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.
Please don't insult creatures. They at least kill for food or to protect themselves.
These "humans" enjoy the pain they inflict. Even on fellow coreligionists.
BTW, last time I looked there were still Hindus in Pakistan (not many but some are there), and in Kashmir ~ although the number of Indian troops ther emight well outnumber them.
But whatever number there are, that simply does not prevent militant Hindus from going to Kashmir to "do their thing". I' suggest the "gangs", with or without names, have no trouble creating mayhem.
Dang the typos!
Once again..........
"Gengis, if we need nonsense we have only to wait on you to show up."
Or maybe not because you always BEAT me to it.
Easy, man, easy.
Move your hands away from the keyboard......
Read this:
http://www.salagram.net/108meaning.html
Geeze, cut me a break.
Sounds like the dentist's last words.
BTW read about the significans of number 7 in other religions:
In Judiaism:
"A highly symbolic number in the Torah, alluding to the infusion of spirituality and Godliness into the Creation. For example:
God rested on and sanctified the 7th day (Shabbat)
A seven-day purification period is required for one who has become tamei to become tahor
The Shemittah (Sabbatical) year arrives every 7th year
The Jubilee (Yovel) year comes after 7 times 7 years
The Counting of the Omer leading up to the Giving of the Torah is expressed as "7 times 7 weeks"
The weekly Torah portion is divided into seven aliyahs, and seven men or boys over the age of 13 are called up for the reading of these aliyahs during Shabbat morning services
Seven blessings are recited under the chuppah during a Jewish wedding ceremony
A Jewish bride and groom are feted with seven days of festive meals after their wedding, known as Sheva Berachot ("Seven Blessings")
The number of Ushpizzin (also known as the "Seven Shepherds") who visit the sukkah during the holiday of Sukkot: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, and David
The number of nations God told the Israelites they would displace when they entered the land of Israel (Deut. 7:1): the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite "
In Islam:
"The number of ayat in surat al-Fatiha
The number of heavens in Islamic tradition
The number of Earths in Islamic tradition
The numbers 7, 70, 70,000, etc. are used in Islamic traditions to denote an infinite or high number. In Arabic, 70, 70,000, etc. is used to mean infinite. This is because 1 is the smallest number, 2 is just after 1, 5 and 10 are exact, 4 and 6 are just before and after 5, and 9 is just before 10. This leaves 3, 7, and 8. 8 is closer to the end although it is larger. 8 is also an even number, so divisible by 2. Between 3 and 7, 3 is smaller so 7 is chosen to represent infinite. "
In Christianity:
"In the Bible, the number seven is the perfect number, six is imperfect.
The number of Archangels according to some systems. Seven Archangels
In the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew 18:21, Jesus says to Peter to forgive seventy times seven people. [1]
"
"The number of the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Gluttony, Avarice, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, and Pride.
The number of the Seven Virtues: Chastity, Moderation, Liberality, Charity, Meekness, Zeal and Humility, corresponding to the seven deadly sins.
The seven terraces of Mount Purgatory (one per deadly sin)
The number of sacraments in the Roman Catholic faith
The number of palms in an Egyptian Sacred Cubit
The number of heads of the beast of the Book of Revelation, and of some other monsters, like the hydra and the number of seals. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(number)
Oh I am sure the murders could even be Jews going by your logic.
Absolutely true.
TOP TEN
Reasons for beheading a dental surgeon in Kashmir:
10. Just showing him how to fix a toothache.
9. Dental license had expired.
8. Nothing really, just struck a nerve I guess.
7. Could not get tickets on short notice to Iraq.
6. Wanted to show what his last root canal felt like.
5. Traditional Kashmiri way of changing dentists.
4. Lifted veil on female patient.
3. Told patient there is no tooth Genie.
2. Patient looked in mirror and saw gold Star of David embossed on front tooth.
1. Good teeth are against Islam.
I know.....
GOD (Krishna) himself was the eighth child.
LOL!
If we are going to be esoteric here
let me add:
a little known fact is
that even in the Hebrew Bible
there were 8 days of creation
not seven.
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form and void
and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters.
And God said
Let there be light
and there was light.
And God saw the light
that it was good
and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day
and the darkness he called Night.
And the evening and the morning were the first day."
So before DAY 1
on which God divided light from darkness
there was DAY 0
(the beginning)
the Day of the Cosmic Mother
the day on which God created the Heaven and the Earth
(from the Cosmic Mother)
Mystery solved. Shaving blade brand -
Inventory of the things, recovered by Handwara Police from the site of murder at Nopora Kalan and handed over to Sopore Police, is no less spine chilling: A blood-soaked shaving blade of Essex make, empty wrappers of four more razors, a 6-ft-long blood-soaked rope, two wooden batons besides three mineral water bottles of Kinley make and a Real juice pack which the killers had emptied while torturing and slaughtering the surgeon who was on fast on that 13th day of the holy month of Ramzan.
This guy is pissed but he's firing his gun in all directions.
Cant make out what point he's trying to make.
Anger, sadness - the sheer useless waste of it all.
The apathy of politicians,
The frustration of a man who's seen this jihad closeup for far too many years......
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