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Friday, April 20, 2012

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BANGLADESH:

Disappearance will never stop unless impunity is ended

Enforced disappearance has become a matter of everyday life, as torture is inevitable in the hands of the law enforcement agencies. Both disappearance and torture are the by-products of the 'rule of coerciveness' in absence of the 'rule of law' in Bangladesh. It is matter of grave concern that the incidents of disappearance are increasing, alarmingly and unabatedly. The families of the disappeared persons continue screaming while the law-enforcing agencies and their political masters of the incumbent regime continue to deny the involvement of the State-agents in such heinous crimes.  

One of the latest incidents of disappearance has taken place two days ago. Mr. M Ilias Ali, a former Member of Parliament and Organising Secretary of the main opposition political party – Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and the driver of his car named Mr. Ansar, have been found missing since both of them left the former's residence by a private car at around 9:30pm on 17 April 2012. The Gulshan police of Dhaka city reportedly claimed that the police found Illias' car in a park with his mobile phone in it with all the doors of the car opened in an abandoned condition. Since then the whereabouts of Ilias has not been known.

The chairperson of the BNP and the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament Mrs. Khaleda Zia has directly blamed the government by saying "a government agency and Rapid Action Battalion have picked up Ilias from his car". Mrs. Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been quoted by the Daily Star and almost all the national dailies yesterday, 19 April, that "some people witnessed law enforcement agency personnel picking up Ilias while they left no information of whereabouts for Ilias' family members". The opposition leader has announced several political programmes including nationwide general strike on Sunday in protest of this latest disappearance and other issues.

Ms. Sahara Khatun, Minister for Home Affairs in Bangladesh, accompanied by high-ranking police officers, visited the house of Illias on 18 April to tell the family that the law-enforcing agents have not abducted Ilias. It should be noted that the Home Minister and her colleagues have been repeatedly denying the involvement of the State agents even though the incidences of enforced disappearance have been happening endlessly. Almost in all cases the eyewitnesses of the abductions, followed by disappearances of the victims, have pointed their fingers against the State agencies, especially the RAB, Detective Branch (DB) of Police.

A High Court Division Bench of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh has ordered the Gulshan police to find Ilias and keep updating the Bench every 48 hours. This order was passed yesterday after the disappeared political leader's wife Mrs. Tahsina Rushdi Luna had filed a writ with the Court. It should be recalled that, at least, two families – that of Mr. Salim Mian, a fruit seller in Gazipur district and Mr. Chowdhury Alam, a Dhaka City Corporation Commissioner - filed similar complaints with the High Court after both persons were disappeared, about two years ago in separate incidents. Both families and eyewitnesses alleged that the RAB kidnapped the victims and since then their whereabouts remains untraced even after the intervention by the High Court Division.

There is no reason to believe that the latest incident of disappearance of Ilias Ali and Ansar is an isolated one. Enforced disappearances have taken place during all the successive regimes since the inception of the country despite the variation in frequencies. Most of the allegations of abductions and disappearances have been brought against the agencies of the State while the nation had most of its current law-enforcement agencies throughout these periods except the RAB, which was created in 2004 and since its creation has often been referred to as a "death squad" maintained by the State itself. The undeniable truth is that none of the cases of enforced disappearances or State-sponsored extrajudicial killings have ever been credibly investigated, let alone led to any prosecution and trial of the perpetrators. Given this reality it is evident that impunity is deeply entrenched within the system and the judicial institutions have been incapable of administering justice. Since the inception of the country people's right to life and right to liberty have only been denied. Bangladeshi people suffer an epidemic of practices of tortures and disappearances.

The law-enforcement agencies and security forces enjoy blatant impunity for creating extreme form of fear in the society through coercive actions. State agencies torture detainees instructed by the government, bribed by the enemies of the victims, or inspired by colonial habits rooted in the institutions. The judicial institutions are poorly structured in terms of their intellectual and moral capacities. These are manifested in the recruitment process of the judges and the judgements they deliver and their attitudes toward the justice-seekers. The nexus between the government and the bureaucracy has made a vicious power structure in their favour. While party in power woos the bureaucracy by delegating endless powers, the bureaucracy stands in the way of institutional reforms necessary for transparency and proper democracy having a functional rule of law system.

The most precarious point is that both the government and the opposition come up with an outcry only when the victim has a political identity or certain social status. Countless cases of tortures and custodial deaths inflicted on the poor people remain unnoticed, although these are the people who provide government the power, money and legitimacy.

The institutional system, particularly the policing, judiciary, politics and bureaucracy deliberately keep themselves alienated from the original aspiration of the people, who have been struggling for democracy in its true institutionalised functional form having a justice-based fair system. None of the political parties have ever come to the people with any convincing manifesto that could be capable of establishing fundamental human rights and justice to the people let alone acting for the implementation of such reformative plan. It is undeniable that the current impunity-based institutional system has no capacity to serve the people, who suffer endlessly, in Bangladesh. The question remains before the people of Bangladesh that can they stop enforced disappearance keeping the culture of impunity to the agencies that are fed by their tax-money.

http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-094-2012
On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2012-04-20/news/251618

http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/04/21/141790

http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/04/21/141679
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=230798
http://jugantor.us/enews/issue/2012/04/21/news0876.htm
http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/04/21/141767
http://www.weeklyblitz.net/2276/bangladesh-ruling-party-and-war-against-the-people


On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:


http://www.jjdin.com/?view=details&type=single&pub_no=11&cat_id=1&menu_id=13&news_type_id=1&index=1


On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

Alarming rise in disappearances

Extra-judicial killings declined last year, says rights body Odhikar

While there has been a fall in incidents of extra-judicial killings, the number of 'enforced disappearances' allegedly at the hands of law enforcers saw an alarming rise last year, the rights group Odhikar said yesterday.

