Killers had not martyred Dr Sheikh JALAL SIR only but killed all those poor patients who were being treated by SIR,and they will be answerable on the day of justice .....

Killers had not martyred Dr Sheikh JALAL SIR only but killed all those poor patients who were being treated by SIR,and they will be answerable on the day of justice .....

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India's eminent cardiologist Dr. Sheikh JALAL

Dr. Sheikh JALAL

Another doctor fell to bullets. A sympathetic   note followed from the authorities, but as usual no Ex- director of SKIMS, an ex-head of the department and a doctor who was engaged in  care  of Kashmiri patients….Almost two decades back the bullets hit another doctor of SKIMS, another head of the department, a bold surgeon, a conceiver, a visionary and a humble human being-Prof.Abdul  Ahad Guru. He was murdered for a crime that each one of us committed those days-asking for something that was denied to us for ages. His murder was wrapped under the thick black quilt of “murder by un-identified gunmen.” No one spoke for the justice to the victim or to his family. A young boy lost his father, a woman lost her husband and Kashmir lost an able son. No probes, no inquiries and the matter stood forgotten. probes and no inquiries. In a few weeks from now   the matter will be forgotten. This   time it was an

The fear that gripped the community of doctors was so much that Dr.Guru was never remembered   on his death anniversary, never was a lecture delivered in his honor, and never was a stone erected in his memory in the very premises of the college he conceived. No medical associations of the state, country or the world-talked about Dr.Guru….ever.-

Years went by , a  loyal bureaucrat  of Government of India  who has played long innings in Kashmir came out  with the stunning revelation in his book ‘My Kashmir’ about the truth regarding the murder of Dr. Guru. He named those who were responsible for the dastardly act, he named the real men behind the scene  as he removed the dark quilt from the dark scene. A late revelation-  nonetheless informative. No one yet again after these facts which exposed the authorities   came to the surface- spoke about justice to the victim. The family   had possibly reconciled to their fate as the actual murderer had been eliminated.

Another great doctor fell to the bullets almost within the premises of the hospital he worked in. Dr Farooq Ashai   served as Medical Superintendent and a head of the department in Bone and joint hospital Barzulla. He was on his way to his hospital when he   was shot at. A talented man, a versatile doctor, a competent orthopedician, a loving teacher was silenced forever. Who killed him, why   and how- was never revealed. His wife who intubated her own husband with the hope to revive him in the very theatres where he had revived thousands –is waiting   even today for the justice to her husband. But will she ever get it in this dark valley? And we all have maintained silence- out of fear or out of callousness –regretfully so.

A little less known than these doctors was a gentle Professor of surgey at SMHS hospital Dr. MS Malik. The humble Professor was crushed   by Forces vehicle in Lal Chowk. No probes, no punishments and no inquiries. They were not bothered and we too continued with our lives.

Another doctor who dared to enter into the world of politics –Dr.Lone was mysteriously killed to satisfy someone’s thirst   for a doctor’s   blood. His friends   in political circles never asked for a probe into his death. Here too a doctor was a victim.

Well a survivor she is-thankfully , Dr. Girja Dhar one of the boldest principals of GMC Srinagar who held it together when it was all set to be doomed, faced a shower of bullets - a horrifying incident that went unaccounted, un-probed. The attempt on the   life of a high profile public servant did not evoke a condemnation from any quarter.

Doctors have borne the odds, suffered but   delivered amidst   crises in this conflict zone. But these witnesses’ of genocides are being hit and no one it seems is bothered. From Dr.Guru to Dr.Ashai, Dr.Malik to Dr. Sheikh Jalal-these were the doctors who stayed back in trouble torn valley to treat patients. Their families had invested in them   and their patients had trust in them. Why won’t someone tell us why they were killed?

What about the national and international health organizations and associations? These agencies busy with celebrating Malala days are maintaining a criminal silence over the death of our Messiah’s-Why?

It is a pain to be born in Kashmir-and more painful to be a practicing doctor witnessing death in all forms. The stress under which a doctor works here is tortuous   and the risk to life and honor is tremendous. If a doctor braving it all cannot be protected-then where should doctors seek asylum and where will the poor patients go?

