By Rehan Ansari, TwoCircles.net
Mumbai: “India should cut off all its relations, diplomatic or otherwise, with Israel and a case must be registered against it in the International court of justice,” said Aslam Gazi, Spokeperson, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, during a Protest near Churchgate Railway station in South Mumbai on Thursday. The protest was jointly organized by CPI-ML, Bharat Bacho Andolan, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and SIO.
The protest was against recent Israeli attack on one of the aid ships sailing with tons of food and medicines for the besieged citizens of Gaza. Israel Killed 19 unarmed and innocent aid workers in the attack. Along with European parliamentarian and Nobel Laureate, peace activists from all over the world were travelling with the Free Gaza flotilla.
Elders and children were holding banners and were shouting slogans to boycott Israel and free Gaza. Kishore Jagtap of Bharat Bachao Andolan had issued a press release and demanded that the world should boycott Israel which is guilty of killing unarmed women, children and farmers. "Israeli hegemony must stop here and now," he said in the statement.
The protesters claimed that they are also planning to intensify this remonstration and are planning to hold public meetings all over Mumbai. “We are going to lodge our protest with the Israeli Consulate in Mumbai and will be holding public awareness meeting about the issue” Sanjay Sanghvi, member Central Committee CPI(ML) added.
K.K. Suhail, all India President of Students Islamic Organisation of India (SIO), also condemned the violence and urged the international community to pressurise Israel to stop all its “inhuman Practices which are barbaric and brutal.” He also appealed to the world leaders to take active part in rebuilding war affected Gaza.
Mumbai protest is a part of a series of protests happening all over the world against the brutal Israeli act. Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind in a statement urged its members to protest against Israel, all over India on Friday.
http://twocircles.net/2010jun03/protestors_demand_india_should_cut_ties_israel.html
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Muslim groups demand closure of Israeli embassy in India
By IANS
New Delhi: Muslim organisations will Friday take out a march in the Indian capital to protest the attack by Israeli commandos on a Gaza aid flotilla that killed 16 activists May 30, and demand the closure of Israeli embassy in India.
The coordinator of the march S.Q.R. Ilyas said: "We will demand from the government of India to convey the feelings of Indian people to the Israeli government and also demand the closure of the Israeli embassy and severing of all trade and military ties with Israel."
The Free Gaza flotilla of six ships with 700 activists on board and carrying 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid was boarded by the Israeli forces as it tried to break the Gaza embargo.
"We are organising this march to acquaint the country's civil society about the assault by Israeli forces," he added.
The march from India Gate to the Israeli embassy is being organised by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Jamiat Ulema-e Hind, Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith, All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, All India MilliCouncil, Muslim Political Council of India, Indian Islahi Movement, Majlis-e Fikr-o-Amal and Students Islamic Organisation of India, a press statement said.
After the march, the protestes will submit a memorandum to the UN office in Delhi and to the prime minister.
New Delhi: Muslim organisations will Friday take out a march in the Indian capital to protest the attack by Israeli commandos on a Gaza aid flotilla that killed 16 activists May 30, and demand the closure of Israeli embassy in India.
The coordinator of the march S.Q.R. Ilyas said: "We will demand from the government of India to convey the feelings of Indian people to the Israeli government and also demand the closure of the Israeli embassy and severing of all trade and military ties with Israel."
The Free Gaza flotilla of six ships with 700 activists on board and carrying 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid was boarded by the Israeli forces as it tried to break the Gaza embargo.
"We are organising this march to acquaint the country's civil society about the assault by Israeli forces," he added.
The march from India Gate to the Israeli embassy is being organised by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Jamiat Ulema-e Hind, Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith, All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat, All India MilliCouncil, Muslim Political Council of India, Indian Islahi Movement, Majlis-e Fikr-o-Amal and Students Islamic Organisation of India, a press statement said.
After the march, the protestes will submit a memorandum to the UN office in Delhi and to the prime minister.
