Bhawan. ANEES KHAN has been awarded a PhD in education by Amravati University. His subject was A study of scientific temper and its measurement in the students of Urdu medium higher secondary schools of Amravati division." He completed his research under Dr. Yusuf Khan, former principal, Government College of Education, Akola. A teacher by profession, Anees Khan has translated into Urdu Naseema Hurzugs motivating Marathi autobiography which will be published soon by Pharos Media as Sitaaron say aagay. A gigantic underground river found flowing 13,000 feet beneath the Amazon, has been named after VALIYA HAMZA, an Indian from Kerala. The body of the water has been named after Valiya Hamza, who led the research and found that the Amazon rainforest has two separate drainage systems: the surface drainage through the Amazon and the flow of groundwater through the deep sedimentary layers, the Hamza. The width of the Hamza is said to be 3,700 miles long, flowing 13,000 feet below the Amazon. Both rivers flow from west to east. The Amazon ranges from 1 kilometer to 100 kilometers in width, while the Hamza ranges from 200 kilometers to 400 kilometers. However, the Hamza flows at only a fraction of the speed of Amazon. Hamza graduated in Physics (B.Sc. in 1962; M.Sc. in 1964) from University of Kerala and Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Western Ontario (1973). He served as Professor at Inst. Astrponomy and Geophysics, Univ. So Paulo, Research Coordinator at Inst. Technology Research IPT (So Paulo), Secretary of International Heat Flow Commission - IHFC and member of the Exexutive Committee of IASPEI. Currently he is full professor at the National Observatory of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and memeber of IHFC since 2007.

OBITUARIES
Dr. KAUSAR YAZDANI, former Ameer of Jamat-e Islami Hind Haryana died on 30 August. He preached Islam in different areas, particularly in the apostasy-rampant areas of Haryana and because of his preachings, innumerable people embraced Islam. He served as editor of JIHs Hindi organ Kanti for many years and translated a number of JIHs key books into Hindi. Maulana INAMUL HAQ QASMI, former rector of Mau Nath Bhanjan's Madrasa Darul Uloom and a great religious scholar and good administrator died on 1 September. He headed this institution for 23 years and during his period this madrasa achieved a great progress. Syed HABIB, former cue sports man, snooker and billiard player of India died at his residence in Chennai on 21 August at the age of 71 years. He defeated world's billiard champion Michael Ferreira in Pune Nationals in 1987. He represented India in I.B.S.F. World Snooker in 1981 and I.B.S.F. World Masters Snookers in 2009. He is survived by three sons and two daughters. Prof. ABDUL MAJID SIDDIQI founder and former Dean of AMU's Life Science Faculty died in Aligarh. He was an able administrator and an educationist. Language expert, Khadim-e-Urdu A. Rasheed Siddiqui passes away, laid to rest ABDUL RASHEED SIDDQUI, an expert in Urdu and Persian languages, died at Nashik on 12 August. He was 54 and is survived by his wife and three children. He hailed from Malegaon and was serving as a senior teacher at ATT High School & Jr College. He was buried in Malegaon Bada Qabristan next day in the presence of family members and friends, and a large number of students. Known for his exceptional skills in the Urdu and Persian languages, Siddiqui used the title Khadim-e-Urdu as prefix to his name. He was part of the Maharashtra State Education Board's Bal Bharti, which looks after the school syllabus. A prolific writer, besides his teaching job at ATT High School, Siddiqui was also associated with a local publication group and wrote extensively for it. Apart from 37 books he authored for school students, Timtimate Charagh, Siddiqui's inspirational and motivational book written for school and college dropouts earned praise from all across the state. His book on Urdu essay writing became so popular that questions were asked on his book in HSC board exams. At the time of his death, he was working on indexing of various topics discussed in the Holy Quran. The work, which focused on the topics of Quran in an index form with related chapters, aayah and other details is almost complete and waiting for publication. (ummid.com) falling on 5 Sept., a holiday. Among the 50 teachers selected for Teachers Day Award, 15 teachers are of Marathi medium schools, four of Urdu medium schools, four of Hindi medium, two of Gujarati medium, and one each of English, Tamil, Telugu and Kannad medium schools. There are four more teachers of Secondary Municipal Schools and 12 teachers of unaided schools. Mrs. RAFIA ZAFAR ALI, Principal of Leaders Private School, Sharja (UAE) was among the 14 principals on All India basis who were honoured with National Awards 2010 on Sunday 4 September 2011 at India International Centre, New Delhi by Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal. Four teachers of Delhi namely: (Ms.) HENA KAUSAR of Old Seemapuri School, (Ms.) NAAZ JILANI of Zakir Nagar School, ROSHAN ZAMEER of Deputy Ganj School and (Ms.) NAYYAR PARVEEN of Madanpur Khadar School are among 100 teachers of M.C.D. schools who have been honoured with Awards on the occasion of Teachers Day on 5 September 2011. The Award consists of a cheque of Rs. 7000, one shawl and a certificate each. It may be stated that out of 100 M.C.D. school teachers who have been honoured with Awards, 20 are Principals, 72 general teachers, five Nursery School teachers, one teacher each of physical science, music and literary services. There are a total of about 18000 teachers in all M.C.D. schools

AWARDS
(Ms.) TASLEEM SULTANA of Andhra Pradesh has been selected alongwith two others for being honoured with Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award 2010 which is given for one's distinguished services for the welfare and well-being of children. This Award, which consists of Rs. one lakh and Scroll of Honour, was created in 1994 on the occasion of Rajiv Gandhi's 50th birthday. SALEEM AHMAD of Madhubani (Bihar), an active social worker who helps unemployed youth in getting employment, in educating poor children and boys, free treatment of poor people and helping old and senior people etc. has been honoured with Rajiv Gandhi Global Excellence Award. He has been honoured with many other awards in recognition of his valuable social service. Dr. YASIR SALAM SIDDIQI, senior resident doctor of AMU's J.N. Medical College's Orthopaedic Department and Dr. JAVED JAMEEL have been honoured with Best Paper and Second Best paper Awards respectively in Central John Conference's Madhya Pradesh Chapter held in Varanasi. Dr. Javed Jameel has also been honoured last year with Best Paper Award in Central John Conference held at Jaipur and also in U.P. ORTHOCON Conference held at Gorakhpur. MUHAMMAD JALEEL PASHA, chairman of All India

Educational Committee and AZIZ BURNEY, Group Editor of Rashtriya Sahara were honoured with Pasbaan-e Urdu Award by Pimpri Urdu Council, Pune at a function held at Pune. Speakers on this occasion while congratulating these people demanded that in addition to giving Urdu the status of 2nd official language of Maharashtra, National Urdu Language Commission should be set in Maharashtra and funds for this should be provided so that further progress and development of Urdu language could be ensured. Four teachers of Mumbai's Urdu medium schools: LATIFA MUKHTAR BAIG of Imambara Municipal Urdu School; AQILA ISMAIL of Korba Meetha Nagar Municipal Urdu School, ARIFA SALEEM SHEIKH of Shahji Municipal Urdu School and Saleem Muhammad Sheikh are among the 50 teachers who have been selected for being honoured with 'Mayor Award' on the occasion of Teachers Day on 5 September which is the birthday of India's first President Dr. S. Radhakrishnan who was also a great educationist. The Awards, consisting of a cheque of Rs. 10,000 (till the previous years this amount was Rs. 5000 but from this year (2011) this amount has being increased to Rs. ten thousand), Maha Palika's golden memento, honorary certificate, a shawl and bouquet of flowers, will be given on 13 September instead of Teachers Day on 5 September because of Ganesh festival

Professor Abdul Majid Siddiqui

oted scientist and former dean of AMUs Faculty of Life Sciences, Professor Abdul Majid Siddiqui passed away at New Delhi in the morning of 29 August at the age of 79. He is survived by his wife Prof. Jamila Majid Siddiqui, two sons and a daughter. His son Dr. Shahid Jameel is a scientist, New Delhi and Dr. Afashan Hashim is a business development, regulatory affairs and scientific consultant, USA. He was buried after Asr prayers same day at the University graveyard. Born on January 1, 1933 at Allahabad, he obtained his primary education from Islamia School, Gorakhpur and passed High School from City High School, Ghazipur, Intermediate (Class XII) from Lucknow Christian College, Lucknow and obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Chemistry from AMU in 1952 and 1954 respectively. He was appointed as a teacher and then lecturer in Science (July 1953-August 1963) to teach an integrated Science course to the1st year Unani students (PreTibb) of the Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College, AMU. He obtained his PhD in Biochemistry in 1962 from School of Medicine, University of California, San

Dr. Syed Ather Hussain, M.S

Dr. Syed Ather Hussain (born 30 November 1931) died on 5 August 2011. A wellknown surgeon and an administrator of Hyderabad, he helped in the establishment of a hospital and setting up of a number of medical and educational institutions even after his retirement as Regional Director, Medical and Health Services of Andhra Pradesh, in 1989. For the last 5 years he was President of MESCO, a development organisation spearheaded mostly by doctors of Hyderabad. A good surgeon, sensitive human being and a fantastic father, he spent his entire life supporting and serving his family, relatives, friends and, members of the public, especially the poor. Only son with 6 sisters, he had to take care of his family since he was 18 years old when his father, who was a revenue official in the Nizam Government, was killed by the Indian Army during the police action in 1948. After establishing himself as a doctor, he extended his support beyond his immediate family to other relatives in need. His son Mazher Hussain, head of the well-known NGO KOVANETWORK, reminisces that all through our childhood, we always had some relatives staying in our house to pursue their education or tide over difficult times. Even at 80 and despite 3 paralytic strokes (the first one was way back in 1989), he had kept himself active and full of life till the very end.

Francisco. He held the positions of Consultant in Biochemistry, Khartoum, Sudan (1985-86), Dean Faculty of Life Sciences, AMU (1986-88), Head of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Basrah, Iraq (1977-81), Research Assistant, University of California, USA (1959-62). He won the Faculty of Science prize for securing highest marks in BSc 1st year (1950), Gold Medal in 1952 for securing first position in BSc (1952-53). Dr. Siddiqi played an important role in the establishment of an independent Department of Biochemistry at AMU in 1986 and also the Faculty of Life-Sciences, of which he was appointed as the first Dean. Recognition of his research work includes US Patent No. 3, 62, 94, 49 dated December 21, 1971 on 'A Process of Combating hypercholesterolemia wherein 3-hydroxy-e-methylglutric acid'. He had also been a member of different academic and administrative bodies of the AMU. He was the first provost of Mohammad Habib Hall. Prof. Siddiqui was the son-in-law of Prof. Abdul Aleem, former, Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University.

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SPECIAL REPORTS

Beggars are not choosers: NCM VC to Goa Muslims

or more than a decade, the problem of Muslim graveyard land allocation in Goa has not been solved. This year on 24-25 August, National Commission for Minorities (NCM) vice chairperson HT Sangliana and member Syeda Imam visited Goa to inspect the site acquired by the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) for the purpose. The acquired land is adjacent to Goas biggest garbage dump. This dump emits foul odours kilometres away, as claimed by Abdul Matin Daud Carol, general secretary, Masjid-eGausiya, Margao, who is the petitioner in the case. The two-member NCM team was to also see the alternative sites being offered to Muslims. In the meeting with Muslims that following, Dr. Sangliana told Muslims you

The current Muslim graveyard on rocky land which requires cranes to dig graves which are dug in advance

are beggars and beggars are not choosers." Upset with the disrespect and disregard of facts in the meeting, Abdul Matin and Ranjan Solomon have appealed to the NCM chairman Wajahat Habibullah to reverse the inappropriate recommendation of the team and send another delegation to take account of the situation. Even though alternative lands are possible and available, the Goa government is using all tactics to avoid granting the legitimate claims of Muslims who are patiently awaiting justice (Mazin Khan).

JUST PUBLISHED

Assams Doubtful Citizens

Book: Assams Doubtful Citizens - fact or fiction? Author: Kamaluddin Ahmed 62 pp, P/B Price: Rs. 60 / 5 ISBN-10:81-7221-051-5 ISBN-13: 978-81-7221051-9 A misconception prevails among many people outside Assam that lakhs of Bangladeshis are residing in Assam and exercising franchise. This misconception developed due to publicity of the AASU for more than three decades-long period with the help of some press and political parties like BJP, a high bureaucrat like S. L. Shakdar, and a Governor of Assam, S. K. Sinha. Dr. Ahmed, with the help of mostly public documents, shows that all this is emotional exaggreation, has no empirical or statistical foundation, and as such is nothing more than a self-composed chorus of some pseudo-intellectuals. Contents: Introduction Unparallel Demography, Partition of Indian Sub-continent The Politics of Antagonism: Assam Movement Complainants Disillusioned, Comparative data of population growth Nature and Extent of Present Crisis, D Voter issue, NRC issue, Likely solution contemplated Appendices, Total number of D Voters, Cases Pending Before Foreigners Tribunal Some recent photos Ordering details on page 27 of this issue
MG/Yusuf

Yaum-e-Azadi mushaira in the US

The 5th Yaum-e-Azadi (Independence Day) mushaira (poetry recitation) programme, organized by the Aligarh Alumni Association of Washington DC (AAA) in cooperation with the Global Organization of People of Indian Origin-Metro DC (GOPIO) was held on 23 July at spacious auditorium of The Universities, Rockville, Maryland. The goal of this mushaira was to provide a forum where people could get together transcending political, religious, regional and geographical boundaries promoting Ganga-Jamuni culture of the Subcontinent. Coordinator of the program Dr. Zafar Iqbal started the programme greeting participants and audiences and invited presidents of participating associations Mrs. Shakila Raza of AAA and Dr Renuka Misra of GOPIO to formally welcome the audience and the participating poets. In keeping with the tradition of releasing of a recently published book, this year Ab Saher NahiN Hogi, by Uzma Sehar was selected for the event. Dr Satya Pal Anand, a well-known literary personality living in this area gave a brief description of the book and the poet, Uzma, who came to USA as a child with her widowed mother Naiyar Jahan from Bangladesh soon after the fall of Dhaka. He said it was amazing to see that a child who grew up in this country had such a good command over the language and good grasp of the culture of the Subcontinent. Dr. Anand admired Naiyar Jahan, who collected poems from Uzma's school note books and personal diaries and got it published posthumously. Dr Anand said it was a befitting tribute to a talented young poet jo bin khiley murjha gayi. Mrs. Naiyar Jahan, affectionately known as Naiyar Apa, the Secretary-General of Urdu Markaz International, Los Angeles, CA released the book by presenting a copy of the book to Dr. Anand. An additional attraction of this year's function was the release of a CD GooNgi AwazeN produced by The Urdu Markaz International, Los Angeles. The CD has nazms of six female Urdu poets living of North America. These poets have distinguished themselves by dealing with a variety of topics such as immigration, cultural harmony, changes in woman's body with age, and ecology etc. The commentary on the CD and introduction of poets is narrated by Dr. Abdullah and poems are presented in combination of tarannum by Nuzaira Azam and tahetallafz by Dr. Abdullah in an effective way. Naiyar Jahan released the CD by presenting a copy to Mr. Frank Islam, Chairman and CEO of FI Investment Group. The second session of the program was dedicated for Mushaira/Kavi Sammelan. Evergreen nazim of poetry recitation events, Dr. Abdullah, said in his opening remarks that six decades ago the sun of freedom dawned on the sky of the Subcontinent. Unfortunately, however, it dawned with an eclipse and the eclipse has been too long. The Subcontinent has yet to see the bright sun as the real freedom has yet to come. We have yet to free ourselves from the chains of communalism, regionalism, linguistic bias, poverty, and illiteracy, etc. It is encouraging to see positive changes in some areas, but in few other areas biases have taken deeper roots. It is incumbent upon us to work harder for the real freedom of the entire Subcontinent. A large number of poets representing Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati and Panjabi languages participated in the poetry recitation session, which was presided over by Mrs. Naiyar Jahan. Participating poets included (in alphabetical order) A. Abdulla, Akram Mahmood, Astha Naval, Aziz Qureshi, Delar Deol, Gajinder Sign Ahuja, Haris Hasan, Harvinder Kamna, Kiran Nath, Naiyar Jahan, Narendra Tandon, Natwar Gandhi, Panna Nayak, Rakesh Khandelwal, Razi Raziuddin, Saad Hadi, Satyapal Anand, Suman Vardhan, Vandana Singh, Vishaka Thakar, and Zaheer Parvez. Sample of poetry recited at the event: Yaad jati nahin is dil se, tere jane se/Naqsh mit-te nahin tasvir ke mit jane se/Is tarah dil se mere tera nikalna mushkil/ jaise paani ko nikale koi teh-khaane se -- Hadi Syed Bari taizi sey badla hai zamana/waqt key chakkar ney ham ko ek naii duniya dekhaii hai/kahaN wo apne bachpan ki kheyaali daastaneN/kahaN yeh scincy tahzeeb jismeN bank haiN/qarzoN pe mubni ek maeeshat hai/ jaha arboN key soadey computer pe hote haiN/yahan har koii uljha hua hai kagzi daulat kamaaney meN -- A. Abdullah

Salman Khurshid with sons on Eid day

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18 The Milli Gazette, 16-30 September 2011

