Commonalty

Whirl of anxiety, fear of terror and war

Mustafa Khan

Even Keel 9028225763 mustafakhan1948@gmail

Books by the same author

First Hindutva Genocide of Muslims and its Architect (January 26,

2014)

Aggressive Hindutva terrorism and Malegaon (January 30, 2014)

Decade of the Demagogue and His Demagoguery (January 30, 2014)

Mass-Terror Atrocities on Muslims for a Hindu Rashtra (January 30, 2014)

Premeditated Framing of Innocent Muslims in False Terror Charges (March 20, 2014)

Ishrat Jahan : sacrificed at the altar of Hindutva Moloch

Narendra Modi and his pack: the terror streak (April 29, 2014)

Muzaffarnagar, fury and ferocity (April 10, 2014)

Polarizing India in attempt to Hinduize it (February 27, 2015)

Indian Muslims’ continuing agony (July 12, 2015)

Elephant in the room, radicals and the radicalized (September 25, 2015)

Enemies of living together (2015)

Renaissance at the JNU (April 9 2016)

Plague of the pellet guns (October 30, 2016)

Towards designing a new syllabus

Malegaon Revisited (2021)

Plundering Hindustan in the name of Hindutva (2020)

Kashmir: caught between the Scylla of terror and Charybdis of counter terror (2022)

Content

Introduction

Chapter 1 Circulating a poem is Naxal terror!

Chapter 2 Islam Today

Chapter 3 One and only one book

Chapter 4 Islam and Blaspheme

Chapter 5 Police and terrorism, Khwaja Yunus

Chapter 6 Coleen Rowley

Chapter 7 Islam and Turncoats

Chapter 8 Khalid Sheikh Mohammad

Chapter 9 Democracies can be reformed

Chapter 10 Uncertainties over recognition of Talib

Chapter 11 Afia Siddiquy, Muzammil

Chapter 12 President G W Bush

Chapter 13 Sopore

Chapter 14 Poland

Chapter 15 Moeed Yusuf

Chapter 16 Anathema of duo

Chapter 17 Terrorism Thesaurus

Chapter 18 To pick on Pakistan is to pick out Pakistan

Chapter 19 Pakistan more logical option

Chapter 20 take out nuclear arsenal

Chapter 21 Meltdown

Chapter 22 Confrontation

Chapter 23 When and how

Chapter 24 Will gouge eyes

Chapter 25 Reckoning with destiny

Chapter 26 has India lost

Chapter 27 Reckoning destiny

Chapter 28 The tragic shift in Kashmir

Chapter 29 The invisible hand

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Why the world’s quest for justice is in jeopardy?

The International Criminal Court, established in 2002, seeks to hold to account those guilty of some of the world’s worst crimes. Champions of the court say it deters would-be war criminals, bolsters the rule of law, and offers justice to victims of atrocities. Despite having such a senior authority, the world still finds itself fighting for justice for crimes against humanity, laments Mustafa Khan

Mustafa Khan

14 October 2021

It is necessary in the turmoil of the US force’s withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the taking over governance by the Taliban to keep in mind the nature and function of the International Criminal Court. International Criminal Court came into existence on July 1, 2002. It will prosecute individuals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes but the we are witnissing how the world’s quest for justice is still in jeapardy.

The human rights violations world over can be tried and punished hereafter. That was how it came into existence. But not what with Afghanistan and all we need it more than that time as the crimes and cruelty of that year have accumulated more and with horrible results.

Two fateful events marked the beginning of July 2002

Early that day American gun-ships attacked four villages of Uruzgan province of Afghanistan at 2 am Monday local time. In the village of Deh Rawud, a wedding party was going on. The Americans brought the village under sustained bombardment for more than an hour, killing forty people (unofficial toll at least 150) including 25 members of a single-family, and wounding more than a hundred others.

Ground reality shows that the victims were innocent. Mostly children and women were victims. A girl was seriously injured and her party dress was heavily soaked with blood, her parents had died in the attack. After the attack, the US soldiers on the ground came to the village and caught a man called Abdul Qayyum and began to tie his hands where his neighbors protested and told them that he was an old man and had done nothing unlawful.

George W Bush is wrong to say that a “friendly fire was responsible for the incident.” The precedent to such a hostile fire is that of January 23, 2002, when the village of Hazare Qadam came under the American attack in which 16 innocent people lost their lives and 27 were taken prisoners later released because they hadn’t committed any crime. What have the Americans and the Afghan authorities done forever the victims? Except expressing condolences and resolve to continue fighting terrorism they have done nothing.

July 1, 2002, will certainly be another unforgettable for a different reason

An event of great civilizational value like December 10, 1948, Universal Declaration of Human Rights as on that Monday the International Criminal Court has come into the existence. It was on July 17, 1998, in Rome that 120 countries voted to establish the International Criminal Court. Since then, 139 countries have signed for establishing and 76 have ratified.

Among the non-governmental organizations, Amnesty International advocated for it most ardently. Some 160 countries have approved the ICC and only 7 have objected and among them are the United States and Israel. The US had earlier had shown great enthusiasm for such a court and then most, unfortunately, has developed cold feet and obviously, the ramification is serious.

International Criminal Court will prosecute individuals accused of genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes. There will be 18 judges and a prosecutor elected by the ratifying countries. This is a great step forward in the protection of human rights and international jurists and justice. Now individuals have a right in the international law that would safeguard their right not to be tortured right to life and dignity. Even such countries as revolutionary Iran and the conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia will have to be cautious of their dispensation of justice.

Every ratifying member country should try any one of its national citizens within its own jurisdiction who is accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, like rape or war crimes. If such a country fails in this, a victim is entitled to go to ICC and seek prosecution of the perpetrator of crimes against humanity. This is recognized as the principle of complementarity.

Crimes committed before July 1 2002 do not come under the purview of ICC

This is known as the principle of non-complementarity; the rule of complementarity is a breath of fresh air in the fetid atmosphere of oppression and suppression that is commonly found in countries like Rwanda and former Yugoslavia. This would deter countries where national courts conduct sham trials or fail to investigate such crimes at all.

A close look into the reservations of some countries about the ICC reveals the untoward practices that they are prone to do. The Israelis signed the treaty on the last day of December 2001, the deadline for signing despite the unequal record of occupation of the Palestinian lands and excessive force against civilians. A boy about ten years was cowering in the arms of his father when an Israeli soldier aimed at the head and blew it up in the arms of his father.

On the one hand, the Israelis have abducted former Nazi officials from Latin America, taken them to Israel to stand trial for crimes against humanity and the Israeli courts sentenced them to life imprisonment. They call it with pride as democratic legislation for universal prosecution of war criminals and cite the example of Adolf Eichmann’s trial of 1961, on the other hand, their deadly Apache helicopters (freely given by the US) have spewed death on the ground, in total defiance of the international community. They insouciantly declare it as their acct of self-defense. The UN General Assembly resolutions for censoring Israeli have been vetoed umpteen times. In the most partisan manner by Israeli’s closest ally, the United States. They indifferently call the UN reactions biased.

There are indications that this would continue ever after ICC has come into force

Ariel Sharon and other Zionists believe that the UN is against them and this gives them impunity to carry on their oppression. The Israelis smugly shrugged off the idea of someone making an appeal in Belgium court for trying Ariel Sharon for the massacre of Palestinians in the infamous Sabra and Shatila camps in 1983. They are contemptuous of Germany even entertaining the Palestinians who are going to appeal to the German Court to try Ariel Sharon for crimes against humanity and war crimes and genocide.

However, the setting up of ICC is a watershed in international justice. The existence of ICC will have a sobering effect, it would deter the potential violators of human rights as for East Timor’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose-Harta said about the Indonesian general Wiranto, who was responsible for genocide: “In this day and age you cannot kill hundreds of people, destroy a whole country, and then just get fired.”

And brush the world reaction under the carpet of bias. Hence the first loophole of the international court, how to prosecute someone who is a national of a country which has not ratified the treaty of ICC or a country that treats international concern of its record of human rights abuse as bias against it and with which the only superpower now left in the world readily concurs.

The continued torture of Gujrati Muslims also deserves mention here though violence had started before July 1, 2002. Thousands of riot-affected people in Ahmedabad and elsewhere in Gujarat were forced out of the relief camps and this has continued even after July 1; are they not entitled to international justice as their right to life and right to dignity and right to equality is denied? All this despite the promise of rehabilitation! Out in the monsoon rains with no shelter and sans succor! In one such case, a man who lost his house received just Rs 70 as compensation.

A girl took the government cheque from the hands of her father and tore it because her house had cost several lakhs and the government had sanctioned a meager two thousand rupees The denial of human rights constitutes crimes against humanity still continues though., the carnage happened several months ago. The riot-affected are from the minority Muslim community which has very few doctors to treat its wounded and burnt and even fewer lawyers to plead their cases in the courts. And all this on account of the boycott of the majority community’s guilds of doctors and lawyers. What about their plight? These unlucky people of Gujarat are also the victims of a Milosevic, albeit a desi one.

Will the Dutch lawyers take up their cases at ICC?

The other and most notable queasy country about ICC is the United States of America. President Bill Clinton had signed the treaty to establish ICC on December 31, 2000, and President George W Bush asked for the withdrawal of the US signature on May 6 2002. Then a week before the ICC came into life the Americans decided to withdraw from the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia unless they are given immunity from prosecution against war crimes.

The Americans are clearly paranoid and their delusion of prosecution is born of the guilt that surrounds such events as the attack on Hazar Qadam and the Uruzgam massacre. Earlier they tried to have immunity for their peacekeepers in East Timor and failed, Noam Chomsky in his book on the rogue state shows that the US soldiers are involved in the genocide of the East Timorians. The Americans are clearly paranoid and their delusion of persecution is born of the guilt that surrounds such events as the attack on Hazar Qadam and the Urusgam massacre.

Earlier they tried to have immunity for their peacekeepers in Timor and failed. Noam Chomsky in his book on the rogue states shows that the US soldiers are involved in the genocide of the East Fomorians. The Americans knew in their hearts that their soldiers cannot have a chance for acquittal in the ICC. Today they may feel protected in the umbrage of immunity of the UN peacekeeping mission. This might be true of the 15 peace-keeping missions of the UN prior to July 1. But there is a clear change now. The UN cannot go against the ICC hereafter.

It may look all too trifle that the US does not want to join the ICC for the sake of immunity for its soldiers involved in peacekeeping missions. It wants the Security Council to give immunity to its forces of peacekeepers. Anyway, the US peacekeepers do have immunity from prosecution and it is extended until the end of the current 15 missions in which the Americans have not threatened to withdraw all the 3100 soldiers from Bosnia. More than half of them are policing the area.

Only a handful are training the local people and the US wants to withdraw them. But it also threatens to drop the 27 percent of the expenditure incurred on the mission in Bosnia. Then what does the action of the US vis-a-vis ICC portends? The US is attacking the integrity of the treaty of ICC. It is now the only superpower left in the world and it does not want to be accountable to anyone.

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Savarkar as father of the nation is abomination/utterly unacceptable

It is strange that someone should look at the misogynist Savarkar as hero let alone as father of the nation. When his wife died, he refused to see her dead body. That is what the biographer of Savarkar wrote in his book, a biography of Savarkar in Marathi. That the writers of Freedom at Midnight Dominique-Lapierre have quoted Gopal Godse about his sexual orientation is even more shameful. That he gave the guns to kill Mahatma Gandhi is history.

Terror came to India through Savarkar. The assassination of the magistrate of Nasik by the gun supplied by VD Savarkar. It happened in 1909 Arthur Jackson had earned name for his scholarship in Sanskrit, his scholarship in orientalism and praise by the ‘nationalist’ leaders of India then. But those who subscribed to Abhinav Bharat Society of Savarkaer were extreme radicals. Ganesh Savarkar was elder brother of Savarkar. Anant Laxma Kanhere and the eldest of Savarkars Baba Rao Savarkar who published 16 pages of Kavi Govind’s poetry drew the attention of the Magistrate and he recommended prosecution of Baba Rao that angered Ganesh. A conspiracy was hatched against him. Anant Kanhare was a student in Aurangabad. The Abhinav Bharat Society founded by VD Savarkar was busy in sedition. Babarao had printed 16 pages of poetry by Kavi Govind. Jackson recommended prosecution of Babarao. Krishnaji Karve and his group decided to assassinate Jackson about ten days later. Fate intervened when Jackson was promoted to become the Commissioner of Bombay. A grand function to give a farewell to Jackson was arranged by the people. Anant Kanhere threw himself before Jackson and shot him dead. There were two officers Palshekar and Todalmal who attacked Anant. Shortly after it Anant was hanged, Vinayak Deshpande and Karve were also hanged for hatching the conspiracy. Even, their ashes were thrown into the sea near Thane. This is the primordial prototype of terror in the subcontinent. There were three-tier terrorists. Anant was the first. He tried to poison himself after killing but was prevented; second was Vinayak next and the third was Karve. So inveterate they were!

In contrast is the compulsive ideology of President George Bush vis-à-vis “either you are with us or against us”. In fact, even earlier Pakistan had facilitated the US to establish relationship with the Chinese. But then the Russians invaded Afghanistan. Al Qaida was not the figment of Pakistan’s imagination. But to drive them out Pakistan was coerced to ‘terrorism’ that was the hallmark of the US. President General Musharraf had to side with the US against the Al Qaida. This was Hobson’s choice imposed on Pakistan by the Americans. They used them to drive the Russians out of the subcontinent and then turned against those Talibans who were brothers-in -arms against the communists. Osama bin laden and his followers were armed for this. Pakistan was used against Russian hegemony and then against the Talibans and Osama.

However, foreign policy is fickle. PM AB Vajpayee and Narendra Modi came under the influence of Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis who opined that even the innards of the Muslims are full of blood of their victims including their neighbour. Vajpayee went to the Goa conclave in 2002 to dismiss Modi on account of the genocide of Muslims earlier in the same year. Within a week of 9/11 attack in a debate attended by Dr Rafik Zakarya, Narendra Modi, Rajdeep Sardesai, etc; a new coinage appeared on the scene, Islamic terrorism that has provenance in the Islamic scripture. This was planted by Modi and thus began a pursuit of blaming Muslims as terrorists while Hindus cannot be terrorists because it is not in their blood. This is the most pernicious doctrine from hell. Revenge from hell as was Satan’s. This has willfully persisted into our own time where India has sided with Afghanistan. The Americans are leaving Afghanistan and Indians are replacing the Americans in the vacuum. The fallout came on a platter: the bombing of the head office of Inter- Services Intelligence coinciding with PM Imran Khan’s scheduled visit there.

The departure of the US forces from Afghanistan is now another chess board spread before the subcontinent. Towards end of June there were events which show that old rivalries between India and Pakistan and Afghanistan have reappeared. The front of Hafeez Saeed’s house was bombed. This is obviously a provocation by the Indian side. The reprisal was quick when drones dropped bombs on Jammu air force base.

The assassination of Arthur Jackson or Delhi February 2020pogroms of Muslims have assumed hiatus in significance. The first was killing of a single person while the latter is manslaughter on a much larger scale of those who were Indian. Their regretful situation is that they were humiliated by Anuraj Thakur and Kapil Mishra. The Indian Nero once again fiddled away his time and did nothing. But the situation in the face of India sending 50000 more troops to eastern Ladakh and bombing air force base in Jammu have different implications. It was very narrow mindedness of the government of rightwing Hindus to throw all precaution and fair mindedness to the wind. And exhorting to shoot the “traitors” meaning Indian Muslims. The world also neglected what was transpiring in India and the whole subcontinent. India’s stance on Pakistan especially on the Kashmir issue leaves out much that is desirable. Moreover, India is confronting China without being aware of the economic strength of the Chinese. It was Modi who had invited the Chinese President XI Jingpin to India especially to his own Gujarat state raising the heckling of the local regional parties like Shiv Sena. And India that is so provincial and sectarian can hardly face China. Moreover, the economic development of theirs is far greater than India’s. Bombing Hafiz Saeed’s house in retaliation of Mumbai attack in 2008 but ignoring the grafted liquidation of Heman Karkare raises ugly head of suspicion. Why did the government ignore the affidavit in which the accused in 2006 terror attack in Malegaon mentioned that ATS officers had told him that they would take him out of prison after those who were casting aspersion (meaning Hemant Karkare who assumed office on August 1 2008) on their earlier investigation report in which SIMI was blamed for the bomb attacks in Malegaon on September 8, 2006, were removed from their path! This kind of official behavior is typically subcontinental where national matters are subsumed under sectarian consideration.

Now that election in the largest state in UP is near. India has not taken into consideration what Karkare recorded that Abhinav Bharat officers of the right-wing Hindu party had a meeting with Yogi Aditynath and Nepalese royal family was planning to establish a Hindu government and seek help from Israel. They wanted to overthrow the government and establish a Hindu government.

Radha Kumar of Delhi Policy Group believes that it is Pakistan whose stand would have greater leverage on Afghanistan and not India’s the time has come to jettison the familiar hobby horse of blaming Indian Muslims for terrorism! And not to forget that it is Pakistan which is a neighbor of Afghanistan and not India! Riding hobby horses is effete policy in the changing scenario.

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Abrar’s affidavit in the court

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Why its high time India and Pakistan own their mistakes regarding terrorism?

India and Pakistan must own up to mistakes made in this nefarious war on terrorism. India is the largest in the subcontinent and keeping its stature and position must begin the process with the bomb blasts in Malegaon that Lieutenant Colonel Purohit is accused of initiating. In ushering in change, it is what ATS chief Hemant Karkare discovered, argues Mustafa Khan

ByMustafa HYPERLINK "https://www.globalvillagespace.com/author/mustafakhan/" Khan

12 October 2021

It is time for the subcontinent to sound like a retreat from terrorism. Both India and Pakistan should step forward and own their mistakes. The high tide mark, of course, came when Makhanlal Bindroo was shot dead. His grieving orphaned daughter Associate Professor Shradha really spoke eloquently when she quoted the Quran that terrorism opens the door of hell to receive the terrorist. Tears did not well up in her eyes. But those who see her will control their own tears because sense is more important than sensibility.

There has been a multipronged attempt to keep the pressure on the government to release the Hindutva terrorists. Whittling down the gravity of wrongfully arrested Muslims in terror charges has come from a new quarter. Lt Col Prasad Purohit. He has written a letter dated February 22, 2014, to the home minister of the central government, Sushil Kumar Shinde.

Read more: The continued turbulence between India and Pakistan

Why the government is facing pressure?

The letter and his wife Aparna visiting the President of India for the release of her husband are thorny issues. They raise many questions. Purohit is on record saying that he would abrogate the constitution of India and replace it with a Hindutva constitution to establish a Hindu nation. The innocent Muslims framed in false charges of terrorism believed in the constitution and wanted a resolution of their cases within the constitutional provisions.

Many of them were not members of the Students Islamic Movement of India or SIMI and yet were framed to be members and activists of the banned outfit. The police played an active role in the blame game and their subsequent arrest. In contrast to this Hemant Karkare began investigation from ground zero. He and his team came upon the motorcycle used in a bomb attack at Bhiku chowk of Malegaon 2008. Karkare was a fair-minded well-meaning gentleman officer.

In the case of the Malegaon 2006 attack, the NIA gave out that Abrar Ahmad planted the bomb at one place and there was another Muslim youth who planted bombs at another place but he died. Subsequently, the police made the media change the story and said that Abrar was planted in the group of SIMI activists accused in the blasts case. This was being played in the media against the background of the NIA arresting four Hindutva extremists Rajendra Chowdhary, Dhan Singh, Lokesh Sharma and Mohan Narwaria.

Read more: Why South East Asian countries should be on alert for terror activities?

A logical argument would have two postulates

⦁ Abrar as a planter of bombs would make him a terrorist.

⦁ Abrar as the planted mole in the module of terrorists would make him an agent of police or even of Lt Col Prasad Purohit. Abrar’s helping the police to frame the 8 innocent Muslim youths in the 2006 case would then become perjury, an offense for which the maximum punishment is death.

Purohit’s latest move to demand parity in case of the arrested flies in the face of reason because in his Narco test he had said what is rife with graver implications. He had infiltrated two organizations.

The first was SIMI. “While serving as an officer in the Military Intelligence, I was assigned the job of collecting information on terror outfits in the Maharashtra region. I zeroed in on a group in Malegaon, which had helped Simi. I got in touch with this group and convinced them to assemble bombs for our outfit. I even resorted to threatening this group to do the work.”

This assertion of Purohit involves him in the act of perjury because he along with ASP Rajwardhan Sinha had Abrar implicate innocent Muslims in 2006 blasts. Abrar had enticed a friend Hamid Hussein Javed Iqbal to phone Abrar on the handset that Sinha had given Abrar, 9823436809. According to the chit Sinha had given to Abrar, Hamid read out the sentence “whatever you wanted to say you have said. Now listen. Whatever material we wanted to decamp with we have done it but could not bring it in the town.” Sinha had also recorded the conversation between Abrar and Hamid on his phone, 9422250775.

According to Sinha’s order, Abrar was brought to Jagtap farmhouse in Nasik on September 22, 2006, fifteen days after the blasts in Malegaon on September 8, 2006. The above conversation was recorded in the first week of October 2006. There was another dialogue Sinha had instructed Abrar to record on his given phone. According to this Abrar tried his neighbor Shafiq Mohammad Sadiq to call him and utter the sentence: “Don’t betray us Muslims or else the consequences would be serious.” But Shafiq declined to do it. This proves that Sinha tried to implicate three, Abrar, Hamid and Shafiq.

Read more: The whirl of terrorism and RSS’s agenda based politics

Looking back at a distressing incident

In May 2006 Abrar had a costly mobile and had a quarrel with his creditor at the tea shop in a place where arms were seized from Abdullah’s shop. The creditor snatched away Abrar’s mobile. It is said that the phone was so crucial that Abrar used the sitting MLA Rashid Ahmad to recover it. The MLA took the matter to the chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh where it was resolved. Abrar was so bankrupt that he could not afford such a costly mobile. Many believe like his cousin Sajjad Ansari that he was already a police informer in May.

But this contradicts Abrar’s claim that the phone was given to him by Sinha after September 13, 2006. On that day the police check post at Ram Setu had stopped and searched him and brought him to Sinha. The local lawyer Ms. Irfana Hamdani says that the creditor was from the family of Gulzar Buddhu who also wanted to file an affidavit but it was too late to execute it.

The second organization was Abhinav Bharat. His lawyer Shrikant Shivade said after his arrest: “He had mingled with the other accused and attended meetings with them so as to get intelligence information. Purohit had informed his superiors in the army about the meetings and discussions. Purohit had requested the chief of the Army Staff to permit him to disclose about the army operations to the investigating agencies but he was not allowed to do so.” Justice AM Thispay rejected this argument: “This is not prima facie acceptable. If this was the case then logically the Army would have protected Purohit when he has been accused of such serious offences.”

Even more damning for Purohit is that the ATS had said that the bombs assembled in 2006 were similar to the ones assembled by his team in 2008. This leads to a startling revelation of The Milligazette report of April 2008 that arms were seized from the pathology laboratory situated in the basement of a hospital in the camp road area of Malegaon near the Idgah.

Read more: India’s national security challenges and religious extremism

Among the contraband seized were five live RDX explosives, three used RDX explosives, one pistol, a laptop, a scanner, two mobile phones, four fake currency notes of one thousand each, and Rs 5000 in cash. There were three persons arrested: Nitish Ashire, Sahebrao Dhurve and Jitendra Khema.

The three-person belonged to an unknown organization

What is more clinching is the remark of Purohit: “We also decided to use the same modus operandi by planting the bombs on motorcycles,” as was the case in 2006. These revelations of November 15, 2008, mock at what Purohit remarked on February 22, 2014: “The truth… has long been buried under the heap of media and political statements and criticism. So unfortunate is the situation that the case, right from day one of its getting committed to the hon’ble court has been painted in the communal hue,” he has written.

“…When certain media reports are published with no or little understanding of the functioning of the intelligence corps, in my case of military intelligence… the same, I hope, is justly weighed at the top level before taking any cognizance of the same.”

So insistent has the Hindutva extremists become that they are seeking refuge in patriotism. They are oblivious of the fact that Purohit wanted to overthrow the government of a democratic and secular country for the sake of Hindu Rashtra. In the light of this, it is ironic to note that Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raut accompanied Aparna Purohit to meet the president of India on February 18, 2014. He remarked later: “We will fight this [Purohit’s arrest] on the streets of Maharashtra.

A patriot cannot be in jail just for vote bank politics.” Purohit’s elder sister Vasanti said in favor of her brother “In the military court of inquiry, 57 officers vouched for Purohits’s integrity. He has the chief’s commendation card for infiltrating into terrorist organizations. The Maharashtra anti-Terror Squad has commended his intelligence inputs, yet he is in jail for five years.”

Read more: The dynamics of subcontinental terrorism before and after Taliban takeover

The courts, the investigation agencies and the Hindutva political parties like BJP and Shive Sena simply ignore the affidavit of Abrar. He writes there that on October 24th, 2006, he was kept in a lonely building in Deolali artillery camp near Nasik in where Purohit also stayed. Abrar ate his meals with Purohit and met some sadhus. There they were photographs. He has introduced to the ATS officers also and was presented to them as an eyewitness in the 2006 bomb blast case. Purohit and Sinha played the crucial role of inducting him as a witness whom other accused as Noorulhoda had implicated in the case.

Noorulhoda was first arrested in the case and was accused as a planter

Later they told Abrar that he was a witness and now he could not escape the blame. Abrar also had overheard the recording of the confession of Noorulhoda that was going on in the next room. He could hear the confession on the hand-free mobile.

However, two years later Abrar turned hostile. He started accusing Sinha and others of betraying him in making a witness in collusion with his wife Jannatunnis and brother-in-law Farooq Verdha. But equally responsible is the ATS. “The ATS had also planted a witness to support their claim but he later turned hostile, leaving the police red faced.”

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Even so on November 4th, 2011 a news agency quoted NIA sources saying that Abrar was the planter of bombs. “One of nine Muslims arrested for Malegaon had planted bombs for Hindu extremists, says NIA” read the heading of the paper. His motive was money. Therefore, he was not a SIMI activist. However, the judge gave bail to him just over ten days later, on November 16th.

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World’s Quest for Justice

Mustafa Khan

Why its high time India and Pakistan own their mistakes regarding terrorism?

ByMustafa HYPERLINK "https://www.globalvillagespace.com/author/mustafakhan/" Khan

12 October 2021

It is necessary in the turmoil of the US forces withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the taking over governance by the Talibans to keep in mind the nature and function of the International Criminal Court.

International Criminal Court came into existence on July 1 2002. It will prosecute individuals accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. The human rights violations world over can be tried and punished hereafter. That was how it came into existence. But not what with Afghanistan and all we need it more than that time as the crimes and cruelty of that year have accumulated more and with horrible results.

Two fateful events marked the beginning of July 2002. Early that day American gun- ships attacked four villages of Uruzgam province of Afghanistan at 2 a m Monday local time. In the village of Deh Rawud a wedding party was going on. The Americans brought the village under sustained bombardment for more than an hour, killing forty people (unofficial toll at least 150) including 25 members of a single family, and wounding more than a hundred others. Mostly children and women were victims. A girl was seriously injured and her party dress was heavily soaked with blood, her parents had died in the attack. After the attack the US soldiers on the ground came to the village and caught a man called Abdul Qayyum and began to tie his hands where his neighbors protested and told them that he was an old man and had done nothing unlawful.

Ground reality shows that the victims were innocent and President

George W Bush is wrong to say that a “friendly fire was responsible for the incident.” The precedent to such a hostile fire is that of January 23, 2002 when the village of Hazare Qadam came under the American attack in which 16 innocent people lost their lives and 27 were taken prisoners later released because they hadn’t committed any crime. What have the Americans and the Afghan authorities done foaver the victims? Except expressing condolences and resolve to continue fighting terrorism they have done nothing.

July 1, 2002 will certainly be another unforgettable for a different reason. An event of great civilizational value like the December10, 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights as on that Monday the International Criminal Court has come into the existence. It was on July 17, 1998 at Rome that 120 countries voted to establish the International Criminal Court. Since then, 139 countries have signed for establishing and 76 have ratified. Among the non -governmental organizations Amnesty International advocated for it most ardently. Some 160 countries have approved the ICC and only 7 have objected and among them are the United States and Israel. The US had earlier had shown great enthusiasm for such a court and then most unfortunately has developed cold feet and obviously the ramification is serious.

International Criminal Court will prosecute individuals accused of genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes. There will be 18 judges and a prosecutor elected by the ratifying countries. This is a great step forward in the protection of human rights and international jurists and justice. Now individuals have a right in the international law that would safeguard their right not to be tortured right to life and dignity. Even such countries as the revolutionary Iran and the conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia will have to be cautious of their dispensation of justice.

Every ratifying member country should try anyone of its national citizen within its own jurisdiction who is accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, like rape or war crimes. If such a country fails in this, a victim is entitled to go to ICC and seek prosecution of the perpetrator of crimes against humanity. This is recognized as the principle of complementarity. Crimes committed before July 1 2002 do not come under the purview of ICC. This is known as the principle of non-complementarity, the rule of complementarity is a breath of fresh air in the fetid atmosphere of oppression and suppression that is commonly found in countries like Rawanda and former Yugoslavia. This would deter countries where national courts conduct sham trial or fail to investigate such crimes at all.

A close look into the reservations of some countries about the ICC reveals the untoward practices that they are prone to do. The Israelis signed the treaty on the last day of December 2001, the deadline for signing despite the unequal record of occupation of the Palestinian lands and excessive force against civilians. A boy about ten years was cowering in the arms of his father when an IsraeIi soldier aimed at the head and blew it up in the arms of his father.

On the one hand the Israelis have abducted former Nazi officials from Latin America, taken them to Israel to stand trial for crimes against humanity and the Israeli courts sentenced them to life imprisonment. They call it with pride as a democratic legislation for universal prosecution of war criminals and cite the example of Adolf Erichmann’s trial of 1961, on the other hand their deadly Apache helicopters (freely given by the US) have spewed death on the ground, in total defiance of the international community. They insouciantly declare it as their acct of self -defense. The UN General Assembly resolutions for censoring Israeli have been vetoed umpteen times. In the most partisan manner by Israeli’s closest ally, the Unite States. They indifferently call the UN reactions as biased.

There are indications that this would continue ever after ICC has come into force. Ariel Sharon and other Zionists believe that the UN is against them and this gives them impunity to carry on their oppression. The Israelis smugly shrugged off the idea of someone making an appeal in Belgium court for trying Ariel Sharon for the massacre of Palestinians in infamous Sabra and Shatila camps in 1983. They are contemptuous of Germany even entertaining the Palestinians who are going to appeal to the German Court to try Ariel Sharon for crimes against humanity and war crimes and genocide.

However, the setting up of ICC is a watershed in international justice. The existence of ICC will have a sobering effect, it would deter the potential violaters of human rights as for East Timor’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose-Harta said about the Indonesian general Wiranto, who was responsible for genocide: “In this day and age you cannot kill hundreds of people, destroy a whole country, and then just get fired.”

Until that really happens Israel would have the comfort of believing that the Palestinian state does not exist and hence the Palestinians cannot be more than passive observers to the ICC. Nevertheless, the occupied West Bank does come under the jurisdiction of the ICC. Israel could continue its reoccupation of Palestinian land and blowing up of the houses and exiling those whom it does not want, conducting house to house search and killing the hapless victims and abducting Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Yasin with impunity. And brush the world reaction under the carpet of bias. Hence the first loophole of the international court, how to prosecute someone who is a national of a country which has not ratified the treaty of ICC or a country that treats international concern of its record of human rights abuse as bias against it and with which the only superpower now left in the world readily concurs.

The continued torture of Gujrati Muslims also deserves mention here though violence has started before July 1, 2002. Thousands of riot -affected people in Ahmedabad and elsewhere in Gujarat were forced out of the relief camps and this has continued even after July1; are they not entitled to international justice as their right to life and right to dignity and right to equality are denied? All this despite the promise of rehabilitation! Out in the monsoon rains with no shelter and sans succor! In one such a case a man who lost his house received just Rs 70 as compensation. A girl took the government cheque from the hands of her father and tore it because her house had cost several lakhs and the government had sanctioned a meagre two thousand rupees The denial of human rights that constitutes crimes against humanity still continues though, the carnage happened several months ago. The riot affected are from the minority Muslim community which has very few doctors to treat its wounded and burnt and even fewer lawyers to plead their cases in the courts. And all this on account of the boycott of the majority community’s guilds of doctors and lawyers. What about their plight? Will the Dutch lawyers take up their cases at ICC? These unlucky people of Gujarat are also the victims of a Milosevic, albeit a desi one.

The other and most notable queasy country about ICC is the United States of America. President Bill Clinton had signed the treaty to establish ICC on December 31, 2000 and President George W Bush asked for the withdrawal of US signature on May, 6 2002. Then a week before the ICC came into life the Americans decided to withdraw from the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia unless they are given immunity from prosecution against war crimes. The Americans are clearly paranoid and their delusion of prosecution is born of the guilt surrounds such events the attack on Hazar Qadam and the Uruzgam massacre. Earlier they tried to have immunity for their peacekeepers in East Timor and failed, Noam Chomsky in his book on the rogue state shows that the US soldiers are involved in the genocide of the East Timorians. The Americans are clearly paranoid and their delusion of persecution born of the guilt that surrounds such events as the attack on Hazar Qadam and the Urusgam massacre. Earlier they tried to have immunity for their peacekeepers in Timor and failed. Noam Chomsky in his book on the rogue states shows that the US soldiers are involved in the genocide of the East Tomorians. The Americans knew in their hearts that their soldiers cannot have a chance for acquittal in the ICC. Today they may feel protected in the umbrage of immunity of the UN peace keeping mission. This might be true of the 15 peace keeping missions of the UN prior to July 1. But there is a clear change now. The UN cannot go against the ICC hereafter.

It may look all too trifle than the US does not want to join the ICC for the sake of immunity for its soldiers involved in peacekeeping missions. It wants the Security Council to give immunity to its forces of peacekeepers. Anyway, the US peace -keepers do have immunity from prosecution and it is extended until the end of current 15 missions in which the Americans have not threatened to withdraw all the 3100 soldiers from Bosnia. More than half of them are policing the area. Only a handful are training the local people and the US wants to withdraw them. But it also threatens to drop the 27 percent of the expenditure incurred on the mission in Bosnia. Then what does the action of the US vis-a- vis ICC portends? The US is attacking the integrity of the treaty of ICC. It is now the only superpower left in the world and it does not want to be accountable to anyone.

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Indo-Pak Politics: Pot & Kettle

When a population sharing the same heritage and living together for centuries together was wrenched apart, it was only obvious that wounds would be left behind which have not yet healed even after over half a century. Even the diasporic Indians and Pakistani communities have not been able to overcome this trauma. Then there are those who are particularly adept at rubbing salt into the wounds.

In his influential book, We or Our Nationhood Defined (1939) Golwalker of RSS says, “The non-Hindu people in Hindustan must cease to be foreigners, or may stay in the country wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential- treatment, not even citizens’ rights.” What took place in Gujarat was the ruthless practice of the Golwalkar doctrine. Or how else can you explain that even supply of ration was stopped the relief camps? How else can you explain that no condolences were allowed to be expressed in the Parliament over the death of MP Ehsan Jaffri who was killed in the riots? How else, other than by saying that this Golwalkerism in its entre letter and spirit—no privileges, no preferential treatment, not even citizen’s rights?

In the context of India and Pakistan, there have been occasions when the two countries could have made a new beginning forgetting the sordid past. Soon after the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, India had presented a list of 20 criminals to Pakistan seeking their release from that country. The list included the names of Dawood Ibrahim for his role in the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai.

Had Pakistan agreed to turn these men over to the Indian authorities, a new and welcome chapter could perhaps have been written in the history of the India-Pakistan relationship. But nothing of the sort happened, instead, the Pakistanis came up with a demand of their own that Home Minister LK Advani should be handed over to them for his alleged involvement in the Karachi conspiracy to assassinate Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

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This was simply unheard-of, to say the least

Thus, the agonized march of the tortured dynamics of the subcontinent goes forth unhindered. It is for both nations to realize that for healthy growth, the dynamics between themselves must no more be tortured by ideologies and imbroglios of the past. But the signs are not encouraging. The recent elevation of a hawk, LK Advani, to the post of India’s Deputy Prime Ministers would not have gone down well with the Pakistani ruling echelon.

They have always had a troubled relationship with Advani much the same way as General Pervez Musharraf’s lack of acceptance among the Indian establishment. What should now be given prominence is the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, who once forced the Indian government to pay back several crores of rupees that we owed to Pakistan.

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But that may be like asking for the impossible, for the ground situation is getting ever more complex and intractable. The latest proposal by right-wing groups in India that the state of Jammu and Kashmir be trifurcated—a Muslim Kashmir, a Hindu Jammu and a Buddhist Ladakh—is akin to suggesting a leap from the frying pan to the fire itself. The proposal would not only justify Mohamad Ali Jinnah’s two-nation theory but also add fuel to the fire that is consuming the subcontinent’s politics.

The issue was discussed thoroughly as terrorists stormed into the Government Boys Higher Secondary School in Srinagar's Eidgah area and shot the principal and the teacher at close range.

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Polarizing has gone viral to the extent that the Muslims are not hopeful of recruitment. Wearing Hindu gear is different from wearing military outfit and carrying on divisive politics for election is obnoxious. Rahul Gandhi said in his Parliament speech that China and Pakistan are closer because of the policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre, US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said he “won’t endorse” those remarks.

“I'll leave it to Pakistanis and PRC to speak to their relationship,” Price further said at a press briefing.

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Gandhi’s remarks were slammed by Union ministers, with external affairs minister S Jaishankar saying he needs some "some history lessons”. Jaishankar also said that Pakistan illegally handed over the Shaksgam Valley to China in 1963, when a Congress government was in office.

"Rahul Gandhi alleged in Lok Sabha that it is this Government which brought Pakistan and China together. Perhaps, some history lessons are in order: In 1963,Pakistan illegally handed over the Shaksgam valley to China. China built the Karakoram highway through PoK in the 1970s," Jaishankar said in a tweet on Wednesday.

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Taunting Gandhi over his frequent foreign visits, Jaishankar further said that "those who live in India know we were in the midst of a corona wave" and added that India held a virtual summit with presidents of five central Asian countries.

Jaishankar asked if Rahul Gandhi also missed the India-Central Asia Summit held on January 27.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi called Gandhi a "confused and mindless" leader who is all "praise" for China.

While replying the debate on President Ram Nath Kovind's address to Parliament, Rahul Gandhi said in his speech on Wednesday that the government has brought China and Pakistan together.

"The Chinese have a very clear vision of what they want to do. The single biggest strategic goal of India's foreign policy has been to keep Pakistan and China separate. What you have done is, you have brought them together," he said.

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“You are fiddling with something very very dangerous. I know something about the idea of India because blood has been sacrificed for this country not by me but by my family members. My father was blown into bits,” Rahul Gandhi said on Pegasus.

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A pan-Northeast legal group has renewed its demand for enacting law to deal specifically with cases of mob lynching.

The Assam-based North East Legal Organization (NELO) refreshed its year-old demand following the mob assault on a doctor at a COVID-19 care centre in central Assam’s Hojai district on June 1.

The police arrested 24 people, including a woman, for grievously injuring Dr. Seuj Kumar Senapati, holding him responsible for the death of a COVID-19 positive person who, healthcare officials said, died by the time he reached the centre.

In a letter to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday, NELO president Susmit Nripanka Krishnatraya and secretary general Debajit Barman said a specific law could go a long way in checking mob lynching and mob attacks.

“Cases of mob lynching generally come under the purview of the Indian Penal Code of 1860, but even the IPC doesn’t specifically deal with mob lynching as an offence. A specific and strict penal statute on mob lynching shall definitely help the State in the intervention and prevention of such instances,” they said in the letter.

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In June 2020, the NELO wrote a similar letter to former Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal after mobs thrashed Sanatan Deka to death at Monahkuchi village near Guwahati on May 23 and 23-year-old Debasish Gogoi in Gabharu Parbat Tea Estate in eastern Assam’s Jorhat district.

They were victims of road rage following minor accidents allegedly caused by them.

“Cases of mob lynching are increasing, happening time and again – be it the killing of 16-year-old Jhankar Saikia [in Karbi Anglong district’s Diphu, 2013] over a fare of ₹ 10 or the assault on Dr. Senapati. The sooner we have a specific law to deal with this menace, the better,” Mr. Barman told The Hindu.

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Lynching associated with witchcraft has been an age-old issue in the State. Rumours spread via social media became a cause of concern less than a decade ago.

The government had taken note of the severity of the issue when Goa-based sound engineer Nilotpal Das and his businessman friend, Abhijeet Nath, were lynched by villagers in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district in Many 2018. The villagers had taken them to be child-lifters.

In August 31, a mob had killed Deben Dutta, a senior medical officer of Teok Tea Estate after the death of a youth in the hospital within the plantation.

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India is caught in a cleft stick. There is enormous anxiety. It is also, on the other side. There is imminent danger of terror and war. The role of terror is habitually thrust on both antagonists, India and Pakistan. But India’s obtrusive thrust into Afghanistan is unwelcome. It is apparent after Russia also withdrew and America is doing now. It confirms what they leave behind is a grave of nations. None of them succeeded in meaningful dialogue. But India cannot roll back because of huge amount of money that it invested there. Naturally given this scenario it is not Pakistan which is “malign” because overwhelming size of the Talibans live in refugee camps in Pakistan on friendly terms. Moreover, the UNO also helps in. But the sticking matter is Kashmir issue. India doesn’t give a hoot to the world opinion on PM Nehru’s commitment to 1948 resolution. If Shimla agreement has some mutual understanding at the time of signing there is also proof how it also harbored Mustafa Khar’s secret dealings by PM Indira Gandhi. His wife Tehmina Durrani: “I assessed his political philanderings: he had abandoned Bhutto, escaped into exile, reneged on his deals with the generals, flirted with Indian intelligence, plotted the defeat of his country’s armed forces—then, later, compromised with them—sulked at Benazir’s prominence, and committed a plethora of additional political backstabbings.” (p372)

The findings are part of Deloitte’s Millennial and Gen Z Survey 2021 for India. It states that stress and anxiety levels among Indian millennials (49 per cent) is higher than the global average, and that Indian Gen Zs feel as anxious and stressed as their global average (46 per cent).

A study by French think-tank Centre d’ analyse du terrorisme (Centre for Analysis of Terrorism) published last week warned of the renewed possibility of “more operational coordination between Pakistan-supported groups like the Lashkar e Toiba and JeM (on the one hand) and the Taliban.”

The French cement giant Lafarge has been financing ISIS in Syria and French government was in know of this pro-terror activity. This foreboding comes with President Joe Biden ‘s observation in April 2021 when he called out white supremacy as “the most lethal terrorist threat” to America today. But the saving grace is that Biden realizes that life of the Blacks in the US matter. Such a disclosure is enhancing more uncertainty and anxiety for what come next. That next is that Americans are preparing to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Ramzi, etc. linked to this is also the fate of American neuro scientist Afia Siddicquy. She had boiling coffee thrown in her face at the Guanta Namo Bay. Wedded to the same is the tectonic melodramatics of UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

The former Army chief said, “We should try and help the son of Ahmad Shah Masood (guerrilla leader nicknamed Lion of Panjshir). The non-Pashtun minorities such as Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras have had good relations with us…. Taliban too has many factions and it should not be difficult to reach out to them.” General Roychowdhury.

No doubt that Muslim League decided to partition India on March 22, 1940 then why should Indians be asked to observe it differently? “Partitions pains can never be forgotten. Millions of our sisters and brothers were displaced and many lost their lives due to mindless hate and violence. In memory of the struggles and sacrifices of our people, 14th August will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day,” PM Modi said.

He further said, “May the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day keep reminding us of the need to remove the poison of social divisions, disharmony and further strengthen the spirit of oneness, social harmony and human empowerment.”

But sufferings are not of 1947 but of 16August 1946 and it brings to the mind

15 August 2021 BJP leader had alleged, “It is shameful that the chief minister does not know the year of independence. He leaned back to enquire about the count of years of independence during his speech,” and said, “Had I been there, I would have given (him) a tight slap”. This is self- contradiction in India. The Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray whom Narayan Mane wanted to slap. Such is the cocktail of which fear, anxiety, etc. is made.

Such a shameful event that never ceased to arouse anxiety was the premeditated arrest of revenge on 9/11 Dr Fowzia Siddiqui thanked the masses, political and social organisations and civil society for taking an active part in the signature campaign. She said that the caravan-e-Ghairat would continue.

The political and social parties that took part in the signature campaign included Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamait Ulema e Islam, Aam Log Ittehad Party, Pasban Democratic Party (PDP), Awaz e Pakistan chairman Sheikh Shakeel, Human Rights Council of Pakistan, Joining hands, Karachi Tajir Ittehad, Muslim Students Organisation Sindh, State Youth Parliament Sindh, Muttahida Ulema Ittehad, Hum Hen Shaheen Foundation, Pakistan Muslim League, Social Aid Committee, Ulema Council Karachi, Students Social Fourm, Shafiq Ajmal of Daris Quran.com, Gharib Ittehad Party, Human Rights International Forum, Awaz e Karachi, Islami Jamait Tulba, Muhiban e Karachi, social activist Prof Tanveer Malik, Dr Ayub Abbasi, Shafiq Abbasi, Eng Waseem Farooqui and others.