Friday, May 28, 2010
US offered $5 bn for refraining from nuclear tests: Nawaz Sharif
By IANS,
Lahore : Then US president Bill Clinton had offered Pakistan a $5 billion package to refrain from conducting tit-for-tat nuclear tests in response to India's in 1998 but the offer was rejected at the cost of sanctions, Nawaz Sharif, who was the prime minister at the time, said Friday.
"I told him (Clinton) that we are not among those people who are sold for a few dollars, not now and in future too. Thus we successfully carried out our nuclear tests," Online news agency quoted Sharif as telling party activists on the 12th anniversary of the May 28, 1998 nuclear tests.
India had conducted its nuclear tests May 11, 1998.
Sharif said the entire nation was united in favour of the nuclear tests and Mushahid Hussain, who was the information minister at the time, "was the first person who advised me" that they should be conducted in reply to those by India.
"It was the democratic government that took the bold decision of conducting nuclear tests and if there was a dictator, he would have never gone for the tests," Sharif maintained.
The reference was to former president Pervez Musharraf, who deposed Sharif in a bloodless coup in 1999 and ruled for nine years.
The nuclear tests had made this country's defence "undefeatable and Pakistan became the first nuclear power of the Islamic world", Nawaz said.
http://twocircles.net/2010may28/us_offered_5_bn_refraining_nuclear_tests_nawaz_sharif.html
Lahore : Then US president Bill Clinton had offered Pakistan a $5 billion package to refrain from conducting tit-for-tat nuclear tests in response to India's in 1998 but the offer was rejected at the cost of sanctions, Nawaz Sharif, who was the prime minister at the time, said Friday.
"I told him (Clinton) that we are not among those people who are sold for a few dollars, not now and in future too. Thus we successfully carried out our nuclear tests," Online news agency quoted Sharif as telling party activists on the 12th anniversary of the May 28, 1998 nuclear tests.
India had conducted its nuclear tests May 11, 1998.
Sharif said the entire nation was united in favour of the nuclear tests and Mushahid Hussain, who was the information minister at the time, "was the first person who advised me" that they should be conducted in reply to those by India.
"It was the democratic government that took the bold decision of conducting nuclear tests and if there was a dictator, he would have never gone for the tests," Sharif maintained.
The reference was to former president Pervez Musharraf, who deposed Sharif in a bloodless coup in 1999 and ruled for nine years.
The nuclear tests had made this country's defence "undefeatable and Pakistan became the first nuclear power of the Islamic world", Nawaz said.
http://twocircles.net/2010may28/us_offered_5_bn_refraining_nuclear_tests_nawaz_sharif.html
Omar asks Army to cooperate in fake encounter inquiry
By AIP Bureau
Srinagar: Taking strong note of an alleged fake encounter case involving a Major, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday asked the Indian Army to cooperate in the investigations being carried out by the police.
Commander of 15 Corps Lt Gen N C Marwah met the Chief Minister who reiterated his government's commitment to zero tolerance to human right violations.
General Marwah assured the Chief Minister of complete cooperation and also apprised him that a high-level internal enquiry had been launched by the army to ascertain the facts.
An official spokesman said the GOC 15 Corps assured the Chief Minister that the Army will cooperate fully with all investigating agencies or enquiries set up by the state government and assist them in reaching the truth.
"The General also informed the Chief Minister that based on the preliminary investigation of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Army Commander Northern Command Lt. General B S Jaswal has already ordered a high-level internal enquiry into the incident to bare the facts transparently and to bring to book anybody found guilty," the spokesman said.
The GOC assured the Chief Minister that the Army authorities at no point will cover up any incident where human right violations are proved.
Officials said that Jammu and Kashmir police will register a murder case against an Army major and some civilians for allegedly luring three youths to the border and staging a fake encounter in Machil sector of north Kashmir on April 30.
http://twocircles.net/2010may28/omar_asks_army_cooperate_fake_encounter_inquiry.html
Srinagar: Taking strong note of an alleged fake encounter case involving a Major, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday asked the Indian Army to cooperate in the investigations being carried out by the police.
