Baba Umar April 2, 2011, Issue 13 Volume 8 MUHAMMAD YOUSUF SHAH was born on 18 February 1946 in Budgam’s Soibugh village. He studied medicine and political science before becoming chief of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and chairman of the United Jihad Council (UJC), an amalgam of 14 militant outfits operating in Jammu & Kashmir that seeks the state’s accession to Pakistan. He is.
The government’s interlocutor escaped an attempt on his life while on a relief mission to Dantewada. An account of his experiences
SWAMI AGNIVESH
Social Activist
HEARING a gun-toting man say he wanted to kill me was a very frightening moment in Dantewada on 26 March. Equally traumatic was the attack by SPOs and members of the Salwa Judum, despite.
April 30, 2011, Issue 17 Volume 8 The landmines planted by India along the LoC were supposed to keep Pakistanis at bay. But Kashmiris end up losing their limbs and lives, reports Baba Umar SHAHEEN AKHTER, 29, vividly remembers the field rigged with thousands of landmines laid on 8 March 2002 in Karmara, the last mountainous village in Jammu’s Poonch district.
June 18, 2011, Issue 24 Volume 8
Hurriyat (M) member Abdul Ghani Bhat tells Baba Umar that Kashmiris should take the initiative for restarting peace parleys
Why do you think that trifurcation is a natural solution?
We have been seeking settlement in the larger interests of the subcontinent. India and Pakistan have gone nuclear and.
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July 2, 2011, Issue 26 Volume 8
FAKE TERRORISTS 1, A series on Kashmiri youth
Imran Ahmad Kirmani, 29
Nelipora hamlet, Handwara Jammu & Kashmir
WHY: Arrested on the purported charges of being a Lashkar-e- Toiba operative planning to carry out 9/11-style terror attacks in the country. He was sent to Tihar Jail.
WHEN: 15 November 2006.
WHERE: Dwarka,.
July 9, 2011, Issue 27 Volume 8
FAKE TERRORISTS 2, A series on Kashmiri youth
Syed Maqbool Shah, 32
Lal Bazaar, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
BABA UMAR
WHY: Arrested for alleged involvement in the Lajpat Nagar bombings of 21 May 1996, on the basis of a car tyre found in his room that allegedly belonged to the car used in.
July 16, 2011, Issue 28 Volume 9
FAKE TERRORISTS 3, A series on Kashmiri youth
Shakeel Ahmad Khan, 50
Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
WHY: Arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate top politicians like Murli Manohar Joshi and former J&K governor Jagmohan. Served four years and three months at Tihar Jail
WHEN: 24 April 1992.
WHERE: Lajpat Nagar.
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FAKE TERRORISTS 4, A series on Kashmiri youth
Mirza Iftikhar Hussain, 40
Namchebal, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
WHY: Arrested for alleged involvement in the 21 May 1996 Lajpat Nagar blasts in Delhi. He was at that time in a rented room in Bhogal but police said they caught him at the railway station.
Political pressure has restarted work on the Maheshwar Hydel Project Dam. Baba Umar examines the mess beneath WHY IS the PMO intervening? Do Madhya Pradesh chief ministers, past and present, have personal interests in the project? After Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh decided to revoke the stop-work order on the Maheshwar Hydel Project Dam on the Narmada under.
(Published in Tehelka Magazine, Volume 8 Issue 32, Dated August 13, 2011) PDP vice-president Moulvi Iftikhar Ansari tells Baba Umar that people in Sopore didn’t pelt stones at them, but at the police The government stopped People’s Democratic Party leader Mehbooba Mufti from visiting the family of Nazim Rashid, who died in police custody. How.
