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A.I.
Mushawarat asks Pakistan not to shed crocodile’s tears for Indian Muslims
Bhopal, December 17 (Pervez Bari): The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat
(umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations) has expressed its shock and
utter condemnation of the terrorist attack on targets in Mumbai during 26-28
November.
The AIMMM said that “Pakistani government and Pakistan-based terrorist
organisations and anyone else responsible in any manner for these attacks
should be made to pay the price and must be brought to justice.” The AIMMM
added that the investigations should focus on all possible internal and
external players who have an interest in destabilising India and are
beneficiaries of the crime.
The AIMMM said that some of these crimes were/are allegedly committed to
avenge for injustices meted out to Indian Muslims. It added that “We would
like to say that the Indian Muslim community is capable to fight its battle
for justice and equality within the legal and constitutional framework of
India and that no outside power, outfit or individual, especially those based
in Pakistan, should shed crocodile’s tears for Indian Muslims.”
The above resolution was adopted by AIMMM at a meeting in New Delhi on
Saturday last which was held under the chairmanship of its national president
Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan. It was attended by the members of the central majlis
such as Mr. A. R. Sherwani, Mr. Syed Shahabuddin, Mr. Navaid Hamid, Mr. Abdul
Rashid Agwan, Prof. Shakeel Ahmad, Mr. S. M. Y. Nadeem, Hakim Syed Zillur
Rahman, Dr. Ubaid Iqbal Asim, Prof. Habib-ur-Rahman, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Maulana
Nizamuddin Islahi, Dr. K. Abdul Sattar, Dr. Arshi Khan, Maulana Syed
Aqeel-ul-Gharwi, Maulana Zeeshan Hedayati, Maulana Mohammad Jafar, Prof.
Mateen Ahmad Siddiqui, Prof. Umar Hayat Khan Ghori, and Maulana Ejaz Ahmed
Aslam.
The AIMMM adopted a number of other resolutions on the current national and
international situation. In a resolution on the forthcoming general elections,
it said that “Muslims should start coordinating, planning and working for the
next elections in every state and constituency in order to benefit from the
democratic possibilities.” It also said Muslims should also seriously think of
forming state level fronts and unions in cooperation with secular forces to
work to raise the Muslim strength to the logical levels in the state
assemblies as well as in the Parliament.
The AIMMM welcomed “the healthy trend of record popular participation in
elections now taking place in J&K in stages” but cautioned the Central
government that it must not forget that the issue of Kashmir should be
properly and finally settled in peaceful talks with Pakistan as well as with
local organisations, especially the Hurriyat Conference, so that the issue is
permanently solved and does not irritate good relations between India and
Pakistan and does not endanger peace in South Asia.”
The AIMMM noted with satisfaction that finally the Government of India has
taken notice of the umpteen terror outfits run by Hindutva organisations in
various parts of the country whose criminal activities were known to the
country through a number of terrorist incidents and explosions in a number of
states especially since the Nanded explosion in April 2006. The AIMMM said
that the ATS probe has received a setback due to the untimely and mysterious
death of the ATS chief Hemant Karkare along with some of his trusted
lieutenants on 26 November this year during the first hours of the terrorist
attack on Mumbai.
In this regard, the AIMMM put forward three demands: a) the government at both
central and state levels should realise the seriousness of the revelations
about Hindutva terrorism and continue this probe with all seriousness so that
the real perpetrators of a number of terrorist incidents blamed on Muslims are
brought to justice; b) to frustrate the fascist agenda to take over the State
through organised violence which is the real reason for raising the Hindutva
terrorist outfits who do not believe in democracy, secularism and plural
society; c) known terrorist outfits like Bajrang Dal, Durga Vahini, VHP,
Abhinav Bharat etc. should be banned forthwith in order to frustrate the
fascist totalitarian agenda; and d) a separate high-powered investigation
should be ordered into the murder of Hemant Karkare and his colleagues in the
ATS.
The AIMMM welcomed the formation of a central investigative agency to probe
all inter-state crimes including terrorist attacks and calls upon the
government to give substantial representation to minorities in this agency in
order to win their support and faith in the investigative process which has
been eroded due to preconceived ideas governing probe of such incidents in the
past.
