Three young boys namely Abdullah Ahmad Ali 28, Assad Sarwar 29 and Tanvir Hussain 28 all british muslims who were convicted few days before have now been awarded imprisonment for 40 years , 36 years and 32 years respectively. They have been alleged to have plotted to blow transatlantic passenger jets bound for North America using highly sophisticated liquid explosives. It is said that if this plot would have succeeded thousands of people would have been killed, as per the verbatim of the judge of the case, stand alongside the events of September 11, 2001, in history.
Most of times it is said that extremism is bred in those areas which are poverty ridden, education less, ill or un-governed states for which Afghanistan, Somalia and certain areas of Pakistan are given as an instance. This argument is mostly put forward by US and its western allies, often to justify their actions in all these aforementioned areas, However, it is not mostly true, it is not the people of these areas only which are instrumental in progression of hate against US and its allies. Many young people even from US, Canadian and other western nations have been seen fighting in Afghanistan against western forces few of whom were captured even. The point of stress is that extremism has little to do with poverty, illiteracy and ill /un-governed areas, contrary to this, the main sources of this hate are the people with good education, better economic conditions and the areas which are well governed. One big instance is of the people who were alleged to have been involved in September 11, 2001 incident and these young British boys too attest to this premise.
Mr. Barrack Obama had given a hope by a speech of reconciliation few months back in Cairo. There was optimism among the Muslim masses that there will be policy shift in US due to Mr. Obama good gestures. The root causes of the extremism will be addressed and world will move towards a better future. However, what appears as of now, no substantial policy shift is seen in Obama administration and at many fronts it seems they have marched over to Bush administration.
United States appear to have failed in dealing with Israel. Israel recently defied US by not accepting barrage upon construction of 455 housing compounds in western bank on the Palestinian land. Many experts believe that Israel can never defy US it is just a whitewash to befool world in general and Muslims in particular. US interventions have increased manifold under Obama rather than as it used to be in the time of Mr. Bush. Troops surge has been done in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s north-western tribal areas are receiving frequent drone attacks. Even US forces have recently killed one Mr. Salih in Somalia in a helicopter attack. Even it is reported that US has been supplying weapons to the warring factions in Somalia, the path which even Bush presidency did not tread.
Killing the opponents all over the Muslim world has not and will not help US and its allies to have more friends rather it is earning enemies. The un-denting relationship with Israel is one of the biggest sores and reason of hatred which Muslims bore against US. One will be living in a fool’s paradise to believe that the people will love those who actively support the illegal state which killed 1300 innocent people of Gaza which included hundreds of infants and women whose blood was seen sprinkling on the TV screens. Let US and its allies believe that cannot make any inroads into Muslims whether literate or illiterate, rich or poor etc until and unless Palestinian issue is not solved as per the wishes of Palestinian people in particular and Muslims in general. Further, there is a need of reconciliation in Afghanistan; you are nowhere even after eight years except common Afghan Muslims are dying. Come out of Iraq and let Iraqis decide their own future. Similarly there is no need to burn your fingers in Somalia again. Few years back when the same person who is President of Somalia whom US supports now was leading Islamic Courts. That time he was in better position to control all the groups who are fighting Government there, US opposed him. Iran and Syria need to be dealt with peace and parleys rather than viewing them through the goggles of Israel. Stop supporting despotic regimes in Muslim world. Lastly, help in solving the problem of Kashmir created by strong ally of US, i.e. England.
Come let us change this world from hatred to love but love can come only by visiting to root causes and by solving them. Muslims are humans like other humans believe me they have no horns on their heads. We hope, in future, no more guys like these young lovely guys turned extremists will have to face prosecution for 32 to 40 years, and will live their life to its fullest as all others live.
By Hamidnilnagi
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Let us give peace a chance
Three young boys namely Abdullah Ahmad Ali 28, Assad Sarwar 29 and Tanvir Hussain 28 all british muslims who were convicted few days before have now been awarded imprisonment for 40 years , 36 years and 32 years respectively. They have been alleged to have plotted to blow transatlantic passenger jets bound for North America using highly sophisticated liquid explosives. It is said that if this plot would have succeeded thousands of people would have been killed, as per the verbatim of the judge of the case, stand alongside the events of September 11, 2001, in history.
