[Reader-list] see some meaning in Yasin Malik's choice

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

Yasin Malik to marry a racy artist from Pakistan
Link -
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Yasin+Malik+to+marry+a+racy+artist+from+Pakistan&artid=BQ2VatavOs8=&SectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=pWehHe7IsSU=&SEO=Yasin%20Malik,%20JKLF,%20Mushaal%20Mullick

NEW DELHI
<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Yasin+Malik+to+marry+a+racy+artist+from+Pakistan&artid=BQ2VatavOs8=&SectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=pWehHe7IsSU=&SEO=Yasin%20Malik,%20JKLF,%20Mushaal%20Mullick#>:
In a match which has stunned Islamic society in India and Pakistan, Yasin
Malik and Mushaal Mullick will next month become man and wife.

 Malik, who is the founder of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front has
left India for Pakistan where he is expected to marry his racy fiancé next
week.

He told friends<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Yasin+Malik+to+marry+a+racy+artist+from+Pakistan&artid=BQ2VatavOs8=&SectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=pWehHe7IsSU=&SEO=Yasin%20Malik,%20JKLF,%20Mushaal%20Mullick#>he
was leaving for Pakistan "on a 10-day personal visit to Pakistan. "I
will
solemnise Nikaah [marriage] in an austere way according to Islamic tenets,"
he pledged.

There is nothing austere about his fiancée however, and questions have been
asked over how he reconciles is commitment to Islamic tenets with her risqué
art.

She specialises in paintings which capture "raw beauty of the feminine
mystique," she says, but they would be regarded by many of her fiance's
militant comrades as pornographic. In a 'Rose That Left A Thorn Behind,' a
passionate Pakistani woman with wild hair is shown naked from the waist up,
glancing over shoulder, revealing her breast.

 In The Forgotten
Love<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Yasin+Malik+to+marry+a+racy+artist+from+Pakistan&artid=BQ2VatavOs8=&SectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=pWehHe7IsSU=&SEO=Yasin%20Malik,%20JKLF,%20Mushaal%20Mullick#>,
a softer-looking woman stares out of the frame, brushing her cheek with
hand, and covering her nipples with her arms.

Her paintings may not seem controversial in the West, but in Pakistan where
Taliban militants have bombed girls' schools, murdered dancing girls, and
destroyed music and video shops in recent weeks, they are explosive.

On her website, Mushaal, 28, says she began painting as a child, and her
current work reveals a fascination with the striking faces and voluptuous
curves of green-eyed Pakistani women.

She shows her works at carefully selected exhibitions in the country and
donates proceeds of sales to charities supporting women's causes. She comes
from a distinguished establishment family in Pakistan, where her father was
a university professor and her mother a women's leader of the powerful
Pakistan Muslim League.

JKLF leader Yasin Malik, 42, is said to have met and fallen in love with
Mushaal at a conference in Pakistan. He missed his engagement ceremony last
October when he was jailed for agitating for an election boycott.

