FJ Kashmir

His letter validates what Zakir Musa , Qayoom Najar said years ago.   inam ul rehman In June this year, an audio conversation between the then Jaish-e-Mohammad chief of Kashmir , Mufti Waqas , and Ansar Ghazwatul Hind chief, Zakir Musa, was released by al Qaeda ’s media platform. In the said conversation Mufti Waqas tells Musa that he has been to Afghanistan and fought there, “I swear the sacrifices,” he says, “that Kashmiris have given are unparalleled, but this nation has got traitor leaders.” Jaish is a pro- Pakistan militant outfit, and in conflict with the AGH ideology. Here Mufti Waqas is talking in personal capacity because he understood that the Jihadi project run by Pakistan and its proxies in Kashmir is a business for both of them. In the same conversation he raises suspicion on the killing of many Jaish commanders in Kashmir saying that those who understood the tehreek in Kashmir get killed.  Mufti Waqas was killed in 2018. His audio conversation w...

 i nam ul rehman In the year 1991, as Kashmir was slumped into an attritional war against the state of India, apart from bodies falling, strikes and curfew became a new norm in the Valley.  During these days with schools, and colleges closed staying indoors was a perfect recipe. It was during these days that I started to take interest in a sports magazine which my siblings used to relish. It was an Urdu magazine “ Akbar-i-Naujawan ” primarily focused on sports but had a segment on literature, and was published from New Delhi. Although my siblings brought it to read literature I read it for sports feature. The good thing about this magazine was that it provided healthy coverage to the Pakistan cricket team . In one such issue there was an interview of cricketer Ramiz Raja . When asked to name his favourite bowler he names three instead of one, but when he was asked about batsman he replied one and only Viv Richards , and mentions one of a reason of him not wearin...

A response to SSP Anantnag, Sandeep Chaudhary, who does not like to humanise militants.   Inam ul rehman After Riyaz Naikoo, pro-Pakistan Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant commander, was killed in an unequal encounter with Indian forces, a number of Indian intellectuals, and members of the Indian police service took umbrage at the reports that mentioned he was a teacher before taking up the gun  ( https://theprint.in/opinion/time-drew-red-x-for-osama-but-western-press-humanised-riyaz-naikoo-with-pre-gun-stories/416743/ )   (  https://www.dailyo.in/politics/riyaz-naikoo-kashmir-terrorism-jihad-hizbul-mujahideen/story/1/32879.html ) . For them Naikoo was a “cold blooded murderer” who killed civilians, and as such does not deserve to be humanised at all!   Does a human cease to be a human because he responds to existential threats in a way that is not compatible to the state? There also comes the important question: why do people pick up the gun...

Book: Interrogating my Chandal life Author: Manoranjan Byapari Translator: Sipra Mukerjee Pages: 356 Inam ul rehman A poor man holds unto no ideology except that of bread. It is the lack of bread that haunts him and his family. But the burden of providing blood for any revolution, or change, is always on the poor men. Manoranjan Byapari’s autobiography is a tale of few decades but it encapsulates centuries of oppression that the upper caste Hindus have wielded on their lower castes . Byapari comes from the lowest caste of Hinduism , and as such is unschooled, and oppressed. He learns lessons of the life on the streets, through punches, humiliation, scares, cheated, stealing food from mongrels, every worse thing except never giving up on the life. He runs away from his family in order to work and feed them, but returns home dust handed a decade later cheated and duped by most of his proprietors. During his runaway a police official rapes him. Male rapes are...

inam ul rehman Politics is less based on morals and more on politicking. That is why political class mostly gets away with wrongdoings. In 1636, the Mughal emperor Shahjahan signed a deal with the Deccani states of Golconda, and Bijapur , promising not to conquer these states in future. This promise was reneged by Shahjahan himself.  But Golconda, and Bijapur kingdoms continued to exhibit some sovereignty although they accepted the Mughal suzerainty . Then came emperor Aurangzeb . He wanted both these states to confront Marathas , who were hassling his troops in guerrilla warfare. They refused, and Aurangzeb for the time being lost interest. Bijapur, and Golconda states acted as a buffer zone between the Mughals and Maratha. The latter would plunder these two states, and sometimes join hands with them against the Mughals. Aurangzeb’s repeated offer to Bijapur to join hands with him to destroy the Maratha was not acceptable to Bijapur, as it considered Maratha pow...