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By Tanveer Jafri
The killing of Osama Bin Laden in a raid by the US Navy SEALs in Abbottabad, near Islamabad did not only widen the rift between the US & Pakistan, but also exposed the true nature of Pakistan’s state policy vis-à-vis terrorism. Pakistan has almost lost its credibility as a nation, as on one side, it is apparently standing behind the US in its ‘War on Terror’ campaign and getting billions of dollars in aid for ‘combating terrorism’, while on the other end, it is using that aid money to nurture terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan et cetera and their masterminds. Even after the killing of Osama, hundreds of dreaded terrorists and most wanted international criminals are hiding in their safe havens in Pakistan. The extent of protection provided by the state of Pakistan to these terrorists was well exposed by the statements of one of Osama’s wives, who admitted that Osama was living with protection in Pakistan for years.

The nose-diving of the relations between the US and Pakistan after Abbottabad operation is evident enough a proof that Islamabad couldn’t convince Washington that it was unaware of the presence of Osama on Pakistani soil. It can be said that Pakistan’s Army, government and the policies of its rulers were entirely responsible for this series of events. Instead of accepting its responsibility, Pakistan blamed the US for “violating its sovereignty”. No doubt, any such act by the US or any other country should be treated as a violation of sovereignty. But when it’s about the ‘War on Terror’ and a target like Osama Bin Laden, the excuse of sovereignty just doesn’t hold water. Even after an year of Operation Geronimo, Pakistan has not been able to win over the world on how Osama was living freely in Pakistan, elusive from the eagle eyes of its Army and the ISI.

Now, Pakistan is faced with a déjà vu situation. America has slapped a $ 10 million bounty on the head of another notorious terrorist Hafiz Saeed, who is known for spewing venom and hatred against the US and India. Similar amount of money has been announced for providing information leading to arrest of his brother-in-law Abdul Rahman Makki. Along with these two, many of their ‘colleague’ terrorists are also in that list. After this announcement by the US, both the Pakistan government and Hafiz Saeed are speaking the same language. Both are calling this step wrong, illegal and baseless. They say that Washington doesn’t have any evidence regarding Saeed’s involvement in any terrorist activity. While defending himself from this “American propaganda”, Hafiz Saeed calls himself a great “social worker.” He claims to operate many schools, madrasas and hospitals across Pakistan.

Even assuming that Hafiz Saeed has not been physically involved in any terrorist activity, his crime of provoking and misleading common Pakistanis against India, America and non-Muslims is no less severe. The lone terrorist caught alive in 26/11 Mumbai terror attack Ajmal  Amir Kasab has admitted that he had been taught, nurtured and groomed by none other than Hafiz Saeed. Saeed has been heard a number of times saying, “When the US couldn’t fight us in Afghanistan, India stands nowhere.” It’s strange that the government of Pakistan is refusing to act against such a despicable person. Recently, when Pakistan decided to grant the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) clause, Hafiz Saeed opposed this decision tooth and nail and organized huge rallies in many cities of Pakistan against this peacemaking step with India.

Lately, a new umbrella organization named Difa-e-Pakistan Council, encompassing most of the terrorist organizations, has been formed. The chief of this organisation is Hafiz Saeed himself. To make people understand, its name has been kept ‘Difa-e-Pakistan’ i.e. ‘to protect Pakistan.’ But the reality is completely different. All these terrorist organizations want to takeover the control of Pakistan and its nuclear weapons. There are two factors driving this thinking. Firstly, they don’t want the Afghan Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban and Al Qaeda to do this before them. Therefore, all Pakistan-based terrorist organizations have come together so as to resist any interference from any ‘outsider’ terrorist group. Secondly, by capturing Pakistani nukes, they want to deter the US and India so that they can’t think of indulging into any adventure against Pakistan. The mastermind behind Difa-e-Pakistan and the thinking underpinning this organization is none other than that of the most wanted terrorist Hafiz Saeed!

