Burma deports Suu Kyi US 'guest'

Suu Kyi 'guest' lands in Thailand The US man jailed for visiting Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been released and deported. John Yettaw, whose health is described as fragile, left Burma on a plane with visiting US Senator Jim Webb, who negotiated the deal on Saturday. Mr Webb was the most senior US official to meet the Burmese leader. He also met pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Mr Yettaw was jailed for seven years over the visit and Ms Suu Kyi was given an additional 18 months' house arrest. Mr Yettaw flew with Senator Webb to Bangkok, where he was taken to hospital in a US embassy van. Senator Webb told reporters Mr Yettaw, who is in his mid-60s, was "not a well man". "He had a medical incident this morning when they read him his orders of deportation," the senator told reporters at Bangkok airport. "He's now undergoing a thorough medical review here in a hospital, and soon he will be able to return to his family." His wife, Betty, told the BBC on Saturday she was happy to hear the "wonderful" news that he would be released. 'Sent by God' Senator Webb thanked the Burmese authorities for releasing Mr Yettaw."I am not going to apologise for the actions that he took but I believe that it was a good gesture from your government to our country to allow him to return home to his family for humanitarian reasons," he said at Rangoon airport shortly before his departure. However, Burmese dissidents say Senator Webb's trip could be seen as an endorsement of the poor treatment received by Ms Suu Kyi and more than 2,000 other political prisoners. After his arrest, Mr Yettaw, said he had been sent by God to deliver a warning to Ms Suu Kyi that she would be assassinated. Senator Webb said he had asked Burmese leaders to consider the release of Ms Suu Kyi and allow her to participate in the political process ahead of next year's elections, but that they had not yet responded. Later he met the pro-democracy leader for talks lasting about 40 minutes. She was taken to a state guesthouse near her home to meet Senator Webb. Senator Webb met Ms Suu Kyi after talks with Burma's military leader Ms Suu Kyi went on trial in May after Mr Yettaw swam to her lakeside home with homemade flippers, evading guards. She was charged with breaking the terms of her house arrest by sheltering Mr Yettaw and, after many delays, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison. Gen Than Shwe has ruled Burma since 1992 Although the sentence was commuted to 18 months' house arrest by Than Shwe, it ensures the opposition leader cannot take part in planned elections next year. Ms Suu Kyi, 64, has spent 14 of the past 20 years under house arrest. Senator Webb, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific affairs, has previously called for more "constructive" US engagement with Burma. He said in July that the trial of Ms Suu Kyi would make this difficult. The UN Security Council expressed "serious concern" following Ms Suu Kyi's conviction earlier this week and urged the release of all political prisoners, while the EU extended sanctions against Burma. But Burma's neighbour China said the world should respect its laws. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who is the current chairman of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) told the BBC that imposing sanctions could lead to problems and that it was important to take a balanced approach to dealing with Burma.

Islamist fighters buried in Gaza

Hamas security forces cracked down on fighters from the little known Jund Ansar Allah group [AFP] Palestinian families have held funerals for at least a dozen fighters from a pro-al-Qaeda group killed in a battle with Hamas, the de facto rulers of the Gaza Strip. The funerals took place early on Sunday morning, with Hamas security forces keeping the public away from the burials. At least 28 people have been killed since violence erupted in Rafah between Hamas and the little-known Salafist group Jund Ansar Allah, or Soldiers of the Supporters of God. The fighting began after Abdel-Latif Moussa, the group's leader, proclaimed "the creation of an Islamic emirate in the Gaza Strip" during a sermon on Friday. He reportedly called for the territory to be governed purely by sharia, or Islamic law. Mosque attacked Moussa was killed in the fighting, apparently blowing himself up. Hamas officials said one of his sons was also killed, along with an aide named Khaled Banat, known as Abu Mohammed al-Mujahir, a Syrian who they said was of Palestinian origin.Hamas said six of its fighters and six civilians, including an 11-year-old girl, were among the dead. Over 100 people were injured in the fighting. Residents said the Ibn Taymea mosque where Moussa preached on Friday to a hundred or so supporters, some armed and dressed like Taliban fighters, was hit by grenades and Moussa's house destroyed. The violence in Rafah was the most serious inter-factional Palestinian fighting in the territory since Hamas seized power two years ago, pushing out the Fatah party of Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. But in exerting its control on the Strip and battling the group, Palestinian analysts said Hamas was also demonstrating to the West its willingness to suppress radical groups. Hamas is considered a "terrorist" organisation by the US and most Western powers shun the group, which won a parliamentary election in 2006. 'Extremist' groups Jund Ansar Allah is one of several small groups in Gaza to espouse al-Qaeda sympathies. "A number of these extremist groups have flourished over the Gaza Strip over the past two years," Mkhaimer Abusada, a professor of political science at Gaza's Al-Azhar university, told Al Jazeera. "Some extremist Palestinian Muslim groups do not see Hamas as representing Islam, and they are calling on Hamas to represent Islam or they will take matters into their own hands as we saw in the past two days." Several Rafah residents also voiced disquiet at the Hamas response and said they fear reprisals. "It is wrong for anyone to take the law into their own hands and impose Islamic law," one man, who gave his name as Ali, said by telephone. "But even so, people shouldn't be killed like this. I don't think this is the end. The fundamentalists will hit back." Jund Ansar Allah first made its presence known with a border raid against an Israeli base in June, when some of its fighters rode into battle on horseback.

