Mushtaq Ahmad Lone, Editor "Wehdat-e-Milli"

By: Sheikh Gulzaar

e-mail: gulzar@journalist.com, writerasia@in.com

The Special Operation Group of JK Police claimed to have eliminated the " acting chief" of the pro-Pakistan 'AL-Fatha Force' identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Lone @General Mossa' in an counter with the SOG. Even as none of the militant organisation said anything about the man or the incident, some of the some of the journalists here claimed that Mr. Lone was not a militant but "printer, publisher and editor of vernacular weekly " Wehdat-e-Milli". JK Police have recovered  from his person an identity card which described the deceased as "printer, publisher & amp; editor " of the Urdu weekly.

Shaheed Mushtaq A. Lone

Official sources told local newspapers that in reaction militants attacks on joint camp of STF and Ikhwan  between Onta Bhawan and Bilal Colony during the three proceeding nights, Special operation Group , Srinagar laid ambush yesterday evening which as maintained for several hours.Before  five militants passed by the ambush and fell into the trap. A encounter took place between, the two sides during witch, Mushtaq Ahmad Lone @General Moosa" got  killed and all of his accomplices managed to escape from the drag net. One AK -56 rifle and and a pouch   was claimed to have recovered him.

A police press release said that 'Gen Mossa' was functioning as Supreme Cammander of AL-Fatha Force' in  the absence of Tariq Aziz alias Zan-ul-Aabideen. It was further claimed that the top ranking militant had been instrumental in reactivating and re-organizing militancy in Kashmir and Udhampur after the installation of the democratic Government 'Gen. Mossa' was described as a Pakistani trained  militant which attained training in handling of sophisticated weapons and crossed back 1991.Immediately he was made  District Commander of Jehad Force  which ultimately splintered into Al-Fatha Force in 1994", said the release. It adds that 'Mossa' was responsible for various  activities including killings and attacks on Army, STF as also for organizing anti-election campaign in South Kashmir. " The deceased was also involved in killing of 21 Ikwanis, 34 Indian army jawans . He was also  described as "an very important  but 2nd in Command member of  " Shoura-e-Jehad". Yet another statement from the department of Information Department said that Police had recovered " from the pocket of the deceased militant,  Prees Card in the name of Mushtaq Ahmad Lone indicated him as printer, publisher and editor of  "Wehdat-e-Milli."

A senior Information Department official, when contacted, confirmed that according to the records Mushtaq Ahmad Lone son of Mr. Ghulam Mohidin Lone, resident of Pathan Pulwama was the bonfire printer, publisher and editor of the Urdu weekly. A district Magistrate had confirmed the declaration after necessary verification about the   antecedents of the deceased by JK Police and CID. Some journalist said that they knew the deceased as an editor for the last several years and claimed that he had never been militant.

Inspector General of Police , Kashmir Zone, Gpoal Sharma  when contacted, said that Lone was the acting chief of the militant organisation and the same had been " confirmed properly”. Neither any militant organisation  nor the press community here issued any statement about the man or the incident in which he was reported killed. 

About the author: Sheikh Gulzaar is a editor with Writer-South Asia and can be contacted  at:  writerasia@in.com, gulzar@journalist.com

Mailing address: Writer- South Asia, POB 667 Srinagar SGR  J&K 190001 (Via New Delhi-India)

A tribute to Martyar Mushtaq Ahmad Lone by Ed. Sheikh Gulzaar

Mushtaq Ahmad Lone

Obviously we all have some day to leave forever, though one today and the another tomorow. The conception is natural and final.

Long ago, in the same way, a beautiful star was born which with the intensity twinkled, fascinated and got shrouded in the ultima thule of the horizons. Na, Na, the story is not in any way all about a billion year old burnt star of some globular cluster, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) discovered. The star here is our beloved Mushtaq Ahmad Lone who only a year back reached the destination. Whenever the regional history would be rewind, Mushtaq's precious and constructive contribution is certain to remember. And one desiring the unity of the Muslims can find Mushtaq in the pages of history always dreamt in his life of only day to come  when the Muslims would not have slit one another's throat but to exchange their true love. When the brothers have one another's tears to wipe off. Safety of the Muslims, prosperity of the Muslims and the understanding  among the Muslim Nations was  the dream Mushtaq Ahmad Lone wished come true. Whether Sarajevo, Central Asia, Kashmir, palestine, Afghanistan, Libya or Mogadishu the cosmopolitan used to say are the issues of the Muslim world and the body is to feel pain of its severely bruised organs.

Contrary to sweet dreams of his parents the son Mushtaq placed  all worldly advantages aside and  joined  a Holy mission to serve the Muslim cause with the  unique power of his pen. So, besides working for many dailies, Wahdat-e-Milli, an  Urdu Weekly presenting news and views was finally launched. Every  Edition of the News & views. Weekly was fund showering to the bruised healing touch. Rightly  some  one said the sincerer heart has to bleed more. Same  was the case  with the Wahdat-e-Milli Editor. Inspite of the  criticismfrom many  quarters, even the so called intellectual, and  weak financial position  Mushtaq said. was never up his mission  of his life. The Wahdat-e-Milli  turned  from offset to the litho, yet kept pace  with the cruel time. "Off course not money  but my paper gives me  what is not  in everyone's fate. I am blessed by it with the satisfaction. The satisfaction that is very hard to get in one's life ", Mushtaq often said.

The garden of a series of hopes was total shattered when the blossom was mercilessly taken away. Mushtaq Ahmad Lone ws  martyred and the story of a hot burnt star reached to an end. The star would blub the tears of blood if revealed to him all that followed the end of his missionary life of the Wahdat doctrine. Merchants  of the nation and self-styled patrons of the religion detonated  a violent bomb.They campaigned with their dirty ideas against the Martyr' burial in a shrine's vicinity inn the ancestral village of Pathan. In this age of ultra modern civilization they said the imperfect burial according to them was  responsible for a chain of natural deaths of the old people. One  is ashamed when learns about this dirty joke of the century and fears what would happen if the opportunistic westerners would also learn. Let ask this sense less Saint that by acquiring whose calibre he said so?  Does he mean to say  the Muslims vote for the regionalisim? Or if he has an another theory of the earth being under different controls? Mr. Saint, Mushtaq Ahmad Lone never told to make his tomb on the surface and does not need. Because our hearts for the same were occupied at the earliest when Mushtaq Ahmad Lone selected his fore head for:-
Dervaish Khuda Mast Sheriquee Hey Na Garabee Ghar Mera Na Dilli Na Saffahaun Na Samarkand

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