Terror strikes in Kashmir : Kashmir loses a poor man’s doctor in Jalal’s demise

Dr. Sheikh Jalal a well-known cardiologist was cast for a role at the international level and had he opted for New Delhi he would have earned bigger laurels as a medical scientist. But he preferred Kashmir to a bigger role at the national level. However, the state lost a doctor who treated the poor. He died after a month-long battle in the AIIMs in New Delhi.

Dr Sheikh Jalal,who was loved by the senior faculty members at the AIIMS when he was simply a student undergoing postgraduate courses in cardiology,opted for his homeland, Pampore-Srinagar simply to serve people in the valley. And for about three decades he served people, irrespective of their creed, cast, region or economic status.

Yes, a number of intellectuals, academicians, poets, writers, journalists, doctors and political leaders have lost their lives in the 23-year long militancy related violence but the valley may not be able to bear the loss it has suffered in the death of Dr Sheikh Jalal.

Dr. Sheikh Jalal died on Saturday at All India Institute of Medical Sciences a month after he was critically injured in a terror attack at his hometown of Pampore in Kashmir. Terrorists  attacked him and his gunmen on July 18, in which two security men were killed on the spot and Dr Sheikh  Jalal received serious injuries.

Hospital administration sources at AIIMS confirmed Dr. Sheikh Jalal's death and said that his post mortem was being conducted by a team of doctors. His body would be flown to Srinagar for funeral rites by an afternoon flight even as some J&K Government officials were trying to arrange a special air carrier.

Formerly Director of SKIMS tertiary care hospital and Head of Cardiology department Dr. Sheikh Jalal had been attacked by suspected terrorists near his ancestral home in Dr. Sheikh JALAL's street, Pampore on July 18. Both of his personal security guards had died in the broad daylight attack.

Dr Sheikh Jalal,was a down-to-earth more of a human being than a medical practitioner. Money was never his love and had it been the case he would have become a multi-millionaire during the his 45 year long active service. One has yet to see a son as dutiful as Dr Jalal who preferred to be by the side of his mother, a widow, to earning laurels as a cardiologist in New Delhi.

Son of a Pampore Dr Sheikh Jalal had achieved eminence by his caliber as a cardiologist. And those patients from Jammu and Kashmir who would visit New Delhi or Chandigarh for treatment to their heart ailments would usually refer those patients back to Dr Sheikh Jalal.

People and politicians in the valley had complete trust in his expertise as a cardiologist. Had it not been the case Sheikh Abdullah would have not opted for Dr Sheikh Jalal’s opinion when he (Sheikh) fell ill in August-September 1982. Dr Sheikh  Jalal spent a number of weeks in the house located behind the Nedous Hotel on the Maulana Azad Road in Srinagar tending to the ailing leader. Though some of the eminent cardiologists from New Delhi and other parts of the country had visited the Sheikh they prescribed medicines only after seeking opinion from Dr Sheikh  Jalal.

Unfortunately he had become victim of what one would call “dirty political intrigues within Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura,Srinagar, where he joined as a cardiologist and rose to become its Director. I have not been able to fathom the reason for being in the centre of one controversy or the other. He was a doctor,a gantleman who was misunderstood by his colleagues, by political leaders and never by patients.

Dr Sheikh Jalal had many interesting anecdotes to say.One pertained to a senior doctor in the AIIMS. .One eminent surgeon, Dr Atma Prakash, had t aken ill during the middle of a night. He used to reside within the faculty complex of the AIIMS. Since he had faith in Dr Sheikh  Jalal Atma Prakash called for the young doctor. Dr Sheikh Jalal administered all medicines that were required to revive his heart. But he died in the morning.

Whe his body was being carried to the cremation ground Dr Sheikh Jalal was one among a big group of mourners accompanying the body. A couple of sleuths of an Indian intelligence agency,who also accompanied the body,were heard by Jalal asking each other “why Atma Prakash had summoned a muslim when there were other senior doctors available for help ?” They went even to the extent of smelling some mischief from Dr Sheikh Jalal.

Alas! Dr  Sheikh  Jalal survived that incident but could not save himself from the bullets of terrorist. His death is a big loss to his wife, mother and children but a bigger loss to the people of Kashmir.

What could have been the reason for unidentified terrrorist to attak Dr Sheikh Jalal ? He was highly gullible. He placed trust in everybody and would open his heart before strangers too.

His mother would be waiting for her son to get up and have “namkeen chai”(tea added with salt and milk) and chappati made of maize flour for his breakfast. Personally I believe that Dr Sheikh  Jalal was a symbol of a man of simple living and high thinking. He did not move out of of Pampore and settle somewhere in Srinagar when he had the option. He had no love for comforts and that is why rustic life suited him.But the gunmen thought otherwise. Peace be to his soul. (KIP)

Abdul Rashid Ghazi of People's league

Front ranking pro-freedom organisation the Jammu and Kashmir People's League leader Abdul Rashid Ghazi who was mysteriously found dead on Thursday in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district may have died due to torture, post mortem has revealed.

