4/21/09

Sajad Lone

I was watching Sajad Lone's interview on the local channel here a few minutes ago, and was going to write something altogether different, and favourable after reading an article about him in an overseas paper (read the article here) but watching his interview changed my views.  

In his interview, he repeatedly mentioned his stand of not speaking against the NC or PDP during his bid for the Lok Sabha seat. Yet he did not mince any words while speaking against Dukhtaran-e-Millet chief Aasiya Andrabi. He called her an "obnoxious" person. 

In order to discredit Aasiya Andrabi, he repeatedly questioned the interviewer who gave Ms Andrabi the authority to speak her views. In the same breath he called himself a Kashmiri leader. Then could someone not ask the same question to Mr Lone who made him a Kashmiri leader?

Ms Aasiya Andrabi has been a women's rights activist for longer than I can remember. I may not approve of many of her tactics to get her message across and may even disagree with a lot of her messages, but I would not question the fact that she represents the might of Kashmiri women and has a large following among Kashmiri women. To call her names on a television interview, like Mr Sajad Lone did is absolutely reaching a new low.

6 comments:

The Kashmir Center said...

Koshur
I cannot understand what good were you planning to write about Sajad Lone. I cannot find anything good in him. He a shameless traitor who deserves our disgust only. He is a good orator, for which you may have liked him but that is not something heavenly. I can equate this ba...d with only Salman Rushdie. He does not deserve even my hate. He can sell even his mother for his personal goodwill. This lusty shameless brute should be hated not liked in any way.

Koshur said...

Kashmir center
I thought he had some good ideas and that is what I wanted to write about. I am glad I didnt.

But what is surprising is that he argued he will not speak against pro-india parties, yet he has no problem trashing pro-freedom people like Asiya Andrabi.

Ajaz Ahmed Kashmiri said...

You can say one more Sheikh Abdullah is born in the politics of Kashmir.....God knows how many are still in the queue....Truth will prevail in the end.We Shall achieve our goal of peaceful Islamic secular democratic independent Kashmir. ameen.

Anonymous said...

JKLF started the movement and the leaders son was studying in britain - is it with all our great leaders . then why we poor kashmiris are fighting

pro indian , pro pak , whatever you call sarni leaders bache paran nabre sun chur maren sadaken paeth

Dr,Waleed Sheikh said...

@ anonymous
You seem to be a hypocrite. We are Muslims and will be judged by our own deeds and not by the deeds of our fathers or children. One has to decide himself what he wants to do not his father should decide. Allah has clearly said
Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as DEAD. Nay, They are alive, with their LORD, and have provision .sura 3 ayat -169
"FIGHT IN THE WAY OF ALLAH & KNOW THAT ALLAH IS ALL HEARER,ALL KNOWER.Sura-2.ayat 244
You look at yourself what contribution you gave to the freedom struggle and leave others in peace.you talk about our leaders. what more do u want?.Geelani gave his whole life for the Kasmiri cause.Remember how we used to throw stones on him on the behest of NC halqa presedents. Ashfaq Majid,Maqbool Bhat,Abdullah Bangroo,Maqbool Elahi,Sheikh Abdel aziz.vHamid Sheikh,Tariq Sheikh,etc Etc already gave their lives for the cause.yasin malik,Shabbir shah handicapped in jails by relentless and brutal interrogations by

Anonymous said...

@ Waleed

That is what I am saying why our leaders don't allow their family to be part of it - why they keep them away from this struggle - we need to think over it. You are not aware of partied shabir shah and yasin malik has with indian officers - that is other part of story .
Their Kids are not part of this struggle since they do not believe in it and that is what makes the struggle weak and till now we have achieved nothing - Geting independence from India a poor country of slumdigs was not difficult provided our leader ever worked for that instead on making their bank balances and having their kids safe at distant locations

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