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***Single Muslim professionals from all over the United States are encouraged to attend!***
The Mughal Era was one of the most fascinating and culturally rich periods of South Asian history. The elegance, grace and exquisite creativity of the Mughal culture permeated every facet of society and brought new perspective to existing culture of the time. Influences from that era persist even today.
With the Mughal theme in mind, Dasht Professional Events has organized a Single Muslim Professionals Matrimonial Event to take place in Central New Jersey on Friday, April 18, 2008. All Muslim professionals (single or divorced) who are looking for that "special someone" for matrimonial purposes are encouraged to attend.
VENUE:
Hilton Garden Inn Edison/Raritan Center
50 Raritan Center Parkway
Edison, NJ 08837
(Longwood Hall)
Visit hiltongardeninn.com for location information and directions.
DATE:
Friday, April 18, 2008
TIME:
6:30PM sharp to 10:30PM
AGE RANGE:
25 to 42
COST:
$95 per person (see dashtprofessionalevents.com for details)
EVENT DRESS CODE: *Semi formal or formal attire required* (see dasprofessionalevents.com for details)
There will be a thorough screening process of candidates prior to the event and unique ideas will be utilized at the event to ensure maximum communication between the sexes. All effort will be made to ensure that you get your money?s worth.
The event will include light ambience music, halal appetizers, instrumental performance, dance performance, Urdu/Farsi poetry reading, live raffle, prizes and more.
You will be required to bring your photo ID to the event. The Organizing Team reserves the right to determine candidate eligibility for this event. The Organizing Team is only responsible for the event cost; you must make your own arrangements if you plan to stay overnight at this or another location. Registration fee strictly covers cost of the event itself and excludes transportation/overnight stay, outfit, etc. All payments (including special discounts and rates) are non-refundable unless the event is cancelled for any reason.
Plan ahead and RSVP soon! Limited seating. RSVP deadline is April 5, 2008.
Please contact [email protected] if you have questions.
DISCLAIMER AND CODE OF CONDUCT: Participation in this event is strictly on a voluntary basis. Event organizers and representatives are in no way legally responsible for the behavior and actions of event attendees. This is a Muslim singles? matrimonial event and, as such, all attendees are expected to conduct themselves in a professional, courteous and respectful manner. Event organizers and representatives have the authority and reserve the right, at their discretion, to ask any attendee to leave the event if the attendee is disruptive or conducts himself/herself in a manner that is deemed inappropriate; event organizers and representatives will determine what constitutes ?inappropriate? behavior/action. Any contact information exchanged between attendees is the sole responsibility of the attendees; event organizers and representatives are in no way legally responsible for the outcome of any social, professional and/or any type of interpersonal exchanges at or after the event. Event organizers and representatives wish everyone the best and hope that the attendees find their respective matches insh?allah.
Sophisty
***Make this an EXTRA special event! The more single Muslim professionals at the event, the merrier!******Single Muslim professionals from all over the United States are encouraged to attend!***
***This is a unique opportunity to meet your potential soulmate!***
**Over 90% sold out! Please don?t miss your chance to meet your potential soulmate! RSVP now!***
Dasht Professional Events and Services presents:
Mughal-E-Azam: A Night to Remember - April 18, 2008
Single Muslim Professionals Matrimonial Event
Friday, April 18, 2008
Hilton Garden Inn Edison/Raritan Center
50 Raritan Center Parkway
Edison, NJ 08837
6:30PM to 10:30PM
Age range: 25 to 42
Cost: $95 per person
Please visit dashtprofessionalevents.com for complete details including pre-payment information and/or e-mail [email protected] with questions.
***This is your night to remember! RSVP no later than the evening of April 16, 2008!***
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has added a new journalthis is happening in democratic 21st century in india
Yes, that still happens. in democratic, 21st-century India. Ashish Khetan and Harinder Baweja unravel the chilling story of the murder of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi by top Gujarat policemen and their bid to cover up the crime
DIG Vanzara ? accused of staging other fake encounters ? never bothered to explain why the police couldn?t apprehend Sohrabuddin if they had such pinpointed information about his whereabouts
The horror has returned, just as it does every time the Gujarat government admits to an extra-constitutional killing. First it was Sohrabuddin, then his wife Kausar Bi, then their friend Tulsiram Prajapati. A Muslim, a Hindu and a woman. Life is cheap in Gujarat and the State has been forced to admit to this alarming, nauseating fact.
The bare facts are well known. All three were done to death in cold blood. None was a terrorist, let alone from the infamous Lashkar-e-Toiba. Sohrabuddin was a criminal, yes, an extortionist even, but he was NOT part of any conspiracy to kill Chief Minister Narendra Modi or any other BJP leader. Nor had he, as the Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) would have us believe, come to the state to ?cause terrorist attacks?.
