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all india muslim majlis-e-mushawaratVol. Viii : 1-2 Editor: dr Zafarul-islam Khan January - June 2012

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ElECTiON fOr ThE NEw 2-yEar

TErm 2012-2013 2

NEw TEam - 2012-2013 2

CENTral OffiCE aCTiViTiES 3

CONdOlENCE lETTErS 4

mONThly lECTUrES

miNUTES 5

STaTE UNiTS 6

PrESidENT’S ENGaGEmENTS 6

rESOlUTiONS / STaTEmENTS /

mEmOraNdUmS / lETTErS 7

hiNdUTVa 7

TErrOriSm 7

STaTE TErrOriSm 14

hiNdUTVa TErrOriSm 15

haTE SPEECh 15

babri / ram maNdir iSSUE 16

riOTS 16

aSSam 17

J&K 17

ElECTiONS 18

ECONOmy 20

blaCK mONEy 20

haJ SUbSidy 20

rESErVaTiON 21

UrdU 21

waQfS 22

EdUCaTiON 23

GUJaraT 23

wEST bENGal 23

fOrEiGN iSSUES

arab SPriNG 24

PalESTiNE/iSraEl 24

iraN 26

Syria 26

bUrma mUSlimS 26

liST Of aimmm iNSTiTUTiONal

& iNdiVidUal mEmbErS (2012) 26

liSTS Of STaTE UNiTS 29

mEmbErS Of mmm & CONVENErS

Of UP 30

CirClE Of friENdS

Of mUShawaraT 31

bUdGET 2012-13 aNd ExPENSES

dUriNG aPril - JUNE 2012 32

CONTENTS

ElECTiON fOr ThE NEw 2-yEar TErm

2012-2013

Notification of results by the returnign Officer(ahmad rashid Shervani)

3 January 2012

Subject: Result of the AIMMM bi-annual electionfor the period 2012 & 2013

1. Election of President

In accordance with the Report of the Returning Officer MrA R Shervani on 3 January 2012, Dr. Zafarul Islam Khanelected as the President of the AIMMM for terms of 2years ending on 31 December, 2013.

The candidates for the Presidential post were DrZafarul Islam Khan & Mr. Navaid Hamid.

Outgoing President Mr Syed Shahabuddin has handedover charge and Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan has taken chargeas President of the AIMMM with effect from 3 January2012.

2. Election of the MMA

The Returning Officer received 74 valid nominations for20 posts of members of the Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawarat(MMM). The following members have beenelected as Members of the Markazi Majli-e-Amla(MMA),having received the 20 highest votes.

Votes

1. Mr. Syed Shahabuddin 38

2. Mr. A.R. Shervani 38

3. Dr. Abusaleh Shariff 28

4. Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mehdi Salfi 28

5. Mr. P.A. Inamdar 28

6. Prof. Akhtarul Wasey 28

7. Mr. Amanullah Khan 27

8. Mr. Bashiruddin Babukhan 27

9 Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri 25

10. Hafiz R.A. Choudhury 25

11. Mr. Saiyid Hamid 24

12. Maulana Ejaz Ahmed Aslam 23

13. Dr. S.Q. Ilyas 21

14. Prof. Humayun Murad 21

15. Dr. Arshi Khan 20

16. Mr. Abdul Khaliq 19

17. Dr. Syed Farooq 18

18. Mr. Mujtaba Farooq 17

19. Prof. Allauddin Ahmad 16

20. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman 16

NEw TEam2012-2013

Notification by the PresidentSubject: Nominations to Majlis-e Amla, Office bearersand reconstitution of the Supreme Guidance Council

16 January 2012

1. In accordance with Article 9.1 of the AIMMM constitu-

tion, the President has nominated the following ten mem-

bers to the MMA:

1. Janab Muhammad Sulaiman (Kanpur)2. Begum Nusrat Shervani (Delhi)3. Maulana Muhammad Jaafar (Delhi)4. Janab Abdur Rashid Agwan (Delhi)5. Prof. Shakeel Ahmad (Patna)6. Janab Nusrat Ali (Delhi)7. Hakeem Muhammad Irfanul Husaini (Kolkata)8. Maulana Syed Aqilul Gharwi (Delhi)9. Prof. Shafiq Ahmad Khan Nadwi (Delhi)10. Janab Zafar H. Jung (Delhi)

2. In accordance with Article 8.2 of the AIMMM constitu-

tion, the President has nominated the following office

bearers of the AIMMM as Vice Presidents:

1. Maulana Muhammad Jaafar (Delhi)2. Hakeem Muhammad Irfanul Husaini (Kolkata)3. Hafiz Rashid A. Choudhury (Guwahati)4. Maulana Aqilul Gharwi

3. Secretary General: Vacant

In accordance with Article 8.2 of the AIMMM constitution,

the President has nominated the following office bearers

of the AIMMM as General Secretaries:

1. Janab Ejaz Ahmad Aslam (Delhi)2. Janab Arshi Khan (Aligarh)3. Janab Muhammad Sulaiman (Kanpur)4. Janab AR Shervani (Delhi)

Composition of the Supreme Guidance Council

In accordance with Article 6.1 of the AIMMM constitution,the President has reconstituted the Supreme GuidanceCouncil as follows:1. Dr Abdul Haq Ansari2. Mr Ahmad Rashid Shervani3. Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mahdi Salafi4. Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri5. Janab Saiyid Hamid6. Maulana Nizamuddin Islahi7. Janab Syed Shahabuddin (living permanent member)8. Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan

Names suggested by the President for consideration by

the members of the Supreme Guidance Council during its

next meeting: Prof. Shafiq Ahmad Khan, Maulana AqilulGharwi, Janab Muhammad Jaafar, Janab Nusrat Ali.

President

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Urgent meeting to bid farewill to the outgoingPresident and to welcome the new one

16 January 2012

An urgent meeting of the Markazi Majlis-e-Mushawaratwas held on Monday, 16 January, 2012 at 4.30 PM atthe Central Office of the Mushawarat, D-250, Abul FazalEnclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025 to bid farewellto the outgoing President, Mr Syed Shahabuddin and towelcome the newly elected President, Dr Zafarul-IslamKhan, and to discuss some recent developments and towork out tentative future plans. There was no fixed agen-da. The meeting was attended by the following membersof the MMM1. Mr. Syed Shahabuddin2. Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan3. Mr. Mujtaba Farooq4. Mr. S.M.Y. Nadeem5. Prof. S.M.Yahya6. Mrs. Nusrat Shervani7. Mr. Jawed Ahmad8. Mr. Ahamad Rashid Shervani9. Prof. Akhtaru Wasey10. Dr. S.Q.R. Ilyas11. Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umri12. Janab Mohd. Jaafar13. Maulana Ejaz Ahmed Aslam14. Mr. Navaid Hamid15. Maulana Syed Aqilul Gharwi16. Janab Nusrat Ali

Standing Committee meeting& Condolence meeting

26 April 2012

A meeting of the Standing Committee washeld on 26 April 2012 to discuss some

internal matters like revision of the budget for 2012, initia-tion of a monthly lecture series on important milli, nation-al and international issues, to hold a press conferenceafter each MMM and MMA meeting, to rejuvenate state

units of AIMMM and toopen units in stateswhere AIMMM has nobranches, to completethe revision of theAIMMM constitution,to publish a goodbrochure and list ofmembers, start Urduand Hindi bulletins,open membership toIndian nationals livingabroad, open mem-bership to unrepre-sented sections andyounger capable indi-viduals. After the above infor-mal discussions, acondolence meetingfollowed in the memo-ry of Maulana Hakeem

Irfanul Husaini, Vice President of AIMMM, who died inKolkata on 16 April. He was also the current President ofthe AIMMM unit in West Bengal. The meeting was chaired by AIMMM president, Dr.Zafarul-Islam Khan and attended by: - Syed Shahabuddin, former President, AIMMM, - Maulana Jalaluddin Umari, President, Jamaat-e IslamiHind, - Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mahdi Salafi, GeneralSecretary, Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e Hadees, - Janab Muhammad Jaafar, Vice President, AIMMM, - Janab Ahmad Rasheed Shervani, General Secretary,AIMMM, - Janab Muhammad Sulaiman, General Secretary,AIMMM, - Dr. Saiyid Abdul Bari ("Shabnam Subhani"),

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Meeting at the AIMMM Central Office on 16 January 2012

Meeting at the AIMMM Central Office 26 April 2012

- Janab Abdul Khaliq, General Secretary, Jan LokshaktiParty, - Nawab Zafar Jung, - Janab Akhtar Husain Akhtar, National Secretary, WelfareParty of India, - Dr. Raihanul Husaini, son of Maulana Hakeem IrfanulHusaini and others.

The President initiated by describing Hakeem saheb'scontributions to the Muslim community in general and toMushawarat in particular. Maulana Jalaluddin Umari saidthat Hakeem Sahab was a truthful person and knew howto maintain good relations with others. His departure is aloss to all of us, he said.

Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mahdi said that MaulanaHusaini believed in keeping good relations with all. JanabMuhammad Jaafar said that Maulana Husaini used toargue without hestation and used to win over others. Hewas much liked by all.

Janab Shabnam Subhani said Maulana Husaini's lifewas devoted fully for the millat. He was very popular inKolkata and had good relations with all. In this age ofscarcity of true leaders, a great vacuum has been createdby his departure. He added that it is a personal loss forhim that a person who was a well-wisher of all is no morewith us. Nawab Zafar Jung said that it is a matter of ill-fatefor the community that new leaders are not taking place ofthose who are departing. Janab Muhammad Sulaimansaid that he had a relationship of 25 years with MaulanaHusaini. AIMMM state unit in West Bengal was an idealunit because of the likes of Dr. Maqbool Ahmad andMaulana Husaini. His departure is a loss for both the mil-lat and Mushawarat.

Janab Ahmad Raheed Shervani recited the couplet ofFaiz Ahmad Faiz which says, "Aakhir-e shab ke hamsafar,Faiz, na jaane kiya huey" (Night is coming to an end, Faiz,and one knows not where the co-travellers have gone)and said that Hakeem Irfanul Husaini was the leader ofthe caravan. A person like him does not leave us in entire-ty - he leaves for us memories and unfinished jobs. It isour duty to finish those unfinished jobs.

The meeting ended with a prayer by Maulana Umari.

letter to General Secretary re. organisation26 Arpil 2012

Janab Mohammad Sulaiman Saheb,General Secretary,All India Muslim Majlis-e MushawaratNew DelhiMy dear Janab Mohammad Sulaiman Saheb,Assalamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullah.

As discussed this morning in the Standing Committeemeeting and then with you personally after the meeting, Ihereby assign to you the organisational and fund-raisingresponsibilities as the General Secretary of AIMMM.

As you are aware, we all wish AIMMM to be moreactive, functional and visible, and for this I appreciate yourreadiness to visit AIMMM state units to activate them and

to possibly arrange for re-elections of units which are notactive. Also, please explore the possibility of holding state-level conferences to activate the units, to involve peoplewith their work and make them visible to the people and tothe authorities in the respective state. We also must try tostart new state units where there is no standing unit atpresent.

At the centre also, we intend to start a few new activi-ties like starting a Hindi and Urdu magazine and also todevelop the current English-language bulletin in order forit to have a mass appeal. AIMMM brochure and memberslist should also be published in a becoming and impres-sive manner. Also proposed is to hold a big national-levelconference in Delhi sometime in September or October.Obviously for all these activities we will need lots of funds.Therefore, I would like you to also concentrate on raisingfunds for AIMMM on a continuous basis so that these andother activities could take place without difficulty. At pres-ent I think we should try to raise for this year a sum of atleast Rs 20 lakh to meet the envisaged activities. It goeswithout saying that I will always be ready to offer you anypractical help possible to make AIMMM a vibrant organi-sation serving the millat.

Kindly, also note that your travel and other expenseswill be reimbursed by AIMMM.With warm regards

Dr Zafarul-Islam KhanPresident

CONdOlENCE lETTErS The President sent condolence letters to: - Janab Saeed Suhrawardy on the death of his son,Advocate Anees Suhrawardy (letter sent on 27 January2012), - Dr. Raihanul Husaini on the death of his father MaulanaHakeem Irfan al-Husaini, Vice President of AIMMM (lettersent on 19 April 2012), - Janab Niaz Ahmad Farooqui on the death of his mother(letter sent on 3 May 2012).

mONThly lECTUrESmushawarat starts public lecture series


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Dr Javed Jamil speaking at AIMMM HQ on 29 June 2012

New Delhi, 23 June 2012: All India Muslim Majlis-eMushawarat has decided to hold monthly lectures onimportant issues facing the Muslim community and coun-try. The lectures will be held at the Mushawarat centraloffice in Delhi after Maghrib of the last Friday of eachmonth.

The first lecture was delivered on 29 June 2012 bynoted social scientist Dr Javed Jamil on "Muslim Vision ofIndia: Destination & Roadmap". Dr Javed Jamil is theauthor of a document which pinpoints the areas of con-cern and concerted work in order to uplift the country andempower the Muslim community.

miNUTES

minutes of the mmm / mma joint meeting3 March 2012

Following members were present at meeting:1. Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan, President2. Janab Mohd. Jafar, Vice President3. Janab A. R. Shervani, General Secretary4. Janab Mohd. Sulaiman, General Secretary5. Dr. Arshi Khan, General Secretary6. Janab Mujtaba Farooq7. Janab Syed Shahabuddin8. Dr. S.Q. R. Ilyas9. Janab S.M.Y. Nadeem10. Prof. S.M. Yahya11. Janab Nusrat Ali12. Prof. Humayun Murad13. Janab Abdul Qayoom Khan14. Janab Akhtar Husain15. Janab Jawed Ahmad16. Dr. Ubaid Iqbal Asim17. Begum Nusrat Shervani Saheba18. Dr. Mateen Ahmad Siddiqui19. Janab Ejaz Ahmad Aslam20. Dr. Muhammad Tanweer Hasan

Janab Zafar Saifullah and Janab Dr S Farooq intimated inadvance that for some reason or the other they will not beable to take part in this meeting.

At the outset, the President welcomed thenew member of AIMMM Janab AkhtarHusain Akhtar, a prominent worker for therights of the OBCs, especially weavers.

The members offered condolences tothe millat and families of prominent leadersof the community who passed awayrecently and prayed for their souls, espe-cially Maulana Muhmmad Safiullah,Shaikhul Hadees, Madrasa Miftahul UloomJalalabad (died 2 March 2012); HazratSyed Mohammad Izhar Ashraf (1934-2012), Chief Patron of All Indian Ulamaand Mashaikh Board (AIUMB) and a Sufileader, Sajjadah Nashin of KhanquahAshrafia Hasania of Kichowcha Sharif,died at Delhi on 22 February 2012;

Maulana Zeeshan Hidayati, well-known Shia scholar,community leader and active AIMMM member, died inVaranasi on 23 December; Ziaul Haq 'Soz' Haqqi Dehlawi,social and political activist, Delhi Congress leader, poetand a former member of Delhi State Haj Committee - diedof heart attack in Delhi on 22 December; Dr. Javed Azam,President of Jamia Salfia Banaras, a Hadees scholar -died of heart attack in Banaras on 23 December; Prof.Farhana Siddiqi, former President of Jamia Millia Islamia'sDepartment of Arabic - died at a Delhi hospital on 31December 2011; Dr Abdul Haleem Owais, Islamic histori-an of Egypt, professor of history in Riyadh's ImamUniversity and Egypt's Zagaziq Uni. (1943-2011) - died on11 December 2011; Nawab Rahmatullah Khan Sherwani,former Pro-Chancellor of AMU - died on 10 January at theage of 83 years; Khwaja Abdul Khaliq, senior journalistand former Director of PIB's Urdu Unit in Information andBroadcasting ministry died of heart attack on 18 Januaryin Delhi; Mufti Muhammad Aslam Rizvi, a religious schol-ar of Bihar, died on 6 January in Patna; Azizur Rahman,Congress leader and a former minister of UP died on 7January 2012; Shujauudin Sajid alias Shuja' Khawar,noted Urdu poet and former IPS officer died of heartattack in Delhi on 19 January 2012; Dr. Fareed Parbati, anoted Urdu poet of Kashmir, died on 14 Dec. 2011;Mazhar Imam, prominent Urdu poet, writer, critic, died on30 January 2012; Kerala's Governor M.O. Hasan Farook,who earlier he served as governor of Jharkhand, chiefminister of Pondicherry three times, and India's ambassa-dor to Saudi Arabia - died on 26 January 2012 atChennai; Anis Suhrawardy, noted Supreme Court lawyer,died on 24 January 2012; Kunwar Akhlaq MuhammadKhan 'Shaharyar', famous poet, former Urdu professor atAMU, author and critic and winner of many prestigious lit-erary awards, including Sahitya Academy andJnanapeeth Awards, Ghalib Award for Poetry etc. - died atAligarh on 13 February 2012; Maulana Syed Waqar Ali, areligious scholar and Sheikhul Hadees at MazahirulUloom (Waqf) of Saharanpur - died on 11 February 2012;Maulana Mufti Khurshid Alam, Shaikhul Hadees of DarulUloom Deoband and a prominent religious scholar died on7 February 2012; Maulana Abu Bakar Ghazipuri, senior


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Meeting at the AIMMM Central Office, 3 March 2012

religious scholar and researcher - died in Delhi on 8February 2012; and Prof. Mughni Tabussam, prominentpoet, scholar, critic and author - died in Hyderabad on 15February 2012.

The meeting discussed the following issues:

Resignation: AW Saadatullah Khan, Editor, Islamic

Voice had said that due to his preoccupation he would notlike to continue. But this resignation was not accepted.