Most of times it is said that extremism is bred in those areas which are poverty ridden, education less, ill or un-governed states for which Afghanistan, Somalia and certain areas of Pakistan are given as an instance. This argument is mostly put forward by US and its western allies, often to justify their actions in all these aforementioned areas, However, it is not mostly true, it is not the people of these areas only which are instrumental in progression of hate against US and its allies. Many young people even from US, Canadian and other western nations have been seen fighting in Afghanistan against western forces few of whom were captured even. The point of stress is that extremism has little to do with poverty, illiteracy and ill /un-governed areas, contrary to this, the main sources of this hate are the people with good education, better economic conditions and the areas which are well governed. One big instance is of the people who were alleged to have been involved in September 11, 2001 incident and these young British boys too attest to this premise.
Mr. Barrack Obama had given a hope by a speech of reconciliation few months back in Cairo. There was optimism among the Muslim masses that there will be policy shift in US due to Mr. Obama good gestures. The root causes of the extremism will be addressed and world will move towards a better future. However, what appears as of now, no substantial policy shift is seen in Obama administration and at many fronts it seems they have marched over to Bush administration.
United States appear to have failed in dealing with Israel. Israel recently defied US by not accepting barrage upon construction of 455 housing compounds in western bank on the Palestinian land. Many experts believe that Israel can never defy US it is just a whitewash to befool world in general and Muslims in particular. US interventions have increased manifold under Obama rather than as it used to be in the time of Mr. Bush. Troops surge has been done in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s north-western tribal areas are receiving frequent drone attacks. Even US forces have recently killed one Mr. Salih in Somalia in a helicopter attack. Even it is reported that US has been supplying weapons to the warring factions in Somalia, the path which even Bush presidency did not tread.
Killing the opponents all over the Muslim world has not and will not help US and its allies to have more friends rather it is earning enemies. The un-denting relationship with Israel is one of the biggest sores and reason of hatred which Muslims bore against US. One will be living in a fool’s paradise to believe that the people will love those who actively support the illegal state which killed 1300 innocent people of Gaza which included hundreds of infants and women whose blood was seen sprinkling on the TV screens. Let US and its allies believe that cannot make any inroads into Muslims whether literate or illiterate, rich or poor etc until and unless Palestinian issue is not solved as per the wishes of Palestinian people in particular and Muslims in general. Further, there is a need of reconciliation in Afghanistan; you are nowhere even after eight years except common Afghan Muslims are dying. Come out of Iraq and let Iraqis decide their own future. Similarly there is no need to burn your fingers in Somalia again. Few years back when the same person who is President of Somalia whom US supports now was leading Islamic Courts. That time he was in better position to control all the groups who are fighting Government there, US opposed him. Iran and Syria need to be dealt with peace and parleys rather than viewing them through the goggles of Israel. Stop supporting despotic regimes in Muslim world. Lastly, help in solving the problem of Kashmir created by strong ally of US, i.e. England.
Come let us change this world from hatred to love but love can come only by visiting to root causes and by solving them. Muslims are humans like other humans believe me they have no horns on their heads. We hope, in future, no more guys like these young lovely guys turned extremists will have to face prosecution for 32 to 40 years, and will live their life to its fullest as all others live.
Most of times it is said that extremism is bred in those areas which are poverty ridden, education less, ill or un-governed states for which Afghanistan, Somalia and certain areas of Pakistan are given as an instance. This argument is mostly put forward by US and its western allies, often to justify their actions in all these aforementioned areas, However, it is not mostly true, it is not the people of these areas only which are instrumental in progression of hate against US and its allies. Many young people even from US, Canadian and other western nations have been seen fighting in Afghanistan against western forces few of whom were captured even. The point of stress is that extremism has little to do with poverty, illiteracy and ill /un-governed areas, contrary to this, the main sources of this hate are the people with good education, better economic conditions and the areas which are well governed. One big instance is of the people who were alleged to have been involved in September 11, 2001 incident and these young British boys too attest to this premise.
