A former Hurriyat insider tells Baba Umar how the separatists have embezzled money meant for rebels IT ISN’T every day that you meet a man who has donned the hat of, a militant, an uncompromising protest-organiser for separatist groups, a goldsmith and a reform-minded sarpanch. Abdul Rashid Zargar (55) of Daraha Sangla village in Poonch district’s Surankote.
2,156 unidentified bodies in north Kashmir. The families want answers, but the J&K government is trying to give the issue a quiet burial. Baba Umar reports NOT TOO long ago, Kashmiris saw a ray of hope when Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced that he would revoke the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act. However, he failed to walk the talk. The interlocutors’.
A strange, disabling affliction — undiagnosed, unnamed — has become the scourge of the people of a village in Poonch, says Baba Umar SURROUNDED BY mountains of the Pir Panjal range, Adai village in Poonch district of Jammu & Kashmir is a stranger to development. Like many other villages in the region, phrases like sick infrastructure, lack of transport, ailing.
The families of five men killed in the fake encounter of 2000 are not convinced that a court martial will deliver justice, reports Baba Umar JUSTICE IN the Pathribal fake encounter case, in which five villagers were gunned down by the army on 25 March 2000, is being seen as a key to unlock the mystery surrounding the Chattisinghpora massacre of 35 Sikhs by “unidentified.
Demonstrators outside the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi seek snapping of defence ties between India and Israel. Baba Umar reports Demonstrators gathered outside the Israeli Embassy in New Delhi on Monday 19 November demanding immediate halt of Israeli aggression in Gaza, pledging solidarity with blockaded Palestinians and asking the UPA government to condemn and snap all.
Mohammad Aamir, Delhi
Age 32 | Years In Jail 14
Arrested February 1998 | Acquitted January 2012
FOURTEEN YEARS is a long time. Wiping away the tears streaming down his cheeks, Mohammad Aamir recounts his experience of when he stepped out of the Rohtak Jail on 9.
Syed Maqbool Shah
Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir
Age 33| Years In Jail 14
Arrested June 1996 | Acquitted April 2010
SYED MAQBOOL SHAH of Kashmir has a similar story of injustice and wrongful incarceration. In the by lanes of Srinagar’s Lal Bazaar, Shah’s.
The acquittal of two men on death row raises questions on the process of terror probes in India, says Baba Umar THEY HAD been handed out the harshest sentence the penal code allows — death. But on 22 November, 16 years after they were charged, the Delhi High Court set aside their death sentences, acquitting Mahmud Ali Bhat, 43, and Mirza Nissar Hussain, 32, of any.
Syed Wasif Haider
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Age 40 | Years In Jail 8
Arrested July 2001 | Acquitted August 2009
SYED WASIF HAIDER, a resident of Kanpur, UP, was jailed for eight years, before the courts finally acquitted him of all charges on 14 August 2009. As a part of the.
Over 10 years in jail. For a crime they did not commit. Baba Umar on the Muslims whose lives became hell in false terror cases ON 31 July 2001, Syed Wasif Haider’s life changed, going from the humdrum to the hunted in the course of one long night. The plainclothes policemen, who came knocking at his door that night, were not guests the 1972-born sales manager.