On the Batla House “encounter”, the AIMMM expressed its deep anguish at the
way two young Muslim students were gunned down by police in Batla House
locality of Delhi and the subsequent barrage of manufactured leaks to the
media by security agencies about the so-called Muslim terrorists, masterminds
and the wide-scale arrests, combings and blind probes in Azamgarh and Mumbai
which smack of a post-encounter invention in order to justify the original act
which is seen by the people of the area as a fake encounter. The AIMMM
exhorted the Central government to come clean on the issue and to order a high
level probe into the whole incident including the subsequent wide-scale
arrests which create a sense of insecurity and injustice which is not good for
any democracy. Failing to do so will only mean that the government has
something to hide, the AIMMM said, adding that attempts similar to Batla House
are still taking place in the country, including Okhla area, where plain
clothes holding fake identity cards have tried to kidnap citizens on mere
suspicion. In some case, such attempts have been frustrated by the people in
the area. The AIMMM also expressed its concern that educated Muslim youths are
framed in fake terrorism cases which endangers their careers and discourages
Muslim youths from pursuing education.
The AIMMM said that that the existing laws are sufficient to fight any crime
and POTA-like law will only be misused against the minorities as in the past.
It demanded that Muslim youths incarcerated in unproven cases on the basis of
confessions obtained under torture, should be freed and their cases should be
reviewed at the earliest and that all Muslim youths acquitted by courts of law
should automatically get adequate compensation for the period spent under
custody and the damage done to their careers.
The AIMMM said that it is at a loss to understand why the central government
which appointed Ranganath Mishra Commission in the first place, is sleeping on
its recommendations for reservation for Muslims which offer the remedy to
disease discovered by the Sachar Committee. AIMMM urged the government to
right away place the Mishra Report in Parliament and implement it in right
earnest so that the backwardness discovered by the Sachar Committee is
addressed to some extent.
The AIMMM also said that the educational and financial schemes including a
refurbished 15-point Prime Ministers programme for minorities launched after
the publication of the Sachar report, though very small and half-hearted,
remain largely on paper because of the problems of implementation, follow-up
and overseeing mechanisms which should be in place in order for the schemes to
succeed. Formalities too should be simple and application forms and procedures
should be simplified so that the common man may benefit from these schemes.
The AIMMM noted that hate speech and rumour-mongering by saffron outfits and
their leaders and sections of the media against the Muslim community is now
common with little remedy. It urged the government to strengthen the existing
laws whereby hate-speech against any Indian citizen on the basis of religion,
race or culture becomes a cognisable offence like the hate speech against
Dalits. Without such a law on the statute book the current liberty enjoyed by
communal elements will not be checked. It also condemned that the new trend of
Bollywood films on terrorism (like A Wednesday, Mission Istanbul, Real Amir
and Black and White) which are totally based on police versions. By presenting
a one-sided and often manufactured or grossly exaggerated stories, these films
are harming the communal peace and amity, creating an atmosphere against the
Muslim community misusing a powerful medium.
The AIMMM registered its deep regret that the Zionist occupational power
continues to lay total siege to Gaza Strip depriving it at will of essentials
to survive as decent human beings for the last two years. As a result of the
siege, the Gaza strip is witnessing highest poverty and joblessness levels
anywhere in the world. The AIMMM asked the Government of India to revise its
relations with Israel in the view of its criminal conduct in the occupied
territories.
The AIMMM also welcomed the election of the first black president in the
United States, saying that “it hopes that this will help realise social
justice in the United States and will lead to clear changes in the US foreign
policy which made the US detested all over the world. The AIMMM called upon
the United States “to abandon the policy of a crusade against the World of
Islam. The US should open a new leaf and catch hold of the extended Muslim
hand seeking friendship and mutual progress and peace.”
The meeting offered condolences and prayers for the national and community
figures who have departed in recent months including VP Singh, former Prime
Minister, Prof. IK Shukla, Hemant Karkare, Syed Khalil Ahmad, journalist Moin
Ahmad, Urdu poet Ahmad Faraz, Urdu scholar Ralph Russel, the first Muslim
woman Mayor of Ahmedabad, Aneesa Begum Mirza, Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi,
president of Majlis Ittedhadul Muslimeen, (MIM), Choudhary Tayyab Husain of
Mewat, Manzoor Alam, Maulana Naazir Husain, Urdu poet Rifa’t Sarosh, Justice
Sarvar Ali, Maulana Habibur Rahman, and Munawwar Husain, MP. (pervezbari@eth.net)
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