Earlier, Maulana Sirajul Hasan had expressed hisunwillingness to continue due to bad health. His resigna-tion was accepted.

The President informed the members that AIMMM'sfinances are in very bad shape; members are not payingtheir annual fees and the Circle of Friends of Mushawaratis shrinking. He informed the members that apart from thefunds needed to run the normal running of the office,around Rs 5 lakh are needed to complete the building andfinishing work on the first floor of our building which willlater provide a steady small income to run the office.

Gujarat: The President apprised the members thatthere is some movement for the revival of the AIMMM unitGujarat. In this respect, Janab Iqbal Mirza of Ahmeadbad,Maulana Matadar of Bharuch will be meeting on 4 Marchto consider ways to revive the Gujarat unit.

The President informed the members about the unnec-essary scare-mongering done by Christian groups overagitation in the Valley against the conversion drive byChurch activists who indulged in a vilification campaignagainst the officially recognised Mufti Azam of J&KMaulana Bashiruddin. NCM sent its vice chairman to theValley to report on the situation there but Christian groupsclaimed that it was joint team including Church represen-tatives. The President wrote to the NCM if this was true.The NCM replied that the NCM had not sent any "team" toKashmir, i.e., it was a one-member delegation comprisedof only its vice chairman.

He also informed the members that the AIMMM iscoordinating with Christian organisations active to securethe rights of Christian and Muslim Dalits who are deniedreservation vide the 1950 Presidential feat which hasbeen challenged in the Supreme Court of India by bothChristian and Muslim parties. AIMMM delegations havetaken part in meetings called by Churhc organisations inthis respect and our cooperation with them in this respectwill continue in staging dharnas and organising joint meet-ings. AIMMM member Dr Jawed participated in a dharnaheld by Church organisations against communal violenceat Rajghat on 27 Feb. 2012.

The meeting passed the budget for 2012-2013. Anobservation was made that the budget includes only nor-mal activities of the AIMMM. It should also include alloca-tions for extra-ordinary activities like conferences andconventions proposed to be held during the year.

The meeting deliberated on a number of milli, nationaland international issues and passed the following resolu-tions on 4.5% Reservation, Mishra Commission report,Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Fresh attacks on Muslimyouth in the name of terrorism, Christians in J&K,Creeping saffronisation in M.P., Shia-Sunni riots,

Admission to private schools, India-Israel ties, NationalCommission for Minorities Educational Institutions, Syriaand Iran. (These resolutions are published below under

respective heads).

STaTE UNiTS

New Team in GujaratNew Delhi, 27 June 2012: The Gujarat state unit of the AllIndia Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat held an extraordinarymeeting at Ahmedabad under the chairmanship of Prof.Juzer Bandukwala. The meeting unanimously elected thenew state functionaries of the AIMMM Gujarat as follows:Maulana Habibur Rahman Matadar, President; JanabIqbal Husain Shaikh, General Secretary; Janab AsifShaikh, Assistant Secretary, and Janab Abdur RazzaqShaikh as Treasurer. The remaining office-bearers will beelected durig the next meeting of AIMMM Gujarat in orderto ensure a proper representation of the whole state in thenew committee which will function for the next two years. (Please also see p. 29 below)

PrESidENT’S ENGaGEmENTS14 June 2012: Participated in the executive committeemeeting of Darul Musannifin Shibli Academy, Azamgarh.15-20 May 2012: Visited Istanbul, Turkey to participateand speak in the World Political Forum and to lecture atKemerburgaz University, Istanbul.12 May 2012 Mushawarat Trust meeting 5:3027-29 Apr 2012: Participated in the Orientation Camp ofWelfare Party at Kolkata.22 April 2012: Participated in the release of the Punjabitranslation of the Holy Quran at Ahl-e Hadees complex,Abul Fazal Enclave, New Delhi.21 March 2012: Met the Police Commisioner Delhi with adelegation on Kazmi arrest.18-20 March2012: Particiapted in the annual day of theMurshidabad Alliance School.16-17 March 2012: Participated in the educational confer-ence organised by Students Islamic Trust at Kolkata. ThePresident attended a meeting of AIMMM West Bengal unitduring this tour.2 March 2012: Delivered a lecture on Islam & Violence atJamial Millia Islamia’s Academic Staff College.19 Feb 2012: Delivered lecture on the issue of Palestineat Madrasatul Islah, Saraimir, Azamgarh.16 Feb. 2012: Participated as chief guest in the C LavaFiesta at AMU.15 Feb. 2012: Delivered lecture on the history of PalestineatJamia Millia Islamia’ Deptt of Teacher Training.7 Feb. 2012: Participated in a panel discussion at JamiaMillia’s Academic Staff College on Arab Spring.31 Jan-1 Feb. 2012: Particiapted in Citizens for PeaceWorkshop on Identity at Bangalore22 January 2012: Participated in a meeting at Vadodra,Gujarat of Muslim journalists and writers.16 January 2012: Presided over extension lecture by DrAslam Abdullah organised by the Deptt Islamic Studies,Jamia Millia Islamia.


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rESOlUTiONS / STaTEmENTS /mEmOraNdUmS / lETTErS

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Creeping saffronisation in m.P. Resolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

The AIMMM registers its alarm and displeasure at thecontinued saffronisation of the state, especially the educa-tional system, in M.P. Surya Namaskar and the introduc-tion of Gita in school syllabus are two clear examples ofthis policy which flies in the face of the country's secularConstitution. The Central Govt., through HRD ministry,should intervene and ensure that the secular ethos of theeducational system all over India remains untouched.

TErrOriSm

Press conference on Qateel’s murder9 June 2012

An urgent Press Conference was held by the All India

Muslim Majlis-e Mushawararat Saturday, 9 June 2012 at

the Mushawarat central office to protest the previous

day’s murder of Qateel Siddiqui in Pune high security jail

and other fake terror cases. Speakers at the press meet

included: Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, AIMMM, Mr

Mohammad Ahmad, National Secretary, Jamaat-e Islami

Hind, Amaresh Mishra, Historian and human rights

activist, Akhlaq Ahmad,Secretary of the Association for

Protection of Civil Rights and Mahtab Alam, Human

Rights activist. Following is the text of the press statement

issued on the occasion:

New Delhi, 9 June 2012: The cold-blooded murder of

Qateel Siddiqui in Pune's Yarvada high security jail yester-

day is yet another proof that the life of a Muslim is no

longer safe in India even behind the walls of a high secu-

rity jail.

This cold-blooded murder comes in quick succession

after a number of cases where security agencies’ high-

handedness in dealing with Muslim youth on flimsy

charges and mere suspicion gives away the game of the

administration's war against the Muslim community in the

name of fighting “terror”.

Only days ago two Kashmiri young students were kid-

napped by unknown security agencies at Aligarh and only

one of them was later released after the educational insti-

tution filed a habeas corpus case in Allahabad High Court.

It is now almost a month that Fasih Mahmood, an

Indian Muslim engineer, suddenly disappeared in Saudi

Arabia at the request of Indian authorities which are still

not clear about the charges against him.

Earlier Journalist Kazmi was arrested on unknown

charges and remains in custody while Hindutva terrorists

are getting bail and feeling confident enough to hold a

conference in Goa.

The murdered accused, Qateel Siddiqui, was a law-

abiding citizen of this country. Despite the passage of

seven months on his arrest, the agencies have not been

able to file a chargesheet against him, while he has been

consistently tortured in custody to force him to sign a fake

confession as it happens now in almost all such cases.

His murder has been arranged at the hands of a criminal

already incarcerated on murder charges. It seems the rea-

son is to use Qateel's fake confession in courts against

other accused since he will no longer be there to deny and

refute the forced confession attributed to him.

We hold the Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria, the

head of National Investigation Agency Sarat Chandra

Sinha and the Home Minister P. Chidambaram personally

responsible for this cold-blooded murder. We demand a

judicial enquiry by a sitting high court judge. We reject

with contempt the mere suspension of the jailor and a CID

enquiry. The jailor will be reinstated soon and the CID

enquiry will not go against their own ilk.

We appeal to the national and interna-

tional human rights organisations to take

notice of the situation in India where sec-

tions of the administration are fighting a war

against the country's largest religious

minority in the name of fighting “terror”,

while the security agencies themselves are

the biggest culprits and excel in fabrication

of cases and use torture to force the

accused to confess to crimes they never

committed. The aim is to demoralise the

Indian Muslim community and to slow down

its educational and social progress.

[This statement was sent to all concrned

in India as well as to major human rifghts

organisation outside India]


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The press conference addressed by Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Mahtab Alam,

Amaresh Mishra, Dr SQR Ilyas, Mohammad Ahmad and Akhlaq Ahmad

meeting to discuss terrorismMinutes of Muslim organisations' meeting on "terrorism"

29 May 2012A joint meeting of Muslim organisations and intellectualswas held at the invitation of AIMMM on 29 May 2012 atMushawarat central office in Delhi. It was attended by Dr.Zafarul-Islam Khan, President of AIMMM, JanabMuhammad Ahmad, National Secretary of Jamaat-eIslami Hind (JIH) for political affairs, Maulana AsgharImam Mahdi Salafi, general secretary of Markazi JamiatAhl-e Hadees, Janab Muhammad Shafi Madni, NationalSecretary of JIH for milli services, Maulana Abdul WahabKhilji, President of Islahi Movement, Dr. Taslim Rahmani,President of Muslim Political Council, Janab Ejaz AhmadAslam, National Secretary of JIH for media, MaulanaAbdur-Rahman Abid (Okhla), Dr. Javed Ahmad (Member,AIMMM central committee), Janab Syed Mansoor Agha(journalist), Janab Akhtar Husain Akhtar, secretary ofWelfare Party, Janab Anisur Rahman, secretary ofStudents Islamic Organisation, Mahtab Alam (humanrights activist), Shahnawaz Alam and Rajiv Yadav (both ofU.P. PUCL).

The meeting discussed the issue of terrorism and howthe Muslim community is being terrorised in the name ofcounter-terror activities of various agencies. There was aconsensus that a campaign is underway to retard the indi-vidual and collective progress of the Muslim community inthe name of fighting terrorism and the recent arrests are apart of this campaign. There was also a consensus thatthis issue cannot be tackled by ad hoc measures. Rather,an organised and long-term strategy is needed to face it.

It was agreed that a special fund should be establishedto fight legal cases, help victims, raise the issue and pub-lish documentation-based writings on the subject. It wasalso decided to establish a legal cell under AIMMM tokeep a constant eye on this issue, to take action whereneeded, and to work with the help of local lawyers. It wasalso decided to ask the Muslim community to protest inevery city and town against the injustices being perpetrat-ed in the name of "terrorism". The community should alsobe reminded to maintain good relations with the victims ofthis campaign and their families because mere arrest

does not make one guilty. It is a fact that about 98% ofpeople arrested under TADA and POTA have been foundinnocent and released. It is an insult to the united Ummahto forsake and shun a brother and his family in the time ofhis trial.

It was also decided to prepare and publish a whitepaper on terrorism on behalf of the Muslim community andto release it in a big convention to be held at Delhi. It wasalso decide to shun the attitude followed until now and tobring these issues to the knowledge of internationalhuman rights organisations, UNO panels and other coun-tries interested in human rights issued. It was felt thatinternational pressure on the Indian government is neces-sary to force it to rethink the misdeeds of its agencies.

(Note: only the decision on preparation and publication

of the white paper is being executed at present - editor)

muslim community protests against at random arrests

New Delhi, 28 May 2012: Muslim community leaderstoday sent a strong letter to Mr P Chidambaram, UnionHome Minister and Mr Wajahat Habibullah, Chairman,National Commission for Minorities protesting against thecontinuous saga of arrests of Muslim youth on unproven"terror" charges.

The following joint memorandum was sent via fax andemail to1. Mr P Chidambaram, Hon'ble Union Home Minister2. Mr Wajahat Habibullah, Hon'ble Chairman, NationalCommission for Minorities:

New Delhi28 May 2012Respected Sir,Alarmed as the Muslim community is at the resumed seri-al, at random and unending saga of arrests of Muslimyouth from various parts of the country on apparently notangible charges, two more such recent incidents are agi-tating the community and we find it necessary to bring thesame to your kind attention for urgent redressal:1 Mr Fasih Mahmood, an engineer in Jubail, Saudi Arabia,

according to media reports in both SaudiArabia and India, was deported to India on13 May this year at Indian government'srequest on alleged "terror" charges and sofar there is no information about his where-abouts. 2. Two very young Kashmiri students,studying in a reputed madrasa (JamiatulFalah at Bilaryaganj, district Azamgarh,U.P.) were arrested by some unknownsecurity agency at Aligarh station on 24May while travelling on Kaifiyat train fromAzamgarh to Delhi to visit their ailingcousin who had come to the capital formedical treatment. The name of theagency and the two boys' whereabouts arenot known despite efforts at both Delhi and



Meeting on Terrorism at AIMMM Central Office, 29 May 2012

Lucknow. The Muslim community is pained to see this continuing

saga which has earlier seen Journalist Kazmi's arrestwhile seemingly there is no evidence against him. Werequest you to kindly look into the above two matters onan urgent basis in order to offer some solace to the fami-lies of these victims who have fell foul of the securityagencies'ultra vigilance where victims are picked up onmere suspicion without any real, hard and tangible proofand thereafter they are kept under illegal detention whilethe agencies try to somehow obtain some incriminating"evidence" or secure their forced confession via torturewhich is illegal and against India's international obliga-tions. These illogical incidents are seriously eroding theMuslim community's goodwill towards UPA.Yours sincerely,Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat For and on behalf of

Mujtaba Farooq, Chairman, Coordination Committee forIndian Muslims Muhammad Ahmad, Political Secretary, Jamaat-e IslamiHindAbdul Hameed Nomani, Secretary, Jamiat Ulama-e HindDr Tasleem Rahmani, President, Muslim Political Councilof India Dr SQR Ilyas, General Secretary, Welfare Party of IndiaZaheer Zaidi, President, Shia PointMaulana Muhsin Taqwi, President, National Council ofShia Ulama Shuaib Shaikh, Secretary, Students Organisation of IndiaAK Kidwai, Secretary, Association for Protection of CivilRights Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, Director, Shah WaliullahInstituteMaulana Jalal Haidar Naqvi, Jt. Secretary, All India MajlisUlama-e Hind

Protest demo by indian muslim organisations atParliament, New delhi

Jantar Mantar, New Delhi,Monday, 26 March 2012, 10:30

am onwards

Protest against the at-randomarrests of Muslim youth and

Journalist Kazmi is a new esca-lation in the war against the

Muslim community in the nameof fighting terror

[Following is the press statement

distributed during the protest]:

New Delhi, 26 March 2012: TheIndian Muslim communitybelieves that the arrest of seniorUrdu journalist MuhammadAhmad Kazmi is a new escala-tion in the war against the com-

munity in the name of fighting terror which restarted withnew vigour a few weeks ago. Acquittal of umpteen Muslimyouths across the country in recent months after spendingyears in jails on trumped up charges has proved the com-munal nature of our police and security agencies. SeniorSupreme Court advocate Prashant Bhushan bluntly saidon February 27, 2012 that police across the country were"communalised". He added that "It costs nothing for thepolice to fabricate evidence and file a false chargesheetagainst an innocent person. In virtually no case, and avast majority of cases the court does not take the nextstep of ordering the criminal prosecution, immediate sus-pension, dismissal and prosecution of that police officer,"he said adding that there is "a trend that police across thecountry systematically frame Muslims in terror investiga-tions when they can't find the culprits. In such cases, theypick up anyone around whom a credible story could bespun."

We believe that Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi is the latestvictim of this communal mindset unleashed on the Muslimcommunity in the name of fighting terror. His over twodecades' impeccable record as a fine journalist is an openbook. Not only writing for national and international publi-cations, he also worked for the Doordarshan and had aPIB press card for which security clearance is required.The very fact that his case was not handled by theNational Investigation Agency, which has been specifical-ly established to investigate such cases, shows the murkynature of this whole enterprise to malign the Muslim com-munity at the hands of Delhi Police Special Cell, a forcenotorious for fake encounters and for criminally implicat-ing even its own informers in concocted terror plots.

We believe that there is no evidence till date againstJournalist Kazmi who has been precisely framed at thebehest of Israel's notorious and criminal espionageagency Mossad which, according to press reports, provid-ed his name to the Indian authorities which on their ownhad nothing against him. The Special Police threatenedhim that unless he confessed, they will hand him over toMossad "who know how to extract confessions" - which isa criminal threat as no Indian authority can hand over an



Protest at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, 26 March 2012

Indian citizen to a foreign agency unless there is a courtorder for the same and unless an extradition treaty existswith the concerned foreign country. The court took cogni-sance of his complaint in this regard and forbade SpecialCell to allow any other agency to interrogate Kazmi. Nowhaving used all its dirty tricks including conflicting leaks tothe media, the Special Cell realised the futility of its tricksand ended his police remand before it was due to expire.

We had written to the Hon'ble Union Home Minister,Hon'ble Lt. Governor Delhi, Hon'ble Chairman of thePress Council of India as well as to the Delhi PoliceCommissioner seeking their urgent intervention in thiscase of clear implication and fabrication of the which theSpecial Cell has a long tainted record. Till date only thePolice Commissioner met our delegation, albeit after adelay of about two weeks. Failure of other functionaries ofthe State to meet a delegation of leading Muslim organi-sations till date only shows their arrogance, contempt forthe community and disdain for democracy and civil socie-ty.