Mr. Barrack Obama had given a hope by a speech of reconciliation few months back in Cairo. There was optimism among the Muslim masses that there will be policy shift in US due to Mr. Obama good gestures. The root causes of the extremism will be addressed and world will move towards a better future. However, what appears as of now, no substantial policy shift is seen in Obama administration and at many fronts it seems they have marched over to Bush administration.
United States appear to have failed in dealing with Israel. Israel recently defied US by not accepting barrage upon construction of 455 housing compounds in western bank on the Palestinian land. Many experts believe that Israel can never defy US it is just a whitewash to befool world in general and Muslims in particular. US interventions have increased manifold under Obama rather than as it used to be in the time of Mr. Bush. Troops surge has been done in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s north-western tribal areas are receiving frequent drone attacks. Even US forces have recently killed one Mr. Salih in Somalia in a helicopter attack. Even it is reported that US has been supplying weapons to the warring factions in Somalia, the path which even Bush presidency did not tread.
Killing the opponents all over the Muslim world has not and will not help US and its allies to have more friends rather it is earning enemies. The un-denting relationship with Israel is one of the biggest sores and reason of hatred which Muslims bore against US. One will be living in a fool’s paradise to believe that the people will love those who actively support the illegal state which killed 1300 innocent people of Gaza which included hundreds of infants and women whose blood was seen sprinkling on the TV screens. Let US and its allies believe that cannot make any inroads into Muslims whether literate or illiterate, rich or poor etc until and unless Palestinian issue is not solved as per the wishes of Palestinian people in particular and Muslims in general. Further, there is a need of reconciliation in Afghanistan; you are nowhere even after eight years except common Afghan Muslims are dying. Come out of Iraq and let Iraqis decide their own future. Similarly there is no need to burn your fingers in Somalia again. Few years back when the same person who is President of Somalia whom US supports now was leading Islamic Courts. That time he was in better position to control all the groups who are fighting Government there, US opposed him. Iran and Syria need to be dealt with peace and parleys rather than viewing them through the goggles of Israel. Stop supporting despotic regimes in Muslim world. Lastly, help in solving the problem of Kashmir created by strong ally of US, i.e. England.
Come let us change this world from hatred to love but love can come only by visiting to root causes and by solving them. Muslims are humans like other humans believe me they have no horns on their heads. We hope, in future, no more guys like these young lovely guys turned extremists will have to face prosecution for 32 to 40 years, and will live their life to its fullest as all others live.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Character certificate from Police for admission in Madrasah
Character certificate from Police for admission in Madarasah
On 07/09/2009 edition of daily Greater Kashmir there was an advertisement published by one of the city Madrasah inviting students for admission in the institution for religious studies. The Madrasah had published its affiliation with one of the leading Darul Aloom of India . There is all good in the advertisement but while specifying the conditions of eligibility it has said that the students should have police character certificate for the purpose of admission. It is worthwhile to mention that till now this certificate was sought in Jammu and Kashmir at the time of appointment in Government Service, Passport etc. It is impossible for a person to get appointed in Government service or receive Passport with clearance from the Police in shape of a certificate known here as Character Antecedent certificate. Now the Madrasah seeking such certificate from the students here means that if not denying the admission to the poor hapless children of Jammu and Kashmir but have definitely put into a difficult task of obtaining this certificate who for all these years have been rendered bad charactered in Police records due to political reasons. This is a well known fact that right from 1947, the people who did not subscribe to the official interpretation of the Kashmir issue are booked by the police and security agencies. This process gained momentum after the alliance of Muslim Mutahida Mahaz was made to lose elections which most of analysts here believe were won by them. Right from 1989 after this manipulated election and the commencement of armed struggle against Indian rule, the process of arrests and illegal confinement by the state police reached to the highest pedestal. At one time it is believed that it touching one lakh people from all ages were in jails. State jails got so much overfilled with detainees that arrested people were shifted to Jails outside Valley in Jammu and other Indian States . Some of the infamous jails which most of the people here remember tip of tongue are Kotbalwal, Hiranagar, Samba, Kathua, Central jail all in Jammu , Sangrur in Punjab, Tihar in Delhi , Rajashtan etc etc.