Revealing its Human Rights Report 2011, the organisation termed the country's overall human rights situation in 2011 "disappointing", noting that violence on women and journalists had also registered a rise.

Odhikar said 30 persons became victims of enforced disappearances last year while the number was 18 in 2010 and two in 2009.

Only those whose disappearances were linked to members of state-run agencies have been counted. Of the 30 incidents, the Rab was reportedly behind the disappearance of 14 individuals, the police behind 13, including 11 through its Detective Branch, and others were responsible for three others who disappeared.

Releasing the report at Jatiya Press Club yesterday, Odhikar Secretary Adilur Rahman Khan said, "The state might have adopted this tactic [enforced disappearances] due to national and international outcry against extra-judicial killings."

The report also said 46 persons were reportedly tortured by different law enforcement agencies. Of them, 17 died.

The annual document was prepared on the basis of newspaper reports and information from Odhikar activists working across the country.

Another rights organisation, Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), in its recent report put the figure of mysterious disappearances and secret killings at 51 during the same period. Meanwhile, the National Human Rights Commission expressed its concern over the rise of such incidents.

According to the Odhikar report, a total 84 persons fell victim to extra-judicial killings in 2011. The figures were 127 in 2010 and 154 in 2009.

Noted politicians, lawyers and journalists also spoke at the function chaired by Odhikar President CR Abrar. The speakers suggested that the government set up a tribunal to deal with incidents of disappearances, secret killings, deaths in custody and 'crossfire'.

Disappearance is an old issue in Bangladesh, and it has started again, Abrar said, adding that such incidents in 1973-74 were also protested.

CEO of Boishakhi TV Monjurul Ahsan Bulbul said the report might have flaws, but the government has to defend it with data, "not by batons".

The report said 206 journalists came under attack in 2011. The number was 178 in 2010 and 145 in 2009.

Odhikar said India's Border Security Force killed 31 Bangladeshi nationals last year when the killing of 15-year-old Felani was a much-talked-about incident. The number was 74 in 2010 and 98 in 2009.

The report also said the number of deaths due to mob beating decreased in 2011, but now it has taken a "dramatic turn". One Shamsuddin Milon, 16, was killed after police handed him over to the public at Tekerhat Mor in Noakhali from the police van, observed the report.

A total of 161 people were killed in mob beating last year. The figures were 174 in 2010 and 127 in 2009.

According to the report, the number of dowry-related violence shot up to 516 in 2011 from 378 in 2010.

Moreover, as many as 711 women and children were violated last year when 88 of them -- 54 women and 34 girl children -- were killed after rape.

The report said 672 women became victims of sexual harassment during the same period. Of them, six were killed, 59 injured, 91 assaulted, 12 abducted, 15 became victims of attempted rape and 29 committed suicide.

It said a total of 135 people were killed in political violence last year while 220 in 2010.

In addition, many incidents of violence, arson and loot took place in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in 2011 when 40 people were killed, 17 were abducted and 18 women violated.

Odhikar also said the government made the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009 more repressive and strict last year and expressed its concern that it might be used as a weapon against political rivals, demonstrators, journalists and human rights activists.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=217466

http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2012/01/08/125926

 


--- On Wed, 12/28/11, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Subject: [KHABOR] Re: Goom, Khoon....
To:
Date: Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 5:41 AM


 

http://www.jjdin.com/?view=details&type=single&pub_no=315&cat_id=1&menu_id=1&news_type_id=1&index=0



http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/12/28/124321

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Read more:

 http://www.bd-pratidin.com/?view=details&type=gold&data=Emirates&pub_no=596&cat_id=1&menu_id=1&news_type_id=1&index=2


On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Weekly BUDHBAR report:

http://budhbar.com/?p=7139


On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Rights federation concerned over 'enforced disappearances'

The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD) expressed concern over the recent rise of "enforced disappearances" in Bangladesh.
AFAD urged the government to take immediate initiatives to search for and recover those who disappeared, take action against the perpetrators and cooperate with human rights organisations in this regard.

It also urged Bangladesh to abide by the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
"The recent spate of enforced disappearances is alarming and only adds to the disrespect for human rights, the long practice of impunity and a weak criminal justice system prevalent in Bangladesh," says a press release from AFAD.