We have disowned out own past on humanitarian question for politicking and hence this long-term effect of death of humanity.

Prime Minister (PM) Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi, on Sunday said that minorities in India are brutalized beyond limits adding that the goons of RSS (India nationalist organization) kill Muslims in monotony.

Addressing a press conference in Karachi Sunday, he said the barbarity of Indian troops is continued in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

The community of global leaders must take notice of the Indian cruelty which is taking place in IIOJK, he maintained.

Addressing a press conference in Karachi Sunday, he said the barbarity of Indian troops is continued in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

The community of global leaders must take notice of the Indian cruelty which is taking place in IIOJK, he maintained.

Editor-In-Chief : Faisal Zahid Malik faisalobserver@yahoo.comFake Mumbai Attacks – 2008 to expose Indian drama for correct perception

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November 27, 2021

Inventing fake terrorist acts on Indian soil by India itself and putting the blame on Pakistan is not something new and has a history of its own.

In order to malign and defame Pakistan, India has been conducting fake terrorist attacks in IIOJK, Punjab and elsewhere. However, there has been disclosure of truth later on by internal sources of India.

Few years back, Times of India reported that a former Under Security of Indian Home Ministry R V S Mani, has revealed in the court that, “the Indian government, and not Pakistan, was behind the parliament attack (13/12, 2001) and Mumbai attack (26/11, 2008) in India.

“The officer of home ministry was categorical in his revelation that this was orchestrated by India to formulate and strengthened the counter-terrorism laws in India and to defame Pakistan, primarily ISI, blaming Lashkar-e-Taiba and also to fulfill a number of other sinister aims.

Complete Indian drama involved 1000 LEA personnel’s more than 60 hours to pacify only 10 gunmen.

This episode killed 167 innocent people, including Hemant Karkare; in-charge of Anti-terror Squad.

Immediately after this attack, Indian Government and media blamed Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh issued a reckless statement that, “roots of these attacks are in a neighboring country”.

While rejecting the Indian allegations, Pakistan condemned these attacks and offered its help in the investigation.

Following the attacks, India did try to mobilize its armed forces especially it’s Air Force, but vigilance and quick response of PAF put IAF on defensive.

It is worth mentioning that, in October 2008, Mr. Hemant Karkare, Head of Anti-terrorist Squad, Maharashtra, was investigating the terrorist acts of a serving Indian Army officer; Lt Col Prashad Srikant Purohit who was arrested on the charges of attack on Malegaon Mosque bomb blast.

During investigations, it was revealed that the officer along with a number of his accomplices was also involved in the attacks on Samjota Express 2007, besides a number other terrorist attacks. Mr. Hemant Karkare was about to reveal this terrorist network, once mysterious Mumbai attacks took place and he was first one to be killed.

Earlier, Indian media broke the news that Lt Col Purohit had a huge network of Hindu terrorists spread in the length and breadth of Indian Army and otherwise.

On the home front, ousted PM Nawaz Sharif for his vested interests stated that, “Militant organizations are active.

Call them non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Explain it to me.

The statement was received wide coverage in national and international media. Soon after the publication of Nawaz’s interview, the Indian media blew up his remarks, terming it an ‘admission’ on part of the former Prime Minister about Pakistan’s involvement in the Mumbai attacks.

Following needs to be highlighted during the media campaign prior to 26 Nov this year:-

It is very significant that the name of the accused “Ajmal Kassab” was suspicious and his accomplices were the creation of RAW.

All the characters of the Mumbai attack were stage-managed and so were the court proceedings that went on for years before Kasab’s final execution.

Pakistani LEAs were not allowed to interrogate Kasab and he was sentenced to death. His hanging was carried out secretly in jail and his body, like the bodies of the other dead terrorists, was buried at a secret place.

This shows the Indian preplanned drama to hide any clue of the case. Moreover, haste in hanging Kasab indicates that India used him as a tool against Pakistan. Perhaps India was afraid that Kasab may expose its drama.

Indian high officials themselves admitted that Kasab was arrested before 2006 from Kathmandu by the Indian agency RAW with the help of Nepalese forces.

o According to Times of India published on 18 Nov 2018, as per the records at Bidhoona Tehsil in UP’s Auraiya District, Ajmal Kasab was issued domicile from the said District.

Taking serious note of the incident, the district authorities after preliminary investigation, cancelled the domicile certificate and suspended the concerned revenue officer before ordering probe in this regard.

Hemant Karkare, the Chief of the Mumbai Anti-terrorist Squad, who was also killed on the same day by the Indian establishment, was investigating state sponsored terrorism activities.

His revelations would have been a cause of great embarrassment for India; hence he became the victim of RAW.

Davidsson’s book titled “The Betrayal of India: Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence” has also verified that the Mumbai attack was a false flag by Indian, U.S., and Israeli intelligence nexus to malign Pakistan, and needs to be probed.

For this reason, the Pakistani media need to discuss this book during special programmes organized on 26 Nov, which has badly exposed Indian sinister designs against Pakistan.

In a nutshell, 26/11 or Mumbai Attacks in 2008 was a stage managed drama to put Pakistan onto the mat and label it out as the Epicenter of Terror in South Asia, while India with the help of her Western friends got away with it, truth could not remained hidden for indefinite period.

It is of particular attention that on July 19, 2013, the Indian former home ministry and ex-investigating officer Satish Verma disclosed that terror attacks in Mumbai in November 26, 2008 and assault on Indian Parliament in January 12, 2001 were carried out by the Indian government to strengthen anti-terrorism laws.

It has clearly proved that Indian secret agencies; particularly RAW arranged coordinated terror attacks in Mumbai and orchestrated that drama only to defame Pakistan in the world, but also to fulfill a number of other sinister aims.

Nevertheless, all these terror attacks were planned by Indian security agencies to distort image of Pakistan and its primary intelligence agency, ISI, linking it with the banned group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

In these terms, coordinated terror assaults of November 26, 2008 in Mumbai were part of the same Indian scheme.

As a responsible country, Pakistan remained committed to providing all cooperation to Indian in terms of accelerating the Mumbai attack trial and bringing all perpetrators to justice, but India never adopted a serious attitude.

The non-cooperative attitude of the Indian government has been the biggest obstacle in the Mumbai terror attacks trial for reaching at a conclusion.

Investigation carried out by CIA, FBI and Indian LEA’s found no authentic or glaring evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the attacks.

Likewise, aggregations leveled against Hafiz Saeed, could also not be proved, not any links with proscribed terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba could be established.

Hafiz Saeed has already approached ICJ through his private lawyer to declare him innocent against the demands of the US, Israel and India who asked for his arrest and trail.

Pakistan’s actions and successes in fight against terrorism are unmatchable as it managed its internal instability in a very effective manner. Similarly, Pakistan also rejects and condemns acts of terrorism anywhere in the world including India.

Last but not the least, a word of advice for India is that, world is totally aware of such phony and fake acts. India needs to reconcile and resolve the issues, rather continuing with this undesirable trend of phony attacks.

Reconciliation would place India at a higher pedestal at regional and international level; otherwise world would continue viewing Indian acts as; fake and anti-Pakistan. Whatever the level of anxiety the two neighbors must learn to be human beings and share their grief and happiness for a bright future of their coming generations. It is relevant to remember the death of Rawat. “Sir please accept my heartfelt condolences.” Brig Pathania replied to him, “Thank you Adil. That’s what is expected from a soldier. Salute you.”

Raja replied to this with a heartfelt tweet. “Off-course sir, it’s the decent thing to do as a soldier. Again, sorry for your loss sir. In our Punjabi folklore they say, “dushman maray te khushian na manawoo, kadday sajna v mar jaana” Means: “Don’t celebrate the deaths of your enemies as some day friends would also die”.

But old habits die hard. BJP was inveterate: as the banned TMC lawmaker expressed their outrage for denial to express their grief at the passing away of Rawat. Sushmita Dev said, “The suspended MPs observed a minute’s silence as the nation is in mourning, and today is not the day to protest. In Parliament, there was no disruption. All that we wanted was that every party should be given a chance to condole the deaths and express solidarity, so that the right message goes out. But we were bulldozed and we chose to walk out in protest against yet another move to suppress us.” So Hindu right wing party was back to its square one.

The other matter of sustained anguish is the murder of Ahsan Jaffi and scores of Muslims and Parsi who sought refuge in the house of the Member of Parliament. They were slaughtered in mass even after Jaffri surrendered to the Hindutva attackers. He was caught with a deadly cage and was dismembered and his head was used as a cricket ball and they masqueraded it as a game while cruelly played it jubilantly. And yet the Supreme Court is adamant not take note of what role had the CM Modi and his marauders played.

“Very few times in the history of the court, matters of this moment are before you. It happened earlier on few occasions. This is yet another occasion when the majesty of the law is being tested. And here, I am not interested in targeting anybody but as your lordships know, under criminal law you take cognisance of offences and you don’t take cognisance of offender, Sibal said.

He said it is the SIT’s task to find out who the offenders are, if any offence has been committed.

So, if nobody did it and all this happened without anybody doing it with the material which is before you, we can close it. But if you feel that offences have been committed then who is responsible is a matter of investigation, Sibal said.”

Chapter 1

Circulating a Poem is Naxalite Terror!

The chairman of the Sahitya Academy of Gujarat Vishnu Pandya calling the poem “pointless angst expressed in a state of agitation” smacks unlettered.

There is no limit to what the ire of state of India will go if literary pieces are sung and circulated. Literature reflects the actual life of the time in which it is enshrined in the poetic outburst. Poetry is the spontaneous expression of emotion, feeling and thought. The French revolution at the end of eighteenth century was a source of inspiration for freedom. The writers and poets of Romantic were so inspired they composed pomes. When the reign of terror came it again left a significant mark on them.

The Sahitya Academy of Gujarat has condemned a poem of Parul Khakhar without understanding the milieu in which Parul lives and composes. The era resembles in many ways how the artist lives as is delineated by James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The fall from grace of the Irish nationalist leader Charles Steward Parnell was an emotional trauma. India in many ways has a prime minister who has risen to almost the same height. Daily reports of the plight of the people are really revolting: horrible and disgusting.

He chose to fight election in West Bengal where the situation was sensitive and very engrossing. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Home Minister Amit Shah had made it a prestige issue even during the campaign in fighting the Delhi election. In fact, Shah had thundered in a meeting with both arms raised and fists clenched that voters in Delhi should press the button with such force that electric vibration should make the people feel the shock in West Bengal.

It was in the midst of Coronavirus raging through the country Modi and Shah threw all thoughts of concern about the pandemic to the wind and were chasing the election with reckless abandon. People were falling victim to the virus in countless numbers. Crematoriums could not cope with the stress and anxiety.

In such a situation those who were helpless took refuge in the flowing waters of the Ganga. and submerged their near and dear relatives into the water. They were caught in the fierce calamity and did not split hair in gigantic march of the catastrophe. The people were left in berserk of grief of loss! This cannot be anarchy and the dead and the relatives cannot bother about politics let alone “literary naxals”!

The chairman of the Sahitya Academy of Gujarat Vishnu Pandya calling the poem “pointless angst expressed in a state of agitation” smacks unlettered.

“The said poem has been used as a shoulder to fire from by such elements who have started a conspiracy, whose commitment is not to India but to something else, who are Leftist, so-called liberals, to whom nobody pays any attention… Such people want to quickly spread chaos in India and create anarchy… They are active on all fronts and in the same way they have jumped into literature with dirty intentions. The purpose of these literary Naxals is to influence a section of people who would relate their own grief and happiness to this (the poem).”

While in Gujarati, the editorial uses the term “literary naxals”.

The corpses spoke in one voice : “All is well, sab kuchh changa-changa”

Lord, in your ideal realm the hearse is now the Ganga

Lord, your crematoriums are too few; fewer the wood for pyres

Lord, our pall-bearers are too few, fewer yet the mourners

Lord, in every home Yama performs the dance macabre

Lord, in your ideal realm the hearse is now the Ganga

Lord, your smoke belching chimneys now seek respite

Lord, our bangles are shattered, shattered are our hearts

The fiddle plays while the towns are ablaze, “Wah, Billa-Ranga”

Lord, in your ideal realm the hearse is now the Ganga

Lord, your clothes are divine, divine is your radiance

Lord, the town entire sees you in your true form

If there be a real man here, come forward and say

“The emperor has no clothes”

Lord, in your ideal realm the hearse is now the Ganga.

एक साथ सब मुर्दे बोले ‘सब कुछ चंगा-चंगा’

साहेब तुम्हारे रामराज में शव-वाहिनी गंगा

ख़त्म हुए शमशान तुम्हारे, ख़त्म काष्ठ की बोरी

थके हमारे कंधे सारे, आँखें रह गई कोरी

दर-दर जाकर यमदूत खेले

मौत का नाच बेढंगा

साहेब तुम्हारे रामराज में शव-वाहिनी गंगा

नित लगातार जलती चिताएँ

राहत माँगे पलभर

नित लगातार टूटे चूड़ियाँ

कुटती छाति घर घर

देख लपटों को फ़िडल बजाते वाह रे ‘बिल्ला-रंगा’

साहेब तुम्हारे रामराज में शव-lवाहिनी गंगा

साहेब तुम्हारे दिव्य वस्त्र, दैदीप्य तुम्हारी ज्योति

काश असलियत लोग समझते, हो तुम पत्थर, ना मोती

हो हिम्मत तो आके बोलो

‘मेरा साहेब नंगा’

साहेब तुम्हारे रामराज में शव-वाहिनी गंगा

Khakhar’s sensivity has been very high and sharp to all that had happened in Gujarat under Modi and what followed in the wake of Modi taking reins of power in his hand in Delhi. She is also very much disturbed. It is logical that the inference cannot be other than what the film maker and poet Mehul Devkala says:

“I can relate to what Khakhar is going through right now. In October 2015 when I decided to write a letter to the President of India (then, the late Pranab Mukherjee) regarding the increasing culture of intolerance in the country, I had requested well-known writers and artists from Gujarat for their signatures on the appeal. Most of them morally supported the cause but refused to put their names on the appeal. Nobody was ready to take the risk of speaking the truth.”

It was this pent up feeling and irrepressible thought of being fair that let her poetic urge to cloth them in her poem. She is not far different and distant from WB Yeats who anticipated Holocaust and more bloodshed in the Second World War.

“Many who had never heard her name are supporting her poem. This poem has crossed boundaries of languages. Nobody can stop its journey now. Not even the poet herself.”

Chapter 2

Islam Today

Islam is a way of life and when it comes in contact with unknown people in unknown places there is a chemistry of change. There is a new set of thinking and practices that people accepting Islam adopt. For example, the distinction between the sacred and profane assumes significance as the people new to Islam begin to learn Islam. Alcohol and promiscuity are profane and hence forbidden. But when Muslims migrate to places which are new to Muslims they develop what Lee Harris calls “defense mechanism”. Muslims naturally want to defend themselves from things like alcohol and promiscuity. Veiling women is an attempt to forestall what would lead to temptation and beyond. Muslims are under siege in a cultural survival. But in the case of war and conquest, at least in the early years, force alone did not change much. The most beloved uncle of the prophet did not accept Islam altogether; almost all others did. The result accordingly is “a total and revolutionary transformation in the culture of those conquest or converted.”

However, the west still views Islam with skepticism bordering on hostility. Harris himself speaks of self- defense mechanism as fanaticism of Islam as “fanaticism of reason.” There is Noam Chomsky who believes that Muslims are victims of an evil system and are not terrorists themselves. Then there is Paul Wolfwitz who blames the medieval Dark Age kingdoms in the Middle East for terrorism. Neither Harris in his book “The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam’s Threat to the Enlightenment” nor Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her book “Infidel” are ready to accept the fanaticism of reason. Both are irked by rational apologetics of the Western leaders. Even so Harris views Islam in America as admirable for the individual choice of faith is his or her personal matter. Ayan Hirsi Ali, on the other hand feels disturbed by the import of immigrants’ legacy of the distant Islam in particular what she calls “the law of the jungle”, with its alpha males and submissive females.

There are mixed incidents or the last critique of Islam. Recently a father killed his daughter for not wearing the hijab. Aksa Pervez 16 lived in a Toronto suburb. She would we wearing loose garment and veil herself while in house but remove the hijab and wear more fashionable westernized dress when she went to college. Her devout father strangulated her for not wearing the scarf. Even so the father did not look sufficiently into the other injunctions of the Koran where it is asserted that there is no compulsion in Islam. Mohammad Parvez 57, of Pakistani origin, acted more tribal than religious, individualism of belief in American seems not to have crossed borders, Moreover the ijtihad or individual independence reasoning in a critical context that is allowable in religious matters is suppressed for the sake of mere outward conformity. What better instance of suicide of reason than denying the allowable and not keeping patience! Giving time and patience and more careful upbringing would have prevented what was lost in a whirl of social pressure and conformity. This traumatic experience does not bode well for any, but only reiterates “the law of the jungle” with its alpha males and submissive female. No denying that it is constructed the textual fabric of faith but must be looked at in the larger mosaic of the designs of the fabric to make a splendid picture of faith. It should be much like the Cordoaba, Spain, mosque, splendor of faith taking sight produced by the warmth of faith and prayerfulness.

Chapter 3

One and One-only book and Other Books

There are more books written on Islam today than on any other topics affecting people living across continents. It has been a matter of heightened interest and expectation than such research and compilation of books would produce a critical mass that would lead to important changes. That changes are underway is a sure sign of the time. Marking the festival of sacrifice on December 19, 2007 the Saudi monarch King Abdullah pardoned “the woman of Qaif” for what would have been a legitimate case of stoning to death had a conservative and fundamentalist interpretation been allowed sway. She had an affair with a friend might have been a liaison in fact. She called another friend to chaperon her to her minion of yesterday to recover photographs which would have come in the way of marriage sooner or later now that she was engaged. Seven men waylaid them and raped her as well as her male companion. This would have been in itself disastrous even for her male companion. Strict punishment would have been throwing sodomy practitioners down from the highest point on land, or from a flying plane or helicopter. The monarch must have considered all the aspects of the case, its impact on the relationship with the west, the weltanschauung or world view on Islam as well as the spirit of sacrifice on the festival day and pilgrimage.

Thanks god the worst did not happen. For a simplistic Islam it was quixotic. Cannot such holistic approach to matters of life vouchsafe a wiser interpretation of the holy book? The answer lies in what Tariqu Ramadan, the descendant of the founder of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, says. “For Muslims the Quran stands as the Text of reference, the source and the essence of message transmitted to humanity by the creator. It is the last of a lengthy series of revelations addressed to humans down through history, it is the Word of God-but is it not God. The Quran makes known, reveals and guides it is a light that responds to the quest for meaning. The Quran is remembrance of all previous messages, those of Noah and Abraham, or Moses and Jesus. Like them it reminds and instructs our consciousness: life had meaning, facts are signs; it is the Book of all Muslims the world over. But paradoxically it is not the first book someone seeking know Islam should read. (A life of the prophet or any book presenting Islam would a better introduction.) for it is both extremely simple and deeply complex. The nature of the spiritual, human, historical and social teachings to be drawn from it can be understood at different levels. The text is one, but its readings are multiple.” If a monarch can exercise his individual rights why not others, including Mohammad Pervez of Toronto suburb, did the same.?

Texts, precepts and injunction are not the only things Islam has. As life is multifaceted so are the religious applications of the revealed truth. In his book “God’s Crucible: Islam and the making of Europe, 570 to 1215” David Levering Lewis describes Abdul Rahman the only Umayyad King who escaped the Abbasid assassins; while on the run he saw his brother cut down on the banks of the Euphrates by the Abbasids close on his heels. Abd al Rehman crossed the straits into Spain, on August 14, 755. He was bestowed the Arabic sobriquet “al -Dakhil”; the term means not merely “immigrant”, as usually translated, but also “a guest among the strangers” in effect, an alien. He ruled 32 years. He could be the prototype of the Mughal emperor Akbar in India for he brought “a unity vision of community.” And a principle of “civilized coexistence that might have served as a model for the continent.” His civic harmony disclosed in his 32 years of Umayyad Spain is just one of the many multifaceted ways of living with the revealed truth.

Muslims in Europe are often at odds with the new surroundings. Their status at first is not different from guests among strangers. Modern welfare state laws of citizenship should be rather taken to temper with the teaching of Islam not in the sense of interference but mutual understanding and togethernesss. Without yielding space to tall the sundry people of Europe for all the types of issues there is still scope for reaching out to each other and living in tolerance. Scarf, yes, but with mutual understanding and sans exaggeration or too much insistence. Guests among strangers then become fellow citizens.

Chapter 3

Islam and Blaspheme

But what about sharing the attributes of God with man, is that a lesser evil? Fiction is stranger than reality and reveals more. There is a novel of Pakistani writer Tehmina Durrani called Blaspheme. A Muslim divine, the pir, marries Heer, an underage girl. Her parents offer her to him on a platter as an offering. He perpetrates cruelty upon her and rapes her whenever he like and practices child abuse with others. He even makes video films of raping his wife and having friends raping her on the camera. He replays the films for perverted pleasure.

Finally, a victim kills him. Heer takes the films to the friends and shows how they have abused their pir! One even kills himself for what he had done with the better half of the divine! But then Heer’s own son turns against her. To maintain his fiefdom he incarcerates her. But by then the Tablighi jamaat has made appearance and Heer hopes for reform. This is a novel, of course, and cannot be taken as a testimony of a truth. But it lifts the cover a little and reveals much.

Child abuse is one evil and there are other practices that are anathema to religion; not just to Islam. Irshad Manjhi has no inhibition about her sexual orientation. She is a lesbian but still believes she is a Muslim. Although this explicit phenomenon is recent in the history of mankind, more time is needed to sort out what kind and degree of homoeroticism is violation of religion.

On the horizon of Islam the tabligi jamat appeared late, in the fifties in India. These are the people who have struggled against what is sacrilegious and blasphemous. They are totally unworldly in their endeavour to bring pristine practices of religion back in everyday life of Muslims by correcting what are not religious, but indigenous rite.

They do not concern themselves with other religions and strictly keep within the fold and parameters of Islam It is one of the most refreshing events of post partition that the members of tabligi went into Panjab. With the wounds of partition still raw they could not but get hostile reception. They landed up with their founder in a police station.

The police officer on duty had lost his family in the partition riots when they had tried to escape into India. He could have perpetrated any degree of torture on the tabligi jamat. But he was such a devout Hindi himself that he showed mercy to them and sheltered them rather than turning them out to the hostile crowd of people. Another incident is about a group of tabligi jamat from Malegaon that had gone to China where the group interacted with the Chinese Muslims and other peacefully despite official disdain. In both the cases the jamat steadfastly dealt with religious practices of the followers of Islam and how to make the believers stick to the them. Barbara Metcalf of California University in write up on this in the special number on Islam in the American journal ANNALS argues that there is a peaceful aspect of Islam for which it attracts others to its teaching.

It negates the popular mis-conception that the sword rather than pen and preaching played major role. Among the jamat group was one Hanif Milli whose travelogue she had read and remarked that he must have authored many books and must have been well read. If the prophet had asked Muslims to go to any distant place for seeking knowledge going to China was not carrying coal to Newcastle, the English Dhanbad. Travelling is humbling as well as enlightening and hence necessary according to the prophet. The Tabligi jamat are the people you come across on roads with their bedding a suit cases on shoulders and head marching in regular formation, strictly keeping themselves and their side.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked on August 20 2021 about Afghanistan and Pakistan: “Terror can't crush faith,” “a country can never be governed on the basis of terror.”

The architect of all the woes of terror, anxiety, misery in the subcontinent is LK Advani who was the deputy Prime Minister of India and also the Home -Minister. He was already a terrorist in Karachi where he had conspired to assassinate Mohammad Ali Jinnah. As Lord Governor of the new state of Pakistan Jinnah and Lord Mountbatten were to pass through a street where majority of Hindus lived. The RSS had hatched a conspiracy to throw a bomb at him. The most reliable intelligence agency of the British government was in the know of how Advani and others would throw bomb at the vehicle carrying Jinnah and Mountbatten. The two dignitaries were on way to hoist the flag of Pakistan on August 14 1947. The conspirators feared so much that their courage melted.

Advani migrated to India. His protégé was and is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He lauds Modi like anything, “In my 60 years of political life I have not known any colleague of mine so consistently, so sustainedly and so viciously maligned by opponents as Narendra Modi.” The facts speak otherwise. This emerge from Pakistan saw that Sonal Shah and her father were sending funds to Delhi address of Hindu extremists to perpetrate mass slaughter of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002. It was this crime that compelled Barak Obama to drop her from his campaign. This also contributed to not allowing Modi to visit the US.

Travelers' Tales in the Tablighi Jamaat - Barbara Metcalf, 2003 (sagepub.com)

Travelers' Tales in the Tablighi Jamaat

Barbara Metcalf

First Published July 1, 2003 Other

https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716203588001009

Article information

Abstract

The extensive Islamic missionary movement of Tablighi Jamaat, which originated in colonial India but is now worldwide, encourages participants to go out on small group tours to invite others, primarily nominal Muslims, to return to faithful adherence to Islamic teachings, above all the canonical prayer. At the conclusion of a tour, participants should report back, orally or in writing, their experiences to the mosque-based group (local, regional, or national) from which they set out. A sample of these reports, called karguzari, are the basis of this article. The reports reflect two discourses: one of jihad, in the sense of the nonmilitant “greater jihad” focused on self-discipline; and one of Sufism, embedded in the efforts of the charismatic group rather than in institutional tasawwuf.

=“Partitions pains can never be forgotten. Millions of our sisters and brothers were displaced and many lost their lives due to mindless hate and violence. In memory of the struggles and sacrifices of our people, 14th August will be observed as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day,” PM Modi said.

Chapter 5

Police and terrorism: Khwaza Yunus case

A judge of Bombay High Court JM More said on August 6, 2021 that it is a mockery of justice that the case of Yunus Khwaja arrested in Ghatkoper bomb blast case 2002 hasn’t been investigated and brought to an end. Four cops Rajendra Tiwari, Rajender Nikam Sunil Desai and Sachin Vaze are accused.

Ashiya begum’s deep sorrow made her weep and wail in the mid night, made her neighbours sympathize with her, console her for years. The town of Parbhani in Marathwada region would never forget her midnight wailing. Her son was returning home from UAE. Khwaja Yunus had not done any wrong. The police accused him for the Ghatkoper bus blast of 2002. The police were interested in anyone returning from the Gulf region for the money he would be bringing because of the lucrative job there. One of them was a police officer, Sachin Vaze. He is the same one who parked a car laden with explosives at the gate of Mukesh Ambani’s house, Anatilia in Mumbai. The motive behind it could only be extortion of huge amount of money. This is the repeat of what Sohrabuddin Sheikh was doing along with the HM of Rajasthan, Gulab Chand Kataria. The scion of Kataria was smuggling Indians into the US. CM Narendra Modi’s minister for home Amit Shah was collecting kickback from the marble trade. This should not come as a matter of shock as the unravelling of the placing the explosives reveals how cops in Mumbai and Gujarat were carrying on their ‘collection of money’. The vocation could also be gun-running. Even Lieutenant Col Purohit was also doing with Dawde, accused in the same trade.

Chapter 6

The Coleen Rowley Phenomenon

The juggernaut of war on terrorism continues. We in India are as much vulnerable to terrorist attacks as are the Americans or anyone else in the world. The effort towards this involves all the departments of government as well as possible. As the US Attorney General John Ashcroft said that we are all soldiers in the war on terrorism and we are all intelligence analysists, too. There is a good deal of what we can learn

from the letter the Minneapolis FBI Agent Coleen Rowley wrote to her boss FBI Director Robert Muller on May 21, 2002.

Even before 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon some agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Minneapolis had got some clue which the bureaucracy had fudged up. Rowley was the chief counsel of FBI in Minneapolis and played a crucial role in collecting information on Zakarias Moussaoui, the would- be 20th hijacker was a fundamentalist Islamist and had sent in his report in July 2001. The French intelligence agency had provided the necessary information. Rowley had sought permission for Moussaoui’s arrest, on August 15, 2001for overstay charge and wanted to search his laptop. But the Supervisory Special Agent refused her request. She approached the National Security Law unit on August 22 and tried to check his computer and failed because they found no foreign power connection in the case. She made a desperate attempt to search Moussaoui’s computer an hour after the World Trade Centre was hit and in her telephonic talk to Supervisory Special- Agent she deemed that it was the hugest coincidence that she was after Moussaoui who was also trained as a pilot to fly airplane. The Supervisory Special Agent told her it was what she had called a coincidence and there was no ground for search. Her perseverance in pursuit of the case is simply impressive.

Her dedication to her job springs from her school days when she wrote in praise of FBI and received a book on 100 facts about the agency. She gracefully acknowledged the fact that her four children were born when she was working for the agency. But then certain things happened which her sense of integrity could not accept. She used the word in capital letters, INTEGRITY.

Of course, it is true that every commission is distasteful. Notwithstanding the veracity of this, there is also something serious in it. Coleeen Rowley was disturbed by the fact that the Supervisory Special Agent even changed the words that the FBI agents had used in their affidavits. His report is better and more accurate because of his having the first- hand knowledge. Given this as a fact, the Supervisory staff has no moral right to substitute what is attested and sent in her information. This tampering with facts recorded on paper shows the enormous hiatus

Till today, the supreme sacrifice of the lives of 21 Kashmiris is commemorated every year on July 13 by Kashmiris all over the world as the Kashmir Martyrs Day but the plight of the Kashmiris remains the same. Having hope for the best. #IIOJKUnderSiege

between the ground reality and what is recorded. Rowley calls it skewing and shading facts. In the intelligence report of the FBI agents the supervisors downplayed the significance of what the intelligence field agents had gathered about Moussaoui, thereby increasing the risk to the US. When we look at what is happening in our own country, India, we find such practices are rampant here and there is hence a greater danger to the security of our own country from the wrong doings of people who do their daily chores quite unmindful that they are opening a Pandora’s box for the nation.

The FBI set up a Super Squad for dealing against terrorism, Rowley discovered that the people who were given charge of the squad were also the ones who had been derelict in their duty in the Moussaoui case. Fortuitously, we think of Super Cop K.P.S. Gill and what he is doing in Gujarat in recent days though he is not like the Supervisory Special Agent, the rest of the cops in Gujarat with the exception of a few are quite unprofessional. They are careerists in the same vein as Rowley describes by quoting Webster’s Dictionary: careerism, the policy and practice of advancing one’s career often at the cost of ones’ integrity. Dave Frasca was the FBI agent dealing with the fundamentalist threat to the American security. When Rowley spoke to him about Moussaoui’s stay in Paris. Frasca exclaimed how could he trace out one Moussaoui in Paris phone department and discovered that there was only one Zacarias Moussaoui who had a phone connection. This is diligence and perseverance and professional discipline. Like the 9/11 attack the most devastating to happen in India was the Gujarat carnage. What lesson could our administrators learn from Rowley? In Ahmedabad, Ehsan Jaffrey made more than two hundred calls to police and government officers for help but there was no action taken in this regard though a mobile police van with wireless was withing whistling distance. Had the intelligence agencies been active honestly a la Rowley, the carnage itself would have been prevented from taking place. If the police had been active honestly a la Rowley, they would have stopped the mob that killed the MP. If our security agencies had been active honestly a la Rowley there would have been no need for the National Human Rights Commission to ask the Gujarat government to determine first who were responsible for the Godhra attack. If our administrators and security agencies had done their field work honestly a la Rowley Amnesty International would not have blamed India along with US that after 9/11 and the attack on our Parliament the Muslims were suspected and discriminated against and victimized by the government and some Hindu groups. All this would have spared the nation from feeling shame. Is it not a part of integrity of an administrator to save his nation from such ignominy? (Don’t forget that Rowley spelled the word with capital etters: INTEGRITY)

The FIRs in Gujarat were notoriously made to accuse the faceless mobs. When victims named the perpetrators, their FIRs were simply rejected. Then in the case of Naroda Patia and Gulmarg fresh FIRs were made but then rape was deliberately left out. When the victims of rape protested the authorities made a change. Where is the professional integrity of those who are managing the show as the world is watching us? Among the perpetrators of the heinous crimes are Bajrang Dal activists and BJP and VHP leaders. The police have simply turned a blind eye to them. The intelligence agencies are simply dysfunctional. Their negligence amounts to the disregard of duty that the Supervisory Special was doing in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui.

Rowley accuses FBI chief Muller and others of delicate and subtle shading and skewing of facts. In our case the same is going on remorselessly. The whole administrative maneuvering of the Chief Minister Narendra Modi is just an exercise in shading and skewing facts. It is done on such a large scale then how much the nation would suffer cannot be gauged at this time in our history. “a temporary grouping under one leader for the purpose of accomplishing a definite objective”,

· English Language Learners Definition of turncoat disapproving : a person who stops being a member of a group in order to join another group that opposes it See the full definition for turncoat in the English …

Chapter 6

Islam and turncoats

A guest among strangers was also Taslima Nasreen. But she broke not only propriety of being guest but put the hosts into an embarrassing situation. She turned abusive and wanted to take upon the whole umma. The Muslims in India are part of the complex configuration of the society. As a stranger her contemptuous, irreverent talk about god and his messenger and the message turned into nightmare for her and threatened to divide the hosts. As if burning purda and renouncing the holy book was not enough of apostasy. She dared to say the abominable, nauzbilla, to mention the awfully unmentionable: “Such then has been the character of this rascal of a prophet: and concealed within the folds of his raiment is the hoax known as “Allah”. This caused the street protest in Kolkata as did “The Satanic Verses” of Salman Rushdie in Mumbai. Islam is practiced by a large number of people in the sub-continent and the Scandinavian countries. Blaspheme will have violent reaction because it dangerously challenges the believers and dares to test their belief. Bur what about sharing the attributes of God with man, is that a lesser evil? Fiction is stranger than reality and reveals more. There is a novel of Pakistani writer Tehmina Durrani called Blaspheme. A Muslim divine, the pir, marries a Heer, an underage girl. Her parents offer her to him on a platter as an offering. He perpetrates cruelty upon her and rapes her whenever he like and practices child abuse with others. He even makes video films of raping his wife and having friends raping her on the camera. He replays the films for perveted

Yehi log hain azal se jo fareb de rahe hain/Kabhi daal naqabein kabhi odh kar labada (These are people who have duped us for aeons/By putting on masks or wearing sacred robes)

Chidambaram is refreshingly different

Chidambaram the first HM to name indigenous terrorism as Hindutva terrorism. I had visited the temple and mosque in his hometown and found rational life as the usual life.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family. ~ Master Humphrey’s Clock Charles Dickens.

It has been ages since we have had a home minister who is unfettered by either communalism or bias. This augurs well for a new approach and also a renewed commitment to nation’s unity. Thus, I wrote on February 2 2010. From today’s stance he was what I wrote. Now that a photographer Danish Siddiqui was brutally beaten up and injured. He was taken to a mosque in Kabul. When Talibans heard of him and that he was an Indian in origin they brutalized more even in his death. Some- one heard of him and called it “fog of war.”

In the conference of chief ministers of state and governors of central territories on February7 2020 PC Chidambaram remarked that the home department had no ideology except national unity and security. This is welcome sign of self- assertion as he has now made it necessary for all investigation and security agencies including National Security Advisor to report to him every day. That too together, so that they can all sort out with mutual consultation and cross- questioning matters that relate to our country. Erstwhile it was of the NSA to directly brief to the Prime Minister who may or may not hold the home folio. No one could cross check him on his report and inputs. In the new dispensation the whole set up of the home ministry will have to verify and cross check the sources of information and the basis of it.

This was in the offing as the home minister used his mental lancet to pry open the basis of the report on the 50 paragliders that the Lashkar -e-Toiba had acquired. The place and number was deliberately changed to create phobia in the country at the time of the Republic day. What was truly alarming was that for the first time in nineteen yeas the tricolour was not unfurled at the Lal chowk in Srinagar. It was given a space on the third page while the print media as well as the electronic media upfronted the doctored paraglider news. That hardly served our national interest except creating ‘obfuscation upon obfuscation’ ala IB’s fond bedfellow, FBI.

Chidambaram also pulled up the chief minister of Maharashtra on the carpet. There were laws already available to govern the state in the face of unruly and very communal and divisive stand of the Shiv Sena and MNS during the showdown over the issue of north Indians in Mumbai.

The police failed to register any case against them. Bal Thackeray’s front page abusive and violent language of retaliation against the Muslims led to the blood bath in Bombay in 1992-93.

He was at it again when Rahul Gandhi visited Mumbai on February 5. 2010. Seventeen years after 1992-93 he was not changed and nor will he change as he knows that the police are in his pocket.

He is above the law of the land. Seventeen years after that turbulent time the police can arrest another accused of Muslim community involved in the serial bomb blasts. But they have not taken any action against Thackeray. Nor have the courts have been that fair in trying him.

Chidambaram marks a change. By asserting that his home department is more sensitive and responsive to human rights violation he is instilling a sense of accountability that would be surely tested in the days to come.

The gimmicks of Narendra Modi also did not cut any ice. By repeatedly telling the nation that four times his state assembly passed the bill on organized crimes (GUGCOC) he failed to oblige the home minister to give his consent. Modi not only applied POTA most discriminately against the Muslims, but he also registered under POTA all the sundry crimes which Muslims had allegedly committed. No one, not even Babu Bajrangi, has been booked under POTA.

This flop of Modi has to be understood in the context of the wind of change that is blowing from the home department. Chidambaram has surely equated communalism with terrorism as a threat to the country. It is not enough that Gujarat has filled up all the police vacancies un-like UP (2.4.02 vacancies to be filled up) or Maharashtra.

What the nation would and should test in the coming days is whether the police in Gujarat book the criminal thugs let loose by Modi and whether the principle of a chain of command does lead to him. That he is brought to book for the pogrom of 2002. The day it happens it would be a litmus test. It would also be the “last expression of the mind of the parliament”

Chapter 8

Khalid Sheikh Mohammad

President Joe Biden has declassified the documents concerning 9/11. It is worth of what he says that white supremacy is the worst kind of terrorism. Ironically it has come on the heel of reopening the rial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad held in Guanta-namo bay (Cuba). People around the world are filled with apprehension that the trial of the accused would lead to their execution. More violent reaction to it cannot be ruled out. Pan out from this cannot be pleasant for the Talibans are resurgent in Afghanistan. It is a heady mix.

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The United States is on the cusp quitting Afghanistan and it is but natural Pakistan is taking over the most important role to play in its good relation with the Talibans. It is worth remembering how an earlier such episode transpired:

There is much talk on jihad and terrorism both in the West and India. Since the scourge of terrorism is spreading tentacles word-wide there is need to sift through much that goes in its name. Most of intelligence report being classified we can only peep through what is available for clues.

Source of passion

The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad will be a remarkable event in world history. After the death of Mahdi [al Mahdi al Muntazar, otherwise Mohammad Ahmed] in Khartoum of the nineteenth century it would be the first time that the West will try and punish a Muslim self professed would be martyr. It is reported that everyday at 6 in the morning President George Bush reads the sermons of the Christian missionary preacher who was killed in the violent confrontation in the Sudanese capital of yore. He was besieged along with others in Sudan in 1885. Charles Gordon was sent by the British government to evacuate the British from Sudan but he stayed a year longer and wanted to destroy the Mahdiyah. They were the followers of Mahdi carrying out his revival and purification of Islam and fighting against the corruption of the Turkish and Egyptian and British influence on the people. The crusader and the jihadi since then have assumed new names and new identity.

President Bush got inspiration from preaching of the missionary priest who was in the British garrison with Gordon when it was besieged by the followers of al Mahdi. Interestingly al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calls Bush and others as the crusaders. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad’s utterance in the court at Guantanamo Bay reminds much of the fervour of the jihad of al Mahdi.

KSM, as Khalid Sheikh Mohammad is briefly called, was arrested in Rawalpindi on March 1, 2003 in a search and arrest operation jointly conducted by the Pakistani and FBI. He had worked with Adman G. El Shukrijumah, a 27-year-old Saudi, the latter was equal to Mohammad Atta in position. Spectacular terrorist attack was the brainchild of KSM. In addition to the World Trade Centre towers there were other monuments as targets, the White House, the Manhattan Bridge as well as the ones in St Louis and San Francisco, the Sears towers in Chicago, the Israelis embassy in Washington. There were two dozen such attacks planned.

Intensity of passion

In the courtroom KSM shouted and chanted in undaunted zeal for martyrdom. 'Yes, this is what I wish, to be a martyr for a long time. I will, God willing, have this, by you.' When the military judge wanted to warn him he not only dismissed his lawyers but sang in lilting phrases of Arabic and translated them for the court: 'I may have the best legal team here. They may be well qualified but I want to represent myself. My shield is Allah most high.' In up fronting and putting in the centre he touched upon the most crucial situation vis-à-vis Islam and his trial: "It's an inquisition, not a trial!. We under five years were under torture. We don't have rights to anything. After all this torturing, they transfer us to inquisition and in Guantánamo." "I cannot accept any attorney who is not governed by sharia [Islamic] law. I will represent myself. I will not be represented by anybody even if he is a Muslim, because he will be sworn to your American Constitution. I consider all the U.S. Constitution and laws evil.”

He also took time to speak about the ignominy of allowing same sex marriage besides accusing the US of waging ‘a crusader war’ against Islam.

Razmi bin al Shibh was also forthright though, as it turned out, during the proceeding, that he was drugged against his will. "I am seeking martyrdom for five years. I tried for September 11 to get a visa and I could not. If this martyrdom happens today, I welcome it. God is great! God is great! God is great!". "I do understand I will be killed for the sake of God. But I don't understand that I am guilty." His lawyers then intervened to tell the court how drug was forcibly given to him. He sat with his feet shackled. He spoke again: "My mental capacity is absolutely fine. I don't think that there is reason to force lawyers on me that I don't want."

The CIA has already accepted that it practiced water boarding torture on KSM. According to the US laws any confessional statement obtained out of torture is inadmissible in court. The US also has used all the three kinds of renditions. KSM was arrested in Pakistan and imprisoned in a third country. This constituted the extraordinary rendition. He was then transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Many of his claims are exaggerated including probably his boast: "I was responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z." He also says he is responsible for thirty terrorist attacks.

Consequences of passion

The killing of Gordon and the missionary preacher and British soldiers in Khartoum resulted in massacre of the followers of Mahdi on a much larger scale. In the attack on the twin towers of World Trade Cetre 2973 innocent people perished. The death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan is astronomically much higher and continuing.

The war in Iraq began when there was no al Qaeda there. It has ravaged the country so much that it has given birth to terror that is hell bent to destroy the country. Afghanistan battle scenario is fast degenerating into another debacle for the US. Both the wars have caused huge number of casualties with no end in sight.

No doubt President Bush’s administration is there for about half a year the next president will surely close down Guantanamo Bay detention centre. The Supreme Court in the US has already castigated the detention facility and is going to hear a case again in a month’s time. The offshore detention centre also poses problems of international law regarding war and prisoners of war. With complete secrecy surrounding the trial who is there to verify KSM’s accusation: 'They mistranslated my words and put many words in my mouth.' Even his defence lawyer Navy captain Prescott Prince is groping in dark regarding the process of the proceedings in the military court. Then there is the terrifying restriction of keeping secret. Any detail coming out of the proceeding may be construed to be a threat to the United States of America. This would affect the attorney as well. Prince: "It is frustrating to me, and frustrating to him [ KSM], that he's presented with an attorney who in essence says: 'I don't know, the rules are new. They were made up for you."'

Last laugh

Alex Spillus of the British daily Telegraph was among the 60 reporters flown to the strangely named Justice Camp where there was no justice. No habeas corpus to the prisoners, the prisoners were held in notorious secret prisons [the gulags of our time] of the CIA for four years before they were held for 18 months in Guantanamo. The air flight to the camp on the Cuban island made the reporters feel what extraordinary rendition is as they sat huddled together buttock to buttock like prisoners. They were kept in tents where air conditioning units revved like Sherman tanks. Then came the comic relief. The judge told the prisoners that they had available to them lawyers free of charge. Pat came the retort from the 30 year old Kuwaiti Ali Abd al Aziz Ali: “ [America] tortured me free of charge, too.” "I am in the wrong court. I am not a criminal. My case is political."

The crowning irony: KSM and Razmi bin al Shibh extolled martyrdom over the travesty of their trial and mockery of the American justice. Raising doubts about the legality of the court was not enough. Lawyers of the defendant Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi objected to the Judge Kohlmann that he had allowed nodding, gesticulating, and whispering among the defendants to make them look like conspirators.

Chapter 9

Democracies can be reformed but not the banana republics.

“In 1895 there appeared a cartoon in the British Humor Magazine Punch. The line drawing showed a bishop and his family sharing breakfast with a young curate, or priest. Studying the effect his guest is eating, the bishop worries aloud that it might be rotten. The curate responds politely, “Oh no, my Lord, I assure you –parts of it are excellent!”

“Today across the globe, we might say something similar about the d condition of democracy. The difference is that little can be done to salvage the curate’s half-eaten egg. With help from its friends, however democracy can almost always be repaired, then mad better.” Madeleine Albright was a leading democrat who worked with President Bill Clinton who like her was optimistic about future of democracy in the world. In her book Fascism A Warning she includes the early warnings marching order that fascist government take. In the aftermath of the attack on Indian Parliament the Vajpayee government ordered mobilization of the army. Those who saw the signs clearly like Arundhati Roy were perturbed. But what was otherwise was conscient even to the dull. The white Ambassador car with warning on the screen was allowed into the gate of the Parliament right after the car of deputy PM and HM LK Advani. What is even more disturbing was that the role of the police officer Davinder Singh who had sent Afzal Guru to hire the car in Delhi.