We forcefully condemn the new campaign against theMuslim community in the name of fighting terror while thesame forces are more than cautious in touching saffronbrigade elements named in Malegaon and Ajmer blastschargesheets. We will continue to agitate in various waysalongwith other civil society groups on this issue, whichwe believe, is a new escalation in the war against thecommunity in the name of terror-fighting until justice isachieved. This dharna is only a part of this effort.Statement issued by:

Mujtaba Farooq, Chairman, Coordination Committeefor Indian Muslims & President, Welfare Party of India

Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat & Editor, The Milli Gazette

Muhammad Adeeb, M.P.Muhammad Ahmad, Political Secretary, Jamaat-e

Islami HindMaulana Muhsin Taqwi, President, National Council

of Shia Ulama Maulana Abdul Hameed Nomani, Secretary,

Jamiat Ulama-e HindMaulana Abdul Wahab Khilji, President, Islahi

Movement of IndiaDr SQR Ilyas, General Secretary, Welfare Party of India

& Editor, Afkar-e MilliMaulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, Director, Shah

Waliullah InstituteMaulana Jalal Haidar Naqvi, Secretary, All India

Shia Ulama CouncilDr Tasleem Rahmani, President, Muslim Political

Council of India Zaheer Zaidi, President, Shia PointSyed Mansoor Agha, Senior Urdu journalistShuaib Shaikh, Secretary, Students Organisation of IndiaAK Kidwai, Secretary, Association for Protection

of Civil Rights

Journalist Kazmi arrest: leaders of muslim organisations meet delhi Police

CommissionerPress Release issued on 21 March 2012

New Delhi, 21 March 2012: Leaders of some of India'sleading Muslim organisations met the Delhi PoliceCommissioner BK Gupta here today. The delegationapprised the Police Commissioner about the Muslim com-munity's apprehensions over the renewed harassment ofthe community in the name of the fight against terror.

Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President of the All IndiaMuslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, led the delegation. He toldthe Police Commissioner that Muslims are deeply painedand angered by the renewed arrests of Muslim youth,especially the arrest of the well-known journalist MrMuhammad Ahmad Kazmi. The delegation told the PoliceCommissioner that the long remand by the police, permis-sion to foreign agencies to interrogate Mr Kazmi and hisreported torture are matters of grave concern to the com-munity.

The delegation asked the Police Commissioner to reinin the Special Cell of Delhi Police which isnotorious for its illegal activities like tortureand fabrication of evidence. The delega-tion requested the Police Commissionerto stop the informal media briefings bypolice officers and reported by the mediaalmost every passing day since the arrestof Mr Kazmi. The delegation also told thePolice Commissioner that Muslim youthare being arrested on mere suspicion andwithout tangible proofs while saffron ter-rorists are roaming around and no onedares to touch them despite the fact thattheir names appear in official documentslike the Malegaon and Ajmer blastschargesheets.

The Police Commissioner denied thatMr Kazmi is being tortured or ill-treated inany way. He added that he is personallyfollowing the case and officers have been



After meeting the Police Commissioner on 21 March 2012

clearly instructed not to torture Mr Kazmi or harm him inany way. He also said that foreign agencies have not beenallowed so far to interrogate Mr Kazmi which, he said, isnot easy because a lengthy procedure has to followed forpermitting access of foreign agencies to such persons.

The Police Commissioner assured the delegation thatno allegation will be made in the chargesheet which doesnot have ample proof and justification. Moreover, thePolice Commissioner said that the Delhi Police has nopermission to harass Muslims of Delhi and some police-men have been suspended when they were foundinvolved in such activity. He further said that most of whatthe media is saying is baseless and we deny it but, headded, media is very powerful in our country and it is noteasy to rein in the media. He suggested that victimsshould go to courts to seek redressal against baselessnews published by the media. The Police Commissionerassured the delegation that no injustice will be allowed totake place.

The delegation included Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan,President of the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, MrMujtaba Farooq, President of the Welfare Party of Indiaand convenor, Coordination Committee of Indian Muslims,Mr Muhammad Ahmad, Secretary of the Jamaat-e IslamiHind, Maulana Muhsin Taqawi, Imam of the Shia JamaMasjid Delhi, Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, Chairman ofthe Shah Waliullah Institute, Maulana Jalal Haidar,Secretary of the All India Majlis-e Ulama and Mr ZaheerZaidi, Chairman of Shia Point.

memorandum to Police Commissioner delhidelivered during meeting with him with delegation

21 March 2012

Mr BK GuptaDelhi Police Commissioner, DelhiRespected Sir,We thank you for kindly granting us time to discuss a veryburning and distressing development to the civil society,media fraternity and the Indian Muslim community, viz.,the arrest of a senior Urdu journalist and an importantmember of the Muslim community Mr Muhammad AhmadKazmi by Delhi Special Police on unproven and wild terrorcharges. Mr Kazmi is accused of "helping" a terrorist whilethat particular terrorist remains at large.

It is a fact of life that as a result of a plethora of inci-dents and developments, especially during the last fewyears, there is a serious trust deficit vis-à-vis the Police inthe Muslim community. The Muslim community is painedto see that the at-random arrests of Muslim youth, whichstarted a few weeks ago, are continuing, and now thearrest of a person of Mr Kazmi's stature points to a seri-ous escalation where even senior members of the com-munity are not safe from arrest at the hands of the Policeon totally unproven and wild charges. Such behaviour onthe part of the Police and other agencies seriously dentstheir own credibility and is also injurious to the democrat-ic setup of the country.

Mr Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi is a senior and respect-

ed Urdu journalist of long standing who works and writesin the higher interests of the country. It seems that anyonewho speaks and writes against the rogue government ofIsrael will now be targeted by our security agencies whichare mesmerised by the Israelis who flout hundreds of UNresolutions to say the least. The strange presence of thedubious Israeli espionage outfit Mossad in our countryonly helps to multiply this menace. It is also very alarmingto know that "foreign" (most probably the notoriousMossad) agents have been allowed to interrogate MrKazmi though the remand is given only to the SpecialPolice. We are also pained that Mr Kazmi is being subject-ed to torture, denied sleep and proper food which is a vio-lation of his basic human rights.

We wish to impress upon you to make public whatev-er serious evidence you have against Mr Kazmi and stoptorturing him in order to secure a confession on the linesof hundreds of such confessions secured under duresswhich are later thrown out by courts.Yours sincerely,Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim

Majlis-e Mushawarat Mujtaba Farooq, Chairman, Coordination Committee

for Indian Muslims Dr SQR Ilyas, General Secretary, Welfare Party of IndiaMaulana Jalal Haidar Naqvi, Jt. Secretary, All India

Shia Ulama CouncilDr Tasleem Rahmani, President, Muslim Political

Council of India Muhammad Ahmad, Political Secretary, Jamaat-e

Islami HindZaheer Zaidi, President, Shia PointSyed Mansoor Agha, senior Urdu journalistMaulana Muhsin Taqwi, President, National Council

of Shia Ulama Shuaib Shaikh, Secretary, Students Organisation of IndiaAK Kidwai, Secretary, Association for Protection of

Civil Rights Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, Director, Shah

Waliullah InstituteMuhammad Ahmad Khan, Urdu Journalist

Press Conference on Journalist muhammad ahmad Kazmi

Venue: delhi Press Club lawnSaturday, 10 march 2012, 3 p.m.

arrest of Journalist Kazmi is a new escalation in the war against the muslim community in the

name of fighting terror

[Following is the press statement issued on the occasion]:

New Delhi, 10 March 2012: The Indian Muslim communi-ty believes that the arrest of senior Urdu journalistMuhammad Ahmad Kazmi is a new escalation in the waragainst the community in the name of fighting terror.Acquittals of umpteen Muslim youths across the countryafter spending years in jails on trumped up charges hasproved the communal nature of our police and securityagencies. Senior Supreme Court advocate Prashant



Bhushan bluntly said on February 27, 2012 that policeacross the country were "communalised". He added that"It costs nothing for the police to fabricate evidence andfile a false chargesheet against an innocent person. In vir-tually no case, and a vast majority of cases the court doesnot take the next step of ordering the criminal prosecution,immediate suspension, dismissal and prosecution of thatpolice officer," he said adding that there is "a trend thatpolice across the country systematically frame Muslims interror investigations when they can't find the culprits. Insuch cases, they pick up anyone around whom a crediblestory could be spun."

We believe Journalist Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi is thelatest victim of this communal mindset. His over twodecades' impeccable record as a journalist is an openbook. Not only writing for national and international publi-cations, he also worked for the Doordarshan and had aPIB press card for which security clearance is required.

We believe that there is no evidence till date againstJournalist Kazmi who has been precisely framed at thebehest of Israel's notorious and criminal espionageagency Mossad which, according to press reports, provid-ed his name to the Indian authorities which on their ownhad or have nothing against him. Now the Special Policeis threatening him that unless he confessed, they willhand him over to Mossad "who know how to extract con-fessions" - which is a criminal threat as no Indian authori-ty can hand over an Indian citizen to a foreign agencyunless there is a court order for the same as well as anextradition treaty exists with the concerned foreign coun-try.

We believe that the Indian security agencies havenothing to date to incriminate Journalist Kazmi and theyare busy fabricating a case and have been giving off therecord media briefings to build pressure on their victim.

It is our demand that the unheard of 20-days policeremand should be cancelled and bail should be granted toJournalist Kazmi who has been cooperating with thePolice in an exemplary way and there is no reason tobelieve that he will not do so in future. We have written to

the Hon'ble Union Home Minister, Hon'ble Lt. GovernorDelhi, Hon'ble Chairman of the Press Council of India aswell as to the Delhi Police Commissioner seeking theirurgent intervention in this case of clear implication andfabrication of the which the Delhi Special Police has a longtainted record. We also express our astonishment that thiscase is not being handled by the National InvestigationAgency which has been established especially to proveterror-related cases. We demand that the case must beurgently transferred to the NIA.

We will continue to agitate alongwith other civil societygroups on this issue, which we believe, is a new escala-tion in the war against the community in the name of ter-ror-fighting until justice is achieved. We will hold a dharnaat Jantar Mantar on 26 March to press our demands.

Issued by:

Mujtaba Farooq, Chairman, Coordination Committee for Indian Muslims & President, Welfare Party of India

Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat & Editor, The Milli Gazette

Muhammad Adeeb, M.P.Muhammad Ahmad, Political Secretary, Jamaat-e

Islami HindMaulana Muhsin Taqwi, President, National Council

of Shia Ulama Maulana Abdul Hameed Nomani, Secretary,

Jamiat Ulama-e HindMaulana Abdul Wahab Khilji, President,

Islahi Movement of IndiaDr SQR Ilyas, General Secretary, Welfare Party of India

& Editor, Afkar-e Milli

Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, Director, ShahWaliullah Institute

Maulana Jalal Haidar Naqvi, Secretary, All India Shia Ulama Council

Dr Tasleem Rahmani, President, Muslim Political Council of India

Zaheer Zaidi, President, Shia PointSyed Mansoor Agha, Senior Urdu journalist

Shuaib Shaikh, Secretary, StudentsOrganisation of IndiaAK Kidwai, Secretary, Association forProtection of

Civil Rights Muhammad Ahmad Khan, Urdu Journalist

Press Conference on Journalist muhammad ahmad

KazmiVenue: Delhi Press Club Lawn

Saturday, 10 March 2012, 3 p.m.

Leaders of Muslim organisations and com-munity addressed a press conference toput across the community's viewpointabout the arrest of seniour Urdu journalistMuhammad Ahmad Kazmi on terror-relat-ed flimsy charges at the instance of an



Press Conference at Dehi Press Club on 10 March 2012

interested foreign power. Speakers at the press conference included: Mujtaba Farooq, President, Welfare Party of IndiaDr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e MushawaratMaulana Muhsin Taqawi, President, National Council ofShia UlamaMaulana Abdul Hameed Nomani, Secretary, JamiatUlama-e HindMuhammad Ahmad, Secretary, Jamaat-e Islami HindMaulana Abdul Wahab Khilji, President, Islahi Movement,Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, Chairman, ShahWaliullahI InstituteMaulana Jalal Haidar Naqvi, Secretary, All India ShiaUlama CouncilAkhlaq Ahmad, Secretary, Association for Protection ofCivil Rights Shuaib Shaikh, Secretary, Students Organisation of India

letter to the Union home ministerre. arrest of Journalist mohammad ahmad Kazmi

8 March 2012

Mr P ChidambaramHon'ble Union Home MinisterNew Delhi

Respected Sir,It has come as a shock to the Muslim community that asenior Urdu journalist and an important member of theMuslim community Mr Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi hasbeen arrested by Delhi Special Police on unproven andwild terror charges. Mr Kazmi is accused of "helping" aterrorist while that particular terrorist remains unknownand at large. The Muslim community is pained to see that the at-ran-dom arrests of Muslim youth, which started a few weeksago, are only continuing, and now the arrest of a personof Mr Kazmi's stature points to a serious escalation whereeven senior members of the community are not safe fromarrest at the hands of the Police on totally unproven andwild charges. Such behaviour on the part of the Police andother agencies seriously dents their own credibility and isalso injurious to the democratic setup of the country. MrMuhammad Ahmad Kazmi is a senior and respected Urdujournalist of long standing who works and writes in thehigher interests of the country. It seems that anyone whospeaks and writes against the rogue government of Israelwill now be targeted by our security agencies which aremesmerised by the Israelis who flout hundreds of UN res-olutions to say the least. The strange presence of thedubious Israeli espionage outfit Mossad in our countryonly helps to multiply this menace.We wish to meet you at the earliest in order to express ouranguish to you in person. Kindly give us an appointmentat the earliest.Yours sincerely,Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat

For and on behalf of

Mujtaba Farooq, Chairman, Coordination Committee forIndian Muslims Dr SQR Ilyas, General Secretary, Welfare Party of IndiaMaulana Jalal Haidar Naqvi, Jt. Secretary, All India ShiaUlama CouncilDr Tasleem Rahmani, President, Muslim Political Councilof India Muhammad Ahmad, Political Secretary, Jamaat-e IslamiHindZaheer Zaidi, President, Shia PointSyed Mansoor Agha, senior Urdu journalistMaulana Muhsin Taqwi, President, National Council ofShia Ulama Shuaib Shaikh, Secretary, Students Organisation of IndiaAK Kidwai, Secretary, Association for Protection of CivilRights Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, Director, Shah WaliullahInstituteMuhammad Ahmad Khan, Urdu Journalist

[Identical letters were sent on the same day to Chairman,National Human Rights Commission, Mr BK Gupta, DelhiPolice Commissioner, New Delhi; Shri Tejendra Khanna,Lt. Governor, Delhi and Justice Markanday Katju,Chairman, Press Council of India, Delhi.

[Union home ministry’s response was received in theform of letter No. 14036/ 23 /2012-UTP dated 23rd May,2012 as follows:“Subject:- Representation regarding arrest of MuhammadAhmad Kazmi. “Sir, “I am directed to refer to your letter dated 08.03.2012 onthe above cited subject. The matter has been enquiredinto through Delhi Police, which has clarified that there issufficient evidence for arrest of Syed Muhammad AhmadKazmi. The accused was in police custody till 24.03.2012and thereafter, he was sent to judicial custody.Investigation of the case is still underway. As per thedirections of the Hon'ble Court a lawyer had also beenallowed to meet the accused daily while in police custody. Allegations of torture, denying of sleep and not providingproper food are false. Accused was never tortured inpolice custody and was also allowed to meet his familymembers. He was medically examined in Govt. Hospitaldaily. “Yours faithfully, “(S. Sudha) “Under Secretary (Delhi Police) “Tele: 23092856”]

NhrC replied through its Assistant Registrar (LAW) videCase No. 1593/30/0/2012/OC dated 30/03/2012/23 April2012 that the complaint has been directed to the THECOMMISSIONER OF POLICE NEW DELHI - 110002 withthe following instructions: “The complaint dated 07/03/2012 received from ALLINDIA MUSLIM MAJLIS-E-MUSHAWARAT in respect ofMUHAMMAD AHMAD KAZMI, was placed before the



Commission on 26/03/2012. Upon perusing the com-plaint, the Commission directed as follows: “The complaint be transmitted to the concerned authorityfor such action as deemed appropriate. 2. Accordingly, I am forwarding a copy of the complaint toyou for its disposal as your end.”]

fresh attacks on muslim youth in the name of terrorism

Resolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

The AIMMM is extremely seriously alarmed at the freshwave of arrests of innocent Muslim youth on mere suspi-cion and without any proof from areas like Delhi's Okhlalocality and certain areas of Bihar and Jharkhand, amidserious discord within Delhi Police and Maharashtra ATSover persons sought to be arrested while NIA has pro-nounced youths arrested by Delhi Police as innocent; yetthe spate of arrests on mere suspicion continues. TheAIMMM warns the central and state governments not tocreate an artificial environment conducive to spread dis-content and disaffection among the community which hasserious doubts about this renewed drive. At the sametime, AIMMM fails to understand why saffron terrorists arebeing treated with kid gloves and some of their master-minds mentioned by name in Malegaon and Ajmercharghsheets remain untouched. AIMMM demands thecentral government to compensate and rehabilitate inno-cent Muslim youths who are acquitted after years in jail.The AIMMM condemns the surreptitious ban clamped onSIMI for another period of two years while five of itsappeals are still pending in the Supreme Court. TheAIMMM demands the central government to issue a whitepaper on the so-called Indian Mujahidin which the IndianMuslim community believes is a creation of theIntelligence Bureau as a tool to malign Muslim youth.