AFAD, a federation of human rights organisations working directly on the issue of involuntary disappearances in Asia, was founded on June 4, 1998 in Manila, Philippines.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=214507


On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Goom, Khoon....



http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/12/17/122521
http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/12/17/122665
http://www.bd-pratidin.com/?view=details&archiev=yes&arch_date=17-12-2011&type=gold&data=Islamic&pub_no=588&cat_id=1&menu_id=1&news_type_id=1&index=0


http://www.samakal.com.bd/details.php?news=13&view=archiev&y=2011&m=12&d=16&action=main&option=single&news_id=217558&pub_no=902


http://www.samakal.com.bd/details.php?news=13&view=archiev&y=2011&m=12&d=16&action=main&option=single&news_id=217557&pub_no=902

Extrajudicial killings all around

THE spate of extrajudicial killing still continues. This time, 11 men in Bhola became victim of such killing on Wednesday afternoon. According to a report front-paged in New Age on Thursday, five people, suspected as pirates, along with a fisherman, got killed during a 'gunfight' involving the police. Moreover, five more suspected pirates, who escaped the 'gunfight', were later beaten to death by the mob. Suffice it to say, the killings in question necessarily point to, regardless of the oft-repeated claims of the incumbents otherwise, unabated slide in law and order on the one hand and growing public distrust of law enforcement agencies on the other.
The Awami League-Jatiya Party government assumed power in 2009 with the commitment, among others, that it would keep law and order under control and that it would stop all sorts of extrajudicial killing. Pertinently, it was highly critical of such kind of killing during the tenure of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led government in the past. Besides, it pledged on more occasions than one in the past three years or so before the leaders of different human rights organisations, national and international, that it will show zero tolerance towards such killing. Regrettably, however, it seems to have done little to make those words a reality. Worse still, it has consistently claimed that no extrajudicial killing has taken place during its tenure so far.
Meanwhile, apparently to evade criticism about extrajudicial killing, the law enforcers, especially the Rapid Action Battalion, have allegedly changed their tactics of execution in recent months. The new tactic involves enforced disappearances of alleged criminals. According to Odhikar, a rights organisation, a total of 359 people were killed in what the top brass of the law enforcers called 'crossfire', 'shootout, 'encounter', etc in the past three years or so, while the number of victims of mob beating stood at 148 and enforced disappearances, 22, in the past 11 months.
Either way, the incumbents need to realise that what suffers most due to all this is the rule of law, and that if it is allowed to continue, society may plunge into lawlessness, endangering even the hard-earned democracy of the country. It immediately needs to do something decisive about arresting the surge in crimes as well as putting an end to all kinds of extrajudicial killings.



http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-12-11/news/207867
http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/12/11/121708
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=213630
http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-12-11/news/207868
http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-12-11/news/207870
http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-12-11/news/207787
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[ALOCHONA] Freedom of Speech in Pakistan

Christian Science Monitor

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Another courageous casualty in Pakistan, journalism's most dangerous country

Murtaza Razvi, an editor at one of Pakistan's leading English newspapers, was murdered in Karachi yesterday. He was one of many journalists I met on a recent trip who have refused to give up their work despite threats.

Two weeks ago I was in an office in Karachi, Pakistan, with a room full of journalists, including Murtaza Razvi, an editor at Dawn newspaper, discussing challenges facing the country's vibrant media, including risks to covering Pakistan. Yesterday I was e-mailed that he had been murdered

My trip was meant to promote understanding of Pakistan – and it did. There are real reasons for optimism about Pakistan's future, especially when it comes to civil society. I shared some of those reasons for optimism with my newsroom yesterday, and at the end of my presentation was asked if I would go back if I had the chance. I answered that I would go in a heartbeat. I felt completely safe through my entire trip and another part of what makes me optimistic has to do with the number of incredibly smart, inventive 20- and 30-somethings I came across while I was there. Many of them could live anywhere, but choose to live in Pakistan and dedicate their lives to shaping that country.

Moments after my talk to the newsroom I was back at my desk where I received a message from an editor at Dawn, the leading


Before I left for Pakistan a few weeks ago on a journalist exchange program sponsored by the East-West Center, I asked colleagues who reported in the country, both Pakistani and American, about their greatest challenge.

Americans complained of the government's game of "smoke and mirrors," a disinformation campaign that puts most other government propaganda efforts to shame. The challenge for Pakistani journalists, on the other hand, was decidedly more severe. "We have a completely free media in Pakistan, but no protection," said one journalist based in Islamabad.

How severe? The country leads the world in journalist murders, the latest just yesterday.

Seven of the other eight Pakistani journalists at a meeting with my group proceeded to share stories of threats. It was common, they said, to receive a threat by a phone call from the Taliban for not getting enough quotes from them, from political parties for including the Taliban in a story or not being represented the way they saw fit, and even from Pakistan's version of the CIA, the ISI.

But this wasn't something that had them lining up to find a new job. It was just how things work. Most of the time the person on the other end of the line is bluffing, they said. They had gotten used to the fact that Pakistan was the deadliest country for journalists in 2010 and 2011, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. And killings there have been met with near-perfect impunity throughout the years. For some perspective, consider that there have been 19 unsolved murders of journalists since 2002. (see CPJ's video)

When you put it that way, having to peer through smoke and mirrors to get to the heart of a story doesn't look so bad.

I visited the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting while I was in Pakistan. The ministry has jurisdiction over the rules and regulations relating to information, broadcasting, and the press. Like many Pakistanis we spoke to on this trip, the minister talked at length about how wonderful it was to have an active, independent, vibrant media that had absolutely no restrictions and how that was contributing to democracy in Pakistan. 

However, when we raised the question of safety and reported threats against journalist, Minister of Information Firdous Ashiq Awan (since replaced), without asking for details or pausing to smooth this over, said: "Those are complete fabrications. It never happened. It's not happening."

We brought up the famous case of Syad Saleem Shazad, a prominent journalist who went missing after exposing Al Qaeda infiltration of the military. He had been "warned" several times by the ISI for covering sensitive topics, according to his family. He was later found dead. The ISI, was implicated, though it denied involvement.