In 1991-92 president Milosevic allowed Serbians to return with weapons and bestowed them with huge amounts of money. His army chief Ratko Mladic executed 7, 800 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica and deposited dead in mass graves. On top of it Serbs attacked a food market and 37 Muslims. The Nato allowed bombing the Serb areas.

Chapter 10

Uncertainty over recognizing Taliban government, dress code

When the world is waiting for a more civilized administration, but Afghanistan is still dragging feet on residual cruel tribal ways the urgency has thrown a challenge. By any yardstick it is cruel to treat women as second-class citizen or chattel.

One can begin with restoring the women their rights who have hugely suffered unmentionable atrocities.

Now that “Ministries of Prayer and Guidance and the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” has been formed on Friday 17 September 2021, let all welcome it on proviso that it would solve some misunderstanding and heal the past wounds of in- justice and primitive practice of meeting out justice.

One such instance is of Fabia L.

She had not done anything wrong except that her husband had sold two of her children despite her stiff protest. She was afraid of the sex racket. She was as good and chaste as any Afghan worth his/her name. She was overwhelmed by the hubby’s abomination that she picked up her last two and left the country. She could not sit on a protest outside anywhere. She performed hijrat or migration following the example of the prophet of Islam.

Even more horrifying is the case of Khattera who was shot in the head and had her eyes gouged out with knives even when she pleaded to her assailants not to torture her and let her collect salary of her first pay in police service. She would not work any further!

In the current uproar the matter of veiling in Pakistan has another dimension. Anchor of Samaa Kiran Naz and renowned nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy found themselves on opposition. Hoodbhoy’s observation that the activities of Muslim ladies would affect their scope of work. His meaning could be that some who wear burqa may stray away from pure academic activities to some non- academic ones or some extracurricular ones. This differs from place to place. Like a man with IAS degree and a job of that level sat in a vegetable shop and sold vegetable until the real seller came back.

In India a Malegaon girl, Dr Zubaida Ansari wore burkha in school and college. But years later she did wear burqa but in the laboratory. she would lay it under the desk while doing practical.

One day the President of India Abul Kalam went to her department of physics and complimented her work. She casually asked him why was he not fasting in the Ramzan as she and most of the Muslim world over were observing. He demurred from replying.

When I visited the university campus it was Ramzan. On the onset of the holy month of fasting she brought the early morning meal for me to initiate fasting. While at work hijab was not there an issue. It was how she wrote out a paper while attending a conference in Italy.

Another time I met her at the bus station with her late husband Dr Shafik (of Jamia Millia University Delhi) and anxiously asked him and her how about having children. Both defended saying that their work was consuming all their times and they had not planned having a family. Good work good behavior.

When I finished my work of doctorate in 1973 the editor of American Literature and a scholar and authority on Mark Twin, Louis J Budd of Durham University wrote a congratulatory letter. And what is more the President of India Dr Zakir Hussain also greeted me in a letter written in Urdu script! What matters most in academic institutions is our subject and work.

But that does not mean that women wear burqa begging out -side a mosque are any less in place in society. A huge number of beggars in their destitution have no clothes to properly cover themselves let alone have burqa. At least this is so in India. It is also true what John Milton in his poem On his blindness remarks that he who stands by the road and prays to god is doing the work of god.

Of course, newsreader/anchor Kiran Naz of Samaa did a remarkable demonstration for all Muslims the world over. It is the good work that you do matters. She showed how easy it is to don veil.

Prof Hoodbhoy’s observation that their activities decrease: “To the extent that you don’t know whether they are present in the classroom or not,” it is Hobsons’ choice. Does he keep on observing every girl in class or leave the choice and courage of public speaking and articulation to the individual girls? He should be able to prod them, encourage them and welcome them to comment. A little stooping before them would conquer the world for them, open up their mind and fire their imagination and lead them to public speaking. In a word encourage them.

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Will the next Einstein be a woman? Deshdoot Time, Nasik. India. (About Zubaida)

Chapter 11

Afia Siddiqui and Muzammil Ansari need baitulmal to help through their case

In the context of those who suffered most and were innocent include Afia Siddiqui of Pakistan and next Muzammil from India.

Calling on Muslims to participate in the campaign, Choudary wrote: "The obligation upon us is to either free her physically or to ransom her or to exchange her. However, until such time as we can fulfil one these obligations the minimum that we can do is to use all that we have to raise awareness about her case, to keep her name in the hearts and in the minds of Muslims, not to forget her situation, to supplicate to Allah (SWT) to release her and to support her family in this time of crisis."

After claiming that Siddiqui "has been attacked by another inmate and that her condition generally continues to worsen," Choudary concluded his post by writing: "A Twitter campaign is not much in the face of such huge injustice an oppression. Nevertheless, it is the least that anyone around the world can engage in to raise awareness, to ask others to make dua [supplication] to expose the oppressors, to call on those who have the ability to free her from captivity and to let her family and perhaps even herself know that she has the support of many Muslims and people of conscience around the world."

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The most prominent case of twenty years in jail “From the day of my arrest [on May 7, 2003] till today I am in custody without any relief [and no trial]”

That is what he wrote in the third week of September 2013 in a letter home for the world to know what he has suffered.

Muzammil Akhtar Abdul Rahim Ansari of Malegaon was arrested on May 7, 2003 for local train blasts at Mulund, Mumbai on March 13, 2003. He has been languishing in the Thane Jail without his case making any progress in the court. Aged 26 at the time of his arrest he is now 37. He has not been given even five minutes to visit his house even for attending the funeral of his sister.

Shahenaz Akhtar lived with her brother in a room next to his in Kurla, Mumbai. Muzammil shared his room with boys and she with girls. She would cook and call him through the window and both would sit together and eat like they did at home in their native town. On the day the police arrested him from his office of Agog Pharma Company in Vasai New Bombay she had kept the food ready but he did not come and she went hungry. She called home and they told her that he was sick in hospital. She continued teaching in school without even remotest though that she would ever see his face in her life again. For months on end the family sustained her with the excuse. She pined for him and beseeched to let her know the name of the hospital so she could go and see him. Even her mother was not told the truth. She too lived with anxiety and pain that her first born was in hospital. Months passed and then they came to know that he had been arrested on what turned out to be false charge of terrorism. Shahenaz’s soul traumatized with shock because she knew her brother was by no means what the police described. Their mother could not bear it and lost sleep and could not shut the lids of her eyes while weeping and crying and sighing all the time. She even almost lost her vision as she could not shut the eyes and could not recognize her other children. However impaired in vision she slightly recovered. The sister could not meet her brother nor could the mother her son. Shahenaz could not bear the loss and died in grief three years later. Both the sources of income stopped. The family fought at two fronts: ailment of the daughter and the legal battle which had begun even before the trial started. More than ten years have passed it has not begun even this late.

On May 14, 2003 the ATS presented him in court where for the first time he was told that he was arrested for the Mulund blast on the local train. Till then he was given third degree torture.

In the long incarceration Muzammil was stupefied for a long time but then realized that he owes an existential obligation to his life. He also used right to information act to collect facts about the circumstances of his arrest and what the police had done. He was implicated in POTA Special Case No 02/03. It consists of three cases:

(1) Mulund bomb blast vide DCB-CID CR No 21/03

(2) Vile Parle bomb blast vide DCB-CID CR No 09/03

(3) Mumbai Centra bomb blast vide DCB-CID CR No 59/03.

The police have simply forsaken him for good as they have failed to frame charges against him till today. In all 16 people were accused in the Special Case No 02/03. Almost all except him have been either discharged or given bail. All have been falsely implicated. The police have prepared charge sheet in which according to him the evidence is fabricated and concocted. From his cell in the prison he now wants the world to know how the evidence is fabricated and concocted so that another agency now the National Investigation Agency should conduct a fresh investigation because he believes that he is innocent. He has enumerated several grounds on which NIA should take the case for reinvestigation.

First, different police officers have been appointed as Investigation Officer (IO) for the three cases mentioned above. But it is absolute truth according to him that only Rakesh Maria who was in charge of the Crime Branch till the death of Hemant Karkare investigated his case. This is unlawful for the designated three officers never took the case in their hands. Maria now ATS chief carried the day with him as he is awfully influential and resourceful in the Maharashtra government says Muzammil based on his empirical observation. He is filled with apprehension that these police officers will thwart his case from being transferred to NIA.

Once in the beginning their father had gone to see his son at Crawford Market police station. He was detained and put in prison for a week. During that time the police undressed him and brought Muzammil there and told Muzammil to confess that he planted the bomb or else his mother and sister would also be disrobed similarly and abused. Sensing the humiliating proximity of his father and his sister not far from there he wept and wept and signed his fate. It was in his fate that he would be in prison for more than ten years and he an innocent!

Second, Maria had also investigated POTA Special Case No 01/03 which deals with bomb blast in a bus at Ghatkoper railways station. All the accud in that case have been discharged. One of the reasons for Muzammil’s arrest was that he had a talk with Dr Mateen of Aurangabad who was the main accused. The police could not prove it. Another accused in the case was Khwaja Yunus who was beaten so much that he vomited blood, Dr Mateen wrote to the court that he would not survive the blood vomiting. Later Khwaja Yunus was taken out and mysteriously killed by inspector Sachin Vaze of ATS and his body was never found.

Third, in the Karjat bound local train there was a bomb blast at 7.56 pm on March 13, 2003 as the train was entering Mulund. The police say that Muzammil was identified to be present in the train as it left CST or VT terminus. This is concocted for his phone record shows that he was in Kurla at his rooms at 7. 56 on March 13, 2003. The police have included a page of the phone record in the charge sheet that is simply doctored as can be seen in the photo copy. Its sequential order even does not show any sense of chronology let alone the facts. That proves the fabrication of evidence. This doctoring was done to hide the location. He was in Kurla and not at CST or in the train.

Fourth, one of the witnesses says that he saw Muzammil put a bag and while doing it he accidentally let a bag of another passenger fall down from the rack that led to a quarrel. How could he be there when he was actually at his Kurla rooms?

Fifth, the police have manipulated the eye witness statement by inserted “supplements” [purawni]. The Page numbers have been tampered with to implicate him falsely. He has attached sections of this tampering in the letter a copy of which is with this writer.

Sixth, if one of the eye witnesses gave details of 4 persons who planted the bomb on the train of which Muzammil was one, and then who are the remaining three. Why is there no mention of them? How does this corroborate with the facts.

Seventh, the charge sheet does not say who procured the explosives and how they were transported to CST. Where from the explosives were sourced is also left out from the investigation as it is not given in the charge sheet. There is not even the remotest possibility of Muzammil doing it for he lived with those including his sister he would not do any such thing. It is also unthinkable that he would continue to live there when other blasts also shook the city and he attending his office for two months as if nothing had happened!

Eighth, Zahid Patni is one of the accused in POTA Special Case No 1/04. Patni who also became approver never retracted from his confession. He also said that he was behind the Mulund blast. But neither Patni nor anyone from his group has been charged for the Mulund blast.

Ninth, in the Vile Parle bomb blast case two witnesses identified Muzammil who they said had parked the cycle on which the bomb was placed. The other person accused in this case is one Yusuf, a wanted accused. The two witnesses are friends and they met at Vile Parle but went to buy vegetables where they saw Muzammil parking the cycle and there was an altercation with some people there over parking. The vegetable market is so crowded and busy that it is impossible to park cycle there. Moreover the witness statement was recorded on May 22, 2003. It was got-up witness, an afterthought.

Tenth, Muzammil wears dark specs all through those years and now as can be seen in this set of two photos with his fellow students. The sketch of the suspected bomber given by the police shows him to be wearing no spectacles.

. Muzammil

Eleventh, the cycle shop owner who had repaired the cycle, particularly paddles and the rim, gave a statement which was completely changed afterward. Why?

Twelfth, the charge sheet is silent about the other bomb planter at Vile Parle. Muazmmil was nowhere near Vile Parle at that time. The person whose phone numbers are given as 9892469942 and 9892183615 here is the wanted Yusuf aka Janab. As a co planter he was nowhere there as can be seen from his phone record.

Thirteenth, Muzammil was arrested from his office on May 7, 2003. But his colleague gave statement that he was arrested on 14th. Everyone in his office knows the truth that he was taken away on 7th. That shows how the police tutored his colleague to give false witness. It is as false as the colleague saying that the police had come to office on May 13 to make inquiry about Muzammil. Why should this give statement 44 days after his illegal detention and 5 months after the bomb blast! More puzzling is that the same colleague also said that he had seen Muzammil near the site of the blast!

Fourteenth, the police have said in their record that the co accused Yusuf met Muzammil in the clinic of Dr Wahid on January 22nd and 23rd, 2003 and they decided to meet at 6.30 pm on January 27th 2003 near Vile Parle railway station or near Bus Stop No 312. The police say that Muzammil was waiting for Yusuf when the colleague named Rohit saw him there. Rohit asked him what he was doing there. Muzammil told him he was waiting for someone, Rohit went away. At 7 to 7.30 on January 27th Yusuf came there and according to police version gave Muzammil a bag and told him there was a bomb in it. It weighed 5 kilo. It was destined to blow at Vile Parle. Then the two went to the vegetable market close to the railway station. There he showed a cycle on the left side of the road and told Muzammil to hang the bag containing the bomb from the handle of the cycle. After having done so, as the police narration continues, he boarded bus no 330 and went back to his rooms in Kurla. Next day Muzammil read in the paper that the bomb had gone off there. The police claim this to have been the fact according to Muzammil in his confession which has been certified by the deputy commissioner of police. This confession was obtained through excruciating circumstances as shown earlier.

Muzammil writes in his letter on it: “It is impossible for me to meet wanted accused Yusuf on 22nd or 23 rd January 2003 at/in Dr Wahid Ansari’s clinic, as Dr Wahid’s Clinic does not exist on 22nd or 23 January 2003. Since Dr Wahid has acquired his Clinic at D’Souza Nagar in March 2003.

“Thus, when the said clinic at D’souza Nagar of Dr Wahid was acquired in March 2003, how I shall visit the Clinic on 22nd or 23rd January 2003.” In support of his claim Muzammil gives a photo copy which is shown on page no 1125 of the charge sheet. Furthermore, there is no call exchanged between him and Yusuf or Dr Wahid before March 2003 as is shown in the phone call record of Muzammil no 98921906506. For the first time Muzammil talked to Dr Wahid was on April 5th 2003.

The phone record of Yusuf’s 9892469942 shows him to be at Mumbra and not at D’Souza Nagar at6.30 to 8.30 pm on January 27th 2003 which is the day and time of the incident of explosion at Vile Parle where one person died and 25 were injured. The exact time of the incident is 8.30 pm Monday January 27, 2003. Thus in all probability Yusuf is a police informer used in falsely implicating Muzammil in the Vile Parle case

The dynamics of subcontinental terrorism before and after Taliban takeover - Global Village Space

The dynamics of subcontinental terrorism before and after Taliban takeover

A close look at Afghanistan reveals that the United States has left the country with a dynamic terrorism landscape posing local, regional, and transnational threats. In this regard, Mustafa Khan argues, the perception of the Afghan Taliban’s total takeover of the country amid a humiliating U.S. withdrawal is iconic for jihadis, and it is likely to substantially bolster their morale and strength and have the ability to change the dynamics of global terrorism.

The unilateral cancellation of the cricket engagement by NL is a huge loss for Pakistan and its wounds incurable for ages to come. What went wrong can be assessed by a look back in anger at what had happened in 2009. Early in his presidency, President Joe Biden faced a major decision on Afghanistan: to end America’s involvement in the war that started due to the 9/11 attacks 20 years earlier or to keep U.S. military forces in the country. Having long defined the core U.S. goal in Afghanistan as countering terrorism, Biden’s decision came to depend on a critical assessment of the terrorism landscape in Afghanistan and leading to a complete Taliban takeover.

The terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team is yet another reminder of how this corner of the world is wasting its energy in futility. If anything, terror will balkanize the people further. A fourth of the world population is concentrated in four countries of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka with inadequate resources. Yet the highest priority of the governments is defense expenditure rather than the human development index. That hardly makes anyone safe and secure, least of all from their perceived or real enemies.

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Territorial disputes and claims have spawned terrorism

Such a situation would benefit those who would like to arm them to teeth and make them fight each other. Or, what is worse, they would like such troubles removed from their immediate vicinity so that they can thrive and dominate according to their wish, needs and way of life.

Lahore’s attack of March 3, 2009, on the Sri Lankan players in the orchestration of this truth. Home to three major religions of the world, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam, a terrorist attack here is inferred to be an attack by one group identified on the basis of religion and the target victims equally bear the religious identity of the so-called ‘other’.

The security forces that are caught in such violent situations of not their making suffer and do their duty according to their discipline and how well or poorly they are equipped. In the Lahore attack, the terrorists made a pincer advance from three sides and used awesome weapons which are bound to awe and stun anyone howsoever motivated to fight back: two car bombs, grenades, three kilograms of explosives, pistols and a detonating cable and the deadly AK 47s spraying death and mayhem as well as rocket launchers which fired antitank grade grenades.

There were two police escort vans that first came under fire. They swung into operation and gave cover to the bus carrying the players from Sri Lanka. For about half an hour the fight lasted until then the bus reached the stadium. If the police had not fought as they did, taking hostage and moving into an adjoining building for holding up the victims and demanding safe passage and ransom would have followed. The swift action is the saving grace. Even so, the score was quite high: there would be no meaningful cricket events for sometimes to come and no world cup in 2012. This is a devastating blow to Pakistan’s economy when they were just counting on making millions of dollars to stave off more bankruptcy and loans.

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No western country, not even Israel has ever suffered such a fate

What is true of Lahore is true of the Mumbai attacks of November 26, 2008. Indian economy could absorb the financial loss much easier because ours is a more vibrant economy than that of our neighbors’. But the overall loss is of the whole region of South Asian neighbors.

We must hark back to the resolutions of 2005 when the same neighbors wanted to improve the life of the people and the situation in the region through cricket matches. The tension and fissiparous tendencies that always accompanied a match between India and Pakistan had started losing grip on the minds and hearts of the people. Hope for the neighborly feeling was being born. But all that is now gone with the wind.

The attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers was well coordinated. The twelve attackers not only succeeded in killing six policemen, a driver and two bystanders and injuring some half dozen players but also escaped from the scene. This is amazing by all standards because there was already a heightened sense of security not only in Pakistan but all around the subcontinent in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks of November 26 2008 a year before the Lahore attack.

Moreover, India had already pulled out of the events and therefore there was a need for extra caution. The host team and the government could not have overlooked this aspect. What is significantly underlined was that the Sri Lankan team had come in lieu of the Indian team which had canceled its visit in response to the terrorist attack on its soil.

A long-time critic of his government and former skipper Imran Khan remarked vehemently that the attack was not made by the Taliban’s or the al Qaeda and the Pakistan Prime Minister asserted that it was carried out by the same group of terrorists who were behind the Mumbai November 2008 attack. Lashkar e Taiba which is blamed for the Mumbai attack is unlikely to undertake such an attack in the province of its birth and recruitment as it would lose support for cricket is the ruling passion of the people of Punjab and much of Pakistan. Moreover, the religious angle is out of consideration here. LeT is not known to have carried out any attack on Pakistan soil itself.

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Pakistan as a scapegoat?

The reaction of Imran Khan deserves notice because he is excruciatingly frank that his country is made to suffer for what the world believes it is plagued by the Taliban and al Qaeda who are not this time involved in the attacks. If there is a grain of truth in this then it is ominously frightening to surmise who is behind the attacks. It does not have necessarily to be the arch-rival India. There may now be international players on the scene whom some agencies have outsourced terror. A money changer who watched the scene hardly 30 meters away remarked that the gunmen “looked Nepali or Filipino, maybe Indian.”

Of course. it is difficult if not altogether impossible to make sense of every claim and assertion. For example, the scale of the Mumbai attacks and extent of destruction do not match with the work of ten who could have done so much. Then there is the witness account that many had seen white-skinned attackers of non-Asian origin at the VT station of Mumbai. Where have they gone?

A nurse is on record saying that the attackers at the Cama hospital spoke fluent Marathi! If the attackers in Lahore spoke Pushtun then what does their appearance like Nepalese or Filipinos or Indians imply? Or, could it be that there were several groups involved in both the attacks and the terrorists of foreign origin were withdrawn in the course of the operation?

Then, right from the beginning of the Mumbai attacks television reports said that the Chabad house had ordered one hundred kilos of chicken and a huge amount of liquor. This makes one feel that there is a kind of ‘packaged terrorism’ ordered from outside. From this point in time and place, it is not possible to be definite about things but one thing still remains irrepressible that there is some kind of cooperation or coordination between groups of terrorists and agents.

The Asian subcontinent is a mosaic of different cultures but it has humanity and a fair sense of sharing in the values of what different religions have taught over the years. In the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, there was a popular groundswell for sharing the suffering the victims have gone through and how to reach out to them. There was also resentment against the government and politicians who failed to respond as they were more preoccupied with corruption and mismanagement.

In what way does a Zardari or Sharif cut a different figure? There is a letter from the editor of The Post of Lahore where the writer gives vent to the feelings of many ordinary people: “My nation asks where the hell more police officials were, so that they could have stood right in front of the firing spree. My people also regret their presence at the scene so that they could have stood between the firing and the players’ bus. And believe me, if the masses would have been allowed, they must have not only ensured that any injury to any player, but have also picked up some of the culprits.”

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According to Fareed Zakaria Muslims generally would “settle for order” and the letter of the editor is imbued with that spirit. Recall the gathering of people at the Taj hotel showing solidarity and desire for peace and resentment against corruption and ineptitude of government in protecting the life of the people. It too was an expression of the same human spirit.

Chapter 12

President George Bush the most dangerous man in the world

Pakistan had a ringside view of UNO being the first president in a learned man of eloquence, Prof AS Bokhari—president of UN Security Council! Since then, it is Munir Akram who has reached the peak of eloquence when he cogently expressed diverse issues that bedevil our times. At the very inception Bokhari was congenially disposed towards Her Majesty Queen Juliana of Netherlands and her husband the King. They struggled for peace. She spoke on “Aggression means presenting death to another, as a requirement for claiming life for oneself!

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The self-realization of President George Bush of American came too late. He should have realized in 2001 or at least the day in 2015 when the English dramatist Harold Pinter in his acceptance of Nobel Prize for literature speech called him the greatest terrorist of the world. In the aftermath of Taliban (including Al Qaeda) taking power of government in Kabul the words of Bush sound effete: "There is little cultural overlaps between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home ... they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them." The US attacked Iraq when he knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction that President Saddam Hussein was making. Bush ordered the execution of the Iraqi president nevertheless. The Israelis stood to benefit most from the hanging. The irony is that the Jews in Iraqi had lived relatively better than anywhere in the Arabic countries.

A similar fatal flaw was seen in the assassination of President John F Kennedy who would have destroyed the Israeli nuclear processing for making bombs at Dimona, in Negev desert. A Jewish night club owner shot and killed the assassin Oswald. The Zionists are inveterate and had a drone target the Iranian nuclear scientist and then self-destruct itself. The evil that men do lives after their death. In the Asian subcontinent it is Narendra Modi and Indian army man Lieutenant colonel Prasad Purohit who became the first serving officer to have stolen 60 kgs of RDX from the army stock and hidden in the Ashram of the Shankeracharya of Jammu. This stock went in the making of bombs that exploded on Samjhauta express that killed dozens of Pakistanis returning to their country. And the massacre in Malegaon twice, the famous Mecca mosque adjacent to Charminar, the Mausoleum of Khwaja Garibunnawaz at Ajmer, etc.

September proved fateful for the US as well as India. In 1965 an Indian military officer Abdul Hamid blunted the attack of Pakistani army on September 8. For two days he searched for Pakistani tanks in the sugarcane fields on his armored jeep and was taken out by the Pakistan army. Ominously Purohit had chosen September 8 2006 to attack Malegaon graveyard mosque and Majlis-e-Mushawarat chowk to kill Indian Muslims at Friday weekly prayer. Purohit had the temerity to target Muslims when they were at night prayer in Ramzan September 29 2008 in Malegaon in Mahararshtra and Modasa in Gujarat. All the attacks were tectonic in effect.

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, we still stand for peace, but is this the India that we can trust?

reformed.

GVS: On August 5, 2020, the Indian government decided to celebrate the Ram Janmabhoomi day on that same day, an attempt to take the whole focus of the media away from talking about Kashmir’s change of status. Now is this a kind of thing that we should be thinking and doing in terms of December 16th?

Dr. Moeed Yusuf: Yes, that is what they tried, but failed miserably. I will give you a simple example because again, that is an issue of coordinated messaging, Times Square. Times Square displayed Kashmir as an issue on its main screen, which as you know is not easy to get. And it wasn’t us, it was the Kashmiri diaspora, but the more important part is that India had bought that space for pooja, where Modi was – India was – presenting itself as a land of peace and whatever. That was cancelled, and the space was given to something else.

Why? Because the world is beginning to recognize, you can’t fool the world all the time. There are real issues, and there are made-up issues. 5 August, La Monde (French paper) carried a three-column story on Kashmir, so the world actually did pick up, that this is gross injustice and the anniversary of that day needs to be marked as a black day, and these are western outlets, that frankly don’t usually do this. Of course, they [India] were going to deflect, they don’t have something to present as fact, that’s what they are going to do.

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But I will also say something, countries that succeed do two things simultaneously: They proactively point out what they stand for and where their adversary or someone else is mischaracterizing them, they don’t wait to act. And second, simultaneously, they introspect, where do we go wrong, where did we go wrong, what are the things that where we have gone wrong on, and we’ve changed. It’s no point just continuing to say I have got everything perfectly lined up, it’s the other.

Yes, the other may play a big part, but with it, introspection is key. If you ask me what’s the broadest vision – where I sit, it is putting Pakistan on the map, on the front foot proactively, and having very hard internal conversations to remove our blind spots and fix whatever weaknesses we find and coordination is one.

GVS: How do you think Pakistan can change its perception in the world.

Dr. Moeed Yusuf: So, another starting point on this is what are We for the world. So, the first is internal clarity, and then you project; and where Pakistan has been treated very unfairly, is that we continue to talk about a different Pakistan and the world refuses to acknowledge it. The weakness there perhaps is that we are not the best communicators either; communication has not been our forte in the past. And for whatever reason, for the past ten years, the foreign policy was fairly mum on some issues.

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What are We? I would say we need to explain this to the world and we are explaining, and you will see more of this. Pakistan wants to be the melting pot of positive global economic interests. How do you do that? You have a geo-economic location, because the geo-strategic part of it has only brought us wars, unfortunately. So, you have got a geo-economic location. What do you stand for? Number one, connectivity, number two, development partnerships not assistance, and number three, responsibility within its citizens and responsibility out which means regional peace.

On connectivity, CPEC is a great example. Where do we want to go? Central Asia, Afghanistan, we even want to go east, if our Eastern neighbour will come to its senses. Development assistance? Yes, we need assistance, but what are we talking about? Partnerships, interdependence, melting pot, anybody wants to invest in CPEC? Please come. CPEC extends to Afghanistan – Brilliant. Other projects? Anybody wants to come? Yes. Is it an easy path? No. We have got to improve our reality, but also the easiest path in the Middle-East is to pick one side. We are continuing to say that we are the country that can talk to everybody in a friendly manner.

We are open to investment from anybody. Yes, responsibility within to our citizens. What is the Islamic welfare concept? That’s essentially what it is. Responsibility outside: What is our Kashmir policy? Human rights. International law. China-India have a spat – India says, Oh! two-front war. What does Pakistan do? Tell the world – peace is where we want to stand. Yes. But, if you try and do a Balakot, you will get a response that you got many-folds next time as well. But short of that, that’s Pakistan’s vision.

We want to use our location for connectivity, for economics, for the betterment of our people and the region. This is the conversation to have. When I or anybody in my position or other officials sit with foreign counterparts, I want to spend 25 minutes explaining Pakistan’s vision. In that, you then have a conversation. This vision is not going to be achieved if India keeps what it’s doing. If Kashmir remains where it is. Who is losing – the entire world! We are ultimately a nuclear region. You the West – want Afghanistan to be stable. When do you get access to Central Asia? When it’s stable. Invest in Afghanistan, let Pakistan invest, and let China invest, you have been interdependent. That’s the vision Pakistan has.

I haven’t said anywhere the word ‘terrorism’. I haven’t said anywhere the word ‘military’. Are they missing? No. They are very much there. But the world has to understand our framing and where we want to go and recognize the reason, we are unable to achieve our vision entirely because they are courting partners in countries who are the agents of destabilization in the region. That’s what needs to be changed.

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GVS: What is your thought on national security in Pakistan? Do we have a strong defined idea of what this actually is?

Dr. Moeed Yusuf: National security strategies exist. National interest exists. I think it’s a very polarized debate in Pakistan historically. But, let me say two things. One, let me first dispel this myth that the military controls national security and the only conversation to be had is about hard security, traditional security.

The civilian and military leadership in Pakistan is on one page, which is national security on the broadest sense of the term: economic, human, military security together in a symbiotic manner. Otherwise, one on its own means nothing and let me also tell you and I will say this on record to you. In my 14 months, I am a civilian, no political backing, no bureaucratic background. I have received 100% support from the prime minister of Pakistan and the military leadership of Pakistan. There is clarity and vision of where we want to go. If that wasn’t there, a person of my profile won’t be sitting here.

It makes no sense for the prime minister of Pakistan to put me in this position if there isn’t a vision on which there is a consensus. In 14 months, if there is anybody who says that the National Security Division has been useless, it has failed, its Moeed Yusuf’s failure, not the prime minister of Pakistan’s and the Pakistani military leadership’s. I am saying this on record, it’s on me if there is a failing, I have failed. I have no obstacles to deal with when it comes to the system.

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GVS: We all know what the Ajit Doval doctrine is, what is going to be the Moeed Yusuf Doctrine?

Dr. Moeed Yusuf: Peace, peace and peace. Economic stability. The Geoeconomic location used to its best advantage. You would be surprised that this office supposedly national security, but spends most of its time talking about the linkages between economic security at the core and military and human security flowing from that and connected through a symbiotic relationship. Let me also tell you and what my counterpart is doing.

I am not making this up, but getting articles against Pakistani officials and institutions, walking out of meetings because there is a legitimate map of another country, on that country’s official’s wall, leading the intelligence operations under the guidance of his boss [PM Modi] to undermine CPEC, and openly talking about the fact that there will be military actions in AJK or GB, in a nuclear environment.

That is what is happening on the other side. Should I or anybody sitting here, respond in the same petty and childish manner? No. We are going places, and they are feeling the heat. Two years from now, my dream for Pakistan, whether I am here or anybody else is here, that conversation becomes so useless for the world, that they talk to Pakistan about what I am telling you and say forget about the neighbour, they are a liability as they are. That’s the goal we have. We are not going to play at their pitch and certainly not come down to their level.

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Chapter 13

Sopore encounter genuine, faked, or grafted?

An encounter of the security forces and the militants was in action Wednesday July 1 2020. The security forces forced a grandfather in his late sixties to get out of his car. They sprayed bullets and killed him as his 3 year old grandson Ayyad/Babbu Khan looked at the operation. The soldiers walked on the body and picked up the boy and put him on his grandfather still alive but breathed his last looking at the child. They also posed for photographs. The soldiers trampled the body.

The child was habitually sleeping with his hands touching or holding the ears or face of his grandfather. This was the reflex action as the soldiers made a video of it. The mother and the grandmother of the child were also in police service. It was the child who narrated to them with onomatopoeic sound of firing guns. He even overheard the troopers talking about what they were doing, their instructions and orders and compliance of it. He even reported to his near and dear ones who were simply nonplussed and awed!

What the toddler wanted to demonstrate was the expression of the subconscious which is the repertoire of being caught between Scylla and Charibdis where the situation is such that there are two dangers in which an attempt to avoid one increases the risk from the other. It was quite recently that the present chief of CRPF filed a complaint against the former head of CRPF who is now Inspector General of Kashmir section, Vijay Kumar.

The imbroglio in Kashmir valley is churning out the truth which has otherwise been consigned to limbo. During the discussion on role of CRPF in Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, had observed that the CRPF was getting credit for operations although it was not doing anything. He also said that CRPF is not up to the mark. “Here [in Kashmir], Intelligence is generated by Jammu and Kashmir Police and operations are conducted by the Army and Rashtriya Rifles. The name of CRPF is inserted just like that. This I know. I have been in CRPF."

A natural corollary of this would be that the death of Osaib Altaf Maraz on February 5, 2020 when Modi government scrapped the Articles 370, 35A. The security forces chased some boys who were playing in the field. When they were escaping they came upon the bridge where another group of soldiers blocked them. There were about 12 of them. They jumped into the river. But not Osaib, he could not swim and yet tried to hang from the bridge and then wade into the water of the river tentatively while his playmate swam to the other bank and fled. He caught hold of the ledge but cops struck him on his head. Then he tried to hold on the bush in the running stream when the security personnel hit him again and again and then targeted his hands on the under-water bushes. He let it go and subsequently drowned to his death in water. He was buried the same day and yet the central government under Modi and Shah did not allow registration of his death to show that the first day of the scrapping of articles and declaring Kashmir and Jammu as central territory.

Human rights activists appealed to Supreme Court which ordered the police to issue death certificate after a gap of 4 months. There is still possibility that the whole affair was a faked encounter: “I wouldn’t have believed my nephew, but when I went to the police station at Sopore and saw my father’s car, there was not even a single scratch on it. If he were killed in the crossfire then there should have been bloodstains or shards of the window panes, but I couldn’t see anything in the car” he said.

What happened in Kashmir is impact India. Only recently India faced a peculiar situation in Tamil Nadu where the police killed a father and his son after beating them throughout the night. Was it because they were Christians? The matter worsened so much that the high court ordered the collector to take over the police station! Such depravity is the hall mark of India under Modi.

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“We received a call, telling us someone has killed your uncle on the road. Then we went to the spot and asked some people present there what happened. They told us that the militants attacked the security forces and, in that process, they lost numerous persons,” said Farooq Ahmed Khan, Ahmed’s nephew.

“To take revenge, they took my uncle out of his car, while his grandson was in his lap, and they shot at him in the back. He was dead on the spot. Local residents watched the scene through their windows.”

Khan’s wife, who earlier worked with the police, alleged that the security forces then placed the minor on Ahmed’s lifeless body, “clicked pictures for a PR stunt and then claimed they had rescued the child”.

Another relative, Tanveer Ahmed, said Ahmed was on his way to Handwara to bring back the family help. “The grandson was extremely attached to Khan sahab, to the extent that his mother had left him with his grandparents. All day he would follow Khan sahab… Today, when Khan sahab left for Handwara, the child wanted to accompany him. Little did we know this would be the last time he saw his grandfather’s face. We are devastated,” he added.

News 18 -6 September 2021

18 2021BJP leader Akash Saxena lodged a complaint against him in the Civil Lines police station and the police registered a case against Qureshi under sections 153-A, 153-B, 124-A and 505 (1) (b) of the IPC.

“The former governor had come to meet Azam Khan’s family. The kind of statement he made after leaving from there shows his Talibani mindset. Some people want to make the state like the Taliban, but their intentions will never be fulfilled,” Akash Saxena said.

Qureshi, who reached Rampur to meet Azam Khan’s family, said he had come to see his sister-in-law and nephews.

“I do not need to say anything about the torture and atrocities done by this government on Azam Bhai. I had come to tell the family to have courage. Allah is with them. Inshallah, victory will be theirs. This government should be ashamed of itself … where the government is after your life, one case after another is being lodged. It is a fight between the devil and man. The devil and the blood-drinking monster are on one side and human beings are on one side. We are watching what is happening,” h

Steve Coll has made a name for himself as one of the foremost reporters of this generation. He is the author of seven non-fiction books. He has been the senior editor at the Washington Post and was managing director of the post between 1998 and 2004. He has covered American and international politics, national security and intelligence issues. His book ‘Ghost Wars’ is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Overseas Press Club Award. It arguably offers the most gripping narrative account of the origins of Al-Qaeda and the role various actors played in it.

The book spans 32 chapters and is divided into three parts, covering nearly 600 pages. And the author doesn’t stand on ceremony. Each chapter and page is filled with vital pieces of information. It is difficult to skip a chapter or two and carry on reading without losing the context of the broader picture of history the writer tries to build. There is a near constant chronological order to the book, with occasional leaps back and forth between different countries, regions and times. I found it easier to read a couple of chapters daily instead of reading big chunks of it in a single sitting. For those not used to reading non-fiction, the book may feel a bit dense.

The State Department might have a policy of its own, the CIA and the Pentagon might be pursuing a different parallel policy to achieve the same objectives.

The author relies on interviews he conducted with people who helped shape historical events, memos in the White House, confidential CIA memos mostly concerned with detailing the legal authority CIA officers had in killing or capturing Osama bin Laden, raw intelligence in the form of telephone intercepts and information obtained from interrogation, reports by intelligence analysts and memoirs. According to the New York Review of Books, ‘the CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events.’

What keeps the tale refreshing, chapter after chapter is the writing style of the author. At times blunt but always fiercely honest and frank, Steve Coll’s technique to story-telling is why this book won the Pulitzer Prize. It almost feels as if the story is being narrated by your friend in an informal setting. When describing characters, Coll often goes into their histories, their motivations, desires, and biases. This puts a human touch to the overall narrative where intelligence officers, Islamists and Jihadists, statesmen, politicians, and military leaders are all trying their best to do their jobs or fulfill their aims but factors beyond their control often hamper their ability to do so.

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Coll seems to have an insider view of how politics works in Washington. The relationship between the CIA chief and the President of the US ultimately affects budget, morale, and performance of officers belonging to the intelligence community. The machine of inter-departmental bureaucracy in the US seems to have a mind of its own. There’s little that the white house, preoccupied with the political fall-out of all if any, CIA operation to kill or capture bin Laden, can do to manipulate this vast apparatus the way it wants.

The State Department might have a policy of its own, the CIA and the Pentagon might be pursuing a different parallel policy to achieve the same objectives. There are people supposedly on top of things in Washington but it’s difficult to say who is in complete or near totals control at any given time. Occasionally, the book churns up remarkable facts that made me stop and think for a while.

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For instance, at the risk of spoiling the book, when the FBI announced a $5 million bounty for Bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda chief offered a $9 million bounty of any of the four top CIA officers. In stark contrast to the image that political leaders maintain in public, the insecurity that they often feel under the pressure of decisions that may affect millions or cause unacceptable political fall-out is portrayed expertly by the author. In hindsight, it certainly seems as if there were innumerable opportunities to nip Al-Qaeda in the bud.

But Steve Coll does an excellent job of explaining the conditions under which decisions in real time are made. As soon as I finished reading it, I began checking out where to buy the sequel to Ghost Wars, ‘Directorate S’ which continues the story after 9/11 till recent years. This Pulitzer prize winner truly lives up to its reputation.

After an apparent defeat of the United States, the Taliban are in power in Afghanistan. Whether the defect is due to “a fecklessness and incompetence” of the Afghan forces or the result of an alleged political settlement between the Taliban and the US is still a controversial subject.

Some analysts in Islamabad are of the view that the swiftness with which the Taliban captured Afghanistan and the unceremonious (rather humiliating) dismissal of the US-installed administration in Kabul reveal the fact that a deal was struck by the Taliban with the US.

However, Islamist political parties and pro-Taliban public intellectuals are of the view that the Taliban have defeated the superpower and reclaimed their land. Their argument is that this victory was promised by God to these “young brave men” who were fighting for His cause. These intellectuals, ulema and certain segments of society have also found a quote from the the12-minute interview of Mullah Omar Mohammad, the founder of the Taliban struggle, with Voice of America (VOA) in 2001.

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VOA: “Do you know that the US has announced a war on terrorism?”

Mullah Omar’s answer: “I am considering two promises. One is the promise of God, the other is that of Bush.The promise of Bush is that there is no place on earth where you can hide that I cannot find you. We will see which one of these two promises is fulfilled.”

This latter narrative the Taliban’s victory was promised by God has the potential to negatively impact the prospects, if any, of democracy in the Muslim world. The Taliban-minded people in the Muslim world already treat democracy or the idea of individual freedoms as the antithesis to Islam and its history. A few days ago, Waheedullah Hashimi, who has access to the Taliban’s decision-making, told Reuters that there will be no democracy in Afghanistan. “We will not discuss what type of political system should we apply in Afghanistan because it is clear. It is Sharia law and that is it,” he said.

As the Taliban are ready to run Afghanistan, there are three reasons to assess as to how their victory and subsequent rule can revive Islamist discourse in countries like Pakistan. This revival, I would argue, will ultimately set the stage for the resurgence of Islamist Movements.

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First, Islam is the solution to counter western modernity

The new political belief, which probably was already an integral part of popular culture in most of the Muslim majority countries, now almost got legitimized that the only way to counter American interventionism and cultural hegemony is to Islamize society, cultural discourse and political order. Similarly, Islamists firmly believe that the only way to fix backward economies, revisit anti-science approaches and end political authoritarianism is to implement Sharia.

At this moment, the Taliban are likely to get funding from the US, China and some other countries which will potentially reinforce the beliefs: implementation of Sharia in Afghanistan helped the Taliban stabilize a failing economy and a collapsing society.

Second, God helped the Taliban defeat two superpowers

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States, so the system they will implement will be Islamic in a real sense. Many in Pakistan celebrated the victory of the Taliban as a sign of the beginning of a new World Order led by Muslims. The belief that the mujahideen can defeat any so-called superpower is the result of a unique historical experience.

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The mujahideen – the precursors to the Taliban -with the help of the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan defeated the USSR in the 1980s. Taliban then emerged as the mujahideen of the mujahideen to stamp warriors, and hence, the political authority on much of Afghanistan. The same group successfully captured Kabul and forced the US for a graceless exit. The Taliban sympathizers view it as the power of faith and blessing of Allah the beginning of the Talibanisation Renaissance.

Such a thinking pattern leads us to conclude that the system these pious men are going to establish will be Islamic in letter and spirit. Resultantly, a Talibanized political order seems to be in the offing. For example, a ban on co-education, consumption of alcohol and free speech are considered ideal principles of an Islamic society. The Taliban are certain to do it, and the popular support from countries like Pakistan shall just pour in.

Third, the revival of the Western narrative against Islam and Muslim societies will ultimately benefit Islamists

Until the 1970s, the Muslim World was particularly dominated by the secularists who introduced political order based on the ideals of “assertive secularism” in a stark contradiction to what happens in a liberal democracy. However, the last half of the 20th century saw a drastic change where several Muslim majority countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Iran experienced Islamization in legal, political and cultural spheres. This Islamization drive in the Muslim world led western thinkers and scholars to the conclusion that Islam was not compatible with liberal democracy.

In an article, History Is Still Going Our Way for The Wall Street Journal Francis Fukuyama, a celebrated American scholar, questioned Islam’s relationship with democracy and modernity. He wrote: “But there does seem to be something about Islam, or at least the fundamentalist versions of Islam that have been dominant in recent years, that makes Muslim societies particularly resistant to modernity.”

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Some scholars are of the view that Fukuyama’s essay may be read in an appropriate historical context. The situation right after 9/11 was not normal in the united states and Fukuyama wrote this strong worded piece just after three weeks of the tragedy which shook the whole American nation. However, Fukuyama did not say anything new rather he almost repeated what other western scholars like Ernest Gellner, Bernard Lewis, and Samuel P. Huntington had said about Islam.

The current Taliban regime’s treatment of women, violations of human rights and the manifestation of medieval mindset to draft legal system of the country in the name of Islam will generate more critical and hostile scholarship against Islam as a religion. This anti-Islam scholarship and media coverage in the west will ultimately help conservative ulema and Islamists to present the religion as a political doctrine to counter the western political narrative.

It is the time that public intellectuals in the Muslim world since the evolving challenges and develop coping strategies to prevent the revival of Talibanized political imagination. The fundamental problem with the Taliban-styled political order is that it is based upon narcissistic ideological ideals which afford no space for disagreement, criticism, or minorities.

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Unfortunately, the leaders of the Muslim world are unlikely to challenges this Talibanization of political imagination for their own political interests. These leaders, on the contrary, shall make an alliance with the Islamist parties to seek maximum popular support. For example, in Pakistan, the current government is making all possible efforts ranging from Islamizing curriculum to certain legal reforms to appease the Islamist groups. So all responsibility lies with the public intellectuals and thinking minds in the Muslim world.

Farah Adeed is a doctoral candidate for political science at San Diego State University, California, USA. He previously worked as Asst Editor at GVS. He can be followed @farah_adeed on Twitter. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Global Village Space’s editorial policy.

The United States and Pakistan have a shared interest in working together in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s National Security Adviser, Moeed Yusuf, has said, but pointed out that it will require fixing the bilateral relationship by “moving past their problems.”

“Afghan instability could lead to more terrorism, refugees and economic hardship for Pakistan,” he said in a phone interview with The Washington Post columnist, Josh Rogin, whose opinion piece appeared in the newspaper on Thursday under the headline: Pakistan wants to be treated like an ally, not a scapegoat.