STaTE TErrOriSm

Press Statement by President, aimmm9 June 2012

The cold-blooded murder of Qateel Siddiqui in Pune'sYarvada high security jail yesterday is yet another proofthat the life of a Muslim is no longer safe in India evenbehind the walls of a high security jail.

This cold-blooded murder comes in quick successionafter a number of cases where security agencies' high-handedness in dealing with Muslim youth on flimsycharges and mere suspicion gives away the game of theadministration's war against the Muslim community in thename of fighting "terror".

Only days ago two Kashmiri young students werekidnapped by unknown security agencies at Aligarh andonly one of them was later released after the educationalinstitution filed a habeas corpus case in Allahabad HighCourt.

It is now almost a month that Fasih Mahmood, anIndian Muslim engineer, suddenly disappeared in SaudiArabia at the request of Indian authorities which are stillnot clear about the charges against him.

Earlier Journalist Kazmi was arrested on unknowncharges and remains in custody while Hindutva terroristsare getting bail and feeling confident enough to hold aconference in Goa.

The murdered accused, Qateel Siddiqui, was a law-abiding citizen of this country. Despite the passage ofseven months on his arrest, the agencies have not beenable to file a chargesheet against him, while he has beenconsistently tortured in custody to force him to sign a fakeconfession as it happens now in almost all such cases.His murder has been arranged at the hands of a criminalalready incarcerated on murder charges. It seems the rea-son is to use Qateel's fake confession in courts againstother accused since he will no longer be there to deny andrefute the forced confession attributed to him.

We hold the Maharashtra ATS chief Rakesh Maria,the head of National Investigation Agency Sarat ChandraSinha and the Home Minister P. Chidambaram personallyresponsible for this cold-blooded murder. We demand ajudicial enquiry by a sitting high court judge. We rejectwith contempt the mere suspension of the jailor and a CIDenquiry. The jailor will be reinstated soon and the CIDenquiry will not go against their own ilk.

We appeal to the national and international humanrights organisations to take notice of the situation in Indiawhere sections of the administration are fighting a waragainst the country's largest religious minority in the nameof fighting "terror", while the security agencies themselvesare the biggest culprits and excel in fabrication of casesand use torture to force the accused to confess to crimesthey never committed. The aim is to demoralise the IndianMuslim community and to slow down its educational andsocial progress.

muslim community leaders condemnJournalist Kazmi's arrest

7 March 2012

Coordination Committee for Indian Muslims (CCIM), afteran emergency meeting here at the Jamaat-e Islami Hindheadquarters this evening, forcefully condemned thearrest of Journalist Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi by DelhiSpecial Police.

CCIM chairman Mujtaba Farooq, All India MuslimMajlis-e Mushawarat President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan,Welfare Party of India General Secretary Dr SQR Ilyas, AllIndia Shia Ulama Council leader Maulana Jalal HaidarNaqvi, Muslim Political Council of India President DrTasleem Rahmani, Political Secretary Jamaat-e IslamiHind Muhammad Ahmad, Shia Point President ZaheerZaidi, Senior Urdu journalist Syed Mansoor Agha,National Council of Shia Ulama President MaulanaMuhsin Taqwi, Shia community leader Zafar Abbas,Students Organisation of India Secretary Shuaib Shaikh,Association for Protection of Civil Rights Secretary AK



Kidwai, Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, head of the ShahWaliullah Institute, Urdu Journalist Muhammad AhmadKhan and others said after the meeting that the continuingat random arrests of Muslim youth are not only a matter ofgrave concern for the community, they are also injuriousto the democratic setup of the country. It is a matter ofalarm that now a senior member of the Urdu journalistcommunity has been arrested without any apparent evi-dence or proof. Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi is a seniorUrdu journalist of long standing who works and writes inthe higher interests of the country.

The meeting decided to write to the Union HomeMinister, Delhi Police Commissioner, Lt Governor of Delhiand Delhi Chief Minister seeking their immediate interven-tion and to stop the serial arrests and torture of Muslimyouth. The Muslim leaders will also meet these and othergovernment officials and will approach Justice MarkandayKatju, Chairman of the Press Council of India as well asthe national and state minorities commissions.

hiNdUTVa TErrOriSm

letter to mr P Chidambaram,Union home minister

21 June 2012

Respected Sir,An alarming news item has appeared in Inquilab, a lead-ing Urdu newspaper published from Delhi, in its 19 June2012 issue. The news item says that the Hindutva extrem-ist organisation Bajrang Dal, whose workers have been

responsible for a number of blasts and bomb-making inci-dents as well as umpteen criminal activities across thecountry, have just organised a 10-day-long arms trainingcamp inside a temple in the heart of the national capital.

According to the news item, leaders of VHP and otherextremist outfits delivered fiery speeches during the campabusing secular forces. VHP spokesman at this trainingcamp, Prakash Sharma, according to the report, said that"flourishing secular forces are a danger and that secularpolitics is responsible for destroying the country." A photo-copy of the said report is attached herewith.

According to our information, the said temple is LalitSaraswati temple* at Vasant Vihar. Moreover, according toour information, this is the second such arms trainingcamp being held in the national capital within the last fewmonths.

We would like to know how this arms training campwas allowed and what action has been taken againstthose who organised it, participated in it and impartedarms training in it and what action has been taken againstthe persons and/or the organisation(s) controlling the saidtemple.Yours sincerely,


[A similar letter was sent to the Police Commissioner Delhion the same date]* Perhaps the correct name is lalit mahajan S V mSchool in Vasant Vihar (SVm stands for “SaraswatiVidya mandir”). This was communicated to inspectorSS Gill of the Special Cell, Vasant Vihar branch, viaemail on 16 august 2012. he had contacted the

President by phone seek-ing more details about thevenue of the arms training(Editor).

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letter to the ChiefElection Commissioner

New delhi-11000121 April 2012

Dear Sir,I wish to draw your kind

attention to a news itempublished in the Delhi edi-tion of Daily Inquilab of 15April 2012 (photocopyattached). It says that candi-date Pinky Jain of MCDWard No. 76 (Deputy Ganj,Delhi) said during a roadshow that "I do not needMuslim votes becauseMuslims had not voted forthe BJP even in the previ-ous elections. BJP won



Daily inquilab, Delhi, 19 June 2012

those elections on its own strength and, therefore, theBJP does not need Muslim votes". It also quoted localpeople as saying that Pinky Jain abused Muslims andsaid that "after winning the elections we will not do any-thing for Muslims and there will be no developmental workin their areas."

Such brazen communal approach by public repre-sentatives is condemnable and provides enough groundto cancel their elections. I request you to kindly enquireinto this matter and take the necessary action.

Yours sincerelyDr. Zafarul-Islam Khan

President

[The Election Commission replied vide letter No.39/DL/2012/ (MCD)/NS-II | 791 dated 8th May, 2012 asfollows:

“Subject: - Elections to the Municipal Corporation ofDelhi - regarding.

“Sir, “I am directed to acknowledge the receipt of yourletter dated the 21st April, 2012 addressed to the ChiefElection Commissioner of India on the subject cited, andto inform you that the superintendence, direction and con-trol of Elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi arenot under the jurisdiction of Election Commission of India.The State Election Commissioner, NCT of Delhi conductsthe said elections.

“Yours faithfully, “(A.N. DAS)”]

babri/ram maNdir iSSUEaSi excavation in ayodhya

Syed Shahabuddin’s letter to the The Comptroller &Auditor General of India

5 May 2012Dear Sir,

We have glad to know that your office has under-taken the preparation of a Report on our CulturalInstitutions. We are particularly interested in your perform-ance audit report on the Archaeological Survey of India.We are aware of the problems faced by the ASI and whichhave caused non-completion of several excavation proj-ects which it began since 1950 and the non-publication ofreports on excavations which were completed. The mostrecent instance is the Report on the excavation inAyodhya on the Ram Janmabhoomi -Babri Masjid Siteunder the order of the Allahabad High Court. The Reporthas not been placed in the public domain because it can-not stand scrutiny. The Archaeological Survey of India(ASI) takes the plea that the High Court had placed a baron its publication. But the Report was never examined bythe Special Bench of the Allahabad High Court. TheSpecial Bench passed its ordered in September 2010 andthere is no such bar, to the best of our knowledge. Werequest your special attention. We also request that the CAG Report should bring out theparticulars of all the non-completed excavation as well asunpublished reports of the completed projects of the ASIand the reason why the Annual issue of the IndianArcheology has been suspended for years.

Yours faithfully,Syed Shahabuddin

iiSyed Shahabuddin’s letter to Mr. Khalique Ahmad Khan,

Babri Masjid Movement Coordination Committee,Faizabad 224001

9 April 2012My dear Khalique,The retired Judge of the Allahabad High Court is back inAyodhya and speaking to various groups to find a solutionof the Babri Masjid Problem by negotiation. A so-calledMinority Welfare Society is said to be in touch with him. Ihave never heard of them. Please find out who they areand whom they represent.

Our view should remain unchanged that until theSupreme Court disposed of the appeal, there can be nonegotiation for settlement between the parties concerned.With regards,Yours sincerely,

Syed Shahabuddiniii

Syed Shahabuddin’s letter to Mr.Zafaryab Jilani, SeniorAdvocate & Additional Advocate General of U.P,

Lucknow 2260019 April 2012

My dear Mr.Zafaryab Jilani,I am very happy to know that you have been appointedadditional advocate general of Uttar Pradesh by the newgovernment. I wish you all success but I hope that it willnot in any way stand in the way of your continued associ-ation with the Babri Masjid case referred now in theSupreme Court. On the other hand, I hope you will pro-pose to UP Government to intervene in the appeal andsuggest to the Supreme Court that in view of the imprac-ticability of implementing the award of the SpecialBenches of the Allahabad High Court which was contraryto its mandate, the case may be sent to the AllahabadHigh Court for retrial as a title suit.With best regards,Yours sincerely,

Syed Shahabuddin

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hashimpura killingsSyed Shahabuddin’s letter to Shri Akhilesh Yadav,

Chief Minister of U.P15 June 2012

My dear Chief Minister,I am certain that you are aware of the cold-blooded killingof nearly 40 Muslim youth from Hashimpura locality inMeerut in May 1987. After a long wait the state govern-ment put 19 PAC men on trial out of 69 who had beenindicted by the UP CID. The trial was conducted so half-hearted that 25 years later it is still going on. Seniorlawyers advise me that unless the state government pro-duce the CID Report before the Trial Court, the case is notlikely to end in conviction.

I request you to instruct the DPP and the PAC to pro-



duce all related papers before the Court and theGovernment of UP should appoint a top criminal lawyerwho conducts the case which has suffered from neglect ofsuccessive governments.

The Muslim community has great faith in you and if yougive an appointment to a high delegation to call on you toreview the case, we would be happy to organize it to callon you.With kind regards,Yours sincerely,

Syed Shahabuddin

Syed Shahabuddin’s letter to Shri V.N. rai, iPS(retd.), Vice Chancellor, mahatma Gandhi University,

wardha, maharashtra10 May 2012

Dear Shri Rai,You were interviewed recently by India Today on theirwrite-up on the Hashimpura massacre in the meantime Ialso spoke to the lawyers who were engaged in the case.They have not been able to secure any documentary evi-dence from the government of UP on the identity of thosewho perpetrate the massacre or even of those who wereeventually prosecuted. The government has not disclosedthe UP CID Report or the proceeding to selecting only 19out of 62 indicted by the CID. The government hasrefused to indicate the names of senior officer in the chainof annexed PAC / police at the time, who might have giveninstructions to the PAC men.

Since you have made a thorough research, I would likehave a word with you and would like to meet you on yournext visit to Delhi.

I also like to know when the book you are writing islikely to see in the light of the day.With kind regards,

Yours sincerely,Syed Shahabuddin

Shia-Sunni riotsResolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

The AIMMM strongly condemns the Shia-Sunni riotswhich were engineered in Lucknow during the Prophet's(pbuh) birthday celebrations on 5 February. The AIMMM isof the firm view that anyone rekindling this extinguishedfire is an enemy of Islam and Muslims. It is the responsi-bility of both Shia and Sunni leaders and masses to frus-trate such sinister plots to harm Muslims and bring backthe spectre of fatricidal fights in Lucknow which, alhamdulillah, are a thing of the past now.

aSSam

"infiltrators" in assamSyed Shahabuddin’s letter to Shri R. K Singh,

Union Home Secretary(with copies to Shri Tarun Kumar Gogoi, Chief Minister of

Assam, and Maulana Badruddin Ajmal Khan, MP)

8 May .2012My dear Home Secretary,It has been reported that during the latest round of talksbetween Central Government and ULFA, the laterdemanded denial of voting rights to persons of EastBengal origin who migrated to Assam between January1996 and March 1971 for at least 10 years and that it wasalso reported that the Centre has actively considering thisdemand. Those who migrated during this period wereboth Muslim and Hindu by religion. ULFA has made itclear that in its view voting rights be denied to all irrespec-tive of religion. This was why Assam Accord 1985 couldnot be fully implemented.

In any case this will not cover those who have infiltrat-ed into Assam since 1971 from Bangladesh as theyremained unidentified despite the changes made in thelaw relating to foreign tribunals.

The Bengali-speaking Muslims of Assam are appre-hensive that the ULFA has planned a repeat of the brutalNellie massacre in 1983 to force the issue.

I request that the government should issue a statusreport on any negotiation with the ULFA and take duemeasures to prevent another massacre. I am sure bothMuslim and Hindu Bengali-speaking Minorities in Assamwill welcomes assurance.With kind regards,Yours sincerely,

Syed Shahabuddin

J&K

letter to Chairman, NaTiONal hUmaN riGhTS COmmiSSiON, New delhi-110001

4 April 2012Respected Sir,We are pleased to note that a compensation has beenordered by you for the ill-fated youth of Punjab who wereunlawfully killed during 1984-96 by the security forces dur-ing the unrest in Punjab. Though the compensation isbelated and meagre, yet it is at least an attempt by theState to accept the responsibility for crimes committed bypeople in uniform.

Similar crimes were/are committed in the state ofJammu & Kashmir where according to various estimates,close to ten thousand people, mostly youth, have disap-peared since the start of the militancy in late 1980s. TheState Human Rights Commission of Jammu and Kashmirreleased a report in July 2011 on unmarked graves in thenorth of Kashmir where 2943+ unidentified bodies wereverified in unidentified graves at 62 sites in 55 villages. Nodoubt, more such bodies will be found in other parts ofJ&K if a serious investigation is ordered.

It is high time the NHRC took initiative in this matter byordering a complete survey of Kashmir's official and unof-ficial jails, detention and interrogation centres and grave-yards to account for all the disappeared, most of whomare believed to have been killed and buried secretly.

The second logical step should be to order a propercompensation to the kin of all such persons who remain



unaccounted despite the passage of a reasonable timeafter their disappearance.

I am attaching herewith two reports but am sure thatthrough your resources and authority you will be able tounearth much more which is beyond the reach of mediaand ordinary citizens.Thanking you,Yours sincerely


[Assistant Registrar (Law) of NHRC vide letter Case No.114/9/0/2012/OC dated 26-4-2012 / 8 May 2012addressed to The Inspector General of Police, Govt ofJammu & Kashmir, Srinagar, said that the Commissionhas directed as follows: “The complaint be transmitted tothe concerned authority for such action as deemed appro-priate. 2. Accordingly, I am forwarding a copy of the com-plaint to you for its disposal at your end.”]

Situation in KashmirResolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

AIMMM, after detailed deliberation on the situation in theJ&K, is of the view that the present apparent peace ismanaged by oppression. Murder by security personnel isstill treated as accidental firing. The commission ofenquiry ordered by the court after the murder of as manyas 118 innocent youth in 2010 is yet to submit its report.Political prisoners continue to be behind bars in and out-side the state. Both the Union and state governments lacksincerity as they never bothered to implement the recom-mendations of the five working groups appointed by PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh. Even the recent report ofInterlocutors has not been made public so far. AIMMMdemands the urgent release of political prisoners, imple-mentation of the recommendations of the aforesaid fiveworking groups and restoration of Autonomy as recom-mended by Justice Saghir Ahmed. AIMMM also stressesthe immediate withdrawal of AFSPA from whole of Jammu& Kashmir and Manipur where it has been misused to thehilt and has created a climate of fear for ordinary peopleand impunity for the men in uniform who are free to violaterights and kill innocents at will. The thousands ofunnamed graves in Kashmir are a living testimony to thisnational disgrace. There is no point for AFPSA to remainin force in J&K where hardly 200 militants remain accord-ing to official sources.

Christians in J&K Resolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

Christian organisations in India have unleashed a falsepropaganda that Christians are being forced out of theKashmir Valley which is not correct. AIMMM urges theChurch within and without J&K to desist from such falsepropaganda which does not serve anyone's interest.

ElECTiONS

mushawarat welcomes U.P. election results

New Delhi, 7 March 2012: The All India Muslim Majlis-eMushawarat (AIMMM), the umbrella body of IndianMuslim organisations, held a meeting here to consider theelection results in five states, especially Uttar Pradesh.The meeting was attended by AIMMM President DrZafarul-Islam Khan, former President Janab SyedShahabuddin, Vice President Janab Muhammad Jaafar,General Secretary Janab Ejaz Ahmad Alam, JanabMujtaba Farooq and Janab Akhtar Husain Akhtar.

Dr. Khan said after the meeting that the AIMMM is sat-isfied with the results in Uttar Pradesh and congratulatesthe mature U.P. voters for puncturing the BJP ballooneven in Ayodhya and thereby demonstrating that the vot-ers reject communal and divisive politics.