The minister dismissed the scenario of Shazad's murder as unproven. She did clarify that, "we condemn that sort of action." But she stuck with her statement that there were no threats or real dangers for journalists who were not "over smart." A former local journalist who now works in the ministry agreed with her.

At this point, Issam Ahmed, the Monitor's Islamabad correspondent, who had been invited to the round table by the minister, shared a story about a time he had been reporting on a sensitive topic in northern Pakistan, when he was summoned into a car by agents to go meet with the ISI bureau chief. The car sped off at breakneck speed to the headquarters, where the chief warned him to "not report critically." So, Issam, said, it wasn't a death threat, but intimidation happens4 and 20 StumbleUpon E-mail

The conversation at the ministry quickly shifted – but it highlighted in that moment, both the smoke and mirrors that western journalists had discussed, as well as the physical risks for local journalists.

English daily newspaper in Pakistan.

"Murtaza Razvi a member of Dawn editorial team whom u met at the meeting here has been murdered," she wrote me.

A well-known columnist, Mr. Razvi came across as a sharp, thoughtful man when we met two weeks ago at Dawn's offices. Married and in his 40s with three daughters, he was known by his colleagues to live a liberal lifestyle. 

He was found in an apartment in Karachi, evidently tortured and strangled. The reasons for his death aren't clear at this point. And his family has asked that He came from a Shiite family but was not religious. Friends and acquaintances point out that his liberal views and lifestyle may have ruffled feathers. And his last article was about how India-Pakistan peace would be good for neutralizing hawks inside and outside the military. You could call that a rather sensitive topic.

Before I left for Pakistan a few weeks ago I had an inclination of the government's game of "smoke and mirrors," and the physical dangers that reporters faced there. While I was there, I was given this very safe look at Pakistan, its high security, great food, and conversation with very smart entrepreneurs and journalists fighting to raise important issues. One week after my return a journalist whom I met and talked with is now dead. And I wonder: What is media freedom without protection?  

Pakistani reporters will continue to report despite dangers. They'll watch how they mention the Taliban, the political parties, and ISI. Sometimes they'll be bullied into softening the edges of their reports. But mostly they'll press on. The hope is that their work, in life and in death, bring home the scale of complexity and challenges that Pakistan has yet to overcome. 

Pete Hamill sums it up in his book "News is a Verb."

 "They knew that only part of the truth could be discovered in the safe offices in Washington, D.C.; they had to witness the dark truths by getting down in the mud with the grunts. They died because they believed in the fundamental social need for what they did with a pen, a notebook, a typewriter, or a camera. They didn't die to increase profits for the stockholders. They didn't die to obtain an invitation to some White House dinner for a social-climbing publisher. They died for us. … They died to bring us the truth."

He was writing for the Vietnam-era journalist, but it certainly applies to the passion and commitment of journalists in Pakistan who live, and die, for their efforts to uncover truth today.

Asia editor Jenna Fisher and five other US journalists recently traveled to Pakistan as part of an exchange program coordinated by the East-West Center, which concurrently sent nine Pakistani journalists to the United States. For more information, visit: www.eastwestcenter.org.








[ALOCHONA] Last articles of Journalist killed in Pakistan

No wonder ISI had no solution left for him except to get him assassinated. The man was Treasonous because he let all the National Secrets of Pakistan out in this article.

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Thanks to Allah

Murtaza Razvi | 10th February, 2012
'Thanks to Allah', as our cricketers would say, "Just 40.1 per cent of the 5-16 age group [schoolchildren in Pakistan] could do two-digit subtraction sums (with carry) whereas a mere 23.6 per cent were able to do three-digit division sums. Only 41.8 per cent could read a sentence in Urdu or their mother tongue (English is a far cry). Far fewer could read a story," revealed the nuclear physicist Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy in his column yesterday, quoting the recently released Annual Status of Education Report.
You bet if the nationwide survey done for the said report had included questions like 'how to drink water according to Islam', 'what to recite in Arabic before you embarked on a journey' or 'which foot be placed before the other whilst entering or leaving a mosque', the students consulted would have come out shining with brilliance.
Primary school textbooks are now replete with such day-to-day knowledge that will win you brownie points in the hereafter. Wasn't it the founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, who whilst on a visit to Karachi in the 1970s was asked how his country could help Pakistan become an economic power, and he had remarked with words to the effect, that how can you even begin to think helping a people who believe that real life starts after death? Obviously, we were yet to shape our blasphemy laws back then, and the dignitary left this country in one piece.
The thing is that we are a unique nation of a unique people living in a unique country with a unique, past, present and future, as the very learned and respectable Mr Javed Jabbar has argued in his recent book to present his case for Pakistan. It is this sheer uniqueness that demands that perhaps our children's abilities too, should be judged by a unique yardstick which is tailor-made to judge Pakistani intellect, and not the run of the mill surveys based on the wisdom of 'one size fits all'. Tune into a quiz show and you'll get your answers.
Here is a hypothetical example: please don't be surprised if many schoolchildren would not know the name of the only Pakistani to have won the Nobel Prize, and at the fact that those few who might know the right answer, would also hasten to add that Dr Mohammad Abdus Salam, despite his name, was not a Muslim. That's why it was important that the state remove the word 'Muslim' from his epitaph in the Rabwah graveyard, which originally proclaimed him as the 'First Muslim scientist' to have won the coveted award.
Ours is also a country where young adults in a Pak-Afghan border area barely know the name of the country they live in; many do not know the name of the President or the Prime Minister, as a televised interview by journalist Saleem Safi revealed the other day. But surely, if asked, the same bunch would have denounced America as a reincarnation of Satan in our times and hailed Bin Laden as their lost Messiah. And they would certainly also tell you what constitutes blasphemy, and why women should be locked up.
The knowledge being disseminated from the pulpit (including TV televangelist shows) and the textbooks is simply frightening. It is frightening in the literal sense of the word, because it is aimed at instilling the fear of God in your hearts and minds via the most ferocious of interpretations of the religious dogma. This leaves one incapable of thinking for oneself.
Here's an example: Tibb-i-Nabawi or treatment through recourse to medicines, herbs and curing techniques used by the Prophet of Islam is today a growing field. An entire brigade of pious, qualified doctors and homoeopathists has jumped on to the bandwagon to make quick money. Many are administering treatment through Hijama, which is Arabic for an old Chinese technique that extracts toxins from the body by superficial incisions made on the skin and drawing blood, using vacuum cups, hence, 'cupping'.
The Prophet must have used it and also recommended it for its curative properties, but to call it a divinely-guided cure for all ailments, from pain in the back to diabetes and hernia, is really stretching it, especially the divine part of it. This is precisely what Hijama practitioners claim as they urge you to recite Ayat-ul-Kursi (a Quranic verse with healing and helpful qualities whilst in distress) as they administer 'cupping'. And thanks to Allah, many are cured.
Who needs arithmetic, reading or writing stories in a worldly language, God forbid, when we have our own unique, divine mechanisms, and Arabic, to guide us through this transitory life on Earth?