Talking about Hafiz Saeed being a threat to Islam, it is just because of provocative and hateful speeches and sermons of such godmen that unemployed Muslim youth get attracted towards terrorism. They become suicide bombers either for money or for the sake of ‘heaven’.  When such mislead youth execute such a heinous act of terror in any part of the world, they put another stain on the peaceful religion of Islam as well as the Muslim community. When the terrorist masterminds like Hafiz Saeed are faced with their end, they start calling it a “conspiracy of the West against Islam.” Osama used to do the same. Before being apprehended by the American forces, Saddam followed the similar tone.

It’s necessary to carefully listen to each & every word of people like Hafiz Saeed and understand the objectives behind what they say. Besides, Pakistani establishment should also brood over the fact that the terrorist whom it is inadvertently favouring in the name of ‘sovereignty’, is a terrorist in the cloak of a godman, and is no less dangerous than Osama. If Islamabad doesn’t change its stance, it would have to face the repeat of Abbottabad & Pakistan will again get notoriety as a ‘terrorist state.’

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/04/pakistan-in-a-catch22/

By Oken Jeet Sandham
The issue of illegal immigrants in Nagaland is not new. This has been there since long time back. The influx of illegal immigrants had been time and again discussed in many fora and this writer himself had attended in many such fora. In all these fora, participants expressed their major fear that this influx of illegal immigrants would destroy their demography one day. And today, the reality is the survival of the very local people is under serious threat and these so-called illegal immigrants started indulging in all sort of heinous crimes. They had scant respect for the married couple even.

Sadly, this dangerous trend started spreading wantonly without much hindrance either from the locals or local administrations. And innocent citizens have been watching helplessly to all these unwanted developments over the years. The civil societies and local administrations were caught napping. Then hurriedly, whenever any heinous crime was committed by these so-called illegal immigrants, we would wake up and rush to the issue without much strategy only to find that most of these people possessed Inner Line Permits (ILPs). Unfortunately, after some time, the heat would fast subside till such time a new heinous crime was committed by these illegal immigrants.

The checking of ILP defaulters in the state may not be that difficult because most of these non-locals staying in Nagaland doing business activities had ILPs issued by the local administrations. We have mainland Indians like Biharis, UPians, Keralites, Marathis, Tamilians, etc. They would definitely have ILPs, and perhaps a very negligible number of them would not have ILPs. But they are not the issue as they didn’t indulge in crimes and their ILP case can be solved.

But the complication came up when we started checking ILP defaulters among the Muslim communities. Many of them were genuine Indian Muslims, while many were illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Interestingly, most of them again have possessed ILPs issued by the local administrations. But those of ILP defaulters or so-called illegal immigrants would not be found in towns and cities. They would smartly come to towns and cities to commit crimes and return  to outskirts of towns and cities or even interior nearby villages to avoid any police arrest. It is also wondering whether police had really checked about the ILP status of any of such non-locals when they made any arrest of these non-local criminals.

The problem here becomes more compounded as these so-called illegal immigrants possessed domicile certificates issued by the Assam’s local administrations. And when these people of doubtful integrity have produced all the documents required, the local administrations here in Nagaland have absolutely no way to object to their ILP applications. Besides they could easily impersonate as Indian Muslims as they could fluently speak Bangla and Hindis.

Yet, the grey area, which has literally become a threat to the state, is the administration without properly scrutinizing the documents of these people of doubtful integrity simply issued ILPs to them. Worse, they indulged in issuance of Temporary Permits (TP) wantonly to many of such people of doubtful integrity. This writer had come across on many occasions that the Muslims after entering Dimapur from across the border would meet some officials in ADC office, Dimapur (Before ADC was not upgraded to DC status) and under the pretext of meeting with some of their relatives at Kohima or elsewhere would request EACs and SDO© for TP. In almost all the cases, these officials simply issued TPs under their letter heads without checking their identities. So once the officials under their letter heads allowed these non-locals of doubtful integrity to reach Kohima or elsewhere, it became a license for them to do as they liked. And there was no question of detecting these people again, because there was no mechanism to detect them.