This may not be the entire tale of doctors working in Kashmir and dying at the hands of unknown and unidentified men-I hope to talk more elaborately in my book “Whiteman in Dark”-till then I dare to condemn the attacks  on life and honor of doctors of Kashmir (Greater Kashmir)

Tribute to Dr. Sheikh JALAL-H.E. Chairman Muslim Educational Institute- MEIT

Dr. Sheikh JALAL

With deep sorrow and grief, H.E. Chairman Muslim Educational Institute- MEIT, on behalf of the Management and Staff, condoles the said demise of Dr. Sheikh JALAL renowned Cardiologist and Ex-Director SKIMS. Dr. Sheikh JALAL will always be remembered for his services to the community in general and downtrodden people in particular.

Muslim Educational Institute shall remain closed on 21st of August,2013 in his honour.

Dr. Sheikh JALAL (Legend of Cardiology)

Dr. Sheikh JALAL (Legend of Cardiology)

Jammu and Kashmir Medicinal Plants Introduction Centre  pays tribute to Dr. Sheikh JALAL and the

pioneers who launched the specialty of invasive and interventional cardiology. Through their vision, genius, and perseverence, these physicians laid the groundwork for many of the most important advances in medical care in general, and cardiovascular care in particular.

We hope to continually expand our "Legends of Cardiology" section, as there are many "legends" in invasive/interventional cardiology who should be acknowledged here. We invite you to send your tributes to, and favorite memories of, these and other physicians who have made a real difference in the specialty. Your feedback and contributions are welcome at jkmpic@gmail.com

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Kashmir conflict ebbs as new wave of militant emerges

Younger, better-educated militants are being drawn to the separatist cause but violence and support is waning after a decades-long insurgency in the disputed territory

• 
• • Jason Burke in Tral, Kashmir
  • The Guardian, Sunday 11 August 2013 17.57 BST

Kashmir militant Burhan Muzaffar Wani. Violence is dwindly in Kashmir but a new wave of better-educated, young fighter is being drawn to the separatist cause. Photograph: Jason Burke for the Guardian

The picture – showing a fresh-faced young man leaning nonchalantly against a tree – has been circulating on social media and mobile phones for months. But the smiling 17-year-old, Burhan Muzaffar Wani, a keen cricketer and successful student, is carrying an assault rifle, not a bat, and the bag at his feet does not contain notebooks.

One of a new wave of young, educated separatist militants active in the Indian-administered parts of Kashmir, Wani has much support in his village of Tral, a cluster of traditional homes and mosques amid green fields and woods in a fold of the dry hills in the south of "the valley", as the most famous, richest and strategically important part of the disputed Himalayan former princedom is known.
"Everyone in the village supports Burhan," said a friend, requesting anonymity for fear of detention by security forces as a militant sympathiser.

Kashmir, which was split between Pakistan and India after the countries gained their independence from the UK in 1947, still makes headline news. Seven towns in the Indian portion are under an indefinite curfew following sporadic clashes between local Hindus and Muslims that have killed three people, officials said.

Last week, India accused Pakistan of sending commandos to kill five of its soldiers stationed on the line of control, the de facto border dividing the two parts of Kashmir.

But overall levels of violence are lower now in Kashmir than at any time since an insurgency that pitted groups of young Muslim Kashmiris enrolled in Islamist groups, and later extremists from Pakistan too, against Indian security forces first flared more than two decades ago. In total, more than 50,000 militants, soldiers, police and civilians are thought to have died in the fighting in India's only Muslim-majority state. Human rights abuses have been perpetrated by all sides.

At its height in 2001, 4,500 deaths were recorded, according to the Institute for Conflict Management, a Delhi-based thinktank. Last year, only 117 people were killed. And though there have been spectacular attacks against military targets and scores were injured in rioting in July after four protesters were shot dead by security forces, officials in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, say there are now no more than 200 militants operating in the valley, whereas at the peak of the insurgency there were up to 20 times as many.