New Faces Of An Old Terror Camp

With Lt Col Purohit and Sadhvi Pragya ducking MCOCA, it’s vital for the ATS to take its findings to a logical end TEESTA SETALVAD Writer and Activist In the loop Sadhvi Pragya Thakur, under arrest, was associated with the BJP’s student wing Photo: DEEPAK SALVI EIGHT ATTEMPTSwere made on Mahatma Gandhi’s life before the final one on January 30, 1948 was successful. Yet public discourse is reluctant to acknowledge that the first act of terror perpetrated on independent India’s soil stemmed from a determined and vicious planning by the Hindu Right. Moreover, it refuses to admit that the assassination, was premeditated. When Godse, a member of the Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu nationalist organisation executed the crime, India’s first home Minister, Sardar Patel said on record: “The RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh] celebrated and distributed sweets when Gandhiji was assassinated.” Sardar Patel’s government banned the RSS after the killing. And Patel had made that remark to justify the ban. Close fraternal relations of thought and action did and continue to afflict varied Hindu right outfits. But public discourse in India is evasive of this first terror act committed by these outfits, and is sparing in its indictment of their deep and organised commitment to use violent means to spread their message and mission. Public discourse is formed by what a polity allows to be stated and accepts openly. Be it on the streets, in drawing rooms, state assemblies, Parliament, school texts or public speeches, the assassins of Mahatma Gandhi have been spared public indictment or scrutiny. Newspapers and television too have fallen prey to this selective public discourse. For the past three decades we have been made a victim of brute mob terror guided and supported by these outfits. The benchmark was the frenzied eight years between 1987 and 1992 that tracked the bloody rath yatra led by former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani. The yatra succeeded in legitimising a public discourse of venom and hate against India’s largest religious minority. The demolition of the Barbi Masjid in full public view with India’s paramilitary forces mutely watching the violence tore at our soul and claimed lives and property, shook our existence as a Republic and damaged, near permanently, India’s commitment to the rule of law. Gujarat 2002, a genocidal pogrom, further tested the commitment we made on January 26, 1950. The aftermath Local residents and police clear debris at a blast site in Malegaon on September 30, 2008 Photo: REUTERS These outfits that drew support from a tainted and communalised administration and police force adopted techniques of mob terror. It is their clear and overt transition from mob terror to bomb terror that had yet to sink in. Their link to a well-greased network of terror training and bomb making has only recently impacted public discourse. The investigations of the 2006 Nanded bomb blasts (in the home of Bajrang Dal and RSS activists) by the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad (ATS) were reasonably independent, till the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) subsequently and suspiciously watered it down. But it was with the thorough investigations into the 2008 Malegaon blasts that the extent of this network became public. The Malegaon investigations were startling. They traced the masterminds of the crime to a serving Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian army, Srikant Purohit, a Sadhvi, Pragya Singh Thakur, and Swami Dayanand Pandey among others. Purohit’s close association with an organisation called Abhinav Bharat and the Sadhvi’s own links to the student wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) revealed a wider patronage to this brand of terror. Now, six months after filing the chargesheet, the Maharashtra ATS has again come under fire after a Mumbai special court discharged some of the accused of the Malegaon blasts case, including Sadhvi Pragya Thakur from the dreaded Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime (MCOCA) Act. A week before this development, another key accused Rakesh Dhawade (accused in the 2006 Purna mosque blast in Central Maharashtra) was discharged despite his confessional statement in which he admitted to arms making. During the investigations in the 2006 Nanded blast case, he had stated that the bomb blasts at the mosque were part of a pattern and conspiracy. Dhawade also revealed that he was involved in imparting training for bomb preparation and detonation to seven or eight youth at a location near the Sinhgad Fort, Pune in 2003. Given the evidence against him, it is inexplicable how a court could discharge Dhawade. Under pressure to challenge both developments, the ATS appears confident of reversing these adverse developments in higher courts. The moot question however is the reluctance of the better investigative agencies, as also sections of our judiciary, to admit to the existence of this brand of terror and to cast a firm and unbreakable net of evidence around individual and outfits linked to them. ON JANUARY 20, 2009 the ATS under its former chief, KP Raghuvanshi, filed the chargesheet in the Malegaon blast case naming 14 persons (11 under arrest and three absconding) as accused. The chargesheet held them guilty of crimes under 16 sections of the IPC, including murder and criminal conspiracy. A striking omission is the absence of section 125 of the IPC for waging war against the nation despite serious evidence. Two months earlier, ATS chief Hemant Karkare, who had spearheaded the Malegaon investigations, had been killed in the Mumbai terror siege in November 2008. The chargesheet makes a strong argument for the application of MCOCA, stating that “this organised crime syndicate of Rakesh Dhawade had been committing bomb blasts since the year 2003”. All the other accused had joined this organised crime syndicate and continued its unlawful activities, which “included the procurement and transportation of the materials which are required to make bombs”. They had also transferred large amounts of money, arms and ammunition used to carry out unlawful activities and had worked together to advocate and promote their organised gang and continue its unlawful activities, namely promoting their fundamentalist