Dr. Khan said that the U.P. results have yet againdemonstrated the central position of Muslim voters in thestate and that no government may be formed by ignoringthem. The results, he said, are also a lesson for theCongress that mere lip service and meaningless gestureswill not win it votes. It is time political parties stopped tak-ing Muslims for granted. Dr. Khan hoped that the UPA willlearn its lessons and make good its promises to Muslimsand other minority and backward communities so thatthese results are not repeated in 2014.

Statement on the eve of state assemblies' elections New Delhi, 6 February 2012: President of AIMMM, Dr.Zafarul-Islam Khan, advised Muslim voters in a pressstatement to vote for secular and untainted candidatesand to try to defeat corrupt, criminal and communal candi-dates. He said, we should endeavour to help Muslim can-didates of good character to win wherever they are con-testing and where this option is not available, we shouldhelp secular and untainted non-Muslim candidates to win.He said, to cast vote is a national duty akin to Shura (con-sultation) in Islam. Failure to vote allows undeserving can-didates to win. Therefore, we should not be found wantingon this count. President of Mushawarat appealed to Milliorganisations and respected imams to advise Muslim vot-ers accordingly in their constituencies and urge them tovote for the deserving candidates only.

Guidelines for the muslim Electorate for UPassembly Elections, 2012

issued by the Joint Committee of muslimOrganisations for Empowerment (JCmOE)

24 January, 2012

Since 1950, in all elections the Muslim community hasalways supported the formation of a secular, stable andstrong government at the Centre and in the States, butright from 1947 persistently it has been underrepresent-ed in the legislatures.

Also the community has felt growing by disenchantedwith the post-election performance of secular parties and



their Muslim legislators. Today, therefore, the primaryinterest of the community is not only to raise its represen-tation in the legislature with at least some vocal, fearlessindependent legislators so that its legitimate aspirations &interests are voiced and pursued systemaically.

Since 2004, the JCMOE has been formulatingGuidelines for the Muslim Community for General andState Elections. Since 2009, it has suggested active par-ticipation of the Muslim electorate at the constituency levelin selecting candidates and/or parties to support with pri-mary objective of improving the quality and dependabilityof Muslim representation in national & state legislatures.

The JCMOE recalls with regret the oft-tested failure ofthe Muslim legislators to project the feelings and wishes ofthe community at the national or even state level. It is ofthe considered view that the reason behind the dissatis-factory performance of the Muslim legislators lies in thetheir personal & political loyalty to the parties they belongto and in their faithful support to the their political linewhich makes them disinclined even to raise its legitimateexpectation for equal participation in governance andsharing equal benefits of development at various levels.Indeed they remain silent even in situations of denial ofequality and justice.

The JCMOE has also concluded in the light of experi-ence that because of diverse factors, effective unity of theMuslim political groups on the eve of the election can notbe at the state or national level. It feels that Muslim votersat the constituency level can be united in favour of a com-mon candidate chosen through participation & consulta-tion of all who matter.

The JCMOE is convinced that both underrepresenta-tion and its quality are relevant. The secular parties do notfield proportionate number of acceptable Muslim candi-dates from winnable Muslim constituencies and alsobecause participation of Muslim voters in the election isoften less than average. Also, several secular parties con-test against each other apart from Muslim candidates ofmini parties, sometimes funded by vested interests, thusdividing the Muslim vote.

In view of the above, the JCMOE has revised theGuidelines in depth on the eve of the UP AssemblyElections for 2012 particularly because UP is the majorstate going to polls, has the biggest Muslim population ofall states with 18 % in the electorate, with decisive influ-ence in more than a quarter of the 403 constituencies andit has at least 35 % Muslims in 46 constituencies.

The JCMOE appeals to the Muslim electorate to buildon its electoral assets & take all possible steps.

General Guidelines for the Community To register all eligible voters and to vote massively, par-ticularly, women & youth, to raise their turnout above theaverage & thus increase their effective political weight inevery constituency.

To strive for Muslim unity at the constituency level, ris-ing above party affiliations or religious or sectarian consid-erations & chose a winnable candidate by common agree-ment who is reliable, capable & vocal and reputed to havea secular background.

To vote unitedly for the agreed candidate, as the mostacceptable candidate of the community.

mechanism of Selection of Common Candidates atConstituency levelMuslim electorate faces no dilemma when there is onlyone secular candidate of a secular party pitted againstone or more communal parties but when there are morethan one secular parties in the constituency, it must care-fully select one of them through wide consultations.

For this purpose, the local community should from aConstituency Consultation Committee(CCC) consisting ofa representative cross section of distinguished local per-sonalities who have knowledge, experience and politicalunderstanding but are not associated with any politicalparty. This CCC should have Ulema, academics, retiredofficials, former legislators, youth leaders & social acti-vivists and representatives of eminent Muslim organiza-tions and institutions. The CCC formed by the consultationamong community leaders should elect a Chairman.

The Committee should interview all important candi-dates in the field or even arrange public debates amongthem and interaction with the Muslim voters in differentparts of the Constituency.

The Committee should take the following point in con-sideration in evaluating the quality of the candidatesi. Whether the candidate and/or his party has generallysupported Muslim causes in the past or supports theirmajor aspirations like reservation in the current election.ii. Whether the candidate and/or his party has taken up sit-uations of Muslim concern and distress in legislatures orwith the partyiii. Whether their social base and general support makesthem relatively more winnableiv. Whether they are known and generally acceptable tothe Muslim votersv. Whether they are acceptable to the non-Muslim votersvi. Whether the party has fielded adequate number ofMuslim candidates in the state, the names of the con-stituencies, their popularity & reputation in UP the propor-tionate claim of Muslims is 73 out of 403.

Communication of Selection to muslim ElectorateI. The CCC should request all Muslim organizations, insti-tutions and influential citizens particularly academicians &journalists to actively support full reservation as the firstpolitical objective. The CCC should issue written appeal tothe electors to emphasize Reservation as the master keyto Social Justice, Democratic Governance, InclusiveDevelopment and Empowerment and to work for the suc-cess of the common candidate by all means at their dis-posal.II. The CCC should request the Imams of local masjids &heads of local madarsas and other educational institutionsto support the common acceptable candidate.III. The CCC should brief mass media on the procedurefollowed in selecting the common agreed candidate andreason for selection.IV. The CCC should advise candidates to use all modernmedia for publicity like phone calls, e-mail, social network



site like facebook etc and motivate the voters during thecampaign and on the polling date.

advice to muslim Voters in other ConstituenciesA. In seats with less than 20 % Muslim electorate, theMuslims should vote for the most winnable candidates ofa secular party.B. In constituencies with 20-30 % Muslim votes, it shouldvote for most winnable candidate of a secular party butpreferably a Muslim.C. In high concentration or Muslim majority seats, itshould vote for the most winnable Muslim candidate whomay be independent, and belongs to most numerousMuslim baradari in the constituency.

CONClUSiONThe JCMOE expects that these Guidelines will serve thepurpose of uniting the Muslim voters at the Constituencylevel, ensure massive turnout & united voting for a com-mon candidates and electing a more dependable repre-sentative in the UP Assembly and request Muslim organi-zation and institution and known political activists to takethe initiative immediately to form the ConstituencyConsultation Committees.

Syed ShahabuddinConvener, JCMOE

ECONOmy

letter to hon'ble Chief Justice of india, SupremeCourt of india, New delhi

21 June 2012Most Respected Sir,A shocking news item has just come out of Los Cabos inEurope where our Prime Minister Mr Manmohan Singhhas announced a bailout package of US$ 10 billion (IndianRupees 56,000 crore) to save the Eurozone. This mis-placed generosity has come out at a time our own coun-try is reeling under unprecedented economic slowdown;industrial growth is at an abysmal 0.1 percent; fiscal deficitis US$ 100 billion; two important rating agencies,Standard and Poor's and Fitch, have downgraded oureconomic rating, our currency is having a free-fall seasonin the face of foreign currencies (Indian rupees rate perone US$ has has gone down from Rs 42 to Rs 56)… Yetour Prime Minister showers this totally misplaced largessein order to prop up foreign countries which were neverever known to stand for us or help us in our hour of dis-tress. Our Prime Minister has no right whatsoever tosquander our hard-earned money to prop up foreign coun-tries while our own house is burning.

News of the above-mentioned mad offer has appearedin all newspapers today. I am attaching herewith only twosuch reports from leading newspapers for your kindperusal.

As a law-abiding concerned citizen and a tax payer ofthis country, I respectfully beseech your honour to kindlyput your foot down and stop this wanton squandering ofour precious resources which should be utilised to the last

paisa to prop up our own falling economy. I respectfully request your honour to treat this humble

request as a sou moto PIL and stop our government fromcommitting economic harakiri. Yours respectfully,


blaCK mONEy

report by aimmm representative dr Jawed ahmad,member, mmm, after attending a function against

black money organised by baba ramdeo atConstitution Club, New delhi

13 May 2012

I attended the function organised by Baba Ramdev at theConstitution Club, Delhi on 13 May 2012. I got an oppor-tunity to interact with Baba. Firstly, I appreciated his effortsto bring back the black-money from abroad, and thensuggested to him to work to unearth the same (blackmoney) lying within the country which could be a mucheasier process comparatively because here this ill-gottenweatlh exists within our own boundaries, own laws, ownpolice, own intelligence agencies etc. He agreed with thisthought but didn’t say much. But mI could not speak at thefunction despite making a request for same.

haJ SUbSidy

Syed Shahabuddin’s letter to The Editor, Times ofindia, New delhi-110002

14 May 2012Dear Sir,

In your issue of 10 may 2012 Shri Pyaralal Raghavanhas presented his counter view on Supreme's Court deci-sion to abolish Haj subsidy based on inaccurate argu-ments. Since 95 or 96, I have been in the forefront then inthe parliament, for abolition of Haj subsidy. The Haj sub-sidy is a recent phenomena and not a historic tradition. Itwas introduced only in the late70's after the abolition ofHaj sailings and the rise in the air fare due to high cost ofaviation petrol.

The argument that Haj subsidy should continue as theGovernment of India spends vast amounts of money onHindu pilgrimage. The argument confuses the cause withthe effect. Subsidy for Mansarover etc. has come as afterthought to Haj subsidy. Also Haj subsidy originally came toless than 50 crores. It has risen because of governmentorder to create air transport monopoly in favor of Air Indiain the 90's. The original idea was that Haj Carrier shouldbe chosen by international tender & the Haj pilgrim wasalways prepared to pay the competitive fare. Per capitacame originally to only a few thousands & the total cost ofabout 4o-50 crores. But Air India tried to make up its loss-es through subsidy. Also the increasing number of pilgrimsreached it to the present level of 650 crores.

You have correctly stated that pilgrims are prepared to



pay higher cost of all services including a cup of tea inSaudi Arabia and railway fare in India. So they are readyto pay the cost of air transport but not to subsidies the AirIndia.

It is inaccurate to say many Muslim benefit from illegalquotas. In fact, quota is determined by the government ofSaudi Arabia and is largely distributed by Haj Committeeamong applicants from various states in proportion toMuslim population in their states.

I request that the sooner the subsidy is abolished thebetter, provided there in a global tender for Haj transportby the Haj Committee, report to all airlines, eligible undercommon criteria and followed by negotiations with theshort-listed airlines, by a high powered committee, includ-ing government representative from Finance, ExternalAffairs & Civil Aviation. Yours faithfully, Syed Shahabuddin

rESErVaTiON

reservation to muslim & Christian dalitsSyed Shahabuddin’s letter to Shri Salman Khurshid,

minister of law and Justice, Govt. of india5 May 2012

My dear Salman,As you are aware the Government have so far deniedinclusion of Christian and Muslim Dalit under the 1950Presidential Order which restricts its benefits to HinduDalits only, later followed by some Sikhs and neo-Buddhists. This exclusion has resulted in rising tensionbetween Christian & Muslims Dalits on one hand andHindu Dalits on the other. The Christian Dalit are beingaccused of falsely claiming to be Hindus in order to bene-fit from reservation in government jobs and admission. Itis alleged that some Dalit Christians are posing as Hindusto claiming jobs, land etc.

Organizations like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in TamilNadu and Gujarat have also raised the question of viola-tion of the local laws in formal change of religion. Thisunrest is likely to extend. In all areas and localities wherethere is substantial competition between Hindu Dalits andChristian and Muslim Dalits.

The Central Government has been least concernedwith the problems as appears from delay in filingresponse to the PIL filed by Christian Dalits.

I would like to add that the Justice Ranganath MishraCommission had recommended that the clause in theOrder of 1950 which make reservation the exclusive priv-ilege of the Dalit who profess Hinduism should be deleted.

Indeed this order violates the policy of Secularism asall facilities for the uplift of the Dalits, on ground of profes-sional parity or descent should be available to all Dalits,irrespective of religion they profess.

I request you to discuss this situation with the Ministerof Social Welfare as well as, as in Ministry of MinorityAffairs & take up urgently the matter of amending the 1950Order in accordance with the recommendation ofCommission. With kind regards,

Yours Sincerely, Syed Shahabuddin4.5% reservation


3 March 2012

The AIMMM welcomes as a first but inadequate step the4.5% reservation offered by the Central government to"minority" OBCs which means the share available to theMuslim OBCs out of this quota will be much less as otherminorities too are included in this. The AIMMM urges thecentral government to demarcate and disaggregate theshares of various minorities in this and any other schemefor minorities according to their ratio in each state. TheAIMMM urges the central government to include Muslimand Christian Dalits at the earliest in the SC/ST quota, inorder to remove a historic injustice.

mishra Commission reportResolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

The AIMMM urges the central government to quicklymove to the urgent and full implementation of the 10%reservation for Muslims recommended by MishraCommission and urges the government to table it inParliament without any further dealy. The AIMMM reiter-ates that the available reservation should be allocated onthe basis of backwardness alone with no share for thecreamy layer and well-off sections of the Muslim minority.

UrdUSyed Shahabuddin’s letter to Shri akhilesh yadav,

Chief minister of U.P(with copies to General Secretary, Anjuman Taraqqi-e-

Urdu Hind, New Delhi-110002 and Janab Salik Dhampuri)

8 May 2012

My dear Chief Minister,It has been reported that some newly elected Urdu speak-ing legislators had taken their oath of office as MLA inUrdu but it was not accepted and they were asked to takeoath again in Hind. This is because the UP Assembly rec-ognizes Hindi only as its working language. Since nearly20% of the population of UP has declared Urdu as itsmother tongue and since Urdu is the second official lan-guage of the state, I request you to move the Assembly toallow oath in Urdu as well. A simple resolution will giveUrdu the status it deserves. With kind regards,Yours sincerely, Syed Shahabuddin

mualllim-e-Urdu certificateletter to Shri Vikram Sahay, director, Elementary

Education, ministry of human resourcedevelopment, New delhi-110001

14 June 2012

Dear Shri Vikram Sahay,



Please refer to the agitation by the holders of Jamia Urdu,Aligarh, Certificates of Mualllim-e-Urdu for appointment asUrdu teachers, apparently those who obtained theCertificates after 1997, as they are not eligible for post ofUrdu teachers unless they have passed TET Examination.

We suggest that in States like Bihar and UP, all thosewho have qualified with Urdu as compulsory subject athigher secondary or BA levels, or their equivalent fromany eminent Madrasa, as well as all those with certificateof Muallim-e-Urdu of Jamia Urdu, Aligarh, or MANUU,Hyderabad, should go through a common competitive testfor appointment as Urdu medium teachers in primary oras Urdu teachers in primary schools. Such a test will pro-vide a level playing field for candidates from differentchannels & ensure minimum proficiency as teachers inthe interest of the students.With kind regards,Yours sincerely,

Syed Shahabuddin

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Syed Shahabuddin’s letter to mr. afroz ahmad Sahil25 April 2012

Dear Mr. Sahil,Right from 1979 when I entered public life, I have attend-ed regional and national Wakf conferences and participat-ed in discussion, organized by Muslim Organisation. Theyhave all agreed that the Wakf Property can be protectedonly by the continuous vigilance of the community bothagainst misuse by the Motawallis or by the Chairman andofficers of the Wakf Boards and outsiders.But the onlyavailable channel is the Government or the judiciary. Thereal problem is how to empower the common Muslim whois by law a local beneficiary of any Wakf to probe into themanagement of the Wakf property and to organize a localagitation if it is been exploited for personal purposes. Thelocal Muslims may as in the tribal areas agitate againstthe outsiders to whom the Wakf Property is sold leased orgiven away for example, if Wakf land is made into a foot-ball ground or used for building an enterprise, the localMuslims should be able to launch an agitation. People likeyou should suggest how this can be organized & how thelevels work without fear of police and authorities whichsuppress the combined will of the community. The localreligious & political leaders are not interested and thestate or national Ulema or political elite are too far away. With kind regards,Yours sincerely,

Syed Shahabuddin

delhi wakf boardSyed Shahabuddin’s letter to mrs Smt.Sheela dixit,

Chief minister of delhi28 March 2012

My dear Sheelaji,The Muslims of Delhi are not happy with the work of theDelhi Wakf Board. Although you have nominated aChairman, he has pointed out that the real bottleneck is

that the Wakf properties come under Rent Control whichmeans prolonged litigation and impossibility to increasethe rent fixed ages ago. The Joint Selection Committee ofParliament on the Wakf Bill has emphasized the exclusionof Wakf Property from Rent Control legislation as well asthe inclusion of Public Wakfs in the Public Premises(Removal of Encroachment) Law. I request you to kindlytake necessary action expeditiously.