Commander of 15 Corps Lt Gen N C Marwah met the Chief Minister who reiterated his government's commitment to zero tolerance to human right violations.
General Marwah assured the Chief Minister of complete cooperation and also apprised him that a high-level internal enquiry had been launched by the army to ascertain the facts.
An official spokesman said the GOC 15 Corps assured the Chief Minister that the Army will cooperate fully with all investigating agencies or enquiries set up by the state government and assist them in reaching the truth.
"The General also informed the Chief Minister that based on the preliminary investigation of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, the Army Commander Northern Command Lt. General B S Jaswal has already ordered a high-level internal enquiry into the incident to bare the facts transparently and to bring to book anybody found guilty," the spokesman said.
The GOC assured the Chief Minister that the Army authorities at no point will cover up any incident where human right violations are proved.
Officials said that Jammu and Kashmir police will register a murder case against an Army major and some civilians for allegedly luring three youths to the border and staging a fake encounter in Machil sector of north Kashmir on April 30.
http://twocircles.net/2010may28/omar_asks_army_cooperate_fake_encounter_inquiry.html
Two arrested for involvement in fake gun battle in Kashmir
By IANS,
Srinagar : Two people have been arrested for the disappearance of three men in the Kashmir Valley who were allegedly killed in a fake gun battle near the border with Pakistan.
An officer said Bashir Ahmad, a former special police officer, and his accomplice Fayaz Ahmad were arrested for the disappearance last month of Shahzad Ahmad, Riyaz Ahmad and Muhammad Shafi from Nadihal village in Sopore district.
Locals and relatives of the three have alleged that the pair abducted them from their homes April 29.
A magisterial probe has been ordered by the government to ascertain the fate of the three after it was alleged that they were murdered in a staged shootout in Machil sector of the Line of Control (LoC) the next day.
The LoC divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Ghulam Muhammad Khan, father of Shahzad, has identified the photograph of one of the three slain people as that of his son.
"They killed my son for medals and rewards. My son had no connection with militants," Khan moaned before reporters late Thursday.
Javaid Ahmad Dar, the state's junior minister for health and legislator from north Kashmir's Rafiabad constituency, said that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had taken a serious note of the development.
"The guilty would be given exemplary punishment if the allegations are proved right," Dar told IANS.
Dar also said arrangements for the exhumation of the bodies of the three men buried in Kalaroos village after the alleged gun battle would take place Friday.
A huge contingent of police has cordoned off the graveyard where the exhumation is to take place.
http://twocircles.net/2010may28/two_arrested_involvement_fake_gun_battle_kashmir.html
Srinagar : Two people have been arrested for the disappearance of three men in the Kashmir Valley who were allegedly killed in a fake gun battle near the border with Pakistan.
An officer said Bashir Ahmad, a former special police officer, and his accomplice Fayaz Ahmad were arrested for the disappearance last month of Shahzad Ahmad, Riyaz Ahmad and Muhammad Shafi from Nadihal village in Sopore district.
Locals and relatives of the three have alleged that the pair abducted them from their homes April 29.
A magisterial probe has been ordered by the government to ascertain the fate of the three after it was alleged that they were murdered in a staged shootout in Machil sector of the Line of Control (LoC) the next day.
The LoC divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Ghulam Muhammad Khan, father of Shahzad, has identified the photograph of one of the three slain people as that of his son.
"They killed my son for medals and rewards. My son had no connection with militants," Khan moaned before reporters late Thursday.
Javaid Ahmad Dar, the state's junior minister for health and legislator from north Kashmir's Rafiabad constituency, said that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had taken a serious note of the development.
"The guilty would be given exemplary punishment if the allegations are proved right," Dar told IANS.
Dar also said arrangements for the exhumation of the bodies of the three men buried in Kalaroos village after the alleged gun battle would take place Friday.
A huge contingent of police has cordoned off the graveyard where the exhumation is to take place.
http://twocircles.net/2010may28/two_arrested_involvement_fake_gun_battle_kashmir.html
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