Supporters of muslim league chief masarat alam shouts slogans. Masarat alam bhat jammu blogs, comments and archive news on. Mufti govt releases kashmiri separatist masarat alam india news. The jammu and kashmir government has booked hardline separatist masrat alam under the public safety act. Emerging around the 16th century, it is characterised by religious and cultural harmony, patriotism and pride for their mountainous homeland of kashmir. Meet masarat alam bhat, kashmirs most influential separatist. Masarat alam released and rearrested kashmir global.
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Masarat alam bhat jammu latest breaking news, pictures, videos, and special reports from the economic times. Masrat alam was born to a family of prosperous traders who dealt in cloth and medicines in zaindar mohalla locality of old srinagar in 1971, at a time when a struggle for a united nationsmonitored. Separatist leader masarat alam held an antiindia rally in srinagar just after being released. Why kashmir politician masrat alam bhat cant walk free after. The former infamous counterinsurgency cop of kashmir, ashiq bukhari, has claimed that the former chief minister, omar abdullah, wanted to see masarat alam dead and paid him a cash reward of inr 2. Despite this, the farflung destination stayed well off the tourism radar for a long time. Hardline separatist leader masarat alam bhat, who spearheaded the 2010 summer agitation, was on tuesday rearrested by the police. Continued incarceration of masarat alam in jail, inspite. Mar 04, 2012 he recounts the death of young tufail mattoo who was being chased by police firing tear gas shells, and various other bloody incidents in which youths lost their lives but then says the closest reason for the spiralling violence and cries of azadi is a script penned at a meeting between two radical muslim leaders masarat alam bhat and qasim faktoo.
Masarat alam bhat is a kashmiri separatist leader currently general secretary of the all parties hurriyat conference led by syed ali shah geelani. Mar 10, 2015 the decision not to file fresh charges against separatist leader masarat alam was taken weeks before the mufti mohammad sayeed government came to power, during the 49day governors rule in jammu. Tche ha tchuk ishfaq you are ishfaq, glowered nazir ahmad leharwal, an english teacher at srinagars leading missionary school tyndale biscoe. Apr 17, 2015 senior congress leader digvijaya singh sparked a new controversy on friday afteraddressed the kashmiri separatist masarat alam as sahab. A senior journalist, however, said masarats record as a separatist was unblemished. This book mentions the different aspects of makkah, and recorded the mos. This brings us to the current debate of freeing up masarat alam. Mwangi njagi, adjunct professor of modern african history, state university of new york, stony brook. A hero of 1965 war m m alam known as little dragon incpak. I listened to his meezan classes where he explained it in a detailed manner and i recommend the readers to also go through his classes while reading the book. Why masarat alam is worse than geelani bail, kos, songs. Alam was arrested soon after for shouting propakistan slogans during a demonstration in which protesters were waving pakistani flags, and thrown back into jail. He is described by many as the successor of syed ali geelani in kashmirs resistance read more.
Masarat alam revealed rift among kashmiri separatists on funds. Oct 26, 2019 now, with the arrests of separatist leaders like shabir shah, asiya andrabi, masarat alam bhat, yasin malik, geelanis soninlaw altaf ahmed shah and personal assistant bashir ahmad bhat on. The court, on tuesday, had quashed the public safety act psa detention order of hurriyet leader. Detention isnt ideal but difficult situations have to be tackled. Kashmiri separatists masarat alam, syed ali shah geelani put. Through the intimacy and immediacy of fiction, poetry, photography and reportage, mediterranean explores these turbulent journeys.
Srinagarmasarat alam bhat was 19 years old, and a member of the hizbullah militant group, when he first went to jail in 1990. The jammu and kashmir government on saturday released separatist leader masarat alam from preventive detention after more than four. The houses of jammu kashmir liberation front jklf leader yaseen malik, shabir shah, zaffar bhat and masarat alam were also raided. Historians state the surname is a distorted form of bhatta, which originates from sanskrit, meaning scholar according to the brahma. Pm shri narendra modi statement in lok sabha on masarat alam s release. Allama alam faqri wrote this book on the pattern of tazkira tul auliya of sheikh farid ud din attar r.