ideology to form a separate Hindu Rashtra. Their strategy, according to the ATS chargesheet, was to explode bombs and other improvised explosive devices in areas with a dense Muslim population even as they sought to create the impression that they acted in retaliation and revenge for acts committed by the Muslim community. The ATS investigated the Nanded blast case quite independently, till the CBI watered it down Given that these assertions in the chargesheet are corroborated by Dhawade’s confessional statement, the ATS could have ensured that Dhawade was not so easily let off as an accused in the Purna masjid blast case. Dhawade’s discharge in a related crime was a legal prerequisite to MCOCA charges being dropped against the Sadhvi, a week later. A related issue: Why have the Maharashtra government and police been reluctant to treat all related investigations – Nanded 2006, 2007, Jalna, Parbhani and Purna (all in Central Maharashtra) masjid blasts (from 2003) as terror acts by the same group despite confessional statements by Dhawade and others linking the acquisition of explosives and training to a well-funded ring? The ATS has also, on the face of it, treated the involvement of serving and retired army officers as a one-off event. This, despite the evidence that has repeatedly surfaced, through the Nanded, Malegaon and even the Jalna, Purna and Parbhani blast investigations, of a wider network of serving and retired officers being involved in some of these activities. Instances of RDX leakage from the armed forces that have surfaced in over a dozen cases all over Maharashtra since 2002 have also not been treated with the severity the offence demands. LT COL Purohit procured the RDX used in the blast while he was posted in Jammu and Kashmir. He stored it in his homes in Pune and Nashik. The transcripts (of an audio recording allegedly found on Dayanand Pandey’s laptops) included as part of the chargesheet implicate Purohit in at least two other similar incidents, whereas the ATS chargesheet limits itself to the Malegaon incident alone. In these transcripts Purohit, while talking to Pandey, said, “Main kuch baat kahunga isse pehle kabhi nahi kahi gayi thi. Do operation humne kiye, successful ho gaye. Operation karne ki meri kshamta hain, swamiji. Mere paas equipment ki kami nahi hain. Main equipment paida kar sakta hoon. Equipment la sakta hoon. Agar jab thaan leta hoon. Lekin target chunna yeh mere ek ke vishay ke hisaab nahi hona chahiye (I will say something that I have not spoken of before. We have carried out two operations in the past and they were successful. I am capable of carrying out operations. I have more than enough equipment. Getting equipment is easy. But choosing the target should not be my decision alone).” The earlier ATS chargesheet( s) of 2006 in the Nanded blast case also implicate Sanatkumar Bhate, a former navy officer, in training members of the Bajrang Dal at the Akanksha Resort at Sinhgad near Pune. Bhate, like Dhawade, escapes a thorough probe by the ATS. An omission in the ATS chargesheet is the absence of IPC’s section 125 for waging war against the nation Links to other blasts in which this widespread terror ring may be involved have also surfaced during these investigations. During a narco analysis test conducted on Lt Col Purohit on November 9, 2008, he spilt the beans on his role in and his network’s connections to the Samjhauta Express blasts of February 18-19, 2007, which killed 68 persons, most of whom were Pakistanis. Purohit, during interrogation, also spoke of a possible role in the Ajmer Sharif blast and the Mecca masjid blast in Hyderabad). The police forces in Haryana and Rajasthan are reinvestigating two of these blast cases, while the CBI is handling the Mecca masjid blast case. The ATS has also been lenient and spared two important private institutes affiliated to the Maharashtra RSS, the Bhonsala Military Schools at Nashik and Nagpur, which were found to have been regularly used for terror training and bomb-making, as well as the Akanksha Resort. These institutes enjoy patronage from the highest echelons of the Sangh Parivar. These locations had earlier been used to train cadres in bomb-making as has been revealed in the Nanded blast case chargesheets filed by the ATS in 2006. Soft exclusions in these investigations also spare the high profile rabble-rousers of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Praveen Togadia and Acharya Giriraj Kishore in exhorting youngsters towards these acts. Both Togadia and Kishore allegedly visited Nanded on the eve of the 2006 blast. Similarly, in the Malegaon case, the involvement of Himani Savarkar, Nathuram Godse’s niece, and daughter-inlaw of Narayan Savarkar, the brother of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, has also been handled with kid gloves. Himani, a member of Abhinav Bharat, (who is on record on video as saying that she supports the ‘bomb versus bomb theory’) was, according to the ATS, also present at the meeting in which the Malegaon conspiracy was hatched. She is not named as part of the conspiracy but is only named as a witness. The ATS has even spared two private institutes being used for terror training and bomb-making Grappling with this brand of terror is a sharp challenge to the Indian establishment, security agencies and law enforcement. The ATS Maharashtra has so far led by example even admitting that way back in 2006, ‘organised Hindu terror’ posed a challenge to the Indian establishment. Does it have the grit to correct the errors, plug the loopholes and carry its findings to their logical end? High levels of infiltration into India’s administrative and governance apparatus by those who regard India only as a Hindu nation are responsible for the breakdown of the rule of law and impunity against prosecution. This ideological affinity, which defies the basic Constitutional vision of India as a secular democratic republic has allowed a free run to mob terror and bomb terror. The investigations into the Nanded and Malegaon blasts and their successful prosecution are a wakeup call for those within and outside the Indian establishment wedded to the idea of the Republic and the Rule of Law. Setalvad is co-editor of Communalism Combat and Secretary, Citizens for Justice and Peace From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 6, Issue 32, Dated August 15, 2009