Another shocking trend is there are lots of ILP racketeers going on in the State. This has largely added to the already fragile situation in the state.

It will be certainly wrong to say that all the criminal activities are committed by the Muslims but it is largely true that majority of the crimes are committed by the Muslims.

While discussing about the illegal immigrants, we also should not forget that there are thousands of other non-locals of other origins—like Bhutias and Tibetans. These people have largely succeeded in business ventures in the state. At least in Dimapur and Kohima, they have done exceedingly well in business sectors. The good thing of these people is they don’t indulge in crimes.

When we talk of genuine mainland Indian settlers in Nagaland like Biharis, UPians, Keralites, Tamilians—they were also hardly heard of committing any crimes. We don’t hear that a Bihari coolie committed rapes in Nagaland. A coolie will live as a coolie and die as a coolie. That’s it.

One will be surprised to know that even some of the Muslims landed in Andaman and Nicobar Island had in their possession domicile certificates issued by Assam administrations. So also Muslims going to Dubai and elsewhere as job seekers had similar domicile certificates issued by the Assam local administrations. But the fact is if one goes to the Office of the Regional Passport Officer (RPO) at Beltola, Guwahati, during office hours, one will see the majority of the passport applicants are all Muslims who are claiming to have all domicile certificates issued by Assam’s local administrations.

It is sad to say that majority of the so-called illegal Bangladeshis staying in Nagaland have domicile certificates issued by the Assam’s local administrations. As such, it is largely impossible for the administration in Nagaland to say that these people are illegal immigrants. So the administration has no option but to issue ILPs to these so-called illegal immigrants if they applied for.

Most of the illegal immigrants in Nagaland are not mostly from mainland India. 95% of them in Nagaland are coming from Assam claiming to be the banafide citizens of that State (Assam). If the size of the population of these illegal immigrants in Nagaland is from Assam and not from mainland India, then the matter is questionable. How can Assam have such a huge population of illegal immigrants spilling over into other parts of the region unless they had infiltrated from across the international border?

The long stretch of Assam forest bordering Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh has over the years disappeared and been systematically occupied by the illegal immigrants. The trouble is most of these illegal settlers are well equipped with valid land holding documents issued by the Assam administrations. Sources say most of the State`s reserved forest in the border areas have vanished and its occupied by the illegal immigrants and not by the real Assamese people. The Nagaland Government often alleges that these illegal immigrants have even occupied the Disputed Area Belt (DAB) that led to frequent border skirmishes.

Various intelligent agencies had been warning of serious consequences if immediate attention was not paid. Unfortunately, these illegal migrants have been given legal protection with resident certificates, pattas, etc. for narrow political mileage. As a result, the real Assamese people have been reduced to minority in most of the border districts and they are now voiceless.

In spite of these developments, there could be still thousands of illegal immigrants in Nagaland who might not have any documents. And to screen these people would not be that problem but they would not come out as and when any drives of detecting illegal immigrants took place. One drawback is such drive is momentary and it only happens when heinous crimes are committed by these so-called illegal immigrants. And logically speaking that those whose intention was to settle in Nagaland or elsewhere for long term plan would hardly indulge in any crime.

Another serious drawback is once these so-called illegal immigrants are detected, where to deport them in the absence of any pact for deportation with any country. Plus this is not the state subject either. So we could only push them if detected at the most to Assam border.

It may be mentioned that the powerful All Assam students Union (AASU) had launched a bloody campaign to push Bangladeshis back to their land. Indigenous people feared they could be reduced to minority in their own land massacred thousands of Bangladeshis, including women and children, across the state (Assam).

The Government and the students’ union signed a pact in 1985. Interestingly the Clauses on the deportation of foreigners have still not been implemented.

There is no shadow of doubt that the unabated influx of illegal Bangladeshis in Assam has not only affected the demography of the state but also the entire region, becoming a serious threat to the survival of the region’s people and country’s internal security as well.

