Aryan

A Delhi university professor, who was acquitted of being involved in an attack on India's parliament in 2001, is in hospital after being shot.

Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani, a Kashmiri, was attacked by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday night in the Indian capital.

Doctors performed surgery on Mr Geelani who is said to have received at least three bullet wounds.

In 2003 a Delhi court overturned the conviction of Mr Geelani in connection with the parliament attack.

The Press Trust of India reports that Mr Geelani's condition has improved following the surgery.

India's Supreme Court has described the incident as "disturbing" and has asked Delhi Police to submit a report to it on the attack within a week.

Police have launched an investigation into the attack which took place when he was visiting his lawyer.

"I heard some loud gunshots and then heard him banging on the door," his lawyer, Nandita Haksar, said.

"When I came out he was clutching his stomach and said he had been shot."

Conviction overruled

Mr Geelani, who spent nearly two years in jail, had been sentenced to death under a tough new anti-terrorism law for what the prosecution described as his role in planning a deadly attack on the Indian parliament in 2001.

Indian parliament attack, December 2001
Fourteen people died, including the five gunmen, in the attack

Fourteen people, including the five gunmen who carried out the shooting, died in the attack.

Two years later the decision was overturned by the Delhi high court which ruled that the prosecution's evidence against him and another person similarly charged was insufficient.

The conviction of two others were upheld but India's Supreme Court has halted their execution until their appeals are heard in court.

The attack on India's parliament led to a serious breach in relations between India and Pakistan with Delhi blaming Islamabad for being behind the attack.

Pakistan denied having to do anything with it but the crisis brought both nuclear-rivals close to an all-out war in the summer of 2002.

Since then both sides have been engaged in a peace process.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4248775.stm

lemontree

Bad aim. Those gun man should have practised more.

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Cheers!...on the rocks!!

bull

Aryan do nt bother so much about the indians,there are enough qualified people in India to take care of such issues.
If your intention was passing on the info..thanks we KNEW it.

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The ones in the casinos are serious.

bull

i was just thinking about you and wondering how much pain you takwe to bring to theindians not icewhats hapening in INDIA so i thought i will reciprocate your act by letting you know whats happening in PAKISTAN.Dont ask me for the link aryan,you know it!!!

Pakistan Army Pays More Than Half Million Dollars to Al Qaeda in Bizarre Deal

PESHAWAR, February 10: Pakistan Army has publicly admitted paying Al Qaeda over half a million dollars in the most bizarre deal it has ever made with militant Waziristan fighters, battling the Army and the US forces in the rugged terrain bordering Afghanistan for months .

The announcement of the payment was made in Peshawar by none other than the Corps Commander of Peshawar Corps, the man incharge of military operations in Waziristan, Lt Gen Safdar Hussain, who said Rs32 million (US$540,000) had been paid to to help four former wanted tribal militants in South Waziristan "to settle debts with al-Qaeda."

General Hussain said the the payments were part of a peace deal signed on Monday with tribesmen, but the public admission that money had been paid to be transferred to Al Qaeda stunned analysts and diplomatic observers in Islamabad.

But the main militant rebel, an ex-Guantanamo Bay prisoner who was released some time back, refused to accept the deal.

According to The Daily Times, which the deal with Baitullah Mehsud was negotiated by anti-US religious political leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman of JUI-MMA who had been a stronger sponsor and supporter of the Taliban. The "peace deal" ceremony ended with shouts of “Death to America”, The Daily Times reported.

According to BBC Gen Hussain said four former wanted militants had insisted they needed the money to pay back huge sums to al-Qaeda. Haji Sharif and Maulvi Abbas received Rs15 million each, while Maulvi Javed and Haji Mohammad Omar were each paid one million rupees.

Gen Hussain said a sum of Rs20 million rupees was also offered to tribal leader, Baitullah Mehsud, who signed the peace deal, but that he rejected it. The commander said the militants had initially sought Rs170 million.

The peace deal offers an amnesty in return for the tribe's pledge not to support al-Qaeda and Tale ban militants or attack government installations.

Editorially criticizing the deal, Daily Times said It sounded very much like the “peace” ceremony last year with Nek Muhammad, the Wazir “Taliban commander” with Al Qaeda connections; only on that occasion high-ranking Pakistani military officers were present and there were speeches against America’s “invasion” of Afghanistan to appease the Wazir jirga. This time the domination of the ceremony by JUI was obvious. A tribal representative found occasion to appeal to China to “forgive” the murder by Abdullah Mehsud and his terrorists of a Chinese engineer working at the Gomal Zam Dam kidnapped by them and held for blackmail.

The “appeal” to China has been published in the national press. Backed by the MMA, it will be accepted as a ridiculous application of the law of tribal “honor” on a foreign country. China is thus supposed to redeem its honor by forgiving a terrorist who has been an inmate at the Guantanamo Bay prison, providing justification to a dubious judicial enterprise by America.

The Times asked: "But where is the honor of the government of Pakistan and how has it redeemed it in the long drawn out “war with Al Qaeda” in the Tribal Areas? The “deal” with Nek Muhammad fell through before the ink was dry on it and the man had finally to be killed with a missile, but not before he became a ‘hero’ of sorts despite his not so honorable personal profile in the area where he operated.

It said: "The fact is that the government has little public credibility on its “Wana Operation”. Equally, the religious parties are in denial and still maintain that there are no “foreign” terrorists in South Waziristan except those that came in the 1980s and settled down. Also, the ARD parties have opposed the “operation” and linked it to the “operation” in Balochistan and accused Islamabad of taking dictation from America against its own people. The corps commander and the governor in Peshawar handle the “operation” in South Waziristan, but they must be aware that the PR side of what they have done has not worked at all. The result is that President Pervez Musharraf has also lost support among the community of retired generals who usually back him.