COMMUNITY NEWS
Communal riot in Bahraich, one killed
Bahraich: A minor incident in Bahraich (U.P.) on 24 August led to communal riot in which one person died and about a dozen persons, including two police personnel were injured. According to available information, one person who was constructing the boundary wall of a religious place of worship was attacked by some persons on 24 August night. This led to clashes and stone pelting between two mobs of people belonging to different communities. Firing was also resorted to by some people. At about midnight one person, Sabit Ram Yadav was shot who was taken to a local hospital but in view of the seriousness of his condition he was being taken to Lucknow but died on the way. This further aggravated the situation next day i.e. on 25 August. Some houses, shops and vehicles, including one belonging to police, were set on fire. This happened inspite of heavy deployment of P.A.C. The riot continued throughout the day on 25th. It was, however, controlled by the night. Strong vigil was being maintained by police and P.A.C. NCMEIs grant restored New Delhi: Quarterly grant of Rs. 60 lakh of National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions for the months of July-September this year (2011) which was held up for about two months because of which salaries of its 28 employees could not be paid for two months has now been restored. It was generally being thought that the grant had been deliberately withheld by HRD ministry because it was not happy with the Commissions decision to grant minority status to Jamia Millia Islamia University. Whatever may be the reasons for this abnormal delay in the disbursement of quarterly grant of Rs. 60 lakh, which had never happened in the Commissions 7-year history, when Jamiat Ulamas chief, Maulana Arshad Madni came to know about this and that because of this, the Commissions employees could not be paid their salaries for two months, he wrote a letter complaining o Prime Minister Manmohan Singh bringing this fact to his notice. It was probably because of the Prime Ministers personal intervention that within a couple of days the cheque of Rs. 60 lakh the quarterly grant of the Commission was given to it. It may be stated that NCMEI is given an annual grant of Rs. 2.40 crores by the government (HRD ministry) and this amount is paid to it in four quarterly instalments of Rs. 60 lakh each. Real face of Sangh Parivar revealed in Marad case: PFI Kozhikkode: Popular Front of India Kerala state committee said on 25 August that through its opposition to CBI probe into Marad killing of 2003, which claimed nine lives, the true face of Sangh Parivar has been revealed. Now the leaked court documents availed by a Malayalam news channel tell us that the Sangh parivar including RSS and BJP conspired to sabotage CBI investigation into the case. It should be noted that it was an RSS person who went to Kerala High Court against the central agency probe in the case. Former BJP state president PS Sreedharan Pillai chose not to appear in the court to present his case for CBI probe in his capacity as senior standing consul for the then NDA government at the Centre. PFI had from the very beginning demanded a CBI probe into the incident which followed another massacre in which five people were killed. It was alleged that RSS and other Sangh outfits were behind that incident which was part of a conspiracy to expel Muslims from the area through riots and to loot their belongings as happened after the second violence there. The PFI statement noted that all parties including RSS and BJP were trying to accuse the erstwhile NDF (now Popular Front) in the Marad killings. Now with new documents coming out, it has become clear that Sangh Parivar was afraid of the whole truths coming out regarding the case. Nine people were killed in Marad, a communally sensitive coastal village in Kozhikkode district of Kerala in the violence erupted in 2003. Lie detection test on 3 accused in Malegaon blasts Mumbai: Lie detection tests on three out nine Muslim youths accused in 8 September 2006 bomb blasts in Malegaon have been completed. They are Muhammad Asif, Shabbir Masihullah and Muhammad Ali who were taken by NIA team to Ahmadabad on 26 August for this test. After this test, their brain mapping test also will be done in Ahmadabad at Forensic Science Laboratory. According to sources, lie detection tests and brain mapping tests on all the accused persons will take about a month. Initially after the 8 September 2006 bomb blasts Maharashtra ATS had accused these nine Muslim youths, as they and infact other Muslim youths were targetted by police everywhere, and were blindly being accused for all the bomb blasts. However, only after Swamy Aseemnands confession in the presence of a magistrate that some hard core Hindutva organisations were behind many bomb blasts in the country, including Malegaon blasts, the mentality of ATS changed slightly. The special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court, which had earlier rejected the bail applications of these nine accused, approved lie detection and brain mapping tests on these nine accused persons after which they were taken in different groups to Ahmadabad for these tests. Mumbai High Court reserves verdict in Yunus murder case Mumbai: Mumbai High Court has reserved its verdict in Khwaja Yunus murder case. It may be stated that Khwaja Yunus was arrested under POTA as an accused in bomb blast in BEST bus at Ghat Kopar station, Mumbai in December, 2002 and subsequently killed by Mumbai police while in custody. His mother

Question mark on the future of NCMEI

New Delhi: It appears that National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions (NCMEI) after granting the status of minority character to Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, has earned the displeasure of Union HRD ministry. Though this decision of NCMEI was not publicly criticised by the HRD minister or his ministrys officials nor any appeal made at the official level in the High Court against its decision (appeal against its decision has of course been filed in the High Court at a private level), its action indicates that NCMEIs decision in giving minority status to JMI has not been taken kindly and now efforts are being made not only to clip its wings but to do away with it altogether. Such doubts arise because grants given to it by HRD ministry have been withheld. It may be stated in this connection that the annual grant of Rs. 2.44 crores is given to it in three-monthly instalments. The Commission had announced JMIs minority status decision in February 2011. Thereafter, the quarterly grants of NCMEI which comes to about Rs. 60 lakh for April-May-June was delayed, though subsequently paid. Again, the grant for July-September was not paid to it by 20 August and because of this, the salaries of its employees, whose total strength is 28, could not be released. It is understood that they have not been paid salaries for two months because of which they are facing great difficulties. Their financial difficulties can be well understood because normally salaried employees start feeling the pinch by the end of the month and they eagerly wait for the next months salary. If next months salary is delayed by a week or 10 days, many of them have to purchase commodities of daily use either on credAasia Begum had filed a petition through her lawyer Meher Desai stating that her son was killed by police in custody and had also demanded compensation as well as a criminal case being initiated against the policemen who had killed him. Her lawyer arguing before the High Court had stated that in case of custodial death it is very difficult to get eye witnesses and other proofs. He said that the Court has to decide whether the statement of eye witness is so true and trustworthy that on the basis of his statement the accused persons may be declared guilty. He pointed out that while in custody he was so mercilessly beaten that he succumbed to his injuries; but the police personnel had lied and falsely stated, (as they very often do) that at that time they were at some other place and not at the place of murder but their lie and falsehood was proved by their mobile phone records. As of now, only four police personnel were arrested and a case has been filed against them for killing Khwaja Yunus and destroying proofs. These four constables are A.P.I. Sachin Vase, constables Rajinder Tiwari, Raja Ram Nikam and Vasant Desai. Earlier, the court had rejected the request to file cases against ten police personnel. It may be recalled that Khwaja Yunus was arrested for his alleged complicity in the bomb blast in a BEST bus at Ghat Kopar railway station in December 2002. In January 2003 Mumbai police had claimed that Khwaja Yunus had fled from their custody when he was being taken to Aurangabad in a police jeep when it met with an accident. According to the police story, Yunus had fled alongwith the handcuff but after CIDs investigation it was found that the police story was false and that he (Yunus) was beaten or tortured to death while in custody. Jamia Millia to be connected to industry & corporate sector New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia Engineering & Technology Faculty (JMI-FET) has started its first website whose main objective is to bring JMI-FET and corporate sector closer to each other so that JMI engineers and technical students and industrialist and private businessmen can approach each other for fulfilment of their needs. Universal Readable Line (URL) of this website is www.jmifet.ac.in which has been prepared in joint cooperation of students and teachers of this Faculty and Trading and Placement Cell. According to Jamia Millias media coordinator Prof. Seema Malhotra, the objective of this website is to introduce this website of the Faculty to the industrial, business and technical world so that a close relationship between the Faculty and business and industrial sector could be established. She futher said that with this approach Facultys graph will increase and degree holders from this Faculty will also directly get access to avenues of employment in the corporate sector. Five jailed SIMI activists may be released by M.P. HC Bhopal: Five members of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) who were released on 26 January 2011 under an amnesty scheme but re-arrested by Madhya Pradesh government shortly thereafter i.e. on 4 February because of agitation and protests by VHP and Bajrang Dal activists at their release, are very likely to be freed again by Madhya Pradesh High Court. After the release of these SIMI members on 26 January this year, VHP and BD activists had taken to streets demanding their arrest. The state government had succumbed to their pressure tactics and arrested them again on 4 February 2011. On their re-arrest, their family members filed an appeal in Indore bench of MP High Court. On 24 August a Division Bench of the High Court ruled, in response to the family members petition, that their re-arrest (on 4 February) was illegal as they were not given any chance to defend themselves against their re-arrest. it or take loans temporarily from others or use their small savings. Under such circumstances, if an employee does not get his salary for two months, his difficulties can be well understood by other salaried persons, almost all of whom are sailing in the same boat. It may be noted that this Commission (NCMEI) was constituted by the government of India seven years ago, it is for the first time in seven years that its grants have been withheld or delayed for so long. This Commission is almost a quasi judicial body and any appeal against its decisions can be made either in the High Court or Supreme Court, not any court lower than these. It is significant to note that NCMEI has granted minority character status not only to Jamia Millia Islamia but also to Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, Guru Nanakdev College, Guru Gobind Singh College and Mata Sundari College, all of whom are Sikh educational institutions but their grants have not been withheld or delayed. Whereas some political leader like Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (BJP), Dharmendra Yadav, M.P. (S.P.), Abdul Khaliq, general secretary (LJP) expressed their surprise and shock at withholding the grant of the Commission and consequently the salaries of its employees and said that they will take up this matter with higher authorities or if, the need arises, raise this matter in Parliament, Anees Durrani, general secretary of Congress Committees minority cell, while defending the government said withholding of Commissions grant cannot be because of granting of minority status to Jamia but there may be administrative, budgetary or some other reason. (NA Ansari) Counsel for the jailed SIMI members, Santosh Choradia said that these five men would be released on a bail of Rs. 25000 each if the government failed in or delayed issuing a fresh notice and seek their replies within seven days. It may be stated that these five SIMI activists were among the 600 prisoners who were released on 26 January 2011 under an amnesty, because they had completed more than half of their 5-year prison terms. First-ever Kashmir Literary Fest postponed The first ever Kashmir Literary Festival, which was to be held during 24-26 September this year in Srinagar has been cancelled following protest by some people against the event. An attempt was also made to disrupt the literary fest by spreading rumours of Salman Rushdies participation with the help of social networking sites. The postponement of the programme was announced by the organisers after some writers called for a boycott for they believed that the festival would give a false impression about freedom of speech in the troubled Valley. Organisers of the event called off the event with great sadness which they have mentioned in their statement issued recently. Sanjoy Roy, MD Teamworks Production in an interview said that we are horrified that some people threatened to disrupt in the name of free speech and democracy. After announcing the postponement the organisers issued a statement which said, The festival was born out of the best intentions to offer a platform to works by emerging and established writers in Kashmir. But it has been hijacked by those who hold extreme views in the name of free speech. The statement further said, a few people who began the movement to boycott the festival have no qualms in speaking about Kashmir in international forums, but refuse to allow other voices, including writers, poets and theatre people from the valley and across India to enjoy the right to express themselves at the Harud festival. We had invited nearly 30 authors from Jammu and Kashmir and 20 from other parts of India, but it had neither invited nor was planning to invite Salman Rushdie to the festival as was being claimed by a section of Kashmiri writers and common people. Participants from Kashmir and elsewhere were disappointed when they came to know that the Literary Festival has been called off following protest from some section within the literary fraternity. Four sub committees of Central Waqf Council constituted New Delhi: Central Waqf Council which works under the union ministry for minorities affairs has constituted four sub committees for keeping a close watch on its different activities and also to speed up the process of their implementation. The four subcommittees are: Planning and Advisory Committee, Educational and Womens Welfare Committee, Waqf Development Committee and Monitoring Committee. In the 57th meeting of Central Waqf Council held in the beginning of July and chaired by Salman Khurshid, minister for minorities affairs, it was authorised to constitute four sub committees. Each committee will have a president or chairman and 4 members. Justice (Retd.) S. Haidar Abbas has been made the head or president of Planning & Advisory Committee, former I.A.S. officer Yasmeen Ahmad has been made head of Educational and Womens Welfare Committee, Congress M.P., Saifuddin Soz has been appointed head of Waqf Development Committee whereas BJP-MP Syed Shahnawaz Husain has been made head or president of Monitoring Committee which will monitor and coordinate the activities of all other sub-committees. Normally meetings of the Central Waqf Council are held twice a year but meetings of sub committees can be held any time depending upon the need.

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Research on science and Quran
New Delhi: Supreme Courts senior lawyer Wasi Ahmad Nomani on his return to India after attending the 10-day nineteenth International Quran Conference held in Iran said while expressing his views and referring to famous scientists Toll Man and Sir James Jeanss theory of resurrection that according to these scientists (1) when the Day of Judgement will be near, the sun will rise in the west (2) ocean will catch fire (3) moon will swallow the sun and (4) the whole sky will turn red. Wasi Ahmad Nomani said that all these theories have been described in the Quran and Hadeeth about fourteen-and-a-half hundred years ago. Referring to the Hadeeth of Muslim Sharif he said that Prophet (pbuh) had said that the Day of Judgement or doomsday will not come as long as the sun will not rise from the west. Similarly, it is mentioned in Surah Rahman that on Doomsday the entire sky will turn red like red leather (verse No. 37). Referring to Surah Qayamah he said that sun will catch the moon (verse No. 9). With reference to Surah Takveer it was revealed that the sea or ocean will catch fire (verse No. 6) etc. Head of the Research Centre working under Iranian government accepted the suggestion that a Research Centre will be set up in Iran for doing research work on science, Quran and universe and a branch of this Centre will be set up in India also. Mr. Nomani was requested to prepare a paper in this connection and submit it to the Iranian government. NCMEIs authority to grant minority status to Jamia challenged - government files affidavit New Delhi: National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions (NCMEI)s right to grant minority status to Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in February 2011 was challenged by as many as six different parties questioning the authority of NCMEI to grant minority status to this educational institution. Till date four hearings on this case have taken place in Delhi High Court bench of Chief Justice Deepak Mishra and Justice Sanjay Khanna. The first hearing on this case had taken place on 13 March and subsequent hearings were on 18 May, 14 July and the fourth hearing on 1 September. However, irrespective of minority status being challenged, Jamia Millia Islamia University has decided to go ahead with utilising the benefit of minority status and to implement 50 percent quota for Muslim students admission. Central government (HRD ministry) which so for had not expressed its views on NCMEIs verdict of granting minority status to Jamia filed its affidavit in Delhi High Court on 1 September. Its affidavit was first examined by law ministry from all legal angles and then approved for being filed in the High Court. Its contents are not known but according to reliable sources it is understood that it has taken a positive stand on NCMEIs verdict. Lawyers of parties challenging this verdict were led by senior advocate K.K. Roy who, while opposing NCMEIs verdict, said that it (NCMEI) has no authority to grant minority status to JMI, in fact any university. He said, representing the lawyers of challenging parties that NCMEI had granted minority status to JMI University because of political pressure and hence the High Court should reject this verdict. The challenging lawyers had also argued that JMIs case should be decided on the pattern of Aziz Bashas petition in favour of Aligarh Muslim Universitys minority character which was rejected by Allahabad High Courts onejudge bench and which is now in the Supreme Court. It may be stated that so far only the lawyers of challenging parties have argued their case against NCMEIs verdict and defence lawyers have not yet argued in favour of this verdict. The case is therefore going on and the next hearing of this case is fixed for 12 September. Foreign money for demolition of Babri Masjid? New Delhi: CBI, which is enquiring into the demolition of Babri Masjid, is reported to have got some clues, rather proofs, which indicate that foreign money was received through hawala for demolishing this mosque in December 1992. It is now collecting and collating such proofs to come to a definite conclusion. In this connection CBI had a number of meetings with home ministry officials. It is also seeking the help of other investigating and secret agencies including enforcement directorate, Liberhan Commissions report. It has proposed a list of 49 witnesses and the statements of most of them have been recorded including that of I.P.S. Officer Anju Gupta. Some other witnesses whose statements have been recorded are: Hanuman Prasad who is the first witness, R.K. Swamy, CRPFs deputy commandant, Muhammad Aslam and others. According to reliable sources, CBI is expected to finalise its report on this subject by 15 September 11 and submit it to the home ministry. High Court maintains status quo on Noor Masjid New Delhi: Delhi High Court while hearing on 4 August the case of demolition of Noor Masjid in Jungpura maintained status quo of its earlier verdict that only 10 persons can be allowed to offer namaz inside the premises of the demolished mosque. In the very beginning of the hearing RWAs lawyer R.K. Saini said in the Court that in continuous violation of Courts earlier order, Muslims in much larger numbers were offering namaz inside the mosque. Showing a photo to the Court he said that Muslims offering namaz in much larger numbers than fixed by this court can be seen in this photo who are offering namaz. He also said in the court that the day this mosque (Noor Masjid) was demolished, next day Shahi Imam Syed Ahmad Bukhari, Shoaib Iqbal and Asif Muhammad Khan reached the spot and demolished the boundary walls. Not only this, they also raised the slogan of Hindustan Murdabad and Pakistan Zindabad. After hearing the prosecutions lawyer, Justice Inderjit Kochar