Where to with anti-Americanism?
 
Murtaza Razvi | 6th April, 2012
Just who is the non-starter Parliamentary Committee for National Security (PCNS) trying to fool, you may well ask. Certainly not the US, whose patience is being put to a test? The people of Pakistan? Perhaps. Comprising elected representatives from the treasury and the opposition, the committee cuts a sorry figure as it struggles to come to a consensus on redefining Pakistan-US relations.
What are the credentials and therefore worth of the members of the committee which does not have a single foreign policy expert on it? Has the PCNS bothered to consult such experts in the academia, the think tanks, career diplomats or anyone having any expertise in the field? The answer is a resounding 'no'.
It's only a boys club fighting over randomly proposed disparate views. They seem to have little understanding that foreign policy is no child's play; it cannot be based on the political wishes or one or the other party, which are being equated with national interest.
Pray tell what is national interest? Words like sovereignty, national honour and integrity ring as hollow as they are because they are not injected with any defined meaning. Let's see what these words and terms have in effect meant to Pakistanis in recent years.
First, take sovereignty. It has variously meant Pakistan's leaders' will, or lack thereof, to let the country suspend itself in free fall; let us kill our Benazirs, Salman Taseers and Shahbaz Bhattis, practise hate and violence in the name of Islam, let the Taliban and the like run amok, turn a blind eye to the bin Ladens and the like who perpetrate atrocities such as those in Mumbai, and cry murder when the world questions us on such issues.
National honour has meant locking up women, denying justice to rape victims, forced conversions of Hindu girls and securing the 'ideological' frontiers. The last mentioned translates into insisting that we have our own value systems and a worldview shaped by these, and of which we are very proud, regardless of whether or not they conform to globally accepted norms of decency and human rights. We started a whole new country to nurture this ideology of isolationism and we are immensely proud of what we have achieved as a result, the nukes being a shining example, which bring us much national honour and pride.
National integrity has meant suppressing the many indigenous, living cultures, denial of ethnic and religious diversity of our people and attempts at imposing a medieval, tribal Bedouin code. This was a code that Arabs themselves had discarded as soon as Islam grew beyond the Arabian peninsula in less than 30 years of the great faith's proclamation, and reached the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of human civilisation.
From there and beyond, Caliphate transformed itself into dynastic, secular rule, embracing modern learning and patronising knowledge, the arts and science. In the heyday of Islamic civilisation, spread over Arab and non-Arab lands, no attempts were made to suppress indigenous cultures, languages or faiths; Arabic progressed just as much as did Persian or Turkish, for instance. This was left to be done in today's Pakistan in the name of national integrity.
Religion was never the defining feature of nationhood. The Ummah under Muslim rule had comprised Muslims and non-Muslims alike, Christians and Jews lived alongside Muslims in harmony without endangering the so-called nation of Islam — from the early state established at Madina to Islam reaching the shores of the Mediterranean, from Palestine to Spain. Today in Pakistan we want the world to leave us to our own devices in the name of national integrity, to be free to suppress the Baloch, for instance.
The question is: do we want such sovereignty, national honour and integrity as we have been practising to define our march forward in a world that is increasingly interdependent? It is in the pursuance of such isolationist internal and external policies that we have wreaked havoc at home and lost many friends, including China, of late. Depending heavily on the US and its regional allies economically, especially the Gulf Sheikhs and international market mechanisms, can Pakistan base its foreign policy on the mere wishes of its politicians to score brownie points with the generals and the electorate in an election year?
We will be deceiving ourselves by focusing on the half truth that the US needs Pakistan; we also need the US and its allies for our own sanity and a chance at survival. The lunatic fringe sympathetic to the Taliban and the like is only a fringe. The politicians and the generals are doing Pakistanis a disservice by mainstreaming their ruinous agenda in foreign policy considerations. Let the think tanks, foreign policy academics and economic managers guide the PCNS in its deliberations.
The debate on what is national interest should be taken up by the media and the responsible experts invited to deliberate on the issue. It is they who must be given the forum to guide the parliamentary committee and parliament.