Meanwhile, masarat alam bhat, the socalled poster boy of stone pelters and violent agitations in kashmir valley, had revealed that pakistan based agents route the funds through hawala operators which were transferred to the separatist leaders including syed shah gilani chairman aphc g. He has spent most of the time since 1990 in prison, repeatedly charged with the draconian public safety act. Sign up and enjoy free unlimited access to a whole universe of urdu poetry, language learning, sufi mysticism, rare texts. While not heavily interactive, this picture book biography of a muslim woman known for her devotion to both religion and education may be useful for audiences interested in islam and womens history. In the middle of a raging political row over the release of kashmiri separatist masarat alam from jail, the ruling bjp has reportedly warned its jammu and kashmir ally mufti mohammad sayeed. Supporters of muslim league chief masarat alam shouts slogans during a protest against the slapping of psa against him on april 24, 2015 in srinagar, india. Nia brings separatist leader masarat alam bhat to delhi to grill him. Aug 24, 2015 govt to take call on masarats release. Kashmiriyat is the ethnonational and social consciousness and cultural values of the kashmiri people. But years later, the teachers reproach would turn somewhat prophetic. Nia files supplementary charge sheet against jklf chief. Stay up to date on all the latest nation news with the new. The mediterranean sea has become a harrowing gauntlet for hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants each year.
It is, in a sense, gods grace and gift, that my release from prison is causing such a huge debate and fight in the indian parliament, masarat alam told the hindu but more importantly it shows how tenuous is the silence on the ground which is often portrayed as peace, and how afraid the indian and proindia establishment is of our ideas and beliefs. Intheknow divers have been heading to marsa alam for years, attracted to the seas that offer up some of egypts best diving just off the rugged coastline. Ram madhav meets mufti, bats for better coordination. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. Masarat alam held again after release from jail deccan herald. Masarat alam butt was booked under the black law psa. The confidential diary of irans royal court, 196977 alam, assadollah, alikhani, alinaqi on. Pm shri narendra modi statement in lok sabha on masarat alam. Over the years, when the police have run out of excuses to detain alam, they have named him in 50 different crimes but are yet to obtain a. The new government is just following the courts orders passed before the pdpbjp alliance came into power. The region derives its name from the kashmiri pandit ancestor, named rishi kashyapa and is believed to have been the abode of the celestial beings.
Masarat alam, one of the most influential separatist leaders in kashmir, was in prison on july 8th, when the current wave of deadly clashes broke out between indian security forces and mostly unarmed protesters. The 44 year old masarat alam bhatt was let out of jail a two days ago by the new pdp government. He was arrested during a secret meeting and when he came out three years later, in 1993, he cofounded the muslim league. The hunt for red october by tom clancy, castles of steel by robert k. Separatist leader masarat alam arrested, mufti mohammed. History will record operation bluestar as an unmitigated disaster. There is plenty of evidence in the rock inscriptions and paintings that stone age man made in the surrounding mountains many thousands of years ago.
While the original shortened rendition of bhatta was bhat or bhatt, many of the migrants to the punjab region started spelling their surname as but or butt which is the spelling of the clan used in the pahari language. History records that when mahatma gandhi raised a handful of salt in 1930, he shook the mighty british empire. Aug 01, 2016 masarat alam, one of the most influential separatist leaders in kashmir, was in prison on july 8th, when the current wave of deadly clashes broke out between indian security forces and mostly unarmed protesters. It became the cause of indira gandhi s assassination and did more to alienate ordinary sikhs than anything she had ever done. Former chief minister omar abdullah, under whose watch alam spent almost four years in jail under the psa, said after alam was released that he has no regrets about having kept the separatist leader out of circulation. Hardline separatist leader masarat alam was rearrested on tuesday soon after his release from high security kotbalwal jail in jammu, where he was lodged since april 17 for waving pakistani flags and chanting antinational slogans during a separatist rally in srinagar. Masarat alam bhat, chairman, muslim league, part of the hurriyat conference led by syed ali geelani. The nias proposal for sanction will be examined by a twomember authority. Let me begin by admitting that till last week i had not heard of masarat alam bhat. How masarat alam bhat transformed from a posh schoolboy to.