Complaint lodged with police against Kiran Bedis biased attitude

New Delhi: Social activist and retired lady Supercop Mrs. Kiran Bedis biased attitude and remarks at a Muslim lady was surprising and unbecoming of her. This happened when a social worker and advocate of Meerut (Ms.) Shaheen Parvez went to Ram Lila Maidan on 25 August where Anna Hazare was on hunger strike. She wanted to meet him through Kiran Bedi and request him to end his hunger strike because she was worried about his health. She in fact had written a letter to Anna on 22 August to the effect that she too is very much against corruption and he (Anna) being an asset for the country his life is very precious for the country so he should end his hunger strike lest something untoward may happen to him. But when she did not receive any response on telephone or through any other quick means of communication she herself came to Delhi to meet him and personally impress upon him the need to end his hunger strike at the earliest. She sent her visiting card to Kiran Bedi through one Rajiv, a supporter of Anna. According to Shaheen Parvez, Kiran Bedi met and spoke to her politely but when she came to know her name through the visiting card, her attitude suddenly changed and she said in a harsh voice that we do no want the support of Muslims for this movement. Sometimes you people oppose Vande Mataram and many of you oppose this movement on the ground that communal and self-centred elements are behind this movement and also advance strange and illogical arguments for not participating in this movement. Shaheen also said that many others participating in this movement reached there because of which she got very scared and came out of Ram Lila ground. It may also be stated in this connection that only about a couple of days earlier Kiran Bedi and Annas supporters had met Imam Bukhari at his residence to seek his and Muslims support for this movement but the Imam had refused to join Annas movement saying that inside and outside Ram Lila Maidan instead of slogans against summoned the areas S.H.O. Ram Kumar and after reprimanding him asked how and why more than 10 Muslims are offering namaz here? The S.H.O. told the Court that the opposite partys lawyer is making false and baseless accusations. Noor Charitable Trusts lawyer Muhammad Sajid told the Court that the opposite party has taken the photo in such a manner that people offering namaz outside the mosque have been shown as if they are offering namaz inside the premises of the demolished mosque. He said that there is no violation of Courts order and not more than 10 persons offer namaz inside the mosque. DDAs lawyer Rajiv Bansal told the court that DDA is ready to allot 400 yards of land to the Muslim community. Prosecution/government lawyer said that allotment of land has been finalised and very soon it will be given to the Muslim community. Muhammad Sajid, Trusts lawyer confirmed this in the court but said that arrangements for money have not yet been made. We want that the amount (cost of land) may be reduced or it may be accepted in installments. After hearing the arguments of lawyers of both parties, the court repeated its earlier order that only 10 persons can offer namaz inside the mosque and that no namaz will be offered outside the mosque. Cases against over 5000 Muslims registered in Bhopal Bhopal: About a month ago when communal riots had erupted in Moradabad, Police had got an excuse to register cases against hundreds of Muslims. A similar case has now taken place in Bhopal where police has registered cases against about 5000 accused/non-accused persons on 10 August under cases of arson, loot, stone pelting and attempt to murder. As always happens, in this case also the majority is of Muslims but surprisingly national media did not even report this news. It may be stated that police has registered cases against many residents of Bhopals Muslim majority area Islampura. Not only this, while combing Muslim populated areas, police arrested people on a large scale because of which there is an atmosphere of fear and terror in Muslim localities. According to local newspapers, after slinging of mud by a cyclist in Old Bhopals Atwara locality there was a clash between two religious groups and in no time groups of youth belonging to the two communities armed with weapons came face to face. They set fire to many houses. As the police reached there to control the situation, the crowd not only pelted stones at the police but also fired at them as a result of which north Zones Abhay Singh was seriously injured. Enraged at this, the local police in revenge registered cases against five thousand persons of whom large majority is of Muslims. Even a week after this incident there is an atmosphere of great fear and terror in Muslim localities. People have accused the police of working and acting at the behest of states BJP government. Ministry of Social Justice refuses SC quota for converts The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has turned down the plea of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) to give reservation to Christians and Muslims of Scheduled Caste origin. Earlier in March this year the Gujarat High Court had rejected a plea filed by a converted Christian seeking reservation benefit which was given to him earlier as a corruption, slogans of Vande Mataram were being raised on all sides and because of their religious beliefs, Muslims cant raise this slogan. Anyway, Shaheen Parvez was very disappointed and dejected at Kiran Bedis attitude and remarks and she lodged a complaint at Kamla Market police station near Ajmeri Gate. In her complaint she wrote that an innocent and Gandhian Anna Hazareji is being morally pressurised to commit suicide. His life is in danger and deliberate attempts are being made to conspire his murder. Some told, some newspaper correspondents that this incident had greatly shocked her and put great mental strain on her. Police sources confirmed that such a complaint has been lodged and action is being taken on it. In a meeting held at All India Imams Associations office the participants expressed sorrow and disappointment that the sincerity with which Anna Hazare had started his movement against corruption is now lacking and it appears that he has become a tool in the hands of some communalists and their organisations. That is why in his movement now, slogans of Vande Mataram and Bharat Mata ki jai ho are echoing. It was also stated that a good number of Muslims are also participating and they also have to raise slogans of Vande Mataram which otherwise they dont like to utter. Hence, instead of corruption hatao, it appears to have become a movement of firqa parasti badhao (promote communalism) from which Muslims should keep a distance. It was also felt in this meeting that Sangh elements have taken control of this movement and seeing the large number of Muslim participants these elements are now working to pollute their religious belief by making them (Muslims) raise this slogan. Some speakers also said that many leaders of Sangh and its outfits and business houses are themselves corrupt so their support and participation in this movement is not to eradicate corruption but only to promote communalism. (NA Ansari) Scheduled Caste Hindu. The Ministry in its letter to NCSC on 2 February 2011 had stated its position on the issue as the ministry feels that the decision of the NCSC taken in its meet on 22 April 2010 seems to be internally inconsistent. The ministry has asked the Commission to reconsider its view on the subject and inform the ministry. Justice Ranganath Mishra favoured giving of reservation benefits to socially backwards who converted to other religions. In other words the recommendation of the Ranganath Mishra Commission was that the Scheduled Caste converts to Christianity and Islam should be provided with reservations in education and government jobs based on their Scheduled Caste status. Ministry while replying to a RTI filed by Franklin Caesar accepted that the NCSC did not have any internal inconsistencies on extending SC status to Christians and Muslims. Shehla Masood case: CBI probe ordered Bhopal: The Bhopal CBI has registered the case and will now conduct investigation in the high profile murder of Shehla Masood. Yatendra Koyal, SP (CBI) confirmed that the CBI had registered a case. SIT has been constituted to investigate the matter. The team has collected the case diary from the local police. A Police source said that the cloned data base of Shehla Masoods laptop would be handed over to the CBI. The police has not been able to make much headway in the matter. Meanwhile IT department has been approached to provide Tax returns of the past five years. This, according to police sources, is a common practice in such cases so as to provide some clues. Shehlas family is still in a state of shock and fears that the family is being closely watched and chased. Her father Masood Sultan, has been advised by well wishers to keep a low profile lest it would be a further security risk. Four persons riding on two bikes had arrived to their Koh-i-Fiza residence. They asked their neighbours to bring them a glass of water which the maid servant fetched for them. Police is trying to collect clues from a few eye witnesses. BJP top brass is perturbed over Tarun Vijays name being involved in the case. Nitin Gadkari feels that he should no longer be allowed to continue as party spokesperson Anotehr BJP M.P., Anil Madhav Dave, expressed surprise on his name being dragged in the case. Interlocutor favours free movement between India and Pakistan Interlocutor M.M Ansari has called for free movement of men and material in order to expand foreign trade and cultural relations between the two neighbouring countries of India and Pakistan. On the issue of parts of occupied territory of Kashmir he said that a negotiational settlement needs to be worked out and before that the LoC must be treated as a line on the map and the people on the either side of the border must be allowed to move freely. By doing so the emotional loss due to separation of families suffered during and after partition can be taken care of. The interlocutor also divulged that the panel may meet Hurriyat leaders who are reluctant to talk during their forthcoming visit. Ansari said that the demands of the Hurriyat and other separatist like withdrawal of AFSPA, de-militarization of Jammu and Kashmir, issues pertaining to human rights violation are to some extent justified and efforts can be made to resolve the issues under the peace settlement.

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Kasaragod riot was pre-planned: Police
Crime Branch of the Kerala police after its investigation into Kasaragod violence on 15 November 2009, in which one person was killed, has said that it was pre-planned by the workers of the Muslim League in order to provoke communal riots. The Muslim League has reacted sharply over this report by saying that party workers were victims of the clash and police firing and said that Judicial Commission headed by Judge Nissar presented the report based on the statements of the police officials. The Oommen Chandy Government had last month dissolved the judicial commission sparking off charges that this was done due to pressure from the Muslim League. There are also reports that the Judicial Commission was dissolved to hamper the probe in order to save the Muslim League. Muslim League is the second largest party in the ruling Congress-led UDF in Kerala. Ramdas Pothen, the then SP in Kasaragod and DySP KV Raghuraman, had told the Commission that Muslim Leagus cadres had indulged in violence with the intention of igniting communal riots. In a retaliatory mode, Pothen fired at the rioters in which one parson got killed. Another person was stabbed to death during the clashes. Muslim League has rejected the statement of Pothen and Raghuraman. Miffed by the report that the Muslim League cadre was guilty and has been charged with preplanned violence, some unidentified people pelted stones at the house of Justice Nisar at Kannur on 11 August. Kerala government had dissolved the Commission after having decided to pay ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh to the family of the victim killed during police firing. The CBI is likely to probe Kasargod police firing incident of November 2009. Kerala High Court has allowed the state government to withdraw the appeal filed by the last government against a single bench order for CBI probe into the incident. Two Malegaon blast accused acquitted Indore: Shivnarayan Kalasangra and Shyam Sahu were given a heros welcome on their arrival at their hometown Shajapur after their acquittal in the Malegaon blast case. The ATS failed to provide any evidence of their involvement. Shyam Sahu said that he was innocent and was falsely implicated in the case. Recalling his arrest on 18 October 2008 he said that he was picked up and brought to Sonkatch, for interrogation, where he learnt about the arrest of Dilip Nahar and Dharmendra Bairagi. Former ATS chief had enquired about Ramji Kalsangra from him. Sahu apprised Karkare of his past acquaintance with Ramji as shakha colleague. Ramji used to buy recharge coupons from his mobile shop. He further apprised of his business partnership. He pleaded ignorance of any other activity and the last time he met Ramji on 2008 Dashehara. The ATS had promised to release him if he gave clues about the absconders. He also accepted that he had met Sandeep Dange 6-7 years ago but he did not know about Sunil Joshi and Pragya Singh. Shivnarayan Kaslangra also pleaded ignorance in the entire affair and said that he was falsely implicated by the ATS in the matter simply because he happened to be Ramjs brother. He pleaded that he was not even aware of Malegaons location in Maharashtra. He also said that he did not know Sunil Joshi. When interrogated by ATS he had informed that he met Ramji last on 10 October 2008. Later on he was arrested by ATS on 15 October 2008. Fatwa likely against Farooq Abdullah over blasphemy Large scale protest over Farooq Abdullahs blasphemous remarks has put tremendous pressure on the grand Mufti Bashiruddin of Kashmir to issue a fatwa against him. Farooq Abdullah while addressing an audience at the IIM Ahmedabad on 25 August said, the present month is the month of Ramadhan, when we received the holy book, The Qur'an, from Ram. This Ram I mean is Viwakaram. This ram is Modis Ram and this Ram is my Ram. Apart from this he also said that the day when I see Allah in Modis eyes and Bhagwan in my eyes, India will grow. Farooq was at that point of time sharing the panel with Narendra Modi. Farooq Abdullah in order to clarify his remarks has issued a statement that he never doubted or questioned Muslims belief. I wish to categorically reassert that I had at no point of time made any reference to the holy Quran being revealed to anybody other than Prophet Mohammad (SAW). On Eid day, several Imams of Kashmir demanded a Fatwa against Farooq Abdullah. Hurriyat spokesperson while reacting to Farooqs remarks said that nothing else can be expected from him because his entire family left Islam long ago. People in Kashmir doubt that a Fatwa against him will come for the reason that most of the clergy are on the payroll of the government run

Why Anna broke fast at the hands of Dalit and Muslim girls
New Delhi: Five-year-old Simran, a Dalit girl of Sundar Nagri locality and a student of class I and 8-year-old Iqra of Turkman Gate area and a student of Class IV in a government school in Darya Ganj, were the focus of attention of the media and vast crowd at Ram Lila Maidan on Sunday 28 August at around 10.15 in the morning when they jointly offered a glass f coconut-waterand-honey mixture to Anna Hazare to break his 12-day anshan (fast) or hunger strike, a tool or rather a black mailing strategy by famous persons to compel those in authority to accept their demand/s. And this strategy has very often succeeded. The secret behind selecting dalit and Muslim girl children for feeding Anna to break his fast appears to be because many people were not happy with Anna Hazares crusade against corruption, the virus that has pervaded almost every field of public service. These people are certainly not against the campaign of rooting out corruption but they are, or were against the way Hazareji was leading this campaign and the people and organisations who were supporting and financing his campaign. There were criticisms that Annaji did not include many sections of Indian-society in his compaign or they did not participate in the campaign because of his previous records, that he himself was not quite impartial in his views and dealings. Some political leaders like Sharad Yadav and Lalu Prasad Yadav had accused Hazares campaign in the parliament of not representing the people belonging to minority, Dalit and backward communities. Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmad Bukhari had publicly asked why Anna Hazare was silent and did not utter a single word against Modi when genocide of Muslims and state sponsored terrorism against Muslims was being carried on in Gujarat in February-March 2002? Some others also asked why he was keeping mum when dalits were being oppressed in Maharashtra and why he had not taken up their cause? Maulana Bukhari had Jammu and Kashmir Wakf Board. Jaya mobilising against Communal Violence Bill In an effort to mobilise support against the Communal Violence Bill the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalita has asked the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister to oppose the Communal Violence Bill on the ground that the present format of the Bill will give the Centre an upper hand against the states in the name of tackling organised communal and targeted violence. Jayalalita in a letter has said that the bill in its present form is an attempt by the Centre to bypass the state governments, leaving the state governments powerless and totally at the mercy of the Central government. It is also an attempt to keep the state governments under constant threat of removal and therefore all state governments must oppose it to the fullest extent possible. Earlier, the Bill was opposed by the BJP and VHP for one or the other reason. The VHP has termed the Bill as anti Hindu and discriminatory. Pravin Togadia has recently said that an individual is innocent as long the court does not pronounce him guilty. The government is making a law by assuming that all Hindus are criminals. BJP leader Arun Jaitely also protested it earlier by saying that it is a dangerous and discriminatory bill which presumes that the majority community always perpetrate communal violence. also publicly asked Annaji to demand the arrest of Narendra Mod for presiding over the genocide of Muslims in his state. When Anna was observing anshan, one of his active campaigners, Mrs. Shehla Masood, who was to lead a demonstration against corruption and in support of Anna Hazare, was mysteriously murdered just before leading the demonstration. But neither Anna himself nor any of his active supporters uttered a single word of condemnation of her murder nor any word in her sympathy. The way he was insisting on only his Jan Lok Pal Bill being passed by the Parliament and not the one proposed by government had made many legal experts suspicious of his campaign. They also did not like the victory and supremacy of mobocracy over that of democratically elected Parliament as far as the passage of this bill or any bill is concerned. Hence they were lukewarm and even indifferent in their support to Annas campaign. Supporters of Anna had probably come to know about some influential peoples and political leaders criticism of people belonging to minority, Dalit and backward communities being ignored in this campaign. Hence, in order to right this wrong or lapse, either deliberately or inadvertently, they thought of including Dalit and Muslim girls for the important and media-glare show of offering the concoction to Anna Hazare for breaking his fast. It is for this reason that in the nick of time i.e. in the morning of 28 August only their parents were approached by team Anna and told that their children have been selected to jointly offer the concoction to Annaji to break his fast. Their parents were obviously too glad for this honour being done to their children. It is reported that the names, addresses and percentage of these girl children were promintly announced to highlight their identity. This may be the secret behind Dalit and Muslim girls being selected for offering coconut water and honey to Annaji for ending his hunger strike. (NA Ansari) Assembly Speaker C.P. Singh, Union minister for tourism Subodh Kant Sahai and other dignitaries were present. National song is a symbol of communalism New Delhi: Arundhati Roy, the controversial authoress and novelist who writes in English and who won the Booker Prize and has made many controversial statements for which she is facing court cases has raised a storm by saying that the national song Vande Mataram and Indias national flag are symbols of communalism. In a T.V. talk show she said that Rabindranath Tagore had stated way back in 1937 that this national song is not good because it serves to divide people. She said that this song has a long history of communalism. In view of this when one sings this song, what does it, and what should it mean, she asked. She further said that when one raises slogans against colonialism with the national flag in hand it means something else but when we are free, by singing this song or raising Vande Mataram slogan with national flag in our hands, we do not unite but divide people. About Anna Hazares movement against corruption she said that this movement of his (Hazares) was peaceful because police was afraid and did not resort to lathi charge. She further said that in the first stage of this movement Bharat Matas portrait was put up on the stage but in the second stage this portrait was replaced by Gandhijis portrait. She further said that there were many things on the stage which were very dangerous. The author of the novel God of Small Things asked: can you ever imagine that after his hunger strike Gandhiji would have gone to a private hospital for his treatment? Such hospitals (private) are symbols of exploitation of poor people and patients, which fleece them or deprive them of their right of treatment, she said. Describing Anna Hazare an empty vessel, she said that he is like an empty pot in which one can fill water according to his wishes. Govt cannot make Gita compulsory in schools: HC Bangalore: Karnataka High Court in a direction to the state government said that it cannot make reading or teaching of Gita compulsory in schools. High Courts direction to the government was in response to petitions by the states minority educational institutions challenging state governments plan to make reading of Gita compulsory in schools and saying that this scheme of the government will violate the rights of minorities. The state government however clarified that reading of Bhagwad Gita in schools has not been made compulsory. It may be stated that minorities and secular-minded people had strongly opposed this scheme of the state government. Kishanganga Hydel project beneficial to both sides Srinagar: Setting aside all apprehensions about Kishanganga Hydel project, chief minister Omar Abdullah has said both parts of Jammu and Kashmir across the Line of Control want to take advantage of it and the part that builds the project first would get best benefits. It is for this reason that governments in Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Kashmir want us to delay the project, said Omar while responding to a query during a press conference here, August 28, adding under Indus Water Treaty theyve lost the case. He stated care has been taken to safeguard the environment and tribes of Gurez while formulating and modifying the project. (Afsana Rashid)

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BJP raises a storm over Jharkhand governors oath Jamshedpur: Jharkhands new Governor, Dr. Syed Ahmad who was sworn in on 4 September, took the oath of office in the name of Allah. The States ruling Bhartiya Janta Party raised a storm over this and criticising him for this said that this thing is totally against the Constitution and Dr. Ahmad should again be administered the oath of office under Art 159 of the Constitution. Addressing a press conference here on 5 September, former president of BJPs state unit and former deputy chief minister of Jharkhand, Raghuvar Das said that by taking this oath he has violated the Constitution. Reacting to such objection and criticism, many Muslim leaders defended the governor and criticised the BJP. Anees Durrani of AICCs minority cell asked that in our Constitution when the words Ishwar and God are used, why cant Allah be used? Kamal Farooqi, S.P. leader defending the governor and describing BJP as an enemy of the Constitution said that what Dr. Syed Ahmad has done is perfectly legal and Constitutional and in a retort asked when in Parliament oath can be taken in the name of Ishwar, Bhagwan and god, why cant the oath be taken in Raj Bhavan in the name of Allah? AIMM Mushawarats general secretary Ilyas Malik. Jamat-e Islamis secretary Maulana Ahmad also asked the same questions of the BJP while defending the T HE M ILLI G AZETTE governor. D-84, Abul Fazl Enclave-I, Jamia Nagar, At the time of his New Delhi-110025 India Tel.: (+91-11) 2694 swearing in ceremony, 7483 Email: mg@milligazette.com Jharkhands chief minister Arjun Munda,