Three senior police officers ? DIG DG Vanzara, Superintendent of Police Rajkumar Pandyan, both from the Gujarat Police, and Superintendent of Police Dinesh MN of the Rajasthan police force ? have, in turn, been arrested for the fake encounters. But, reflective of the reality in Gujarat are the pro-Vanzara slogans that filled the air in the court premises of Ahmedabad?s chief metropolitan magistrate.
This story, however, is not about a state painted a deep hue of saffron but about the rule of law and the fundamental right to life, even if that sounds like an oxymoron. This story is about facts. Facts that fly in the face of the Gujarat government?s fiction. It is the inside story of the truth behind the fake encounters, pieced together from an enquiry that the State tried its best to subvert, despite a directive from the Supreme Court.
WHERE ARE KAUSAR BI?S REMAINS?
Ironically, part of the truth has come from the selfsame Vanzara the sloganeering protestors were hailing. Read this excerpt. It is straight out of the Gujarat government?s Action Taken Report-3, delivered in a sealed envelope to the Supreme Court on April 30 but accessed by Tehelka: ?The custodial interrogation of these arrested persons (Vanzara and company) has led to the disclosure of some very important clues regarding the whereabouts of Kausar Bi? Kausar Bi along with her husband Sohrabuddin was abducted by a team of ATS Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh on 23/11/2005? Both were brought to Ahmedabad and confined in a farmhouse. After the killing of Sohrabuddin, the ATS Gujarat shifted Kausar Bi from the said farmhouse to another farmhouse. The body of Kausar Bi was disposed of a few days after the encounter of Sohrabuddin by burning it near village Illol in Sabarkantha district??
Illol is not just any village. It is Vanzara?s native village and police sources reveal that Kausar Bi?s remains were probably thrown into a well which was then sealed and a wall constructed to conceal it. According to a few men in uniform who are on the side of the truth, Vanzara and Pandyan even arranged for 400 kg of wood to burn Kausar Bi?s body.
Before she was killed, Kausar Bi is also said to have been sexually exploited because it is clear from the Gujarat government?s atr-3, that she was ?disposed of (note the language) a few days after the encounter of Sohrabuddin?. CID sources say the ATS held on to her with the sole purpose of sexually assaulting her. Unlike Sohrabuddin, whose body was handed over to his family, Kausar Bi?s remains are still untraced and the atr-3 says, ?Sincere efforts are being made to find traces of the body (sic) so that the same may be subjected to scientific investigation to establish the identity of the deceased.? It is clear that the couple was killed but how did the ATS abduct them in the first place?
THE CHASE FOR THE TRIO
RED FACED: Gujarat top cop DG Vanzara is at the centre of the scandalous killing of Sohrabuddin and his wife Kausar Bi. He is said to have used the homestead in his native village to put away the last remains of Kausar
Janak Patel
During its inquiry, the CID recorded the statement of constable Ajaykumar Bhagwandas Parmar, personal assistant to ATS sp Rajkumar Pandian. Parmar has narrated the entire chain of events starting from Hyderabad, where the hunt for Sohrabuddin began on November 21, 2005, to his murder on November 26, 2005. His statement flies in the face of the ATS version recorded in the FIR they registered after they killed Sohrabuddin. Parmar says that while he was on duty at around 5pm on November 20, Pandian told him to leave for Hyderabad for a special operation. Two hours later, on Pandian?s instructions, Parmar along with police inspector NH Dhabhi, constable Santram Sharma, constable Gurdayal Singh and driver Jadeja left for Hyderabad in a privately-owned Qualis. They reached Hyderabad at around 8pm the next day and, as instructed, first went to the CISF office and then to the residence of E. Radhakrishnaiah ? a Gujarat cadre IPS officer now posted as DIG in the CISF at Hyderabad ? where they found Pandian already present.
While Pandian and Sharma stayed in the IPS mess, Parmar and others stayed at the CISF compound. On November 22, Inspector Dhabi instructed Parmar to get two fake number plates made that were later fitted on the Qualis. Pandian also sent Parmar to Hyderabad airport to book a ticket on an Indian Airlines flight to Ahmedabad for November 23 in Pandian?s name. When Parmar came back with the ticket, Pandian told him to remain at the IPS mess where he was staying and to fly to Ahmedabad the next day on his ticket. Pandian, along with Sharma, Dhabhi and Jadeja left in the Qualis followed by seven Andhra Pradesh policemen and Gujarat Police constable Gurdayal Singh in two Tata Sumos. Parmar flew back to Ahmedabad on Pandian?s ticket the next day
All these facts have been corroborated by constable Singh in his statement before the CID. Gurdayal Singh also disclosed that the van in which Pandian, Dhabhi, Sharma and Jadeja were travelling, and the two jeeps carrying himself and seven Andhra Pradesh policemen, reached the Bombay-Hyderabad highway at around 8:30 pm on November 22. Pandian then instructed the Andhra cops to keep a distance of two to three km from his van. Pandian also told Gurdayal Singh and the Andhra cops to stop all vehicles coming from Mumbai or Belgaum towards Hyderabad.