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Re: [mukto-mona] Fwd: a video: "HINDU BASHING IN PAKISTANI SCHOOL BOOKS"




 

Listen to another piece of video about Hindus bashing in the school curriculum of Pakistan:

 

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Subject: [mukto-mona] Fwd: a video: "HINDU BASHING IN PAKISTANI SCHOOL BOOKS"
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RE: [mukto-mona] FW: (Negative Lessons for Bangladesh) Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making



Whether I am a republican or democrat - that has nothing to do with the topic at hand? Just think about a hypothetical situation where there is no existence of religion and everybody is identified as human being, not Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc. Do you think - there will be religious communalism? I don't think so. Do you? We have religion and that why we have religious communalism also. It's that simple logic.

Jiten Roy

--- On Fri, 4/20/12, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [mukto-mona] FW: (Negative Lessons for Bangladesh) Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making
To: "mukto-mona" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, April 20, 2012, 4:34 AM

 
           I forgot that Jiten Roy is a right-wing Republican.  All over the Western world today, in the USA and in Western European countries, Islamophobia is an important ingredient in the right-wing political agenda. Jiten Roy is not going to understand, or question or upgrade his understanding of communalism.

               << You cannot decouple religion from religious communalism. >> says Jiten Roy blithely and thoughtlessly.

                 Yes, you can, and you must. I don't want to go too much into the theory.  Only dwelling on what is visible, one can ask: How come religious people are not communal? How come communal people are not necessarily "religious" people? Moulana Abul Kalam Azad was an accomplished scholar of Islam, and yet he vociferously opposed communal Partition of India.  Lal Krishna Advani is a secular, non-practicing Hindu. Yet he is the most rabid communal politician whose instigation was the operational foundation behind the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992. How come Motiur Rahman Nizami is a close buddy of Advani? Is Nizami considered a "religious" person by non-Jamaati population of Bangladesh? Atal Bihari Bajpeyi was a strict Hindu, yet he was the least communal of all the BJP politicians.

                   Religion is a powerful tool in the hands of fascist power-politics game players. It is an easily available excuse for legitimizing ethnic and communal hatred needed to stir up violence.     

<< You may ask - if it is due to a religion then why not everybody become communal a religious commune? It's like - even though we all have greed, not all people will steal out of greed.  >>

                   The above is a too ridiculous and meaningless tautology for me to even attempt to tackle its irrationality!
        
                  We should pay attention to how we can protect communal peace, and guarantee the safety of Hindu places of worship in Bangladesh. If we do not know the difference between religion and communalism the Jamaati riots will proliferate and Hindu persecution will continue in Bangladesh.  We should train ourselves to detect the onset of communal riots. Here is a quote from the Indian article again:

Prof Rama Malkote, a social activist from Hyderabad said that large scale religious processions and festivals is a latest political trend and have a political patronage of communal vested interest from both the communities. The rise in communalism according to her is the result of absence of civil society in maintaining communal harmony. She said that communalism related events which are causing great damage to peace and tranquility should be banned.
       


To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: jnrsr53@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:47:37 -0700
Subject: RE: [mukto-mona] FW: (Negative Lessons for Bangladesh) Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making

 

Farida Majid:  If Jiten Roy wants be a sincere community leader working towards combatting communalism, then he has to learn how to decouple religion and communalism.  Communalism USES and utilizes religious sentiments, like Mohiuddin the Mohishasur, suddenly breaking into "Allah Rabbul Alamin" knowing fully well that it is a fake show of  piety.  But it is NOT about religion.

Communalism means advocating collective interests of a particular commune or tribe or sect. Therefore, communalism has many forms. Here we are talking about reigious communalism, which is displaying hatefulness towards out of commune religious interests.

When you see - Hindus are hating Muslims and Muslims are hating Hindus, and you are saying - religion has nothing to do with it,  it becomes an absurd interpretation of religious communalism. Such hatred is only because of their religious difference, nothing else.  You cannot decouple religion from religious communalism.

You may ask - if it is due to a religion then why not everybody become communal a religious commune? It's like - even though we all have greed, not all people will steal out of greed.

Jiten Roy

--- On Thu, 4/19/12, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [mukto-mona] FW: (Negative Lessons for Bangladesh) Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making
To: "mukto-mona" <mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 8:23 PM

 
             If Jiten Roy wants be a sincere community leader working towards combatting communalism, then he has to learn how to decouple religion and communalism.  Communalism USES and utilizes religious sentiments, like Mohiuddin the Mohishasur, suddenly breaking into "Allah Rabbul Alamin" knowing fully well that it is a fake show of  piety.  But it is NOT about religion.

               Neither the Two Circles Net news report on Telengana riots in India, nor my own intro to the news gives any lecture on "religion." The communalist trick is that they would like to make you believe that it is all about religion.  It is NOT about religion. The point of communal politics in both India and Bangladesh right now is to create maximum mayhem, widespread misery and keep politics and economy and law and order in a state of chaos.

