[Reader-list] Profile: Sheikh Abdul Aziz, Kashmiri leader Killed in police firing in Srinagar

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Dear Murtaza Shibli
 
Did not expect such misrepresentations and gross inaccuracies from you.
 
1. Sheikh Abdul Aziz leading a march that threatens to breach a border between India and Pakistan with stated intention of going to Muzaffarabad  cannot be termed as "leading a peaceful public demonstration".  
 
2. I will not argue about the attempts at (and success or failure of) " the ‘economic blockade’ of the Kashmiri Muslims being enforced by militant Indian Hindu groups" but your suggestion that such attempts had "the tacit support of the Indian government" is plain mischief-mongering even if you used the word "allegedly". It only shows you as one more propagandist for the separatists under the pretense of being a serious analyst. 
 
3. If Abdul Aziz was born in 1952, he could not have watched the "Moe-e-Muqqadas movement" as a teenager. The theft of the Holy Relic (believed by some Muslims to be a strand of hair from the head or beard of Mohammed) was discovered on Dec 26, 1963. It was recovered on Jan 3, 1964. The hue and cry ('the movement') continued for a month or so. Abdul Aziz was not a teenager. He became a teenager in 1965.
 
4. You have stated very slyly "...it is generally believed that the then Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru, himself a Kashmiri Pandit was behind the conspiracy to unseat the local Kashmiri Prime Minister". 
 
Was Nehru planning to bring in a non-local or a non-Kashmiri Prime Minister?
 
The then ruling Prime Minister was Khwaja Shamsuddin. He stayed on till Feb 64. He was succeeded by Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq, who was, surprise surprise, also a "local Kashmiri Prime Minister".
 
Kshmendra
 
PS. The general tone of and terminology used by you in this "Profile" helps in confirming a 'fix' on you as being a propagandist for the separatists. 
 

--- On Mon, 8/11/08, Kashmir Affairs <kashaffairs at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

From: Kashmir Affairs <kashaffairs at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [Reader-list] Profile: Sheikh Abdul Aziz, Kashmiri leader Killed in police firing in Srinagar
To: reader-list at sarai.net
Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 11:49 PM

Profile

Sheikh Abdul Aziz (1952-2008) 
Chairman Jammu Kashmir People’s League
By Murtaza Shibli
One of the prominent leaders of the Kashmiri resistance movement, 55 year old
Sheikh Abdul Aziz was killed by the bullets of Indian paramilitary forces on
11th August 2008 while leading a peaceful public demonstration against the
‘economic blockade’ of the Kashmiri Muslims being enforced by militant
Indian Hindu groups allegedly with the tacit support of the Indian government.
He was born in 1952 in Namblabal, Pampore close to the capital city Srinagar but
in Pulwama district. Soon after passing his 10th grade from a local school, Aziz
joined his father’s agriculture business including growing high yield saffron,
for which Pampore Township is famous throughout the Kashmir valley. 
http://www.kashmiraffairs.org/sheik_aziz_profile.html

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