Taliban threatens Afghan voters

The Taliban has threatened attacks on voters and polling stations [AFP] The Taliban in Afghanistan has threatened to cut off voters' fingers and attack polling stations in its bid to force Afghans to boycott the presidential elections. The threats on Sunday were made in leaflets pinned up and left on the ground in villages in southern Afghanistan. One of the so-called "night letters", threatened that the Taliban would cut off the noses and ears of those who vote on Thursday. Fingers stained with ink, the sign of having cast a vote, will also be hacked off, the warning said. Another leaflet, in Kandahar city, said: "This is to inform respected residents that you must not participate in the elections so as not to become a victim of our operations, because we will use new tactics." The threats came as hospital sources in Kandahar said one person was killed and another eight injured on Sunday after three mortars were fired into the centre of the city. The attack happened not far from a pro-Karzai rally in the city's main sports stadium. Taliban threat Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, confirmed the threatening leaflets were authentic and that commanders were ordering a boycott of the vote. "We are using new tactics targeting election centres... We will accelerate our activities on election day and the day before," he said.Later, a rocket attack in the southern province wounded two children working in a shop in Kandahar city. The leaflets, which mark the first direct Taliban threat to attack polling sites, follow a suicide blast in Kabul. At least eight people were killed in the attack, just outside the headquarters of Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in the Afghan capital on Saturday. Nick Clarke, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said: "It's just four days until Afghanistan's presidential elections, and I can tell you things are very much on edge here." The Taliban has upped its offensive ahead of the country's elections, due on August 20. Election officials have said fears of violence could prevent hundreds of polling stations from opening and that voting was unlikely in nine of the 365 districts. Live debate Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, took part in a live television debate with two of his main rivals on Sunday. Karzai, considered the frontrunner, took to the stage with Ramazan Bashardost, an independent candidate, and Ashraf Ghani, the former finance minister. Abdullah Abdullah, the former foreign minister, pulled out of the debate, which was aired on state broadcaster Radio and Television Afghanistan (RTA), an announcer said. Karzai made many promises to the Afghan people that concerned foreign forces [AFP] James Bays, Al Jazeera's correspondent based in Afghanistan, said: "Karzai was pressed on many issues and it was a good platform for him to say what he was going to do after nearly eight years in power. "If he is re-elected, he said he was going to make some big changes and the most significant points concerned foreign forces. "He said that there will be no military operations by international forces if they were not first permitted by Afghans. "He said he would not allow international forces to search Afghan homes. And he said he didn't want any Afghans in the future to be held in jails run by foreigners. "So that means that controversial prison base at Baghram airport - which lots of human rights organisations have been talking about - will have to close." A good turnout in Thursday's presidential election will be crucial for the vote to be considered legitimate.

Obama attacks insurance premiums

Obama: "No-one in America should go broke because they get sick" US President Barack Obama has stepped up his drive for healthcare reform, attacking excessive premiums charged by insurance companies. Speaking in Colorado, Mr Obama said that under his plan companies would not be allowed to charge exorbitant fees nor place arbitrary limits on coverage. Mr Obama is making a series of "town-hall" speeches to back his campaign. Extending coverage to the millions of Americans who lack health insurance is Mr Obama's top priority for 2009. His reform plan is currently under debate in the US Congress. Some 46 million people in America currently do not have health insurance, and rising healthcare costs are a major contributing factor to America's spiralling budget deficit. 'No silver bullet' Mr Obama said insurance companies had to be held accountable for practices that had led to premiums nearly doubling for the average American family over the past few years.He said: "We're going to ban arbitrary caps on benefits. We'll place limits on how much you can charge on out-of-pocket expenses. No-one in America should go broke because they get sick." Mr Obama admitted there was "no perfect painless silver bullet out there that solves every problem, gives everybody healthcare for free". But he said he had "a lot of really smart people around me who've been working on this for months now". Mr Obama also accused his political opponents of using scare tactics in their campaign against the reform. He added: "I need you to stand for hope. I need you to knock on doors. I need you to spread the word. Because we are going to get this done this year." There remains serious disagreement in the US about how to go about reforming the healthcare system. Democrats in the House of Representatives have reportedly reached a deal on a bill that would mandate all Americans to take out health insurance, with subsidies for the less well-off paid for by a tax on families earning over $350,000 a year. But in the Senate negotiations have stalled, with moderate senators expressing opposition to both the tax and the public plan proposed by the House. Both chambers need to agree on a bill before it can become law.