The unrest that has often paralysed cities and the economy in recent years has almost died away. Tourists now throng the houseboats on Dal lake or make pilgrimages to Hindu holy sites.
"I have never been worried while here. The image of Kashmir elsewhere in India is totally wrong," said Meha Sao, from the southern state of Maharashtra, on holiday in Srinagar.

Nor, despite the sentiments expressed by the friend of Wani the militant, is support for violence as widespread as it once was. "You do find some local support in pockets but these pockets have shrunk dramatically, which is why it is so difficult for the militants," said Omar Abdullah, the chief minister.
A militant hardcore still exists, particularly in southern areas such as Tral. And even if less numerous, the new militants appear highly motivated. Wani is believed to have been involved in at least one of the recent attacks on security forces.

Tral village is tense. After three militants and a policeman were killed in a recent clash nearby, leaders of Mujahideen group, the group Wani is believed to have joined, warned locals to stay away from security personnel, whom they planned to target.

Observers say the new recruits to militancy are different from volunteers over the past 20 years. They are younger and better educated. Wani is one of the youngest. His father, Muzaffar Ahmed Wani, 50, said his son had left home overnight two years ago to join the militants, aged just 15. "He said nothing to anyone. He just said he was going out and didn't come back," he said.

Though pious and brought up in a family that is supportive of the extremists, Wani had shown no sign of wanting to take up arms until he was detained and beaten by security forces, his father, the head of a local college, said.
  "He was thinking of revenge only for 15 days after being released. So he got in contact with the militants. Or maybe they heard about him and got in touch. Then he went. It was only 10 days before his exams. But I am proud of him," his father said.

It is almost certain that Wani will be killed. Few active militants surrender. Most prefer to die when cornered by security forces. "We are ready for him to die," his father said. "We are facing oppression every day. I look around and I see only ashes. There is only less violence because there is a lack of faith. Anyone with true faith joins the militants."

'We are not scared of death, we are just scared of detention'

Three hours' drive to the north, in the tough town of Sopore, the family of Muzamil Amin Dar have already faced what Wani has accepted is inevitable.

Dar, 26, was killed last October. Accounts of how and why he had joined the extremists differ. His family says Dar, a college graduate who had landed a highly paid job as a hospital medical technician with a monthly salary of £200 seven months before going underground, was not interested in radicalism.

This changed, they say, after his detention by security forces when guns were found in a well in the Dars' garden. Police say he was a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group, one of the most violent organisations operating in the valley, for five years, was the mastermind of a Delhi bomb plot and was wanted for several local militant attacks including the killing of a policeman.
Over recent years Dar had become increasingly devout. He had stopped his father, an electrical repair man, from watching television and convinced another brother to leave a bank job which, Dar said, involved usury.

"Once I was watching a cricket match and he unplugged the television and shouted at me not to waste my time on trivial things," Dar's father, Mohammed Amin, said.

After his son disappeared, there was no news. Then last October, the family heard firing only a mile from their home. A huge military operation was under way. Two militants armed with assault rifles and grenades were holed up in a house, they heard. Then they learned one was Dar.

Security forces asked Dar Sr to negotiate with his son but he refused, fearing they would kill him as he came out to surrender. After nearly 12 hours of shooting, his son, badly wounded, called him and told his father to "live life according to Islam".

He died the next morning when explosions brought down the house he and the other militant had hidden in. "We miss him a lot," his father said. A policeman and a paramilitary were wounded in the firefight.

Such encounters were once regular occurrences. Now they are rare. A senior Indian official in northern Kashmir said the extremist groups had been forced to change tactics in recent years because they lacked weapons.

"They have moved from insurgency to terrorism. But if they had thousands of guns they would have thousands of fighters," he said.

This, most analysts believe, is underestimating the degree to which decades of conflict have undermined support for militancy locally.

Some suggest that security officials in the disputed province exaggerate the threat from extremism to justify wide-ranging powers of arrest and detention – and a broad measure of immunity from prosecution for human rights abuses – granted early on in the conflict.