I also request you to direct Delhi Wakf Board in themeantime not to rent any Wakf land or permit the lesseeto construct a building on a Wakf land, without invitingpublic tender.With kind regards,Yours sincerely,

Syed Shahabuddin

letter to dr manmohan Singh, Prime minister of india

28 December 2012

Mohtaram Janab Dr Manmohan Singh Sahab,Aadaab

You are aware that Waqf management in India has beenmostly going by default as recognized and documented bythe then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi through her let-ter of 1976 addressed to the chief ministers (reproducedin Sachar Committee). The 28 Waqf Boards of India suf-fer from a chronic maladministration because the CEOsare usually low level, incompetent and untrained officerswhom the rest of the state bureaucracy does not consideras one of them – not even a poor cousin. This is becauseMuslim officers (statutory requirement since 1954) ofrequired seniority are very rare to find and spare. This hasbeen reported by both Sachar Committee in 2006 and theJPC of Waqf in 2008 after years of all-India touring, obser-vation and consultation. The facts have been re-affirmedthrough the information received by Zakat Foundation ofIndia (ZFI) under RTI Act for the decade 2001-2011.

Nonetheless, this one most useful Sachar recommen-dation (to create a separate Waqf cadre) was thoughtless-ly rejected by the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs withoutany serious consideration thereof at any senior level. Thisis evident from the ZFI’s inspection of the Ministry’s filesas ordered by the Central Information Commission.

Ever since 1863 (when Religious Endowments Actwas issued), the Indian religious establishments andendowments are managed by persons of the relevantfaith. Consequently, in several states, Hindu temples andendowments are managed by very senior governmentofficers of Hindu faith specifically recruited year after yearby the state government by virtue of specific laws enact-ed for this purpose by state legislatures. Their remunera-tions are paid by the state government. A separate serv-ice cadre exists in Tamilnadu to manage Hindu templesaffairs.

On the other hand, untrained low level persons likeveterinary doctors, retired teachers etc. manage the statewaqf boards as CEOs. Rarely a government officer isappointed. Even if this happens, the “Waqf CEO” is suchan officer’s additional charge. The reason: in the bureau-



cracy, Muslims consist of 2.5% as against their nationalCensus population of 13.4%.

Muslims of India are hurt at this discrimination metedout to them. The All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawaratappeals to you to have a relook at this vital issue of massconcern to the Muslims of India. A separate Waqf cadre,suggested by Sachar Committee based on thorough rea-soning - Indian Waqf Service - must be created withoutany further loss of time. Such arrangement is fully coveredin the scheme of the Constitution.Yours sincerely

Dr Zafarul-Islam KhanPresident, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat

EdUCaTiON

admission to private schoolsResolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

A survey by a Delhi NGO has shown that the intake ofMuslim children in the capital's top private schools thisyear hovered between nil and under one percent withsome rare exceptions. Perhaps a survey of other citiesacross the country will come up with similar results. Thisspeaks volumes about the discrimination faced by Muslimchildren in private schools. The AIMMM feels that just asthe access of neighbourhood and weaker section stu-dents has been ensured through government rules foradmission, minority students too should have a quota inthese schools proportionate to their ratio in the local pop-ulation. Moreover, the AIMMM urges the Muslim commu-nity to come forward to establish good schools as well asraise the standards of our existing schools so that wecould be spared of this continued humiliation and discrim-ination.

National Commission for minorities Educationalinstitutions


3 March 2012

The AIMMM condemns the recent divestment of the chair-man of the National Commission for MinoritiesEducational Institutions (NCMEI) of his administrative andfinancial powers which only demonstrates the central gov-ernment's insincerity towards its avowed policy of promot-ing minority education. The AIMMM demands the HRDministry to forthwith restore the NCMEI chairman's fullpowers and stop interfering in the workings of thisautonomous commission.

GUJaraTResolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

The AIMMM registers its dismay that 10 years down theline, the victims of the state-sponsored pogroms of 2002

are yet to receive justice due to the delaying and obfuscat-ing tactics of the Modi Government. The victims have notbeen properly rehabilitated and around 60,000 of themare still displaced and continue to live as refugees in theirown homeland which is a matter of shame for the wholecountry. The central government should take the initiativeto rehabilitate them inside and outside Gujarat like themigrants of Kashmir. Moreover, the origin of the fire thatburnt coach no. 6 of Sabarmati Express is yet to be con-clusively probed and established. It is time for the centralinvestigative agencies to go into the origin and reality ofthis fire in S-6. AIMMM salutes brave people like ZakiaJafari, Teesta Setalvad, Sanjiv Bhatt, Sreekumar andMukul Sinha who continue the struggle for the victims ofGujarat.

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Salaries to imams / west bengalSyed Shahabuddin’s letter to Shmt. mamta benerjee,

Chief minster of west bengal(with copy to Mr. A. Basit Ismail, Editor, The Eastern

Post, Kolkata-700014)

My dear Chief Minister,The decision of your government to pay higher uniformsalaries to Imams than in most of the states apart fromhouse building grant on April 3, 2012 is no doubt is a his-toric decision. Naturally it has been hailed by the Imamsor by the so called All India Organisation of Imams, whichhas little credibility in Muslim Community. Apparently thiswas based on the unimplemented and, what is worse, anunimplement-able order of the Supreme Court to makethe State Wakf Board responsible for payment of salariesand emoluments to Imams and other functionaries ofMasjids.

The judgment can not be implemented not onlybecause no Wakf Board in India has the necessaryresources (except perhaps those in Delhi, Punjab andHaryana). The state governments generally do not evenpay the administration expenses of the Wakf Boards. TheWakf Boards under the Wakf Law does not administer ormanage the Masjids, Graveyards and other public Wakfs.The Wakfs are managed by their Motawallis who pay asmall annual contribution to Wakf Boards which superin-tendents their working. The Wakf Boards are not in a posi-tion to pay their own staffs far less the functionaries of theMasjids and other Wakf institutions.

Secondly, under the Shariat the surplus income of aWakf if any can be used only in accordance with the inten-tion of the Wakif; it cannot be transferred to any otherWakf which is in deficit. There is no law under whichincome from all Wakfs in the state can be pooled in theState Wakf Board ad used by it for common benefit oreven to pay for the legal proceedings to free other wakfswhich are under adverse or illegal occupation.

Coming to West Bengal it is estimated that state hasabout 30,000 Mosques, if the Imams are to be paid andother functionaries are to be paid the minimum of Rs20,000 per month. This will entail an expenditure of 7200



crores. I doubt if your government will give a grant to StateWakf Board to meet such a huge expenditure.

The order of the Supreme Court needs to be revisedbut for political reasons neither the Central Governmentnor any Muslim organisation has approached theSupreme Court to revisit this misconceived & erroneousjudgment on the basis of Muslim Law of Wakfs.

Your decision announced with great fanfare has raisedmisleading & false expectations. It is incumbent on yourgovernment and the State Wakf Board to clarify the posi-tion to the people & to the Imams. I am constrained to cau-tion you against resulting frustration, if this is not done.This is a matter of public interest. I am releasing this letterto the press. With kind regards,Yours sincerely,Syed Shahabuddin

fOrEiGN iSSUES

arab SPriNG

Arab Spring is still in the process

New Delhi: Ambassador Karamatullah K Ghori delivered a lecture here

on the ongoing Arab Spring at the central office of All India Muslim

Majlis-e Mushawrat on 11 Feb 2012. Mr Ghori is a former Pakistani

diplomat who served as ambassador in various countries and is

presently settled in Canada. He is now a regular columnist of interna-

tional journals including MG. His published works include collections of

poetry and novels. President of AIMMM, Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan, wel-

comed him and introduced the guest to the august gathering consist-

ing of AIMMM members and local intelligentsia. Mr Ghori shared his

opinion on various international issues related to the Muslim world,

particularly the Arab Spring. He said that the present upheaval is actu-

ally a struggle for freedom by the masses because whole of Arab

World had been in the clutches of dictators of various hues for long. He

added that the present political change in some countries will take time

before it settles down to normal condition and democracy is estab-

lished. As of now, Tunisia seems to be the only country where a little

bit of success has been achieved in this regard.

He said that a democratic system thrives on established independ-

ent institutions rather than on individuals which helps create dictatorial

systems. Mr Ghori said that in whole of the Arab world, individuals are

glorified, and we do not see established institutions coming into picture

very soon. Till then, we can only wait and watch. He elaborately dis-

cussed the present situations of the Middle East politics and threw light

on the situation in Libya, Turkey, Iran, Egypt. He expressed his hope

for Pakistan to come out of its present political chaos. The audience

included Syed Shahabuddin, former president AIMMM, Nusrat Ali, gen-

eral secretary of Jamaate Islami Hind, Muhammad Jaafar, vice presi-

dent of JIH and Mohammad Ahmad, national secretary of JIH for polit-

ical affairs. A number of journalists also attended the lecture. (Nadim

Ahmad -- The Milli Gazette, 1-15 March 2012, p.15)

PalESTiNE/iSraEl

india-israel ties Resolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

AIMMM is alarmed at the ever-increasing Indo-Israeli ties,especially of the so-called "strategic" kind. Israel today isthe only country occupying other people's lands and fol-lows racist policies against its Arab citizens in Israel aswell as in the occupied territories. While Israel remains inoccupation and denial of Palestinian rights and continuesto flout hundreds of UN resolutions, only skeletal diplo-matic relations could be maintained with it. AIMMM is fur-ther alarmed at the continuous Israeli attempts to create alobby within the Indian Muslim community, which is a verydangerous attempt to create a fifth column.

Statement on Global march to Jerusalemendosed by dr Zafarul-islam Khan, President, all

india muslim majlis-e mushawarat26 March 2012

We, are alarmed and deeply troubled by the continuingrepression of Palestinians in Jerusalem and by the delib-erate and systematic attempts to expel and reduce theChristian and Muslim Palestinian population of the city aspart of the policy called “Judaisation,” which is beingapplied to every part of historic Palestine.

This policy is inconsistent with all relevant UnitedNations resolutions on Jerusalem and contrary to themost basic principles of international law. Its purpose isplainly to ethnically cleanse Jerusalem of its non-Jewishpopulation and transform a once proud symbol of interna-tional tolerance and religious and cultural diversity into anexclusionary and racist enclave.

Jerusalem is our common universal heritage. It is thecentre of spirituality and ideological significance for all ofthe monotheistic religions, and a beacon of emancipationand hope for the downtrodden. This historic city is vener-ated across the world for enhancing the spiritual heritageof all humanity; it has been a symbol of unity and equali-ty, with a message of love, mercy and compassion.

However the entire world is now witnessing a threat tothe sovereignty, sanctity and inviolability of Jerusalem.The plan is not only to destroy the Muslim and Christianpresence, but also to change and dismantle the socialstructure of Jerusalem, obliterating its indigenous Arab



Ambassador Ghori (right) delivering his lecture

identity and changing the character of the city. The people of the world have therefore taken it upon

themselves to prevent this abomination, by mobilizingthemselves in every part of the world and representing allreligious, humanitarian, and cultural backgrounds in aglobal march to Jerusalem (GMJ) aimed at guarding theCity of Peace from becoming a wasteland of intolerance.We therefore lend our names to support the convergenceof people from all countries and continents of the world toJerusalem, and to the nearest points to which they areable to approach, both inside Palestine and at thePalestinian borders with Jordan, Egypt, Syria andLebanon, as well as in their own countries, in a peacefulmarch towards Jerusalem.

We therefore support this effort, and encourage all ofhumanity to support it, by making the pledge set forthbelow, that all participants in the Global March toJerusalem have agreed to accept.

We assert the importance of Jerusalem politically, cul-turally and religiously to the Palestinian people andhumanity as a whole. We call for the protection of the HolyPlaces and all archeological sites and consider all theefforts done to change its Arabic & cultural identity as acrime against humanity. We call on all international institu-tions to do their duties towards the city.

The defense of Jerusalem and its liberation are a dutyof all free people around the world and we call on all insti-tutions, organizations, and individuals to participate in thisduty.

We condemn the Zionist campaign of ethnic cleansingin Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine including all ongo-ing policies intended to change the demographic and geo-graphic situation in the city and aimed at its Judaisation.We also condemn the continuation of the Zionist occupa-tion forces in building the apartheid wall that aims toexpropriate more Palestinian lands and convert the occu-pied areas into shrinking cantons isolated from eachother.

We support the right of the Palestinian People to self-determination, to liberate their lands and to live on them infreedom and dignity like all other people on earth.

We support the non-negotiable & inalienable rights ofthe Palestinian People, including their families, to return totheir homes and lands from which they were uprooted.

We reject all racist laws that distinguish between peo-ple based on ethnicity or religion and call for their cancel-lation and criminalization.

The Global March to Jerusalem does not representany one faction or political party, but we call for participa-tion of all social forces, political factions, and ideologies.

The Global March to Jerusalem is a global peacefulmovement, which does not use violence to achieve itsgoals.

indian muslim leaders urge india to scale down ties with israel

14 January 2012

We, leaders of Indian Muslim organisations representing

the large Indian Muslim community, are deeply painedand alarmed at the steadily growing Indo-Israeli relations.The latest episode comes in the shape of the visit of theHon'ble Minister of External Affairs to Israel during whichhe has talked of cooperation against "international terror-ism", raising Indo-Israeli trade to $ 15 billion from the cur-rent $ 5 billion, allowing Israel to open a consulate inBangalore, signing Extradition Treaty and announcing thatsoon a Free Trade Agreement too will be signed betweenthe two countries. Reports say that a number of otherIndian union ministers are in the wings to visit Israel.

We wish to say that while our External AffairsMinister seeks Israel's cooperation to fight terrorism,Israel has become the biggest symbol of terrorism in theworld. They have continuously executed countless terror-ist operations in all parts of the world including killingIranian, Iraqi and Egyptian scientists. Israel has beenresponsible for large-scale massacres in Sabra, Shatila,Jenin, Gaza, and many places of occupied Palestine.

We find it difficult to understand how India can askIsrael to cooperate in security while Israel is the fountain-head of terrorism in the Middle East? It is the Zionists whointroduced terrorism to the Middle East with acts like blow-ing up Jerusalem's King David Hotel which housed theBritish Government in Palestine (1946), murdering theBritish minister Lord Moyne in Cairo (1944) and the UNmediator Count Bernadotte in Jerusalem in 1948, orattacking American diplomatic offices in Egypt in 1954with a view to blame the Egyptians for the same. Today itis the cause of terrorism by occupying Palestinian landsand homes, turning the Palestinians into a nation ofrefugees and continuously nibbling away even at thesmall chunks left of Palestine and building illegal settle-ments there while treating its Palestinian residents ascaged animals and keeping the other part (Gaza Strip)under a most cruel siege since June 2007.

Today, Israel is the only illegitimate nuclear power inthe Middle East which stockpiles close to a thousandnuclear warheads and continuously refuses to sign NPT.This very entity had earlier destroyed the nuclear facilitiesof Iraq and Syria and now nags the western countries todestroy for it the Iranian nuclear facilities and militarypower despite the fact that Iran has signed NPT, allowsIAEA inspection of its nuclear facilities and reiterates offi-cially that it will not build a nuclear device.

Israel is even using Mahatma Gandhi's name tohoodwink us while the fact is that the proposed memorialwill be built on occupied and stolen land. This can neverbe a move to honour a great personality which was total-ly opposed to the idea of a Jewish homeland on Arab soil.

We very strongly object to the current overtures ofour government and say categorically that close ties withIsrael are not in India's best interests. Our security andvital secrets will not be safe if Israel becomes privy ofsame. We must shun racist Israel as we did opposeApartheid South Africa. Israel is the only country in theworld which has flouted hundreds of UN resolutions andyet talks of peace. We urge the Indian government to stoplip service to Palestine and revert to our age-old policy ofsupporting the just Palestinian cause which was so dear



to the pioneers of our freedom struggle.1. Maulana Sayyid Jalaluddin Umari, Ameer-e-Jamaat(President), Jamaat-E-Islami Hind.2. Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, President, All India MuslimMajlis-e Mushawarat3 Maulana Abdul Hameed Nomani, Secretary, JamiatUlema-e Hind4.. Maulana Asghar Ali Imam Mehdi, General Secretary,Jamiat Ahl-e Hadees.5. Mujtaba Farooq, President, Welfare Party of India

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3 March 2012

The AIMMM is alarmed by the continuous illegal Israelithreats to attack Iran amid American silence and covertsupport by providing Israel with the necessary gadgets,rockets and smart bombs to attack Iran which is a compli-ant NPT signatory and whose nuclear facilities are opento the IAEA inspectors while Israel illegally possessesover a thousand nuclear bombs and refuses to sign NPT.The AIMMM warns that Indian Muslims will hold bothIsrael and the US as the culprits if Iran is attacked in a fla-grant aggression on a peaceful nation which will reopenthe raw wounds of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Syria Resolution passed by the MMM / MMA joint meeting

3 March 2012

The AIMMM, while supporting the Syrian people's strug-gle for true democracy, rule of law and human rights intheir country, offers guarded support to the belated refer-endum carried out by the Assad regime hoping that theregime will now prove its sincerity by honestly implement-ing the new reforms in earnest and without delay and stopthe bloodshed of innocents in the country. The AIMMMwarns foreign powers, especially the US and NATO, tokeep off from Syria and let its people solve their problemsthemselves. A military intervention in Syria will only hurtthe Syrian people as it has earlier hurt the Libyan, Iraqiand Afghan peoples.

bUrma mUSlimS

letter to dr manmohan Singh, hob'ble Prime minister of india

5 May 2012

Mohtaram Janab Dr Manmohan Singh Sahab,Aadaab

The presence of over a thousand Burmese Muslimrefugees in utterly miserable conditions on Delhi streetsthese days has brought their plight to the knowledge ofthe people of India. They have come to our capital torequest the United Nations High Commission for

Refugees to grant them refugee status so that they arenot harassed and are eventually settled in some countrywilling to accept them. According to them, there arearound twenty five thousand Burmese Muslim refugees inIndia at present while there are greater numbers inBangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia and SaudiArabia etc.