Row over Afghan wife-starving law

Critics accuse President Hamid Karzai of betraying Afghan women An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law. The original bill caused outrage earlier this year, forcing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to withdraw it. But critics say the amended version of the law remains highly repressive. They accuse Mr Karzai of selling out Afghan women for the sake of conservative Shia support at next week's presidential election. The law governs family life for Afghanistan's Shia minority. Sexual demands The original version obliged Shia women to have sex with their husbands every four days at a minimum, and it effectively condoned rape by removing the need for consent to sex within marriage. The original bill caused outrage within Afghanistan and around the world Western leaders and Afghan women's groups were united in condemning an apparent reversal of key freedoms won by women after the fall of the Taliban. Now an amended version of the same bill has passed quietly into law with the apparent approval of President Karzai. Just ahead of this Thursday's Afghan presidential election, human rights groups suggest the timing is no accident. "There was a review process - Karzai came under huge pressure from all over the world to amend this law, but many of the most oppressive laws remain," Rachel Reid, the Human Rights Watch representative in Kabul, told the BBC. "What matters more to Karzai is the support of fundamentalists and hardliners here in Afghanistan whose support he thinks he needs in the elections." Women's groups say its new wording still violates the principle of equality that is enshrined in their constitution. It allows a man to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands; a woman must get her husband's permission to work; and fathers and grandfathers are given exclusive custody of children.

Japan economy set to show growth

Japan has been cautious in its economic outlook Japan's economy is tipped to show growth for the three months to June, after showing four consecutive quarter-on-quarter contractions. Analysts predict growth of 1% during the quarter, after shrinkage of 3.8% in the previous three-month period. The data, released on Monday, could mean the recession is over in Japan. Recent figures have shown other nations are also coming out of the recession, including Germany, France and Hong Kong, a sign the slowdown is easing. Not worsening Japan is heavily reliant on its exports so growth overseas could bode well for its recovery. But while the worst might be over, the pace and depth of the recovery will rely on whether Asia can be a "true engine of global growth", wrote the Bank of England's Andrew Sentance said in the Sunday Times. Mr Sentance, who is part of the bank's rate-setting monetary policy committee, said consumer demand from Asian nations would have to increase to boost growth. Japan's economy - like other Asian nations - is heavily reliant on exports. The slowdown in the US has hit it hard as American consumers have limited their spending. China's government has made a point of saying that recovery will have to be based on domestic demand. "The prospects for global recovery depend on whether Asia can become a true engine of global growth, not simply by meeting demand originating in America and Europe but propelled by consumer spending and investment in this key region," wrote Mr Sentance. In a recent Bank of Japan report, the central bank underlined its cautious view of the economy. While it said conditions in the world's second-largest economy had stopped worsening, it warned that unemployment would stay high and consumer spending low. Last month, the bank forecast that Japan's economy would shrink by 3.4% in the 12 months to 31 March 2010. Beating forecasts The French and German economies both grew by 0.3% between April and June, bringing to an end recessions in Europe's largest economies that have lasted a year. Analysts had not expected the data, suggesting recovery could be faster than previously expected. And Hong Kong recorded growth of 3.3% in the three months from April to June. That data was also better than had been expected, with the government subsequently increasing its forecast for growth in the whole year.

வெளிநாட்டு வாழ் இந்தியர்கள் இந்தியாவின் முதுகெலும்பு: கேரளமாநில எஸ்.டி.பி கட்சித்தலைவர் ஷெரீஃப்

துபாய்:வெளிநாட்டில் வாழும் இந்தியர்கள் இந்தியாவின் முதுகெலும்பு என்றும் அவர்களை Non residents Indian என்று கூறாமல் ஓவர்ஸீஸ் இந்தியன் சிட்டிசன் என்று அழைக்கவேண்டும் என்று சோசியல் டெமோக்ரேடிக் கட்சியின் கேரள மாநிலத்தலைவர் வழக்கறிஞர் கே.எம்.ஷெரீஃப் கூறினார்.

எமிரேட்ஸ் இந்தியா பெடேர்னிடி ஃபாரம் துபாய் ஒருங்கிணைப்புக்குழு துபாய் லேண்ட் மார்க் ஹோட்டலில் ஏற்பாடுச்செய்த வரவேற்பு நிகழ்ச்சியில் கலந்துக்கொண்டு உரையாற்றினார் அவர். எமிரேட்ஸ் இந்தியா பெடேர்னிடி ஃபாரம் வெளிநாட்டு வாழ் இந்தியர்களுக்கு வாக்குரிமை வழங்கக்கோரி கேரள நீதி மன்றத்தில் தாக்கல் செய்துள்ள வழக்கிற்கு முழுமையான அளவில் ஆதரவு தருவதாக ஷெரீஃப் வாக்குறுதியளித்தார்.

இந்தியா இஸ்ரேலுடன் உறவை ஏற்படுத்தியதை தொடர்ந்துதான் இந்தியாவில் போலி என்கவுண்டர்களும், குண்டுவெடிப்புகளும் நடக்கின்றன. இஸ்ரேல்,அமெரிக்க உயர் அதிகாரிகள் இந்தியாவருகை தரும்பொழுது தீவிரவாதத்தாக்குதல்களுக்கு ஏற்பாடுச்செய்து இந்தியாவை பதட்டமிகுந்த தேசமாக சித்தரிக்கின்றனர். மாலேகான்,மக்கா மஸ்ஜித் குண்டுவெடிப்புகளில் சங்க்பரிவார்கள் ராணுவத்தில் பயன்படுத்தப்படும் ஆயுதங்களை உபயோகித்துள்ளனர்.இம்மாதிரியான குண்டுவெடிப்புகளில் போலியான வழக்குகளை பதிவுச்செய்து உயர்கல்வி கற்கும் முஸ்லிம் மாணவர்களும்,வியாரத்தில் சிறந்து விளங்கும் முஸ்லிம்களும் அநியாயமாக சிறையில் அடைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர். இத்தகைய வழக்குகளில் அநியாயமாக சிக்கியவர்களுக்காக நீதிமன்றங்களில் வாதாடக்கூடாது என்று வழக்கறிஞர் சங்கங்கள் அரசியல் சட்டத்திற்கு மாற்றமான முறையில் தீர்மானங்களை நிறைவேற்றுகின்றன.