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Wakf properties: transparency caught in a web Hyderabad: In a move aimed at transparency, a senior officer in the AP State Wakf Board prepared and posted district-wise lists of wakf properties/institutions on the internet seven years ago. There were over 35,000 properties listed. This information was also printed in booklets, one for each district, and was put up on public sale. But today, the Wakf Board has exhausted the books. Whats more, it has pulled out almost all the data from its website. There is no official explanation forthcoming on why this has happened. When queried unofficially, Wakf Board officials claim that the information was being misused by vested interests. A weird logic, but officials reason that with details in public domain, racketeers who were earlier oblivious of where the wakf properties were, started encroaching on them. Some even began fabricating false disputes and approaching courts. Wakf properties which were given away for charity have no individual owners. So racketeers know that if they encroach upon them, no individual would rush to take up the cudgels. This emboldens them, claims a Wakf Board official. But analysts point out that the reverse is more likely to work. So long as there is transparency and everybody knows where the properties are, at least there can be some public monitoring. But if this information is away from public domain, then racketeers can have a field day especially with the support of some unscrupulous officials of the Wakf Board, an analyst said. Special chief secretary Md Shafiquzzaman, who while serving at the Wakf Board had made the data public. He said that the number of properties/institutions registered with the Wakf Board was about 35,400 at that time. But documents for over 1000 of them were not found with the board. Therefore, we had decided to make use of the available data and put it on the webpage. Minority dept official to focus on wakf properties Hyderabad: The minority welfare department (MWD) will be holding a meeting with the State Wakf Board soon to find out how best the critical issue of the board and the government laying claim to the same properties could be resolved. According to sources, most of the wakf properties have either been taken over by the government or it has laid claim on them. The SWB and the revenue departments have to be reconciled. This is one of the most crucial areas one has to tread on. We will try to work out a way to tackle this problem, Mohammed Ali Rafat who took over as the new secretary of the MWD said. AMU security enhanced

Shehla Masood: RTI activist silenced forever

There has been no breakthrough in the Shehla murder case as of now. Masood, who was a prominent Right to Information Activist, was shot dead outside her residence while on the way to attend anti-corruption campaign in support of Anna Hazare at the Bhopal Club on 16 August. Murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood continues to be shrouded in mystery as it gets more entangled with each passing day. Initially, police claimed it to be a suicide case. With intense pressure from all quarters the probe was handed over to CBI. Later on CBI took up the investigation and during the process of investigation has revealed that police tampered with her mobile phone and made a number of calls from her mobile after her death. Not only this, CBI has also found some crucial evidence from Shehlas car, which was earlier not traced or ignored by the Bhopal police. It is believed that Shehla had threatened to expose wide spread corruption in the state machinery days before her murder. There are also reports that Shehla had earlier informed the authorities about the threat to her life from a senior police officer. At the time of her death, Masood was waiting for replies to over 40 RTIs she had filed in different departments of the state government. Masood had also filed many controversial RTIs related to income tax details about BJP Rajya Sabha MP Anil Madhav Dave and his NGO. In 2008, Shehla had also made a written complaint about been advised not to provide shelter to any outsider, otherwise disciplinary action will be taken against them. Check posts have been established on Bab-e-Syed, Purani Chungi, Sir Syed House, Allama Iqbal Hall, Medical College Gate, near the gate of the Proctors Office, on the road leading to Dhorra, Tuti Boundary Jamalpur and on the way of Aftab Hall to keep a close watch on all the routes leading to the campus. Security personnel will be deputed on all the check-posts round the clock. Assistant Proctors and Deputy Proctors will monitor the security arrangements on regular basis. The University campus has been divided into four sectors and security personnel have been deployed permanently for eight hours on all four halls in each sectors. Plain cloth security personnel will also be deputed. Harassment to Muslim youths Hyderabad: In order to maintain law and order during Ganesh Festival, state police has started arresting innocent Muslim youths simply on suspicion and as a precautionary measure. After the incident of communal violence in Adhoni, a number of innocent Muslim youths have been arrested from that town. After the incident of minor damage caused to Ganesh idol at Madannapet in the city, police has arrested many innocent Muslim youths in Hyderabad also. They are being tortured by the police. After arresting the youths, police is not informing their family members which is a gross violation of the instructions issued earlier by the Human Rights Commission. The Minority Community is feeling insecure by these actions of the state Police. Adoni incident, BJP demands action against police Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party has urged the state government to take action against the police officials who remained mute spectators during the violent incidents which occurred at Adoni. It alleged that the police failed in taking timely action for preventing the violence and demanded to arrest leaders of MIM and Peoples Front who incited local youth for burning incidents. Clashes had broken out between two groups in Adoni on 5 September and continued next day despite the police pickets and imposition of curfew. The clash started when a group tried to take out a Ganesh procession in front of a mosque on the Langarbavi street. As the row turned violent, the police had to fire in the air and impose a curfew. Next day, mobs went on a looting spree targeting shops and residences, ignoring police pickets. A riot broke out when one group pelted stones on the other at Buddekallu street. The police had to again open fire in the air. Three people, identified as Habib, Hussain and Nagi Reddy, as well as another unidentified person were injured in knife attacks. Another 30 were injured in stone-pelting. The riots spread to the Methur mosque area, Avudoodavanka, Boyagiri, Nijamuddin Colony, Chwkimatam and Kajipura. Rioters set two mini-lorries and a house on fire. The police had to resort to lathicharge to bring the situation under control. Meanwhile, a delegation of the Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen, led by the party floor leader, Mr Akbaruddin Owaisi, met the Chief Minister and urged immediate action. Iftar party for Rickshaw-pullers by HWT New Delhi: Human Welfare Foundation, a national NGO working to uplift weaker sections of the society educationally, economically and socially, organised an Iftar Party for rickshaw-pullers and labourers of Okhla area on 27 August. A total of 550 rickshaw pullers and labourers of Okhla attended this party at the Milli Model School. Apart from inviting rickshaw-pullers and labourers to the iftar, the other aim is to give them some important message of Islam and promote them to practice Islam in their lives and become harassment and threatening calls at the Citys Maharana Pratap Nagar Police Station. Family members of Shehla have claimed that Shehla had told them that a BJP MP Anil Dave was her biggest enemy. Police and CBI may also question BJP MP Tarun Vijay because phone records show that he talked to Shehla before she got killed. Tarun Vijay while defending his position at a press conference in Delhi said that Shehla was a very good friend and she was associated with many programmes of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Foundation as an event manager. He further said that it is natural that those in contact with her may be questioned. During the process of investigation CBI recreated the scenes to investigate it further or to find some clue or leads that can help them to nab the killers. The CBI is contemplating to exhume the body of Shehla Masood. BJP MLA from Bhopal Dhruv Narayan Singh, who is also the son of former late chief minister Govind Narayan Singh, has been questioned about his relationship with Masood. Taking note of the online petition filed by Lenin Raghuvanshi a human right activist from Varanasi the National Human Rights Commission has asked the Director General of Police of Madhya Pradesh to give a report within four weeks. The Madhya Pradesh government has announced a reward of Rs one lakh for providing any clue about her murderers. Surprisingly there has been no word from Anna Hazare on the Shehla murder case. She died while on her way to join the corruption campaign launched in support of Anna Hazare in Bhopal. Shehla headed the Madhya Pradesh chapter of the Anna Hazare-led anti corruption campaign. (Mohammad Naushad Khan)

Aligarh: Aligarh Muslim University has tightened its internal security system so that the campus may be made fully secure from outsiders and anti-social elements. University Proctor, Prof. Mujahid Beg said that all students, teachers and staff of the University will be provided fool-proof security in the campus. Several new check-posts have been established to monitor entrance of the people in the campus. All halls of residence have been provided security. At the same time all the students have

more neat and clean and live hygienic life which is an important requirement in Islam. HWF also distributed Kurta and Pajama on this occasion to these rickshaw pullers and labourers so that they can wear new clothes on Eid and enjoy the festival as common people. HWF has reached an agreement with the manager of Indian Bank in the area to open zero balance saving accounts for rikshaw pullers with minimum documents along with ATM facilities. HWF also distributes rickshaws to rickshaw pullers in collaboration with its affiliates NGO HWF. The rickshaw distribution programme is under self-employment scheme and the purpose is to make the rickshaw pullers self dependent and by this way they earn little extra money. Custodial death: a Muslim womans struggle for justice Chennai: Hasan Ammals husband was tortured to death in police custody in 2005. She couldnt even get the body as it was disposed of by the law-enforcers. She vowed to get justice and it is her relentless strive that she did get justice six years later. This past July, Madras High Court ordered the Tamil Nadu Government to pay her Rs 7.8 lakh in compensation and prosecute 11 policemen found involved in the killing of Muhammad Masud, Ammals husband. Ammal and her husband were residents of Kadiyanallur, Thenkasi Taluk in Tirunelveli District of Tamil Nadu. The Kadiyanallur police officials took away Masud on 28 November 2005 at 4 pm from his residence and he never returned home. He was handed over to the Aralvoimozhi Police. The Kadiyanallur Police also took in custody Ammals brother and her sisters husband at 12 oclock midnight the same day. Later they were sent to Aralvoimozhi Police Station. The inspector of the Aralvoimozhi Police Station obtained a statement forcibly by threatening them. Next day (29 November 2005) at about 9 pm they were sent back home. But the police did not show Masud. When her wife asked, they informed her that they would send him back safely. But Masud never reached home. Days and months passed and there was no response from the police officials about the whereabouts of her husband. Then Ammal filed a case in the Madurai bench of Madras High Court in 2006 seeking a direction for production of her husband. Based on the submission made by the Public Prosecutor that a man missing case was registered in Cr. No. 391 of 2006 on the file of the Kadayanallur Police Station relating to Masud, the case was disposed of on 09 August 2006 with a direction to the inspector of Kadayanallur PS to trace the husband of the petitioner and to proceed with the investigation. The 11 guilty police officials have already been suspended, he added. The officers include one Addl. DSP, two DSPs, one Inspector and one Sub Inspector. (Excerpted from twocircles.net)

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Sikh delegation meets Salman Khurshid

Fight against D voter syndrome in Assam

Citizens Right Preservation Committee (CRPC) of Assam which is fighting for the cause of Bengali speaking people, particularly Muslims held a National Convention in Delhis Constitutional Club on 6 September to highlight their difficulties to the people. Addressing the audience in this Convention Jamiatul Ulama Chief Maulana Arshad Madni, describing the problem of D voters as the product of communalist mentality said that no citizen of the country can be denied his fundamental rights. He said that in Assam any person calls a person as doubtful and on this basis government officials put him in the list of D i.e. doubtful voters and deprive him of his voting rights. This tendency is very dangerous for democracy, he said. He scoffed at Assam Governors statement in which he had stated that every day 6000 Bangladeshis enter illegally in Assam. He said that after Independence the virus of communalism is eating away the country and they (communalists) have harmed Muslims at every level. With reference to D voters he said that there are many cases in which inspite of all proofs, because of improper or absence of arguments in courts they are unable to remove the label of D voters. He said that not only Muslims but non-Muslims also are victims of this. He also said that only today (6 Sept.) he had a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Qureshi on this topic who assured him of seriously considering this matter. He said that in Assam this problem is not new but has been lingering for the past 40 or 50 years when Bangladesh even did not exist and ever since then Jamiatul Ulama has been fighting against this trend. He said that for providing legal assistance to such people, Jamiatul Ulama has constituted panels of lawyers to fight their cases. LJP President Ram Vilas Paswan said while speaking in this Convention that whatever is happening with Bangali Musilms in Assam is because of communalists mentality. Congress M.P. Maulana Asrarul Haque Qasmi said that in Assam on the pretext of Bangladeshi, the attitude of administration towards Bengali speaking Hindus and Muslims is such against which people in the whole country should raise their voice. In addition to these people, many others like Samajwadi Party, secretary Kamal Farooqi, Maghalayas former minister and MLA, Manas Chaudhary, Welfare Party of Indias Qasim Rasool Ilyas, Vasudev Acharya, Comrade Noorul Hoda also expressed their views. It may be stated about the background of this Convention that Citizens Right Preservation Committee (CRPC) of Assam, an organisation formed in 1979 under the leadership of Kalipada Sen, a famous lawyer of Gauhati High Court (who was killed in 1986 by extremist elements of Assam) to fight for the cause of native Bengali speaking people of Assam who were facing harassment and victimisation for being foreigners and nonAssamese by local people organised this Convention in Delhi on 6 September to highlight their difficulties and sufferings to media in November 2009. In the same year, the film was also selected for the film festivals held in United States, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, Israel, Spain and China in quick successions. In January 2010, the film was screened in Dhaka and Kuwait, and in February 2010 was selected for Vesoul Asian FF, France. (ummid.com) 2 Sanatan Sanstha men get 10 years RI in blasts case Two members of the Hindu revivalist group, Sanatan Sanstha, convicted for their role in bomb attacks in the Mumbai Metropolitan region in 2008, were sentenced to 10 years rigorous imprisonment by a sessions court here on 30 August. Ramesh Gadkari and Vikram Bhave, who were found guilty on several counts under the stringent Explosive Substances Act, Explosives Act, Damage to Public Properties Act and the Indian Penal Code, were sentenced on each ground, for their role in two of the three blasts in Panvel, Thane and Vashi. Looking at the circumstantial evidence, possessions, accuseds presence at the spot and their behaviour during the relevant period, Gadkari and Bhave are held guilty for carrying out blasts in Thane and Vashi auditorium, Sessions Judge N V Nhavkar said in the order. The accused were also fined Rs 9,500 each. The sessions court acquitted four other accused - Mangesh Nikam, Santosh Angre, Haribhau Divekar and Hemant Chalke - for lack of evidence and the prosecutions failure to prove the charges. Most importantly, the accused were absolved of all charges levelled under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. They have lived with the stigma of being identified as terrorists for three years. The court today declared they are not terrorists, said defence lawyer Sanjeev Punalekar. Gujarat gov. appoints Lokayukta, govt moves HC against it Gandhinagar: In an unprecedented move, Gujarat governor Kamla appointed retired judge Justice R A Mehta as the state Lokayukta bypassing the state government, which swiftly challenged the decision in the high court. The governors decision of late 25 August night stoked a potential confrontation with the Narendra Modi government which had dithered on the issue of appointment of a Lokayukta for seven-and-a-half years. The governor said she cannot remain a mute spectator to the happenings in the state.

New Delhi: A high-powered Sikh delegation under the leadership of S. Paramjit Singh Sarna, President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and Shiromani Akali Dal, Delhi, met Union Minister of Law, Justice & Minority Affairs, Salman Khurshid on 8 September 2011 in connection with the enactment of Anand Marriage Act. The delegation informed the minister about the wave of resentment amongst the Sikh diaspora after his statement in Parliament in respect of Anand Marriage Act. Sarna said Minister of Law was also informed that the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi had assured the demand of the Sikh community for enactment of the Anand Marriage Act soon and the former Minister of Law Veerappa Moily too had issued a statement that the department of law has cleared the proposal of Anand Marriage Act and after the approval of the cabinet, process for enactment of law would be completed. Sarna said that during discussion with the delegation, it was also understood that there are forces conspiring against the enactment of Anand Marriage Act due to which it has been delayed. Sarna said that it was conveyed to the Minister that his statement without thoroughly going through the records of the ministry has severely hurt the sentiments of the Sikh community. Sarna said that the Minister of Law accepted that the Akali MPs have raised the question of Anand Marriage Act in the Parliament in a very casual manner, to which he (Minister) replied without going through the previous records and he feels sorry if his reply in the Parliament has hurt the feelings of the Sikhs. Mr. Sarna said that Law Minister gave a patient hearing to the delegation and thereafter assured them that since he too belongs to a minority community, he can better understand feelings of the Sikhs. The Minister assured that the demand for the enactment of Anand Marriage Act shall be fulfilled soon by getting the Anand Marriage Bill passed by the Parliament. The delegation included a number of Sikh dignitaries like S. Harvinder Singh Sarna (former President), S. Gurmeet Singh Shunty, General Secretary, S. Kartar Singh Kochar, Joint Secretary, S. Shamsher Singh Sandhu (Member, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee), S. Raghubir Singh Jaura, President, Punjabi Civil Society and S. Manjit Singh Sarna. Malegaons Superman Shafeeque dies of cancer at 26 Malegaon: A day after the special screening of his film, Shafeeque Ahmed, the local hero who played the lead role in Malegaon Ka Superman, the award winning film starring artists from the Malegaons film industry, died on 7 September at his residence. He was diagnosed of cancer a year ago. He is survived by his wife and two daughters - one three-yearold and the other aging just two months. In the wake of Shafeeque Ahmeds illness, the local artistes had organised a special screening of the film on 6 September and he himself was present for the show. Shafeeque had earned laurels from international film critics and experts when in his film he campaigned against tobacco use and warned people about its danger. But two years after release of the film, he himself became victim of the same menace. Shafeeque Ahmed was diagnosed of cancer a year back and was undergoing treatment at Mumbais Tata hospital since then, Nasir Shaikh, the Co-Producer and Asst. Director of the film and his colleague said. Shafeeque Ahmed in his lead-role as Malegaon Ka Superman campaigned against tobacco and gutkha consumption. But he himself was addicted to gutkha. Unfortunately he could not resist the habit and became victim of the same deadly disease. Shafeeque Ahmed was associated with Mollywood, as the local film industry is popularly known, for the last several years. He acted in a few of films produced and directed by the local artistes. The film, Malegaon ka Superman, became popular worldwide after Faiza Ahmad Khan, the Director, received Jury Award for Best Documentary at Asiatica Film Mediale, Rome in 2008. The film was later selected for screening - first by Ocians Cinefan film festival held in New Delhi, and later for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) which was held in Goa

persons, intellectuals, human rights organisations and people in general to other parts of the country. After a press briefing at Press Club of India on 5 September 11 CRPC pointed out the background of the problems and difficulties the original and native Bengali speaking people of Assam, both Muslims and Hindus, particularly Muslims are facing at political and social levels and they are being considered as illegal Bangladeshi migrants by locals, politicians as well as by successive governments of Assam. Even after the agreement known as Assam Accord signed between leaders of agitationists and central government in 1985 under which it was agreed that all immigrants (from East Pakistan or now Bengladesh who had come to Assam on or before 24.3. 1971 would be accepted as citizens of India. Thereafter, Citizenship Act was passed by Parliament and also subsequently amended in 1986 to include some others also as legal Indian citizens. But inspite of this, a new term D voters i.e. doubtful or disputed voters was coined by which anyone could be branded as D voter and his name would be removed from voters lists, meaning that not only such persons but also their children etc. would not only be deprived of their right to vote but also would be denied all jobs etc. in government and private offices, firms, establishments etc. Muslim leaders like Jamitul Ulama Chief Maulana Arahad Madni, Maulana Ajmal of Assam and others have vigorously been waging a war against D voter policy of government because on this pretext names of Bengali speaking Muslims who have been residing in Assam much before 24 March 1971 were removed from voters lists. However, because of the campaign of these leaders thousands, and lakhs of Assamese Muslims against whose names D voter was inserted were brought into the genuine voters lists, but even then much remains to be done. Hence in order to highlight the unreasonable attitude of the state government CRPC held a national Convention on 6 September in Delhi to apprise journalists and important public figures who matter and to seek their support for protecting and ensuring the voting and other rights and facilities of the old and genuine Muslims and also some non-Muslim citizens of the country in Assam. (Nadim Ahmad) The state government challenged the appointment to the Lokayukta post -- vacant since 2003 -- before the state High Court contending it was unconstitutional and unilateral. Mehta is a former judge of the Gujarat high court. Directly indicting Modi government for non-appointment of Lokayukta for the last seven years, the governor said in a statement, Despite several reminders... for the reason best known to it, the Government was delaying the matter for one reason or other. RS passes organ transplant Bill New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on 26 August passed the Transplantation of Human Organs Amendment Bill, 2011, that seeks to check irregular transplantation of human organs and provides an expanded definition of near relatives who can donate their organs to the needy. The law permits transplantation of organs like heart, kidneys, lung, liver, pancreas and cornea. So far, only spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother and sister could donate their organs. After these amendments, grandfather, grandmother, grandson and granddaughter have been added to the list of the relatives who can donate the organs. The Rajya Sabha members demanded that even members of the same village as that of the patient should be allowed to donate their organs. Death in fake encounter and honour killing: SC Judge Justice Markandey Katju while speaking at a lecture in Chennai on 28 August said that those found guilty in honour killing and fake encounter should be awarded death sentence. He further said that the honour killings in states like Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan are simply encouraged by caste panchayats. What he favoured, instead of honour killing, the parents of the girls who get married against their will, can sever social relations with the girls and nothing more than that. Justice Katju also said the district majistrates and superintendents should be suspended if honour killing takes place in their area of operation. Justice Katju also said that policemen found guilty in fake encounters should also be awarded death sentence because it is the responsibility of policemen to protect people and not to murder them. According to him such an act would be in violation of Article 21 which says that that no one will be deprived of his life and liberty.