The arrested ATS officers received Rs 60 lakh from a marble trader in Rajasthan to liquidate Sohrabuddin. Sources said that the supari was given through a senior BJP general secretary related to the marble trader
Pandian then proceeded with the other Gujarat cops in the Qualis, and the Tata Sumo carrying Andhra cops. He and his men had information that Sohrabuddin, Kausar Bi and Tulsiram Prajapati were travelling in a luxury bus (number 5051) owned by Hyderabad-based MJ Travels. The bus was headed towards Sangli. Pandian and his men intercepted it at around 1:30am on November 23, two km from Tandola village.
The CID has taken down the statements of some co-passengers on the bus and of the driver and other staff. All have testified that a Qualis intercepted the bus and soon a Sumo also reached the spot. They said that two men got out of the Qualis and three men, one carrying a revolver, from the Tata Sumo and entered the bus saying that they were conducting a police checking. Then they picked up two men and a woman and took them away.
When shown photographs of Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi by CID officials, bus driver MG Shaikh, cleaner GJ Chabuk and co-passengers SK Apte, Amit Sharad, Manjusha Sharad and Anjali Apte identified them as those picked up from the bus by the policemen in civilian dress on the night of November 22. At around 2am on November 23, Gurdayal Singh and the Andhra Police personnel in the other Sumo were asked by Pandian to reach village Tandola on the Hyderabad-Sangli Highway. From there they all drove to Ahmedabad. All three reached the Ahmedabad-based ATS office at around 5am on November 24.
PREPARING FOR THE FAKE ENCOUNTER
After reaching Ahmedabad, the couple were taken to a farmhouse. The CID has recorded the statement of one Satishbhai Ramjibhai Sharma of Ahmedabad who said that he received a call on his mobile phone on November 23 from a deputy superintendent of police posted with the ATS, Ahmedabad, ML Parmar, whom he was acquainted with. Sharma in his written statement has told the CID that Dy SP Parmar asked him to arrange for a private farmhouse for a sensitive investigation being conducted by the ATS. Sharma accordingly arranged a farmhouse by the name of Disha Farm in Jamiyatpura village in Gandhinagar, owned by Sharma?s friend Girishbhai Chhotolal Patel.
On the evening of November 24, Parmar again rang up Sharma and told him to wait for him at Koba Circle in Gandhinagar. At around 7pm, Parmar reached Koba Circle in a Qualis, with a white Maruti van behind it. Sharma then took them to Disha Farm. When Sharma, Parmar and the van reached the farmhouse, an employee called Mehtaji was also present.
Sharma has told the CID that on reaching the farmhouse, Parmar and a few policemen got down from the Qualis and the van, and took out a handcuffed man, whose face was covered, and a burqa-clad woman from the Qualis. The policemen then escorted the two into the farmhouse. Circumstantial evidence strongly suggests that these two were in fact Sohrabuddin and Kausar Bi. Sharma further says that two days later, on November 26, the farmhouse owner Girishbhai Patel called him up at around 8am and requested him to shift the woman to some other place. Sharma in turn spoke to Parmar, who sent some policemen to Disha Farm, and the woman was taken away in a Maruti van at around 10am on November 26. The CID has recorded the statements of Girishbhai Patel and his employee Mehtaji, who have corroborated the facts Sharma narrated. The CID in its further investigation has found that Kauser Bi was shifted to Arham Bungalows in Koba on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, owned by a BJP corporator, one Surendra Jirawala.
khanaseeb
you are right muslims will never be united they are more interested in seperation and division between ,shias and sunnis, divided into ethnicity arabs,indian, paki, african and so onthen there is group of educated and illiterate,since you are in medicine please forgive me when i say doctors have their own group and concerns which i have personally witnessed
This case came into limelight cause the victims brother had to ask Supreme Court to intervene, even then there were lot of pressure from those murderers godfather politician like modi(architect of post godhra genocide)when SC came heavily on gujarat government and there was fear that SC might hand this case to CBI then investigation started , hope it ends in justice for the victims
not sure if you know this indian muslim advocacy group which was formed during the gujarat riots in 2002
www.imc-usa.org
khanaseeb
This is happening continously in Gujarat after post Godhra genocide architected by modi and bjp, though the congress before coming to power in center had promised for justice of innocent victims but hadnt done the least , kudos to supreme court for indicting modi and his government, congress sould impose presidents rule in gujarat and put murderer modi on trial