Columnist Rogin argued that instead of engaging with Pakistan, the country is being indicted in American media coverage for its alleged support of the Taliban over the years, and he proposed that the US “seriously consider Pakistan’s offer of cooperation.”

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“Right now, in the situation, we are in, how are US and Pakistan’s interests not aligned?” Moeed Yusuf, the national security adviser, asked in the interview, which Rogin worked into his column.

“I’m not asking for any sympathy for Pakistan,” the NSA said. “I’m thinking in terms of pure US selfish national interests. How does it help to push away a country of this size, stature and power?” he asked.

Blaming Pakistan is not the solution

Rogin also noted that Pakistan perennially stands accused of providing havens for the Taliban, but Pakistani officials point out that tens of thousands of Pakistani soldiers have died fighting extremists in their own country since 9/11.

“Pakistan is the victim. We had nothing to do with 9/11. … We teamed up with the US to fight back … and after that, there is a major backlash on Pakistan,” Yusuf said. “But let’s let all that pass. We need to work out how to move forward as partners because neither side can do without the other in terms of stability in the region.”

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The US-supported government in Kabul, he said, used Pakistan as a scapegoat to excuse its own ineptitude, corruptions and unpopularity. Pakistan helped bring the Taliban to the negotiating table at Washington’s request, got cut out of the negotiations and is now being blamed for the outcome, it was pointed out.

“Did Pakistan tell the Afghan National Army not to fight? Did Pakistan tell Ashraf Ghani to run away?” Moeed Yusuf said. “The entire state collapsed in a week. So somebody was lying, somebody was misreporting, or somebody was mistaken about the reality and when it came to informing the taxpayers of the Western world.”

Noting PM Khan’s government last week’s statement about the Taliban’s takeover, Rogin said it “becomes apparent there is actually significant overlap with the Biden administration’s policy goals.”

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Pakistan, the columnist pointed out, is calling for the Taliban to work with other ethnic groups toward a political settlement to establish an inclusive government in Kabul. Pakistan has urged the Taliban to respect international law and human rights, and he also wrote that Islamabad agrees with President Joe Biden that withdrawing all US troops was the right decision.

Pakistan also wants the United States to increase its diplomatic and economic involvement in Afghanistan and to find a way forward to engage diplomatically with the Taliban, Rogin said, referring to the Pakistani statement.

On his part, Moeed Yusuf said, the United States should not isolate Afghanistan to punish its new rulers.

“Now that the Taliban has the whole country, they don’t really need Islamabad as much anymore,” he said. “Assistance and recognition is the leverage. Who has that? It’s the Western countries that have much more leverage in Afghanistan than Pakistan.”

In this regard, Rogin carried in his column former US Ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan Ryan Crocker remarks in The New York Times last week that the United States made a mistake by disengaging with Pakistan in the 1990s and would be repeating that mistake by turning away from Islamabad now.

“We need to be engaged with Pakistan on ways to assess and deal with this enhanced threat,” wrote Crocker. “The prospect of violent destabilization of a country with about 210 million people and nuclear weapons is not a pretty one,” the diplomat added.

Read More: Did US actually give $33bn in aid to Pakistan?

Way Forward

The NSA told Rogin that the US-Pakistan relationship can’t be just about Afghanistan; the two countries share a much broader range of interests. But first, the United States must learn the lessons of the 1990s, when it abandoned Afghanistan. Otherwise, it can expect a similar outcome.

“If a security vacuum is left in Afghanistan by abandoning it, you will see that these terrorist organizations take root again. Let’s not kid ourselves,” Moeed Yusuf said.

In his concluding comments, Rogin wrote, “Given (President Joe) Biden’s haphazard withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover, the United States has little alternative but to seriously consider Pakistan’s offer of cooperation. Sure, it might not work, but it’s worth a shot.

“Meanwhile, Washington and Islamabad might find a path back to being true allies. That still makes strategic sense for both countries, perhaps now more than ever,” the columnist added.

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“India is not granting visa to Afghans who do not have passports. The majority of us who were working in the Indian mission do not have passports. Those who do, do not have passports for their families. Now the passport office here is shut. We do not know when it will reopen. As and when it does, we do not know how it will function under the Taliban,” the former employee said. “Both America and Australia are evacuating Afghans who worked for them based on Taskira [a local identity document], but India is not.”ie In his recent book titled The Indian Way (HarperCollins, 2020), Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, wrote: “It is time for us to engage America, manage China, cultivate Europe, reassure Russia, bring Japan into play, draw neighbours in, extend the neighbourhood and expand traditional constituencies of support.”

Prime suspect in Jantar Mantar hate sloganeering case arrested, say Delhi Police

The police arrested seven persons in the case registered after videos of an August 8 rally at Jantar Mantar went viral on social media where participants allegedly raised anti-Muslim slogans.

By HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

UPDATED ON AUG 26, 2021 04:33 AM IST

The Delhi police on Wednesday arrested Uttam Malik, an alleged prime suspect in the August 8 anti-Muslim sloganeering case at Jantar Mantar.

Senior Delhi police officers, who asked not be named, said Malik, a resident of Ghaziabad claimed that he is a follower of Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati -- the head priest of a temple in Dasna, Ghaziabad. Saraswati was earlier named in an FIR for hate speech against Prophet Muhammad at the Press Club of India on April 1.

When contacted, Saraswati, said, “ I won’t deny that he is my follower. We will fight his case legally. It is his constitutional right to defend himself. Delhi police are framing innocent persons in the case.”

The police arrested seven persons in the case registered after videos of an August 8 rally at Jantar Mantar went viral on social media where participants allegedly raised anti-Muslim slogans. Those arrested include Ashwini Upadhyay, former spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi unit. Upadhyay was released on bail on August 11, a day after his arrest. The rally was organised by ‘Bharat Jodo Andolan’ against colonial-era laws.

Several videos from Jantar Mantar purportedly show Malik, whose real name is Uttam Upadhyay, shouting hate slogans. HT could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.

In the ongoing investigation in the case, police are still on the lookout for Pinky Chaudhary. chief of the Hindu Raksha Dal -- a right wing group which had claimed responsibility for the violence on JNU campus in January 2020. Chaudhary’s anticipatory bail plea was rejected by a Delhi court on August 21.

“Our investigation has revealed that the August 8 rally at Jantar Mantar was planned months in advance. Messages were circulated among different groups on WhatsApp, and people from different groups participated in the rally. The people we have arrested so far are connected to each other. The organisers of the event sent invitations under the banner of Bharat Jodo Andolan. People were asked to join a group called Save India Foundation through a WhatsApp number that was mentioned on the invitation for the August 8 event. One of the arrested accused, Preet Singh is the convener of the Save India Foundation,” said a police officer.

Police said five others arrested accused --- Deepak Kumar, Vinod Sharma, Deepak Yadav, Vinit Bajpai and Sushil Tiwari -- are all associated with different right-wing organisations.

Time for India to rethink its role in Afghanistan & the region

Air Marshal Shahid Akhtar Alvi (Retd) delineates how India managed to ingrain its foothold in Afghanistan by playing the double game. He explains how India strengthened its relationship with Afghanistan after independence and exercised its clout in the country by supporting Afghan government against Pakistan after 9/11. However, tables turned on India when the US decided to end its 20 years war in Afghanistan by striking a peace deal. With the recent Taliban takeover, would India still be in the game or its a final nail in the coffin for it?

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25 August 2021

Taliban’s swift takeover of Kabul caught the world by surprise. It has now left the international community with no option but to wait and watch whether the now dubbed ‘Taliban 2.0’ meet the promises made in their August 17th international press conference. So far, most world capitals have resisted the temptation of issuing a decree. More than that, the changing dynamics of Afghan politics after the Taliban takeover have left India to rethink its role in Afghanistan & the region.

However, the Indian media and its think-tank community have reacted quite strongly in a propaganda blitz against Taliban. From doctoring and streaming misleading old videos with current news, linking the takeover with the freedom movement in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (IIOJK) to accusing the West and the United States (US) of acquiescing to Taliban, Indian media outlets, government officials and agencies are leaving no stone unturned to incite the Afghan public towards chaos by instilling fear.

In an interview to Karan Thapar, former Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran argued that the takeover of Afghanistan was a Taliban invasion sponsored and abetted by Pakistan. To add fuel to fire, RSS’ ideological warrior and senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy tweeted that after a year Taliban, Pakistan and China would attack India.

India’s double role has historical basis

This extreme line taken by India is not surprising for those who have closely watched Indo-Afghan politics since partition of the subcontinent. For the younger generation to understand India’s double game, it is vital to examine the country’s past and present role in Afghanistan, besides analyzing New Delhi’s treacherous and deceptive plans to mislead the Afghan public, the US, and its allies, and even pull wool over the eyes of its own citizenry.

Post-independence, India enjoyed cordial relations with the Afghan government. This cozy relationship between the two governments was devoid of any significant people-to-people contact since the welfare and well-being of the Afghan people was never part of India’s agenda. On the contrary, Afghans were always portrayed as callous invaders who repeatedly attacked India and dishonored their deities. In fact, this was taught to Indian children as part of their history lessons.

Read more: Op-ed: India one of the major players in Afghanistan’s domestic and foreign affairs

India working secretly to prepare hostile elements in Pakistan

India’s real policy objective has always been to prepare a breeding ground for elements hostile to Pakistan, a fact recently acknowledged by the country’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. This duplicitous Indian approach was evident during the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet Union in 1979 when she silently watched the plight of Afghan people in a decade-long war.

During the first spell of the Taliban government (1996-2001), India became an active supporter of the Northern Alliance through their logistical supply line via Ayni Air Force Base, also known as Gissar Air Base at Tajikistan, with the sole purpose of keeping Afghanistan in a perpetual state of civil war, in accordance with her state policy objectives.

Then, there was its alliance with the US. First the Clinton administration, and then subsequent American Presidents’ warm embrace of India led to signing important security agreements for technology transfer like COMCASA and BECA.

The two sides had common interests – keeping a check on rising China. The Indian caucus in Washington grew to enormous proportions and served as a key source of influence on Congressional policymaking.

Read more: How India’s double game in Afghanistan is damaging peace

India’s policy objectives vis-à-vis Pakistan post 9/11

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The Indian establishment cleverly clubbed the freedom struggle of Kashmiris with terrorism, while simultaneously restoring their old ties with the Northern Alliance, who offered them, on a platter, an opportunity to boldly undertake espionage and terrorist activities against Pakistan. Policymakers in New Delhi accurately assessed that their sinister designs would escape the international community’s attention as it was narrowly focused on the War against Terror (WoT).

Read more: Unmasking India’s policies on Afghanistan

New Delhi’s playbook in the 1990s

This was New Delhi’s playbook in the late nineties when it fermented infighting within Afghan factions without any regard for the loss of innocent lives. The added bonanza this time was its physical presence, feet on ground, a luxury that was denied earlier.

Within ten years, India had a solid foothold and felt confident of meeting its objectives of keeping Pakistan’s military engaged on the western front to combat the RAW-abetted Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist network.

Simultaneously (under US patronage), the Indian state worked to decelerate the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through terrorist activities in Balochistan with RAW operatives like Kulbhushan Jadhav, an active-duty military officer.

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US-Taliban Peace talks jeopardizing India’s nefarious designs

Events took a sudden turn when the unpredictable Trump administration felt the uselessness of its pointless war in Afghanistan. The US, perhaps, was in search of a new enemy or new ‘threat to its national security’ to satiate the hunger of her expanding Military-Industrial Complex. This coincided with another landmark event where Indian military faced humiliation at the hands of the Chinese Army at Leh. An urgent sense of insecurity forced India to quickly join the US-formed Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) under the assumption of securing more leverage with the Americans.

When Taliban were quietly capturing territories, India was reeling under the dual pressure of farmers’ protests and a fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, Trump’s announcement of a deal with Taliban could not have come at a worse time for India. During peace negotiations with Taliban, India was purposely kept in the dark as the US administration rightly sensed that New Delhi’s involvement carried the risk of sabotaging the process.

The US withdrawal; the final nail in the coffin for India

And then came the final nail in the coffin for India – US announcement of troops’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. Different firefighting strategies were suggested by think- tanks in India except engaging with Taliban. Most were focused on strengthening military prowess of the Afghan government. This lack of insight is hardly surprising given the fact that the strategic community in India has lately faltered on countless accounts like Pulwama, Leh debacle, revoking occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, and last but not least, blindly supporting Prime Minister Modi’s economic policies that have turned out to be disastrous for the country.

Repositioning priorities in the changing Afghan chessboard; India’s challenge

Interestingly, in a June 2020 assessment by Carnegie India, the government was advised to ‘urgently reposition its priorities.’ The authors identified the risks to India’s continued presence in Afghanistan and recommended strategies to mitigate them, including the need ‘to broaden its engagements with Iran and Russia, explore opportunities for cooperation (as limited as they might be) with China, and find common ground with the United States on Afghanistan’s future.’

Ironically, while the same report feebly suggested reaching out to ‘certain Taliban representatives’, the BJP-led government opted to follow Ajit Doval’s advice of increased assistance to Ghani’s government and providing enhanced military training to Afghan security forces.

Read more: The Changing Afghan chessboard: Is it up for grabs again?

Taliban takeover of Kabul: a fiasco for India

Fast forward to August 15, 2021, when the entire Indian population was enthralled in patriotic fervor being played out by their media channels, the side screens of their tv sets started to show Kabul’s takeover by Taliban forces in an organized and peaceful way. Indians immediately felt a sense of grave loss and the same media was let loose to start a malicious campaign against Taliban and Pakistan.

So much so that former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was compelled to say on August 23rd that ‘India should refrain from using Afghan soil against Pakistan to take revenge for Kashmiris’ struggle in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.’ Further adding that ‘India should focus on its internal issues instead of issuing statements regarding the future of Afghanistan.’

Read more: Hekmatyar warns India against its role in Afghanistan

Policy makers at home face mounting backlash by Indian media

In a flurry of articles, Indian commentators are now questioning their own policymakers and squarely apportioned blame on their National Security Advisor Ajit Doval’s policies. They have lamented that India had been reduced to a mere regional power – a sharp fall for an aspiring world power. They are now bemoaning why it did not occur to them to distance themselves from the Americans, and act as intermediaries.

They mourn the evaporation of Indian influence in Kabul and support of anti-state elements, i.e., TTP, Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) etc. They feel dejected on imminent closure of social media houses and limiting of fake / false trends and posts.

They are equally disheartened to see how India’s connectivity projects across the region have blown off, while on the horizon, the bright prospects for CPEC and opening of trade routes to Central Asia are clearly visible under a new regional order in which Pakistan is likely to emerge as an important country.

Thus, the bottom-line looks like: Afghanistan has turned out to be a fiasco for the Americans, but no less so for the Indians.

Likely options for India to remain in the game

So, what are the likely options left with India? Their first attempt would be to forestall the likely public debate on how New Delhi, despite her tall claims of being Washington’s ally, has been pursuing a double game that served its own national security interest by keeping the Americans mired in a two-decade long futile war effort. Indian duplicity could become a new theme in world capitals.

According to Indian strategists, after complete US withdrawal, there will be infighting and Afghanistan would be divided into two groups. One would control the Northern part, while Taliban the rest of the country and India would support the North. However, now there is no Northern Alliance to support, and cobbling together an anti-Taliban coalition will not be free of costs. Now, Taliban include representatives of different communities and a working relationship with the Northern Alliance. Moreover, their quest for an all-inclusive government also limits New Delhi’s options.

Indians are, thus, in a state of flux, a quagmire so deep that without compromising on their characteristic arrogance, they would find it difficult to charter a respectable course. They have already made the initial mistake of closing their embassy, but perhaps keeping the identity of RAW operatives was their first concern. Reopening would amount to acknowledging Taliban rule and ending support to Panjshir Valley, something Ajit Doval would be tempted to continue.

Meanwhile, the future economic map of the region is not likely to escape the attention of India’s business community. Whereas the whole region will be integrated into a seamless network from China and Russia, through Central Asia, Afghanistan and Gwadar, a passage of nearly 1/3rd of world trade, India would remain mired in the endless uncertainties of QUAD.

To sum it up, Indian reaction towards the newly formed set-up in Afghanistan under the leadership of Taliban is that of a grudging adversary rather than a country that has been trumpeting its commitments towards the well-being of Afghani masses. Even those countries that have been very critical in the past about Taliban’s approach of running the country are keeping their fingers crossed as it is unusual to see a victor showing such magnanimity. It is only India who is trying to act as a show spoiler. Since RSS and Hindutva-inspired activists are already having apprehensions about the Taliban and their natural sympathy for the persecuted Muslims in India and occupied Jammu and Kashmir, perhaps it is high time for the Indian leadership to rethink its policy of interference in neighboring countries, and instead look inward to ward off insecurities within its own marginalized communities.

The author is Deputy President Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS), Lahore, Pakistan. He can be contacted at: <alvishahid@hotmail.com> The views expressed in the article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Global Village Space.

Abid, the driver and Muzair, conductor alleged they were thrashed at the main chowk of Pathankot, after they were loading the truck and changing the tyre of the vehicle.

Abid alleged that four to five men came in an auto (Reg Number. PB06AU: 5376) and demanded money from the truck driver. “They were drunk and threatened to beat us if we did not pay them money. When we refused, they punched us on our faces and stomach. They also smashed the windows and glasses of the truck,” Abid said.

Abid and Muzair hailed from Anantanag and the two were driving towards Srinagar with a loaded truck carrying rice. They had stopped the truck to change the tyre and give rest to the truck.

The incident is not a first hate crime against Kashmiris. Last week, Khuehami persisted with Haryana government to take action against some people who had thrashed a private sector employee of Kashmiri origin. Following his intervention, the Haryana government had arrested the attackers.

Four days back, two Kashmiri truckers were beaten up in Himachal Pradesh because the truck was scribbled with ‘Islam zindabad’ on its back side.

Evidence gathered during the investigation of the blast in Lahore's HYPERLINK "https://www.dawn.com/news/1631025"Johar HYPERLINK "https://www.dawn.com/news/1631025" Town last month clearly points to "Indian-sponsored terrorism", National Security Adviser Dr Moeed Yusuf said on Sunday.

Addressing a press conference alongside the Punjab police chief and Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, he said the mastermind of the attack which killed three people and left 24 others injured "is an Indian citizen and he is associated with [Indian intelligence agency] RAW".

"The IG said we have intelligence of foreign intelligence agency, so today without a doubt I want to say, [the circumstances] of this entire attack lead to Indian-sponsored terrorism," the NSA said.

Yusuf said the government had the fakes names, real identities and location of the suspects because of efficient coordination between different agencies.

On June 23, a powerful blast near the residence of Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed in Johar Town had killed three people and injured 24 others, including a police constable.

Six-year-old Abdul Haq, his father Abdul Malik, 50, and a young passerby died in the explosion that left a four-foot-deep and eight-foot-wide crater on the road and damaged several houses and shops nearby.

Quoting intelligence and surveillance staff, a report submitted to the chief minister had confirmed that the blast was carried out through remote control.

NSA Yusuf said Pakistan had been repeatedly saying that India was involved in terrorism against Pakistan.

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Speaking about whether there was involvement of the Indian state in the attack, he said the day the blast took place, there were thousands of coordinated cyber attacks on the country's information infrastructure.

"The cyber attacks were carried out so that our investigation could not be successful and it would face obstacles and time could be gained for the network to disperse," he said, adding that the country's institutions were "successful" because they had been strengthened to work on cybersecurity.

"We have no doubt that the Johar Town and cyber attacks are linked. And the number in which [the cyber attacks] were done, there is no doubt that there was state involvement of our neighbour," he added, referring to India.

He recalled that Pakistan had presented a dossier last year regarding Indian state-sponsored terrorism in Pakistan. "This event is another aspect of that process where our enemy continues to do this," he said.

According to Yusuf, the "direct origin" of the money through which the attack was financed was from India. "Money was sent through third countries; now time has come to pay attention to real criminals," he said.

He revealed that one of the primary suspects who executed the attack, Eid Gul, was originally from Afghanistan and had lived in Pakistan.

"This is that thing which we repeatedly say that Afghan refugees are our brothers and sisters but the time has come for their dignified return," he said, adding that while a big Afghan refugee population was peaceful, the actions of a few hiding among them brought disrepute to all refugees.

"Pakistan will bring this international network in public view and India's real face will be exposed, as we have done before."

Referring to India, the NSA said the country could not tell the world that it wanted to "move forward", while in reality it made plans "to martyr Pakistan's citizens".

"I want to make sure our message is heard clearly that [in] this particular incident, we have concrete evidence and intelligence that point to direct Indian sponsorship of these terrorists," he emphasised.

"We have identified the main mastermind and the handlers of this terrorist attack and we have no doubt in informing you that the main mastermind belongs to RAW, lives in India and is an Indian citizen."

Besides the cyber attacks, Yusuf said, "there has been a whole drama about some mysterious drones flying in Indian-occupied Kashmir. The logic of that is very clear, and we can again say with confidence that it was a deflection tactic."

'Rogue behaviour'

In a tweet after the press conference, Prime Minister Imran Khan said he had directed his team to brief the nation on the findings of the Johar Town blast investigation.

"I appreciate the diligence and speed of Punjab Police’s Counter Terrorism Department in unearthing the evidence and commend the excellent coordination of all our civil and military intelligence agencies," the premier wrote.

He said this coordination had led to identifying the terrorists and their international linkages.

"Again, planning and financing of this heinous terror attack has links to Indian sponsorship of terrorism against Pakistan," he added, saying the global community must mobilise international institutions against this "rogue behaviour".

Timeline of events

Sharing snippets of the information that has surfaced in the police investigtation so far, Punjab Inspector General of Police Inam Ghani said the funding for carrying out the attack "came from abroad".

"We have [identified] the person who was delegated the task to carry out the reconnaissance and execute the attack," IGP Ghani told the presser, identifying the suspect as Eid Gul.

"He took the car from Peter and did a dry run in Lahore," he added, referring to another suspect. A day after the blast, law-enforcement agencies had arrested Peter Paul David after off-loading him from a Karachi-bound flight.

He was said to be the owner of the car used in the blast.

According to details shared by Ghani, a suspect named Ziaullah provided financing for the car to Peter, who handed over the car to Gul. Gul was tasked to execute the attack by an unidentified person.

A chart shared by IGP Ghani about the attack's organisation.

IGP Ghani said they had connected all the dots between the perpetrators and facilitators behind the the attack.

He then went on to share a timeline of the events leading up to the blast. "On June 21, this car had no explosive material, but he (Eid Gul) did a dry run and inspected the area and checked all entry points," he said.

"On June 22, Gul does reconnaissance in a rickshaw and familiarises himself with the area. Gul is originally from Afghanistan but has lived in Punjab all his life so no one suspected him," said the IGP.

"The day of the blast, June 23, Gul took the car from Islamabad," he explained. "We also know where and how he prepared [the car for the attack]."

The IGP said that Gul had chosen to take the motorway to Lahore because the local police had no presence along the route. "He spent the next 12 hours on the motorway, even rested at a rest area," he said, adding that they had verified the details of his journey by checking his entry and exit time stamps on the motorway.

Speaking about the nature of the blast, Ghani said around 20 kilogrammes of explosive material had been packed into the car. "It was fitted in such a way ... that the car was blown to smithereens. This shows the expertise of the person who fit the bomb into the car," he said.

According to the provincial police chief, the CTD has apprehended the main perpetrators behind the attack, as well as their facilitators.

Meanwhile, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said there were repeated incidents which proved that the Indian establishment and present government were "fully supporting" the terrorist network in Pakistan.

He said the group active in Pakistan had been brought under control and "we have burst it", crediting the close coordination between the security, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies for the success.

Qureshi wants FATF to take action

Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in a statement said Pakistan had already shared solid evidence of Indian state-sponsored terrorism inside Pakistan with the international community, which he said was vindicated after revelations about India's involvement in the Johar Town blast.

He said Islamabad expected that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) would take action against India after evaluating these vital pieces of evidence, considering the prevention of terror financing was the watchdog's primary responsibility.

"Is it not the responsibility of FATF to hold India accountable for its terror financing? If no action is taken, then it will show dual standards," the minister said.

He added that it was Pakistan's duty to raise voice against such double standards.

Qureshi said if the FATF members did not take notice of India's terror financing, then it will be clear that "FATF is more of a political forum than a technical forum."

He lauded the efforts of the investigation agencies and Punjab police for unearthing the elements involved in the Lahore attack.

The minister said if the earlier evidence presented by Pakistan of India's state-sponsored terrorism was "taken seriously", terror incidents like the one in Johar Town and in Balochistan would not have taken place.

He emphasised that Pakistan had taken steps against money laundering and terror financing through effective legislation.

Chapter 14

Pick on Pakistan is to pick out Pakistan

There is an episode of Numan aka Abu Hanifa. His neighbour was one who played music and sang songs loudly that disturbed the neighbours at night. One day surprisingly there was no disturbance so Abu Hanifa inquired about his neighbour. People informed him that the man was in prison. He had quarreled with someone who complained against him and so the judge had sent him to jail. Abu Hanifa told a man to go to the judge and request him to release his neighbour from the prison. The people were surprised and asked him why he wanted that man who disturbed him all the time at night to be set free. Abu Hanifa observed that the man, though a nuisance, was his neighbour. He has his duty to him as a neighbour. To help him in his difficult times was his moral duty to him. When the man was released and he was told about it, he rectified himself and stopped causing inconvenience any more.

The Asian subcontinent is in turmoil for India always singles out Pakistan for terrorism which is unpleasant because it doesn’t discretely consider the realistic surrounding of what is actually taking place.

On 14th July 2021there was a suicide bomb attack on a Pakistani bus in which 13 people lost their lives, 9 of them were Chinese working on a dam in Dasu in upper Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi accused India’s Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) of carrying out the attack. In the aftermath of the Taliban taking over power in Afghanistan it acquires ominous dimension showing India in awkward situation. The death of Chinese workers justified Pakistan’s position that India eyes Chinese support to the road with hostility. That the road leads to Gwadar port in Baluchistan that is sticky situation. It is in the provenance of India’s sphere of involvement: Kulbhusan Jadhav! Recent India-China stand-off in Ladakh intensifies the Pakistani understanding of the situation. It also creates misgivings that the epicenter of terrorist activities is not Pakistan. It is India that is behind destabilizing the situation thanks to Doval doctrine.

It is also questionable that India begins to pick up small brownies in the aftermath of every such events to browbeat Pakistan. And humiliate Pakistan by subterfuge of scoring diplomatic points. There are tricky or dishonest ways of doing it. Let alone neighbours! (India is so choosy that marital rape is not rape if the wife is above 15 years old!)

However, if Pakistan claims “irrefutable evidence of India’s active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing and execution of terrorist activities” it is obligatory for the neighbour to run a check on it.

Litmus test

The quandary of the javelin in Japanese Olympics is antidote to prejudice and bias “I was searching for my javelin at the start of the final (in Olympics). I was not able to find it. Suddenly, I saw Arshad Nadeem was moving around with my javelin. Then I told him, ‘Bhai give this javelin to me, it is my javelin! I have to throw with it’. He gave it back to me. That’s why you must have seen I took my first throw hurriedly,” Chopra was quoted as saying by The Times of India.

The incident of Johar township in Lahore on June 23 targeted Hafiz Saeed chief of Jamaatud Dawa. The colossal use of internet and the appearance of drones was enacted to divert the attention from the attack. It was a deflection tactic.

In confronting such terror attacks Pakistan has the obvious advantage of a scholar in NSA Moeed Yusuf unlike the maligned adventure of NSA Ajitkumar Doval. As Doval worked in disguise as a Pakistani in Pakistan and Sikh in Golden Temple prior to Operation Blue Star he has inbred hatred for Muslims and Sikhs. Yusuf was more like ATS chief Hemant Karkare. In Johar (Lahore) bomb blast he started riveting the car used in the bomb blast. That led the inquiry to R&AW of India.

Eid Gul was from Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan, an under- cover agent of R&AW.

Moeed Yusuf: Another terror incident is On June 23, a powerful blast near the residence of Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed in Johar Town had killed three people and injured 24 others, including a police constable.

Reacting to India’s sharp reaction, Pakistan’s Foreign Office said it categorically rejects the MEA’s remarks in connection with the bus blast. We categorically reject the absurd remarks by the Indian MEA, denying India’s involvement in the recent Dasu terrorist attack, Foreign Office said in a statement on Saturday.

It said Pakistan has repeatedly presented “irrefutable evidence of India’s active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing and execution of terrorist activities” in Pakistan. We presented a detailed dossier to the international community last year. Recently, we presented evidence on India’s involvement in the Lahore attack, it said.

Thirteen people, including nine Chinese personnel, were killed and 27 others injured when the bomb exploded in a bus on July 14 carrying Chinese engineers at Dasu area of Upper Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where a Chinese company is building a 4,300-megawatt hydropower project on the Indus River. China also rushed a special team amid confusing signals from Pakistan that it could be a gas blast. Islamabad later admitted it was a bomb blast stating that traces of explosive substance was found from the scene.

There is a system of enforcing uniformity or conformity without regard to natural variation of individuality that is seen underway in Afghanistan. It seems there is no Theseus, hero of Athens, on the scene to confront Procrustean endeavor of the Afghan Procrustes.

“We are further reducing our civilian footprint in Kabul in light of the evolving security situation,” US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters, while noting the embassy would remain open. “This is not abandonment. This is not an evacuation. This is not the wholesale withdrawal,” he said.

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The Foreign Minister said that the attack was done to undermine the ongoing successful CPEC projects.

It is worth mentioning that on July 14, at least 13 people – nine Chinese nationals and four Pakistanis – were killed and more than two dozen others wounded when a shuttle bus they were traveling in plunged into a deep ravine after an explosion on board.

He said that the investigation was very difficult, saying that the initial investigation called it to be a “blind case”, but the relevant departments worked hard to trace evidence.

However, the investigation revealed various things, including the fact that the vehicle was smuggled into the country.

Qureshi said that the initial attack was targetted at Diamer Bhasha dam, but when they could not be successful there, they targetted Dasu Dam project.

He said that it is very clear that Afghan soil was used to plan this event, and NDS-RAW nexus was behind the incident.

This was because the “elements” can’t digest the success of Pak-China bilateral relationships.

However, they failed, he said, adding that the event brought both countries together and it was decided that both countries will have to fight this “cowardly act”, and will continue doing this.

FM Qureshi said that the event was brought under discussion in his recent visit to China and these were the results of the discussion:

China is satisfied with how Pakistan dealt with the event, and how Pakistan has kept China updated on the progress,

We reiterated the commitment to not let such events undermine our morale, but will emerge stronger out of these hardships, as done before,

We committed to taking the investigations forward as to not only expose the responsible but enact appropriate punishment on them,

We also decided to “beef up” security on such projects, and for that, we have reviewed our security protocols (SOPs) and improved them where needed,

We have decided that CPEC projects will not only continue but will be completed in their due time.

In conclusion, FM Qureshi, the bilateral strategic partnership between Pakistan and China will not be deterred by any of such problems, but we will improve our cooperation and understanding.

DG CTD comments

Following his talk, DIG Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Javed Iqbal explained the investigations in detail.

Source: APP social media

He said that despite a finger and thumb of the suicide member being found, the investigation didn’t lead to identification as no record of the person was found in the NADRA database.

He said that more than 1000 KM radius of CCTV was watched, and led to the identification of the vehicle used, but the Honda Accord could not be identified even after consultation with Atlas Honda Pakistan.

Mobile phones recovered belonged to the victims of the attack. Similarly, Geo-fencing could not lead to any possible lead.

He said that failure of any leads as mentioned made this a “blind case”.

However, the car had “applied for” sticker from “Chaman 2 Motors”, Mr. Iqbal said while showing a slide show with the car in sight.

Chapter 15

Moeed

Pakistani National Security advisor Moeed Yusuf has asked India to stop terrorism against Pakistan. This is a serious as well as calibrated statement of fact. In his earlier attempt at sorting out our mutual problems for a peaceful subcontinent was evident when he talked to Karan Thapar in his interview of July24 2021. In another and earlier interview he had told his audience that he was a learned scholar. His Prime Minister Imran Khan had asked him to create space for Pakistan so that he can put the point of view of his country to the world. Who will not share this anxiety if a common man has positive outlook and humanity?

This is 22nd anniversary of the Kargil war. Captain Vikram Batra to whom is ascribed the jargon of ‘ye dil mange more’ written on a rock 17 000 feet high. This was legitimate desire of many Indians who would have of course liked India to trounce Pakistan by occupying its territory to extract a commitment that it would not venture another attempt to attack and occupy any piece of its land in the future. President Pervez Musharraf learnt the lesson well as he did earlier when he joined America in its demand to fight terrorism that had caused the attack on its territory known as 9/11 attacks on New York, the Pentagon and other places. That was so terrific and traumatic that let alone Pakistan the whole world watched the horrendous destruction and expressed solidarity with the Americans. It was stark terrorism. No one in the world would like a repeat of it.

However, India is itself in a turmoil to take a well thought action on anything. What with trashing the long-held position on Kashmir by declaring Kashmir as a union territory and CAA and NRC. This is attempting too much by ignoring 1948 position that there would be a plebiscite on Kashmir. India is walking back on it. And it is also going far away as RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat went to Assam University, July 2021, and spoke about Nani Gopal Mahanta’s book and remarked that Muslims should not fear about the citizenship issue. This is empty talk. What for did the Muslims and others sit in protest against CAA at many places. Subsequently they also went through pogroms when 85 years old Muslim woman was burnt alive in her house. This on the heels of octogenarian grandmothers who sat in protest against the citizen ship act. Even Time magazine gave place to one of them as the woman of the year. Still in Assam the chief minister Himanta Biswas Sarma calling Hindus becoming secularist! It is in this fast-changing scenario that PM Imran Khan is holding RSS responsible for the muddle that India has become. Recently he assured the people of Azad Kashmir that he would let them decide their future at the polls.

Writing in monthly Himal in October 2006, Prashant Jha told the story of the massacre. If 2002 was an experiment in the Hindutva laboratory, men like Babubhai Rajabhai Patel of the Hindutva outfit Bajrang Dal were at the forefront of conducting it. He claimed to be a social worker. Sitting in his second-floor office in the Ahmedabad suburb of Naroda, Bajrangi talked about his NGO, Navchetan, which “rescues” Hindu women who have been “lured” into relationships with Muslim men. “In every house today there is a bomb, and that bomb is the woman, who forms the basis of Hindu culture and tradition,” he says. “Parents allow her to go to college, and they start having love affairs, often with Muslims. Women should just be kept at home to save them from the terrible fate of Hindu-Muslim marriages.” He slaughtered with his gun and tore the fetuses of pregnant Muslim women and lanced their fetuses. “People say I killed 123 people”. “How does it matter? They were Muslims. They had to die. They are dead.” There were more than 4,000 such murder cases of which more than half were not even investigated by the police.

The sword of Damocles is hanging over the slaughter! This is relevant to the present use of spyware Pegasus. Modi was using the phones of others to give order and instruction during the pogroms. All the phone data was destroyed. The anxiety and fear of it is still there in the minority Muslim community; Jha has submitted horrendous cases of this nature. Such immediate and impending calamity is a matter of great anxiety and terror is terrifying for the minority which make life unbearable for immediate as well as long term destruction.

In addition to Gujarat is the case of Kashmir where whole villages have suffered. In some recurring cases the Muslim population have suffered misery and trauma of death and wounds, women have been raped. Regarding the last all the women of a village have been raped sometimes!

Confused and busy life throws up as unexpected violence as Mizoram armed forces shooting Assamese soldiers and civilian killing half a dozen people protesting on the border.

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Chapter 16 Anathema of the duo ruling India: Modi and Shah

Saleem Pandit quotes an intelligence agent to the effect that October 2, 2021 killing of Makhanlal Bindroo and subsequent killing of two vendors hailing from outside the valley and then the attack on the school where a Sikh and a Bihari were killed scribed this to ISI that this was a better and more effective way of forcing the eviction of outsiders. The intelligence officer is wrong because he is himself an instrument of fighting terror in the valley which is also on account of killing local youths so barbarously that imagination fails to gauge the extent of cruelty. One can at least read Rana Ayyub and Demeter on this matter. If even that is not then what is the logic of PM Narendra Modi inauguration an airport for Buddhist tourists but not allowing the Muslims in the valley to have their own comfort in jobs and services. Kashmir under the Dogra dynasty chose to merge with India and not Pakistan. Sheikh Abdullah was secular minded and when he realized the folly, he wished that when he dies his body be buried in the sea! PM Jawaher Nehru and Abdulla played with the sentiments and opinion of the free minded Muslims of the valley. At least what facilities for Muslim majority in the valley or what concessions were acceded to them should have been maintained as per the condition of their accession to the Union of India. A federation, what harm was in it?

PM Vishvanath Pratap Singh appointed Jagmohn Malhotra at the recommendation of the RSS boss of that time. What Jagmohan did was massive slaughter even when the cortege of a religious leader of Muslims, the Mirwaz, was taken out. This writer was in the valley as a tourist and was quite happy and content but it was a razor thin divide or interlude that permanently changed the valley. PM Singh realized the blunder. He asked Jagmohan to withdraw from the valley, but by then the harm was done. Malhotra wanted to suppress the Kashmiri people even to the extent of manslaughter and to do that he thought of removing the Pandits out of the harms’ way. But that ended his second term in office as governor.

Modi committed many historic blunders. He not only abrogated Article 370 on August 5th and appoint GC Murmu whom he had used as Chief Minister of Gujarat to help him to be technically and legally safe in the genocide and fake encounters cases that he had brought about of the Muslims in his own state. Or else, Modi’s place was along with GD Vanzara in the Taloja new prison.

So many warnings and portents were ignored and now the fateful step to vacate the non- natives from Kashmir! No doubt scrapping Article 370 was wrong and on the top of it, Citizenship Amendment Act was thrust on unwilling Muslims, It was not just in Kashmir but throughout India. Amit Shah and Narendra Modi were hell bent on depriving all the amenities that should have been provided to the Kashmiris. Flagrant hateful acts against the minority are simply unethical to say the least. Indian Muslims are not an insignificant minority that you can simply dismiss in sealing the fate of the country. They are quite sizable and the greatest minority at that. Of course, Modi has a Muslim in his cabinet who is a parrot for all weather in responding tit for tat.

Mehbooba Mufti warned the nation that it would be late. That fell on deaf ear; but visuals of the naked corpse of the aged Geelani was disrespectfully treated in full view of the camera!

That was detestable.

It came very easy as a political sleight of the hand to ascribe to ISI whatever violence takes place in India including Kashmir. The quiddity of blaming Pakistan is seen in such Hobbesian move: “U have destroyed the oldest and biggest Buddha in Bamyan Afghanistan, now ur worshipping this Lala Muneer, head of a five-member group of practising Buddhists from Naushahro Feroze in Sindh, was quoted saying that there were around 650 families of practising Buddhists in different districts of rural Sindh, including Ghotki, Sanghar, Khairpur, Nawabshah and Naushahro Feroze. There is no temple or Stupa for them to offer their religious rituals”, he said. This developing tit for tat is Hobbesian trap. It assumes another dimension when Modi is inaugurating today October 19, 2021,an airport especially for Buddhists. If the Buddhists in Pakistan are so scarce, are they in such thumping majority that is rushing to form a que for buying tickets for watching a Buddhist monastery in Indian side of Kashmir?

Similarly, the CNN-News18 anchor Manoj Gupta’s investing so much value in Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, is understandable for his Sheroo was in Dehradoon Military academy also has innate experience of how the biased section of Indian society treats Indian Muslims and flatters the causal foreign visitors. Indian PM Modi is another bidder for the top slot with his offer of 50,000 megaton wheat for the Afghan wretched poor. Why this rush where even angels fear to tread? India of course is much bigger than Pakistan and is more resourceful. What is more India’s putting the killing of Habibullah Akhundzada at the door of Pakistan is fishing in troubled water!

In holy books the Almighty sends plagues which are referred to as visitation of the divine anger as a punishment from God. Today, we have modern day Neros and Pharaohs. In that way, the God of the Jews showed that He was mightier than the Egyptian gods. Sometimes, the rulers like Pharaohs are punished for their sins. The pellet guns that even Israelis junked were lying unused when Indian army chose to buy them and use them on its own people. Israel had no qualms in selling them for monetary consideration. Their counterparts in Indian government had tacitly seen the devastation of Palestinians in recent days and would emulate the Israelis. But there is a difference: the Israelis are operating in occupied land that belonged to Palestinians. Kashmir acceded to India by signing an instrument of accession. The modalities of the accession have not been accurately gone through. Plebiscite was never implemented, nor the intruders pushed back from what later came to be known as Pak occupied Kashmir. PM Jawaharlal Nehru took the matter to the UN for which he was condemned by the right wing.

Many painful events have happened since the accession: Jagmohan’s tenure, Chittisingpora massacre of Sikhs, 1989 violence, the azadi uprising, militancy, assassination of Kashmiri leaders, the award of money and medal to police and army for killing terrorists in Kashmir who turned out to be innocent in numerous cases. The worst was to come. Instead of a healing touch, arrived the pellet guns. PM Narendra Modi checkmated everything, move and strategy to solve the Kashmir problem by bringing in terrorism. In the Friday August 12, 2016 all party meet in Delhi he remarked: “Terrorism is the basis of tension in Kashmir and it is being supported by a neighbour.” As if that was not enough of a punch, the PM went further “Pakistan forgets that it is bombing its own people. The time has come for Pakistan to tell the world why it has been committing atrocities on people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Balochistan.”

So, terrorism must be countered by state terrorism! In the name of counterterrorism, of course. And in the 11th East Asia conference on September 8, 2016 he reprimanded humiliated Pakistan for deflecting attention from the situation in Kashmir. “There is one country in our neighbourhood whose competitive advantage rests solely in producing and exporting terrorism. HYPERLINK "http://0.0.0.1/" “The former PM Dr Manmohan Singh had admitted Indian role in Balochistan in the non-aligned meet in the Egyptian port city of Sharm al Sheikh for which he was criticised by one and all.

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Chapter 17

The Terrorist Thesaurus circa 9/11

A lesson for today

The word “terrorism” as it is generally used in the common political vocabulary, does not necessitate an explanation to understand the characteristic of an event which it precisely tries to feature. Since the late 20th century, as the usage has become pervasive intercontinentally, the semantics of terrorism has often been questioned. When there was an attack on the American Centre Library in Calcutta, which resulted in the death of five Indian police men, the New Delhi government called it an act of “terrorism”, rather “cross border terrorism.” But the Americans refused to accept it and said it was revenge killing. Perhaps the person who planned the attack did so in order to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of Indian police in Gujarat in a fake encounter. Again, when an Egyptian immigrant killed two people at the El Al office of Los Angeles, the Israelis dubbed it “terrorism” but the American did not consider such isolated individual killing as acts of terrorism. Since the killers in both incidents were Muslim by faith it was also facilely categorized as “Islamic terrorism”. But in neither case was the faith of the killers was responsible either by way of providing a justification for such acts or a source of inspiration.

There are also other layers to the word. Mr. Vaiko had recently declared his support for the LTTE and the state government hauled him up. Does such an announcement amount to terrorism even when there is no obvious link between Vaiko and the LTTE? It is interesting to note that the Central Government did not consider the Tamil Nadu government as culpable under the Tamil leader’s act as culpable under POTA, the Defense Minister George Fernandes even went to see Vaiko in prison. So, what do the various governments within the country mean by terrorism?

Even the legal luminaries of the day fail to demystify the concept. Attorney General of India Soli Jahangir Sorabjee and JS Verma (Chairman, National Human Rights Commission), were rushed to New York to forestall the UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson from condemning the violence of human rights in post Godhra Gujarat. But, was not the carnage in Gujarat “terrorism”? Sorabjee recently testified to the UN Subcommittee on human rights in Geneva that, indiscriminate killings of innocent citizens cannot be justified under the “spurious label of a freedom struggle or the slogan of self-determination.” Such acts naturally go under the name of terrorism. The bloody attack in Kaluchak and the shooting of Jammu students are acts of terrorism, he said.

Then what about the violence in Est Timor in recent years? The Indonesian army played havoc with the civilians there, but the Timorians also were guilty of brutal violence. The Christians there as well as in other res of Indonesia like in Aceh province have killed innocent people Timor and yet the international community agreed that the aspiration and struggle of the people of East Timor was just and justifiable. Sorabjee also went on to say that the end does not justify the means and that this rule applies not just to the terrorists but also the governments pursuing their legitimate end of combating terrorism. He gave the instance of the treatment of captured terrorists and their trial in camera by military governments. Sorabjee could also have talked of the treatment of captured terrorists by democratic governments. The Federal judge in the Bush administration in the United States has ordered the Bush administration to declare the names of some 1100 people arrested since 9/11. But then what about those terrorists who are simply killed even when there is a fair chance capturing them alive? That could also help in the investigation process. Terrorism cannot be taken to mean one man’s freedom struggle is another mans’ terrorism.

So. the term terrorism defies definition that can cover all the manifestations of terrorism. On August 3, 2002 President George W Bush said, “W owe it to the future of civilization not to allow world’s worst leaders to develop and deploy—and therefore blackmail—the freedom loving countries of the world with world’s worst weapons.” Thus, Saddam Hussein became a terrorist. The words of the 43rd American President and the early years of the (Vice) President of his father, the 41st (Senior Bush) did not mind what Saddam had done to the Kurds. That Saddam openly used biological weapons and lethal gas against the Kurds did not concern the Americans so much as the invasion of Kuwait became the former did not jeopardize American interest in West Asia as the latter did.