In these two decades it will not be an exaggeration to state there will be no family whose atleast one member living in the Greater Valley of Kashmir (including erstwhile Doda, Rajouri and Poonch) who would have not faced detention by the security agencies. Only those who were outside Valley (many of them too were arrested) or the near and dear ones of the people who were close to the establishment escaped from the detentions. Thus by this measure the whole lot of a crore people are without any character, i.e., they will not have Character Certificate from the security agencies for either of being themselves detained or any of their close relatives. Time and again we listen someone has not been issued Passport because one of his relative has been rendered Characterless by the Police or eligible candidates were denied employment by the Government agencies on this account. It may be pertinent to mention that not all people arrested here were militants, most of them used to be common people and some at the most who believed in Kashmir being disputed territory. There are thousands of instances to quote, I personally remember a person totally innocent and having nothing to do with politics who lived in my immediate neighbourhood in early nineties was arrested and was made to confess to be an Area Commander besides being Pak trained. Another neighbour of mine being a specialist doctor in his own field was got arrested by his foe by the security forces for a mere service benefit and still after so many years his pension case is unsettled.
The process to receive this Character Antecedent Certificate is itself too complex and cumbersome at times people give up the hope of getting it at all. The papers related to this character antecedent certificate had to go through tens of offices and number of departments including Police, CID etc. It takes months together to get this precious certificate of character from the authorities.
Irony of the fact is that people charged with heinous crimes of murder, sexual exploitation and corruption are sitting in the power corridors and the common people most of them innocent and some them for their political views are made to suffer. Limit is that they cannot seek employment in their own homeland and if they would like to leave the State for earning bread and butter they are denied Passport. It seems to be deliberate attempt to impoverish the common Kashmir Muslim. One fails to understand the policy of the Government the big baboos against whom cases of heinous crimes are lying with the Police and whose character antecedents are worst are allowed to sit in the highest offices. Even the big leaders who openly denounce Government’s position on Kashmir are given Passports, their kiths and kins appointed in Government services and donot face any problem. However, common man here is made to suffer. If detention by the Police / Security forces makes a man with bad character antecedents then a question arises what about the founder of the dynasty who is ruling us this time. I think a time has come to raise this issue strongly through whichever it is possible and people at the helm affairs should wave off this certificate so that people could not subjected to perpetual punishment as it is an established law that for one crime done (if ever done) there should one punishment only.
Coming back to the Madrasah, I think, these were the institutions where our childrens particularly from downtrodden families used to go for getting acquaintance with Islam besides having their bellies filled without having any prior Character Certificate from the Police, now if the Maulana Sahib wants us to first visit Police everyone one knows what will be fate of these children. I would like to request the Maulana Sahib to take back this condition of eligibility so that we could take benefits of the institution which has been affiliated with a prestigious Islamic Institute of India with a reminder that Prophet (SAW) did not stop to convey Islam to even Abu Jahl, the worst enemy of Islam and the most un-charactered man on this earth. Molvi Sahib we who seek admission are only those who love Islam.
On 07/09/2009 edition of daily Greater Kashmir there was an advertisement published by one of the city Madrasah inviting students for admission in the institution for religious studies. The Madrasah had published its affiliation with one of the leading Darul Aloom of India . There is all good in the advertisement but while specifying the conditions of eligibility it has said that the students should have police character certificate for the purpose of admission. It is worthwhile to mention that till now this certificate was sought in Jammu and Kashmir at the time of appointment in Government Service, Passport etc. It is impossible for a person to get appointed in Government service or receive Passport with clearance from the Police in shape of a certificate known here as Character Antecedent certificate. Now the Madrasah seeking such certificate from the students here means that if not denying the admission to the poor hapless children of Jammu and Kashmir but have definitely put into a difficult task of obtaining this certificate who for all these years have been rendered bad charactered in Police records due to political reasons. This is a well known fact that right from 1947, the people who did not subscribe to the official interpretation of the Kashmir issue are booked by the police and security agencies. This process gained momentum after the alliance of Muslim Mutahida Mahaz was made to lose elections which most of analysts here believe were won by them. Right from 1989 after this manipulated election and the commencement of armed struggle against Indian rule, the process of arrests and illegal confinement by the state police reached to the highest pedestal. At one time it is believed that it touching one lakh people from all ages were in jails. State jails got so much overfilled with detainees that arrested people were shifted to Jails outside Valley in Jammu and other Indian States . Some of the infamous jails which most of the people here remember tip of tongue are Kotbalwal, Hiranagar, Samba, Kathua, Central jail all in Jammu , Sangrur in Punjab, Tihar in Delhi , Rajashtan etc etc.