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Who funds Muslim-baiting in the US?

A new report details how a small group of donors and 'intellectuals' have pushed Islamophobia into the mainstream. Some US politicans have tried to stoke fear against Muslim communities says MJ ROSENBERG
It has been just about a decade since Islamophobia exploded in this country. That was of moment that the World Trade Center and Pentagon were hit by al Qaeda terrorists. It existed prior to 9/11, but the losses that day and the general terror it inflicted upon this country made many, many Americans much more wary of Arabs and, fairly quickly, fearful of the religion the terrorists professed. The first sign that 9/11 would be exploited to advance various agendas came from Binyamin Netanyahu, who wasquoted in the New York Times as saying the attacks would be good for Israel: Asked tonight [September 11, 2001] what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, ''It's very good.'' Then he edited himself: ''Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.'' He predicted that the attack would ''strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we've experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror." Netanyahu subsequently reiterated his views about 9/11, quoted here in Haaretz. And, of course, ever since 9/11 the "pro-Israel" lobby has successfully used it to build support for right- wing Israeli policies in the United States. But the lobby isn't alone. It is just one of the components of an orchestrated and wellfinanced effort to make Americans fear and hate Muslims and Arabs. I have to admit, however, that until I read a report published today by the Center for American Progress (CAP), I had no idea just how orchestrated and well-financed this movement was. The report, "Fear Inc: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America," demonstrates that a small group of self-proclaimed experts (Frank Gaffney, David Yerushalmi, Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer, and Steve Emerson) backed by a host of foundations and donors (many of which also fund the lobby) have put Islamophobia on the map. To put it simply, without these "experts," their donors, and Fox News (their media mouthpiece) you would never have heard that a Muslim community center (the "Ground Zero Mosque") was being constructed in New York City. And the center certainly would not have become a major news story. Nor would Republican (and even a few Democratic) candidates for president, Congress, and even village councils be called upon to condemn Islam and "Sharia Law" or face being labeled a supporter of terrorism. Nor would Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum have made hatred of American Muslims such an integral part of their campaigns. It all starts with the money. According to CAP: A small group of foundations and wealthy donors are the lifeblood of the Islamophobia network in America, providing critical funding to a clutch of right-wing think tanks that peddle hate and fear of Muslims and Islam-in the form of books, reports, websites, blogs, and carefully crafted talking points that anti-Islam grassroots organizations and some right-wing religious groups
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It's pretty ugly. Jews whose main concern is Israel align themselves with Christian rightists who don't like Jews. There are even a few Muslims who are dispatched by the network to tell audiences at churches and synagogues just how bad their people are. It's weird. But it's also very dangerous, as the Norway slaughter attests. The strangest thing about the killings is that they happened in Norway. Reading this report, you have to wonder why it hasn't happened here. Yet. (Al Jazeera) MJ Rosenberg is a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at the Media Matters Action Network. This article first appeared in Foreign Policy Matters, a part of the Media Matters Action Network.

Iran Starts MassProduction of Home-Made Anti-Armor Rockets

use as propaganda for their constituency. Some of these foundations and wealthy donors also provide direct funding to anti-Islam grassroots groups. According to our extensive analysis, here are the top seven contributors to promoting Islamophobia in our country: Donors Capital Fund Richard Mellon Scaife foundations Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Newton D. & Rochelle F. Becker foundations and charitable trust Russell Berrie Foundation Anchorage Charitable Fund and William Rosenwald Family Fund Fairbrook Foundation Most of these are new to me, although when I worked at AIPAC it was hard to miss the fact that some of them supported both AIPAC and its think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. The amazing thing about the CAP report is that it exposes people who try very hard to cover their tracks. It is one thing to be known for supporting AIPAC, but it is quite another to be identified with the likes of Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, and Pam Geller, who appears in the CAP report as only a second-tier hater but whose anti-Muslim vehemence is nothing short of disgusting. (She rationalised the killing of the kids in Norway by pointing out that the camp they attended was associated with Norway's Labor Party, which she claims is anti-Israel!) The hate funders are particularly determined to lay low since the slaughter of 76 people in Norway in July by a self-described Christian conservative named Anders Breivik, who said that he was influenced by Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, and David Horowitz (another prominent propagandist against Muslims and beneficiary of the various anti-Islam foundations). But CAP followed the money, went behind the innocentsounding foundation names, and cross-referenced them. And now we have it: the hate network exposed.

Iranian war planes during exercise over the Gulf

Tehran (FNA): The Iranian Defense Ministry started mass-production of 73-mm anti-armor rockets capable of piercing and destroying armored vehicles from a 1,300-meter distance. "The weapon is mobile and due to its low weight, it can be carried by an individual trooper," Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi told reporters on the sidelines of a ceremony held to launch the production line of the rocket on 29 August. Stressing the importance and efficiency of the anti-armor rocket in land and tactical operations, Vahidi said the rocket also enjoys a high precision and high penetration power. Tehran launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992, Iran has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and fighter planes. Yet, Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military and arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a threat to any other country. The Iranian Army recently test-fired different types of newlydeveloped missiles and torpedoes and tested a large number of its home-made weapons, tools and equipments, including submarines, military ships, artillery, choppers, aircraft, UAVs and air defense and electronic systems, in a series of massive military drills. Defense analysts and military observers say that Iran's wargames and its advancements in weapons production have proved as a deterrent factor, specially at a time of heightened threats by the US.

Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza

Congrats! Here too Democracy has been established
Turkish officials tell Hurriyet Daily News that Turkish navy will strengthen presence in eastern Mediterranean Sea to stop Israeli 'bullying'. The Turkish navy will significantly strengthen its presence in the eastern Mediterranean Sea as one of the steps the Turkish government has decided to take following the release of the UN Palmer report on the 2010 Gaza flotilla, Turkish officials told the Hurriyet Daily News. "The eastern Mediterranean will no longer be a place where Israeli naval forces can freely exercise their bullying practices against civilian vessels," a Turkish official was quoted as saying. As part of the plan, the Turkish navy will increase its patrols in the eastern Mediterranean and pursue "a more aggressive strategy". According to the report, Turkish naval vessels will accompany civilian ships carrying aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Another goal of the plan is to ensure free navigation in the region between Cyprus and Israel. The region includes areas where Israel and Cyprus cooperate in drilling for oil and gas. Additionally, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan instructed his foreign ministry to organize a trip for him to the Gaza Strip in the near future. "We are looking for the best timing for the visit," a Turkish official was quoted as saying. "Our primary purpose is to draw the world's attention to what is going on in Gaza and to push the international community to end the unfair embargo imposed by Israel."

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Welcome to Colonialism 2.0

RAKESH KRISHNAN SIMHA
orders granting trade concessions gave the British a cause to defend, with military strength if needed." Does that sound familiar? Return of the East: Today, the east is rising once again. Economists are stunned by the unprecedented flow of manufacturing, finance and wealth to the east. Magid Igbaria, former professor of management information systems at Tel Aviv University,

he assault on Libya by a coalition of mostly Western nations begs the question: Is colonialism making some sort of a comeback? While their economies are collapsing in slow motion, it is hard to picture Western countries prospecting for real estate across the globe, as they did 300 years ago. But as unreal as it seems, it is happening. Few will shed tears for Gaddafi because it was his impetuosity that cost Libya its freedom; of more concern is the fact that after 40 years the country's considerable oil wealth has reverted to Western control. Iraqi oil too is flowing west. Iran could very well be the next target of American and British warplanes. Ironically, it is when the West is weak that the emergent nations of Asia and Africa have reason to worry. Colonialism 2.0 isn't just a catchphrase; it is simple economics: the wealthy will always need to be vigilant against the desperate. In the 18th and 19th centuries when the world was being colonized by the likes of Spain, Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal and the Dutch, India and China were the two richest countries in the world, together accounting for over 50 per cent of world GDP. And yet the two giant Asian nations ended up under colonial jackboots. If you think colonization happened when the East was decadent and the West was rising or that India and China neglected their militaries and ignored the foreign threats lurking at their shores, you couldn't be more wrong. Both countries had very powerful armies and naval flotillas led by able commanders. Military edge: In the early 1700's, India's legendary Admiral of the Fleet, Kanhoji Angre, routed the British, Dutch and Portuguese navies on the high seas. For 33 years until his death in 1729, the Indian remained undefeated. The British were so pissed they called him a pirate. Indian ships of that time were so advanced in design and durability that the British inducted them into their fleet. In the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory was an Indian built vessel. According to the Indian Navy's website, "This so agitated British shipbuilders on the River Thames that they protested against the use of Indian built ships to carry trade from England. Consequently, active measures were adopted to cripple the Indian shipbuilding industries." The southern Indian kingdom of Mysore was the first in modern history to use rockets in war, and they used it with deadly effect against the British in the Battle of Guntur in 1780. The literally shell-shocked British army fled from the battlefield. A few unexploded rockets were later shipped to the Royal Arsenal in London, where William Congreve, the British weapons expert, reverse engineered them to launch modern rocketry in Europe. Most Indian rulers also possessed keen geopolitical awareness. For instance, they did not allow European merchants to keep garrisons or conduct inland trade. When Thomas Roe, the British monarch's emissary, landed in western India in 1616, he was made to wait a year before the Indian emperor granted him an audience. Three years later, Roe despite many entreaties and considerable bowing before the grandees at Delhi, returned without a trade treaty because the emperor saw no point in trading with a country that had not one product or commodity to offer India. Thin end of the wedge: However, one slip-up by a weak emperor let in the hordes. A hundred years after Roe's exit, an English embassy had a stroke of luck when one of its members, William Hamilton, a physician of questionable medical skills, managed to relieve the figurehead emperor of severe pain in his groin. The emperor gratefully signed a decree giving the British inland trading rights, customs duty exemptions, and the right to keep a garrison. The rest as they say is history. According to professor Rajesh Kochhar, emeritus scientist at the Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Chandigarh, "These exemptions gave the English traders commercial advantages not only over other European companies but also over Indian traders. More importantly, the various official

wrote in The Virtual Workplace: "For all but the last 500 years of human history, the world's wealth measured in human capital and in goods was concentrated in Asia. During the past five centuries, the world's wealth has been concentrated in the West. This era is coming to an end. Today, the great concentrations of human capital, financial power, manufacturing power, and informated power are once again accumulating in the East." Indeed, in 30 years India is predicted to overtake the US, even though it is only one-fourteenth the size of the US economy now. That is an incredible rate of wealth accretion. The question is will the US and Europe simply watch the world go past? On the contrary, there is a concerted effort by a US-led coalition to stop this trend. Here are a few ways the West is trying to stay on top: Base instincts: Today the US-led coalition has over 750 military bases across the globe. Despite the huge costs, this extension of military power is essential to their hegemony. A slew of European nationalities has followed the American military in its misadventures around the world. No empire in history has attempted such sweeping control. In Pliny's days the Roman, Indian and Chinese empires co-existed in their spheres of influence and never attempted to destabilise each other. The good old days. Divide and rule: The Americans are playing up India as a major "regional" power allied with the West. This is not only insulting to the Indians (why should India only be a regional power?), it also scares the hell out of the Chinese. The communists in Beijing, therefore, come out with kneejerk statements calling for India's breakup, which in turn makes the Indians consider China a natural enemy. Amazingly, in the past 2500 years, China and India never had even a skirmish, until the British arrived on the scene and planted the seeds of border problems. Climate bogey: After polluting the environment for more than a century, the West now wants India and China to reduce emissions. It's a thinly disguised attempt to slow these rapidly growing economies. India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has done an about turn and now his views seem to align with Western interests, which led to key Indian negotiators quitting in disgust. Newsweek, the Pentagon mouthpiece masquerading as journalism, was sufficiently pleased with Ramesh to label him the "global rock star of climate change". Dollar gambit: Wouldn't you feel almighty if you obtained a license to print US dollars off your home printer? While the rest of the world has to earn a living the hard way, the Americans just print dollars to pay their bills. Need a few hundred billion dollars to pay for the war in Iraq? Want to buy Venezuelan oil? Russian titanium? No problem. The US mint cranks the lever and billions of dollars start rolling off the presses. In fact, in recent years even that pretense has been given the heave-ho - now trillions of dollars are generated electronically in the accounts of the US Federal Reserves. It's as simple as that. There is another way the dollar trade works against the interests of non-Western countries. Countries like China and Russia invest their earnings in US treasury bonds; these dollars are used by the Americans to maintain their global military suprema-

cy, build increasingly modern weapons, and reward their allies with cash, weapons, and security umbrellas. WTO: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called it "archaic, undemocratic and inflexible" and dominated by a small group of developed countries which indulge in protectionism. One of its aims is to pry open the agricultural markets of Asia, including India. Incidentally, India has the highest number of farmer suicides in the world. Nixing nuclear tech: The 11th commandment: Thou shall not acquire nuclear technology. Indian and Japanese nuclear scientists perfected the fast breeder reactor (which generates more nuclear fuel than it uses) so they never have to look outside for hard-to-get uranium). However, most likely under US pressure, both nations have quietly shelved their technologies. Space crunch: America's space ambitions are currently grounded because of deep cuts. India has the world's largest number (177) of satellites in space. NASA is aware of it; it is looking at joint ventures with the Indian Space Research Organisation which has reliable rockets and something like 20,000 engineers and scientists. Few are aware that during the 1990s, India requested the Russians for a role in the International Space Station, but the Americans said no. Now NASA wants a free ride on Indian rockets, and India's feckless politicians are happy to oblige. General Manuel Noriega was once upon a time in Panama, the CIA's most valuable asset, doing their dirty work: drug trafficking, racketeering, money laundering, murdering. However, the Agency wanted total control of Panama and so in 1989 the US invaded the country, and accused him of doing precisely what they had ordered him to do. While serving a 20-year sentence in an American prison, Noriega wrote this memorable line: "If there is someone willing to buy a country, there is someone willing to sell it." For many countries in the East, their biggest worry is like Noriega there are plenty of collaborators in high places willing to sell their country for a few million dollars wired into a Swiss bank, along with US green cards for their families. In the first era of colonialism, the then dominant Eastern nations opened up their economies and territories to comparatively backward Western nations over a span of several decades, finally ending up as their colonies. Under the guise of globalization and 'free' trade, Colonialism 2.0 could happen in much the same way. (opednews.com) Rakesh Krishnan Simha is New Zealand-based writer.

Twenty Chinese engineers working in Saudi Arabia embrace Islam

Makka: Among the thousands of foreign engineers, technicians and workers who are working on Saudi Arabias Al Mashire railway project, 20 Chinese engineers have very recently embraced Islam. It may be stated that a large number of foreign engineers and technical personnel who have been working on different projects in Saudi Arabia have embraced Islam individually or in groups from time to time and now their number runs not only into hundreds but into thousands. With these 20 Chinese engineers there are now about 2000 foreign engineers, technologists and workers who have embraced Islam. About 6000 foreign engineers are working on this project which is one of the many projects for improvement of the transport system in the country. At the project sites in Saudi Arabia mosques have been built for offering namaz. Makka Cooperative Office for Dawat i.e. tabligh has made special arrangements for imparting Islamic teachings to Chinese neo-Muslims for whom special arrangements have been made for teaching the method of offering namaz, teaching of Arabic language and listening of speeches of Chinese Muslim scholars.

USA's STD experiments in Guatemala left 83 dead

Washington: At least 83 people in Guatemala died not long after being deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases in US medical experiments in the 1940s, a presidential commission in Washington has concluded. US government scientists had infected 5,500 Guatemalan prisoners, psychiatric patients and sex workers with syphilis and gonorrhoea between 1946 and 1948 to study the effects of penicillin ~ though none of those infected consented. While 5,500 people were subjected to diagnostic testing, more than 1,300 were exposed to venereal diseases by contact or inoculations, the commission has said. "Within that group, we believe that there were 83 deaths. Among the 1,300 exposed to STDs, under 700 received some form of treatment as best as could be documented," the media quoted commission member Mr Stephen Hauser as saying. The head of the commission, Ms Amy Gutmann, has described the experiments a "shameful piece of medical history". "Those involved in the study failed to show a minimal respect for human rights and morality in the conduct of research." Many of the actions were "grievously wrong", she said, and those individuals behind the study were "morally culpable to various degrees". "Civilisations can be judged by the way they treat their most vulnerable... we failed to keep that covenant," she said. US President Barack Obama constituted the commission last year, after news of the experiments came to light. He had also personally apologised to Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom in October before ordering a thorough review of what happened. The commission is due to publish its first report, to establish the historical facts, next month.