இந்தியாவில் வாழும் சிறுபான்மை மக்கள் மிகுந்த பாரபட்சமான முறையில் நடத்தப்படுகின்றார்கள்.இந்தியாவின் அரசியல் சட்டம் சிறப்பான முறையில் சிறுபான்மையர்களின் உரிமைகளும்,வணக்க வழிபாட்டுமுறைகளும் பாதுகாக்கப்படும் என்று உறுதியளித்தாலும் இந்தியாவின் பல பாகங்களிலும் முஸ்லிம்கள் புழுக்களை போல் வாழ்ந்துவருகின்றார்கள்.இந்தியா ஒளிர்கிறது என்று ஒரு பக்கம் கூறினாலும் ஊழலும்,பட்டினி மரணங்களும் நிறைந்த நாடுகளின் வரிசையில் இந்தியா முன்னணியில் நிற்கிறது.சுதந்திரம் அடைந்து 62 ஆண்டுகள் ஆனபோதிலும் பல்வேறு அரசியல் கட்சிகள் இந்தியாவை ஆட்சி செய்தபோதிலும் சாதாரண குடிமகனின் அடிப்படை பிரச்சனைக்களுக்கு தீர்வு காண‌ப்படவில்லை.சாதாரண குடிமகன்கள் ஒருபோதும் அரசிய உயர் பதவிகளுக்கு வர முடிவதில்லை.யார் ஆட்சி செய்தாலும் நிர்வாகத்தில் எந்த மாற்றமும் ஏற்படவில்லை. எப்பொழுதும் உயர்ஜாதியினர்தான் அரசு அதிகாரத்தின் உயர்பதவிகளின் செங்கோலை ஏந்த முடிகிறது.தலித்கள் மற்றும் முஸ்லிம்களின் நிலை மிகவும் மோசமான நிலையில் உள்ளதாக பல்வேறு கமிஷன்கள் தெளிவுப்படுத்துகின்றன.

பிற்படுத்தப்பட்ட மக்களின் தலைவர்களாக தங்களை காட்டிக்கொள்ளும் முலயாம்சிங்,லாலுபிரசாத் ஆகியோர் போட்டியிடும் தொகுதிகளில் கூட பிற்படுத்தப்பட்டோர் புழுக்களைப்போல் வாழ்கின்றனர்.சிறுபான்மையின மக்கள் வாழும் பகுதிகளில் அடிப்படை வசதிகளை ஏற்படுத்திக்கொடுப்பதில் கூட பாரபட்சம் காட்டுகின்றனர்.மண்டல் கமிஷன் அறிக்கைக்குப்பின் மாயாவதியின் பகுஜன் சமாஜ் கட்சி உள்ளிட்ட பல்வேறு கட்சிகள் ஆரம்பிக்கப்பட்டபோதிலும் பிற கட்சிகளைப்போல்தான் இக்கட்சிகளும் செயல்படுகிறது.நீதிமன்றம் உத்தரவிட்ட கிரிமீ லேயர் அரசியல் சட்டத்திற்கு விரோதமானது. விவசாயிகளின் பெயரைச்சொல்லி ஆட்சிக்கு வரும் கட்சிகள் அதிகாரம் கையில் கிடைத்தவுடன் அவர்களை மறந்து விடுகின்றார்கள். ஒரிஸ்ஸாவில் பாக்ஸைட் தாதுப்பொருளை பாதுகாப்பதற்காக அரசு அங்கு வசிக்கும் சிறுபான்மையனரான‌ மலைவாழ்மக்களை மாவோவாதிகளாக சித்தரித்து அவர்களுக்கெதிராக கடுமையான நடவடிக்கைகளை மேற்கொண்டுவருகிறது. கனிம வளங்கள் உள்ள‌ மற்றும் விவசாய நிலங்களுள்ள பகுதிகளில் வசிக்கும் சிறுபான்மையனரை விரட்டியடித்துவிட்டு அங்கு நில செஸ் என்ற பெயரில் குத்தகைதாரர்களுக்கு அதனை கொடுக்கிறது அரசு. இன்று இந்தியாவில் இடதுசாரிகளோ வலதுசாரிகளோ இல்லை, மாறாக முதலாளித்துவ சார்புடையவர்கள்தான் உள்ளனர்.இடதுசாரிகள் மேலும் வலதுசாரிகளாக மாறி வருகின்றார்கள்.ஏழை மக்களின் பிரச்சனையை தீர்ப்பதற்கு எவரும் இல்லை.