             By the way, what do you mean by not ever hearing of pork being used by Hindu Nationalists ? Pork was forcibly put in the mouth of low class Muslims in the Suddhi campaign to re-convert them to Hinduism. This ugly Suddhi campaign has been the starting point of many infamous communal riots in India in the 1920s and back again in 1980s.  The idea comes from the British writers' falsehoods about low caste Hindus having converted to Islam in the past. That is, of course, complete BS, especially in Bengal where there were no Hindus before 8th century AD,  and no historian has proved it, neither is there any local record.

             Read the Telengana report again, and notice how the emphases are on HOW communal hatred is propagated, how a communal riot is engineered, how the evil perpetrators take advantage of the unpreparedness of the residents, etc.  There are lessons to learn.


To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: jnrsr53@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:27:09 -0700
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] FW: (Negative Lessons for Bangladesh) Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making

 

What a shame! Stop politics with religion. I have heard many incidences of beef in the temple, but never heard of pork in the Mosque. This is a new one. I guess - Hindus are learning fast also.

 

Please ban politics with religion all over the world ASAP. Don't mix state and religion. As I said before – (politics + religion) = explosion. 

 

Politics is mostly a dishonest trade. Don't let your religion mix with such a trade.  Speak up against it! I understand that Islam has done it at the beginning of its emancipation. Hindus may have such precedence also. But, that was then. We are living in a different era. There was a time when British and Roman empires used to rule most of the world. That can't be repeated now.  So, stop emulating prehistoric era.  

 

Let's learn a physical truth – The world is now integrated, and every action (somewhere), has equal and opposite reaction (elsewhere also). Therefore, keep your religion within yourself; no one needs to know about it.  Instead, be a human-being. That will be appreciated much more than your religiosity.  

 

Jiten Roy

 

--- On Thu, 4/19/12, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:


From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Subject: [mukto-mona] FW: (Negative Lessons for Bangladesh) Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making
To:
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 1:11 PM

 
                The terrible negative model of COMMUNALISM and how it destroys peaceful communities.

                 Our BNP/Jamaat goondas with their Hindu India/Muslim Bangladesh slogans (uttering parrot-like the EXACT sentiments of Hindutvawallas in India) will love to see this kind of destruction happen every day, every week, every month all over Bangladesh.  They already have started it in Satkhira, and I imagine incidents like that will proliferate. Character assassinations of political leaders (Sheikh Hasina, Suranjit Sengupta, Dipu Moni, et al) will continue before and after actual assassinations (Sheikh Mujib, Kibria, Ivy Rahman, et al).

                Awami League leaders are scared of Jamaati criticism of being India-lovers, anti-Islam, etc. They should not be.

                As part of Citizens' Civil Society we should all build up strong resistance to Communalism.  NOW!
       
                We should be repeating Humayun Azad's cry "Amra ki ei Bangladesh cheyechhilam?"


Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:36:30 +0800
Subject: Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making

 


Telangana: A new Hindutva laboratory in the making

 on 18 April 2012 - 1:56pm

By Mohd. Ismail Khan, TwoCircles.net,

Telangana for past few years is in the news for all the bad reasons. The most unfortunate is the rise of the communal forces threatening the plural culture the region is known for. This development has threatened the future prospect of the region and has become a worrying factor for all the inhabitants of the part of Andhra Pradesh.

The way BJP played Hindutva card and polarized the electorate against a Muslim candidate and won Mahbubnagar assembly by-poll in an area where a few years back it had hardly any presence, shocked the secular society. In fact, before and after the by-poll, the Telangana region has witnessed sudden rise in communal incidents. The rise in Hindu religious events as flamboyance of strength, communal riots in Karimnagar town after the India Pakistan World Cup match, communal violence in Adilabad where an entire Muslim family was set afire in the Vattoli village, the Gujarat style attack on the Muslim businesses in Sangareddy town, the deadly attacks on Muslim youths after Eid-ul-Azha by Hindu Vahini activists, the communal riots of 2010 in old city or the recent communal clashes in the Hyderabad new city areas -- all these incidents are making one believe that there is are deliberate experiments going on in the region by the right wing forces.

Sangareddy riot: Muslim businesses attacked in planned way

A close observation of Sangareddy communal violence gives a vivid picture. The violence was orchestrated by Hindutva elements in which Muslim properties were singled out and targeted in a planned manner. The mob was well organized with petrol bombs and weapons and roaming free in the streets attacking Muslim owned businesses. Muslims were first instigated by posting vulgar images of holy places, when they protested members of Hindu Vahini came out, in a planned way, and started attacking Muslim businesses in the market areas.

Muslim businesses singled out and attacked in Sangareddy
TwoCircles.net spoke to some of the victims of the Sangareddy violence. Syed Jaffer was running an electrical goods shop S.A. Electricals. It was torched down completely. Jaffer said: He saw those people who were attacking the shop and was shocked to notice that the mob consisted of even those people to whom he had provided free services. "Every Hindu in the town was instigated by Hindu Vahini by giving the slogan 'Ram is being humiliated, restore his pride', even the local Congress MLA provided them with moral support," said Jaffer.
Mohd Majid's case was a fine example of the nature of those attacks. He used to run a small pan shop adjacent to Vijaylakshmi Bakery. In the riots his pan shop was totally burned down but the huge bakery owned by a Hindu did not get even a scratch.
Jaffer told TCN, "It was a planned attack to target only businesses to make us suffer economically, as Muslims in the town were gaining a good ground in the market and becoming influential, which was used by the Hindutva elements to instigate Hindu youths to participate in the riots."