Separatist leader masarat alam was arrested on friday by the jammu and kashmir police from his house in srinagar. I am a little ashamed of this because having covered the kashmir story for thirty years,and having written a book on the subject,i follow events in that unfortunate valley carefully. Srinagar the incarcerated chairman of muslim league jammu kashmir masarat aalam bhat was not brought kashmir latest news masrat alam s bail suspended till march 10. Masarat alam, the poster boy of stonethrowers and violent agitations in the valley, has revealed that there are rifts among the separatists regarding collection and use of funds pumped. In the backdrop of the release of separatist leader masarat alam, bjp general secretary ram madhav met jammu and kashmir chief minister mufti mohammad sayeed and. Masarat alam bhat, whose release from jail has sparked off a political maelstrom, is a. Agency to produce masarat alam bhat in nia court today, will seek custody to question him. Home minister shri rajnath singh statement in lok sabha on masarat alam s release. Jun 17, 2016 geelani has called the continuous imprisonment of profreedom leader masarat alam bhat since 2010 as extremely cruel. Modestly put, alams book is a powerful statement that. Meezan by javed ahmad ghamidi goodreads share book. Masarat alam revealed rift among kashmiri separatists on. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus once said by the great mark twain. Marsa alam travel red sea coast, egypt lonely planet.
Pakistanbased agents route the funds through hawala operators which were transferred to the separatist leaders, says agency. Masarat alam, the poster boy of stonethrowers and violent agitations in the valley, has revealed that there are rifts among the separatists. It has turned busy as hundreds of people turn up to. Masarat alam bhat, the second most powerful man in the hardline hurriyat separatist camp after octogenarian syed ali shah geelani, continues to be under arrest in the kot bhalwal jail here. Masarat alam defends people waving pakistan flag the new.
Home ministry set to sanction prosecution of yasin malik, asiya andrabi and masarat alam under uapa 30 sep, 2019, 05. Jan 02, 2014 a hero of 1965 war m m alam known as little dragon. All those years ago, it seemed just the kind of thing teachers do a jabcompliment. He also reads newspapers and borrows books from the jail library. In this book he tried to explain the shariah in a principled manner which he derived it from the quran. He is also the chairman of the jammu kashmir muslim league. The spark, this time, was the killing of burhan wani, the charismatic 21yearold commander of the hizb ul mujahideen, kashmirs only surviving indigenous armed rebel group, along. Mediterranean is the first book from the editors of warscapes order now. That is clearly evident from the recent episode that shook the entire nation when the chief minister of kashmir ordered the release of separatist leader, a hurriyat hardliner masarat alam, in the pretext of tagging him a political prisoner. Mohammed sarfaraz alam, a partner of the mining firm, issued a public notice 10 days ago, declaring the dissolution of the partnership with his brother and cousins for the company, even as it is business as usual at its balda iron ore mine in odisha.
Separatist masarat alam arrested in kashmir the hindu. Alam first came under the police radar in 1990, when, as a teenager, he joined hands with mushtaqulislam, who later founded the militant outfit hizbullah. He played a significant role in the 2010 kashmir stone pelting rallies which broke out against the machil encounter carried out by the indian army in kashmir. Mehbooba mufti slams centre over nia summons to separatist. Separatists shabir shah, masarat alam bhat and former jammu and kashmir mla rashid engineer have also been named as accused in the supplementary. There is hardly any trace of the previous days heavy snowfall in the lane that leads to masarat alam s house in zainadar mohalla in habbakadal area of the old city. Mcmd has published a series of books and novels, including. Masarat alam arrested in srinagar the times of india.
Digvijayacourts controversy, calls masarat alam sahab. In the biggest crackdown on terror funding, nia registers. Masarat al am bhat is a kashmiri separatist leader currently general secretary of the all parties hurriyat conference led by syed ali shah geelani. The book qasas ul auliya is about the life history and preachings of the various sufi saints. It commemorates the date of establishment of the state in 1947. Masarat alam news and updates from the economic times page 7. Why kashmir politician masrat alam bhat cant walk free. The congress took to twitter to criticise the bharatiya janata party bjp over the release of separatist leader masarat alam in jammu and kashmir. Masarat alam bhat, whose release from jail has sparked off a political maelstrom, is a kashmiri separatist hardliner with a talent for. Explore marsa alam holidays and discover the best time and places to visit. Release kashmiri political prisoners languishing in jails. But his romance with the gun lasted a mere two months. Kashmir has a significant place in the mythology and history of all four religions. Geelani has called the continuous imprisonment of profreedom leader masarat alam bhat since 2010 as extremely cruel.
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