இத்தகைய மோசமான சூழலிருந்துதான் சோஷியல் டெமோக்ரேடிக் கட்சி உருவெடுத்தது.16 மாநிலங்களில் இன்று எஸ்.டி.பி யின் கேடருகள்(cadres) வலுவான நிலையில் உள்ளனர்.கட்சி தற்ப்பொழுது கேடர்களைத்தான்(cadres) தேர்வுச்செய்து வருகிறது.பல ஆண்டுகளாக இந்தியாவின் பல பகுதிகளிலிலுள்ள பல தரப்பட்ட மக்களிடம் கலந்துபேசி பல்வேறு பொதுக்கூட்டங்களும்,கருத்தரங்குகளும் ஏற்பாடுச்செய்து நடத்தியதன் முடிவாகத்தான் சோஷியல் டெமோக்ரேடிக் கட்சி உருவானது.உறுப்பினர் சேர்க்கை இதுவரை துவங்கவில்லை.திறமைமிக்கவர்களும்,கல்வியாளர்களும் கட்சியில் இணைய ஆரம்பித்துள்ளனர்.இவ்வாறு முஹம்மதுஷெரீஃப் உரையாற்றினார். நிகழ்ச்சிக்கு அப்துல்லத்தீஃப் தலைமை வகித்தார்.இப்ராஹீம் வாழ்த்துரை வழங்கினார்.ஸைனுல் ஆப்தீன் வெளிநாட்டு வாழ் இந்தியருக்கு ஓட்டுரிமை வழங்க அரசை வலியுறுத்த கோரும் மனுவை வழங்கினார். அபுதாபியைச்சார்ந்த ஹஸன் வரவேற்புரையாற்றினர்.ஸஹதுல்லா நன்றியுரை நவின்றார்.

பாப்புலர் ஃப்ரண்ட் ஆஃப் இந்தியாவிற்கெதிரான செய்தி வெளியிட்ட பத்திரிகைகளுக்கு நீதிமன்றம் சம்மன்

பெங்களூர்:பங்களாதேஷைச்சார்ந்த தீவிரவாத இயக்கத்தோடு பாப்புலர் ஃப்ரண்ட் ஆஃப் இந்தியாவிற்கு தொடர்பு என்று அவதூறாக செய்தி வெளியிட்ட நாளிதழுக்கும்,வார இதழ் ஒன்றிற்கும் நீதிமன்றம் சம்மன் அனுப்பியுள்ளது.

டைம்ஸ் ஆஃப் இந்தியா,ரேடியன்ஸ் வீக்லி ஆகிய பத்திரிகைகளின் உரிமையாளர்களுக்கும்,நிருபர்களுக்கும் பெங்களூர் துணை மெட்ரோபாலிடன் மாஜிஸ்ட்ரேட் சம்மன் அனுப்பியுள்ளார்.கடந்த 2007 ஆம் ஆண்டு செப்டம்பரில் கர்நாடகா கெ.எஃப்.டி,கேரள என்.டி.எஃப்,தமிழ்நாடு எம்.என்.பி ஆகிய அமைப்புகளுக்கும் பங்களாதேஷில் உள்ள ஒரு தீவிரவாத அமைப்பிற்கும் தொடர்பு இருப்பதாக கூறி டைம்ஸ் ஆஃப் இந்தியா என்ற ஆங்கில நாளேடு செய்தி வெளியிட்டிருந்தது. இதற்கெதிராகத்தான் பாப்புலர் ஃப்ரண்ட் ஆஃப் இந்தியா நீதி மன்றத்தில் வழக்கு தொடர்ந்திருந்தது.இந்நிலையில் இந்த வழக்கை பரிசீலித்த நீதிபதி டைம்ஸ் ஆஃப் இந்தியா பத்திரிகையின் கட்டுரையாளர் அம்பரீஷ்,உரிமையாளர் பிரியதர்ஷினி பாலா,பிரின்ட் அன்ட் பப்ளிஷர் துவாரக் நாத் ஆகியோர் நீதி மன்றத்தில் ஆஜராக வேண்டுமென்று உத்தரவிட்டார்.

அதே சமயம் பெங்களூரில் பாப்புலர் ஃப்ரண்ட் ஆஃப் இந்தியா நடத்திய வலிமையான இந்தியாவை உருவாக்குவோம் என்ற மாநாட்டிற்கு பிறகு ரேடியன்ஸ் வார இதழில் 2007 மார்ச்,ஏப்ரல் ஆகிய மாதங்களில் வெளிவந்த கட்டுரையில் பாப்புலர் ஃப்ரண்ட் ஒரு இன ரீதியான அமைப்பு என்ற அடிப்படையில் மோசமாக சித்தரிக்கப்பட்டிருந்தது. இதற்கெதிராகவும் பாப்புலர் ஃப்ரண்ட் இந்தியா சார்பாக வழக்குத் தொடுக்கப்பட்டிருந்தது. இப்பத்திரிகையின் உரிமையாளர் இஜாஸ் அஸ்லம்,கட்டுரையாளர்களான ஏ.ஆர்.முஹம்மது ஹஸன்,பி.முஹம்மது ஆகியோருக்கும் நீதி மன்றம் சம்மன் அனுப்பியுள்ளது.

வேர்களை தேடும் விழுது

அஸ்ஸலாமு அலைக்கும் வரஹுமத்துல்லாஹி வபரக்காத்துஹு

மங்காப் பொன் மாநபியின் சமூகத்திற்கு
எனை அழைத்து செல்லுங்கள்
கொஞ்சம் உலகாயத மோகம் கலைந்து
இதமாய் இதயத்தை வருடி விட
அந்த மாநபியின் சமூகத்துக்கு
எனை இட்டுச் செல்லுங்கள்.