American strategic interest in oil and Israel were threatened by the Iraqi invasion. Factually, the heinous attack on the Kurds was as terrorism as any other act of terrorism. So, the leading nation of the world in its war on terrorism is selective in applying the term. There is no denying that Bush might change his rhetoric on terrorism when there is dissent within the nation—already the former Vice President Al Gor has criticized Bush for reducing a surplus economy into a state of massive deficit which the President has blamed on the cost of war on terrorism.

So, the term terrorism defies definition that can cover all the manifestations of terrorism. On August 3,2002 President George W Bush said, “We owe it to the civilization not allow world’s worst leaders to develop and deploy—and therefore blackmail the freedom loving countries of the world’s worst weapon. The words of the 43 President (Senior Bush) did not mind what Saddam had done to the Kurds. That Saddam Hussein openly used biological weapons and lethal gas against the Kurds did not concern the Americans so much as the invasion of Kuwait because the former did not jeopardize American interest.

What guarantee is there that the meaning of terrorism will not change if the political situation of a nation becomes unstable? Will the meaning of terrorism, revert to its derivation from the French phrase that had come into use in French regime de la terreur? The English word is derived from this French phrase that had come into use in France in the aftermath of the uprising of 1789. It refers to the system of government or regime de la terreur that strove to establish order in that transient anarchical period of great upheaval. In this sense the word “terror” becomes a means of governance and hence a positive aspect of a government. But then, that will help many other nations of the world including that in the Caribbean and South America to justify their regimes. Some of them, including Grenada and Panama, which the US invaded, also had revolutionary or transient anarchical periods. Bush’s axis of evil has Iraq, Iran, North Korea, etc, among which the revolutionary past of turmoil and anarchy is shred by many. Will the US accept their positivistic use of terror? Is the geopolitical system so simple that the world will be reformed on the diktat of President Bush, “you are with us or against us”?

Can collateral damage and unintended targets be called terrorism? The Americans have been found guilty of the former and the Israelis of the later. The collateral damage in the village of Deb Baswad in Afghanistan slaying of the villagers (the unofficial death tolls is at 150 attending a marriage party; the bride and the bridegroom too were killed. It has to be kept in mind that, in order to dislodge Saddam the Americans will flex its military muscle like never before—they had already started justifying what they have not even committed. (In the name of UN sanctions, they have so far been responsible for the deaths of some five million Iraqi children.)

The Israelis Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was quite jubilant when he announced that they had killed the Hamas leader Salah Shehadde. However, the midnight attack in Gaza was far more gory, and full of terror. The US supplied F-16 fighter fired a missile into a residential building 13 others, including nine children, while wounding around 140. The images of Palestinian rescue workers lifting the dead body of a two-month-old baby from the rubble created such a new wave of rage that 100,000 people marched in the funeral of Salah Shehade. The Israelis only knew too well that the Gaza town is the most densely populated area of Palestine. Was the unintended death of the 13 and injury to 140 any less an act of terrorism than the Palestinian suicide bombers killing Israelis and the kamikaze-style destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Centre on that horrifying morning one year back? And yet, President Bush’s displeasure over the Israeli action in Gaza was not on account of the American weapons used in the attack, rather it had to do with spoiling his chances of an imminent attack on Iraq. Terrorism thus wears too many faces and too many masks.

Chapter 18

The parable of Poland

To gum something up means to stop it working properly or efficiently.

To interfere with the proper functioning of something

Brexit, before it happened, was imagined in many forms. Hard, soft, Norwegian, Swiss or Turkish. Briefly, an Albanian option was discussed. Often it was just “clean”. A “clean Brexit” would free Britain from the eu’s single market, customs union and its courts, advocates said. Just as there are many ways of leaving the eu, there are many ways of remaining. There is the clean version, in which countries quietly accept the eu’s strictures. Then there is the messy version, where governments foul up the club. Think of it as “dirty remain”.

To see dirty remain in action, look at Poland. Its Constitutional Tribunal challenged the legal order of the club in a ruling on October 7th. In a case brought by the Polish prime minister, the court, which is stuffed with allies of the government, ruled that fundamental parts of eu law do not trump Poland’s constitution. The judgment, which was exactly what the government wanted, has punctured six decades of European case law. In short, the eu’s supreme court is no longer supreme, as far as Poland is concerned.

Angela Merkel 1997= n june a newly surfaced segment of a German talk show from 1997 set the internet alight. The clip shows Angela Merkel, a fresh-faced environment minister in Helmut Kohl’s government, explaining the urgency of action on climate change. Her fellow panellists listening closely, Germany’s future chancellor says delay will only incur higher costs. The dangers of failure, she warns, include hunger, drought and the mass movement of refugees. Convert analysis into action

“Today the nation believes regardless of how strong the people who deceive or loot it may be, no mercy is shown to them, wherever they may be. The government will not spare them,” PM Modi said on October 20 2021

By Ishaan Tharoor

with Claire Parker

Poland triggers an existential crisis for Europe

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"For these jihadists to believe it's pleasing to God to burn and destroy temples and the murti of such a saintly person as his Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, shows just how far away from God they really are," Tulsi Gabbard

Aafia Siddiqui, who was born in Karachi, studied at prestigious U.S. institutions such as MIT and Brandeis University and became religious after falling under Islamist influence. In a video circulating on social media, she says: "It is my challenge not only to every single person on the face of this planet Earth, but also, if there is any civilization on any other planet, it's my challenge to them as well – that Islam is the best savior and protector for women."[7]

Chapter 19

Pakistan was the more logical option

A Hindu Kashmiri Badri Rana had hand-on experience and native’s instinct of what is true about Kashmir valley and its accumulated problems. He is more objective too. The hubris that is the fatal flaw of the “new global hero,” brought tension and turmoil even worse than the scoffed demonetization in four-hours-notice. That benefitted astronomically incalculable wealth to Amit Shah. It fabulous wealth for generations to come.

Dussehra hero

They burn the wicked one

Who does not exist.

Those that deserve extinction

Are not on their list.

The thief who takes the biggest cut

Is new global hero.

Those that squeal for a loaf of bread

Are dangerous to the marrow.

Effigies are obliging antagonists,

Harmless, insensate things–

Lighting up to deluded cheer,

They protect the real kings.

In today’s India those who collect the biggest cuts are heroes. After Sohrabuddin who presented the highest kickback, read tribute-amount, on rites of passage for marbles from Rajasthan is remarkable collection. Of the one who claims he was not such was Satyapal Mallik who turned down offer of Rs 300-crore bribe if he cleared two files belonging to 'Ambani' and an 'RSS-affiliated. In my Tenure, No Terrorists Could Enter Within 100 km of Srinagar.' To believe or not to believe which one rests with any man of any inclination. Thus, India persists through the time. Even those kiosks owners in Bhopal who catered to the furtive namaz prayers at a school from the back gate. Until the Friday October 22, 2021when suddenly MP Pragyasingh Thakur came there and stopped it because in girls school the girls are not safe during the prayer.

PM of India is disturbed that the events in India during the recent events of farmers’ protest may “portray the BJP as a communal party”. Of course, it is but why worry over it? It is because it is age old tactics to beguile the people so that they eat their cake and have it too. It has queered the pitch for Yogi whose extremist supporters of the right wing managed the Muslims but now it is not working. The reason is that beguiling all the way and all the time is more valuable at the election. Though this is double edged sword that it could slash the Hindus themselves. The moral strength of RSS backed party is all time deceptive, the pogroms of Muslims in Gujarat 2002 is still tangential in terms of eroding of moral values from which Modi and his followers have not come out. A dimension of it is that the farmers’ agitation is veering towards creating Khalistan! Modi’s admission to vice president Abdul Hamid that he cannot claim credit for bringing education to Muslim girls would not be music to the Gujarati Hindus is a senile temerity.

Another structural fault is that Amit Shah has inaugurated international flights and that would of course according to him facilitate traffic and earn money. It is as irrefutably laughable that Buddhists would travel from other parts of India on pilgrimage in UP! Or to believe that Srinagar-Sharjah would develop cricket enthusiasm that would wean the people in the valley from demanding separatism. Or anyone in a hurry for time would prefer to detour to enjoy air hospitality and travel.

In our country, everyone is free to practice his/her faith but doing it forcefully is not good. The school has girl students from class I to XII who are unsafe in such a situation,” MP Pragya Singh Thakur

"The Srinagar-Sharjah flight that has been announced today has Pakistan had a change of heart and allowed flights originating from Srinagar to use its airspace? If not then this flight will die the way the Srinagar-Dubai flight died during UPA2," Omar Abdullah said in a tweet.

Pakistan 19 Pakistan was the more logical option

Dussehra hero

They burn the wicked one

Who does not exist.

Those that deserve extinction

Are not on their list.

The thief who takes the biggest cut

Is new global hero.

Those that squeal for a loaf of bread

Are dangerous to the marrow.

Effigies are obliging antagonists,

Harmless, insensate things–

Lighting up to deluded cheer,

They protect the real kings.

In today’s India those who collect the biggest cuts are heroes. After Sohrabuddin who presented the highest kickback, read tribute-amount, on rites of passage for marbles from Rajasthan is remarkable collection. Of the one who claims he was not such was Satyapal Mallik the former governor of Jammu and Kashmir who turned down offer of Rs 300-crore bribe if he cleared two files belonging to 'Ambani' and an 'RSS-affiliated. In my Tenure, No Terrorists Could Enter Within 100 km of Srinagar.' To believe or not to believe, rests with any man of any inclination. Thus, India persists through the time. Even those kiosks owners in Bhopal who gathered for the ‘furtive’ namaz prayers at a school from the back gate. Until the Friday October 22, 2021when suddenly MP Pragyasingh Thakur came there and stopped it because in the school for girls, the girls are not safe during the prayer!

PM of India is disturbed that the events in India during the recent farmers’ protest may “portray the BJP as a communal party”. Of course, it is but why worry over it? It is because it is age old tactics to beguile the people so that they eat their cake and have it too. It has queered the pitch for Yogi whose extremist supporters of the right wing managed the Muslims but now it is not working. The reason is that beguiling all the way and all the time is more valuable at the election. Though this is double edged sword that it could slash the Hindus themselves. The moral strength of RSS backed party is all time deceptive, the pogroms of Muslims in Gujarat 2002 is still tangential in terms of eroding of moral values from which Modi and his followers have not come out clean. A dimension of it is that the farmers’ agitation is veering towards creating Khalistan! Modi’s admission to vice president Abdul Hamid that he cannot claim credit for bringing education to Muslim girls would not be music to the Gujarati Hindus is a senile temerity. Why is Modi afraid!

"The Srinagar-Sharjah flight that has been announced today: has Pakistan a change of heart and allowed flights originating from Srinagar to use its airspace? If not, then this flight will die the way the Srinagar-Dubai flight died during UPA2," Omar Abdullah said in a tweet. These switchbacks show how disturbed India is internally not to speak of in its relation with its neighbors, no nation is safe.

Matthew Arnold had developed certain golden rules by which one can measure the excellence of literature. In terms of current situation between India and Pakistan it is India’s neighbor who would pass the test. In her book Fighting to the end: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War, Christine Fair says “First and foremost, Pakistan’s army sets and prosecutes major domestic and foreign policies of the Pakistan state. Since the army has controlled the state directly or indirectly for most of its history it is well positioned to use the state to pursue its own institutional ends. Thus, it seeks to maximize as many of its own corporate interests as possible. Because the army requires its own existence, it must make its own appropriate adjustments along the way to ensure its policies and performances do not, in fact, destroy the state…

“Second, as I argue, in this book the army has been very effective at ensuring that civilian institutions and even ordinary Pakistanis share the army’s strategic concerns and priorities; thus, the army generally sustains what it does even when its preferences impose significant financial costs and opportunities cost upon the state and its people. Consequently, even if the civilians manage to seize power from the army, it is not obvious that civilians would immediately pursue different security policies from those of the army.

Third, the army’s concerns vis-a-vis India are not purely on even mostly security driven, …Pakistan does point to India’s larger and growing military capability as evidence of India’s intention toward Pakistan. India’s capabilities do warrant appropriate defensive investments. Curiously, while Pakistan could have framed its demands for Kashmir within the rubrics of water security and defensibility of its terrain, it has done so with few recent exceptions. …Since the earliest years of the state, Pakistan’s army’s commitment to defending it,… locks Pakistan into a civilizational battle with India, which the army posits as universally Hindu despite the simple fact that India is a multireligion, multiethnic state. For the army, resisting India’s rise is a necessary condition for the survival of Islamic Pakistan.

Fourth, because the army’s concerns and preoccupations are ideological as much as military in scope, the Pakistani Army views its struggle with India in existential terms.

On October 25, 2021 Shah Mahmud Quereshi warned about India inspired street terrorism: "The state that used to say that it was the world's biggest democracy is [now] becoming a rogue state through its activities. We have information and evidence on the basis of which I can say India is fanning state terrorism. India has prepared a plan to destabilise Pakistan.” It is manifest that the street terrorism causes the existential terrorism.

Running parallel to this is pulling rope between the PM Imran Khan and military chief Bajwa for the appointment of ISI chief. This is acknowledged fact that there would be tussle between the State under Imran Khan and the Military chief Bajwa such vents would take place. The people of Pakistan are aware and tacitly wish things to happen for the welfare of all.

In contrast to Pakistan’s ideals is the nightmare in India because the deep state is RSS and it can find its own way of doing things despite of what the state does or the government says.

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Fighting to the end: the Pakistan Army’s Way of War, Fair, Christine C. Oxford Press, 2014. Pp 6,7

Chapter 20

Of taking out nuclear arsenal

PM Narendra Modi’s hobnobbing with Benjamin Netnayahu is as ominous and fraught with danger as bringing the Defense Minister Moshe Dayan of Israel into the country disguised as a dhoti clad Hindu after the demolition of the Babri mosque. Why this hyperbole of precaution as Muslims in India are silent spectators of events of bomb blasts. The spectacular events of attacks in Bombay were on account of how the Shiv Sena had carried out the massacres of Muslims in the city. Dawood Ibrahim was a well-established don hobnobbing with Sharad Pawar. But what CM Narendra Modi has done is orchestrating a full-fledged genocide of Muslims before the media camera thanks to the complicity of his erstwhile mentor LK Advani. What Farid Zakaria has observed today had a precursor in his father Dr Rafik Zakaria who had put down his feet and countered Modi’s wrong view that Muslims turn terrorists because of the Islamic scripture! “More determinedly, he has pushed the country away from secularism and toward Hindu nationalism.” (Farid Zakaria) Will this “symbol of hate” (John Oliver) take out Pakistan’s atom bomb in collusion with the Israelis? To turn the tide of hate and win the forthcoming election Modi could do anything. If a surgical strike has achieved victory of one election now a doughty Yogi’s election is coming. Will the nuclear one be far?

India’s situation like SOS on pharmacy is delicate: “China is out to strangle India’s bulk drug makers. The government needs to heed the industry’s SOS.” When it comes to election it would do anything. “Pakistan will do whatever it takes to preserve full spectrum deterrence to prevent and defeat any potential Indian aggression,” Ambassador Akram declared.

Given this kind of urgency the ultimate need of the hour is to secure nuclear arsenal.

This is not off-the-cuff remark because Modi is as determined as a rock. John Oliver rocks listeners with laughter when he says that Donald Trump called Modi ‘father of the nation’ and takes it back because he was not even married properly to be called one. Anyway, one Gandhi was enough.

Ballistic Bali

A tourist haven gets dragged into the dirty terrorist war. The blasts that rocked the tourist hive of Bali- island in Indonesia, killing over 300 people and maiming as many more in mid-October, 2002, had sent an ominous message that the specter of terrorism was alive and kicking despite the much touted, ‘war on terror”. Australians were the most hit in the explosions, which led it to being linked to Australia’s being linked to wresting independence to East Timor from Indonesia. US president George W Bush, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Indonesian Defense Minister Matori Abdul Dijali, were too quick in blaming the Al Qaida-with Abu Bakar Ba’asyir and Riduan Jaamuddin as the master minds –even when no proof was available with the investigators except that two years ago on the same day of Bali blasts, the Al Qaeda had struck at the USS Cole in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen.

The choice of Bali for the terror strike is both simple and difficult to explain. Bali is a predominantly (93 percent) a Hindu province in a Muslim majority country. Thousands of temples dot the ‘Island of Gods’, but the majority of visitors are Christian Westerners. But President Megawati Sukarnopoutri is regarded as one of the most secular that Indonesia has seen. (When the Gujarat pogroms took place, Sukarnopoutri as head of the largest Muslim country, merely asked the Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee about it, and thereafter stayed quiet.) The blasts also could not have been due to a religious dislike of revelry and revelers, as such a sentiment had not been previously expressed.

More than religion, politics seems to have been the motivating factor. It is well-known that Indonesia and the US don’t hold each other in high esteem. When the US embassy ware-house in Jakarta was attacked on September 23, 2002, the Indonesians were not convinced about America’s list of suspects. President Bush had earlier said that his patience with Indonesian government was wearing thin and it was not cooperating in war on terrorism. David Wright-Neville of Monash University in Australia who has studied the terror network in Southeast Asia, outrightly dismisses the claim that Bali blasts were meant as an ominous- signal to the US; he thinks the attack is “archipelagic” in nature and the perpetrators wanted to show that they can strike at will any part on the Indonesian island. Wright-Neville also feels that choosing a Western target was necessary to the terrorists’ purpose—the main aim was to de-establise Indonesia so that people would opt for a hard-line Islamic party. But the fact is the majority of Indonesians are moderate Muslims and do not toe a fundamentalist line.

Some Islamic militant outfits meanwhile, have blamed the US itself for conceiving the attack; they say the US did so in order to put pressure on the Indonesian government to join its war on terrorism. The United States intelligence agency is behind the Bali bombings in an attempt to justify their accusation that Indonesia is a terrorist base,” and Abu Baker Ba’asyr, the leader of Jemaah Islamya, denying his group’s involvement in the Bali Sari night club mayhem. “All the allegations against me are groundless,” he said at a news conference. “I challenge them to prove anything.”

These Islamic groups say that Indonesia’s unwillingness to join the US against terrorism has been viewed by Washington as a hostile act, as in ‘either you are with us or against us.’ Indonesians have also been strongly opposing the US plan to attack Iraq. Some others say that the use of attack was planned to cripple tourism industry and thereby damage the Indonesian economy, which would then make Jakarta crack down on the suspected Al Qaeda sympathizers. they also point to the US keeping an eye on the China sea, and its aspiration to dominate the region. Another, arguments that is doing the rounds is that since Western tourists were killed in Bali, the likes of France and Germany even Russia—would finally agree to declare war against Iraq which the US sees as a “terrorist” country. Interestingly, these three days before the attack, the US had issued a warning about some imminent terrorist strikes.

All said, the tourism industry in Indonesia had taken a beating, and the backpackers and surfers are nowhere in sight. It might stay that way for long time to come.

From this it is easy to confer that the Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal was in the cross hair of countries which are hostile to Pakistan. In this no doubt Israel and India figure in. Even Huntington’s book on clash of civilization was content with all civilizations except Islamic one. It was further limited to focusing the clash within. As India has chosen to side with Israel it is natural that the conspiracy would be hatched. In the case of Israel making bomb in Negev desert President John F Kennedy had warned against it. That was exactly why Oswald was chosen to shoot Kennedy. A Jewish night club owner was ready to shoot the Russian to finish the trail. If anyone poses a mortal threat to the Jewish state it is Pakistan. India’s close relationship with Israel is much deeper than what the world knows. Lt. Col Prasad Purohit was in military service when on behalf of Abhinav Bharat he negotiated with the Israelis of overthrowing Indian government and in its place establishing a Hindu rashtra. Late Hemant Karkare was very much struck by these developments. He had also collected proof of it. The last time he visited New Delhi he knew the threat emanating from the army because the army had called him for a session. Before returning to Mumbai he was resigned to his fate and sought sanctuary in the American embassy. It was too late. In his second letter to PM Modi Purohit distinguished between loyal nationalists and others opposed to them, the secularists. What assurances Modi had given him is still shrouded in mystery. Even so according to known statements it is fixed 2024. If the situation within India is so murky what is there for Pakistan to hope for. In an even larger matter where is exactly ‘patriotism’ of Purohit who had relationship with the Israelis.Purohit as many feel that he is ‘patriotic.’ In his conversation with Dr RP Singh (the endocrinologist who wanted to assassinate the Vice President Hamid with kerosene) he has this to say:

Col. Purohit: We have done two such operations earlier which were successful. I was the one who had got the equipment for all of them. On 24 June 2007, we were to have a meeting with King Gyanendra. Col.Lajpat Prajwal, who is now a brigadier, was the one who made the meeting possible. We have to make use of the fact that nobody in this country will be able to figure out who is behind all this. Is this the kind of military intelligence Purohit was supposed to gather and go scot free? Should the Indian army still have him? The 59army men who gave witness in his favour in the army CoI spell doom for India. The infiltration of the Hindutva ideology is this deep! How can the Islamic bomb be safe!

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Mustafa Khan, Ballistic Bali. Meantime Nov 1-14 2002

John Oliver on Farid Zakaria and Narendra Modi

Persistent role of Hinduva in terror has failed India and humiliated it in the eyes of the world

Chapter 21

Meltdown of India that Modi built

The sudden and complete failure of the Indian polity is at hand thanks to the relentless pursuit of Hindutva ideology. If criminal procedure act of murder 320 is the war cry over the death of a film actor of some fame the unseemly covering up of the gang rape and murder of the 19 year old Dalit girl is tip of the iceberg of enormous difficulties the country is facing: there are more reasons for meltdown. It has led to the point of no return. Dalits and Muslims have no future in India of Modi. The ominous prediction of a sudden bus causing him accidental death has come to haunt some. It reminds one of the poetic justice in Graham Greene’s The Case for the Defense.

It is now a well- established fact that Terror committed by Hindutva is mire that is coming home to roost. Asghar Mansoori’s death in Nashik central jail is a hobby horse of the police as well as the hordes of the right wing. It has gone to such an extent that the widow of ATS chief Hemant Karkare, Professor Kavita Karkare was forced to pen:

Don’t make the mistake of becoming a martyr in this country

Such will be the sophistries after your death,

The prime investigating committees will blame you after your death

No country subjects their martyrs to an alcoholic test as ours did.

The price that her husband had paid was what Gustav Flaubert had called “ ‘L’homme c’est rien—l’oeuvre c’est tout.’ Man is nothing, the work is everything.” The Bihar government had given ticket to retired army Major Ramesh Upadhay. This is the meltdown effect that is a nightmare because even the fig leaf of democracy and law and order is at risk. No detective of India was like Karkare and he was fit like Sherlock Homes whose “lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.” Our detectives are captive to the Hidutva ideology and obtuse enough not to even know what intuition is and so are the courts.

Plundering goes on in all kinds of calling names like Indian Muslims are most content in India. This hypocrisy of RSS boss has been bobbling up from time to time. In doing so he is in fact insulting them. It is a mechanism to whitewash what PM Imran Khan has taken upon him as a mission to tell the truth about RSS to the world. A part of the rebuttal comes from Asaduddin Owaisi: “..to make Muslims second class citizens I don't want to hear you say that we've to be grateful to majority for living in our own homeland. We're not seeking majority's good will, we're not in a competition with world's Muslims to be the happiest. We just want our fundamental rights (sic)," Imran Khan’s mission in educating the world about how RSS is behind all acts of discrimination and hence cruelty being meted out to the minority Muslims in India. It is also not true to say how the weekly columnist in Indian Express claims that Indian democracy has become illiberal because the Congress party has not taken it up as an issue. The heart of the matter is that RSS does not like that there should be democracy in the country or else how they make India a Hindu rashtra? Nor is Indian democracy complacent enough to claim that either the people or the Bollywood is at comfort with the claim that they are “content about the valour, values and culture of India” as Karan Jauhar has put it.

The richest heritage of India is its diversity and multi religious people and the RSS is no whit happy with it. This is made clear and underlined by the letter Sangh sent immediately after the bomb attack in Malegaon in September 2006 and repeated the attack in September 2008.

“Do you remember or not the bomb blasts? Or have you forgotten! If you have forgotten then be prepared for further bomb blasts. The power of the Sangh (RSS) is all over the state and the country. Remember this is a Hindu Rashtra and we will make it one. Muslims, leave India. Jamaitul ulema-e-Hind, don’t try to be smart.

We are enclosing here with our deeds”

Sangh”

In this no other than a serving lieutenant colonel of the Indian Army was the mastermind by his own confession, Lieu Col Prasad Srikant Purohit. The letter makes no bone of contention the gravamen of the extreme right-wing ideology. It includes a warning to the all India learned body of the Muslim minority, Jamiatul ulema-e-Hind which is also fighting with whatever little money it can spare against the bogus and premeditated arrested of Muslims in terror attack.

Another dimension of it is that the chief minister of UP Yogi Adityanath used his executive power to cover up the gang rape and murder of the 19 year Dalit girl. By hook or crook the Yogi government wants to create impression that the Dalit are content with their lot by releasing staggered information that would attenuate the ghastly rape and death. In real facts the country is in a state of meltdown. “Her family told the court that the cremation was done by the Hathras district administration against their wishes,” said senior advocate Jaideep Narain Mathur, who was appointed amicus curiae in the case. Why is there so much of shunning and distancing of the district official. It may be that he recorded the CM’s order that came on the phone.

“If Mr Modi were to explain his role in the violence and show genuine remorse, we would consider backing him, but he never has; it would be wrong for a man who has thrived on division to become prime minister of a country as fissile as India. We do not find the prospect of a government led by Congress under Mr Gandhi an inspiring one. But we have to recommend it to Indians as the less disturbing option.” “And if they still choose Mr Modi? We would wish him well, and we would be delighted for him to prove us wrong by governing India in a modern, honest and fair way. But for now he should be judged on his record—which is that of a man who is still associated with sectarian hatred. There is nothing modern, honest or fair about that. India deserves better.”(1)

Since then Modi has risen higher and higher in power and as PM he unfurled the tricolor and in his impromptu speech he forgot what the papers said would be highlights of the Independence Speech. But he spoke of how he was awakened to the warfare that was the standard practice between departments of government in the Delhi durbar of new Modi Sarkar. Now his legacy from Gujarat has churned up such warfare between Intelligence Bureau and Central Bureau of Investigation. On Thursday August 21, 2014 IB appealed to the Supreme Court to intervene in CBI filing a charge sheet against 4 of IB officers Rajendra Kumar, P Mittal, M K Sinha and Rajeev Wankhede) who were behind fake encounter of Ishrat Jahan and three others. This if we have to believe GL Singhal who participated in shooting the four was carried out by the order of Chief Minister Modi.

India squeaking : past and now

Stephen Cohen speaking at the Brookings Institution said of India: “India has not squeaked at all and squeaking wheels get the grease and India’s got to be squeaking loud. It’s got to be doing things, some risky, some dangerous, some positive.” Narendra Modi’s foreign policy will of course be of concern. The visa ban on Modi was the result of the genocide of Muslims in 2002 from which despite the clean chits issued to Modi the legal battle is still going on.

Among the three things risky and dangerous have been there before the 2014 polls started, through the polls and even post poll. The pogroms in Assam are the most portentous ones after the Muzaffarnagar’s share of the preplanned events. All on account of what phenomenon Narendra Modi has created. It is bound to have tectonic changes if Modi is to assume office as prime minister of India. India has been squeaking without the foreigners taking serious note of it except the US Commission on Religious Freedom. It did and recommended visa ban. Cohen says that once Modi is in office India may squeak “with a vengeance with the advent of a Modi foreign policy.” [2]This is undeniable because Muslims were massacred in 2002, 2013 Muzaffanagar and Assam in 2012 and the same repeated in May 2014. The last was on account of the poll which has churned out the Modi phenomenon as a presidential type of electioneering tsunami. It sucked up the highest amount of money so far spent on election by a single party. The human rights violation by the police and the militia in Gujarat and Assam and also the upsurge of the Hindutva militia be it in Muzaffarnagar or Gujarat 2002 have marred the image of India as a multiracial society. Its repercussion is there to see: the US ambassador Nancy Powell resigned for opposing visa to Modi. Cohen has had this in mind among other things when he observed: “Modi has close relations with China, Japan, and South Korea, and bad relations with the US.” It is not Modi who had bad relation. Cohen is ironic. It the human rights violation and concern over religious freedom that is at the heart of the matter.

The cases that pile up crying for justice point an accusing finger not just at Modi but also the police and courts: how could a two- page letter as suicide note in a plastic bag reached into Asghar Mansoorie’s stomach when his niece found him so optimistic and jovial she observed on her phone till October 7 2020. He had completed 14 years of imprisonment and was given responsible duty of warden and then suddenly he was sent to solitary cell. (3)

What was the logistics of Musharraf in mounting an attack in the great hgiehgts of a mountain?

Logistics is detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation.

"the logistics of a large-scale rock show demand certain necessities"

synonyms:

organization · planning · plans · management · arrangement · administration · masterminding · direction · orchestration · regimentation · engineering · coordination · execution · handling · running · strategy · tactics

⦁ the activity of organizing the movement, equipment, and accommodation of troops.

⦁ the commercial activity of transporting goods to customers.

"our fleet vehicle management system enables logistics firms to track deliveries using satellite technology"

Index

Chapter 21

Confrontation

A flash point is developing on the pattern of the Jafferabad railway station where Kapil Mishra shouted “desh ke gaddaron to goli maro salon ko” (shoot the traitors

Kapil Mishra will attend but Yati Narsinghanand said he won’t be able to make it. (File Photo)

BJP leader Kapil Mishra will attend the Govardhan Puja, organised by members of the Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti, at the Sector 12A site in Gurgaon where namaz had been taking place every Friday.

The Samiti, which comprises 22 outfits, has invited Dasna Devi head priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati, who said he won’t be able to make it.

The Sector 12A site, where namaz was being offered under police protection, has witnessed disruptions from right-wing outfits and local residents for two weeks. On October 29, 26 protesters — a majority from right-wing groups — were arrested for attempting to disrupt the namaz before being released on bail the same day.

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On Sunday, while reiterating their stand to oppose namaz at all public places, the Samiti had said that it would conduct Govardhan puja on November 5 at 11 am at the Sector 12A site. Some representatives of the Muslim community had said that they were willing to relocate from the site, provided they were provided an alternative space or Waqf board properties were cleared of encroachments.

Kapil Mishra told The Indian Express: “I have been approached by the Samiti members to attend the Govardhan puja. I shall be attending. This is a movement for citizens’ right for free roads and their demands are legitimate. No one has the right to block roads every week. I support this movement. The protesting citizens of Gurgaon are showing the way to other citizens, who are bothered with blocking of roads but are not courageous enough to come out and demand their rights.”

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Mishra had led a pro-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) rally in Northeast Delhi in February 2020 and had warned the police to clear anti-CAA protesters, failing which they would take to the streets. A day later, riots had broken out in the district.

The organisers from the Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti also invited Narsinghanand Saraswati, who was recently appointed the mahamandaleshwar of Juna Akhara. He had faced a police complaint for his comments on Islam and the Prophet.

Talking to The Indian Express, he said, “I am aware of the namaz issue. I was invited to come for Govardhan puja but I cannot attend as I am occupied that day. I would have attended had I received the invite a little earlier.”

In September, three FIRs were filed against him for alleged objectionable remarks against women.

Mahavir Bhardwaj, state president of the Sanyukt Hindu Sangharsh Samiti, said, “We are making arrangements for the puja, which is expected to have a gathering of over 5000 people. After prayer, dhol and nagaras would be played at the site and prasad would be distributed. A decision on whether this would also be done at other sites across the city will be taken later. We will continue our agitation to oppose namaz at all public places.”

On Wednesday, the committee, formed on Tuesday to identify spots where Friday namaz could be offered in the future, held two meetings with representatives of Hindu and Muslim communities at the office of the deputy commi

The district administration had Tuesday withdrawn permission for namaz at eight of the 37 sites, citing “objection from local residents and resident welfare associations”. In a statement issued by police, the administration had said the committee would ensure that namaz is not offered on any road, crossing or a public place: “The decision to designate a spot will only be taken after consent from locals and ensuring that the residents do not have any opposition to offering of namaz in that area.”

Chapter 22

Tragic realization: Delhi, Gujarat and Kashmir

It has been known that Israeli NSO Group had the Pegasus spyware which India was using. It is a welcome move that even the closest ally of Israel, the US, has taken a bold step on November 4 2021, of not allowing products in the US (entity) to resort to Pegasus spyware. That entity list in the US will shun Israeli spy work.

Entity List will free American products from Israeli maneuver. But what about India which relied on Pegasus for such a long time? The US move is “based on evidence that these entities developed and supplied spyware to foreign governments that used these tools to “maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers”. That is what India under Modi government has been doing. What of that now? This is particularly true of the rightwing Hindutva government in its stance on the Muslims, Dalits, Naxalites, etc. Another Israeli company Candiru was also doing the same targeting the minorities and opposition parties in India.

An example will illustrate.

Kapil Mishra, Anurag Thakur (Minister of Sports, Youth Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting) had given the slogan ‘shoot the traitors (Muslims)!’ Soon after the departure of President Ronald Trump this led to pogroms of Muslims. There has been virtually no executive or judicial action taken against the BJP leaders. And now this Friday November 5 2021Mishra has undertaken the task of not allowing Muslims in Gurgaon to perform Friday mid-day prayer there. Will the government simply launder the money obtained through opium and heroin as usual but what about the crimes of leaders who cause pogroms? Have these crime allegations also been laundered by Pegasus and Candiru?

If this is present day account of history then what about the past of the Modi regime?

“Kashmir aa kar doodh ka doodh and pain ka paani ho gaya.” After Maulana Abdul Qayum Mansoori was brought to the valley by DG Vanzara and his team truth came out in the open “Our Indian officers were mostly only perpetrating torture on Muslims but they were also deceiving Hindus in order to get medals and awards.” (p. 49)

“Never before had Kashmir felt that it was not part of India.” All this on account of India itself and its delinquency in the hour of need. The cumulative long term- shadow is the startling revelation of Omar Abdullah in his interview published in Indian Express of July 28 2020. The response of India to the plight of Kashmiris in the turmoil there was:

“Hardly anything. Parliament, may be one odd speech, otherwise nothing. It was, for the first time perhaps, politically I felt that we were absolutely alone. That all these friendships that we talked about and these grand alliances and all, they all stopped the other side of the Pir Panjal. They didn’t extend this way.

“They were happy to take our support when they needed it for their own causes but they didn’t find common cause with us and, honestly, I will not stand up for a single one of them tomorrow. Not one of them. I won’t campaign for any of them, I won’t support any of them and god- forbid, any of them get taken off to jail, I will not utter a word for them, because they didn’t speak when people here were suffering.

“When Kashmiri kids weren’t able to go to school. When our traders weren’t able to open their shops. When tourists were being railroaded out of here overnight in buses and hotels were being emptied. When jails were being filled with people for no reason. These people lost their voices. God forbid, anything like this happens to them, I will lose my voice as well. I have no cause with them. That’s it. I will speak for the people of J&K, I don’t speak for anybody else.”

That is what Omar Abdulla decided. But Mufti Qayyum was much plain and simple as well as straightforward. He was simply picked up and thrown into the dungeon. He spent 11 years in jail during which he and others were taken to Kashmir by plane to identify two who were killed in fake encounters along with Ishrat Jahan. Two of them were Kashmiris supposed to be in Kashmiri jail at that time. The accused were innocent like the Mufti. They were beaten so much that the accused saw no way so they said all right we accept the crimes. Then a new session began. The Gujarat police of Narendra Modi administration asked the accused to choose in which crimes they would like to be connected. They were given right to choose like it happens in election. The topics to choose Akshardham temple attack, Godhra train attack and Haren Pandya assassination. The Mufti was asked to choose narcotics, charass. He had not seen the thing so the police showed him a black ball and said it was charass. (P.16) In Kashmir jail they had to identify Chand Khan. They had not seen him or even a photo of him. They could not. When the identity parade was over the Director General of Kashmir K Rajendra called the Mufti and asked about it. Qayum told him that the

Gujarat police would kill him if he uttered any word. The DGP offered snack to him and told him not to worry. During this episode there were senior officers from Intelligence Bureau and R&AW present.

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Chapter 23

When & how will terrorism between India and Pakistan end?

A Parable

There is a crime report of a murder of a woman Mrs Parker. The case is famous by the name of Rokcham Murder. At 2am Parker was killed by a man called Adams. He was very thick and strong in his thighs and his eyes were bloodshot and bulging. Mrs. Salmon was a neighbour who opened her window to see below. The sound made the murderer look back at the window Mrs Salmon saw him in the moonlight. While going out the murderer threw the hammer into the bushes of the garden. Another witness of a driver Henry MacDougall. An old man Mr Wheeler also saw Adams.

The Counsel for the Crown questioned Mrs Salmon to look at Mr Adams in the dock and then told her to look at the back where another Adams look alike of the accused was sitting. But the second Adams was with his wife in bed at 2 am. In this way the trial ended in acquittal of the accused.

And then came the most surprising event. Both the Adams were walking back when the twins had an accident. One of them was crushed by a bus coming from the other side; it is difficult to say that natural justice was done. (Graham Green, The Case of the Defense)

The remarkable statement of Moeed Yusuf that he also studied open source and taped it to find out the people behind terrorism is a rich source of intelligence. It is also the intuition of the investigator which can yield important clues. This source is intelligence-sans-frontier, a weapon of fighting terror and particularly in the sub-continent of Asia. An instance is that of the terrorist who masterminded the gory manslaughter of 140 students killed, and hundred others injured in the Army Public School of Peshawar. One of the masterminds was purportedly provided treatment for wounds in India. Intuitions are proofs of incidents where concrete proof is not available. However, the planning and funding of the terrorist(s) or hospitalization and treatment is enough proof. Here collaboration of the host country India is necessary where the mastermind was given medical treatment.

What is missing can be surmounted by inductive or deductive syllogism of logic. Furthermore, there are other sources including confession. In the Samjhauta Express case more matter of facts were overlooked. “After dining, Sunil Josh, Bharatbhai Riteshwar and Pragya Singh and I sat together, separately from the other four. I suggested that Malegaon (Maharashtra) has an 80 per cent Muslim population, so we could start nearby [Malegaon is on the road from Surat(where the Sadhvi was based) and Dangs ( where Swami Asimanand lived in his ashram); the first bomb should be planted there. Then I said the Nizam of Hyderabad had opted to go with Pakistan at the time of Independence, so Hyderabad should be taught a lesson. I said Ajmer was a place where many Hindus too visit the Dargah… a bomb in Ajmer would scare Hindus and they would stop going there. I also suggested a bomb at Aligarh Muslim University because Muslim youths would be there. They all agreed to my suggestions… Sunil Joshi was asked to do a recce of the four places. He also suggested that since only Pakistanis travel by the Samjhauta Express between India and Pakistan, the train too should be bombed. He took the responsibility for this himself.”

Chapter 24

"Will Gouge Eyes, Cut Arms": BJP MP

After having retrieved information on Mallik Fariddon one the masterminds of attack on APS Moeed Usuf wonders “we still stand for peace, but is this the India that we can trust?”

“If there is a narrative, we have a counter-narrative, and we need to create proactive narratives. That is the change that our engagement with the world has to bring, it is almost like we feel guilty about upsetting people. Well, if the facts are with us, I have no problem.” The real position as if now there is no way that Modi administration would countenance any change in Kashmir. When the world is jolted into realizing a new narrative after the scrapping of Act 370and a long incarceration period of the entire leadership of the natives in the valley and repeated warning to the central government that it would be too late now the same willful attitude persists. Witness one who is from Kashmir, Jitendra Singh, Minister of Home, under Amit Shah .who says that terrorism is in its last phase in J&K as terrorists are being given hot chase by the security forces. He added what is the grist for the mill that terrorists on the run are trying to make their presence felt by going after soft civilian targets.

Despite all precaution and allowing the turbulence to recede there is palpable fear that the meltdown of dream for a terror free future of India is round the corner for what is happening in Delhi over the issue of Friday prayer. Being a good Hindu without being communal is turning into a chimera. The trap is laid by even the most seemingly secular like Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on one end of the spectrum and on the other the RSS and what threat is carried.

Way back on September 8, 2006 after bombing Muslims in Malegaon graveyard mosque and on Mushawarat chowk the Sangh sent this threatening letter of more and terrifying terror to come. And after just two years it came on September 29, 2008 in Malegaon. The following letter was sent on the day following bomb attack on September 8, 2006. It is written in Marathi which is state language of Maharashtra which is also mother tongue of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and was also mother tongue of Guru Golwalkar, RSS founder Dr Hegdewar. It says that “Is the blast in Malegaon in your memory. If you don’t remember then wait for another bomb attack, remain alert. This is a Hindu country and we want to make it a Hindu rashtra. It warns the Jamaitul Ulema -e-Hind not to be smart! Muslims leave India!

Hindutva forces are in a tailspin for their endeavor to make India a Hindu Rashtra by 2024! India is increasingly and incessantly becoming chaotic and going out of control.

Chapter 25

Redeeming from destiny: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh

The three countries have similarity of destiny of internal discord, disruption and self-destruct. India helped Bangladesh to realize itself. Today Bangladesh has higher per capita income than many other countries. Mohammad Ali Jinnah used his remarkable perception and anticipation of how Pakistan could shape its destiny as a Muslim state. India had such secular and astute stalwarts as Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel. Dr Ambedkar was tasked with drafting a constitution of superb intent and benefit for all.

Minister on Commerce and Investment, Mr. Abdul Razak Dawood has chartered a new territory, Africa.

India has the stigma of being dubbed as IIOJK. It is another Ethan Brand like stigma. It can generously find out a way to wipe the stigma and live, in comity of nations. Each one can have courtesy and considerate attitude towards the other.

Vivek Katju a former diplomat is sinical in believing that Pakistan is having India obsession. A cricket match was fought and lost. Team India brushed off the disappointment and the defeat — as well as the inflammable mix of emotions that can overwhelm India-Pakistan cricket matches. Virat Kohli and his men walked up to the Pakistan players and congratulated them. In doing so, they refused to be turned into gladiators fighting a proxy battle of jingoism. To millions of young people watching them, they sent out important messages. That players are united on the common ground of sport, that when you have lost and are feeling lousy about it, you still congratulate the winner. That’s not just sportsmanship, that’s decency. But that’s thrown out of the window in these polarized times when the IPC is weaponized by the state at the drop of a dissenting line. So, days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said he was reaching out to the young, the Jammu and Kashmir Police registered a case under the draconian anti-terror law, UAPA, against unknown students in two Srinagar medical colleges for “cheering for Pakistan” in the T20 match. There’s no evidence that their cheering was part of any incitement to violence. In Congress-ruled Rajasthan, the police arrested a schoolteacher for a social media post, again, ostensibly in support of the Pakistan cricket team. In Agra, the UP police arrested three Kashmiri students in Agra, and slapped cases against four other people. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has come down even harder on this fictional crime — he has promised sedition charges.

In each of these cases, the police are guilty of blatant violation of Constitutional norms and guarantees. This disturbing, absurd script has played out before. Be it in a case of sedition against a school in Karnataka for staging a play, or a 22-year-old for raising slogans, or another young woman for climate change activism. What would the men in uniform, who now appear to be in service of a thin-skinned nationalism rather than the Constitution, have made of the thriller of a Test match in Chennai in 1999, when the entire Chepauk stadium stood up to applaud the Pakistan side after it defeated India? How many cases could they have filed then? Does the faith of the audience matter? Is Pakistan the problem? Or, will applauding New Zealand be seditious too? This absurdity needs to be checked.

The judiciary has time and again laid down guidelines for the application of the colonial-era sedition law (only to see them routinely flouted) and asked the government to examine its remit. It must not turn a blind eye to this latest round of excessive and unlawful action. It needs to throw out these cases and tell the police, in no uncertain terms, why their action violates the Constitution. Locking up a citizen for cheering a rival nation during a game is a self-goal in a democracy.

This India obsession has caused greatest shock to well meaning citizens of India and it is like ovation is turned as sedition. But even more obnoxious reaction is how some in India are threating the life and dignity of minor daughter of the Indian captain!!! The daughter of Kohli is equal to the wonderful and beloved daughters of the Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi. Ansha, Ajwa Afridi, Aqsa, Asmara and their newest addition, Arwa. Everyone is a gem for the parents and all fathers and mothers of the subcontinent.

The carnage prompted the government to declare an all-out war against terrorist outfits. In the wake of the attack, the government set up military courts for trying the terrorists under amendments made to the Constitution and the Army Act. As a result, 310 militants received death sentences and 56 of them have been executed so far.

Operation Zarb-e-Azb

Chapter

Age of anxiety of Indian Muslims

Muslims in India have been anguished as never before not even at the time of partition. Look at the face of Qutbuddin Ansari with tears bleary eyes folding hands including singers cut and bandaged and burnt hands of his wife before the marauding Hindus mobs in Gujarat, look at the frightened school child whom Rakesh Sharma caught on his camera. Hear the boy how he witnessed the murderous crowd of Hindus slaying of his grandfather, uncles and women of the family and father. Can you imagine what the Chief Minister Narendra Modi said when Ahsan Jaffri in surprise that he was still alive! And the expletives. Imagine how Muslim girls and women with their clothes torn and sticks and rods stuck in their sex parts hanging out and dragging their bodies through the empty roads. The shut down houses and shops and no one either offering water to the thirsty or offering a piece of cloth to cover their utter nakedness. This is not horror melodrama. The reality of that time is more horrifying. Then why the extremists among the Hindus baying for the blood of the minority in our own time!