Majid near his burned pan shop in Sangareddy

Sangareddy in its history has never witnessed such a communal violence. Even the locals were shocked by the sudden upsurge of prejudice against a community. In recent years BJP and its other right wing organizations have been trying hard in building up their cadre in the guise of supporting Telanagna movement. They mixed Hindutva with Telangna and Telangana with Hindutva. They showed Telangana culture as the culture of Hindutva and gave the slogans of Hindutva during Telangana agitation.
"Telangna movement at this period is being totally hijacked by the right wing fundamentalist forces from every political party. They used Telangana sentiments to gain ground in the region, and now they are trying to form a state within a state, i.e. Hindutva state within Telangana state," observed Lateef Mohd Khan, general secretary of Hyderabad based Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee.
According to him, the right wing forces are exploiting the vacuum created by sudden annihilation of leftist movement in the Telangana region. "After the state government wiped out dominant Naxalism from the Telengana region, the vacuum was filled up by Bajrang Dal and Hindu Vahini as an alternate savior of lower castes. Even the higher caste Reddys who were landlords and more lenient towards Hindutva supported them to save their dominance," he said.

Jaffar at his burned electric goods shop in Sangareddy

Rise in religious processions


Zahid Ali Khan, Editor of leading Urdu daily Siasat informed TCN about the degrading secular values in the region. "Right wing political party is trying to polarize Hindu votes in their favor, for that cause they have to orchestrate communal riots to get all Hindus in the same umbrella to gain ground in the region," said Khan. According to him one more important factor is "the rise in communal religious processions and festivals which were not part of the Telangana culture. These are being put to polarize and produce hatred and they should be banned by the police."
The rise in religious processions in the Telangana region is creating lot of mess both for the police and for the general public. Muslims are celebrating Milad-un-Nabi or any other birthday celebrations of sufi saints on such large scale that right wing forces from other community are projecting it as a call for the competition which is giving an ample opportunity to propagate hatred, and this all is resulting in the form of violent clashes.
The communal riot of 2010 in Hyderabad was a fine example of ugly result of competition in religious events. Even in the case of Sangareddy many locals alleged that non-Muslims in the town were annoyed by the large scale Mliad celebration and the fighting broke out just before Ram Navami rally.
Prof Rama Malkote, a social activist from Hyderabad said that large scale religious processions and festivals is a latest political trend and have a political patronage of communal vested interest from both the communities. The rise in communalism according to her is the result of absence of civil society in maintaining communal harmony. She said that communalism related events which are causing great damage to peace and tranquility should be banned.

A Telangana Muslim inspecting his vandalized hotel

Beef and pork being used as RDX


Nowadays whole city can easily be brought to standstill or on its nerve, neither by RDX bomb nor by deadly weapons. The latest formula found out by right wing miscreants is beef or pork. Hyderabad has always been an experimental ground for Hindutva forces for their mischievous plans. If the plan gets successful reactions then it is very well expected that it could be implemented in other districts. Like communal riots in the city, the same incident and trend was repeated in Sangareddy town. The latest invention of pork and beef game is widely expected to be seen soon in the rural towns of Telengana.
Asaduddin Owaisi, president of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and Member of Parliament from Hyderabad observed that, "Right wing fundamentalist groups are active in every major political party. If one has to observe the communalism in Telangana region then one can see the narrow representation of Muslims in the region. Out of 118 MLAs from the region Muslims are just 7 while Muslims constitute 18% of the region's population. They are leaving no stone unturned to keep the Muslims at bay in the region."

Government, Police should act: Owaisi


On the growing demand for ban on unnecessary communal religious processions, Mr. Owaisi said, "banning is not a solution, once police have given them permission they now can't backtrack, otherwise it will create unnecessary tension. The strict monitoring and vigilance of those processions is the only practical solution available at this time."
Speaking about his party's strategy on communal issues he said, "We are trying our best not to fall prey to the strategies of communal forces, they want us to react, but we have shown tolerance to an extent. But MIM will not compromise on protecting the life and interest of Muslims. We continue to pressurize the government to act against the people who are propagating hatred against Muslims."

Half body of a pig was thrown into this Noor Masjid in Hyderabad in April 2012
Why no action against traders of hatred?
Police could have played an important role in harmonizing the prevailing tension between the communities but as expected police till now have showed lot of treads to find out communalism also exists with in the police. Police instead of arresting hate mongers, they are providing security to them. There are lots of cases pending against Praveen Togadia in Hyderabad but still police have provided obedient security to Mr. Togadia or any other communal leader whenever they visited Hyderabad to give hate speeches against Muslims and Christians. Last year Mr. Togadia visited Hyderabad 7 times, as if he had made Hyderabad his second home.
Police have even showed prejudice during the communal clashes, like locals in the Sangareddy town alleged that police allowed Hndu Vahini activists to vandalize their properties but on the other hand they stopped Muslims from even protecting their properties, the excuse was fear of more communal clashes. Even in the latest desecration of religious places and the subsequent violence, police till now have rounded up 10 individuals, 9 of them are Muslims. This is despite the fact VHP had taken out that violent rally and attacked Muslims and damaged their properties.

A handicapped Muslim at his burned shop

Telangana's ganga-jamni tehzib is getting shadowed by Hindutva fascist culture; it is in serious threat of getting extinct. If the present state of affairs continues unabated, one can expect worst to happen in coming days. The present scenario points to a new Gujarat in Telangana. A new Hindutva laboratory of south India is in the making.





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