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Monday, December 15, 2008

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Monday, December 15, 2008

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Editorial

Madness and Insanity of Electronic Media

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It is clear, Urdu media might be displeasing, regarding its reaction against electronic channels, but, now after the Mumbai terror attacks, many circles are annoyed on the coverage of media especially electronic one. The veteran journalists of our country are also included, who are respected in not only in India but abroad. Even government has taken the notice against habit of crossing of every boundaries of principle by media’s madness. There is no doubt that freedom of press, is one of the main feature of secular democratic India, it is great blessing and we should care for it, but, what a pity, media is misusing the freedom of press, trying to overtake each other, just to gain more and more TRPs and growing their business.

If the continuation of TRP war doesn’t stop, then electronic media will definitely cross all the limits by their improper and senseless action.

Journalistic analysts know better, that, it’s the incidents like 9/11 or 26/11 or some different kind of ruinous incident like Riots, Tsunami or Earth quakes that builds up tremendous pressure on rescue force as well as the media. However both have different ways of work. How a single mistake may be burdensome for rescue force. In the same way, during the reporting of incident, both, un-activeness and over-activeness of media becomes counter-productive and bothersome. During the Mumbai terror attacks, our Electronic media has set thus examples of hyper-activeness than it was called for. They could have observed how American journalist, who were covering 9/11 attacks, and should learn some thing from it. In our opinion, at the time of 9/11, American media neither showed the death bodies of victims nor that of the bloody injured. They didn’t cry during reporting, they did explain nothing regarding transportation of rescue and military forces, against it, we loudly telecasted the news of every moment who will be possibly help for terrorist, for example; NSG Commandos moved and are about to reach Taj and Oberoi. We have clearly shown by camera that NSG commandos are being dropped on the roof of Nariman House and this, that power supply of Nariman has been disconnected, if our memory is not weak, let us explain that our electronic media has also mentioned in that crisis period,that, our NSG commandos has the advanced equipments by which, they can easily watch in darkness, it’s mean that our NSG Commandos are going to attack at night. Oh! We couldn’t get it yet that what our electronic media had wanted at that time? Don’t they have any other breaking news at that time? Is it the responsibility of media to follow a particular incident only?

At the same time state assembly elections were going on, former Prime Minister of India had expired and Chennai was hit by a cyclone that took the toll of more than 75 people. Media didn’t take any interest in these important news breaks.

We don’t know, will government bring media under rules and regulations or won’t.

But we know this; if electronic media doesn’t change line of madness, then one day people will lose the faith in electronic media.

(Translated from Urdu by Mohiuddin Ab Lateef)

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Mushawarat’s Central Committee deliberates

on national and international issues;

asks Pakistan not to shed crocodile’s tears for Indian Muslims;

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New Delhi, 15 December 2008: The All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat (umbrella body of Indian Muslim organisations) met here on Saturday under the chairmanship of the national president Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan and attended by the following members of the central majlis: 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. Habibur Rahman, Mr. Nusrat Ali, Maulana Nizamuddin Islahi, Dr. K. Abdul Sattar, Dr. Arshi Khan, Maulana Syed Aqeelul Gharwi, Maulana Zeeshan Hedayati, Maulana Mohammad Jafar, Prof. Mateen Ahmad Siddiqui, Prof. Umar Hayat Khan Ghori, and Maulana Ejaz Ahmed Aslam.

The meeting offered condolences and prayers for the national and community figures who have departed in recent months including VP Singh, former PM, 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.

The AIMMM adopted a number of 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 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 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 “ecnounter”, 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 expressed its shock and utter condemnation of the terrorist attack on targets in Mumbai during 26-28 November. It 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 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 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.”

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Hindus, Western extremist and Mossad behind Mumbai terrorist attacks: Says Pakistani Defence analyst

Islamabad: A Pakistan based security expert has sensationally revealed, interviewing to a news show, that, November 26’s attacks on Mumbai have accomplished by Hindus, Western extremists and Mossad, Pakistan is not involved in these attacks. This show had been downloaded on a website and widely circulated in India.

Exposing on a program ‘Mujhe ikhtlaf hai’ ( I beg to differ) on “News One Channel” which was launched last year in November, Zaid Hamid declared that terrorists’ faces were similar to Hindus, they were speaking in a language that’s not in use in Pakistan.

Hamid told that the attack was accomplished under the “great plans”, it was totally wrong. How America masterly fought off 9/11 incident and then easily derived the support of media. Indians repeated the same episode but they were cheated.

Hamid told attackers had fastened saffron Hindu ribbons around the head that a Muslim will never fasten. Hamid further said that in five minutes of attack, three ATS officers, who were probing the terror network of Indian security agency and Hindu right wing, were assassinated by terrorist. After the assassination of these three officers, it’s clear that these investigations will not proceed any longer. Anchor of the show Qudsiya Ansari commented that correct probing of Samjhauta Express will be affected after the death of ATS officers. Member of Pakistan Muslim League; Marvi Memon was also in the program. He strongly expressed his grief and anger on sending ISI chief to India and asked ” I could have not supported the decision of Pakistan to send ISI chief in India” he further said that how can we send ISI Chief to the country to which we are waging a war and Indians speak against Pakistan in one tongue. He also spoke about separatist movements in India and assured “India is reaping what it has sown”.

blogerdaily.pk of pakalert.worldpress.com has written “India is going back in the era of religious tyranny , government is also assisting many separatist movements and separatists are involve in terror attacks on Mumbai, however it is blaming on Muslims

A Pakistani journalist Farakh Khan Pitafi addressed in this show that I have been supporting the peace and love between India and Pakistan for long time, but, the way India baselessly blamed Pakistan without any authentic proof, shows madness of India

He has written ” Indian news channels has given a long coverage to Mumbai attacks but during this episode media didn’t present this ATS officer as he revealed Hindu terrorism and Modi demanded to dismiss him.

(Translated from Urdu by Mohiuddin Ab Lateef)

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