In these two decades it will not be an exaggeration to state there will be no family whose atleast one member living in the Greater Valley of Kashmir (including erstwhile Doda, Rajouri and Poonch) who would have not faced detention by the security agencies. Only those who were outside Valley (many of them too were arrested) or the near and dear ones of the people who were close to the establishment escaped from the detentions. Thus by this measure the whole lot of a crore people are without any character, i.e., they will not have Character Certificate from the security agencies for either of being themselves detained or any of their close relatives. Time and again we listen someone has not been issued Passport because one of his relative has been rendered Characterless by the Police or eligible candidates were denied employment by the Government agencies on this account. It may be pertinent to mention that not all people arrested here were militants, most of them used to be common people and some at the most who believed in Kashmir being disputed territory. There are thousands of instances to quote, I personally remember a person totally innocent and having nothing to do with politics who lived in my immediate neighbourhood in early nineties was arrested and was made to confess to be an Area Commander besides being Pak trained. Another neighbour of mine being a specialist doctor in his own field was got arrested by his foe by the security forces for a mere service benefit and still after so many years his pension case is unsettled.
The process to receive this Character Antecedent Certificate is itself too complex and cumbersome at times people give up the hope of getting it at all. The papers related to this character antecedent certificate had to go through tens of offices and number of departments including Police, CID etc. It takes months together to get this precious certificate of character from the authorities.
Irony of the fact is that people charged with heinous crimes of murder, sexual exploitation and corruption are sitting in the power corridors and the common people most of them innocent and some them for their political views are made to suffer. Limit is that they cannot seek employment in their own homeland and if they would like to leave the State for earning bread and butter they are denied Passport. It seems to be deliberate attempt to impoverish the common Kashmir Muslim. One fails to understand the policy of the Government the big baboos against whom cases of heinous crimes are lying with the Police and whose character antecedents are worst are allowed to sit in the highest offices. Even the big leaders who openly denounce Government’s position on Kashmir are given Passports, their kiths and kins appointed in Government services and donot face any problem. However, common man here is made to suffer. If detention by the Police / Security forces makes a man with bad character antecedents then a question arises what about the founder of the dynasty who is ruling us this time. I think a time has come to raise this issue strongly through whichever it is possible and people at the helm affairs should wave off this certificate so that people could not subjected to perpetual punishment as it is an established law that for one crime done (if ever done) there should one punishment only.
Coming back to the Madrasah, I think, these were the institutions where our childrens particularly from downtrodden families used to go for getting acquaintance with Islam besides having their bellies filled without having any prior Character Certificate from the Police, now if the Maulana Sahib wants us to first visit Police everyone one knows what will be fate of these children. I would like to request the Maulana Sahib to take back this condition of eligibility so that we could take benefits of the institution which has been affiliated with a prestigious Islamic Institute of India with a reminder that Prophet (SAW) did not stop to convey Islam to even Abu Jahl, the worst enemy of Islam and the most un-charactered man on this earth. Molvi Sahib we who seek admission are only those who love Islam.
On 07/09/2009 edition of daily Greater Kashmir there was an advertisement published by one of the city Madrasah inviting students for admission in the institution for religious studies. The Madrasah had published its affiliation with one of the leading Darul Aloom of India . There is all good in the advertisement but while specifying the conditions of eligibility it has said that the students should have police character certificate for the purpose of admission. It is worthwhile to mention that till now this certificate was sought in Jammu and Kashmir at the time of appointment in Government Service, Passport etc. It is impossible for a person to get appointed in Government service or receive Passport with clearance from the Police in shape of a certificate known here as Character Antecedent certificate. Now the Madrasah seeking such certificate from the students here means that if not denying the admission to the poor hapless children of Jammu and Kashmir but have definitely put into a difficult task of obtaining this certificate who for all these years have been rendered bad charactered in Police records due to political reasons. This is a well known fact that right from 1947, the people who did not subscribe to the official interpretation of the Kashmir issue are booked by the police and security agencies. This process gained momentum after the alliance of Muslim Mutahida Mahaz was made to lose elections which most of analysts here believe were won by them. Right from 1989 after this manipulated election and the commencement of armed struggle against Indian rule, the process of arrests and illegal confinement by the state police reached to the highest pedestal. At one time it is believed that it touching one lakh people from all ages were in jails. State jails got so much overfilled with detainees that arrested people were shifted to Jails outside Valley in Jammu and other Indian States . Some of the infamous jails which most of the people here remember tip of tongue are Kotbalwal, Hiranagar, Samba, Kathua, Central jail all in Jammu , Sangrur in Punjab, Tihar in Delhi , Rajashtan etc etc.