The 1982 Burmese Citizenship Law unjustly deniesMyanmarese citizenship to the Muslim minority in NorthRakhine State, generally known as the Rohingyas, andasks them to prove that their ancestors lived in Burmaprior to 1823, which is an utterly unjust and arbitraryrequirement. They are now denied their basic rights inMayanmar, confined to live in their respective villages,have to pay bribes to Burmese officials for basic require-ments etc. This has led many of them to flee the countryover the years.

We request you to kindly impress upon theGovernmnet of Mayanmar, during your forthcoming visit toYangoon, and later through our Ministry of ExternalAffairs, to accept these refugees, restore their democraticand human rights including citizenship and allow them tolive in dignity with all the rights and freedoms enjoyed byother Mayanmarese citizens.

I am attaching herewith a report by AmnestyInternational on the plight of the Rohingya, as a back-ground material.Yours sincerely


liST Of aimmmiNSTiTUTiONal aNd iNdiVid-

Ual mEmbErS (2012)

i-member Jamaats and their representativeJamaat-e-islami hind1. Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, Amir, Jamaat-e-IslamiHind, C-240, Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi -110 025. Ph: 2631 1401, 2694 1409, 2694 8341 Fax:26940975 EMAIL: [email protected]. Janab Mohd Jafar, Naib Amir JIH, C-240, Abul FazalEnclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi - 110 025. Ph: 2631 1401,2694 1409, 2694 8341 Fax: 26940975 EMAIL:[email protected]

markazi Jamiat ahl-e-hadees3. Hafiz Mohammad Yahya, President, Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadees, 317, Press Street, Sadar Bazar, Delhi - 110 006. Ph:2361 7786, Fax: 2355 4549 [R] 2352 3860 Mob: 93122505384. Maulana Asghar Imam Mahdi Salafi, General Secretary,Markazi Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadees, 4116, Urdu Bazar, JamaMasjid, Delhi - 6. Mob: 98107 93930

all india Shia Conference5. Mr. S. Shariful Hasan Naqvi, C-544, Saraswati Vihar, NearDeepali Chowk, Delhi - 110 034. Ph: 2702 4959Indian National League6. Mr. Mohammad Sulaiman, President, Indian NationalLeague, 88/178, Chaman Ganj, Shafiabad, Kanpur - 208 001


rESOlUTiONS / STaTEmENTS ETC / liST Of mEmbErS

(UP). Ph: 0512-236 5106 [R] 254 5474, Mob.09450142658

UP rabita Committee7. Dr. Ubaid Iqbal Asim, 4/460, Zehra Bagh, Aligarh - 202 002(UP). 202 002 (UP). Ph: 0571-2509046. Mob. 093583189958. Mr. Syed Murtaza Husain Bilgrami, Fatima Manzil, AnwarHuda Compound, Diggi Road, Aligarh - 202 002 (UP). Ph:0571-270 6635 Mob: 98373 23311

ii-individual members andhra Pradesh1. Mr. K.M. Arifuddin, Secretary, Madina Education & WelfareSociety, 5-9-106, Public Garden Road, Nampally, Hyderabad- 500 001 (AP). Ph: 2324 2384, 2323 7184, 5561 7460, 55784538 Fax: 2324 3428 Mob: 98491 20326 Email: [email protected]. Mr. Bashiruddin Babukhan, Secretary, Khan BahadurBabukhan Foundation, 7th Floor, Babukhan's MillenniumCentre, 6-3-1099/1100, Somajiguda, Raj Bhavan Road,Hyderabad - 500 082 (AP) Ph. [O] 040-2332 0135, 23320136,Fax:23320137Mob:9848042300 email:bashiruddin-b a b u k h a n @ r e d i f f m a i l . c o m ,[email protected]. Mr. Lateef Mohd. Khan, Civil Liberties, Human Rights,General Secretary, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, 2-3-48/A/9, Amberpet, Hyderabad-500013, Tel. 040-27403392,Mob. 9391051584. Mr. Justice Mohd. Sardar Ali Khan, Jurist, FormerChairman, National Commission for Minorities, "SardarBagh", H.No. 16-4-777/1, Malakpet, Hyderabad (AP).5. Mr. Aaris Mohammed, Avtivist & Consultant on PolicyAdvocacy, 1-42-40, Ist. Floor, Suryanagar Colony, Uppal,Hyderabad-500039, Mob. 0 9 3 9 1 3 3 4 6 8 5 ,9650455152, Email: [email protected]

assam1. Hafiz Rashid Ahmad Choudhary, Advocate, President,United Minorities Front (Assam), 18, P.D. Chaliha Road,Hedayatpur, Silpukhri, Guwahati - 781 003. Ph: 0361-2544663, [R] 266 0951, Mob.: 9435011330 Email:[email protected]

bihar1. Mr. Syed Shahabuddin, IFS (Retd.)8/404, East EndApartment CGHS Ltd., Mayur Vihar - I Extn., Delhi - 110096.Ph: 4694 6780 Fax: 2694 7346 [R] 2274 2126 Email: [email protected]. Prof. Alauddin Ahmad, Ex-Vice-Chancellor, JamiaHamdard, 30-A, Indirapuri Colony, PO: B. Veterinary College,North of Raja Bazar, Samanpura, Patna - 800 014 (Bihar).Ph:. 0612-258 50103. Dr. M.M. Hasan, Engineer, Mohalla: Islamnagar,Bhikanpur -3, Bhagalpur - 812 001 (Bihar). Ph. 0641-2422941 Mob: 94312 776944. Dr. Muhammad Tanweer Hasan, MLC, Social & PoliticalActivist, Chhoti Ballia Upar Tola, P.O. Lakhminia, District,Begusarai-851211, Bihar, Tel.: 06243-261074 and B-3/ 13,Rajvansi Nagar, Bailey Road, Patna-800023 Tel.: 0612-2281366, Mob. 94310174105. Maj. Gen. Waseem Mallick Khairwi, 233, Grand ShivaApptts., New Patliputra Colony, Patna - 800 013 (Bihar). Ph:0612-226 0128.

delhi1. Mr. Abdul Khaliq, Education & Social Activist, Chairman,

Awadh Public Charitable Trust, FC-31, Awadh Bhawan,Press Enclave Road, New Delhi-110017 Mob. 9310005552,Email: [email protected]. Mr. Abdul Rashid Agwan, Writer and NGO Consultant,Director Centre for Advancement of Voluntary Efforts, A-58/3Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025, Mob.:9911526380, Email: [email protected]. Prof. Dr. Baseer Ahmad Khan, Ex-Head, Deptt. of IslamicStudies & Proctor, Jamia Hamdard, 102, Nadir Aptt, JohriFarm, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi - 110 025. Mob: 98685 13163EMAIL: [email protected]. Janab Ejaz Ahmed Aslam, Secretary, JIH, C-240, AbulFazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi - 110 025. Ph: 26311401, 2694 1409, 2694 8341 Fax: 26940975 EMAIL:[email protected]. Maulana Aquilul Gharvi, Vice President, ReligiousScholar,S-9/21 Safina Road, Jogabai, Jamai Nagar, NewDelhi-110025 Mob. 9899594786, Tel. 26985742, 269846586. Mr. M. Afzal, Ex-MP, Ambassador to Kazakistan, 1734,Dakhni Rai Street, Darya Ganj, New Delhi - 110 002. Ph:2326 0078 Mob: 98110 913467. Prof. Akhtarul Wasey, Head DEptt. of Islamic Studies,Jamia Millia Islamia, A-110 Jamia Enclave, Jamia Nagar,New Delhi-110025, Mob. 9810541045, Tel.: 268360778. Dr. Abusaleh Shariff, Economist, A-702, SaraswatiHousing Society, Plot No. 97 I.P. Extn., Delhi-110092,Mob.:9871298760 Email: [email protected]. Mr. Ahmad Raza, Businessman, D-19, Abul Fazal Enclave,Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025, Mob9811031317,26950678 [email protected]. Mr. Ahmad Rashid Shervani, Educationist, 12-A,Connaught Place, New Delhi - 110 001. Ph. 2332 3917,MOB: 98114 10463 Mob: 98114 10463 Email:[email protected]. and A.51/3, Phase I, DLF City,Gurgaon. 122 002. Ph: 95124-635 5502, 635 1206, 635 0481 11. Dr. Syed Farooq, Industrialist, 321-D, Okhla Village, NewDelhi - 110 025. Ph: 2593 3035, 2545 1401 (R) 2684 5897Fax: 2545 4332, Mob: 98100 84241 Email:[email protected]. Mr. Saiyid Hamid, Secretary, Hamdard EducationSociety, Talimabad, Sangam Vihar, New Delhi . 110 062. Ph:2604 8849, 2604 5063, 2604 2064 [R] 2604 2072, 26046836,Fax: 2604 8849, 2604 2030, 2435 8158 Email:[email protected]. Prof. Habibur Rahman, Ex Pro-Vice Chancellor,Jaiprakash University, Chapra, 12-13 Jogabai, Jamia Nagar,New Delhi-110025, Tel. 26988562 Mob. 989970856214. Dr. S. Q. R. Ilyas, Editor, Akfar-e-Milli, 632/9, Zakir Nagar,Okhla, New Delhi - 110 025. Ph: 2698 8873 Fax: 2698 6910Mob: 98118 28444, Email: [email protected]. Mr. Ishrat Aziz, Ambasador (Retd.) A-42,IFS Apartments,Mayur Vihar Phase I Delhi - 110 091, Tel.2275 48316. Mr. Syed Jafar Alam, Advocate, 27/501, East End Apts.,Mayur Vihar-I Extn. Delhi-110096 Tel.: 2274212617. Dr. Jawed Ahmed, Education, J/76, Ashyana Complex,Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025 Mob:9999340986 Email: [email protected]. Mujtaba Farooq, Social Service, Secretary, JIH, D-317, Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025,Mob. 901322561819. Mr. Mohammad Naim Khan, Former ED Coordinator,IOC, 17/104, East End Apartment, Mayur Vihar-I Extension,Delhi -110 096. Ph: 2271 8282 Mob: 98101 63323 Email:[email protected]. Mr. S.M.Y. Nadeem, Former Joint Secretary to the Govt.of India, 265-C, "The Shaville", Near Tikona Park, Jamia


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Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi - 110 025. Ph: 2684 008921. Janab Nusrat Ali, Secretary General, JIH, C-240, AbulFazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi - 110 025. Ph: 26311401, 2694 1409, 2694 8341 Fax: 26940975 EMAIL:[email protected]. Mr. Navaid Hamid, Secretary, MOEMIN, 2143, DawaiTola, Qasim Jan Street, Delhi - 100 006. Ph: 2321 8578 [R]2326 1369 Mob: 98116 43929 Fax: 2398 2786/1786 Email:[email protected]. Prof. Shakeel Ahmad, Ex-VC, Bihar University, K-48,Batla House, Sailing Club Road, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi -110 025. Ph: 2698 4114.24. Prof. Shafiq Ahmad Khan Nadwi, Educationist, D-223,Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-110025, Mob.931306163025. Mr. Shahid Siddiqui, ex-MP, Editor, Nai Dunya Weekly, D-21, Nizamuddin West, New Delhi - 110 013. Tel.: 24354706,Mob.:98101 53786, [email protected]. Mr. Salman Khurshid, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court,4, Gulmohar Avenue, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi - 110 025. Ph:2684 9662, 2632 2720 Fax: 2301 8618 Mob: 98110 78272Email: [email protected]. Dr. S.M. Yahya, former Pro-Vice Chancellor, AMU, andformer Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Retd. Professor of I.I.I.,Delhi, 131, Zakir Bagh, New Delhi - 25, Tel. 2684 567528. Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan, Editor, Milli Gazette & Ex-President, AIMMM, D-84, Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar,New Delhi - 110 025. Ph: 2694 7483, 2694 2883, 2694 2825,6611 8466 Fax: 2694 5825. Mob: 98111 42151 Email:[email protected]. Mr. Zeyaul Haque, Journalist, 14 Jauhari Farm RegencyAptt.S Ist Floor, Noor Nagar Extn., Okhla, New Delhi-110025Tel. 2684013030. Mr. Zafar Saifullah, IAS (Retd.) former Cabinet Secretary,GOI, #301, "Ashadeep" 9, Hailey Road, New Delhi-110001, Tel.: 23710978, 23320480, M o b .9891060117 Email: [email protected]

Gujarat1. Mr. Iqbal Beg Ramzan Beg Mirza, Social Worker, 11, SahilDuplex, Ronak Park, 132, Ring Road, Behind A.P.M.C.Market, Sarkhej Road, Ahmedabad - 380 055 (Gujarat). Ph:[O] 2681 9086 Mob: 98254 199062. Prof. J. S. Bandukwala, (Retd) Professor of Physics, M.S.University, 104, Saptarishi, Next to Pratapganj Post Office,Vadodara-390002, Email: [email protected]

haryana1. Mrs. Nusrat Shervani, Educationist, A 51/3 Phase-I, DLFCity, Distt. Gurgaon - 122002 [Haryana]. Ph: 95124-505 1466Fax: 505 14652. Mr. Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Former General Manager,Western Railway, 4-A, Jnu Arawali Aptts. Plot 5, Sector-56,Gurgaon-142002 (Haryana) 98684007933. Gp. Capt. Mohammad Anwar, Educationist, 1102,DLF,Phase-IV, opp. Hamilton Court, Gurgaon, Haryana,9818243892

Jammu & Kashmir1. Mr. Abdul Qayoom Khan, IFS (Retd.) 197, (Top Floor)Kailash Hills, Near Block Market, East of Kailash, New Delhi-110065, 09419015874 Email:[email protected],

Jharkhand1. Prof. Ahmad Sajjad, Chairman, Markaz-e-Adab-o-Science,

2K/3, Bariatu Housing Colony, Ranchi - 834 009 (Jharkhand).Ph: 0651-254 3838 [O] 254 0534 [R] Email:[email protected] and [email protected]

Karnataka1. Mr. Abdus Samad Siddiqui, Ex-MP, H.No. 2-3-1, AndroonQuilla, Raichur� 584 101. Ph: 08532-31246 Mob; 98454134722. Mr. Qamarul Islam, Ex-Minister for Labour, Government ofKarnataka, 165, R.T. Nagar, Main Road, MLA Layout.,Bangalore - 560 032. Ph. 080-5766 6044,

Kerala1. Mr. Justice P.K. Shamsuddin, Ex-Judge, Kerala HighCourt, 'Jasmine', Sivarama Menon Road, Cochin- 682 018(Kerala). Ph: 0484-240 2993 Email: [email protected]

madhya Pradesh1. Prof. Mateen Ahmad Siddiqui, Pickthall College ofEducation, 8 Edgah Hills, Bhopal-246001,Mob.:09425377937

maharashtra1. Mr. Irfanullah Khan, Journalist, 161, Centrum Towers,Barkat Ali Road, Wadala East, Mumbai - 400 037. Ph: 022-2411 6226 Fax: 2411 2705 Email: [email protected]. Mr. P.A. Inamdar, President, Maharashtra CosmopolitanEducation Society, Inamdar Mansion, 957, Nana Peth,Ardeshir Irani Baug, Pune - 411 002. Ph. 020-2633 3797-98,2235 9589 Fax: 2633 3798 Mob: 98220 22171 Email:[email protected]. Mr. Munawwar A. Peerbhoy, Chairman, Haji GulamMohammed Azam Education Trust, 2390-B, K.B.Hidayatullah Road, New Modikhana, off Shankarsheth Road,Pune - 411 001.4. Dr. Phiroz A. Poonawalla, Industrialist, President,Turnaround Management Foundation, P.O. Box No. 1213,Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune - 411 013. Ph: 020-6872037 Fax: 687 5357 AND 10 Mangaldas Road, 10 HermesHaven, Pune - 411 001. Ph: 020 - 612 7809 Email: [email protected]. Mr. Shahid Sharif Shaikh, President, Organisation forUpliftment Business Employment of Minorities, Mumbai, 54Shagufa Apartments, Sahakar road, Jogeshwari (W),Mumbai-4000102 Mob. 09773036016, Email:[email protected] 6. Shahzada Shabbir Bhai Nuruddin, Badri Mahal, 3rd Floor,Dr. D.N. Road, Fort, Mumbai - 400 001. Ph: 022-2261 0151,2262 3601-2-3, Fax: 2262 36077. Maulana Mohd. Shoaib Koti, Social Worker and ReligiousActivist, Room No. 20 4th Floor Rahat Manzil, Next ToNavapada Masjid, Bandra West Mumbai-400050 Mob.9324926919 Fax 26405422 Email. [email protected]. Mr. Abu Asim Azmi, Ex-MP, 4/58, Kamal Mansion,4th Floor, Haji N.A. Azmi Marg, Colaba, Mumbai- Mob:98681 81177 Email: [email protected]