Friends said although he was personally a Muslim, he was not a
fundamentalist and his choice of bride was his own personal affair.
<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Yasin+Malik+to+marry+a+racy+artist+from+Pakistan&artid=BQ2VatavOs8=&SectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=pWehHe7IsSU=&SEO=Yasin%20Malik,%20JKLF,%20Mushaal%20Mullick#>
"The Kashmiri freedom struggle is a political and not religious struggle.
Marriage<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Yasin+Malik+to+marry+a+racy+artist+from+Pakistan&artid=BQ2VatavOs8=&SectionID=b7ziAYMenjw=&MainSectionID=wIcBMLGbUJI=&SectionName=pWehHe7IsSU=&SEO=Yasin%20Malik,%20JKLF,%20Mushaal%20Mullick#>is
always a personal decision and one should not mix it up with politics.
As
far as I know Mushaal is a well-known painter and if she finds her paintings
as a way of expression, there is nothing wrong," said Yasin's friend
Shahidul Islam, a leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference against
Indian rule in Kashmir.
On 2/2/09, indersalim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all
>   Please click the web site by Musaall Mullick, Fiancée of Yasin Malik,
> the well known 'rebel' leader from Jammu and Kashmir. I think it is
> interesting.
>
> http://mushaalmullick.com/default.aspx
>
> I have pasted this link, precisely to see some meaning in  Yasin
> Malik's  choice. One of Musaall's water colour is titled 'Shame of the
> Humanity'. It shows a young girl child who deserves all the attention.
>
> Yasin Malik has lot of admirers and critic around the world; that
> applies even to Kashmir valley.  Only time will tell us how seriously
> he grasped the Kashmir issue.
>
> Perhaps, this latest step speaks something about his priorities.
> Certainly, if SAS Geelani, his  Hurriyat colleague, was young and
> going to be married, he would not have chosen a girl like Musaall as
> his Shareek-e-Hayyat ( better half ), but some one who would prefer to
> stay behind veil all the time.
>
> One of the water colour of Musaall depicts a woman with a Bindi (
> predominately used by Hindu women ). What does that mean?  It means, a
> Swat Valley like situation is certainly not Yasin Malik's cup of tea,
> but something which has a space for freedom, freedom of choice,
> particularly for women.
>
> Only time will tell us whether Yasin's Malik's Safar-e-Azadi will take
> Kashmir on the path which is meaningful for both Musaall-Malik jodi
> but People in general as well.  There is ray of hope hidden in his
> choice to wed a painter living in London.  Imran Khan, the
> cricketer-politician did almost similar to that, but failed to mix his
> choice with his political vision. Will Yasin too follow Imran, or will
> he let Musaall speak her mind freely ?
>
> Kashmir is seriously looking forward to see someone who speaks boldly
> about the situation of women in J&K. For example, no woman in J&K has
> any legal rights to retain  a square inch of land in case she happens
> to get married to a non-J&K citizen. That is truly against  Women. But
> slowly, I want Yasin to speak about this issue as well, even at the
> cost of popularity. No previous govt has dared to speak about this
> issue. The present Govt in J&K too will never support any idea like
> that. So, he can outwit them on this account. This is golden chance.
> Things like that can bring some real changes for a smooth and
> dignified return of Kashmiri Pandits to Valley.
>
> The other issue is environment, which is as serious as Women's issues.
> I have not gone though his agenda of Safray-Azadi but I wish issues
> like that are thoroughly woven in  his Azadi text.  He needs to speak
> about the need to protect the  flora and fauna in J&K, besides a
> sincere call for a simple living.  He needs to talk about the revival
> of folk arts and other forms of artistic expressions.
>
> This I am writing at a time when J&K is entering a special post free
> election phase for a great good governance. But that is that. We still
> have KASHMIR ISSUE, staring into our eyes as before. So, when every
> other intellectual in India is dismissive about Hurriyat who obviously
> gained nothing by giving Boycott call for Elections; I see them very
> much there, as significant as ever.
>
> Indeed people like me who were victims of 1990 approach to Kashmir
> Problem, but I believe, that some fresh approach is needed to
> understand Kashmir. It just happens that Kashmir is a Muslim Majority
> area, but Kashmir is not a Muslim problem, but a problem similar to
> Buddhist Tibet. There has to be some inner need to understand the
> troubles which a line called 'territory' inflicts on us. Why Kashmir
> was divided. What is LOC after all?
>
> I know, there will be lot of angry reaction to this small mail, but I
> hope some restraint, and cool minded approach. I am truly myself
> looking for some answers. I don't see a great  politician around with
> some vision to bring a real change in our society, both at grass root
> level and beyond.
>
> Capitalistic and narrow minded politics has ruined our systems of
> living, and we are left with a situation like  in Gaza where Israel is
> openly killing women and children. Europe and America are silent,
> which means they are not bothered by Palestine problem as they see it.
> So, Hamas is bad, even when they have people's support.
>
> So, imagine, if tomorrow Hurriyat  decides to fight elections in J&K ,
> and if they come to power and declare freedom on the very first day of
> office, what choice India has?  Arrest them there, with head lines
> against Indian Democracy all over the  world. So, is non-participation
> is a blessing in disguise for Indian Government ?
>
> Let us talk to Yasin, more meaningfully, than before.   I am talking
> on my own behalf.
>
> With love and regards
> Inder salim
>
>
>
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