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The counterfeit culture: fake is real

MIKE ADAMS
Editor of NaturalNews. com Through a devolving web of greed, self-serving power and a departure from fundamental ethics, Western culture has, over the last hundred years, become the counterfeit culture. Nothing is real anymore -- not the food, not the money, and certainly not the evening news. And because it's not real, it's not sustainable. That's why it's headed for collapse, which is all too real, as many people are about to find out. In the mean time, here are some observations about the counterfeit culture in which we all frustratingly find ourselves. It's all about corporations, governments and institutions being "in the business of" counterfeiting something -- faking something or pretending to create something of value when they really aren't. Ring a bell? The Federal Reserve is in the business of counterfeiting money. The mainstream media is in the business of counterfeiting news. The pharmaceutical industry is in the business of counterfeiting medicine (Biopracy! They are stealing molecules from nature then counterfeiting their own patented variations.) The medical schools are in the business of counterfeiting medical degrees. (When a doctor graduates from medical school, he still knows virtually nothing about nutrition.) Doctors are in the business of counterfeiting false medical authority. The mega-sized food corporations are in the business of counterfeiting food. (Processed cheese food product, anyone?) The global consumer product companies are in the business of manufacturing counterfeit consumer products such a "baby oil" (which is really a petroleum product). Social networks like Facebook are in the business of counterfeiting friends. Cookie-cutter home builders are in the business of constructing counterfeit homes out of plywood, styrofoam and sheetrock... many these homes will not be standing in just 20 years. Local city councils are in the business of counterfeiting power. (Obey or be punished!) Public schools are in the business of counterfeiting school diplomas. (Huh? What? Who needs to learn how to write, anyway?) The Pentagon is in the business of counterfeiting war. (Don't have a war to fight? Bomb the World Trade Center and blame it on someone!) Mainstream historians are in the business of counterfeiting history. (Everything you were taught about history in public school is a lie...) The globalist banksters are in the business of counterfeiting debt. (You thought it was money, didn't ya? But it's really just debt.) And yet, things that are REAL are called fake A man who recently stamped his own gold coins -- out of real gold -- was raided and arrested by the U. S. Treasury Department which announced that his GOLD coins were "counterfeit!" (http://thewarningsigns .blogspot.com) After the drug companies stole the lovastatin molecule from red yeast rice to create their own statin drugs, the FDA tried to ban all red yeast rice as a dietary supplement, claiming it contained "counterfeit statin drugs." (http://www.naturalnews.com/030010_d...) When the alternative media like NaturalNews and Infowars publishes real news that nobody else will publish, it's called "fake" by the corrupt, openly bought-and-paid-for mainstream media (the OLD media). Real is fake, fake is real That's how the world works today, folks: Things that are REAL -- herbal medicine, gold coins, truthful journalism -- are all called FAKE. Meanwhile, things that are FAKE -- the money supply, pharmaceutical medicine, myths of U. S. history and justification for war -are all called REAL. No wonder most people feel like their world has been turned upside down. But there's an easy way out: When you see someone from the government moving their lips, and words are coming out, there's no need trying to figure out whether what they're saying is REAL or FAKE. It's all simpler than you think: If their lips are moving, then what they're saying is REALLY FAKE, and you can leave it at that. (Natural News Network) About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public war". "So I never felt it helpful to refer to a war on terror". Young Arabs, she said, had no opportunity to choose their own rulers. "For them an external enemy was a unifying way to address some of their frustrations."They were also united by the plight of Palestinians, a view that the west was exploiting their oil and supporting dictators. "It was wrong to say all terrorists belonged to al-Qaida," added Manningham-Buller. Pursuing a theme which some in the audience may have been astounded to hear from a former boss of MI5, she said terrorist campaigns - she mentioned Northern Ireland as an example - could not be solved militarily. She described the invasion of Iraq as a "distraction in the pursuit of al-Qaida". She added: "Saddam Hussein was a ruthless dictator but neither he nor his regime had anything to do with 9/11." The invasion, she said, "provided an arena for jihad", spurring on UK citizens to resort to terror. September 11 was a "monstrous crime" but it needed a considered response, an appreciation of the causes and roots of terrorism, she said later in answers to questions. She said she hoped there were those - she implied in western governments - who were considering having "talks with al-Qaida". Some way must be found of approaching them, she suggested, though she said she did not know how, at the moment, that could be done. Manningham-Buller, who retired in 2007, attacked the invasion of Iraq in an interview with the Guardian in 2009. However, she has never before expressed such antipathy towards the prevailing policies and rhetoric of the government which she had to endure when she was in office. The lecture is to be broadcast on Radio 4 on 6 September, and entitled Terror. (London Guardian, 2 Sept 11)

MI5 former chief decries 'war on terror'

Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller uses BBC lecture to criticise 'unhelpful' term, attack Iraq invasion and suggest al-Qaida talks
Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, delivered a withering attack on the invasion of Iraq, decried the term "war on terror", and held out the prospect of talks with al-Qaida. Recording her first BBC Reith lecture on the theme, Securing Freedom, she made clear she believed the UK and US governments had not sufficiently understood the resentment that had been building up among Arab people, which was only compounded by the war against Iraq. Before an audience which included Theresa May, the home secretary, she also said the 9/11 attacks were "a crime, not an act of

Sunni Muslims banned from holding own Eid in Tehran

can be interpreted as a sign of dissent. Under the Iranian constitution, religious minorities should be respected and should have representatives in parAyatollah Ali Khamenei leads Eid al-Fitr-prayers in liament. Two days ago, several Sunni MPs wrote a Tehran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads Eid al-Fitrletter to the Iranian president, Mahmoud prayers in Tehran - Sunnis had to follow prayers led Ahmadinejad, asking for their communities in by Shia imams after a new ruling. Tehran to be allowed to hold separate Eid prayers. Sunni Muslims in Tehran have been banned Sunnis in Tehran have complained in recent from congregating at prayers marking the end of weeks of being told by officials to provide written Ramadan. Iran, a Shia country, ordered its Sunni assurances guaranteeing not to hold Eid prayers in minority not to hold separate prayers in Tehran for houses in the capital. Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival that brings the month Abdul Hameed, Shaikh Abdul-Hameed Esmail Zehi, a Sunni of fasting to an end. They were instead asked to Imam and khatib prayer imam in Zahedan, a city in south-east Iran, have a Shia imam leading their prayers - something that is against their religious beliefs. Hundreds of security criticised the regime in a recent sermon for imposing restrictions police were deployed in the capital to prevent Sunni worshippers on Sunnis. "I would like to request the supreme leader to stop discriminative and illegal steps of some officials, as they have from entering houses they rent for religious ceremonies. In recent decades, Iranian authorities have refused Sunnis been forbidding Sunni minorities in mega cities of Iran to offer permission to build their own mosques in Tehran. There is cur- prayers in congregation specially Eidain [the Eids] and Friday rently no Sunni mosque in the capital, despite there being sev- prayers. This is the demand of all Sunnis in Iran," he said, in eral churches and synagogues for much smaller Christian and quotes carried by the Sunni community's website, Sunnionline. Jewish populations. ."Tehran's security police prevented Sunni us. Iran boasts that its Shia and Sunni populations get along, worshippers from performing Eid prayers in various parts of the capital," the official website of the Sunni community in Iran said. but Sunnis have complained of a crackdown by the Islamic "They surrounded the houses where Sunnis perform prayers regime in recent years. The regime, which has blamed Sunnis for recent bombings in south Iran, is at odds with most of the and have prevented worshippers from going inside." Thousands of Shia worshipers on Wednesday stood in rows Sunni-ruled countries in the Middle East. Other religious minorities in Iran have been facing restricbehind Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who led the crowd at prayers held in Tehran University. The Iranian tions. Seven leaders of the Bah' community are serving 20regime uses Eid prayers to demonstrate that the country's polit- year jail sentences. Bah's in Iran are deprived of rights such as ical figures are united behind its leader. Politicians from different education or owning businesses and are often persecuted for groups are supposed to attend the prayers and their absence their beliefs.(London Guardian, 31 Aug. 11)

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Israeli Repression vs. Arab Resistance

KARAMATULLAH K. GHORI
Two different scenarios, intrinsically related with each other, are taking shape, simultaneously, in the Middle East. At the western-end of ME spectrum is the year-old battle of nerves between an ever-repressive and arrogant Israel and its nemesis to the west, a full-of-new-confidence and healthily strident Turkey. Turks, under their dynamic leader, Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan, stood up to Israels arrogance and hubris, last year when their peace flotilla carrying humanitarian relief for the victims of Israels brutal siege of the Palestinians in Gaza, was attacked on the highseas by Israeli commando pirates. Nine Turkish peace activists were killed on board the hijacked ship, Mavi Marmara, in that savage Israeli raid conducted in gross violation of international law and convention. Turkeys response to that blatant provocation from a trigger-happy Israel, led by a Zionist PM Netanyahu, was swift and principled. It immediately recalled the Turkish ambassador from Tel Aviv and demanded an unconditional apology from the Israeli government as condition for the return of its ambassador. In the latest twist to the ongoing saga, Turkey announced, on September 2, the expulsion of Israels ambassador in Ankara and, at the same time, putting a freeze on all military cooperation with Israel. The Turkish retribution came in the wake of Netanyahus blatant and provocative refusal to apologize for the crime committed by his commando pirates against the Turkish peace flotilla. Netanyahu, no doubt, was emboldened to persist in his arrogant response to the Turkish demand by the unveiling of a belated UN report on the Israeli piracy. The findings of the UN investigation were published by the Israelifriendly New York Times on the same day, September 2, and their thrust was provocation enough for Ankara to show the exit to the Israeli ambassador. The UN fact-finding is the nearest thing to a complete whitewash of the Israeli crime. It absolved Israel of the need to apologise, saying that an expression of regret-unacceptable to Turkey-would suffice. Even more provocatively, the partisan report describes the Israeli illegal blockade of Gaza as a "legitimate security measure." Adding insult to the Turkish sense of grievous injury, the report lamely charges Israel with only "excessive and unreasonable" use of force. Turkey has apparently no intention to allow a lawless Israel, chaperoned by its western friends, to go scot-free after having violated every canon of international law. Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, while asserting his governments right to take appropriate actions against Israel, let the world know that it would seek help of the forthcoming General Assembly session, commencing later in September, in New York to lodge a formal case against the Israeli blockade of Gaza in the International Court of Justice. He also said that his government would also back court actions against Israel by families of the victims of the peace flotilla and also ensure free navigation in Eastern Mediterranean. Analysts believe Turkey may, henceforth, provide the cover of its naval vessels to future peace flotillas. Its obvious that no Israeli action is taken without consultations, often prior, with Washington. The two allies not only have a camaraderie of interests conflated in diplomatic arena but they march in cahoots in other fields, too, including their expertise in developing newest techniques and methods of torture and repression of their quarries and victims. The latest tranche of Wiki Leaks unveiled on September 1 includes secret cables sent from the American Embassy in Tel Aviv on the latest repression tactics honed by bosom friend and ally, Israel. There is, for instance, a cable report sent in February 2010, by the US Ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, based on his conversation on security-related issues with Avi Mazrahi, Head of the Israeli occupation army in the West Bank. Mazrahi has been quoted in the report telling Cunningham that his forces in the occupied areas would use force against the Palestinians even if their demonstrations were entirely peaceful. He boasts of the Israeli terrormachine being at work full time and informs his interlocutor that his soldiers would be using Dirty Water-a mixture of water and tear gasagainst the Palestinians with impunity. The Americans describe the Dirty Water as a dirty cocktail with the awful and unbearable stench of skunks. And they still pride calling themselves purveyors of civilization; what an irony. Another cable from the same source quotes an Israeli security agent boasting to an American diplomat in Israel about their prowess in wielding overwhelming force against unarmed steadfast resolution and grim determination of the Arab peoples to make their spring a reality is contributing myriad colours-of success and disappointment-to the rainbow. There is, in this pastiche, the impressive gains of the peoples struggle against a ruthless tyrant like Qaddafi in Libya, and the dismal hues of the Syrian peoples valiant effort against an equally tyrannical Bashar Al Assad tinged with the still fruitless blood of the victims of his brutality. Whats striking in this yet-unfinished picture painted on the Arab canvas is the sensationalthough not entirely unthinkable-revelation of a close camaraderie of interests between Arab tyrants, both fallen and still alive, and western intelligence services, like CIA and MI-6. The lid from this shameless collusion between the denizens of democracies-who pride themselves in being self-proclaimed gurus he abandoned his alleged programme of nuclear weapons and masqueraded himself as a champion of western secularism, vis--vis militant Islam. He was quickly embraced as a front-line soldier in the war against the so-called Islamists; his draconian intelligence service became equally kosher to its western counterparts. Qaddafi wasnt the only Arab despot in a bear-hug with western democracies in their joint manoeuvres against the interests and ambitions of the Arab peoples. Syria, Jordan and Yemenand of course Egypt under Mubarak, above allwere among other notable Arab regimes courted by US and its civilized European partners in their common platform to keep the Arab peoples suppressed and hostage to their tyrannical regimes. Suspected Muslim and Arab terrorists corralled in US and Europe, on the heels of 9/11, were regularly shipped out to these ruthless Arab regimes for interrogation and torture. The name given to this modern form of slave trade was rendition of suspects. The services of these heartless and brutal Arab despots were commissioned on the plea that western values didnt allow the suspects o be interrogated aggressively. Apparently there was complete faith in western governments and corridors of power that their favoured Arab regimes, presiding over torture chambers and dungeons, would do the needful to the satisfaction of their western mentors and masters. In return, these western intelligence outfits shared their expertise with the likes of Qaddafi to develop and hone new methods of oppression to keep their cowering masses subdued and under firm control. The success of the Arab Spring, howsoever tardy and costly in terms of the blood of peaceful protesters shed, with impunity, in Libya, Egypt, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, is, however, pulling the rug from under the feet of not only Arab tyrants but also their western cohorts. London, Washington, Paris et al may now be beating a hasty retreat in the face of the popular Arab backlash and pretend they had nothing to do with Arab tyrants supported by them. A nagging sense of disappointment must pervade the intelligence services of the west and their Israeli cohorts over the loss of supine tyrants and their minions always ready to do their dirty work. But more foreboding for the west and Israel is the emergence of a new power like Turkey showing a path of resilience and new-found confidence emanating from a commitment to democracy and respect for the fundamental rights of their people. Turkey is blazing a trail for the Arabs struggling to regain their lost freedoms from the clutches of tyrants who have been their oppressors for as long as they have been serving the interests of western imperialism. Turkeys own return to popular democracy, after years of unlawful military domination, wasnt easy or without sacrifice. Tayip Erdogan himself suffered years of imprisonment and political ostracism before his charisma and dignified leadership won the day in ousting the generals from their bastion in the sanctum of political power. But Erdogan is showing the way to those emerging at the helm of affairs in countries like Libya, following the blossoming of their spring for democracy, how to nurture their freedom and power, in its wake, for the larger good of their people. No wonder an oppressor like Israel is so worried, not only for the loss of the lucrative foothold it had in Turkey itself, but more about the trend Turkey is setting for Israels Arab neighbours, like Egypt, to emulate. Israel and its western supporters are shaking in their boots at the prospect of Turkeys brave example travelling to the Arab heartland and triggering tremors there. Success may be its own reward in a classical sense, but real success that leads to the flowering of freedoms for a long-oppressed people, comes only when they find the strength to shape their policies without letting any outsider to dictate its shape or contours to them. Thats a test still ahead of emerging democracies in the Arab world; success or failure in this key test would impact the course of history in our times, and in the years and decades to come.