எங்கே
எமது நபியின் குயில் பிலால்
பிலாலே !
உங்கள் சுருதி மாறா குரலெடுத்து
எனக்காக ஒரு முறை
அதான் சொல்லுங்களேன்.
காது இனிக்க இனிக்க
இப்னு மஸீதின்
கிராத் கேட்க வேண்டுமே

அஸ்ஸலாமு அலைக்கும்
ஹாரிதா இப்னு நுஃமான்
எங்கே உங்களது தாய் -
பெற்றவருக்கு பணிவிடை செய்து
சொர்க்கத்தில் குரான் ஓதும்
பாக்கியம் பெற்றவரல்லவா நீங்கள்

அபூ ஹீரைரா !
உங்களிடம் எனக்காக
புத்தம் புது ஹதீஸ்
ஒன்று இருக்கிறதா
அபுபக்கரே !
உங்கள் ஈமானின் ஒரு துளியை
எங்கள் இதயத்தின் மீது
தூவுங்களேன்

உமரே !
பகுத்தறிவின் ஆழத்தின்
நுணுக்கம் தெரிந்த அறிவு ஜீவியே !
எங்கிருந்து உங்களுக்கு இவ்வளவு திறமை

ஆச்சரியம் எனக்கில்லை
நீங்களெல்லாம்
முஹம்மது எனும் சுடரில்
பாடம் பயின்ற மேதைகள் அல்லவா

ஓ முஸைப் இப்னு உமைரா
எங்கே உங்களது எமன் தேசத்து
காலணி பட்டில் நெய்த சீமை சட்டை
சுகந்தம் வீசும் அத்தர் மணம்
ஈமானின் சுகம் கண்டு
இத்தனை செளகரியமும்
துறந்ததாய் சொன்னார்கள்
இத்தியாகத்தின் பாசறையில்
என்னையும் சேருங்களேன்

எனது ஈமான் தளும்பும் போதுகளில்
எங்கே ஹன்ழரா ?
உங்கள் கவலையில் எனக்கும்
இடம் உண்டா ?
முதல் இரவில் வியர்வை காயுமுன்னே
விடியலின் வெள்ளி மறையும் முன்னே
போர்களத்தில் குருதி சிந்திய
ஷாஹிதே ஹன்ழராவே
உங்கள் இளம் மனைவிக்கும்
அல்லாஹ் அருள் சொறியட்டும்

உஹது மலையே ! உஹது மலையே !
ஹம்ஸா அம்பு பட்டு சாய்ந்த போது
உன்னால் அசையாமல் இருக்க முடிந்ததா?

எனது அன்னை ஆயிஷாவை
கண் நிறைய காண வேண்டும்
சொர்க்கம் சொந்தமாகியும்
அழுது அழுது குரான் ஓதும்
என் அன்பு தாயே
பதினெட்டு தாண்டு முன்
துணை இழந்த இளமையே
உங்கள் ஈமானின் பலம் புதிரில்லை

எமக்கு புதிதுமில்லை
அபுபக்கரின் மகளல்லவா நீங்கள்..

எனது உம்மா கதீஜாவிடம்
என்னை இட்டு செல்லுங்கள்
எங்கள் நபிக்கு தோள் கொடுத்து
அல்லாஹ்வின் சலாம் ஏற்று
பாத்திமாவெனும் மாணிக்கத்தை
கருவில் சுமந்த
அந்த தூய ஆத்மா
என் உயிர் தாயின் மடியில்
ஒரு கணம் சாய வேண்டும்

அள்ளி கொடுக்க கை நீளும்
அன்னை ஜைனப் எங்கே ?
தாயே எனக்கும் பசிக்கிறது
அன்ன கரண்டி எடுத்து
நரகம் தீண்டாத அந்த விரல்களால்
கொஞ்சம் ஊட்டி விடுங்கள்ளேன்

ஸ அத் இப்னு முஆத் உடைய
மரண ஊர்வலத்தில்

எனக்கும் கலந்து கொள்ள
இடம் இருக்குமா
மலாயிக்காமார்களுடன் நடந்து செல்லும்
பாக்கியமேனும் கிட்டுமே

என் உயிர் நபியே ! யா ரசூலே !
உங்கள் சமூகத்தின்
இதமான வாழ்க்கைக்குள்
நானும் வருகிறேனே
கொஞ்சம் உறங்கி, நிறைய விழித்து
அழுது தொழுது
ஏழையாய், ஆனந்தமாய் வாழ
என் உயிர் மேலும் ஆளுமை
கொண்ட நபியே ! யா ரசூலே !
உங்கள் பாசறையில்
என்னையும்
அணைத்துக் கொள்ளுங்களேன்.

நீங்கள் கருணையின் ஊற்று
எனக்காக உங்கள் இரக்கத்தில் இன்ஷா அல்லாஹ் இடம் இருக்கும்

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”இறைவா! எங்கள் அதிபதியே! இவ்வுலகிலும் எங்களுக்கு நன்மையை வழங்குவாயாக! மறுமையிலும் எங்களுக்கு நன்மையையே வழங்குவாயாக. மேலும் நரக நெருப்பின் வேதனையை விட்டும் எங்களை காப்பாற்றுவாயாக!”