The media’s registration of the strategy of the Wana “operation” is interesting too. Quoted in the press, the Peshawar corps commander said on February 7, 2005 that the operation in Wana had killed over 150 “foreign terrorists” and a large number of them had been arrested. He said there were still around 100 at large. In March 2004 there were 600-700 of them there. He said the survivors had fled in groups of four and were spread around in the country. There were 70,000 Pakistani troops deployed in South Waziristan while there were only 18,000 allied and Afghan forces on the Afghan side of the border. He said he had ordered 44 operations in one year. One might ask: why was he not able to show the “large number” of foreign terrorists, captured or dead, to the media? Did he not know that the Wana Operation had no political credibility? Why did he ignore the first lesson in such operations: establishing credibility among the public?

"We fear that the truth might turn out to show the latest peace deal as another dead-on-arrival achievement of the government. The JUI has got its Banuri Masjid graduate Abdullah Mehsud off the hook without surrendering a single killer. If the troops go after him now, Baitullah Mehsud will call it a breach of faith and declare war once again, just like Nek Muhammad did. Meanwhile, the Wazirs have not appreciated the “deal” with the Mehsud jirga and have killed two journalists who were returning from the peace ceremony. Both the journalists were Wazirs: hence the tribal disapproval of “joining in with the enemy”. Therefore if “peace” with Baitullah Mehsud was a tactic of relieving the mounting pressure from Balochistan, it may turn out to be another dud," the Daily Times said

As predicted by the Daily Times, on Wednesday tribal militant Abdullah Mehsud, wanted for kidnapping two Chinese engineers last year, told the BBC he did not support the deal signed by Baitullah Mehsud. He said only a holy war would evict "US agents" from Pakistan.

Abdullah Mehsud speaking to the BBC's Haroon Rashid in Peshawar by phone from an undisclosed location, said: "Baitullah's thinking might be that he can achieve his aims by signing the peace agreement, while mine is that only a holy war against the US and Pakistani government could achieve this."

Abdullah Mehsud spent about two years in US custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before being released. He fought for the Tale ban in Afghanistan, losing a leg in a landmine explosion a few days before the Tale ban took Kabul in September 1996. He is wanted for masterminding the abduction of two Chinese engineers in South Waziristan last year, one of whom was killed in a rescue attempt.

The incident was highly embarrassing for the Pakistani government, which has close ties with Beijing. Abdullah Mehsud, condemning those who appealed to China to grant him amnesty, accused Beijing of killing Muslims.

Shortly after Monday's accord, two journalists who attended the signing were killed when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in Wana. Abdullah Mehsud said on Wednesday: "My people are not responsible for the killing of the two journalists." Pakistan believes hundreds of militants, including Arabs, Afghans and Central Asians, are holed up in the South Waziristan region.

Abdullah Mehsud, the commander of the Islamic militants who kidnapped two Chinese engineers in Pakistan's South Waziristan region, spent 25 months in custody at the US base in Guantanamo Bay before his release in March.

According to well known Peshawar journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai, as a young man, Mehsud, now 29, fought for the Tale ban against the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. He lost a leg in a landmine explosion a few days before the Tale ban took Kabul in September 1996. He surrendered along with several thousand fighters to the forces of Uzbek warlord, Abdul Rashid Dostum, in December 2001 in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, and was later turned over to the US military authorities.

Mehsud studied at a government college in Peshawar before attending a seminary where he befriended Afghan Tale ban members and joined their movement. Mehsud, whose real name is Noor Alam, is a Pashtun, the same ethnic group as the Tale ban and belongs to the Mehsud tribe that inhabits South Waziristan on the Afghanistan border. Mehsud has declared holy war on President Musharraf. His long hair and daredevil nature has made him a colorful character.

Since his return from Guantanamo Bay, Mehsud has become a hero to anti-US fighters active in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. He was a comrade of another tribal militant commander, Nek Mohammad, who was killed by a Pakistani army missile in June.

Mehsud sometimes rides a camel or horse while visiting his fighters in his mountainous abode. On other occasions, his men drive him in a vehicle and protect him round-the-clock. In a recent telephone interview with the BBC, Mehsud said he led his fighters by example by taking risks and surviving in tough conditions.

Criticizing US policies toward Muslims, he said the American occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan was a provocation for the followers of Islam and must be avenged. He said he did not want to fight the Pakistan army but had declared jihad, or holy war, against the government of President Pervez Musharraf, who he accused of carrying out US policies in the region.

lemontree

Pakistani terrorists gun down a 70 yr old Kashmiri Imam who was a front runner for the post of Srinagar's Mayor.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-2-2005_pg7_56

bull

LT,

Good work please keep aryan updated!!!

Ray

Gee, what a Loony to be shot and have a name like Geelani!

Samudra

It wasnt the police.
They can shoot straight.

Must have been some moron from the professors own band.

ajaybhutani

why will the police( with so much of shooting experience .) first shoot and then leave the person alive ( i.e . shoot so bad) to let him kick their ass. Well that dsnt sound anyuthing like police

lemontree

NDTV investigated the allegations and found holes in the professor's story. The professor claimed that he was shot outside his lawyers office/residence, and was then taken to the hospital. However, the news channels reporters and the police found blood stains in the professors house, the blood stains were all over the marble staircase.

bull

can u post me the link..i wud like to read it.

ajaybhutani

Well it came in the newspapers too.

lemontree

I did not read it but saw it on TV,..though here are some links.
Geelani attacked for ISI money
http://www.kmsnews.org/Kashmir%20New...s140205-07.htm

bull

no hard feelings ok i wasnt trying to counter you i just wante to read it myself.

ajaybhutani

none felt or meant .