Posted on 10/09/2006 11:59:06 AM PDT by swarthyguy
SRINAGAR, Oct 8: Taking advantage of the losing grip of Police, BSF as well as Army in Sopore, militants have kidnapped and mercilessly slaughtered a young dental surgeon within 24 hours of beheading a Territorial Army recruit in the apple-rich north Kashmir township. More confident this time, militants have slit the throat of the young dental surgeon and father of three kids with seven shaving blades in broad daylight after subjecting him to untold brutality for about two hours.
Civilian sources revealed to the EXCELSIOR that the local Police Station responded to a report and recovered the dead body of 35-year-old Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah S/o Masoom Shah R/o Zachaldara (presently Braripora, Handwara) from corn fields in Nopora Kalan locality of the appletown of Sopore in the morning today. They said that unidentified militants, armed with AK-47 guns and pistols, had tied the surgeon in captivity to a tree and mercilessly tortured him for about two hours from 2.00 p.m to 4.00 p.m on Saturday. According to these sources, some people working at the nearby fields had approached the militants with an appeal of mercy after hearing the shrieks and screaming of the dental surgeon but the militants shouted them to retreat. They finally slaughtered the doctor with sharp shaving blades.
While senior Police officials in Sopore did not respond to phone calls, their juniors confirmed that seven blood soaked shaving blades were recovered from the site of occurrence. They said that Police learned about the gruesome killing last evening but went to recover the dead body today. According to them, the surgeon had been almost decapitated and his head was attached to the torso with just an inch of skin. They said that a note, purportedly scribbled by a militant outfit, was also found on the dead body.
After a decade-long semblance of normality, militants are currently in the process of regaining control over the all-important Sopore town, which had been a stronghold of Hizbul Mujahideen and other guerrilla groups in 1990-94 period. It was during this period that--- with the massive support of alienated people, particularly those from pro-Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami---the Hizb militants like late Majeed Dar and a Sudanese Jihadi Ibn-i-Masood had enjoyed total control on Sopore. After security forces eliminated a large number of militants here in 1993-94, few incidents of violence were witnessed in Sopore. However, after striking on their combat and civilian targets with hit-and-run grenade attacks for several months this year, militants in Sopore have now begun to act in broad daylight. They have killed the young dental surgeon within 24 hours of beheading a Territorial Army recruit whose head was taken all the way to the center of the town and dropped there.
In follow up to a broad daylight drive of moral policing, in which several people were stripped and paraded on streets for their alleged offences of promiscuity and gambling, militants have enacted today's brutality just furlongs away from the guarded residence of the naked mystic, Ahad Sahib, who survived a grenade attack earlier this year. Two devotees had died and 15 others sustained injuries in that attack on June 22.
An investigation by Excelsior revealed that after completing his BDS, Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah had been appointed as a junior dental surgeon by State Health Department. Within a couple of years of his appointment, he went to Saudi Arabia and worked there as a dental surgeon for about seven years. It was during this period that he shifted his residence from Zachaldara and raised a Rs one-crore house in Braripora outskirts of Handwara town near Fruit Mandi. With his wife, Kulsoom, and three young children (an eight-year-old son and two young daughters), Dr Shah had been living at this house after returning from Saudi Arabia about a year ago. His services in Health Department had been terminated but he had been reinstated and posted at Public Health Centre Langet. Informed sources said that on Saturday he had left for duty as usual in his own car but before reaching Langet requested an acquaintance over telephone to record his leave for a day.
When his father Masoom Shah was lodging a missing report at Handwara Police Station today, Sopore Police communicated to Handwara Police that Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Shah's slaughtered body had been spotted and recovered from a locality in the town. Later today, Dr Shah's body was buried at his ancestral village in Zachaldara. His brutal killing, that happened in the holy month of Ramazan, spread shockwaves in a vast locality but for obvious fear of militant reprisals nobody dared to register protest in public.
Inquiries revealed that Dr Shah was a close friend of the separatist People’s Conference leader, Sajjad Lone, whose veteran politician father, late Abdul Gani Lone, had long back got the Government job of a forest guard to Shah's father Masoom Shah. The Shahs had multiple political connections but they had never associated themselves with militants, counter-insurgents or security forces. One and all in Handwara area insisted that it was not a political killing. While Dr Shah's father continues to be the Vice President of Rajwar Block in the mainstream National Conference, his Handwara-based wife, Kulsoom, happens to be a not-so-distant relative of the former Forest Minister and MLA Handwara, Sofi Mohiuddin. Residents said it was Sofi who had got him from Saudi Arabia and also got him reinstated on the terminated Government job.
Meanwhile, official sources in north Kashmir said that some young children found an explosive device and began fiddling with it near Chitti Bandi hamlet in Bandipore today. It exploded, causing injuries to three young students, namely Ashfaq Ahmed Mir S/o Mohammad Yusuf Mir, Altaf Ahmed Mir S/o Zakarullah and Aijaz Ahmed Mir S/o Abdul Ahad Mir. They were evacuated to a local hospital. Critically injured, Aijaz Ahmed Mir was referred to a Srinagar hospital. He was responding to treatment till late this evening.