Reliable sources said that Rashid was been beaten to death by some unknown persons as his head was bleeding profusely. “It is a clear case of murder, not an accident.”

They said the deceased was returning from Islamabad after attending the condolence meeting of Party Chairman Mukhatar Ahmad Waza’s mother.

According to People’s League members, Rashid didn’t die by accident but has been murdered. “There is no question of accident, we have received postmortem report and it shows death due to torture.” 
Rashid was taken to government hospital Baramulla where his postmortem was conducted around 12 pm, sources said.

A senior doctor from Baramulla hospital wishing anonymity said the deceased has died most probably due to torture as there are visible marks all over his body and abrasion on both knees. “The deceased has suffered grave head injury on the posterior side of right central bone in his head which leads to cardio reparatory arrest resulting in on-spot death,” the doctor said.

Chairman, Peoples League, Mukhtar Ahmed Waza said India has adopted unique way to kill innocent Kashmiris from 6-year-old to 70-year-old. “We don’t need state probe into the killing. As there are countless probes ordered which are altered according to their needs. We demand international agencies to conduct a probe into the innocent killing of Abdul Rashid Ghazi,” Waza said.

He said Ghazi was supporting the resistance movement from 1965 and has worked on various facades. “He has been murdered in a well-planned manner to crush the ongoing movement,” Mukhtar added.

A police spokesperson said we are ascertaining the facts into the mysterious death. “We have registered a case under 174 CrPc and investigation is on.”

He said we have shifted body to the hospital where postmortem was conducted. “One mark of injury has been found on the head.”

According to initial investigations, the circumstantial evidences of the spot suggest that it is a hit and run road accidental case. However police has taken the cognizance,” the spokesperson added.
Meanwhile, Peoples League General Secretary Muhammad Ashraf Vaid has demanded a judicial probe into the mysterious death of party’s senior leader.

On August 11, 2008, Chairman of Jammu Kashmir People's League, Sheikh Abdul Aziz was killed by army while he was leading a peaceful public demonstration against the “economic blockade” in the infamous Amarnath Shrine agitation which witnessed 68 innocent killings across Valley.

Prof. Dr. Sheikh Jalal

Prof. Dr. Sheikh JALAL

India's eminent cardiologist Prof. Dr. Sheikh Jalal died after cardiac arrest in the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on Saturday, a month after he was critically injured in a suspected militant attack in his hometown Pampore, near Srinagar.

The attack occurred on July 18, when Dr. Sheikh Jalal was on his way to attend a condolence meeting, after examining patients for free in his clinic. Both his police guards died on the spot and the assassins decamped with their arms and ammunition.

However, no militant outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack in which his eyes, chest, lungs and other organs were severely damaged. Hospital sources told The Hindu that Dr. Sheikh Jalal developed infection in the lungs which led to multiple organ failure.

Dr. Sheikh  Jalal was Director of the prestigious tertiary care hospital, Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), in Srinagar for three years after heading the Department of Cardiology and working as Dean of the Medical Faculty for over 15 years. It was at the AIIMS, that he had got his degree of Doctor of Medicine in Cardiology in the 1980s.

Until his death, he served as Vice-President of the Diplomate of National Board in India.

The body, embalmed after post-mortem, will be flown to Srinagar early on Sunday. Family sources said the funeral would be performed at Pampore.

Ahmad Ali Fayaz in Srinagar

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/another-eminent-jk-doctor-falls-victim-to-militant-attack/article5034062.ece

Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, along with his wife, visited the AIIMS to console Dr. Sheikh Jalal's wife Masooda Rajpuri, a retired Registrar of SKIMS, a deemed university.

Political leaders and the intelligentsia in Jammu and Kashmir described the death of Dr. Sheikh Jalal as an irreparable loss to the State, while the medical fraternity is shocked. “His contribution to infrastructure development at SKIMS stands unparalleled,” Head of CVTS Ghulam Nabi Lone, said.

Dr. Jalal is the second senior faculty member of SKIMS who has been shot dead by suspected militants in J&K, after the fatal attack on eminent cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon Abdul Ahad Guru in 1991-92.

Dr. Guru, who had returned from Buffalo in the U.S. to serve the people in his State, was shot dead a day after he was kidnapped from SKIMS. Known for his proximity to the pioneering guerrilla group Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Dr. Guru, it is widely believed, was eliminated by a rival militant outfit.

However, the retired bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah, who was Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir in 1992-93 and who later gained proximity to separatists like JKLF chief Yasin Malik, added a new dimension to the episode when he wrote in a book that Dr. Guru's murder was engineered by a government agency which later got his assassin eliminated in a covert operation.