In contemporary time the Nobel prize winner for literature Abdulrazak Gurnah has a scene in his novel Paradise where the most-wild blacks kill their victims and cut a piece of flesh of the dying in a special bag for trophy. They also suck blood of their victims so frequently that even dark skins make them look red! Babubhai Patel alias Bajrangi claims that the khichdi eating Gujaratis performed it so wonderfully despite their vegetarian food. They felt that they were like Rana Pratap at the work in hand.

However, this second term of BJP majority government in power appears to surpass 2002 barbarity as the incidents are unfolding. The junior of Amit Shah in Home Ministry Mishra is father of Ashish who drove his car through the crowd of farmers wounding and killing several and then using guns to kill some more.

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India Today November 5 2007.

11 November 2021 Communal violence is like lava erupting from a volcano. It is institutionalised violence. Wherever that lava touches, it scars the earth. It is a fertile ground for future revenge," kapil Sibal. Not acceptable not t0lerated. Run amuck,

There is such a whirl of movement in the thoughts and action of the people that every day something startling comes up forcing people to think. It centers on what went in the past when we started as a nation started and where we are bound to go. Why are we so as actress Kangana Ranaut said that India’s freedom in 1947 was alms for beggar? Such a remark coming in Times Now Summit 2021where she also remarked that 'real freedom' came in 2014. The facts point in another direction. We won our freedom by a process of uncountable meetings, marches, meetings and conferences in England and elsewhere. There were resolutions debated and accepted by wise men of the movement for freedom. Such stalwarts as Gandhi, Nehru. Barrister Mohammad Ali Jinnah and many others even before shared a common desire for freedom. Even ordinary people also walked with Gandhi and Nehru, Patel and Jinnah. Even the Frontier Gandhi also merged in a momentous desire for freedom.

Even after freedom many weeks and months went into the framing of the Constitution. What is so new and dynamic about any one person how so ever powerful and popular that we should not ascribe freedom as his gift. If you mention that we got freedom only in 2014 you are filled to the brim that the man you mention is PM Narendra Modi then you must know that the contribution to freedom does not owe any iota to the organization RSS whose pracharak was Modi and now he is still trying for the Hindu Rashtra in 2024 as the PM of India! He has sworn on the Constitution to up hold it by all means and all the time in office or at his residence.

Chapter 26

Has India lost public opinion?

Has India lost public opinion around the world over Kashmir issue? Obviously, before coming to that issue, we must have a rational view of the party in power today. BJP is anti-Muslim party. It views India in terms of land of India. For centuries we Indians have lived in a land from the Himalaya in the north to Kanyakumari in the south. However exact marking of the boundaries was never clear in terms of feet and miles. Foreigners also ruled parts of what we call India when the exact boundary was not certain. Before the British came, many others ruled our country. The Mughals made Delhi their capital. The English made Calcutta their capital. Now the ruler of today’s India under BJP want to build another parliament building at very huge amount of money this despite the fact that uncountable number of Indians still don’t have proper house to live in. It is also known phenomenon that houses are burnt by clashing groups of different religions and different ethnic of political sections. The first conception of India according to BJP et al came from a novel.

The first ban on Jamate Islami came when it turned against Indira Abdulla accord in 1975. It was banned again from 1990-1995. Right to self determination

Extremely surprising, upsetting and confusing Freaking out…for a world without Islam

Mustafa Khan

In a democratic country there is no place for uncommunicative and secretive top executive of the country, the Prime Minister. In matters relating to the security of the Muslims minority PM Narendra Modi is the epitome of the cagey politician, the very opposite of Canadian PM Justin Trudeav. His ministers in his own cabinet and in the states across the country are holding out threats to the life and property of the minority community on daily basis. They also vaunt their culture of impunity as if they have already achieved what is dear to them, a Hindu theocracy—a Hindu nation and state where Muslims cannot exist.

“We create our own realities.”[1]

Those words of President George Bush’s official just before Iraq war was ominous. Neither had President Sadam Hussein any weapon of mass destruction nor was he an ally of Osama bin Laden. Bush and Blair created their own realities to go to war. Their bouts of wildly irrational reaction and spell of such behaviour cost huge number of casualties. Neither Iraq nor India had anything to do with 9/11 attacks on New York and Pentagon. To the US led on war on terror Narndra Modi also joined by calling 9/11 as Islamic terrorism. Within a month of the attack Modi arrived in Gujarat and assumed the office of chief minister. In just over four months he won election on February 24 2002 and created history by calling the fire incident on Sabarmati Express on February 27 2002 at Godhra as terrorist attack mounted by Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence.

There were trade rivalries in Gujarat between the rich Hindu traders with non Hindus. Each wanted to get the best of the buriness and industry. However “the RSS and the VHP build on all kinds of false resentments to generate an anger of the Hindu middle-class and sections of the Hindu working-class. One of the issues they played on was the obvious business savoir-faire of the Bohras and Khojas—only a fraction of the ten per cent-odd of the state’s Muslim population –because they had a visible hand in the commercial world.”[2] The fire on the train at Godhra gave them an opportunity to wreak havoc on the Muslims at large.

For more than a year Modi and his BJP did not name who would be the chief ministerial candidate in UP election campaign. When the results enthused them he revealed his hand in picking up the hardliner Yogi Aditnarayan.

There is a hidden agenda of the RSS which militates against democracy in which all are equal and there is no discrimination on the basis of religion, caste or province. However the recentely declassified CIA report shows that RSS was deeply racist and that was one reason why General Carriappa was targetted. Since then the RSS has grown in power and there is every reason that the premonition of 1950s is coming home to roost. “Without going into whodunit, the second paragraph by the informer moves on to report about the parochial divide among the officers and accuse the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) of fomenting unrest among officers.

“Cariappa as South Indian is resented by the Sikh officers of the Indian Army. The RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh) is capitalizing on the North-South split among army officers, persuading Sikh officers, whom informant considers treacherous and unreliable, to spread dissension. Officers from Travancore (later Kerala), Madras and Maharashtra are invariable loyal to General Cariappa”.

There was another danger that the RSS saw in the field marshal at the time of the parition. If RSS could assassinate Mahatma Gandhi for returning money to Pakistan that India owed to the neighbout Carrppa was also doing the same apart from being dark skilled south Indians who are not Aryan in descent and cannot be true Indians according to the racism of RSS. “The eastern part, which became part of India, was renamed as the state of Punjab in 1950 after a lot of bloodshed. It was Cariappa’s responsibility to split the military assets between India and Pakistan as the eastern army commander before he became commander in chief, a post which was later renamed as Chief of Army Staff.” [3] RSS had infiltrated the army in those heady days and it was capable of liquidating the field marshal. In this conspiracy even higher officers were also involved. Six of them were hanged. It was strictly kept secret. However CIA which came in existence in 1947 kept the report and declassified in 2017. There is a racist angle that is subtly hidden. The RSS views itself as an organization which holds the writings of Guru Golwakar as sacred. That Golwalkar indulged in racism of the Nazis is an open secret. It comes out in prounouncemnt in indirect references. Tarun Vijay on April 7, 2017 tried to look at the attack on the Nigerians in Greater Noida when he spoke: “If we were racist, why would we have all the entire south…Tamil, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra…why do we live with them? We have black people around us.” His plural first person pronoun “we” reminds one of Golwalkar’s gospel of RSS, WE and Bunch of Thoughts. He wrote “the truth of our nationalism is an ancient fact and the Hindus being the national society of Bharat, so clearly restated by our revered founder when he decided the word “Rashtriya” for our organization. We must once again stand up to our true and full status and boldy assert that we shall elevate Hindu National life in Bharat to the peak of glory and honour which has been its birth righ since hoary time.” Even Modi is on record when he told during a foreign visit that Indians were not respected because of what they were but now there is change, meaning since the ascendence of BJP to power at centre and now in states like UP. This latter day realization is frought with the posture of majoritarianism vis-à-vis minorities. As Golwalkar also put it when he referred to the Constituent Assembly members on the issue: “They forget that here was a full-fledged ancient nation of the Hindus and the various commmunities, which were living in the country, were here either as guests, the Jews and Parsis, or as invaders, the Muslim and Christians. They never faced the question how all such heterogeneous groups could be called as children of the soil merely because by an accident, they happened to reside in a common territory under the rule of a common enemy.”

As the RSS is a racist organization and is utterly intolerant but capable of sophistry in denying the undeniable. This is strkly visible in the wildly irrational belief of Tarun Vijay. People reacted very sharply. A noted Kannada writer Vivek Shanbagh remarked: "The root cause of racism is intolerance towards the other. It's shameful that we have politicians who have racist thoughts deep inside them and that's why it has come out. When you are put under pressure, the real self comes out. He was trying to hide his racist thoughts, but could not. I am shocked and shocked." Another Indian was evern more frank: "We are all 'coloured', as Americans call it. More than 90% of Indians are dark complexioned. We are obsessed with the notion of fairness, despite our gods being dark in colour, and we are racist. Such statements by Tarun dent the pan-Indian nationalism and culturalism that they have been trying to advocate. The divide between North and South is always there and that's sad," [4]Another dissenting voice and also from the south is that of former Infoscion and educationist T V Mohandas Pai who says that there is larger implication than colour of skin. It is in essence Brahmanism allied with upper caste and the rest. The kind of nationalism that Tarun Vijay embodies is clear from exclusivist vision of nationalism when he speaks tongue in cheek: “You are denying your own nation, you are denying your ancestry, you are denying your culture."In fact there was no denial on the part of the south Indians who spoke against him. They were articulating their frustration over the fact that they are Dravidean and the Aryan mindset of RSS does not want them to be in their fold. Those who are with the RSS have either religion or power or communalism as the driving force. The Nagas and others from the North East India are much fairer and still are attacked and killed and injured by the right wing Hindus because of their being Christians. Golwarlkar considered Muslims and christians as invaders and Jews and Parsis as guests. The question that arises is who was the host who welcomed them into India. This leads fruther who were the Hindu monarch who invited Mehmud Gaznavi to come and attack and plunder the wealth of Somnath temple and share the spoils with the invaders? Of all the Indians it is the followers of RSS who indulge in creating realities like the imperialist white Americans and Jews. It was Bernard Lewis who advised President George Bush to attack Iraq and Afghanistan and the most illiterate President Bush followed his advice. PM Atal Bihari had also been swayed to amass troops to wage war on Pakistan. The ebullient mood of the RSS was on display when on March 15 2000 a Muslim carrying a bundle of grass was killed on the day of Bakrid. And much earlier in 1991 Hindu women in Gujarat had pushed from the balcony of second floor a Muslim NGO worker to his death because they did not want Muslims to live in Hindu areas. Who is creating whose realities in 21st century India by asserting “We have blacks, black people around us”?

Wildly irrational reaction is systematically demonstrated much like the Newtonian third law of action and reaction as Modi justfied 15 years ago. The killing of Pehlu Khan a farmer carrying his milch cow and heifer to his farm in Alwar, Rajasthan had legal documents of sale and ownership and yet he was killed and his family attacked and FIR lodged by the police that they were smuggling cows! Such reaction led to Dadri killing of Akhlaq whose son was in air force and a devoted patriotic Indian.Why are the extremists feaking themselves out for an India without Muslims?

In the aftermath of the landslide victory in UP elections Indian democracy has become what the stand up comedy Aisi Taisi Democracy describes as the rodent in the mouth of the snake who cannot swallow it nor can eject it. This is the birth pang of creating new realities. A few days later Vijay tried to mollify the situation and landed in worse verbosity when he phrased it differently the same remark: “we have fought racism and we have people with different colour and culture, and still never had any racism,” The point he missed and even P Chidambrum could not react to is that the spring source of RSS is hatred for minorities and they would never be able to stomach Pakistan. The stand up comedy says that the buses that Shiv Sena activists were torching led to the extinction of the dinosaurs (buses). The buses would self bust themselves at the sight of the irate Sainiks. The RSS also lives with the illusion that Pakistan would self bust itself at the strong India that the RSS wants to turn into the vision of Bharat they have. The RSS saved its energy by shunning the freedom movement of Mahatma Gandhi for a later day fight they would wage against the Muslims. Their words prove that they are steady in their efforts and that has started bearing fruits. A whole community of butchers has been deprived of their livelihood and their righ to eat the food they and other Musllims and even Hindus like to eat. Instead of creating jobs for Indians within India we see ruination of jobs and sources of eating healthy food. So another dinosaurs is on the verge of extinction. The murder of Alwar farmer Pehlu Khan is continuing of the same juggernaut of Hindutva.

The litmust test that proved Vijay cagey is that he and his RSS never fought racism. As their another gospel Anand Math of Bankam Chand Chatterjee shows they found the British benign and progressive and embraced them. They considered British rule as benevolent to India. Even the father of former PM AB Vajpayee gave untertaking that his son would behave favourably to the British and got him released from prison during his college days. But the crux of the matter is Vijay using the word ‘culture’. India is growing into a monolithic culture which is saffron and is intolerant of people of different cultures. Instead of firing Chief Minister Modi from his post Vajpayee allowed him to continue because Muslims do not live with their neighbours peacefully. That conclave of BJP at Goa in September 2002 showed their true colour. Modi showed his hand by picking up Yogi Adityanath for UP and that kind of “perilous embracing”; carrying on hard core Hindutva ideilogy in the garb of development.

There is a culture of impunity of which Vijay never even hints because it involves cow vigilantism. He and others in RSS. VHP, Bajrang Dal take it as a matter of their right because to them might is right. Alwar and Dadri have gone into history. So has the conclave at Goa where PM Vajpayee wanted to replace Modi in Gujarat but the hardliners prevented him from doing his own rajdharm. He had said at 4 pm on February 27, 2002 that the fire on the train at Godhra was just accident. He even wrote a letter to Modi on June 1, 2002 which is a detailed intervention into the affairs of a state, that too Gujarat! He was aware of the roads in Gujarat were in the hands of the RSS, Bajrang Dal etc. If it was 2002, Alwar also witnessed how the road there was in the control of the cow vigilantes for more than two hours when the activists and hardliners beat up again and again farmers who were carrying cows for their farm for milking. They were milkmen. One of them was beaten to pulp and died on the road. The police stood and watched the lynching and mahem. One of the cops laughed at the event, why has this happened? It was because Vajpayee and Modi both are captive to the RSS ideology. Thus Indian democracy is doomed to die because we have the rulers and their hordes who do not cherish the values of democracy nor have the institutions established by the Constitution of the Republic of India cultivated the culture of civilized law and order and fair play. Why the clash of civilization in India which has such long history of civilization?

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[1] Graham E Fuller. A World Without Islam. New York Back Bay Books 2010 p. 6

[2] Foot Soldiers of the Constitution. Teesta Setalvad 2017. For quotations of Golwalkar and examples of violence. See Vajpayee’s letter on pages 151-152.

[3]http://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/assassination-attempt-on-field-marshal-cariappa-and-hanging-of-the-conspirators-/297734

[4] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/racist-thoughts-deep-inside-are-coming-out/articleshow/58075506.cms

[5] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/p-chidambaram-reacts-to-tarun-vijays-remarks/article17892210.ece

Chapter 27

Reckoning with destiny of Narendra Modi

Delhi is in the news again, last week it was on Muslims praying on roads. The threat this week is again raising the level of violence. However it is a fact that public has forgotten how the Sikhs hoisted their flag on the Red Fort only recently.

The Republic Day violence at the Lalkilla in Delhi on August 15 2021

is another step that is hastening the reckoning of the PM Narendra Modi with deliberate hatching a conspiracy to turn India into a Hindu nation. But the surprise is amazing because it is coming so fast one after another with dashing audacity that confirms him as divider in chief of India. Till then it was believed that there are farmers sans of a tag of their religion. Suddenly from the sleeves he sprang up another deviltry. How Machiavellian is the move that only two days ago a man called Yogesh was caught by the consummate mature leaders of the farmers allowed him to present his own case. He was connected with police agencies who had trained him to mount an attack and cause havoc that would lead to wide spread anarchy by the tractor march into Delhi. It would be fiasco. Then how did the government achieve its aim of dividing farmers sans religious dividsion?

What made the phenomenon take place at Lalkilla? The two Lakha Sidhana and Deep Sidhu supporters of BJP were allowed to take a different routd and climb the fort and raise nishan sahib and nihangs wield swords to cow down all and then let the two sneak out.

The work had begun long back with the aim of a Hindu school like Bhonsla Military.School at Nasik and Nagpure. There would be one or more in every district of India. No state government or even central government bothered about it. India did not wake up to the monstrosity of the tentacles spreading around in its grip: Octopussy. On the other hand myths were made of child Narendra Modi in his laudation holding two snakes at bay. However the truth dawned soon. He had clay feet and an Achilles heel. He saved himself each time by suborning the judiciary.

Hour of Reckoning for desi Slobodan Milosevik: Narendra Modi

Democracy cannot work if one man's terrorist is another man's freedom --fighter or protector. Neither a Narendra Modi nor a Nasser Mahdani. The former had jj assimilated the Nazi gestapo or Getheime Staatspoleizi, or secret state police-strategies to destroy the Muslims. The latter had tried to use RSS tactics to confront the RSS when it killed old Alavikunju Maulavi of Kolam on his way to mosque in 1984 and later Maulvi Ali of Thrissur mosque in his sleep and had attempted to kill Mahdani himself and left him crippled for life. Mahdani wanted "to physically train and equip our men to take on the RSS the same way the Hindu organization did motivating them with religious discourse." Mahdani has met his fate and paid with limb and ten years of imprisonment, Modi is on the way.

The sting operation of Tehelka will remake India into a first rate country if people are really reawakened to the news and feel fear of what had happened in the pogroms in Gujarat 2002. Under arch demagogue Chief Minister Narendra Modi come who-is-who in this modern day revenge tragedy. Babu Bajrangi begins the rostrum: "I was the first to start the [Naroda] Patiya operation.." Bajrangi and his killers had forced Hindus to handover their guns (23 in all) or get killed. They collected the Muslims near the ST workshop and killed them not by shooting but by hacking!. They were herded into a pit in the ground with one outlet. The hapless could not escape. This was the black hole of Naroda Patiya.This would go donw in history as worse than the other, the black hole of Calcutta! Babubhai Patel alias Babu Bajrangi had spoken about this genocide to the Home Minister Gordhan Zadaphia who asked him to go into hiding and not speak about their telephonic conversation to anyone.Babu Bajrangi confessed that he did rip open the stomach of a pregnant Muslim and killed her after spearing her foetus. As the line of command runs from the Chief Minister down to the cops and the marauders, Bajrangi says: "Nobody can do what Narendrabhai has done in Gujarat. If I didn’t have Narendrabhai’s support, we would not have been able to avenge Godhra... because the police was standing right in front of us, seeing all that was happening, but they had shut their eyes and mouths." He puts the police officer K.K.Mysorewala on record for having phoned him to go into hiding. This Mysorewala is that SRP officer who had told the Muslim women and children begging him to save them from the marauding mob that it was order from above that on that day they would not be saved. Every order came from Modi, even surrendering of Bajrangi: "Narendrabhai asked me to surrender... I said, alright saheb, if you tell me to, I will give myself up... I surrendered near Gandhinagar..it was all a big drama." Commissiner of Police PC Pande had asked his cops to disperse the bodies to other parts of Ahemdabad as so manyhad been killed at one place.Bajrangi and his killers had killed 700 to 800 at that one single place!He had personally pulled Saleem dada of that area out of the police van. The killer cops had asked him to finish off Saleem and burn him so that there would be no proof and they would not be pulled up! He took the victim away and finished in the sight of the cops.

Chief Minister Narendra Modi was himself on the scene at Naroda Patiya at 7.15 p.m.and applauded the murderers for their murderous deeds. One Suresh Richard, from the criminal tribe of Chharas which the RSS had roped in to work with Bajrangi in slaughtering the Muslims, gave his testimony: "He (Narendra Modi) said our tribe was blessed… He said our mothers were blessed [for bearing us]…" On his arrival at the house of Richard, the sisters of Richard had welcomed the CM with garlands

As the December 2007 Gujarat elections are round the corner and these fresh disclosures are coming out, Modi got the wind of what was coming. In one rally he asked the people to burn him! Bajrangi after having burnt so many Muslims in the pit wished that he should be hanged! He was afraid of being burnt. But before that he wants another chance. This time he wants to be allowed to go to Juhapura where Muslim refugees are sheltered. He would like to finish the job of what he could not when he and his ilks had killed 700-800! This time he would like to kill 25000 to 50000. Will India give him that last chance before he is hanged?

And if the Tehelka exposure does not dent our conscience as it happened in the case of the report prepared by the Citizens for Justice and Peace committee headed by Justice Krishna Iyer, Suresh Hospet and Anil Dharker we are doomed!

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has described the pogroms as holocaust and holocaust it was. It should go for trial in the way of the Nuremberg trial in Germany. Modi should be arrested immediately and no bail until the trial is gone through and punishment is mete out to him and his cohorts! The collector of Godhra had described the burning of the train as an accident and had opposed the parading of the dead bodies. Modi had rejected collector Jayanti Ravi's counsel. In the night of February 27, 2002 at his residence he had told the police and the aministrative officers that he wanted "Hindus to vent their anger" (quoted from the fourth affidavit of DGP Raman Pillai Bhaskaran Nair Sreekumar).

Ideology and not gaffes responsible for Modi’s statements

Narendra Modi was a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharak or leader and automatically an ideologue and a demagogue. He still is. Therefore most of his pronouncements have provenance in the hate ideology of the organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and consequently Hindu mythology and legends.

Speaking from the Raigarh fort on 5 January 2014 he said that the sack of Surat on 6th January 350 years ago “was not loot.” Shaistekhan had hidden treasure there at the behest of Aurangzeb. Shivaji wanted that wealth to help him establish his own Hindu kingdom. Therefore Modi’s penchant for hidden health is to enrich the Hindu rashtra or nation he like his fellow extremists on the right want to establish. He calls it Hindavi raj as the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna of 6th January puts it.1 The sack wouldn’t have been possible without the secret support of the natives of Gujarat. This surely is insidious way of suggesting that the Hindus were not all loyal to the emperor but had atavistically cleaved to their religion and hence they were ready to help the pillage. That was for a good cause. He dilated on his fellow Gujaratis of yore: “They informed him about the treasure, helped him and offered food. With the support of locals, Shivaji attacked the treasure of Aurangzeb.” Thus Modi has clearly attempted to view history in the light of the saffron ideology to create suspicion and hate against the Muslims by using and distorting history to suit his election campaign. He remarked that ascribing the Maratha warrior plundering of Surat would be an insult of Shivaji maharaj! Modi even went further and said that Shivaji in fact wanted to teach a lesson to Aurangzeb. Suratey wer keyleyli chal hi Aurangzeb la dhada shikvineyasathich hoti. The standard politics of bringing hidden gold and Indian money stashed away in Swiss banks is often the boast of BJP pastime. They want to get it back to develop India. May be this would enhance Modi’s development model that his Gujarat is. Thus he continued and remarked that Aurangzeb had looted the wealth of Surat with the help of Shaishtekhan and had it hidden there. This hidden treasure the Maratha warrior wanted to bring back to India and help in the welfare of the poor people. Hatch khajina maharajani parat aanoon hindusthanatil gorgarib jante cha kalyansaathi upyoguat aandla. The Marathi version would imply that whatever development took place in India was on account of what Shivaji plundered and invested in the people. This is how development took place at that time. 1

Another aspect of Modi’s Hindutva is that all the legends have a real base in life. Once he prayed for rain on the Sabarmati River and lo there was rain. He then challenged the Muslims to bring rain in their Ramzan, holy month of fasting. Even the two sisters Tana and Riti could pray through their Malhar song so melodiously that rain would come and drench the sunstroke affected Tan Sen. He would be refreshed and rejuvenated. But there is also politics here. The sisters had helped Tan Sen to perform raag Deepak so well that it pleased Akbar and the emperor ordered that the sisters should be brought to Delhi. It was against the village culture and the sisters refused to go. Akbar sent his soldiers to capture them and bring them to his court. The sisters preferred death rather than break the tradition, they committed suicide. The two sisters were Modi’s fellow villages of immemorial days of the past. Modi instituted celebration of the two sisters by instituting an award and every sixth day of Diwali there is a musical concert in their memory. Lata Mangeshkar was the first to have bagged the award. The ceremony was held in Modi’s village Vadnagar.3 Whether it is music or hidden treasure there is a superimposed Hindutva tag.

Without it he has no chance of winning election. For this reason Shrimant Kokare of Maratha Seva Sangh in Maharashtra put his finger at his attempt of communalizing politics a la Savarkar: “It is an attempt to create fissures between Hindus and Muslims, Shivaji fought political battles, not religious, but Mr Modi was trying to make it appear like a religious battle. There were 35 per cent Muslims in Shivaji’s army, 12 of his bodyguards were Muslims, his navy chief was Daulat Khan. Yet Mr Modi never spoke on these aspects of Shivaji Maharaj.” 2

Modi like other RSS die hard extremists has learnt more from the Anand Math of Bankam Chand Chatterjee than other books.

There is a tremendous amount of ready material of improbable cruelty ascribed to Mughals.

A reporter with Newsweek-Washington post had interviewed this writer. The occasion was of a large number of books donated by the US embassy to him. The books were put in the library of the college where he worked. He told the interviewer that had the books been donated to a madrasa the Muslims who supposed to have turned against the US in 9/11 attacks would have realized the importance great learning facilities in the US of which the books were only a part. He casually mentioned American Literature which could inspire secularism. This produced a cascade of letters and comments in the paper of which one was about barbarity of Emperor Babur: “The kings are tigers, and their officials are dogs; they go out and awaken the sleeping people to harass them. The public servants inflict wounds with their nails. The dogs lick up the blood that is spilled. Source:Rag Malar, (pg.1288).” 4In all this the strains of secularism in Akbar, Babur, Shivaji is made to eclipse for a right wing ideology.

That ideology has its spring source in the novel Anand Math where fighting the Muslim and killing them is justified but the foreigners like the English are supposed to be superior and hence protected. A summary of the early part in details shows it as it includes the plundering of the revenue by the extremists among the Hindus because it was collected by a Muslim subaltern although the overall authority of the revenue collection was in the hands of the English. The English are not only not blamed but held in awe and veneration.

Anandmath begins in the year 1770 when there was famine in Bengal. The hungry were driven to cannibalism. There lived in the village of Padchinha a man called Mahender Singh with his wife Kaleyani and an infant daughter. What little was left during the famine was taken away by the revenue officers of the government. One such officer Mohammad Raza Khan had announced that the revenue collected from the crops would be raised to ten percent. It came as a death warrant. Into that tragic gloom came the epidemic of small pox. In every neighbourhood scores of people died everyday so much so that the dead and the living ‘lived’ together. People did not have time and strength left to bury their dead. The starving began to eat the dead putrid flesh of dogs, hyenas and humans.

They walked a long distance and were tired. Mahendra went to fetch water and food leaving his family in a dharmshala. After sometimes thugs came to the place and robbed them of their ornaments. But they were so hungry that they did not find any immediate use for the gold and silver. They quarreled with their chief and killed him. They made fire to roast and eat his dead body. Then someone thought that Kaleyani’s daughter’s meat would be soft and fresh and easy to eat as they were disgusted with the stiff meat of the dead. When they turned to the two they found the place empty and so they went after them. The woman could not escape their chase but she stopped and hid and was saved by a brahamchari.

Mahendra Singh and his wife decided to leave their ancestral house and property and move to a city. He brought his rifle for protection, she brought poison. They came a long way when they were very tired and hungry. He told them to wait in the dhrmshada until he brought them some milk. Starving farmers took Kaleyani and her daughter. She was hiding in a green spot covered by bushes. When she woke up she was in a temple where a bharamchari brought some milk for them. She gave the milk to her daughter but did not take any herself. When the priest insisted she washed his feet and drank that water.

The priest went out in search of Mahender Singh.

Mahender Singh saw how an English officer was carrying revenue to Calcutta under guards. One of the guards saw Mahender with a gun and called others to catch the thug. The officer asked them to tie him to the cart. The English were revenue collectors of Nawab Mir Jaffer whom the narrator calls sinner, murderer, treacherous. The narrator says that Nawab Jaffer was drunk on opium and neglected Bengal crying in pain and suffering. The revenue was collected and distributed among the people and the extremists.

Some aspects of the novel reveal the ideology of the Hindutva. One of the leaders of the group in the novel is Satyanand. He has taken the vow [mahavarta] that they would be devoted to Bharat as their real mother; their biological mother is only physical conduit. Satyanand also asserts that he and others like him think of the land called Bharat as their real mother. Satyanand tells Shanti that he believes that he thinks motherland as the only mother. Mi fakt deshalach maan manto. They would also remain celibate in the service of mother India who is a goddess in incarnation. Another thing is that there is need for men and weapons. If they are in short supply they could not defeat Muslims.

During the pogroms of 2002 RSS volunteers along with Bajrang Dal activists were made available well in advance, that too in their familiar uniform. Arms and ammunition were well stocked and were transported even during the curfew hours. They were imported from UP, Punjab, Bihar and other states.

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1.Saamna. 6 January 2014.

2 Asian Age, 6 January 2014.

3. Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Narendra Modi :The Man. The Times Tranquebar, 2013 p 21.

4. http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/america/2007/07/mark_twain_turned_madrassa_stu.html

5. Quotes are from Marathi edition of Anandmath.

The book titled 'Sunrise Over Ayodhya' is on the Supreme Court verdict on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. The book launch event was held on Wednesday and was attended by Congress leaders P Chidambaram, Digvijaya Singh among others.

"Sanatan Dharma and classical Hinduism known to sages and saints were being pushed aside by a robust version of Hindutva, by all standards a political version similar to the jihadist Islam of groups like ISIS and Boko Haram of recent years," a chapter of the book titled 'The Saffron Sky' reads.

Chapter 28

The tragic shift on Kashmir in 2014

AS Dulat in his book Kashmir: the Vajpayee Years admits “Kashmir has been a huge education,” but few could educate their masters in New Delhi to adopt a conciliatory rather than confrontation attitude. People from outside the valley in particular and Jammu and Kashmir as well learn different things as their perspective on that Muslim dominated region. Dulat himself left the government sooner after Modi came to power in 2014. He called on former PM Vajpayee and asked him “Sir, yeh kya ho gaya?” Vajpayee: “Yeh unko bhi nahee maloom ki kya ho gaya. At the surprise win of Modi both Vajpayee and Dulat were aghast at the development. No sooner had Vajpayee expressed surprise than he also admitted synchronizing surprise with realizing of the mistake of the past. “Woh hamare se gaoti hui.” Dulat says that “he lost power because he did not stop the 2002 riots.” Dulat left office on May 31 2014 and soon MK Narayanan succeeded him. Dulat looked at him in surprise: “this gang brought me here with them so I thought I should go with them.” Ultimately, approach to Kashmir ended there and then. And since then, there has been no attempt because the duo Modi and Amit Shah had another kind of agenda. They invited Europeans for their view on Kashmir.

Everything ended in a tailspin. As of now there will never be any repeat of what went before.

Instead, we have words of what the new masters of Kashmir have learned to apply what the new ideology is. “Wars ceased to become effective instruments to achieve political and military objectives. They are too expensive, unaffordable and there’s uncertainty about the outcome. It is the civil society that can be subverted, divided and manipulated to hurt the interest of the nation. You are there to see that this land is fully protected,” Ajit Kumar Doval told the graduating cops at Hyderabad. He like his master wants to focus on civil society in the mainland and also in the valley to control.

“No nation can be built where the rule of law has failed.” The new frontier of war is the civil society which can be manipulated to hurt a nation’s interests, said National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. So great change that the society was undergoing was left in darkness and terror. The civil society was now targeted.

“All the curtains were drawn in the evening time and the lights were kept switched off even in the darkness. All this was just to give the impression that we were asleep. We could hardly sleep in the atmosphere of terror. The most we were able to do was to pretend to be asleep.” Another change was the loss of smiling. This changed perception is recorded by BBC reporter Nayeema Mahjoor in her book Lost in Terror.

Even more tragic events followed when Modi and Shah turned the screw including “Throw stones at the mosque like you throw stones at us,” told the police to Kashmiri youths.

“The SP saheb (superintendent of police) beat me the night I was dragged to the police station," he told me. "There were other boys in the van. When I told them I studied in class eight in school and knew nothing about the protests, they would start beating me again.”

The Ahmed brothers were beaten for two hours before they were taken to the central jail. Muzaffar told me that once there, they were beaten for hours with a bamboo stick. When they went unconscious, they were woken up with electric shocks. He shows me his burnt skin. The two brothers were held for 20 days. After they were released, Shabbir put them in a tempo and hurried them to a hospital in Srinagar. The doctor told him that his son barely survived with his spine. Muzaffar, who prayed five times a day in the local mosque, broke down: “They have broken my bones; I cannot prostrate myself before Allah.”

The tragic shift on Kashmir in 2014

Mustafa Khan

Everything ended in a tailspin. As of now there will never be any repeat of what went before.

Even more tragic events followed when Modi and Shah turned the screw including “Throw stones at the mosque like you throw stones at us,” told the police to Kashmiri youths.

Muzaffar’s mother invited me inside the house. She asked whether I can protect her daughter-in-law. “They were drunk, and they kept asking for my daughter-in-law,” she said of the officers. “I fear they will come again.”

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On Wednesday, actor Kangana Ranaut said at a media event that India’s real freedom came only in 2014, and that the independence won in 1947 was only “bheekh” or alms. Before that, on Monday, Shashi Tharoor, Congress politician, took to social media to wish a happy birthday to LK Advani, BJP veteran, and the man who led the mobilisation that ended with the shameful Babri masjid demolition. We wrote an editorial on the reaction to Kangana and Tharoor — he was brutally trolled and there have been demands by leaders of non-BJP parties, ranging from the Congress to the NCP and AAP, to arrest her, charge her with sedition, take back her Padma Shri.

We said that the reaction from those who call themselves liberal, and define themselves in opposition to the BJP, underlines a terrible shrinking. “If those who accuse the ruling establishment, very often rightly so, of punishing dissent and weaponising laws to curb freedoms, themselves strike war-like postures because they disagree with Tharoor, or bay for the use of a harsh law against Ranaut, the message is dispiriting: They are borrowing from the political vocabulary they love to criticise”, our editorial said.

True, Tharoor and Ranaut are very different, and what they said cannot be put in the same category — his gracious gesture softens the political line, while her crude cheerleading for the powerful sought only to rub in the divide. And yet, if the outrage against him is narrow-minded, it needs to be said that the clamour to punish her is also illiberal. Guarding the space to express ourselves freely, against the transgressing state and also the mob, has never been a more urgent need.

One of the distinctive features of the BJP’s political dominance under Narendra Modi-Amit Shah has been its will to conquer — and to subjugate — all institutions and spaces. It has not hesitated to wield the state agency or invoke the harsh law to subdue those who disagree. It has achieved spectacular success not just in winning elections, but also in setting, and hardening, the terms of debate. Prominent among the stories it tells, are those that speak to an “us” locked in constant and crusading battle with a “them”.

One of the terrible failures of those who oppose the BJP has been that they have not confronted this everyday cramping and coarsening of our public life in a frontal or credible way. Their inability or unwillingness to do so may stem from their own scarred record on questions of individual freedom, their own doublespeak when it comes to upholding liberal values. The backlash against Tharoor and the fury against Kangana is only the latest pointer — the with-us-or-against-us paradigm that shrinks us all implicates both the ruling establishment and its opposition.

As another round of state elections approaches, the heat of electoral campaign, particularly the one in Uttar Pradesh, which will resonate widely, will drive the wedge deeper. In the next few months, public conversation is even more likely to be on a knife-edge, trenches will be dug deeper, walls will go up higher.

As we brace for the sharpening polarisation, it is even more important to remind ourselves that the political combat is one of ideas, that opponents are not enemies, and that in a democracy, during elections and in between them too, the spaciousness of the battleground matters most, while winners and losers come and go.

Before I end, here’s wishing LK Advani a belated happy birthday!

Take care,

Vandita

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Yusuf was in a delusion that his uncle Aziz visited his house and was welcomed with elaborate preparation of food and other arrangements. But one day his uncle stayed some more time when he was told that his uncle would take him to his house. He would go by train. When they arrive at the station Yusuf looks at a German and his wife. The two arrive and look away as if they are strangers and have nothing in common. He noted that people welcomed Aziz as a very important person. They bow to him and ask others to make way.

On reaching his house where his hotel was also there. Aziz called a servant as Khalil and told him to show him where he would sleep and live. Till this time Yusuf thought that Aziz was his real uncle. But Khalil laughed at him and asked him to come out of his illusion and call Aziz Seyyid. Another revelation came when Khalil told him that Yusuf was sent there to work for his father owed money to him. Khalil was working in the hotel because his father also owed money to Seyyid.

What the servants eat is according to how much their fathers have to pay back. After full recovery of the debt, the servants would return to their native place. It is necessary to call the master Seyyid and not uncle because it would look awkward that the Richman is a relative of servants who are no better than beggars. If the servants speak Arabic, he likes them. If the Seyyid stops longer in a house he may even take the girl as his wife.

Read more: Remembering the tragic shift in Kashmir in 2014

Mohammed Abdalla is also a trade agent of Aziz and this time he meets Yusuf

He jubilantly calls him a “Beautiful boy.” He says that Yusuf would learn the difference between the ways of civilization and the ways of the savage. His predatory grimace made Yusuf think of dogs. He was a violent sodomizer.

The journey started after Sayyed got a reduction in freight charges. The group under Abdalla was now passing through the most remarkable place where the barbarians lived. They were black people of African and were violent and undependable. They drank the blood of their animals and kept a piece of meat of the animals of humans. Abdalla: “They would steal anything including your manhood if you don’t keep your clothes around you. They are waiting for us. “Worth ten of any of you.” They look so red. “it must be the blood they drink.”

A guard: “Every time they kill a man, they cut off a part of him and keep it in a special bag.” Another guard: “It’s nothing to do with religion…A civilized man can always defeat a savage even if the savage eats a thousand lion penises.” They raid neighborhoods and abduct women”. They passed through a region of a Lutheran pastor whose work was the divine edict. He brought the iron plow. He forbade them more than one wife. The pastor had a ring that the natives thought he could do anything. He was the legendary European. North of his domain prowled pride of lions which had an unquenchable craving for human flesh, yet they never approached the European unless they were called.” The Europeans had a fixed type of development, a lock-up or prison, a church and a marketplace. Prison implies law and order and punishment for the offender market is part of their growth. They value money. The church is for morality and order.

They arrived at the place of Hamid Hussein. His wife joked with wild abandon. She told him she was filled with a dislike of Hamid because he was plump and wanted Yusuf who was thinner and good-looking. “Who can be annoyed with a beautiful boy like you? I’m thinking of getting rid of my fat husband and marrying you. But until then, perhaps you can build us a garden.” This seductive moment is an aspect of the novel that contrasts with heavily loaded dialogue between Kalasinga and others.

Read more: Reckoning the destiny of Narendra Modi

This runs through the novel in different contexts. Maimuna’s such loose talk is in direct contrast with men like Abdalla who is in a hunt for pleasure in aggressive sodomizing new boys coming in his way when women are not around. Even her seductive reference that the garden she wants to be built there should have all kinds of captive birds. Will Yusuf become captive?

Kalasinga wonders why Muslims are so afraid of dogs

Hamid calla him hairy kafir. Hussein ran a store and he was attracted to Yusuf. “You will drive young women insane by your beautiful looks one day,” Hamid quipped that eleven is fine age for the wedding.

“Wallahi! I doubt that it’s proper for someone like you to speak of Him ln that unforgivable way. Perhaps someone should teach this hairy dog a lesson. I think next time you come eavesdropping on our conversations at the shop I’ll tell the stupid natives what you said. They’ll soon set fire to your hairy arse.” Kalasingha jokes on Allah Wallahs and their thousand names.

Hussein was different from Hamid and Maimuna. He was stern in matters of faith and could not bear any excuse for not confirming the edicts of religion. So, his life among the people of different practices of their faith was anathema to him. So, he lived like a fiend among the people. It does not mean he was very wicked or very angry with them. But it means that he was very much in adhering to the practice of religion. So uses the excuse word Astaghfirullah meaning God forgive me. This is a precaution seeking forgiveness even before committing the mistake. This shows he is very tenacious in observance of his religious duties. Thus, he asserts “Koran is our religion, and has in it all the wisdom we need to live a good and moral life.’

Yusuf was reaching his adolescence. His position in the surrounding also increased. The teacher in the madrasa gave him more roles to play. He was sent on various works. He also led the teaching work on deputation. He also climbed up and give the call for prayer from the roof.

He also worked under Kalasinga in coaxing tires into the ring after repairing punctures. In the meantime, his uncle visited Tashkent, Herat, etc. Asha sometimes visited him and later came into his arms. During one such occasion, she jumped out of his arms at the approach of someone outside. During such a furtive rendezvous he told her of a poet called Abdulrazak who lived in Herat. But he lived many centuries ago. One day he felt that she stirred him so much that he had to remove his legs from her. Asha used to chase her brothers from Yusuf’s room. At this time around Maimuna became suspicious of him.

Read more: Redeeming from destiny: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

In his next visit to Hamid’s trading camp, Aziz bought an enormous amount of trading goods. Aziz and Hamid thought that it was better to shift Yusuf to a distant place of trading for safety.

Bipin Rawat’s comments about lynching terrorists in Kashmir go against the rule of law

A democratic state cannot turn rogue, no matter what the challenges.

Apoorvanand

“lynch terrorists themselves”. This, he claimed, was a “very positive sign”. Social media accounts from Kashmir had expressed these sentiments, Rawat claimed.

What Rawat said next was even more sinister – it suggested that he meant to use the people of Kashmir as a shield for potential excesses by security forces. He claimed Kashmiris had offered to do the lynching or “make arrangements that they get lynched”. Does he mean that evening if local residents are not involved in the lynchings, every lynching is, in fact, arranged by them? Who would be carrying them out at their instance – the police or the army?

That the man who is supposed to be looking after the country’s defences speaks the language of street violence should concern all of us. That Rawat endorsed such violence and drew applause from the elite audience is frightening. That the general should forget the implications of his statement is also frightening....

The worst that the state in India has done is to view RSS not as a terrorist organization. The ambiguity regarding it as a cultural organization hides the fact that it is the mother of all terror as far as killing of minorities is concerned. Those who have been arrested in the bomb attacks in Malegaon, Mecca mosque, Samjhauta express are the leaders of RSS. One such leader is from West Bengal who succinctly made it clear that Muslims must not live in India: “If a Muslim living in India chooses their god before India, then why should he be allowed to live in our country? This country belongs to Hindus first,” says Ramapada Pal who is the chief preacher of RSS in West Bengal. What causes such kind of intemperate remark is the ideology of RSS and not the personal experience as happened in the case of Uttam Shaha. His niece fell in love with a Muslim and married him. This had so upset him that he is determined to do what he says:

"My mission is to make India a Hindu nation,” [4]

Ever since right wing Hindu extremists’ coming to power in India there is copycatting of killings of the neighbouring country, Pakistan, and making monotheism of Hinduism and ushering in barbarity of the Dark Ages. It is strange that Shekhar Gupta calls the Pakistanis as the angriest people of the world. Those who killed Akhlak were any less angry? The most disturbing spin off of it is for the Muslims of India and what is truly a cause of concern for living together of Indians and Kashmiris. The greater the effort to make Kashmir as integral to India the worse is the far off effect. In the name of annual Amarnath yatra there is attempt of grabbing land, whenever there is any tension the softest target is the driver or the cleaner of trucks being lynched with impunity. In October 2015 India imposed ban on petroleum being transported to Nepal and there was also killing of drivers and cleaners. The pretext of beef has superseded ghar wapsi, or reconversion, love jihad, etc. Kashmir valley was free from this but now beef has broiled a storm of protest and revived the freedom movement for aazadi.

Zahid Rasool Bhat funeral and the call for freedom portends of times of intolerance

Scenes of mourning be they in Dadri, in Saharanpur or Kashmir speak volumes of failure to live together thanks to the right wing ideology of hatred propagated by RSS and its affiliates including Shiv Sena.

A portrait of a disconsolate lady in despair is Zahid’s mother

In Saharanpur Noman’s sister wants answer what if her brother was transporting animals for farming and still Bajrang Dal thugs killed him! The daughter of Akhlak Shaishta also posed the question that if it were proved as it was that her father Akhlak had only mutton and nothing else will her father’s killers make him come back to life?

Khushnama, sister of Noman, is another woman who is in despair of existence together.

RSS is the behemoth that the blind men of all the political parties and investigation agencies and police touch and yet refuse to name it to be what it is, a terrorist organization. The involvement of RSS is also direct and linked to a host of terrorist attacks across the country and even in all the present turmoil within the country. Even the cabinet ministers genuflect before it along with their PM Narendra Modi.