Qaddafi, the erstwhile whipping boy for western democracies, had won their hearts after he abandoned his alleged programme of nuclear weapons and masqueraded himself as a champion of western secularism, vis--vis militant Islam. He was quickly embraced as a front-line soldier in the war against the so-called Islamists; his draconian intelligence service became equally kosher to its western counter-parts.
Palestinians and sarcastically quipping; we dont do Gandhi well. Israel and US are also desperately engaged in twisting the arm of the lame-duck Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to prevent him from taking the case of Palestinian statehood before the impending UN General Assembly later this month. They are threatening the Palestinian Authority with the most-likely cutoff of US economic aid to PA and pressure from the Israeli-controlled US congress to browbeat the Palestinians. Of course US will not think twice before wielding its veto in the Security Council on Israels behalf. But the fallout of such crass reiteration of Americas sickening partisanship of Israel could only be disastrous for US global standing and its professed claim of an honest broker in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. It would wreck the US image of being a referee, if any of it is still intact, though its mostly in shreds, already. However, the Palestinians cant simply afford to be hoodwinked or intimidated by such mafia tactics. Their train, according to one of their spokesmen, has already left the station and is moving full-speed ahead to reach its destination, the platform of UNGA, later in September, where the world, including some reluctant European partisans of Israel, stand ready to accord it the title and recognition of a fully-fledged and sovereign state in the truest sense of international law. A US veto would expose, in crystal clarity, how bogus and bunkum is their claim of seeking peace in the Middle East. At the other end of the ME spectrum the of international morality-and brutal Arab dictators routinely mocked and derided in the western news media, has been blown sky-high in the wake of the overthrow of Qaddafis barbaric regime in Tripoli. What the liberators of the Libyan people have found in the archives of Qaddafis Stalinist intelligence service is a treasure-trove of documents graphically detailing its close and cordial relations with CIA, MI-6 and even the Israeli Mossad. The bosses and ring leaders of these agencies were on first-name basis with each other, as revealed from letters exchanged between CIA and MI-6 on the one hand, and Moussa Koosa, the former spy chief and foreign minister of Libya, who defected from the regime last march. Moussa was routinely addressed as "Dear Moussa" in the letters signed by CIA and MI-6 chiefs, signing in their first names. How ethically-bankrupt and heartless was this nexus of nefarious interest between these power-hungry organizations may be culled from the gripping episode of Abdel Hakim Belhadj, the current military commander of Libyas provisional government. Belhadj played a leading role in the liberation of Tripoli from Qaddafis hold. In 2004, Bel Hadj was picked up by CIA in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on suspicion of being an Al-Qaeda partisan. He was subsequently shifted to Bangkok, Thailand, and passed on to MI-6, which quickly handed him over to the torture experts of Qaddafis terror machine. Bel Hadj remained a prisoner of Qaddafi for 6 years and was regularly tortured and oppressed. Qaddafi, the erstwhile whipping boy for western democracies, had won their hearts after

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ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES

Prophet Muhammad chose a life of poverty

There are many reports that tell us that the Prophet led a life of poverty. Yet had he wished, he would have lived like any head of state, and nobody would have questioned his right to do so, even though his people were poor. Or at least he could have had a reasonable standard of living, ensuring that his family had whatever they needed. He would not have let them suffer hunger. This means that his poverty was a matter of choice. ADIL SALAHI
ven in the poorest of countries, government leaders live a life of affluence, even when they manifest a superior degree of integrity and do not use their positions to make unfair advantage. The head of the state is even regarded to have a special status. He lives in a palace, and all his needs are provided at the states expense. People accept this as normal. We are not questioning here whether this is appropriate or not. We are merely drawing attention to the special status a head of state has. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was not only a messenger of God. He also established a state at Madinah and was its head for the last 10 years of his life. Although it started only as a city-state, where there were other communities that did not believe in him and his message, its geographical area steadily grew, until it comprised almost the entire Arabian Peninsula, which today includes seven independent states. It is appropriate to wonder about the lifestyle of the Prophet and how much did he cost the state for his personal living. Prophet Muhammad steered away from all aspects of affluence. He preferred to live at the same level as the poorest in his community. His wife, Aishah, mentions that he never had his fill of food for three consecutive days. He knew that there were poor people in his community and they did not have enough to eat. He did his best to alleviate their poverty and shared in their life. Aishah reports: I used to weep of sorrow for him, and I would put my hand on his tummy because I saw how hungry he was. I would say to him: I would sacrifice my life for your sake! If you would only have a reasonable standard of living so that you would not go hungry. He replied: Aishah! What care do I have for the life of this world? My brothers, Gods messengers, who were most resolute in their dedication endured a much harder life and patiently persevered. Another wife of his, Umm Salmah, described what she found in his home on her wedding night: I saw a container with some barley in it, a millstone, an earthenware pot, a cooking pan and a wooden cup. I ground the barley and made a dough in the pot and mixed it with what was in the wooden cup. That was the food the Prophet and his bride had on their wedding night. There are many reports that tell us that the Prophet led a life of poverty. Yet had he wished, he would have lived like any head of state, and nobody would have questioned his right to do so, even though his people were poor. Or at least he could have had a reasonable standard of living, ensuring that his family had whatever they needed. He would not have let them suffer hunger. This means that his poverty was a matter of choice. What is the reason for that? Why should anyone choose to be poor when he can have a better standard of living? First of all, the Prophet wanted to demonstrate to all his followers, in all generations, what Islam stresses in every possible way: that this present life is worth very little. Its comforts are fleeting, its happiness is short-lived. Moreover, ones position in Gods sight has nothing to do with what standard of living he can lead in this world. Many devout and truly pious people were poor. Their poverty did not prevent them from acquiring a high position in Gods sight. On the other hand, rich people may be pious and Godfearing, or may be arrogant and have a low position with God. It is true belief and goodly action that can raise ones position with God.

Health benefits of Salat

There are several health benefits of Salat of offering Salat and as every Muslim knows that the best part of Salat is the sujood, that is the prostration in front of Allah. No wonder, Allah has mentioned the word sujood, prostration, no less then 90 times in the glorious Quran. Where do you do sujood in Salat? Normally when you stand erect, blood does flow into the brain but this is not sufficient for a healthy brain. During Salat, when you go into sujood, extra blood flows into the brain, which is very important for a healthy brain. When you do sujood, this extra blood supply to the skin on the face helps prevent diseases such as chilblain etc. When you do sujood there is drainage of sinuses and there are fewer chances that a person will have sinusitis, that is inflammation of the sinus. With this drainage of module sinus, of the frontal sinus, a person has less chances of having inflammation of the sinus, that is sinusitis. There are various other benefits. For example, when a person does sujood even the bronchitis, the secretion of the bronchitis, gets drained. There are less chances of having bronchitis. When a person breathes normally, only two thirds of the capacity of his lung is exhaled out, the remaining one third remains in the lung as a residual air. Now when you do sujood the abdominal visra, they press against the thigh muscles are activated and they increase the blood supply to the lower part of the body, which is very important for health. Further, we do various postures like standing erect, bowing down, prostrating, the vertebra column takes various postures and there are less chances of having diseases of the vertebrae, of the spine. There are medical benefits and you can give a talk only on this topic. But we Muslims, we offer Salat to thank Allah taala, to praise Him. These are just side dishes. They are like dessert. You know it may attract a person who is a non-Muslim towards Salat but our main meal, our main biryani, our main course is to thank Allah taala and to obey the commandments of Allah and the Prophet. That is the reason we offer Salat five times a day. Salat is a sort of programming towards righteousness, that we are programmed towards righteousness. And the requirement is that it should be repeated a minimum of five times a day. For example, for a very healthy body, a doctor will tell you, you require a minimum of three meals a day. Similarly, for a spiritual soul, a person is required to offer Salat five times a day. And the requirement is that there are chances that because of the evil in the society around us, we may get de-programmed. So if we are kept on being re-programmed, there are more chances that you will remain steadfast on the Siraat al mustaqeem, on the straight path. Therefore, it is compulsory that every Muslim should offer Salat a minimum of fiave times a day. Doesnt Salat disturb my job productivity? If you know the rules of management, you will know that a person cannot work continuously for hours together. If a person comes to office at 9 oclock in the morning and sits till 6 oclock in the evening, continuously for 9 hours, in fact he will be less productive. That is the reason why there are some short breaks in between. So a person can get re-created, you know we have recreation. Similarly, Salat is a sort of recreation. It rejuvenates you. If someone tells me that I am losing time, I am less productive, because I waste 15 minutes having lunch break, I would say that he is not a logical person because only if he has meals regularly, can he do more work. Similarly if a person offers Salat at intervals, I do agree he will have to stop work for a few minutes but when he does so and he comes back to work he works with a much better frame of mind and productivity overall will be much enhanced. So for a logical person and a modern person he has to agree that there should be breaks so that a person can get recreated and Salat is the best form of rejuvenating your mind.

diaphragm and the diaphragm presses against the lower part of the lungs, the lower lobes, and when you breath during sujood even this one third residual air is aired out and thats very important for a healthy lung. As a result, there are less chances of having diseases of the lungs. When you do sujood, there is increased venes return, there is less chance of having hernia, etc. Due to posture in sujood there is less chance of having hemorrhoid, that is piles. In Salat, we stand up and we sit down, do qayam, ruku, sujood and when we stand up from same position the weight is localized on the bottom of the feet and the calve and the

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Anna phenomena
Team Anna met senior BJP leaders, including Advani and Arun Jaitley in the capital on 25 August. Team Anna is now more or less reduced to Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi. Swami Agnivesh has left the group after being insulted eight times. Hegde's discomfort with the team was apparent from day one. He skipped the very first meeting of the joint draft committee. We all see Prashant Bhushan standing in attention while Kejriwal with the mike in the Left lambaste the government. About the substance of the discussion what LK Advani has to say is this. "I know the flaws in the provisions of the Jan Lokpal bill due to which it may not get passed. And this, I tried to explain to them (Team Anna) yesterday". How did Kejriwal react to this? Did he assure the senior politician that his misgivings will be addressed? Kejriwal is on record telling Karan Thapar in Devil's Advocate that his bill is open to suggestions. What he said in response to Advani's suggestions was that that the BJP "broadly agreed" to their version of the anti-graft bill. Draw your conclusion as to which of the two is misleading people. Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400054 drmookhi@hotmail.com II Corruption is rampant from top to bottom in India. Corruption is in politics, legislature, executive, media and even judiciary. There are corrupt people in all the political parties. They have been amassing illegal asses and wealth. They must be prosecuted and awarded stringent punishments. Corruption, particularly in high places, will destroy not only democracy and constitution but would endanger Indias unity and integrity. Hence president of India, Prime Minister, Chief Justice of Supreme Court etc., should be brought under Lokpal Bill. More over preaching of full faith in Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent God and accountability before Him is very essential to get rid of corruption and other evils. G. Hasnain Kaif, Bhandara (M.S.) 441904 III India's democracy as Stephen Cohen said was "Swiss cheese democracy". It is not perfect but is not dysfunctional either. At times it may need some booster mechanism like Anna Hazare to take it forward. The parliament did look diminished when the ruling party and the opposition hastened to pass the resolution with three demands of Anna Hazare included as the guiding light for the proposed Lokpal bill. The popular perception that the political class would have sat on the bill indefinitely got legitimacy. For the Manmohan Singh government, it was like a tragic-comedy.First Anna Hazare was assured that the government meant serious business on the legislation. Then like a bolt out of blue, he was piled with accusations which were below the belt. Muslims looked at the unfolding drama in Ramlila maidan with a degree of diffidence. Their thin participation was not entirely for Ramadan. They feared the huge gathering and the prospect though dim, of its going overboard. In such an event they would have been natural scapegoats. Though Anna is no Hitler, but one cannot forget Nazi torch light rallies at Nuremberg and systematic targeting of Jews. An indoctrinated crowd knows no bounds. Some groups mingled in the crowds with their own agenda as Justice Hegde said. But the great congregation of people spiked their blueprint of mischief. They were left to paddle in their dirty poodles. Yunus Chitalwala-Dhoraji-Gujarat adilchital@yahoo.in IV The Hindu society is unable to understand the true ideal person but they have great urge to find it out. Any person who has some political background and some record of social service becomes a hero and mobs very easily gather around him. Any minor successes in his efforts become a great achievement. People make it hype of that achievement. They boost the personal image of that hero. It is not due to the material gain of that hero but it is the need of the hour Anna Hazares personality has proved a so called ideal person. He need not prove all the characters of an ideal personality. Mr. Anna Hazare did some good service to his village and did some sacrifices for the residents of his native place and had some connection to late freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi which gave him an additional tag. With these characters he became the hero of our countrymen. Corruption was his main agenda. People are in the wrong impression that if Jan Lokpal bill is passed in the parliament the total corruption will be scraped from the society. After passing only a resolution in the parliament. Anna broke his fast and left the Ram Lila Maidan as if the whole corruption has finished from the society. It is just an illusion of the leader and the masses Dr Maqdoomi, Hyderabad drmaqdoomi@yahoo.com V Irom Sharmila is fasting for scrapping a law which is draconian. Anna Hazare was fasting to bring in a law which in the opinion of the many may prove to be draconian. Irom Sharmila is fasting in an unknown corner of the country and hardly anyone is aware of her fight. Anna fasted on an event-managed stage, in the glare of the 24X7 TV cameras. The Indian democracy had to bow down to Anna. Why? No one is listening to Irom Sharmila. Why? Because if Anna dies, there would be mayhem in India. If Irom dies, she goes unsung. Anna has nuisance value. Irom has no nuisance value. Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400054 drmookhi@hotmail.com VI I would to suggest Anna Hazare to study the like history of Umar bin Abdul Aziz, especially his asceticism before he wages his war against corruption. For instance, It was Umar practice to be abstemious about himself and his family, but in order to keep them from corruption or bribery, he paid his governors a generous salary. So profound was his sense of caution that when he would deceiver fragrant ambers or musk in taxes, he would be afraid of even smelling their fragrances, lest he should be held accountable for taking unfair advantage of his position. Similarly, he was afraid to use the public oven to heat up his water for ablution. Once on a cold night when his servant heated up his water for his bath, he refused to bathe in it. His servant insisted that he must use warm water on such a cold night and that he could pay the Treasury for using the public heat, a solution to which he finally agreed. How far a cry is this from what Muslims and non-Muslims experience in their leaders today, East and West. All of us wield power or authority in our

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lives, and to the extent that we are given authority, we are at the risk of abusing it, and we must therefore be vigilant over ourselves. Not only must we be scrupulous and self-critical, but we must also allow and encourage others to critique us. But none needs careful vigil and criticism more than one who wields power in government over others, as the times we live in so manifestly attest. Dr. Shaan-e-Kareemi, Hindalgah Jail, Belgaum, K.S. VII Mahatama Gandhi swore by the great principle of ahinsa or nonviolence which meant not only non-violence in actions and deeds but even in one thoughts and he practised it throughout his life. He never uttered any harsh or abrasive words against anyone even against his enemies while this is not the case with Anna Hazare who is projected as the second Gandhi by media. He calls the UPA Govt. a mob of liars) and he slams Union Home Minister as a real khordsal (mischief monger) what a great difference between the Mahatma and Hazare. One of the noted devotees of Gandhiji, Prof. Bhansali went to the extent of sewing his mouth when his remarks against someone displeased the Mahatma and vowed that he would not speak because his tongue had displeased Gandhiji and for months he did not speak. By his ungandhian methods means Anna Hazare cannot get a place among the last line of Gandhi bhagats. Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, Ex-MP Mayur Vihar Delhi-91 VIII Corruption has become a cancer of the society. Every individual who takes bribes or had to give bribes is a victim of corruption. Corruption led Anna Hazare to agitation for a bill to crush this evil element which is hollowing economic of the country as white-ant eats not only woods but also everything. This time so many ministers and businessmen are languishing in jails due to corruption. Indeed, corruption is not a problem. It will die its own death if sources of corruption be eliminated. What is happening on the ground is that every one of us talks about the symbols of corruption. We think if involved persons to be hanged, the corruption would get its own death. It is a negative thought that has 100% chances of failure. Without addressing the sources of corruption, hoping of rooting out the corruption is just a dream. Government system, education system, educational institutions, syllabus which is being taught in pre-nursery to high level institutions we just read and study how the money to be made and from what sources. Film industries and stories of TV serials turn round the money. They give a dream to every individual of becoming a billionaire overnight. In short word, materialism has been permeated and infiltrated into our society where every time and every moment we discuss only about money and want to learn more tactics and tricks to enhance more sources to get more money. Everyone of us wants a shortcut way to be enlisted in the list of billionaires. This materialism is a great source of corruption which cannot be removed except hard work and some constructive efforts. Abdul Hannan Siwani Nadwi, Jedda:- 21484, K.S.A ahannan111@yahoo.in IX Big questions:- 1. Can Muslims, being the second largest majority, ever think of such an agitation to push for our legitimate demands for the implementation of Sachar Committee Recommendation, Sri Krishna Commission report, strong anti-communal riots bill, law against fake encounters and implication of innocent youth in terrorist activities. 2. Do we have a reliable leader of Anna's stature? Or can we make somebody our Anna? 3. Can our leader sustain hunger for 12-15 days or more if required? 4. Can our 50-70,000 youths & women sit with patience peacefully at Ramlila ground for two weeks? 5. Not more than 5 million people out 1.2 billion populations would have physically participated in Anna's movement with candle light march all over the country. Can our 3-5 million people out of 200 million or more come out on the street all across the country in support of the movement? 6. Do we have media to support our movement? 7. Last but not the least, do we have a civil society within the community? Think about it. The world is changing. It will happen sooner or latter. Ham dekhenge; laazim hai ke ham bhi dekhenge woh din ke jiska waada hai; jo lauh-e-azal pe likha hai; ham dekhenge jab zulmo sitam ke koh-e-geran rui ki tarah ud jaayenge ham mahkumon ke paaon tale yeh dharti dhad dhad dhadkegi aur ahle hukum ke sar upar jab bijlik kad kad kadkegi ham dekhenge; laazim hai ke ham bhi dekhenge jab arz-e-khuda ke kaabe se sab but uthwae jayenge ham ahl-e-safa mardood-e-haram masnad par bithaye jaayenge sab taaj uchhale jaayenge; sab takht giraye jaayenge aur raaj karegi khalq-e-khuda; jo main bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho Murshid Kamal President, JMI Alumni Assoc., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kamalmurshid@yahoo.com X As NGOs are generally opposed to the government, would it be right to give this government (Center & states included ) who were involved in jailing many award winning peaceful activists like Binayak Sen branding them Maoist accomplices & many a fake encounters & tortures, even persecuting the high police officers speaking up against Modi ... in now going after Baba Ram Dev , Kejriwal, Kiran Bedi & Om Puri for the flimsiest of reasons more tools? There is enough evidence that the state needs no real reason or evidence to go after a citizen that it thinks is threatening its interests. On the contrary we have seen about a dozen RTI activists & whistle blowers killed in the past few years, There is no list of those threatened with grave consequences should they pursue the vocation of exposing the gigantic fraud on people the governance of this country qualifies as. Would be quite a few hundreds of names long if records were kept. Why do not these people writing articles to make it easier to prosecute NGOs see the killing fields they work in & work towards a better governed, democratic India? Laws need to be made based on the reality of our country & the real crying need is to protect such activists & NGOs as urgent priority. Why the big priority of the government & its co-conspirators posing as intellectuals, writing, blogging, talking on TV to make it easier persecute activists & NGOs? Don't they already face enough dangers from the ruling mafia nexus? We have the highest custodial deaths in the world , so our police is already quite apt at torturing citizens. It would seem to me that the government has enough tools