We should also know that region`s economic underdevelopment coupled with Center`s prolonged negligence and the continuous insurgency and the chasm that existed between the people of the region and the mainland people are some of the reasons giving room to the illegal immigrants and outside elements to exploit to their maximum advantages.

There is certainly genuine mainland Muslims in the region like Tamils, Keralites, Bengalis, Punjabis, Marwaris, etc. But the mainland Muslims will have least interest to come and settle in the region and their influx is out of question.

Even if the local NGOs or for that matter student bodies tried to check these non-local people, the mission was tough because most of them would have been well-equipped with lot of documents including ILPs. And once they were found with these documents, they were not only allowed to stay in the state but also shown as Indian citizens legally. So knowingly, we are reduced to helpless creatures. Yet, to identify the illegal Bangladeshis will not be very difficult once the citizens are properly educated about their natures. Assam has larger role to play in solving illegal immigrant issue and the actions taken there will have maximum impact on other parts of the region. If Assam fails, there is no point for other States in the region to think of. Because most of these supposed to be illegal immigrants who are going to other States of the region are well equipped with domicile certificates issued by Assam administrations.

And in Nagaland, when the NGOs were trying their best to check the menace, the administration would start challenging them that it was not their job to check illegal immigrants in the state. We hardly heard that administrations launched any drive to check illegal immigrants or ILP defaulters. But of late very unusual development occurred that pre-paid mobile numbers in Nagaland would be banned saying that 90% of the crimes were committed by pre-paid mobile issuers. I certainly believe that these illegal immigrants who have been committing all these crimes must be pre-paid mobile users and if the 90% pre-paid mobile users were indulging in committing crimes in Nagaland, then certainly, the population of these illegal immigrants in the State must have reached a dangerous point.

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/04/illegal-immigrant-issue-a-threat-to-future-survival/

By Gyanendra Ningombam
Coaching which is always correlated with physical education and sports science is all important on which the entire spectrum of development of a player revolves around. But, in the Manipur majority of coaches, trainees and officials are neither physical in concept and looks nor do they genuinely spread the gospel of education among players.

And add to it, bulk of persons connected with Hockey, the lovely National Game, being far from sporting and possessing no move than superflores knowledge of sports medicine, the systematice slide continues unabated. The situation again worsens because professional coaches and trainers do not try to explore far reaching changes of coaching pattern in the modem Hockey. They never try to enhance their experiences duly indicated by FIH and other wing confederations from time to time instead they sit idle loving to talk and often talking tall. One renown sports personality deeply associated with physical education and sports medicine narrates – If talks and holding seminars or meetings could being players in Indian Squad, Manipur State would then grab all players in the Indian Squad. Truly, the idea and concept behind holding the very kind of conference or work out is indeed very useful provided decision taken are fully implemented. And there is thrustfull follow up on all matters discussed and debated.

Before discussing present coaching method incoperating with physical education and sports science there is urgent need to undertake a survey as to what is the level of coaching style and pattern in the state. Frankly speaking, in Manipur coaching method in Hockey is just considered to be obsolute. This main reason is that most of the trainers are not sufficiently educated and they have been unable to keep pace with far reaching changes that have been taking place in the mythology of coaching. To Manipur coaches, running with a ball with a stick at one`s hand, is a prime consideration. They bother or concentrate only on technicalities concerned with technic of Hockey. For there, I think, this is the be all and end all. They are still failing to realise that the technique has to be blended with sports biology, which play a very important role in conditioning, evaluation, and adaptation of organism to the stress of training loads. You know, in modern Hockey it is essential for a player to be physically fit as a fiddle and only when a player is on top physical condition can he transmit message to his mind for performance in highly competition. Utility and usefulness of biology with sports science have been fully realised by modern coaches worldwide. But is a sad story in this state, Where despite availability of sports medicine experts., not much heed is given to it by the coaches. Besides coaches are still lacking far behind the concept of coaching management

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/04/coaching-method-in-hockey-in-the-state-extant-to-be-obsolute/