The Great Divide

Mustafa Khan

A couple of positive events in Delhi and Haryana have heralded hope that peace and prosperity is assured not just in these regions but also India and Pakistan. It is fallacious syllogism that if war is becoming costlier and hence hybrid terrorism. If a Gurdwara in Haryana opens its space for Muslim to pray Friday prayer and if a businessman Akshay Yadave can let Muslims pray when the family is vacationing during the Diwali festival it is welcome. It is far better than what transpired during the partition of India. India and Pakistan share the desire to live good neighbors. Of course, it is reasonable to turn our back to violence. Mohammad Ali Jinnah was secular and even dreamt that Pakistan would give example of comity of a different sort. The religious denomination would cease to matter. Both the dominant communities had much to accomplish but for the RSS. The first conspiracy was to assassinate Jinnah in which not less than LK Advani was tainted. Jinnah travelled in the car of Lord Mountbatten through the space of a lane where top intelligence agencies had feedback of terrorist attack. When the cavalcade passed through the area Jinnah thanked Allah but Lord Mountbatten prayed to Christ for the safe passage. The astute intelligence agency of the British made no mistake. Since Advani’s migration to India he became more vindictive. Jinnah had allowed the Deonani family to supply roti to the prisons in Pakistan. However, the Deonani Sindhi family migrated to Malegaon and started Ramrajya hotel in Malegaon on the other side of the river Mosom river. When Gopal Godse was released from Prison, he was welcomed b RSS leader Kasar wakil almost the place where Pragyasingh Thakur stayed and monitored the location when bomb shook Malegaon a second time within two years.

"THE GIFT OUTRIGHT" BY ROBERT FROST

Poem recited at John F. Kennedy's Inauguration by Robert Frost

The land was ours before we were the land’s

She was our land more than a hundred years

Before we were her people. She was ours

In Massachusetts, in Virginia,

But we were England’s, still colonials,

Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,

Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

Something we were withholding made us weak

Until we found out that it was ourselves

We were withholding from our land of living,

And forthwith found salvation in surrender.

Such as we were we gave ourselves outright

(The deed of gift was many deeds of war)

To the land vaguely realizing westward,

But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,

Such as she was, such as she will become.

The worst that the state in India has done is to view RSS not as a terrorist organization. The ambiguity regarding it as a cultural organization hides the fact that it is the mother of all terror as far as killing of minorities is concerned. Those who have been arrested in the bomb attacks in Malegaon, Mecca- mosque, Samjhauta express are the leaders of RSS. One such leader is from West Bengal who succinctly made it clear that Muslims must not live in India: “If a Muslim living in India chooses their god before India, then why should he be allowed to live in our country? This country belongs to Hindus first,” says Ramapada Pal who is the chief preacher of RSS in West Bengal. What causes such kind of intemperate remark is the ideology of RSS and not the personal experience as happened in the case of Uttam Shaha. His niece fell in love with a Muslim and married him. This had so upset him that he is determined to do what he says:

"My mission is to make India a Hindu nation,” [4]

Ever since right -wing Hindu extremists’ coming to power in India there is copycatting of killings of the neighboring country, Pakistan, and making monotheism of Hinduism and ushering in barbarity of the Dark Ages. It is strange that Shekhar Gupta calls the Pakistanis as the angriest people of the world. Those who killed Akhlak were any less angry? The most disturbing spin off of it is for the Muslims of India and what is truly a cause of concern for living together of Indians and Kashmiris. The greater the effort to make Kashmir as integral to India the worse is the far- off effect. In the name of annual Amarnath yatra there is attempt of grabbing land, whenever there is any tension, the softest target is the driver or the cleaner of trucks being lynched with impunity. In October 2015 India imposed ban on petroleum being transported to Nepal and there was also killing of drivers and cleaners. The pretext of beef has superseded ghar wapsi, or reconversion, love jihad, etc. Kashmir valley was free from this but now beef has broiled a storm of protest and revived the freedom movement for aazadi.

Zahid Rasool Bhat funeral and the call for freedom portends of times of intolerance

Scenes of mourning be they in Dadri, in Saharanpur or Kashmir speak volumes of failure to live together thanks to the right- wing ideology of hatred propagated by RSS and its affiliates including Shiv Sena.

A portrait of a disconsolate lady in despair is Zahid’s mother

Khushnama, sister of Noman, is another woman who is in despair of existence together.

Chpapter 29

Kashmir teetering on the brink of disaster

Tensions in Kashmir are rising days after four people were killed in a raid by Indian security forces, fueling outraged protests over the impunity and stirring fears that the conflict-torn region could be sliding into another especially deadly phase. The Indian police said that two militants and two businessmen whom they described as “terrorist supporters” had been killed when the police raided a shopping complex.

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20 November 2021

“Arrogance is over. Heat, rain and nights have passed and the sound of weapons have snatched away many lives’” These lines written impromptu by CM Mamta Banerji of West Bengal over what happened today as PM Narendra Modi was forced to retreat on the farm laws for which an epic sit-in agitation has been going on for more than a year. There are three clauses. The first is about the arrogant attitude of the PM, the second is whether and the third is the firing of the son of the deputy Home Minister Mishra’s son’s gun which killed some and more were crushed to death under his car.

Mishra is deputy under Amit Shah, the most-doughty heavyweight in the Modi cabinet. However, the poem has eclipsed unsuccessfully a much serious concern of the day: the exhuming of the bodies of innocent Kashmiri youths. The J&K administration on Thursday exhumed the bodies of the two civilians killed in Monday’s shootout with police and ordered a magisterial inquiry, after protests over the incident spread across the Valley.

Read more: What led to the great divide of India and Pakistan?

A major shootout in Kashmir: What happened?

Till late on Thursday night November 18, 2021, the bodies of Altaf Bhat, a businessman, and Dr Mudassir Gul, a dentist, had not been handed over to the families. Four people had been killed in Monday’s encounter in Hyderpora, Srinagar, and buried quickly by police in Handwara, 70 km away. Family members of three of them (one was allegedly a Pakistani) contested police claims that they were either militant or had militant links.

The protests across Kashmir were further fueled by police forcibly ending an agitation by the family members of the civilians killed in Srinagar on Wednesday midnight demanding their bodies. However, whether Magray’s body would be exhumed too, remains unclear. Magray’s father Abdul Latief Magray, a state bravery award winner, said that his son worked as an office staff with Gul. “How can my son be a militant as I fought against them during peak militancy in the area?” in the rein of Modi and Shah this is tough son of a gun as shown in the fake encounter of Osaib. Osaib Altaf Marazi, killed by Indian security while he tried to cross the river Jhelum on the day India scrapped Article 370.

Do these nuances show the bankruptcy of Indian politics?

The election banner of BJP reads Modi warning “We will kill you, definitely we will kill you. By the gun of our own choice, and the bullet also of our own choice. Only the land will be yours. This is not true because India had bought pellet guns that Israel was using against the Palestinians. And now India was using against the Kashmiris whose land was not the property of Indians.

The events have followed quickly one on the heels of a change of policy declared by NSA Ajit Kumar Doval that civilians will be in the cross-hair of new policy, and army chief Bipin Rawat that it is good that the people of Kashmir are now killing the terrorists.

Read more: Narendra Modi: The cause of agony in India

Aruna Roy and Doval are polls part of their moral outlook. She is committed to upholding the Constitution and thinks that it does not allow anyone to tinker with civil liberties. Doval is notorious like his master Modi. Much that is wrong in the country is taking the law in hand or disregarding it for a misconceived nationalism as the ruling echelon is blamed for this. Even PM Vajpayee could not force Modi to do his rajdharm or follow duty to serve the people. How can we make the cops accountable to law when Doval advises the police to watch the civil society with suspicion! It only shows Doval taking laws cavalierly.

Modi the biggest 'nautankibaaz' in the country.

Bulund Shaher Subodh Kumar Singh Station House incharge of Dadri My Encounter HYPERLINK "https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva"With HYPERLINK "https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva" HYPERLINK "https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva"Yati HYPERLINK "https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva" HYPERLINK "https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva"Narsinghanand HYPERLINK "https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva" HYPERLINK "https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva"Saraswati HYPERLINK "https://thewire.in/communalism/yati-narsinghanand-saraswati-interview-hindutva" and What it Taught Me About Hindutva (thewire.in)

Chapter 29

The massive account of anxiety

The massive amount of anxiety descends on Muslim areas when the minority Muslims face onslaught from educated Hindus and tribals alike

Truck loads of adivasis from Gujarat descended on the village Harsul in the tehsil of Tirumbakeshwar near Nasik. It was well planned to coincide with the visit of Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the inception of year long Simhasht Kumbh mela at Tirumbakeshwar on July 12, 2015. An adivasi boy Bhagirat Choudhary had slipped and had fallen into a well and died on July 7. The issue was kept simmering to blow up on the D day. The attack on Muslim shops and houses began systematically even before Singh’s plane lifted from Nasik air port.

The Muslims of the village watched the movement and feared of impending attack. They were so scaredThe Muslims of the village watched the movement and feared of impending attack. They were so scared that many families sought refuge in Nasik city. They complained to the Nasik police and sought security. It was the well on the farm of a Muslim farmer that was the epicenter. Muslims said that they had nothing to do with the death and duly informed the police. But as the police were preoccupied with the security matter of the Home Minister Muslims of the village approached the senior police officers and attempted to protest against the threatening move of adivasis. The district police officer told them that they should reach their homes in the village instead of protesting in Nasik. He assured that the police force, nearly 300 strong would be there before their return. However, the attack led to immediate looting and burning the shops of Muslim minority. They destroyed Mukhtar Sayyed’s two excavator vehicles. The roof tiles of their houses were smashed to pieces. The police fired at the adivasis and injured many and one of them was seriously injured. They did not allow the police to retrieve the injured. Ramdas Gangaram Buth (28) bled profusely and then died. The attack did not slacken and die down. The adivasis were determined to spread it to other parts of Nasik and even to Malegaon. On the following day, that is Wednesday, the adivasis returned and made further attempts and succeeded in burning four houses of Muslims. The police chased them into the four hills surrounded the hamlet. When they climbed one hill the police tried to overtake them but it was diversion. In the meantime, from the opposite hill more sneaked into the village and carried out the attack and fled. In the continuing violence 32 cops received injuries, seven of them seriously. This guerilla tactic continued. The attackers were unidentified leading to suspicion that they were from outside. Another village, Vajwada of Peth taluka also saw violence as a fall out of Harsul events. Ramdas’ body was brought to his village Nachloni village and cremated. The tribals sat on the top of the hills and lay in wait. When they saw the opportunity, they descended in droves of batches of well trained and armed tribals on the village of Harsul and systematically looted and burnt the shops in the vicinity of the bus stand. Gulzar Kokni and others like him lost their entire business as the police had prevented them from coming out of their houses. After looting the houses and shops the adivasis started setting them to fire when the Muslims came out and fought back the attackers. The district superintendent of police Sanjay Mohite accepted that his men were not up to the guerilla tactics of the adivasis and called for more force and tents to cover the hills and beyond. After the 26/11 the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce and Industries had organized a conference in Delhi attended by Ajit Doval, B Raman and Brijesh Mishra within one week of the attack. The Task Force Report that was the result of the deliberation observed that terrorism was a matter of city and that security forces must focus on that and save energy and focus less on communalism. Thus, what is happening in Atali in Haryana or Harsul in Maharashtra is the long-term effect of that conference. However, it is a quaint inference that such organized attack of well trained and armed adivasis does not come in the purview of terrorism despite all the hallmarks of terrorism present in the attacks. When the victims saw the marauding batches coming down upon their houses with no succor in sight, they were truly terrorized. The regular and replenished bouts of attack sapped the morale of the victims. They had hardly enough strength to withstand the attacks. Already their fellow members of the community depleted their numbers while shifting to safer havens in cities. The post mortem report clearly stated that the Bhagirath had died after he slipped into the well and drowned. That means that there was no prior attack on him. Rizvan Sheikh the owner of the farm with the well and his brother Irfan wrote to the tehsildar about their concern for security and also met the IG rank police officer about the issue. Irfan is also a member of Shiv Sena. Two days after the Harsul violence the local Muslims want to return home but have misgivings about the police. The nearby village of Thanapada is also tense with youths keeping watch from the mosque minaret and look with apprehension at Harsul and the hills around seven km away. Eerily coinciding with all this was another such incident in Vashim- Karanja, Lad. A Muslim rickshaw driver was accused of teasing a Hindu girl. People beat him up and handed over to the police. In the resultant violence two men were stabbed and one was killed. When the Muslims went to complain to the police, the cops did not want to register FIR. The man killed was a youth of 22 years, Sheikh Babu. His cycle had grazed someone and on that pretext the mob beat him and killed him with knives. The Muslims then marched in protest and under this pressure the police arrested 5, one of them was Ajay Jhanjhad who had fatally stabbed Babu. There were also two cases of inter religious marriages where girls from Hindu community had married Muslim boys. The majority community dubbed it love jihad. Hingoli town had police deployed in large numbers as precaution. Against this background Rajnath Singh held out threat to Pakistan for cross border firing. At the Nasik temple on Godavari river a sadhvi Trikalbhavantji spoke in favour of having separate and exclusive arrangement of staying and bathing in the river for the sadhvis. She also remonstrated: that sadhus should behave becoming of holy man. As she spoke in the presence of the chief minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis, a sadhu Gyandas Maharaj snatched the mike from her hands. These combustible scenes were not far from Harsul where the tribals were on the verge of setting fire to a petrol pump when the police opened fire on them.

The other case is from a well developed and ‘groomed’ pockets of otherwise middle class who want to keep themselves of both Hindu and Muslim communities who hope for better education and cleaner geographic surrounding. It is the fate of the Muslim society of Ahmadabad where Ahsan Jaffri member of Parliament lived, till February 28 2002. A contingent of police force in the striking distance stationed around, aided & abetted the irate Hindus to conduct genocide of Muslims by withdrawing from there. Chief Minister Narendra Modi took the last call from Jafri; cursed him and left him to face the end. A friend of this writer who made a video of The Final Solution, Rakesh Sharma, told him that Modi had used expletives and put down the receiver!

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Asian Age July 15, 2015.

Times of India July 16. DNA July 15.

Loksatta July 15, 2015. Inquilab July 15

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/harsul-violence-we-want-to-return-but-we-dont-have-faith-in-police/

"We intended to kill you, but you survived yesterday."

"If you love the life of your family, stay away from politics and the Kashmir issue,"

, "We are going to kill you and your family".

26 November 2021

Farmers of this land at some point in the past tried to spread sweetness of sugarcane grown here. But some people caused a series of riots here spoiling the sweetness of sugarcane."

"Today, the country has to decide whether it wants to give new wings to the sweetness of sugarcane here or allow the followers of Jinnah commit the mischief of causing riots," said Yogi Adityanath

"When there is Taliban rule in Afghanistan, they raise slogans. But we will not allow Talibanisation at all. And whoever supports the Taliban in UP, the government will deal with them sternly," Yogi Adityanath said on November 8.

Book by Sanatan sadhak says Muslims held for Malegaon '06 innocent

Chapter 29

Invisible hand

Chandan Haygunde : Pune | Sun Sep 01 2013, 04:07 hrs

Sanatan Sanstha member Vikram Bhave, who was convicted in the 2008 Gadkari Rangayatan auditorium blast case in Thane, is in Pune for the release of his book, Malegaon Sphotamagil Adrushya Hath (Invisible hands behind Malegaon blast), which he has penned three months after being released on bail.

Speaking to The Sunday Express, Bhave said the book highlighted the doubts in the investigation done by the police in the Malegaon blasts of 2006 and 2008.

Bhave has spent nearly five years in jail. A trial court had awarded 10 years’ imprisonment to him and his aide Ramesh Gadkari in the Thane blast case. The duo moved the Bombay High Court against the conviction and the court granted them bail in May 2013.

Bhave said he was lodged in Anda Cell of Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai and later at Taloja jail along with the Hindu suspects (including Abhinav Bharat members) arrested for the 2008 Malegaon blasts and the Muslims charged in the 2006 Malegaon blasts case.

Bhave said he used to regularly interact with these suspects and felt that both the Hindus and the Muslims arrested for the bomb blasts were “innocent”. “So, after being released from jail on May 28, 2013, I started studying the chargesheets, writ petitions and other documents in the two blasts with the help of lawyers,” he said.

“I was convinced there was something wrong with the ongoing investigation and so thought of writing a book about it. Being a convict, I confirmed from my lawyers whether I am allowed to write such a book. Also, I got the content checked by lawyers before publishing the book,” said Bhave.

Interestingly, Bhave said, he was happy with the investigation carried out by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), pointing out that the Muslims arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast case were not involved in it. “I have been with Muslim suspects in jail. They are good people...I just hope justice is also done with the Hindu suspects in the 2008 Malegaon blast case,” he added.

When asked how he managed to write the book in such a short period, Bhave said it happened due to “Ishwari prerna (inspiration from God)”. “I am not a regular writer. This is my first book. After coming out of jail, I spent two months studying the bomb blast documents. And then, within one month, I could finish writing the book only because God wanted it to happen,” he said.

The 112-page book carries chapters on Sadhvi Pragya, Lt Col Prasad Purohit, Sudhakar Chaturvedi and others arrested for the 2008 Malegaon blast case. The book has two chapters on the Muslim suspects arrested for the 2006 blasts. It ends with a hint at “invisible political hands” behind the probe.

The book is being published by Himani Savarkar, president of Abhinav Bharat. Dhananjay Desai, president of Hindurashtra Sena, has been invited as key speaker at the book release ceremony organised by Pune Nagar Hindu Sabha, at a hall in Karve Nagar area of Pune on Sunday evening.

“We will publish 10,000 copies of this book initially. The book not only speaks about the probe against Abhinav Bharat members, but also against the Muslims held for the 2006 blasts. There is a conspiracy to defame the Hindutva movement in the country by likening it with terrorism,” said Savarkar.

Meanwhile, Bhave said he continued to be a Sanatan sadhak. “I stay in Sanatan Sanstha ashram at Panvel,” he said. Bhave did not comment on the Thane blast as the matter is sub judice.

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Chapter

Schoolmen, their catechism and patriarchy

Mustafa Khan

The gravamen of the scholasticism contrasted with new humanism and new learning is the denial of independence of spirit. Scholasticism is the unchanging and unchangeable attitude of the Hindutva right as of now. They shot down the bill on communally targeted violence because of their ideology. The ideology cannot change, come what may! The narrow and chauvinistic vision of India views education as a source of controlling freedom, freedom within. It does not fear any threat to India from outside for India is too big and resourceful. The only threat is from within from strong individualism, from human rights activists. It wants education to fix on a narrow conception of Indian-ness.

Renaissance is in contrast the exploration of new understanding which entails rescinding the old thinking. In its stark form the essence of scholasticism is catechism. The non-biological mother is the deity which is in direct opposition of the biological mother (of Kanhaiya Kumar, for example). The late chief of VHP Ashok Singhal saw in the figure of Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur Mary Magdalene of Dan Brown’s novel The De Vinci Code. Catechism of Hindutva includes the litany that Pragyasingh is innocent but Ishrat Jahan is a terrorist. Hindus cannot be but Muslims are terrorists. Why are all the masterminds of terrorism only Muslims? [Dhulia superintendent of police] Towards this end is slanted even the sleuths of NIA who have now cleared Pragyasingh Thakur whom Karkare found to be no.1 accused in Malegaon blast of 2008. She it was who wondered when she called Ramsingh Kalsangrah why so few Muslims (only 7) were killed? The 135 pages of the chargesheet submitted to court in Mumbai on Friday May 13, 2016 saw the effects of Lt Col Prasad Purohit’s letter to PM Modi May 2014 taking its programmed consequences of Hindutva juggernaut of making India into a Hindu rashtra unraveling. We are back into the teaching of the Schoolmen, (teachers in the universities in medieval Europe.)

In direct opposition the ATS chief Hemant Karkare basing his investigation on the Freedom LML of Pragyasingh used in the blast was modern day science. That is temporarily eclipsed thanks to the gargantuan efforts of Modi sarkar.

It is foreshadowed by the letter of the Controller of examinations of entrance test to JNU later in May in which he demands model answers or keys to the questions that would be asked. Out of the 25 professors, emeritus ten have refused to supply. That would make the administrative staff rather than the teachers the catechizers. The renascence or blooming of new freedom at JNU is under the clouds of medieval scholasticism, [Fixed religious dogmas sought to solve anew general philosophical problems as of faith and reason, will and intellect, realism and nominalism, and the provability of existence of god—Webster’s]

In the present set up, now that Subramanium Swamy is in Rajya Sabha or upper house of the Parliament, it is the time for the Schoolmen to return to their posts of guards. Against whom? Not Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, or for that matter Mulayam Singh Yadav and Nitish Kumar. But against Kanhaiya Kumar and SM Mushrif. These latter have identified the enemies within India who are more potentially dangerous than any foreign country. The enemies are the forces that really harm India through the regimen of oppression and suppression. The Schoolmen can initiate actions that even the Prime Minister cannot forestall for the greater good of the country. They can set the agenda to self-destruct rather than surrender to sanity. This is seen in the Gujarat hangover of Modi effect after Modi took over the rein in Delhi. Nearly 34 police officers whose hands are tainted with the blood of victims of genocide and fake encounters are not only out of prison but they are now the Franksteins that demand their share. One of them is Vanzara who has now started the decisive second inning. Now he says that Asharam Bapu 80-year flaccid old holy man, accused of raping minor girls, should be released from jail.

On the opposite pole was Hemant Karkare who arrested the holy dame Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur. According to Purohit she was Mr Singh as she rode a motorbike and had her hair cut with a mane of pigs trailing her neck and back shoulders. She was the tomboy whom Purohit called cat: “The cat is out of the bag.” Such was the impact of her personality that one of the accused Abrar Ahmad had a wife, Jannatunisha, who also got her hair shaped like her and added glitter of a thick necklace of gold when she appeared in the negihbourhood after several days of the 2006 blasts. Several years later when I interviewed her, she had grown her hair and wore a scarf. In photos with ATS men holidaying in the aftermath of the blasts she was more relaxed. I saw the snaps in her in laws’ house during a visit. At another occasion Smita Nair of Indian Express and I searched for her for an interview but she was in an anonymous place living with her second husband. The ATS had given her clean chit there and then just before her second marriage. Such was the aura of sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur. In another photo in the media the sadhvi is occupying a place of prestige in the company of guests that included Rajnath Singh and the chief minister of MP Prithaviraj Chauhan. After charges against her being dropped she has become the nemesis of Chauhan? What eerie things will go on behind the scene!

To Karkare her saffron coloured robe and the bob cut had no meaning because he was the Renaissance man who valued science and used science laboratory to remove the scratching on her LML Freedom motorbike and got to the number that was epitome of her guilt. He had taken lots of care as he told Indian Express in his last interview.

“"We are being very very careful. In fact, when we want to question a suspect and if he or she has any Hindutvawadi connections, we make sure once, twice, thrice, that we have enough reason and evidence to even question. Normally it is not like that. We are able to freely question anyone we suspect."

"In fact, immediately after the blast I had visited Malegaon along with the Deputy Chief Minister and other officials and witnessed the anger of the locals who shouted some slogans," Karkare said. "After that I told my men that we have to pursue this case very objectively and not start with assumptions that people of this community or that community could be responsible." [1]

He was professionally very competent and took interest in woodcraft. The driftwood in Naxalite affected jungles in Nagpur gave him opportunities to study driftwood and designs. He collected 150 of them. He belonged to a different but new culture as Julio Ribeiro says: “Traditional culture was subsumed by a new “police” culture, which demanded that all citizens are treated equally. In the eyes of the law all are equal. Any policeman true to his salt would follow this maxim, which becomes his “dharma.”

“My Muslim and Christian friends, on the other hand, were eager for me to articulate my thoughts through the media. The divisions are sharpening. And that is not a good augury.” [2]

Karkare had succeeded, Krish Pal Raghuvanshi in office and was followed by him after his death. He was another Schoolman who paid money to have Abrar’s wife checked and treated for being barren. It was a remarkable couple which played crucial role. The SP of Malegaon Rajwardhan Sinha had tried to create a gulf between Abrar and Jannatunisha saying that Abrar should know that if new shoes have been torn, he should discard them and get another new pair.

At Jagtap farm house, near Nasik, Abrar was kept in isolation from his wife. He was made to hear what Purohit had got recorded on his mobile phone that Sinha had given. They had tried to incriminate Muslim youths in terrorism and smuggling of arms.

This contextualizing Purohit in a clandestine operation had escaped the notice of the media and the court though Abrar’s affidavit makes no bones about the involvement. Though he is also acquitted the charge of perjury is not diluted since it was he, who got the others arrested by false accusation. Purohit’s involvement in Malegaon 2006 blasts was known much before the confession of Swami Asimanand. In his affidavit of April18, 2009 he is crystal clear in what he says there and many more things. It is no surprise then that Purohit played a dynamic role and the involvement of the army was quite deep. In a report in The Times of India Purohit claimed: “I was Malegaon mastermind.” [3]He might have said that after his arrest in 2008 blast in Malegaon but there is no gainsaying that he was not also behind the 2006 blasts. The provenance of the RDX was the same, 2006 arms seizure in four places Aurangabad, Verud, Ankai and at Maegaon. A very persevere pursuit of truth is shown by SM Mushrif whose thesis that the Brahmanical order is behind terrorism has had the zeal of exploring the truth in the true renaissance manner. His search shows the trail of the dragon:

to Milli

17/9/15

Zaffarul Islam saheb

Could you please ask SM Mushriff to call me on my mobile 9028225763. He had inquired through Mazin Khan regarding Purohit's source of RDX. I had furnished the details. Today's Saamna carries details of the same where the defense lawyer of Purohit says that his client had fought the separatists in Kashmir and got RDX from them!!!

yours

The Milli Gazette | Editor 17/09/2015

Dear Mustafa Khan saheb, Thank you. I have forwarded this to Mr Mazin and he ...

to me

I have forwarded your message to Mushrif Saheb.

Thanks

to sm mushrif

I would love to hear your take in the following extract:

There are many ramifications of what Purohit remarked when he admitted his role in Malegaon blast 2008: "I am the mastermind of the blast. I arranged for the RDX and weapons but I can't understand how the weapons reached Abhinav Bharat members."[5]

One, that Purohit was associated with Abhinav Bharat so if he did not know how the RDX was transferred does he mean that the RDX and weapons supplied by him caused the 2008 attack in Malegaon as well as the same consignment of explosives and arms were used by the ATS to frame innocent Muslims in the Arms haul case of Aurangabad-Malegaon-Ankai 2006? If that were true then it would mean that that was also the provenance for 7/11 attack on local trains in Mumbai. The inference is clear that all these sundry cases were dubious terrorist attacks engineered by Hindutva and their sympathizers in police and army but blamed on Muslims. The minority had to bear the cross for years on end. They were the handiwork of Hindutva! Further to note here is that source of RDX is only one way, the army. It is not easy to get it within India. Who else could do it so well than Purohit? If Zabiuddin and others transferred RDX the consignment was certainly not from Pakistan but from army source.

[5] I was Malegaon mastermind, admits Lt-Col

7 Nov 2008, TNN

28/9/2015

to me

Mr Mustafa Khan

As regards the points raised by you, my remarks are as follows :

Your presumptions in respect of Purohit, RDX and bomb blasts (wrongly blamed on Muslims) are correct. These facts had come to light as far back as 2008 itself. I have dealt with these aspects in my two books. You are requested to read chapter number V , chapter number VIII and page nos. 63 to 77 (concerning Mumbai train blasts case) of chapter no III of "Who Killed Karkare? " in that order and Annexure I ( The transcript of Abhinav Bharat's meeting taken place in Jan 2008) of "26/11 probe : Why Judiciary Also Failed?" especially it's part F. While reading page numbers 175 onwards of "Who killed Karkare? " Please, focus on points number 9 to 11, 13, 14, 17 to 21, 23, 25 to 31 as they deal with the arrest and interrogation of and recovery from Lt. Col. Purohit.

If you do not have the books, please request Mr Mazin Khan to mail the relevant chapters to you.

With warm regards

Yours sincerely,

S M Mushrif

Captain Nitin Joshi of the army had testified before the ATS that he had seen the stolen 60 kilos of RDX in Purohit’s house in Pune. It showed then the independence of human spirit of his six years ago. He was a man of probity. After having turned hostile he is now saying that he was forced to give false witness. Is this the morale of the Indian army? Bhagat Singh and Ashfaqullah Khan were forthright honest and went to gallows with India on their lips and fear of God in their hearts. Time is up for India to search its soul if her sons are worthy of worshipping her? Kanhaiya Kumar has stirred the deep waters of the soul of India.

When Kanhaiya compares army with farmers there is a point in it. Farmers caught in existential anguish under the pitiless sky with the parched and burning baked clay of their farms under their feet do not hatch conspiracy as did Purohit. He is the inveterate enemy not only of minorities like Muslims but also the downtrodden and indeed even the Constitution of India.

Checkered education: matriculation from Abhinav Vidyalay, Pune, BCom from Barhan Maharashtra College, Pune, post graduation in catering, Pune and then finally Combined Defense Services course, Pune. As much a product of Pune as was Nathuram Godse. Most significant posting in army is Jammu and Kashmir 2000 to 2005 and February to September 2005 Deolali camp. The first gave him the provenance of RDX and the other recruiting grounds for his Abhinav Bharat. Simultaneously he was training youths of Abhinav Bharat in arms and explosives at Sinhgarh near Pune during such training he would stay at his residence at Shantisheela housing society near Law college road, Pune. A day after his arrest the defence minister of India Mr Antony remarked that the army would go to the root of the September 29, 2008 bomb blast in Malegaon.

However, there is no sign of this having been achieved except after one and half years of inquiry the army says its stock of RDX is intact! What the 60 kilos of RDX Purohit stole from the army is the Holy Grail which the sleuths and journalists are after. Either Praveen Togadia or Dyanand Pandey used their high profile to make Purohit the repository of the stolen RDX. Ominous to note is also the fact that a senior-ranked military officer knew before- hand what Purohit was doing it and as in the case of the RDX the army has failed to identify him! More ominous to note is that how much had Purohit taken from the military’s Secret Service Fund. He is known to have 14 lakh rupees according to the earliest report of cash changing hands in the 2008 Malegaon blasts.[4] The search for the holy grail ends at the precinct of the forbidden territory of the army. On these three accounts the people of this wonderful democracy will have to wait as even the writ of RTI does not run there.

In the larger context of terrorism in India it is relevant to note that Purohit was in touch with Dyanand Pandey as the latter was in contact with Bhupender Singh and Rajive Sharma. Both were -members of Bajrang Dal who had blown themselves up on August 24, 2008. Such was the terrific explosion that a senior most officer in the police there remarked that there was so much of RDX that it would have blown half of Kanpur to smithereens! Quite true in view of the fact that in addition to 60 kilos of RDX from the army Purohit must have also sourced the explosives with Shanker Shelke in a village not far from Pune and much closer to the artillery cantonment of Ahmadnager who had 195 kilos of it when he committed suicide soon after 2006 Malegaon blasts. The police commissioner of Thane who knew Ahmednager had said that the Malegaon blasts were connected to the arms of haul from Shelke’s scrap-yard. First Shelke disappeared after the blasts and two days later hanged himself. A pertinent question to ask all the while is that Purohit also helped others to get arms with bogus documents. Those who die while handling explosives like the ones from Nanded and Kanpur die accidentally and those who pose threat meet other ends. Another person who reportedly killed himself is Pervez Azhar of Malegaon who reportedly had seen the bomb planter! Were these killed and passed off as suicides? Again, the trail of Holy Grail ends there.

So, it also does with two pathologies. One is on Mamledargalli attached to the clinic of Dr Bipin Parekh, a child specialist, whose phone number was found in the cell phone of Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur. Abrar Ahmed has also named Parekh in his affidavit submitted to the MOCOCA judge YD Shinde as one of the conspirators behind the blasts of 2006. The police took no action against Parekh. In fact, gave him clean chit. Grapevine has it that the Sadhvi had stayed at his clinic and visited the adjoining Bhiku chowk as a part of reconnaissance. This allegation needs thorough probe and the courts will have to vet the evidence. The other pathology laboratory has a basement located at camp road from where live RDX bombs, used and unused along with guns were seized in April 2008 as reported by Milligazette. What happened to that? Was the gun the one which Rakesh Dhawde and Purohit had procured? For what purpose were they obtained when the bombs themselves were so disastrous in effect?

This is also a perennial mystery. The recce made by accused Muslims are made banner headlines! When the police fail to substantiate the innocents are set free, look at Ansari Faheem. How many of us hear that in the case of 2006 Malegaon blasts a whole group had come to do recce on the pretext of searching a girl for marriage around the neighborhood of the sites of bomb blasts. In 2008 there was much better planning, the Sadhvi could not have just come to only attend a sermon of a Hindu priest as the police would pretend to believe! The meticulous planning at Bhonsla military school, Nasik, Bhopal, Indore and Faridabad must have been quite meticulous.

Despite Dyanand Pandey being a very high- profile person it is strange that the national convener of Bajrang Dal denies so categorically: “I am not even aware of this person. I don't know who he is. He is not a member of Bajrang Dal," said Prakash Sharma.[5] Pandey and Purohit had spilled the beans even before first degree of torture; Sharma has not been even touched with a finger. Neither then, nor till now has he been interrogated although he is the national convener of the most terrifying extremist Hindu organization, BD. To what do we Indian masses owe such benevolence at gratis?

Purohit has also been engaged in camouflaging the reign of terror he and his associates had unleashed on Muslims. He got the name of Venkatesh Takalki changed to Praveen Mutalik to avoid detection. He had asked Takalki to surf the net on bomb making. Purohit used different groups of RSS such as the Tigers in Karnataka. [6]

Given this background he is the arcane figure realized in the 21 century Indian army! Even more secretive anachronism as well as terror conundrum is RSS. Its guide teachers or pracharaks of which Modi is also one, it is a declared terrorist organization by terrorism center in the US even so it receives funds from the government of India for the network of schools, colleges, and welfare institutions of which Bhonsla Military Schools of Nasik and Nagpur are examples. Its mode of denying and then also hinting at its members’ involvement is bizarre! Such canny is the RSS that its chief Mohan Bhagwat partly lifted the shroud of mystery at Surat (Gujarat) on January 10, 2011 when he referred "of the majority of the people whom the government has accused (in various blast cases), a few had left voluntarily and a few were told by the Sangh that this extremism will not work here so you go away."[7]

It is beyond doubt that Purohit was a part of RSS and yet he had thought of killing Mohan Bhagwat with a white powder that would not leave any trace.

"The key accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit, had organised a training camp under the guise of an ‘Art of Living’ event, the charge sheet filed by the National Investigation Agency said. The NIA has recorded the statement of the owner of a hotel in Panchmarhi in this regard. The owner, who was a prosecution witness, said that in September 2005, Purohit met him in the hotel and asked him to arrange a camp for 40-50 people related to ‘Art of Living’ (AoL) at Panchmarhi. "[8] As the saying goes a man is known by the company he keeps, Purohit’s association with Sri Sri, Vanzara’s with Bapu Asaram, Swami’s Asimanand’s with Guru Ramdev, Pragyasingh’s with Rajnath Singh and Sunil Joshi reveals how intricate are the relationship in terrorism. They do not think that their activities are criminal and also anti India in essence as far as the Constitution goes. "Sadhvi Pragya got clean chit from NIA, now it's time, CBI should seek clean chit for Gujarat Police Officers who were framed maliciously (sic)," Vanzara tweeted. "Great Saints like Morari Bapu, Pramukh Swami & Sri Sri R shud take legal & public stand against fabricated cases #Satyagrah4BapujiRelease (sic)," he tweeted [9]

“The conversation recorded at 11.23 am on October 23, 2008 when Pragyasingh Thakur was arrested is not considered sufficient indictment of the Sadhavi according to the charge sheet of NIA submitted on May 13, 2016:

Lt Col Prasad Purohti : Sir have you read today’s headlines in Times of India and Indian Express?

Retd Major General Ramesh Upadhyay: I have read about Hindu Jagran Manch of Indore being blamed for Mudasa and Malegaon blasts. ATS cited phone call, meeting & a bike,

Prasad: i.e., Singh Sahab.

Upadhyay: Ok.

Prasad: That means the cat is out of the bag now as far as Mr Singh is concerned.

Upadhyay: So, it appears to be a diversionary tactic(s), let somebody else come to know…he says some parts have been cannibalised and the parts from where it has been cannibalised belongs to somebody who was from ABVP of Indore or something like that.

Prasad: Achcha (Ok)

Upadhyay: …it simply means that supposing somebody steals/has stolen my scooter or somebody has, when I gave it to repair and somebody cannibalised the part, how do I know?

Prasad: OK

Upadhyay: Means direct involvement is not there… or otherwise they would have said that this belong[sic] to such and such person of such and such origin at Indore and he is a member of Hindu Jagran Manch and then we have arrested him or that done something. No such thing has taken place. They have said we have rounded up about 30 people and this is the handiwork of Hindu Jagran Manch.

This conversation in the context of a grave crime shows how there is a tussle between two cultures or clash within India and not between two civilizations one represented by India and the other by Pakistan. On the one side is cultural nationalism and on the other the new police culture that Ribeiro speaks of about Karkare.

The rebirth of learning or knowledge at JNU is corroborated by the new flurry in the judiciary over the same schism. As G Mohan Gopal former Director of the National Law School of India University, Bangalore put it:

“The role of any judiciary is derived from the vision of the nation of which it is a part. India is caught between two conflicting visions of the nation—a progressive constitutional vision and a conservative social vision—each with its own view of the role of the judiciary and the number and types of judges needed. The conservative social vision of India is of a strong nation that derives its strength from the ruling classes. India is envisioned as a nation united by a common set of beliefs and values emanating from and authorized by the ruling classes and imposed on the masses. In this view, a strong India equals a strong ruling class (the “iron frame” or “authoritarian” vision). This vision is, in essence, an attempt to update and revive the feudal idea of India.

“The opposing view, the progressive constitutional vision, is of a strong nation that derives its strength from the masses. This vision envisages breaking down the concentration of power and devolving and scattering power amongst the poorest and the weakest. In this vision, the unity of the people and the strength of the nation rest on a shared belief in equality, individual freedom and democracy. In this democratic vision of India, a strong India equals a strong citizenry (the “individual swaraj” or “democratic” vision).

“In the iron frame vision of India, the role of the justice system would be in line with a classical definition of the judicial responsibilities of a raja: to punish “evil” people (i.e., people who question the ruling classes); honour “good” people (i.e., people who support the ruling classes); grow the revenue; and defend the nation—“dushta danda; sajana pooja; kosha vridhi; and rajya raksha”. The judicial system would secure and uphold the power, property and privileges of the state and of the ruling classes. There is little scope in the iron frame vision of India for a rights-based adversarial justice system that is meant to empower the average citizen by giving her the tools to interrogate the powerful.

“The iron frame vision would see the judicial system as primarily an instrument for the state and the ruling classes to use against errant citizens and institutions that question or challenge the orthodoxy on which the nation is built. It is not meant to be used by citizens to question the ruling classes or the state.”

Into this you can read the meaning of dharma as understood by PM Vajpayee and CM Narendra Modi whom he chided in 2002.[10] And more, you can also anticipate and be afraid of how judges take 2 minutes to hear the case and 5 to decide. So, what would be the plight of the litigants: “Oh, poor litigant, people languishing in jails! In the name of development and progress, I beseech you,” he looked at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, “to rise to the occasion and realise that it’s not enough to c-r-i-t-i-c-i-s-e.” that was the Chief Justice of India, Tirath Singh Thakur, inside Delhi’s Vigyan Bhavan on April 25, 2016 with tears in eyes.

It is in the reaction that the victims of injustice who are oppressed and suppressed see their perpetrators. Those who have been at the receiving end have the source of their anguish and suffering of ages and generations in the ‘systems’ that have been ‘set’ for them. The premeditated framing of innocent Muslims in bogus terror charges and the Dalits denied dignity and freedom to live their own life as they would like. The renaissance and renascence that we are witnessing today in 2016 is the churning up of new learning in modern matrix.

The flurry of justice is on account of rulings of courts in cases which had roots into long standing disputes. If women become independent minded it would be a challenge to the systems placed in society over centuries. Treatment of daughters in law is unspeakably horrifying. The day the SC ruled in favour of treating daughters in law decently, BJP leader Arun Jaitley again came down heavily on the judiciary reminding it not to cross the lakshumi rekha! The last vernacular phrase has more connotation as Kanhaiya Kumar would put it than mere bounds. It has the aura of cultural nationalism that cannot brook internal freedom of any sort.

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[1] http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/karkare-s-response-to-a-death-threat-a-smiley/391325/

[2] http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/malegaon-blasts-2008-burying-hemnat-karkare-2805887/#sthash.qKHFzNMa.dpuf

[3] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/I-was-Malegaon-mastermind-admits-Lt-Col/articleshow/3683035.cms

[4] Arrested Lieutenant Colonel revealed name of high-profile leader, TOI November 12, 2008.

[5] Malegaon blasts: the ATS arrests UP religious leader, Toi, November 12, 2008

[6] CBI to quiz Aseemanand for Malegaon. Toi. 15-3-11

[7] http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/no-place-for-radicals-in-rss-says-bhagwat/735924/

[8] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/purohit-organised-camp-under-guise-of-aol-event/article8597136.ece

[9] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Like-Pragya-states-encounter-cops-must-get-clean-chit-Vanzara/articleshow/52263497.cms

[10] Justice and the Two Ideas of India. Frontline May 27, 2016.

Determinism of RSS

Mustafa Khan

It is the belief of the Rashtrya Swayamsevak Sangh that all actions and events or situations result from other actions and situation so that people cannot choose what to do by themselves. It was a philosophy that George Eliot treated in Middlemarch.

Dorothea meets Will as a result of marrying Casaubon. Her cousin is Ladislaw. The novel of George Eliot may be fiction but RSS chiefs were mostly bachelors, even intellectual guides like PM Narendra Modi. After Golwalker Mohan Bhagwat is most deterministic in the pantheon. He stays with the Pophale family of which owner Bapu Pophale of Aroma theatre was the chief of VHP. He was an infant in 1921 when the Pophale temple was burnt after a cruel police inspector Bhaskaer Patil was lynched by the citizens when they surrounded the temple where he had sought refuge. As he came out of the temple disguised as a woman the people were outraged and fatally attacked him. The temple was next to the house and when the fire spread the mother of the future VHP chief asked an Afghan pathan watch man to take out the sleeping child from the cradle and bring to her where the family had shifted in Mohanpir galli. He saved the child and was sent back to bring the family parrot. The fire had killed it. Years later the family contributed monetary help to (now a watchman at Kakani school inside the fort) the pathan for pilgrimage to Mecca circa 1980s. around that time there was a riot in which a rickshaw driver named Shakeel was caught and dragged to the outer wall of the temple and brutally killed. This was a revenge killing for the burning of the temple. This was how the extremists had redeemed their honor.

Malegaon was subjected to two bomb attacks in September 8, 2006 and September 29 2008. After blowing four bombs in the graveyard mosque and an adjoining public square in September 2006 the Sangh wrote back a reminder.

We are enclosing here with our deeds”

Sangh

The above threatening letter was sent to Jamaitul ulema-e-Hind and a local newspaper Dinkar on the day of the attack September 8, 2006 in Malegaon. The next attack was scheduled for September 13 at Mohammadiya mosque and madrasa. The bomb was discovered in time and defused. Therefore, there is no change in the ideology of RSS and will never be. Even the PM Manmohan Singh could not stop attacks (on Muslims) in Malegaon though he had warned of impending attacks on Muslims just a week or two before when he addressed the chief ministers and governors in 2006 and 2008. Thus, the world must take note as to whither is India bound as many in India are cussedly indifferent to what is transpiring so that better counsel can prevail.

After Guru Golwalkar it is Mohan Bhagwat who is the most contentious kind of chief that the RSS has. Towards the end of November 2021, he has mercurially changed or like the chameleon he is changing his colour. First, he went after the tukde tukde gang which was the Muslim majority vendors of biryani in Delhi. They were targeted for their food habits and sale. When the farmers strike prolonged at the entry point of Delhi and Panjab and the apprehension grew that it would lead to Khalistan, Bhagwat made change of colour like the chameleon. Now he expressed the phobia that the RSS will take on the mission of akhand Bharat. It would in turn make India aggressive against Pakistan-Bangladesh-POK and swallow these three separate independent territories as one under Indian government. This aggressive movement ironically comes in the wake of disturbing Chinese government’s “scientific transfer unit” updating to the hilt so that instead of China it will enable Pakistan in other words the armed state to take on India in next confrontation between China and India, ala India buying its first air base in Tajikistan.

Chapter

Are we on the way to Muslim holocaust?

According to Mustafa Khan, The black hole of Naroda Patia in 2002 saw several hundred Muslims when they were herded into it and had petrol stolen from a nearby state transport bus garage poured from above. This was the holocaust. There are other instances of it in the transcripts made by ATS under Hemant Karkare

ByMustafa HYPERLINK "https://www.globalvillagespace.com/author/mustafakhan/" Khan

2 December 2021

Much before Karan Thapar raised the question of whether there will be a Muslim holocaust in India there was underway such planning keeping in mind what was also tried by making experiments with the Valmakis. Mahua Moitra MP from West Bengal speaks about the kala bhoot, black monster, which is faceless and nameless fear, was it not there on the kristallnacht in Germany of November 10-11 1938 and the three days Modi had let the Hindus vent their anger in February-March 2002?

If in another round we have a much-extended visitation of the same! There are examples in galore. The black hole of Naroda Patia in 2002 saw several hundred Muslims when they were herded into it and had petrol stolen from nearby state transport bus garage poured from above. This was holocaust. There are other instances of it in the transcripts made by ATS under Hemant Karkare in which members of Parliament LB Sharma, Dr RP Singh, LetCol Purohit, the man from the banks of Ganga maidan talk about how they executed mass slaughter of Muslims: “These two areas, MP and the Ganges planes on both the sides of the river are very sensitive.