The attack occurred on July 18, when Dr. Jalal was on his way to attend a condolence meeting, after examining patients for free in his clinic

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Agriculture Promotion Boards
Almond Board of California
Promoting California-grown almonds.
http://www.almondsarein.com/

Belgian Endive Marketing Board
Promoting endives from Belgium.
http://www.belgianendive.com/

California Avocado Commission
We can only hope that other product-specific industry associations put as much useful information on their Web sites.
http://www.avocado.org/

California Cherry Advisory Board
Information on cherries grown in California as well as suppliers and postharvest handling .
http://www.calcherry.com/

California Cut Flower Commission
Providing a unified effort by growers to enhance the performance of the California cut flower and greens industry .
http://www.ccfc.org/

California Fig Advisory Board
Promoting figs produced in California.
http://www.californiafigs.com/

California Olive Industry
Current and interesting information about California ripe olives and nutrition .
http://www.calolive.org/

California Prune Board
consumer, buyer and nutrition information on prunes.
http://www.californiadriedplums.org/

California Rare Fruit Growers
Primary focus is on semitropical fruits and uncommon fruits and vegetables.
http://www.crfg.org/

The Leafy Greens Council
Provides market, nutritional, and educational information to consumers, produce growers and produce buyers .
http://www.leafy-greens.org/

Agriculture publications

Africa Sun News
Provides Africa news from over 100 African news sources in many categories, ncluding 'Environment and Sustainable Development News'.
http://www.africasunnews.com/

AGCOM International
Specialists in video production for agriculture the environment and natural resources for marketing, public awareness, training and education.
http://www.agcomintl.com/

California Grower Magazine -
California Grower is a monthly magazine which provides commercial growers of fruit and nut crops in California practical information on growing.
http://www.rinconpublishing.com/

FARMER.BG
Agricultural news and publications in Bulgaria.
http://www.farmer.bg/

Fruit News Feeds
Contains news feeds about fruits and vegetables.
http://www.anyrss.com

Good Fruit Grower Magazine
The orchard of the future will have more trees per acre, in order to generate high early production.
http://www.goodfruit.com/

HorseLover.net
HorseLover.net! The new place on the Internet for horse people with free classified ads, links, forums, news and equine greeting cards.
http://www.horselover.net/

MitraBisnis (AGribiz weekly newspaper)
Mitra Bisnis is a agribiz newspaper from Indonesia.
http://www.mitra-bisnis.com/

Practical Hydroponics and Greenhouses
Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses is a subscription only magazine for existing and intending commercial growers, industry service providers.
http://www.hydroponics.com.au/

The Mushroom Growers' Newsletter
The Mushroom Growers' Newsletter offers up to date information on the specialty mushroom industry in the U.S. and around the world.
http://www.mushroomcompany.com/

Research Institutes
Canadian Crop Circle Research Network
News and Updates. Updated 6.11.06. Links Updated 6.11.06. The Links page has been updated again, including a link banner for CCCRN. Please link to us.
http://www.cccrn.ca/

CGIAR: Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Nourishing the Future through Scientific Excellence.
http://www.cgiar.org/

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Reserach Organization
Australia's national research organization for animal health, developing the country's capability to quickly diagnose exotic (foreign) and emerging animal.
http://www.csiro.au/

Institute for Agriculture and Research Policy
Promotes environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy.
http://www.iatp.org/

Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center - Washington State University
Research, extension, and certification programs that address the concerns of irrigated agriculture.
http://www.prosser.wsu.edu/

Irrigation Training and Research Center
The Irrigation Training and Research Center (ITRC) was established in 1989 at California Polytechnic State University.
http://www.itrc.org/

MolecularFarming.com
This international website is for Students, Farmers and the general Public. It is an information and research resource for this exciting new industry, from PMPs - plant made pharmaceuticals and 'edible' vaccines to GMO biodegradable plastics.
http://www.molecularfarming.com/

National Institute of Agricultural Botany
Supplies consultancy, training, information, contract research and technical services to governments, supra-governmental agencies, agribusiness and farmers.
http://www.niab.com/

The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Ltd
New Zealand's national horticulture research company.
http://www.hortresearch.co.nz/

The Hyperhidrosis Center
Effects of vegetable and fruit products for people with hyperhidrosis.
http://www.hyperhidrosis.us

The Natural Resources Institute
The Natural Resources Institute of the University of Greenwich is an internationally recognised centre of expertise in research and consultancy in the environment and natural resources sector.
http://www.nri.org/

Vegetables
Irish Eyes - Garden City Seeds
Irish Eyes has one of the largest selections of non-treated organic seeds available.
http://www.gardencityseeds.net/

Mt. Laurel Organic Gardens
Providing a weekly delivery of farm fresh, organically grown, Alabama vegetables.
http://www.mtlaurelorganics.com/

Swan Pumpkin Farm
The Swan's Pumpkin Farm is located in Franksville, Racine County, Wisconsin. Growers of Pumpkins offering a wide range of activities.
http://www.thepumpkinfarm.com/

Sydney Postharvest Laboratory
An independent laboratory providing advice and research for the fresh fruit and vegetable industry and associated support services both in Australia and overseas.
http://www.postharvest.com.au/

Today's Market Prices
Includes daily prices of fruits and vegetables from 15 terminal markets and the shipping points as well as growing areas of the USA.
http://www.todaymarket.com/

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