One factor is declining official support for the extremists in Indian Kashmir from Pakistan over the past decade. Another is the growing disparity between the economies of the two neighbours, which have fought three wars over the state. Indian growth has undermined the argument for accession to Pakistan in Kashmir – though much rhetorical support for independence remains – and sapped enthusiasm for any return to a hugely disruptive violent struggle.

However, Mr Omer Abdullah, the chief minister, said economic development was only a partial solution. "You will always be plagued by the reality that there is a political issue that formed the basis for this trouble and it will have to be resolved, today, tomorrow, the day after, at some point," he said.
During a short bout of rioting in Sopore, a hotbed of insurgent violence in northern Kashmir, last month, young men spoke of their anger.

"We are not scared of death, we are just scared of detention, for our families," said Shakeel Ahmed, a 24-year-old pharmaceutical representative, before returning to throw stones at the police. "The level of militancy is low now, it is true, but it will rise, God willing."

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Anand Agricultural University (AAU) has successfully grown saffron under controlled conditions and claims that the most expensive herb in the world could be grown in the fields of the north Gujarat region having favourable climatic conditions for its farming. - See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aau-breaks-new-ground-grows-saffron-at-varsity-farms/1091788/#sthash.cNQdR6uI.dpuf

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) has successfully grown saffron under controlled conditions and claims that the most expensive herb in the world could be grown in the fields of the north Gujarat region having favourable climatic conditions for its farming. - See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aau-breaks-new-ground-grows-saffron-at-varsity-farms/1091788/#sthash.cNQdR6uI.dpuf

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Gujarat are now challenging nature. Despite water shortage in the state, many farmers have been successful in growing     crops which need a lot of water and for which Gujarat’s climate is not at all favourable. 

For instance, apples, saffron and cashew are difficult to grow in water-deficient states like Gujarat. 

Yet some enterprising farmers have experimented and succeeded in growing these crops despite the unfavourable climatic conditions. 

Cashew is being grown in Saurashtra and South Gujarat while Anand Agricultural University has been successful in growing saffron, albeit in greenhouses on its farm. Incidentally, saffron has long been associated with Kashmir and its climate. 

Businessman Rustom Cama has recently joined farmers in experimenting with different crops. 

Apples generally grow in places like Himachal Pradesh where the climate is damp and cold. But he has been successful in growing around 100 apple trees on his arid farmland near Mount Abu.

Cama said that he started growing apple trees four years ago and that the trees had yielded good quality fruit for the last two years. 

“When I first asked a university for apple plants so that I could grow them on my farm near Mount Abu, the university refused. The university evidently thought that it was not possible to grow apples in Mount Abu,” said Cama.  

He further said that as there is shortage of water in the region, it is not possible to grow apple trees in large numbers. He, however, added that he had not found the climate to be much of a problem and the apples grown on his farm were of good quality. 

As for saffron, AAU has grown this spice in greenhouses on its farm in Anand. University officials involved in its farming say that it can be grown in North Gujarat areas – in Patan, Mehsana, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and Gandhinagar. Saplings for this purpose can be had from Badgam district in Kashmir valley. The officials say that the quality of saffron grown in Gujarat is as good as that of saffron grown in Kashmir. The period of August to November is most favorable for its cultivation. 

In Saursahtra and South Gujarat, farmers have been successful in growing cashew nut. According to an estimate, 7826 hectares of land in Gujarat is used for cashew farming. The harvest is around 22,860 metric tonnes. Bharat Patel, one of the farmers cultivating cashew in Halvad, said he had grown around 150 cashew trees on his farm. 

“One has to be careful when cultivating cashew as watering of the plants has to be done systematically. I have been growing cashew for the last three years. Though the volume of the yield is not very high, the quality of cashew is good,” Patel said.

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Anand Agricultural University (AAU) has successfully grown saffron under controlled conditions and claims that the most expensive herb in the world could be grown in the fields of the north Gujarat region having favourable climatic conditions for its farming. - See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aau-breaks-new-ground-grows-saffron-at-varsity-farms/1091788/#sthash.cNQdR6uI.dpuf

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