Read more: Hemant Karkare: Tribute to a hero

The Muslims opened fire on the Superintendent of Police

The unidentified man gives the example that once a whole wagon full of police from Gujarat came to arrest someone. This gave the excuse to the Hindutva groups to crack down upon the Muslims and visit upon them like a calamity. In ordinary parlance, the extremist Hindus turned into a riot and made the Muslims suffer heavy losses in life and property. Once upon a time the people in Gudenwar also opened fire when Uma Bharti was on a visit there. In the resultant communal riot a boy lost his life. Uske badle men samuhik nar sanhar musalmano ka ham ney kiye thay[in retaliation we butchered Muslims on a large scale].

“As a result of (Muslim firing and killing a boy) we had created a riot causing mass casualties (of Muslims).” “We killed hundreds of Muslims.” Dr RP Singh names this belt as Azamgarh and Western UP. Purohit says that there are two different panels working in UP engaged in creating fear and riots or terror. These groups work in such a way that they do not show that they are known to each other. This is the same strategy that the planters of bombs in Malegaon Ramchandera Kalsnagrah and Sandip Dange used. They crisscrossed the roads around the graveyard, Mushawarat chowk, and Bhiku chowk while surveying the spots but acting as strangers to each other. That is how the hardcore Hindutva activists prepared for mass atrocities.”

Read more: How the RSS transformed India?

The transcripts also reveal the strategy of causing the holocaust: “Creating fear psychosis in the Muslims in an audiotape BL Sharma remarked that the people went to Islam out of fear and therefore they would return to Hinduism if fear is created in them. Bhay sey gaye they, bhaiy sey hi aajayenge. Hence, creating fear among the Muslims is necessary. Purohit says bhaay bina shakti nahin hai is desh meyn. “Without producing fear you cannot have power in this country.” Such is the efficacy of the nameless faceless bhoot. Surely it is terrorism in current terminology that can generate fear. There are two dimensions of fear, fear for the other which makes life insecure.

The second is generating fear and awe to gain control over the people to rule them. Dr RP Singh recommends a guerilla organization. Purohit gives it a name, Phantom organization. All this create fear. This was already in existence in 2001 during the Ijtema in Bhopal. According to the Hindustan Times, the huge gathering was 50 lakh strong. Sunil Joshi and his group had planted bombs at the railway station which did not go off. Purohit reasons it this way. According to him, there are four groups: Hindus, Christians, Muslims and Communists. Only when they feel threatened they will not be united. Jis din ham musalmano ko unite kar payenge is desh men yeh subs se badi vijay hai hamari. “Our greatest victory in the world will be when we force [frighten] the Muslim to unite.”

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Yogi Adityanand’s offer of body, mind, wealth and guns smacks seditious

As of now PM Modi has developed Eastern UP and can proudly claim credit for it in view of the election in UP a couple of months in early 2022. Then he turns to Western UP and develop it for the same election. Therefore like, Alladin, he rubs the magic lamp and lo! The biggest international air port in Noida comes up. His choice of Yogi is more to do who will succeed him in Delhi. Yogi claims that the western UP is famous for sugarcane and therefore the local people are sweet by nature who contrast with the poison that Jinnah had spewed and got away with Partition. However, the acts are from this claim. Zoom in on this.

On September 28 2015 seven members of a BJP leader Sanjay Rana’s family of the nine accused in the murder of Mohammad Akhlak had taken initiative in the attack on the house of the hapless. In response to police investigation the controversial Member of Parliament from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath offered mind, wealth and guns to the Hindus whom the police have detained. This is unambiguously seditious. He had formed the Hindu Yuva Vahini whose member Jitendra Tyagai said:"We will go and meet Hindus who are being harassed by authorities. We will provide them all possible help, be it tan-man-dhan-gun (body, mind, wealth and guns), if they areare harassed."

The burly youth’s look back in anger at the police at the police at the gate of Bisada, Dadri is not only insolent but seditious true to the mandate of Hindu Yuva Vahini of the Yogi of Gorakhpur

This can create such a grave situation as seen in the following scene from Muzaffarnagar when similar groups of Narendra Modi Sena had obstructed the police from arresting criminals involved in killing Muslims.

Or the following scene when the Meerut district magistrate was injured on July 4, 2014 when the Jat Hindus wanted to hold mahapanchyat and he was doing his official duty. The first scene shows how the cortege is in procession when the police wanted to arrest the alleged killer of Muslims

There are more youths who are wanted in the killing of Akhlak. His daughter Shaista was reeling with shock when ngihbours known to her and her family were in the assault on her house. When her mother was molested her mother too was shocked and ran down the stairs in such a berserk that she could not breathe. Her husband had gone to the remotest part of the room upstairs to escape from the bloody attackers who had yanked off the head of the sewing machine from the frame and were going to take him out. This was if needed to define, sheer terror. Tyagi’s logic is topsy-turvy as he gives the example of a Hindu who committed suicide a day before: "The one who slaughters cows are being compensated. Did they earn this money on their own? Why only Muslims are getting help? Why Jay Prakash has not been given any help?" [1]

The offers of arms are for the Hindus of Dadri’s Bisada village of greater Noida outside Delhi. It is another feature of sedition that the locals of Dadri have mounted a siege of the village like Muzaffarnagar and were monitoring all the entry and exit points of the village and not allowing outsiders or unwanted. The Yogi of Gorakhpur has been host to Sunil Joshi, Riteshwar Bharat bhai and members of the Nepalese royal family who had negotiation with extremists of Abhinav Bharat in training commandos and other acts against the constitution of India.

What has the government learnt from Muzaffarnagar to prevent Sangeet Som from repeating it in Dadri.

The unruly scenes above and the nudging of judges who are pliant as during Modi’s rule in Gujarat and now in Delhi makes a grim reading of the unfolding scenario as Julio Ribeiro puts it: “[Jyoti]Salian’s lament on being asked to go soft on Hindu extremists accused of terrorist acts frightens us to believe that the country is steadily being led on to the path trodden by our surly neighbour on our western border. The masterminds of the 26/11 attacks are treated like heroes in Pakistan.

“We are not there yet, but if hidden hands nudge the judicial system to free murderers of the saffron variety, we will be soon.”

Today we don’t even think of what Som and the Yogi are doing is terrorism. But if another video surfaces that could prove them to be what they are we would be shocked as many were shocked when Hemant Karkare came upon the Abhinav Bharat. We [all Indians and not necessarily any one group] are made to believe they are culturally Hindus and holy men and therefore they are in fallible. “But, the ATS had suddenly, unexpectedly and, I must add, fortuitously come across incontrovertible evidence, which included taped conversations, to prove that the Malegaon blasts, as well as the Ajmer, Hyderabad and Samjhauta Express blasts that killed nearly a hundred people, were conceived, planned and executed by a group of fanatical Hindus bent on revenge.”[2]

The Hindu right has quietly and overconfidently under Modi and Bal Thackeray come to appropriate right to revenge as their birth right and this is not terrorism. In fact world over revenge is a leitmotif of all kinds of terrorism unless it is too personal. The murder of Sunil Joshi was no doubt on a persona pretext that he did something to Lady Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur that no gentleman should even say in the presence of ladies. But she was involved in the murder because she removed the gun and other clues from the house of Joshi on the night of murder itself. Indresh Kumar feared him for Joshi would have revealed the secrets of the conspiracy behind many terror attacks. What the Yogis and Soms are doing is “making our great country in the image of our neighbor.”[2]

It is significant to note how people like Som and the Yogi can get away with the law of the land by devious means. What happened in Muzaffarnagar and later in Dadri can be compared with what Hemant Karkare came upon in his investigation. “There are conversations, kept in the laptop of Shankaracharya (Sudhakar Dwivedi). He used to record the conversation in secret meetings on his laptop, sometimes visuals too. I [Salian] asked Karkare, why is he recording? He is a plant. He wants to show it to someone, a conspiracy hatched in the dark. From those conversations we got to know the actual story, they wanted a central Hindu rashtra, they don’t recognise the Constitution of India, had their own constitution written, their own flag — even their Bharat Mata was an armed one.

“When did you get the feeling that you are being asked to go slow?

“Last year I got a call from one of the officers of the NIA, asking to come over to speak to me. He didn’t want to talk over the phone. He came and said there is a message that I should go soft. I told him I will always support the cause of justice. Then, when we got our date for the MCOCA hearing. A day before our day when Mr Mariar Puttam, a senior counsel, was to appear for us, an additional general from the state of Maharashtra came and said, “You cannot appear for us.” He started nudging Mariar.

“Then another additional general for the state, Anil Singh, came and said he will appear for the state and Mariar cannot. Both started to nudge Mariar — in the open court, both were nudging him. I am sitting behind him. I told Mariar not to appear. It was so insulting. Mariar finally got up and said to the judge, “Your lordship may decide. This is my instruction. I may be allowed to go out.” The judge said you have been here for many months we would like to hear you. He was heard, our affidavit taken. But the way NIA and the state of Maharashtra nudged him showed something very fishy. If they were treating a senior counsel like that, I knew then something was seriously wrong. Ultimately the order came, the judgment given. It was horrible; after the order came no one called me. NIA hasn’t called me till today to discuss. They were so unhappy because MCOCA was retained.”[3] So the descent to the law of the jungle is the same in Muzaffarnagar [2013], Malegaon [2008] and what is happening in Dadri 2015. India is emulating Pakistan. And people like Nawab Singh Nagar, Srichand Sharma, Sangeet Som, Tarun Vijay, Mahesh Sharma and Sanjeev Baliyan would have their field work done with impunity.

President Barak Obama could reach out to Mohammad Ahmad the boy who had a clock and was harassed by the immigration department and soothe the ruffled boy. The niece of former boss of ATS in Maharashtra KP Raghuvanshi in Muzaffarnagar could reach out to her uncle to delay deployment of army so that they could do a wholesome killing of Muslims!

The PM of India doesn’t budge.

He never did before.

He will never do anytime in the future.

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[1] Indian Express October 7, 2015.

[2] http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/why-we-must-listen-to-salian/99/

[3]http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/the-meaning-very-clearly-was-dont-get-us-favourable-orders/

In his book '10 Flashpoints: 20 years - National Security Situations', Tewari has written, "For a state that has no compunctions in brutally slaughtering hundreds of innocent people, restraint is not a sign of strength; it is perceived as a symbol of weakness. There comes a time when actions must speak louder than words. 26/11 was one such time when it just should have been done. It, therefore, is my considered opinion India should have actioned a kinetic response in the days following India's 9/11."

Tewari clarified that he did not target the then UPA government in his book. "This book neither slams UPA nor is it a criticism of the BJP-led NDA government. The purpose of writing the book was to highlight the circumstances and security challenges faced by India, how the issues were tackled. I did not write the book keeping anyone in mind," he said.

Further, he added, "For almost 8 years, Pakistan had ramped up its proxy war against India. After 26/11 attacks in Mumbai that killed several innocents, I believed kinetic action was required. When India adopts strategic restraint, Pakistan sees that as a weakness."

Persistent role of Hinduva in terror has failed India and humiliated it in the eyes of the world

Mustafa Khan

Meltdown of India that Modi built

Don’t make the mistake of becoming a martyr in this country

Such will be the sophistries after your death,

The prime investigating committees will blame you after your death

No country subjects their martyrs to an alcoholic test as ours did.

The price that her husband had paid was what Gustav Flaubert had called “ ‘L’homme c’est rien—l’oeuvre c’est tout.’ Man is nothing, the work is everything.” The Bihar government has given ticket to retired army Major Ramesh Upadhay. This is the meltdown effect that is a nightmare because even the fig leaf of democracy and law and order is at risk. No detective of India was like Karkare and he was fit like Sherlock Homes whose “lust of the chase would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals.” Our detectives are captive to the Hidutva ideology and obtuse enough not to even know what intuition is and so are the courts.

We are enclosing here with our deeds”

Sangh”

In this no other than a serving lieutenant colonel of the Indian Army was the mastermind by his own confession, Lieu Col Prasad Srikant Purohit. The letter makes no bone of contention the gravamen of the extreme right wing ideology. It includes a warning to the all India learned body of the Muslim minority, Jamiatul ulema-e-Hind which is also fighting with whatever little money it can spare against the bogus and premeditated arrested of Muslims in terror attack.

India squeaking : past and now

The cases that pile up crying for justice point an accusing finger not just at Modi but also the police and courts: how could a two page letter as suicide note in a plastic bag reached into Asghar Mansoorie’s stomach when his niece found him so optimistic and jovial she observed on her phone till October 7 2020. He had completed 14 years of imprisonment and was given responsible duty of warden and then suddenly he was sent to solitary cell. (3)

Pakistan has always been risk accepted. There has never been a risk averse Pakistan, whether you are looking at incredibly outrageous terror attacks against India, or support of the Taliban 1990s and all that brought about or the fact that the country harbors virtual padding zoos of terrorists to cause regional instability.

The anchor responded, “Christine as we do not have a Pakistani diplomat official to speak with us for they firmly deny that they have created the Taliban and they are the ones who pull their strings or are behind them”

Read more: Unmasking India’s policies on Afghanistan

World appreciates Pakistan’s stance on Afghanistan

In a rare act of integrity, BBC news clearly defended Pakistan’s stance on Afghanistan by refuting Christine Fair’s allegations. Also, multiple statements by US State department, Russian officials, United Nation Chief, and many others, in fact the world is now appreciating Pakistan’s Afghanistan policy.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has reiterated multiple times that “we are partners in peace but not in conflict” which explicate that Pakistan remains adamant on an “inclusive” political settlement in Kabul which is beneficial for both countries and regional stability.

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Confrontation with Islam and India

Mustafa Khan

On December 16, 2021the Hindutva party BJP spokesperson Sanju Verma was agitated with past events of which Saudi government’s false accusation that the Tablighi Jamat is a proselytizing missionary body which is engaged in the juggernaut of converting Hindus to Islam. And that is also behind terrorism! At the gate of terrorism! Nothing can be far from truth. No reformation than what that body has achieved in the field of religion and society can match is shining service to humanity. It is entirely taken up with awakening Muslims to their true way of living as Muslims and their obligations to live according to the way shown by Prophet Mohammad. It is voluntary work they do because those who travel to different and even distant places spend their money and time from their daily life for learning Islam and not converting non-Muslims to Islam. Their time is consumed in understanding of the diverse meanings of each and every issue of Islam and no other religion. They shun from criticizing any other religion including Christianity, Judaism or Hinduism. Despite this illustrious voluntary work Sanju Verma was carried away by terror instances ascribing to Indian Muslims which have no basis in fact. All the instances of 2001 were the handywork of others and not of Muslims.

The mammoth ijtema of Bhopal 2001 was organized by Muslims of India and not by any Saudi Muslim or Arab Muslim.

In his visit to Italy in 1931 to meet Mussolini, Dr Balkrishna Shivaram Moonje’s sole objective was to ascertain how to cause mass casualties. Towards this aim he established the Central Hindu Education Society in Nasik in 1935. This led to the foundation of the Bhonsla Military School there and another at Nagpur town which has the headquarters of the Hindu extremist group Rashtrya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). Moonje was one of the founders of RSS.

It was in these “military” schools that Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit imparted training to around 5000 activists of Abhinav Bharat who were also members of the RSS. The training was in line with the mass casualties that they wanted to commit in the name of exclusionary cultural nationalism of their hate ideology.

These groups wanted to cause enormous casualties as in the case of Malegaon 2006 and Malegaon 2008 terror attacks, Samjhauta Express attack of 2007 and the plan to attack the Ijtema or congregation of Muslims in 2001 in Bhopal. Each of these and many others has the same script.

In contrast Maulana Ilyas started Tablighi Jamat in 1927 from Haryana state.

Sanju Verma’s accusation that Muslims carried out the Glasgow airport attack in 2007 was not true.

Even the Australian have taken to the politics of fear. Dr Haneef was ordered by the court to be freed but then the police kept him under detention because of the stringent law against terrorism that the Prime Minister John Howard had himself drafted and got passed. “Haneef was rearrested and was to be taken to Brisbane. As if that was not enough the government also asked the people to prepare a survival kit and start practice for simulated massive terrorist attack on the city of Sydney. Many people blame the Prime Minister for the upcoming election. Thus, terrorism has come as a subterfuge to carry on political maneuver.

Creating a climate of fear psychosis pays rich dividends. In August of 2001the Australian immigration officers had seized a Norwegian vessel which had rescued from a leaking boat more than 400 asylum seekers. When the matter was still being investigated happened the 9/11 attack on the twin towers of World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. The Australian Prime Minister John Howard used the charged situation of global terror to fight his election, and he won it. He wanted to repeat the same when Haneef was arrested. But then something went wrong. Australia is unlike India, the human rights activists for protecting the rights of the immigrant people and other civil rights fighters got together and marshalled their resources and legal acumen to fight injustice regarding the arrest. They made it clear that they wanted to be fair to the victim and would not allow religion or race to obstruct them. This sent out a clear signal that real facts would count and not prejudicial opinions.

The investigation transcript of the Australian Federal Police was easily available unlike India where Right to Information does not have any impact on the police. Haneef was arrested at the Brisbane International Airport on July 2, 2007. During interrogation Haneef had told the federal police that he is a Muslim with moderate views. He had not taken any part in jihad or anything that could be considered similar to jihad.” “Every drop of blood is human. And I feel for every human being.” The newspaper Australian quotes (from the 143-page transcript) Haneef saying that he” took a loan of 200-300 pounds in June 2004 from Glasgow bombing suspect Kafeel Ahmad, for a medical qualifying exam.” “When I asked him when to pay him back, he said “Just give it to any of the poor in India.” “I am clear from any of the things (attributed to me). I haven’t done any of the crimes. And I don’t want to spoil the name and my profession.” The second crucial question that comes up for any consideration is his sudden decision to leave Australia on one way ticket. On July 2 he had a talk with his father- in law in which he had mentioned the arrest of Sabeel whom he had given his SIM card. His father- in law naturally asked him. Why are you worried about that?” The transcript continues. “So, I (Haneef) just said Keep calm if we have not done anything, just not to worry.” Haneef had a newly born baby, his first born and wanted to be at home.

In all this the role of the elected and non- elected politicians is most damning, as it happens in India. Too. Haneef was cleared of the charge of involvement in the Glasgow and London terror incident but was detained for emigration law. The immigration minister Kevin Andrews decided to revoke the visa of the Indian doctor without waiting for full investigation. The Australian Lawyers Association ALA has asked the minister to review his decision. In India we have Raj Thackeray and others who would usually threaten any defense lawyer of dire consequences if he tries to take case involving terror. People can easily recall how the office of Ram Jethmalani was vandalized. To the lunatic fringe losing sleep over the suffering of parents of terrorist Kafeel and parents or wife of Haneef amounts to the same. The Australian Lawyers Association reposed faith in the defese- lawyer Stephen Keim. It also justified Keim making public federal police investigation transcript. Such a prompt action produced two good results which every democracy should have. One, the people come to know what exactly transpires during interrogation. Two, the innocence of the arrested person when credibly beyond doubt is established; more than half the battle is won. This restrengthens the democratic right of every individual. Comparison, howsoever being odious does not preclude the case of Khwaja Yunus from coming to mind. People under detention are innocent until proved guilty.

Even before the bona fides of Haneef started trickling out of the antipode, his wife in Banglore stood like a pillar of light. From day one she was a picture of courage of conviction. She maintained that her husband could not be swayed by any ideology of hate because it was not in his blood. In fact, he had taken her to Australia in 2006 and wanted to settle there with his entire family. This cannot be expected of a man who has a secret conspiracy up his sleeve. At the advice of his father-in law he tried to contact the police in chief in Britain to make matters clear. The British police official did not take his call. He perhaps wanted to tell among other things that he had given the SIM card a year ago. Cancelling the card also would have made him cough up equal amount of the money he had paid for the card. Giving it away came handy and can hardly be described as “reckless.” Haneef has expressed that he is moderate in his view and his wife ‘s assertion in his support also speaks of his character. He had not grown beard not had he taken to any particular liturgical line of prayer that is sudden and dramatic like Kafeel. Therefore, only the mobile phone and card cannot make out to be the issue. Moreover, the police in UK as well as Australia can easily ascertain what they spoke on the cell phone ipso facto. The whole community of anyone cannot be subjected to suspicion. The two Hindu SIM cards sellers in Madrid were questioned for allegedly selling the cards to bombers of Madrid trains on March 11, 2004 in which 190 people were killed, this did not and cannot stigmatize the whole community. Nearer at home there were the bomb attackers of Nanded who also used SIM cards in 2006.Sanjay Babulal Chaudhary’s narco analysis report states that Himansu Panse was receiving orders on his mobile phone from his superiors and that he had a separate SIM for receiving the orders. Sanjay revealed that he too received a call from a local Bajrang Dal leader, Balaji Pakharia, who lives in Bajrang Nagar in Nanded. The Mecca mosque bombing is also hinges on the SIM card that somebody in Jharkhand sold to someone from West Bengal. SIM cards also sourced in the murder of Hiren Pandya and the killing of Sohrabuddin by Vanzara and group not to speak of the cell phone records during the pogroms in Gujarat 2002. In all such cases justice must take its course irrespective of the background of the person involved. If Haneef”s SIM card shows that he is involved in conspiracy he must face court proceedings. If nothing is found he must enjoy freedom like a respectable man here in his own country of the country of his choice.

"Congratulations Mr President. You saved West Pakistan," said Henry Kissinger over the phone to his boss Richard Nixon, about 16 hours after Gen AAK Niazi signed the surrender of East Pakistan and about the time India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared the unilateral ceasefire on the Western front on December 17 Indian Standard Time.

The US National Security Adviser told then President Nixon in a phone call soon after the Pakistan military regime cracked down in East Pakistan on March 26, 1971: "Apparently Yahya has got control of East Pakistan… all the experts were saying that 30,000 people (Pakistan Army at that time in the East) can't get control of 75 million (Bangladesh's population)... as of this moment it seems to be quiet."

Kissinger in a meeting with Richard Nixon and Attorney General Newton Mitchell, now declassified, said he had "got a message to you from the Shah (of Iran), in which he says he can send ammunition (to a beleaguered Pakistan) - he is doing it now." The brilliant diplomat also revealed that Iran will send fighter planes to protect Jordan from Israel, while Jordan will send jets to Pakistan for the war effort against India.

The US National Security Adviser also expressed fear that India would attack West Pakistan in a major way after winning the war in the east. "The Indian plan is now clear. They're going to move their forces from East Pakistan to the west. They will then smash the Pakistan land forces and air forces, annex (take back) the (Pakistan-occupied) part of Kashmir and then call it off," warned Henry Kissinger.

"When this has happened, the centrifugal forces in West Pakistan would be liberated. Baluchistan and the Northwest Frontier will celebrate. West Pakistan would become a sort of intricate Afghanistan," Henry Kissinger mused.

The dire warnings seemed to work and then US President Nixon in the same conversation goes on to commit to move the American Seventh Fleet into the Bay of Bengal from waters off Vietnam, on the pretext of evacuating US citizens from the war zone.

Nixon responded by stating "Would you move the aircraft carrier? I'd do it immediately. I wouldn't wait 24 hours." The Seventh Fleet, led by the 75,000-ton nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, was considered the most formidable naval force of the time. The only aircraft carrier India had was the aging INS Vikrant which was readied to take on the massive force in case disaster did strike.

Col Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir (Retd.), a Bangladesh freedom fighter who was honoured earlier this year with the Padma Shri by India, said, "Leading Democrats, like Ted Kennedy, brother of slain US President Robert Kennedy, were with us. But the Republicans were blind-sided. The ordering of the US 7th fleet into the Bay of Bengal did not really impact the war as the Russians quickly sent their own fleet to counteract this chess move by the west."

In a later conversation in 1972, Kissinger told the US President: "Not one has yet understood what we did in India-Pakistan and how we saved the China option which we need for the bloody Russians. Why should we give a damn about Bangladesh?"

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JeM founder Masood Azhar and LeT’s Sajid Mir, mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

HT “The Indian government made significant efforts to detect, disrupt, and degrade the operations of terrorist organizations within its borders,” the report further noted, adding that counterterrorism and security cooperation with the United States expanded in 2020.

BS-Terrorist groups targeting India, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) its affiliated front organisations, and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) have continued to operate from Pakistani territory, the US said in a new report.

Pakistan did not take action against other known terrorists such as JeM founder and UN-designated terrorist Masood Azhar; and 2008 Mumbai attack "project manager" Sajid Mir; both of whom are believed to remain free in Pakistan, it added.

Though the Al Qaeda has weakened, its regional affiliate in the Indian subcontinent (AQIS) has continued to operate from remote locations that have served as safe havens, the report said.

Regionally, however, terrorist groups continued to operate from Pakistan. Groups targeting Afghanistan, including the Afghan Taliban and the affiliated Haqqani Network, also continue to operate, the report said.

Pakistan made additional progress in 2020 toward completing its Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Action Plan, but did not complete all Action Plan items, and remained on the FATF "grey list".

The report said Pakistan took steps in 2020 to counter terror financing and restrain India-focused militant groups from conducting attacks. Pakistan convicted LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and four other senior leaders in multiple terrorism financing cases.

The Sindh High Court overturned the 2002 convictions of Omar Sheikh and three co-conspirators for the 2002 kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl on April 2 and ordered their release.

Sheikh remained detained while provincial and federal officials' appeals continued through the end of the year.

The US continues to build its strategic partnership with the Government of India, including through bilateral engagements such as the 17 Counterterrorism Joint Working Group and Third Designations Dialogue in September, as well as the third 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue in October.

Indian counterterrorism forces, at the federal and state levels, actively detected and disrupted transnational and regional terror forces.

The National Investigation Agency examined 34 terrorism-related cases related to the Islamic State terror group and arrested 160 persons, including 10 alleged Al Qaeda operatives from Kerala and West Bengal, in September, the report said.

(Sanjeev Sharma can be reached at Sanjeev.s@ians.in)

Am The report said Pakistan took steps in 2020 to counter terror financing and restrain India-focused militant groups from conducting attacks. Pakistan convicted LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and four other senior leaders in multiple terrorism financing cases.

The Sindh High Court overturned the 2002 convictions of Omar Sheikh and three co-conspirators for the 2002 kidnapping and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl on April 2 and ordered their release.

Chapter

Virtual death of democracy in India

Mustafa Khan

Retired Supreme Court Judge Girish Thakorlal Nanavati, who headed the inquiry commission 2002 Godhra riots, in fact genocide of Muslims, died on Saturday December 18, 2021. He had submitted his report giving clean chit to Modi in 2014 when it was forgone conclusion that Modi would win and would be Prime Minister of India.

It is necessary to go back in history to see how events contributed to this. I call Ishrat Jahan Lucy Gray of Mumbra suburb. Shiv Sena described NCP leader Sharad Pawar committing rape on her when he chose to travel to Mumbra to show solidarity with the bereaved mother of Ishrat Jahan in a local, hauling himself upon the crowded train on sultry May of 2013. Khalid Mujahid was killed by police and when charges against him were dropped Shiv Sena activists protested in Moradabad on May 18 2013. This is a tragic irony that the Hindu parties choose to play politics of terrorism while their victims like Ishrat Jahan or Khalid Mujahid might have had no hateful attitude towards the majority community. Much of the politics was enormous dealing of appeasement. For example, Vanzara, in charge of anti-terrorism section was arrested. and had written against Modi. He had even said the seat of Modi government should be in the new prison in Taloja, near New Bombay. A girl of parents hailing from Bihar she was interested to improve the lot of her family when her father died. Just before death he asked a young man in the same construction job, Pranesh Pillai aka Javed Sheikh, to look after her. He was an agent of the Deputy Special Director of Central Intelligence Bureau, Rajendra Kumar. At the bidding of Kumar Javed took her to Ahmadabad where both were killed in a fake encounter. Even before her birth her stars were crossed with those of Kumar and Modi. Both were wedded to the same ideology of hate for the Muslims as they were from the Rashtriya Swayamevak Sangh known as RSS. They were close associates in the early nineties when Modi and Kumar were both posted at Chandigarh. Modi was in charge of election in Punjab and Haryana and other places. When Modi assumed office as chief minister in 2002 Kumar resurfaced in Ahmadabad as in charge of state CIB. Director General of Gujarat Police RB Sreekumar blamed Kumar for generating the report that the fire in Sabarmati Express compartment 6 on February 27, 2002 at Godhra was terrorism attack mounted by Inter Services Intelligence of Pakistan. Modi went on air after 7 pm and made it public even when the collector of Godhra Jayanthi Ravi had consistently maintained the whole day that it was a fire accident.

On May 10, 2013 the Gujarat High Court passed stricture against the state government for shielding the police men behind the kidnap and murder of Ishrat Jahan and three others Javed Shaikh alias Pranesh Pillai, two alleged Pakistani nationals Zeeshan Johar and Amjad Ali Rana. This castigation came at a time when the Chief Minister of Gujarat was busy in manicuring and choreographing and appearing on screens of electronic media for his hype over moving to the central government as nothing less than the Prime Minister of India. The Division Bench comprising Justice Jayant Patel and Justice Abhilasha Kumari came down heavily upon the government for “shielding, protecting and siding with police officials” that had slandered her and three others and then murdered them in the name of patriotism. Kumar also tried to put pressure on Sreekumar to toe the official line of Modi but to no avail. It was the proximity Kumar to Modi that inquiry into the murder of Ishrat Jahan could not move fast and smoothly. He had created a bogus report that she was a terrorist. Even after his retirement Kumar cannot be behind bars because of the rigmarole of government. He supplied the guns from his official stock that was used in the killing of Ishrat and others.

Manicuring and the choreographing of white beard and the black beard, the future King and Duke of Mark Twain

The certainty of becoming PM of India is chiseled on the face because of what Rajender Kumar’s deep machination was doing. It is the most outstanding travesty of law and courts that Modi not only got Vanzara and other outlaws out of prison but restored back to their posts. India erred tragically by allowing outlaws and buccaneers to pull wool over their eyes. And take them for a ride like the two tramps in Mark Tain’s novel Huckleberry Finn. This engendered megalomania in Modi. They assumed that there were none such like them. The hubris in Modi was at its peak when he claimed at the extraordinary largest gathering at his rally in West Bengal coinciding with the school holiday CM Mamta Banerji declared.

Arun Jaitley had called the murders of four including Ishrat Jahan as “liquidation of a module”. Little did he know that it was not a module! These were different people unknown to each other and killed and dumped together. Two of them were not even Pakistanis as claimed by the Gujarat police. Exposing the link that leads to Modi from Vanzara is not what Jaitley mistakenly or tongue in cheek thinks is “uncover(ing) the functioning of the intelligence bureau” [as Snowden has done in the case of the National Security Agency in the US or as Shamiur Rehman has done about the “create and capture” theory of framing Muslims from the mosques in America by the New York Police Department, NYPD].

Jaitley’s fear was that of Advani in the past and the Hindutva for all the time. They want to use intelligence gathering to shield Hindu extremist perpetuating terrorism. This is the old way and the new is different. Highlighting this difference Farrukh B Hakeem, MR Haberfeld and Arvind Vermas observe in their book Policing Muslim Communities: “Globally, scholars of policing have witnessed a shift in focus from the traditionally reactive, law-and-order and crime control model of policing to one that is more just and equitable and is accountable to the community so as to ensure support.” This is well illustrated in how Advani, Bal Thackeray and others rushed to support Sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur and the army’s hesitation to name the remaining dozen officers involved in terrorism in addition to Lt Col Prasad Purohit and also the attempt of national security advisor MK Narayanan to forestall investigation in the Samjhauta Express attack and Modi’s own brazen attempt to put hurdle in so many cases of which Satish Verma’s pioneering finding in Ishrat Jahan case deserves attention. This is corroborated in Modi trying to placate GL Singhal and others in the Ishrat Jahan case and CBI’s doing another turn of favour to him, Singhal and his group. To crown their role in the fake encounters and the pogroms, DG Vanzara claimed that it was the work of the brave men, mardon ka kaam. So, the rogue state of Gujarat was engaged in roguery which they perceived as deshbhakti or patriotism.

Modi was in touch with Rajendra Kumar now a special director of IB but then joint director in 2004; during the real time fake encounter on June15 2004 he had called and talked 40 times with Kumar. “If the job of the IB is just to pass information which they had done a month ago, why was Kumar constantly in touch with the Chief Minister’s office [on the day of the fake encounter]?” What surely threatens to tighten the noose around Modi’s neck is: “There are witnesses to prove that he [Kumar] was with officers like DG Vanzara just few days before the encounter.”

Modi’s standardized theory was the third Newtonian law of action and reaction. It was not that of the famed scientist nor did Modi see any apple fall in his life. He substituted the apple with the Muslims. They fell to their predetermined doom because of the hate ideology of the RSS pracharatks and those in the high positions like the special director of IB Rajendra Kumar a close pal of the chief minister of Gujarat.

Gujarat was under the thumb of Modi till his government decided to hurry the inquiry into Ishrat Jahan fake encounter more than five years after it had taken place. Any more delay would have justified Shamima Kausar’s claim for CBI inquiry into the matter. So, the Modi government asked the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate DM Patel to quickly complete the inquiry. He asked judicial magistrate SP Tamang to do it and sent all the relevant documents, forensic reports and FIR etc. to him. Two days after Tamang made his findings known to the public Patel was transferred as a punishment he did not deserve.

Shamima considered the Tamang findings as a godsend. Tamang had disclosed that the AK 56 and 9mm pistol had sprayed 70 bullets that ended the life of Ishrat Jha and the other three. But the weapons with which the four alleged LeT terrorists attacked the police were with them, on their dead bodies and they were the weapons that had spewed death. But no bullet was found on the site. Nor was any policeman even slightly injured! How could all this be? It finally turned out that the police had used those weapons to kill the four and plant the same on their bodies. Of course, DG Vanzara and his men were over confident that it was state policy to kill Muslims blaming them to be terrorists and they didn’t bother about the logistics and the forensic aspects of the two guns.

The insouciance of the loyal police officers is buttressed by the Director General of Police of Gujarat K Chakravarthy when he had called State IB chief RB Sreekumar.

The gateway to Ishrat Jahan case: the role of the “grey beard”

It was Rajnish Rai who had arrested DG Vanzara in charge of the crime detection branch of the Ahmadabad police located in Gaikwad House, haveli, along with Rajkuman Pandyan and Dinesh Kumar MN in the fake encounter of Sohrabuddin, wife Kauser bi and friend Tulsiram Prajapati. In his brief stint from April 1, to August 22, 2007. For this he was removed from the investigation of the case by DGP PC Pande of 2002 genocide notoriety. OP Mathur who later became vice chancellor of the rashtrya shakti university, the unique police university of India, took official punitive action of not sending performance report of Rai. So, the grieved approach the General Administrative Tribunal. Pande’s motive was encoded in his remark that Rai had not kept his superiors informed that is why his performance report should not be forwarded for assessment and promotion.

As far as conspiracy is concerned it goes back to the association of the RSS pracharak or group leader Narendra Modi’s staying together and close with the joint director of IB Rajendra Kumar in Chandigarh in the late nineties of the previous century. Modi was election in charge in Punjab. What was common between the two was their hate ideology of RSS of which both were adherents and this has not changed. They have never renounced their umbilical link to the mother organization of Hindu extremist nationalists. They show no repentance and never felt and will never feel why they should be apologetic. They owe their existence to mother India of the novel from which the song Vande Matrum comes, an India intolerant of Muslims.

The other motive is money. The fake encounter of Sohrabuddin shows that money remains the most motivating factor for politicians and the communalists. Huge amounts of money were at stake not only for RK Marbles and its owner Patni or the association of the marble dealers, or the Rajasthan minister Gulab Chand Kataria but also for Amit Shah who had to handle a dozen ministries of the Modi government where money changing hands was the order of the day. Shah is involved in receiving bribes to the tune of thousands of crores. In killing a nondescript albeit innocent Ishrat Jahan from the worst slum area of Mumbai the wretched hovel of Mumbra, the officers, till now charged, stood to gain enhancement in salary and promotion in office. Modi saw to it that they did get these what with their involvement in conducting the genocide of Muslims in 2002 and covering up the crimes against humanity thereafter and also managing the fake encounters from which he stood to gain popularity among the people and block votes at the time of election and not just one but three general elections! What more would BJP and RSS love to see or for that matter Kumar? What greater success can there be that you conduct genocide and fake encounters in broad view of the world and still get away with all this? That you have the impunity to threaten the media with the fate of Daniel Pearl and still the media cannot fully account for the innocent Muslims being framed in all kinds of terrorist acts on the premise that Hindus cannot be terrorists!

But why all the terrorists caught are then Muslims? So, Muslims are terrorists until they are caught all the same! This is the topsy turvy world that the police and the Hindutva have belabored to create as living hell on earth as far as the minority is concerned. It has gone through this for more than a decade and half.

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Secularism at stake in India

Mustafa Khan

It has peaked to an extent that the whole country will explode in pieces thanks to the regime brought in by hard liner Hindutva PM Narendra Modi. Some times back Arun Jaitley and his BJP defeated a bill which tried to make it a cognisance

two state-level leaders of the BJP and Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI), the political arm of Popular Front of India (PFI), Some people were found under suspicious circumstances near the house of Ranjith around 10.30 pm (hours after the SDPI leader was attacked). In the morning, Ranjith returned home after leaving his 11-year-old daughter for tuition. The gang beat him, threatened his wife Nisha, an advocate, before hacking him multiple times,’’

Retired Supreme Court Judge Girish Thakorlal Nanavati, who headed two inquiry commissions — 2002 Godhra riots and anti-Sikh riots — breathed his last at his residence in Ahmedabad on Saturday December 18, 2021

"The one promise he (Modi) had made was that Rs 90 lakh crore of black money was concealed in foreign banks and that he will get back that money and give Rs 15 lakh to the family of every poor man....and then he appoints a party president (Amit Shah) who made a statement that it was an election jumla (gimmick)." Jethmalani addressed people with candour: "I am making a confession that I helped them to cheat you, I have come to seek your forgiveness." Even after his suspension from the BJP in 2012 over his criticism of corruption and certain key appointments, the lawyer had extended support to Modi in the 2014 elections. His quest to eradicate black money was evident with this statement: "It shocks me, a person who is fighting black money since April 2009, and I had referred to Modi as an 'avatar'".

8 When Jethmalani placed his faith on Mamata Banerjee: In March 2018, the former Union minister had written a letter addressed to three senior BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shourie and Shatrughan Sinha, saying, "I write this to make the lady of Bengal who is my selected heroine as the ruler of Indian democracy", adding, "I have thrown my lot and talent at the total disposal of Mamata Banerjee and she has responded beautifully to my gesture and spoken bravely that she will destroy the present BJP regime”. The senior lawyer had also written that when he was being thrown out of the party, none of these leaders had come forward to help him.

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⦁ The 'Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill' was originally drafted by the National Advisory Council or NAC, a group of activists and civil society representatives chaired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

⦁ IN THE second such incident in Punjab within 24 hours, police said that an unidentified man was killed in Nizampur village of Kapurthala for an alleged sacrilege bid at a local gurdwara Sunday. Local residents said the man was a migrant worker from ⦁ Gopalganj in Bihar.

⦁ According to officials, the man was beaten severely by a mob and locked up inside a room in the gurdwara while local police tried to obtain his custody. When a police team, led by SSP Harkamalpreet Singh Khakh, entered the room forcefully, a member of the mob allegedly stabbed the man with a sword, they said.

⦁ IGP Gurbinder Singh Dhillon said there was no proof of any act of sacrilege at the gurdwara. SSP Khakh said the man may have been attempting to commit a theft when he was apprehended.

⦁ Police have registered a case under IPC section 295A related to deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings, and said they would also probe the killing. The incident came a day after an unidentified youth was beaten to death at Golden Temple in Amritsar after being accused of a sacrilege attempt.

⦁ In Saturday’s incident, too, police have registered a case against the youth under IPC sections 295A, apart from 307 (attempt to murder). No action has been taken against those who beat him to death.

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted to probe the Amritsar incident and would submit a report within two days.

⦁ The police are, meanwhile, probing what they suspect is “a larger conspiracy” ahead of the 2022 elections even as an attempted break-in was reported from a gurdwara in Batala Saturday night.

Punjab’s officiating DGP Sidhharth Chattopadhyaya told ⦁ The Indian Express: “Surprisingly, three incidents occurred. The Batala incident did not come in the limelight since it was not reported and no sacrilege took place…There was no sacrilege in Kapurthala, either…It is all very suspicious.”

⦁ Chattopadhyaya said police are trying to ascertain the identity of the youth lynched in Amritsar through his biometric details that could possibly lead to his ⦁ Aadhaar data.

⦁ In Kapurthala Sunday, police said the unidentified man was caught by sewadars at the gurdwara in the early hours following which a video started doing the rounds of him being beaten. Led by SSP Khakh, local police rushed to the spot and asked the gurdwara staff to hand the man over.

⦁ After the request was denied, police said heated arguments ensued following which members of local Sikh organisations staged a protest outside, demanding that the man be handed over to them. It was then that police forcefully entered the locked room, they said.

⦁ Gurdwara manager Amarjit Singh alleged that the man was trying to desecrate the Nishan Sahib, a religious flag, and that “he was sent by someone from Delhi”. “The youth had prepared tea and had a meal in the gurdwara last night. He was from Gopalganj district of Bihar,” said a local resident, adding that they could not confirm his name and other personal details.

⦁ IGP Dhillon said: “There was no desecration of Nishan Sahib at Gurdwara Nizampur where an unidentified migrant labourer was lynched to death… Three policemen, including one SHO and two ASIs, were injured in an attack by the unruly mob while police were trying to save the life of the victim.”

⦁ Asked how the man was killed in the presence of an SSP and two SPs, Dhillon said: “The atmosphere was very emotional and they were trying to control everything. It happened.”

⦁ Briefing reporters, SSP Khakh said the manager Amarjit Singh woke up at 4 am and saw a man inside the gurdwara. “Two sewadars sent by Singh caught the youth and thrashed him. The youth was wearing a jacket worn by gurdwara students. It indicated that the youth intended to commit theft,” the SSP said.

“After the video went viral, a mob gathered…they killed the youth even as the police tried their best to handle the situation,” SSP Khakh said.

⦁ In Amritsar, Randhawa, who holds the Home portfolio, said police have registered a case against man who was killed, based on the statement of an SGPC staffer that he attempted murder by picking up the sword in front of Guru Granth Sahib at 5.50 pm and desecrated the cloth used to cover the holy book.

⦁ “The accused had entered the premises of Harimander Sahib (Golden Temple) alone at around 11.40 am on Saturday. He slept outside Akal Takht Sahib during his stay inside the premises before committing sacrilege. There must be something behind this incident… we will investigate further. So far, he has not been identified. We have been tracing his movement through the streets of Amritsar,” said Randhawa.

⦁ “It seems he had come with the aim of picking up the sword. SGPC staff immediately neutralised him. But there is a sequence. The first sacrilege was reported at Anandpur Sahib (on September 13). Then there was another incident at Golden Temple on Wednesday. It is very painful. Incidentally, a drone was also captured on the India-Pak border on Saturday,” Randhawa said.

⦁ “The state government will probe the entire incident jointly with the SGPC… Punjabis will tackle such attempts to vitiate communal harmony. Punjab’s peace and harmony would be maintained at all cost,” he said.

⦁ Randhawa said directions have been issued to the DGP, all Commissioners of Police and SSPs to strengthen “round the clock security” at all gurdwaras and other places of worship in the state.

⦁ In Batala, SSP Mukhwinder Singh Bhullar said the locks of the main hall of the gurdwara in Kotli Bhan Singh village were found broken. “As per the information with the police, three men on a motorcycle were involved in this…One of them stayed near the wall and another went inside…They came at 00:54 am and left at 1:07 am,” he said.

⦁ “It was not clear whether the incident was aimed at desecration or stealing the cash offerings,” Narinder Singh, chief of the local gurdwara committee, told The Indian Ex

Inextricably linked with the violence that took place at Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018, is the Maharashtra HYPERLINK "https://www.rediff.com/news/report/pix-maharashtra-bandh-trains-stopped-traffic-disrupted-updates/20180103.htm"bandh that was called as a protest by Dalit leader Prakash Ambedkar and Dalit organisations on January 3, 2018. Indeed, the incidents of violence during the bandh made front page headlines in a way the Bhima Koregaon violence had not.

When the demand for an inquiry into the Bhima Koregaon violence was made, the then Devendra Fadnavis government included in the Commission's Terms of Reference both the causes of the events at Bhima Koregaon on January 1, 2018, as well as their consequences.

How serious was the consequent violence? Not serious enough to warrant a report by Mumbai's police commissioner to the government, it was revealed before the Bhima Koregaon Commission of Inquiry on Monday, December 13.

In Mumbai, according to then additional commissioner of police Lakhmi Gautam's deposition, 39 policemen, 7 BEST employees and three civilians were injured in incidents that began on the night of January 1 and ended on the evening of January 3.

Public property worth Rs 44 lakh (Rs 4.4 million) and private property worth Rs one crore (rs 10 million) were damaged. 75 FIRs were filed regarding the violence, which saw no loss of lives.

Gautam was then in charge of Mumbai's East Region where most of the incidents took place, and was deputed to represent the Mumbai police before the Commission.

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