Tamil Nadu1. Mrs. Bader Sayeed, Lawyer, Legislator and Activist, G-1,Palmswood, 9, Sheshadri Road, Chennai 600018, Mob.98402360002. Mr. T.P. Imbichammad, General Secretary, All IndiaEducation Society, "Maliyakkal", 104, Defence OfficersColony, Chennai - 600097. Ph: 044-2262 0095/96 Fax: 22620097, 2234 5254 Emai: [email protected],


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[email protected]!.net.in3. Dr. Syed Khaleefathullah, Unani Physician, NiamathMedical Centre, 49, Bharathi Salai, Chennai - 600 005. Ph:044-2844 4362, 2844 1941, 2858 9281, 2848 3231 Email:[email protected]

Uttar Pradesh (west)1. Dr. Abdul Haque Ansari, Al Raihan, 4/1707, MuzammilMasjid Complex, Dodhpur, Aligarh-202002 2. Mr. Amanullah Khan, General Secretary, UP RabitaCommittee, Rahmat Kadah, Azad Nagar, Dodhpur, Aligarh -202 002 (UP). Ph: 0571-270 3865 Fax: 2328 2834, Mob:98101 64555 Email: [email protected]. Dr. Arshi Khan, Reader, Department of Political Science,AMU AB/85, Medical Colony, AMU, Aligarg-202002 Mob.09411980840 Email: [email protected] 4. Prof. Humayun Murad, Retd. Prof., AMU, Shagoofa-e-Naimat, 4/1263, Medical College Road, Aligarh - 202 002(UP). Ph: 0571-270 0912, 270 2872 Email:[email protected]. Prof. Nafees Ahmad, Prof. in Ophthalmic-Biochemistry,AMU, G-2, Dream Homes, Nagla Road, S.S. Nagar, Aligarh- 202 002 (UP). Ph: 0571�272 0631, Mob: 093595 19708,093190 96230.6. Prof. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Founder-President, IbnSina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences,TijaraHouse, Dodhpur, Aligarh- 202 0027. Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, Advocate, C-13, Sector 20, Noida - 201301 (UP). Ph: 95120-255 8881, 255 2334, 253 0486 Fax:255 2334 Mob: 98110 52710 Email: [email protected]. Mr. Akbar H. Jung, IAS (Retd.), Ex-Secretary to Govt. ofIndia, B-234, Sector 26, Noida - 201 301. Ph: 95120-2525238, 254 4720, Mob: 98680 635099. Mr. Anwarul Hoda, IAS (Retd.), C-107, Sector 23, Noida(UP). Ph: 95120-241 1104 Mob: 98101 0161510 Mr. Zafar H. Jung, Social Activist, A-27 Sector 23, Noida,Mob.9211316420

Uttar Pradesh (East)1. Maulana Nizamuddin Islahi, Jamiatul Flah, Bilarya Ganj-276121, Distt. Azamgarh (UP). Tel.: 05466-225140.2. Mr. Naimullah Ansari, National President, MominConference,47/26 Waris Plaza Hussainganj, Kucknow Tel.0522-2275961Camp office P.O. Box 141, Noorkhanpur,Bhadohi-221401 (UP) Tel 05414-225088, 225488, Mob.98390609013. Mr. Akhtar Husain Akhtar, Social & Political Activist,97/127, Liyaquat Manzil, Talaque Mahal, Kanpur-208001Mob. 09415182107, 09999468010 Email:[email protected]

west bengal1. Mr. Abdul Aziz, Social Activist, 52-B, Shakespeare SaraniKolkata - 700 017. Mob.: 98314390682. Mr. Shahanshah Jehangir, Mg. Director, Crown ShippingCo. (P) Ltd. and President, Bengal Minority Council, 22Starand Road, Kolkata-700001, Tel.: 03322871721, Mob.98302170033. Mr. Jameel Manzar, President , Mohammaden SportingClub, Nauras, 14/B, Royd Street, Kolkata-700016, Tel.:22178936, Mob. 98362101514. Mr. Khalid Ebadullah, Mg. Director , crescent Group ofCompanies, 14, Syed Amir Ali Avenue, 5th Floor, Kolkata-700017, Tel.: 033-22830483 Mob.: 9830257785,9339975454, Email: [email protected]. Mr. Sultan Ahmad, Minister of State For Tourism,19 B,

Muzaffar Ahmed Street, P.S. Park Street, Kolkata-700016,Tel.: 033-22294567 Fax; 22809407 Mob. 9830023192

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muslim majlis-e-mushawarat, Tamil Nadu1. Mr. T.M. Zackriyah Badshah, President2. Cap. Amiruddin, Executive Secretary - I3. Mr. Mahmud Shariff, Executive Secretary-II4. Mr. Abdul Jaleel5. Mr. Faizur Rahman6. Mr. S.M. Pasha7. Mr. Inayatullah8. Mr. Muneer Ahmed9. Ms. A. Naseema Begum10. Capt. Ameer Ali11. Dr. Syed Khalifatullah*12. Mr. T.P. Imbichammad*13. Mr. Bader Sayeed, Advocate** Member of the Markazi Majlis

muslim majlis-e-mushawarat, GujaratCommittee formed on 25 march, 2012

1. Mr. Iqbal Baig Mirza, Ahmadabad*

2. Maulana Habibur Rahman Matadar, Bhruch, Convener3. Mr. Iqbal Husain Lakrawala, Asst. Convener4. Maulana Akhtar Rizvi5. Nashar Ahmad Mian, Vadodra6. Mufti Asjad, Ahmadabad7. Mr. Yahya Baddu, Rajkot8. Mr. Zakariya Patel, Lunawada9. Mr. As'adal Baqili, Balsar10. Mr. Ikram Khan, radhanpur11. Mr. Zahiruddin Shaikh, Gandhinagar12.Mr. Habib Shaikh, Ahmadabad13. Prof. JS Bandukwala** Member of the Markazi Majlis(Please also see page 6 above)

muslim majlis-e-mushawarat, biharCategory (I) Member of MMM from the state1. Mr Syed Shahabuddin*2. Prof. Alauddin Ahmad*3. Major Gen (Retd.) Waseem Ahmad Mallick Khirawi4. Dr M M Hasan, Bhagalpur5. Dr. Mohammad Tanveer Hasan, MLC

Representatives of State branches of Jamaate-members ofthe MMM6. JIH Bihar, Maulana Qamarul Hoda7. To be recommended by number 1.8. Jamiat Ahle Hadis, Bihar, Maulana Sami Jafri9. To be recommended by number 3.10. Prof M Mohiuddin, State Convernor, MOEMIN11. To be recommended by number 512.Bihar Rabita Committee, Mr Afzal Husain13.To be nominated by number 714. Mr Husn Ahmad Qadri, General Secretary, JUH Bihar15. All India Momin Conference16. All India Shia Conference

Representation of state Jamaats17. Imarat-e-Shariah18. Idara-e-Shariah


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Eminent Individuals19. Mr Reyaz Azimabadi, Journalist20 Mr Matiur Rahman, Chartered Accountant21. Mr Ragib Ahsan, Advocate22. Prof. Ziauddin Ahmad23. Principal M.A. Samad24. Mrs Parween Amanullah25. Mr. Aftab Ahmad26. Mr. Ahmad Imam27. Dr. Nargis Jahan Barvi

majlis-e-mushawarat, west bengal

Members of MMM from the state1. Mr. Jamil Manzar, President2. Mr. Sultan Ahmad, MP3. Mr. Shahanshah Jehangir4. Mr. Khalid Ebadullah5. Mr. Abdul Aziz, General Secretary

individual members6. Maulana Niamat Husain Habibi,7. Haji Mansoor Ahmad8. Maulana Talha Nadwi9. Dr. Mohd. Raisuddin10. Maulana Mohd. Shafiq Quasmi11. Hafiz Saud Alam12. Mr. Shah Alam13. Mr. Mohd Umar Khan14. Mr. Qamruddin Malik15. Mufti Niamatullah16. Mr. Qamar-uz-Zaman17. Mr. Ismail Parwaz18. Mrs. Noor Jahan Shakil19. Mrs. Subuhi Aziz

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1. Mr. Mohammad Sulaiman, President, Indian NationalLeague, 88/178, Chaman Ganj, Shafiabad, Kanpur - 208 001(UP). Ph: 0512-236 5106 [R] 254 5474 Email:[email protected]. Dr. Ubaid Iqbal Asim, C/o UP Rabita Committee, AzadNagar, Dodhpur, Aligarh - 202 002 (UP). Ph: 0571-270 3273.3. Mr. Syed Murtaza Husain Bilgrami, Ex-PA to VC, AMU,Fatima Manzil, Anwar Huda Compound, Diggi Road, Aligarh- 202 002 (UP). Ph: 0571-270 6635 Mob: 98373 233114. Mr. Akbar H. Jung, IAS (Retd.), Ex-Secretary to Govt. ofIndia, B-234, Sector 26, NOIDA - 201 301. Ph: 95120-2525238, 254 4720, Mob: 98680 635095. Mr. Amanullah Khan, General Secretary, UP RabitaCommittee, Rahmat Kadah, Azad Nagar, Dodhpur, Aligarh -202 002 (UP). Ph: 0571-270 3865 Fax: 2328 2834, Mob:98101 64555 Email: [email protected]. Mr. Anwarul Huda, IAS (Retd.), C-107, Sector 23, Noida(UP). Ph: 95120-241 1104 Mob: 98101 016157. Prof. Humayun Murad, Retd. Prof., AMU, Shagoofa-e-Naimat, 4/1263, Medical College Road, Aligarh - 202 002(UP). Ph: 0571-270 0912, 270 2872 Email:[email protected]. Maulana Nizamuddin Islahi, Chand Patti, Distt. Azamgarh(UP).

9. Prof. Nafees Ahmad, Prof. in Ophthalmic-Biochemistry,AMU, G-2, Dream Homes, Nagla Road, S.S. Nagar, Aligarh- 202 002 (UP). Ph: 0571�272 0631, Mob: 093595 19708,093190 96230.10. Mr. Ejaz Maqbool, Advocate, C-13, Sector 20, Noida -201 301 (UP). Ph: 95120-255 8881, 255 2334, 253 0486Fax: 255 2334 Mob: 98110 52710 Email:[email protected]. Prof. Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman, Founder-President, IbnSina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences,TijaraHouse, Dodhpur, Aligarh- 202 00212 Dr. Mohd. Naim Hamid, Physician, Hamid Hospital,97/128, Talaq Mahal, Kanpur - 208 001 (UP). Ph: 0512-231007313. Mr. Akhtar Husain Akhtar, Social and Political Activist,97/127, Liyaquat Manzil, Talaq mahal, Kanpur-208001Tel.09415182107, 09999468010 Email:[email protected]

Old members14. Mr. S.M. Naseem, IPS (Retd.), 5/190, Vineet Khand,Gomtinagar, Lucknow (UP). Ph: 0522-238 1786.15. Mr. Mohammad Asif Khan, Upper Flat, Darpan ChikanShop, Nazirabad, Lucknow - 226 018 (UP). Mob: 9415001970

U.P. State Conveners

For Eastern UP: Dr. Ayaz Ahmad Islahi,Department Of Arab Culture & CivilisationLucknow University, Lucknow (UP) Mob.: 09453061943 Email: [email protected]

For Western UP: Dr. Ubaid Iqbal Asim,4/460, Zehra Bagh, Aligarh - 202 002 (UP). Email:[email protected], Mob. 09358318995


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CirClE Of friENdS Of mUShawaraT

Circle of Friends of Mushawarat Sr Names COUNT. 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20121 Haji G.M. Azam Edu. Trust INDIA Paid Paid2 Mrs. P. Amanullah, Patna INDIA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid3 Mr. Nadeem Tareen , Aligarh INDIA Paid Paid4 Mr. Shahanwaz Tareen , Aligarh INDIA Paid Paid5 Mr. M. Farouk Darvesh, Mumbai INDIA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid6 Bharat Sewa Trust, New Delhi INDIA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid7 Mr. P. A. Inamdar, Pune INDIA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid8 Dr. S. Farooq, New Delhi INDIA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid9 Mr. Mohd. Anwar, Haryana INDIA Paid Paid Paid10 Dr. Phiroz Poonawala, Poone INDIA Paid Paid Paid Paid11 Mr. M. N. Khan, Delhi INDIA Paid Paid Paid Paid12 Dr. Zafarul Islam Khan, INDIA NA NA NA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid13 Mr. Yusuf Khan, Ghaziabad. INDIA Paid14 Mr. Ahmed Raza India NA NA NA NA NA NA Paid15 Mr. Syed Jafar Alam India NA NA NA NA NA NA Paid Paid16 Dr. A. Majid Qureshi, KSA Paid Paid Paid17 Dr. M. Iqbal Sanai, KSA Paid Paid Paid Paid18 Mr. Anees Baksh, KSA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid19 Mr. M. Arab Siddiq, KSA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid20 Mr. Meraj-ul-Arfin Ansari, KSA NA Paid Paid Paid21 Mr. Mohd. Akram, KSA NA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid22 Mr. Syed Waheed Lateef, KSA Paid Paid Paid23 Mr. Mohd. Nazim Hashmi, KSA Paid Paid24 Mr. Mohd. Zubair Khan, KSA Paid Paid Paid25 Mr. Mohd. Ashfaq, KSA Paid NIL Paid Paid26 Mr. Mukarram Khan, KSA NIL NIL Paid Paid27 Mr. Tanvir Ahmad Hashmi KSA NA NA Paid Paid28 Mohd. Ashfaq KSA Paid29 Dr. Roohi Majid, UK Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid30 Dr. K. A. Mallick USA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid31 Mr. Faisal Syed USA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid32 Mr. M. Wasiullah Khan USA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid33 Mr. Kaleem Khwaja USA Paid Paid Paid - - Paid34 Dr. S. Habib Ashraf USA Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid35 Mr. Fahad Syed USA Paid Paid Paid36 Mr. M. Imtiaz Haque USA Paid Paid Paid Paid37 Mr. M. Raziullah Khan, USA Paid Paid38 Mr. Shahanawaz Ansari USA Paid39 Mr. Mohd. I Uddin USA Paid Paid40 Mr. Jawed Ashraf, IFS USA Paid Paid Paid41 Dr. Alif Manejwala USA Paid42 Dr. Abidullah Ghazi USA Paid43 Mr. Shabbir Qamar Kuwait Paid

Association Members 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 20121 Dr. Johara Shahabuddin Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid2 K,M, Arifuddin Paid Paid Paid3 K.B. Babukhan Foundation Paid Paid Paid4 Rahmani Foundation Paid Paid Paid Paid5 Mr. Parvez Askari Paid NIL Paid Paid6 Mr. S.M. Husain NA NA Paid Paid Paid Paid7 Mr. M Anwar Khursheed Paid8 Mr. Sayeed Malik Ahmed Paid Paid Paid Paid9 Mr. Asif Kamal Paid Paid Paid10 Mr. Mohd. Naushad Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid Paid11 Ms. Rahmat Fatima Amanullah Paid Paid Paid12 Dr. Ghazala Shahabuddin Paid Paid Paid13 Mr. K.S. Abdul Haq Paid Nil Nil Nil Paid

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form iVPlace of publication : D-250 Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New

Delhi-25

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Printer’s Name : Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan

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If foreigner, state the country of origin : Not Applicable

Address : D-84 Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-25

Publisher’s Name : Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan

Nationality : Indian

(i) Whether citizen of India : Yes

(ii) If foreigner, state the country of origin : Not Applicable

Office: D-84 Abul Fazal Enclave, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi-25

Editor’s Name : Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan

Nationality : Indian

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(ii) If foreigner, state the country of origin. : Not Applicable

Name and address of individuals who own the newspaper:

All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, D-250 Abul Fazal Enclave-I,

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All India Muslim Majlis-e-MushawaratStatement of Budget for 2012-13 and Actual upto June, 2012PAYMENT Budget April, 12 May, 12 June,12

for 2012-13Salary 200000 12,000 12,000 12,000Daily Wage Staff 15000 900 1,800 900Furniture and Furnishings 5000 0 0 0Office Equipment i/e repair 10000 0 8,650 450Electricity & Water 30000 0 1,890 205Conveyance 5000 190 250 170Stationery 5000 160 495 185Laser ink Refilling etc. 3000 0 0 0Urdu Trans. & Urdu Typing 2000 700 0 0Postage 20000 102 2,893 2,280Purchase of Books 1000 0 0 0Telephone 25000 2,418 2,678 2,655Website /Inter Net conc. 2500 0 0 0Building Maintenance 5000 0 990 600House Tax (D-250) and AMC 10000 0 0 0Misc. Expenses/Photo Copy 3000 1,052 0 59Bank Charges 500 0 0 0PROGRMMES:Conference/Meeting of MMM 5000 229 111 943Publication (Bulletin/Booklet etc) 20000 0 4,988 0Hospitality 5000 0 195 0Donation to other Organisation 50000 0 0 0Total 422000 17,751 36,940 20,447IncomeFrom Membership 100000 2,000 4,000 1,500From CFM 250000 15,000Rent frpm Building 72000 12,500 6,000 6,000Other Donations 50000 30,000Loan cash from President + Bldg fund 5,000 20,000Total 472000 64,500 30,000 7,500

Opening Balance as on 1.4.2012 35,733Total Income upto 30.6. 12 102,000Total Income 137,733Expenditure upto 30. 6. 12 75,138Balance as on 30.6.12 62,595

In CBI Bank 37,173 Cheques u/clearence (old) 16,000 Cash in Hand 9,422Total 62,595

Note: We have received Rs.10,000/ for Godhra Incident, 5000 for Muslim India, 20000 from building fund and 5000 from president Total 40,000/

Dr. Zafarul-Islam Khan A.R. ShervaniPresident General Secretary

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