to deal against the citizenry with the police with CVC, CBI, IB all under its control, what more does the government need? Only an excuse to go after you that these new laws are supposed to make it easy to provide . The words & attitude of people like Digvijay , Kapil Sibbal , Chidambram on Anna, his team & the JLP Bill should be a warning to us all. We should not become sarkari collaborators in making life even tougher for the brave citizens battling the big government & fighting for our rights . ajayshooda@yahoo.co.in Pandya murder case The recent acquittal of eight Muslim suspects in the Haren Pandya murder case has intensified the mystery surrounding the case. The former home minister of Gujarat was assassinated in broad daylight eight years ago but the investigating agencies seem to be back to square one with recent release of 12 suspects. Will they have to start from the scratch? the slain ministers courageous wife vows that she will leave no stones unturned in ensuring that the guilty is brought to book.Narendra Modi must be questioned by court. A.M.Lakhani, Ahmedabad lakhani63@yahoo.com II The premier investigation organisation CBI is boldly misused by ruling parties at the Centre. Now court says, CBI botched up the case of Haren Pandya murder case. CBI illegally implicated 12 innocent Muslim youths. Haren Pandya was killed on 26 March 2003. His father and wife have been saying that Haren murder was politically motivated. CBI court convicted these Muslim youths but Gujarat HC tore the CBI theory and said CBI botched up Muslim youths who are kept in jail for 9 yrs. without any fault. HC said that for such shoddy investigation, the investigating officers should be held responsible. This type of version cannot check injustices in recent years courts version widely appreciated but is it sufficient? S. Haque, Patna Violence in the DNA of Narendra Modi Narendra Modi has recently said that the anti-corruption movement headed by Anna Hazare has reinforced confidence in the strength of non-violence. He further said that past and the present proves the fact that non-violence is in the DNA of Indians. In fact Narendra Modi was the mastermind of horrible Gujarat violence. Anti-Muslim dance of death and destruction was a well planned conspiracy of Modi, his Govt. and party. A 9-member high level tribunal of retired Supreme Court Judges, eminent Journalists and Human Rights Activists held Modi, his Govt. and party responsible for Gujarat violence and genocide. They had demanded arrest and prosecution of these criminals. Tribunal 600 pages report titled Crimes against Humanity was released by Justice P.B. Sawant at the Press Club of India, New Delhi. It was submitted to president of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. In his address to the nation Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee had called Gujarat violence a blot on the fair name of India, and matter of national shame. All this prove that violence is in the DNA of Narendra Modi. G. Hasnain Kaif, Bhandara (M.S.) 441904 Murder of RTI activist Shehla Masood On the 1st of September 2011 BJP MP is all praise for the slain young RTI activist Shehla Masood in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. He has admitted that he knew her as a brave activist and a very good friend. He said, it hurt us deeply to know about her murder. We want justice for Shehla. All this when the CBI has knocked on his door, on finding that he had talked to Shehla the day she was murdered. He did not find it necessary to volunteer this information to the police. He also did not find it necessary to react when the MP police took the first step in hushing up the murder. Within hours of the shooting the MP police had floated the suicide theory. Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400054 drmookhi@hotmail.com Factors affecting Muslim unity A particular sect among Muslims now for many decades has been resorting to extremistic, obscurantist and parochial stance. They have been damaging the Muslim unity. Their influence can be felt from local level to global one. The righteous ulema have always rejected them. The worst manifestation of this movement has been that it belittles the spiritual and tolerant aspects of Islam. The propagandists of this movement mislead the masses by interpretational distortion of the Quranic text and Hadith. Apparently they seem to be referring to the Quran and Hadith but owing to their shallow and superficial knowledge about the basic sources of Islam often land into quagmire and confusion. Sometimes they even dare to damn the laborious works done by the founders of four schools of Islamic thought (viz;Hanafi,Shafai,Habali and Maliki) without understanding their respective modus operandi. Though one is at liberty to differ but methodology these people adopt is funny and unscholarly. They often dub their fellow Muslims either mushrik or kafir. They are hell-bent to erode the spiritual basis of Islam and do often assail the spiritual mentors. Need of the hour is to expose this movement to prevent the Ummah from this nuisance. Nasir Hussain Peerzadah, Mallabagh, Srinagar nhpzd07@yahoo.com Practice of second marriage Islam no doubt has given conditional permission to get marry for second and third wife. The husband will provide them equal status. The husband should not be diverted towards one wife and neglect other wife. In India it was recorded that non Muslims are greater in numbers than Muslims who have married more than one wife. Muslims marry the second wife only in case the first wife is suffering from some disease or infertile. The Muslims need not diverse the first wife he has to maintain both the wives. But in Hinduism the first wife has to be divorced. Is it not injustice towards the first wife? Some of the non Muslims convert to Islam and get marry. We can remind the example of Dharminder and Hema Malini. Islam has done justice to the women folk. In the olden days The Rajas and Maharajas used to marry or maintain hundreds of wives and concubines. It was gross injustice to the ladies. Islam restricted to the 4 wives with subject to the condition of equal justice among them. Those who blame Islamic rules take cognizance of the hidden merit

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in them. Media is in the habit of criticism on Islamic Laws citing the example of Osama Bin Ladin. He had five wives and a dozens of children. His practice should not be treated as abiding by Islamic Laws. He was blamed by international media for political reasons Dr Maqdoomi, Hyderabad drmaqdoomi@yahoo.com Thought process We think about our body and mind all the time. We think of food and drink. We think about good clothes and think for the nourishment of our body. Our mind desires many things. We are drowned in sorrow when our desires and worldly pleasures remain unfulfilled. Body and mind cannot drive us to peace. Body and mind are restless. They want more and more. This perishable body with mind should be regarded as only means for realizing eternal reality. The body should be considered as an iron safe, in which the precious jewels of good qualities and good actions are kept. It is these qualities that should be cherished. We find the world deplorable because our conduct and actions are not good and pure. We do not walk on the path suggested by our beloved Prophet. We recite Quran but do not choose the path of righteousness. We must realize that slavery of body with mind is harmful. The perishable body cannot give eternal peace. Nazneen Saherwala nazsita@yahoo.co.in Luxury hospitals; poor patients It is nice to know that a Supreme Court Bench of Justices R V Raveendrana and A K Patnaik asked the city hospitals to reserve 25 per cent of their out-patient department capacity and 10 per cent of beds at the indoor level for free treatment of the poor. This is the understanding given by the private hospitals in their land-lease agreements. It is the court contention that the hospitals cannot "wriggle out" of their responsibility to treat the poor free of cost. The signatories of these solemn agreements know well that such an undertaking is meant to remain on paper only. The party of the first part does not fulfil the undertaking and the party of the second part does not enforce it. In all probabilities, the signatory on behalf of the government has been generally squared up. Besides, a free bed in a seven star luxury hospital is not a workable idea. It is like inviting a labourer with his wife on a construction site for a free lunch at Oberoi Sheraton. He will opt for a plateful of food which he may eat in the shadow of that very hotel. Each one of such hospitals, instead, should be made to construct a modest hospital and a good primary health care centre in an area easily approachable by the poor. Such cottage hospital or a PHC [primary health care] centre may be run by the government or an NGO while the luxury hospital may foot the bill for its maintenance. Perhaps the luxury hospitals may grab the idea if it can keep the smelly Indian away from the medical tourists. Dr Mookhi Amir Ali, Santacruz West, Mumbai 400054 drmookhi@hotmail.com Commercialization of Education Indians have to lament that education in the country has now become a thriving industry. Admissions to technical institutions and to institutions imparting education in professional courses are given on the basis of donations touching six figures. In flagrant violation of Indian constitution which provides for free and compulsory education to students up to the age of 14, public schools are charging thousand of rupees as fees from the parents and guardians of students not once but after every three months that is at least thrice during one academic session. These public schools are public only in name but are really centres of worst kind of exploitation which is the norm of private sector or privatization. One has to pay for admission forms of universities not on payment of amount. Mr. Kapil Sibal HRD minister will really do a national service by adopting strong preventive, measures against commercialization of education and implement the provisions of the constitution for giving free and compulsory education to students up to the age of 14. Dr. M.H. Kidwai, Ex M.P. Mayur Vihar, New Delhi Congratulation, Abhyanand! Abhyanand is credited to have supported downtrodden and educationally backwards Muslims to excel in education through Rahmani30 Coaching Institute. He is founder and mentor of Rahmani-30. Abhyanand has been appointed as DGP of Bihar. Muslims of India and particularly Muslims of Bihar congratulate him and expect the same from his new assignments. S. Haque, Patna Keon bane cororepati After the declarations of assets, the central government ministers it was noted that they are the owners of crores of rupees. The question arises how they could amass such a huge amount. They cannot earn out of service, business, agriculture etc the only source is out of corruption. The crorepati ministers should explain how they could earn huge amount. Even after owning the capital why they take salaries and allowance If they have the love of nation they should serve honourably, with out remuneration. Sorry to say that the prime minister who looks innocent has so much cash with him. He should stop taking salary and work honourably. They must allow the CBI to inquire about the other assets which might have been missed. It will be better if all the crorpati ministers credit this amount to national exchequer. It will be a noble gesture and a snub to Anna Hazare. Dr Maqdoomi Hyderabad drmaqdoomi@yahoo.com Heinous crime against women In a shocking incident in Nagpur, in-laws and husband of a just married girl threw her out of the house for dowry even before the bride could get out of her wedding attire. 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atrocities against newly married girls and horrible bride burning crimes for dowry have been taking place in India since long, particularly in the majority community. Religious leaders, social reformers, human rights activists, women organisations etc. must try to eradicate such in-human practice and heinous crime. Such criminals must be awarded strict punishments including capital sentence. G. Hasnain Kaif, Bhandara 441904 Banking policy It is really heartening that at least one political party (CPI-M) has thought about opposing the UPA government's latest move to allow corporate bigwigs to open banks.. One must remember that, the global economic tsunami of 2008 could be withstood by our country owing to robust foundations in our banking policy, and a similar challenge in future also can be met, if they are allowed to remain stronger. Wouldnt the increase in the FDI cap in sectors like banking give the reins of huge domestic savings made by crores of Indians into the hands of handful industrialists? In that case, won't it defeat the very purpose of nationalisation which envisioned the concept of people's money for people's welfare? Syed Sultan Mohiddin, Kadapa (A.P) sultan_awaz@yahoo.co.in Gujarat Lokayukta First time since Modi became Chief Minister, Governor of Gujarat has invoked special powers and appointed a lokayuta in Gujarat without waiting for a recommendation from State Government of Modi. That is one of the bold steps taken by the Governor, which is guaranteed by the constitution of India. In fact, Modi and his cabinet are involved in every type of unconstitutional activities. Now Modi cries and tried to project the constitutional act of Governor as unconstitutional. Modi Government spokesperson Jaynarayan Vyas said that act is not in the spirit of the constitution. Jaynarayan contention is foolish. Gujarat Government is looking worried. Governor of Gujarat have exercised her constitutional powers according to Gujarat Lokayukta Act, 1986 Clause 3(1) that clearly stated, For the purpose of conducting investigations in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the Governor shall, by Warrant under his hand and seal, appoint a person to be known as Lokayukta. Under the Act, the Governor was the appointing authority and he or she should consult the Chief Justice of the High Court and the leader of the Opposition of the Assembly. There is no question of bypassed the entire government as expressed by Vyas. Now time has come to act by the central Government of UPA and Impose Presidents rule in the State of Gujarat under Article 356 of the Constitution of India. Zuber Ahmed Khan, Navi Mumbai 410210 contact.z@rediffmail.com Fast food Food is a major component for survival and thus a basic necessity of mankind. Thus its important to eat a healthy and balanced diet to lead a healthy life style. However, of late, multinational fast-food chains have rapidly taken over most shopping malls and local markets. In a bid to cash in on the growing trend of Indians eating out, fast food chains such as McDonald's India, Dominos Pizza, Pizza Hut, KFC and Yo! China are charting out plans to enter new Tier II and III markets, apart from penetrating deeper into existing markets. It is a developing world today and a general tendency of people to get easily acquainted with luxury and laziness. This is where the concept of fast food chains figures. These days, children and young people are seen in Dominos and Pizza huts with wallet in their hands enjoying their weekends. Call it a junk or fast food chains which have spread like an epidemic is creating obesity and related problems. There are only a handful of people who have the correct BMI (body mass index). Thus we see people spending loads of money treating their medical disorder. Indeed, the Fast food chains have become flavour of the season along with which unhealthy lifestyle is also emerging rapidly. Mohd Ziyaullah Khan, Nagpur 440013 writeziya@gmail.com Sympathy of sex workers In a recent judgement, the Honbe Supreme Court has expressed its deep sympathy for sex workers and has observed that they are forced to enter into flesh trade by horrible poverty. It has directed State and Central Government to frame schemes for their vocational training to lead a dignified life. One wished that similar sympathy and deep concern is expressed by the Honble Court for the unemployed of the country and directs the Central and State Government to give unemployment allowance to the unemployed. Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, ex-MP Mayur Vihar Delhi-91 Sports under the purview of RTI In an era of utmost openness and transparency where even the deeds of judiciary is demanded to be under the public eye, ironically we see the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), calling itself a private club consortium, is fighting tooth and nail to prevent bringing it under the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act. However, the sports control bill was rejected in the house after it was presented by the sports minister Mr. Ajay Maken, he was asked to redraft the same. The bill targets the sports body by asking 25% of reservation for ex sportsmen and age limit, however, the BCCI claims that since it is a private club thus should remain untouched by this bill, though the fact is, that this very board gets a tax exemption, land from government and many such privileges. Its an undisputable fact that it is a secretive body remains with little transparency and practically no accountability. Many episodes from the matchfixing scandal of 2000 to the World Cup debacle in 2007 and the scandalous IPL saga, it is over and again proven that the BCCI has many skeletons in its cupboard. The devastating 4-0 loss to England is just a signal that all is not well with the Indian cricket team. What surety the crazy Indian cricketing millions have that its decisions would not cause irreparable damages to Indian cricket? And many believe that bringing transparency and accountability in its functioning will work for its benefit. Express your opinions on bring BCCI under the RTI act. Mohd Ziyaullah Khan, Nagpur 440013 writeziya@gmail.com

Press silence on corrupt bureaucrats Today corruption is all-pervasive in the country and has deeply affected all walks of life. It can be effectively checked and eliminated when not only highly effective and strict laws are passed, deterrent exemplary punishment is given to the guilty and very strong public opinion is mobilized against this cancer. Surely, press can do a lot in this matter. But it is distressing that the press has miserably failed to perform its duty in so far as corrupt bureaucrats are concerned. It has done a real national service by exposing corrupt politicians and political leaders by highlighting their highly deplorable scams and has rightly condemned them on their venality, it has ignored the fact that the politicians could not get away with corruption without the active assistance of bureaucrats. In fact, bureaucrats have beaten the politicians in this nasty and sordid game of amassing wealth. Hardly any day passes when we do not read reports of CBI raids at the residences of bureaucrats both serving or retired and come to know the details of their amassing wealth amounting to several crores and about their highly disproportionate assets. The most suitable example of this is that of a former Chief Secretary of UP who had amassed wealth amounting to crores. Silence of the press over the corruption of bureaucrats on such a vast scale cannot be condoned. Dr. M. Hashim Kidwai, Ex M.P. Mayur Vihar, New Delhi Should UN support Indias agitation against corruption? With democratic uprising going-on in North Africa & Middle East (NAME) countries - which entails increased and serious commitment of USA, its democratic allies and UN (who are intervening in NAME countries, even militarily, in the interest of democracy) to ensure corruption free democratic political culture through-out the world - it is imperative that UN Convention against corruption should be taken more seriously by USA, its allies & UN. To be fair to USA, when India cried foul on the comment of State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland - who when was asked about the "demonstration going on in India and police brutality against the people who are having peaceful demonstrations against corruption" with a special emphasis on protest against corruption to be held on August 16, led by Anna Hazare, said in Washington that ["as you know, we support the right of peaceful, non-violent protest around the world. That said, India is a democracy and we count on India to exercise appropriate democratic restraint in the way it deals with peaceful protest"], USA did not express any regret and did not become apologetic on this comment of Victoria. In Indian context: (1)- UN may depute observers in Delhi and other parts of India. (2)Too much individual centric IACM has again shown its pitfalls. This is evident from the fact that: - (i)- Anna movement could not achieve what was possible to achieve given huge public support including support of people who came on streets. (ii)- The unnecessary rigidity of arbitrarily chosen (and some team members arbitrarily dropped) Anna team and its uncalled-for provocation to Government / Parliament, harmed the interests of IACM. Hem Raj Jain, Jay Nagar, Bangaluru-560041 jainhemraj1945@gmail.com FBI organizes Terror Plots in the US (MG Sep 1-15) Not only FBI, there is a well funded movement to create a well organized Islamophobia among the Americans by conservative foundations. A small number of conservative foundations are propelling a handful of anti-Islamic activists who are fueling rising levels of Islamophobia, in the USA according to a report issued on 26th August 2011by the left-leaning Center for American Progress. The 130-page report identifies seven conservative funders who between 2001 and 2009 gave $42.6 million to eight anti-Islamic causes; most of them headed by individuals who critics say form an organized network. The report is the latest among recent reports by CNN, The New York Times and The Tennessean that scrutinize these organizations. Authors of the CAP report hope the public pressure will persuade donors to stop funding these groups. The intention of this report is simple. We want to end Islamophobia," said Faiz Shakir, a report author. The Donor Capital Fund in Alexandria, Va., was the single biggest funder and made the single biggest gift, $18 million, to the Clarion Fund, which in 2008 paid millions of dollars to disseminate an anti-Muslim DVD through local newspapers. The next three largest funders named in the report were foundations belonging to newspaper publisher Richard Mellon Scaife ($7.9 million); the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation ($5.4 million); and the Russell Berrie Foundation ($3.1 million) these are all well known anti-Islam groups and individuals like Daniel Pipes. Besides the Clarion Fund, other funding recipients include the website www.jihadwatch.com; the Middle East Forum headed by academic Daniel Pipes; the Investigative Project on Terrorism headed by former CNN reporter Steven Emerson; and the Center for Security Policy, headed by Frank Gaffney, a former defence official in the Reagan administration all of them notorious bigots who try hard to undermine the growth of Islam in the U.S. Kodimirpal (via email) Declare Navi Mumbai a separate District Declare Harbor Line separate zone, like Central a Western. Navi Mumbai is the twin city to Mumbai, has population about 20 to 25 lakhs. Unfortunately did not have its own identity. Half Navi Mumbai comes under the Thane district and half under Alibagh district. Now it is the proper time to declare Navi Mumbai a separate district and notified in the Maharashtra Assembly. New Mumbai limit should start from Vashi Gaon to New Panvel and from Taloja Central Jail to Vashi Gaon. Session Court is also not having proper jurisdiction. Upto CBD Belapur Thane Session Court have jurisdiction onward from Khargahr, Taloja, Kalamboli, panvel, Alibag Session Court have jurisdiction. Residents of Kalamboli, Taloja, New Panvel, Kharghar used to move Alibag for any district level work. In the same way for Session Court work, they will have to move upto Alibagh that is the wastage of time and money of public. Harbor railway line is becoming one of the busy railway lines. It should be declaring a separate zone like central and western. Zuber Ahmed Khan Navi Mumbai 410210 contact.z@rediffmail.com

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