In these two decades it will not be an exaggeration to state there will be no family whose atleast one member living in the Greater Valley of Kashmir (including erstwhile Doda, Rajouri and Poonch) who would have not faced detention by the security agencies. Only those who were outside Valley (many of them too were arrested) or the near and dear ones of the people who were close to the establishment escaped from the detentions. Thus by this measure the whole lot of a crore people are without any character, i.e., they will not have Character Certificate from the security agencies for either of being themselves detained or any of their close relatives. Time and again we listen someone has not been issued Passport because one of his relative has been rendered Characterless by the Police or eligible candidates were denied employment by the Government agencies on this account. It may be pertinent to mention that not all people arrested here were militants, most of them used to be common people and some at the most who believed in Kashmir being disputed territory. There are thousands of instances to quote, I personally remember a person totally innocent and having nothing to do with politics who lived in my immediate neighbourhood in early nineties was arrested and was made to confess to be an Area Commander besides being Pak trained. Another neighbour of mine being a specialist doctor in his own field was got arrested by his foe by the security forces for a mere service benefit and still after so many years his pension case is unsettled.
The process to receive this Character Antecedent Certificate is itself too complex and cumbersome at times people give up the hope of getting it at all. The papers related to this character antecedent certificate had to go through tens of offices and number of departments including Police, CID etc. It takes months together to get this precious certificate of character from the authorities.
Irony of the fact is that people charged with heinous crimes of murder, sexual exploitation and corruption are sitting in the power corridors and the common people most of them innocent and some them for their political views are made to suffer. Limit is that they cannot seek employment in their own homeland and if they would like to leave the State for earning bread and butter they are denied Passport. It seems to be deliberate attempt to impoverish the common Kashmir Muslim. One fails to understand the policy of the Government the big baboos against whom cases of heinous crimes are lying with the Police and whose character antecedents are worst are allowed to sit in the highest offices. Even the big leaders who openly denounce Government’s position on Kashmir are given Passports, their kiths and kins appointed in Government services and donot face any problem. However, common man here is made to suffer. If detention by the Police / Security forces makes a man with bad character antecedents then a question arises what about the founder of the dynasty who is ruling us this time. I think a time has come to raise this issue strongly through whichever it is possible and people at the helm affairs should wave off this certificate so that people could not subjected to perpetual punishment as it is an established law that for one crime done (if ever done) there should one punishment only.
Coming back to the Madrasah, I think, these were the institutions where our childrens particularly from downtrodden families used to go for getting acquaintance with Islam besides having their bellies filled without having any prior Character Certificate from the Police, now if the Maulana Sahib wants us to first visit Police everyone one knows what will be fate of these children. I would like to request the Maulana Sahib to take back this condition of eligibility so that we could take benefits of the institution which has been affiliated with a prestigious Islamic Institute of India with a reminder that Prophet (SAW) did not stop to convey Islam to even Abu Jahl, the worst enemy of Islam and the most un-charactered man on this earth. Molvi Sahib we who seek admission are only those who love Islam.