My optician wife thanks you for the laugh.
Gilette Jihad Ultra !
Let's see, who in Kashmir hates Muslims and is trying to take the territory back. I know, it's the tooth fairies.
sounds more like Hindu Shave.
Hindus, unlike Muslims, are fairly peaceful OUTSIDE of their home country (India). But cross them in their Homeland, and Katy-bar-the-door. Sounds like what a group of freepers might want to do to Osama bin Laden.
These SOBs aren't bad people. They are not people at all. They are demons from hell, and deserve no more mercy than they show to others.
It don't look like this was a jihad. This was enraged Hindus trying to regain control of India.
Animals
I would guess, some popular french brand. They dull faster and ensure more pain to the victim.
Jihad or gee haw. These bastards deserve no mercy and no respect.
It's well to distinguish WHICH bastages we're talking about, though. I doubt seriously if any of the gang that did this horror, will ever show up outside India to pursue their fight. Also I wonder if there could have been a grudge involved, with the gang's families having been recently brutalized and killed by Muslims. This is not a "world problem" it is an India problem.
>>is trying to take the territory back
Back? It's a part of India.
Let me enlighten you, these come over the border from Pakistan, are hopefully killed before they do too much damage.
Try reality.
Thanks for the laugh.
That is a stretch.
What you refer to as a "border" is actually the "line of control" that divides that small country.
The population on both sides of that line is and has been predominantly Moslem for hundreds of years (albeit with a tradionally Hindu government up until Independence).
So, who would grab a Shia, torture him, and then slit his throat. Well, could be a bunch of Twelvers who don't like Seveners (if the guy was a Sevener but nobody said). Or, it could be a secular gang to which he might have refused to pay bakshish. Or, maybe it's some people who didn't like his dental work ~ torturing him shows pretty much that they knew that he was a dentist.
Or, maybe a bunch of Hindu extremists caught and killed him for any one of a variety of reasons which might include not wishing to pay their dental bills, or because he was a Sevener (and since almost all the Seveners are doctors, et al, in Pakistan, and India, that's not far fetched), or because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and saw something he shouldn't ~ e.g. former customers from Saudi Arabia!
Ah, yes, AlQaida operatives in Kashmir saw someone they didn't trust who could identify them so they tortured and killed him in front of a crowd of onlookers.
Sure sounds like that must be the solution eh?!
>>that small country.
Kashmir isn' a country. Ask the Pakistanis.
Very nice apologist for jihadis and Pak in general.
Sunnis fight against Shia. A lot.
Your shameless justifications for trying to make this a Hindu Muslim thingie is disgusting.
Plus, you assume the dentist was a Shia. How do you know.
Maybe, perhaps, could be, etc etc. Sheesh, try writing fairy tales.
You twist and distort. All seveners, to use your asinine phrasing are doctors. In Pakistan? You are delusional. Most Hindus have left Pakistan. Most Moslems have NOT left India.
Bah. You are an apologist for these whackjobs.
Believe what you want.
Twelvers are all the time killing Seveners ~ mostly out of blind rage, and also because the Seveners know the truth about the Mahdi, and it's not the little kid in the well eh!
Regarding how many Hindus left Pakistan and how many Moslems left India, and how many Hindus stayed behind in Pakistan, etc., these numbers are well known and anybody who doesn't know about the Hindu minority in the South doesn't know much about Pakistan or India.
There's even been a recent National Geographic article that pointed this out ~ it's not a large number, but I was as surprised as you will be. In fact, there are still Hindu shrines in Pakistan that people from India visit. Personally I think that's nuts, but if they think it's worth the risk, then go to it.
I think you missed entirely the fact that I was being totally sarcastic coming up with a gazillion scenarios to address the "who, what, when, where and why" of that dentist's death at the hands of torturers.
Now, regarding whether or not "Kashmir" can be considered a country, I would argue that it has an ancient history of independence as a country long before the arrival of Islam in the Sind and along the Indus.
In fact, it wasn't conquered by Moslems until the late 1300s, but when that happened, the Moslems converted most of the population. Later on, like most of the rest of India, the Moghal empire absorbed it. However, by 1751, the local ruler had managed to extract independence. The Brits didn't subdue the place until 1846.
I know that Hindus have this thing about "conversion" and would argue that the population was forcibly converted to Islam and therefore should bow to Hindu supremacy in the present time. After meeting many people over the years whose families hale from Kashmir, I have yet to find a single one who would agree with you on that point. In fact, depending on the progressiveness of the local variations in Hinduism, which can vary from complete superstitious belief in demons counseled only by hallucinogenic using shamen to very advanced nearly monotheistic structures created by Brahmin guided by highly educated gurus, Islam might well have been an improvement at the time ~ but that's a debate for a different day.
As far as being an "apologist for those whack jobs", I rather think of myself as a totally disinterested, even neutral party, with numerous Moslem and Hindu friends and associates on all sides of every serious issue in South Asia. What I find amazing is that around here so many of them find it possible to co-exist, even at the dinner table. One might suppose that the further you get from India and Pakistan the less meaningful these religious differences really are.
And she is very welcome.
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