On 07/09/2009 edition of daily Greater Kashmir there was an advertisement published by one of the city Madrasah inviting students for admission in the institution for religious studies. The Madrasah had published its affiliation with one of the leading Darul Aloom of India . There is all good in the advertisement but while specifying the conditions of eligibility it has said that the students should have police character certificate for the purpose of admission. It is worthwhile to mention that till now this certificate was sought in Jammu and Kashmir at the time of appointment in Government Service, Passport etc. It is impossible for a person to get appointed in Government service or receive Passport with clearance from the Police in shape of a certificate known here as Character Antecedent certificate. Now the Madrasah seeking such certificate from the students here means that if not denying the admission to the poor hapless children of Jammu and Kashmir but have definitely put into a difficult task of obtaining this certificate who for all these years have been rendered bad charactered in Police records due to political reasons. This is a well known fact that right from 1947, the people who did not subscribe to the official interpretation of the Kashmir issue are booked by the police and security agencies. This process gained momentum after the alliance of Muslim Mutahida Mahaz was made to lose elections which most of analysts here believe were won by them. Right from 1989 after this manipulated election and the commencement of armed struggle against Indian rule, the process of arrests and illegal confinement by the state police reached to the highest pedestal. At one time it is believed that it touching one lakh people from all ages were in jails. State jails got so much overfilled with detainees that arrested people were shifted to Jails outside Valley in Jammu and other Indian States . Some of the infamous jails which most of the people here remember tip of tongue are Kotbalwal, Hiranagar, Samba, Kathua, Central jail all in Jammu , Sangrur in Punjab, Tihar in Delhi , Rajashtan etc etc.
In these two decades it will not be an exaggeration to state there will be no family whose atleast one member living in the Greater Valley of Kashmir (including erstwhile Doda, Rajouri and Poonch) who would have not faced detention by the security agencies. Only those who were outside Valley (many of them too were arrested) or the near and dear ones of the people who were close to the establishment escaped from the detentions. Thus by this measure the whole lot of a crore people are without any character, i.e., they will not have Character Certificate from the security agencies for either of being themselves detained or any of their close relatives. Time and again we listen someone has not been issued Passport because one of his relative has been rendered Characterless by the Police or eligible candidates were denied employment by the Government agencies on this account. It may be pertinent to mention that not all people arrested here were militants, most of them used to be common people and some at the most who believed in Kashmir being disputed territory. There are thousands of instances to quote, I personally remember a person totally innocent and having nothing to do with politics who lived in my immediate neighbourhood in early nineties was arrested and was made to confess to be an Area Commander besides being Pak trained. Another neighbour of mine being a specialist doctor in his own field was got arrested by his foe by the security forces for a mere service benefit and still after so many years his pension case is unsettled.
The process to receive this Character Antecedent Certificate is itself too complex and cumbersome at times people give up the hope of getting it at all. The papers related to this character antecedent certificate had to go through tens of offices and number of departments including Police, CID etc. It takes months together to get this precious certificate of character from the authorities.
Irony of the fact is that people charged with heinous crimes of murder, sexual exploitation and corruption are sitting in the power corridors and the common people most of them innocent and some them for their political views are made to suffer. Limit is that they cannot seek employment in their own homeland and if they would like to leave the State for earning bread and butter they are denied Passport. It seems to be deliberate attempt to impoverish the common Kashmir Muslim. One fails to understand the policy of the Government the big baboos against whom cases of heinous crimes are lying with the Police and whose character antecedents are worst are allowed to sit in the highest offices. Even the big leaders who openly denounce Government’s position on Kashmir are given Passports, their kiths and kins appointed in Government services and donot face any problem. However, common man here is made to suffer. If detention by the Police / Security forces makes a man with bad character antecedents then a question arises what about the founder of the dynasty who is ruling us this time. I think a time has come to raise this issue strongly through whichever it is possible and people at the helm affairs should wave off this certificate so that people could not subjected to perpetual punishment as it is an established law that for one crime done (if ever done) there should one punishment only.
Coming back to the Madrasah, I think, these were the institutions where our childrens particularly from downtrodden families used to go for getting acquaintance with Islam besides having their bellies filled without having any prior Character Certificate from the Police, now if the Maulana Sahib wants us to first visit Police everyone one knows what will be fate of these children. I would like to request the Maulana Sahib to take back this condition of eligibility so that we could take benefits of the institution which has been affiliated with a prestigious Islamic Institute of India with a reminder that Prophet (SAW) did not stop to convey Islam to even Abu Jahl, the worst enemy of Islam and the most un-charactered man on this earth. Molvi Sahib we who seek admission are only those who love Islam.
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