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Pakistan Link n By Mowahid Hussain Shah Hotel Mumbai

Hotel Mumbai” is a cinematic
Advisory Board version of the mayhem infl ict-
Dr Sohail Masood “ed on Mumbai by 10 young
President men allegedly from Pakistan 10
Arif Zaff ar Mansuri years ago, which
ArifMansuri@PLpublications.org brought India
down to its knees.
Editor Th e rampage
Akhtar Mahmud Faruqui started on Novem-
afaruqui@pakistanlink.com ber 26, 2008. Indi-
ans call it 11/26,
Editor Urdu Link & Bureau Chief (Pakistan) as its equivalent to 9/11.
Shabbir Ghori Th e movie itself is
urdulink@yahoo.com technically solid with a h e a v y
Resident Editor Urdu Link Australian component. Set inside
& Director Video Operations the iconic Taj Mahal Hotel, the
Anwar Khawaja movie is menacing and the story-
akhawaja@pakistanlink.com telling gripping, with the plight of
the hostages entrapped there har-
Manager Sales & Advertising rowing.
sales@pakistanlink.com Movie-goers seeking the
“Why?” have to go elsewhere. Be-
Regional Offi ces
reft of it, the takeaway is of a ma-
niacal slaughter house. All of the
YKKB ten assailants come across as func-
ykkb03@gmail.com tionally illiterate boys. All of them
speak and use Punjabi profanity.
Sacramento, CA
Sacramento@plpublications.com It fi ts with the prevailing Indian
narrative that roiling tensions are
San Fransisco/Bay Area, CA Punjab-specifi c, with the Pakistan
Sanfrancisco@plpublications.com Army portrayed as Punjab-centric.
So, India’s threat perception is focal-
New York, NY
Newyork@plpublications.com ized on Pakistan’s Punjab – its gra- April 2019 marks the centena- the mobs that set on unarmed Mus- using voters’ lists and business reg-
nary and military sword arm. Th ere ry of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, lims, hacking or burning them to isters to pick out Muslim homes and
Houston, TX is an underlying insinuation of Pun- which loosened the grip of the Brit- death, and fi rebombing Muslim businesses.” (New York Times, John
Houston@Plpublications.org jab being a hatchery of villainy. ish Raj on undivided India. Nearby homes and businesses.” Judges in- Burns, April 17, 1994).
Signifi cantly, it puts into con- is the Golden Temple, the June 1984 Th e movie depicts Mumbai
Phoenix, AZ text attempts to break up Punjab storming of which under the behest police cowering and paralyzed in
Phoenix@Plpublications.org Bullets don’t
under the hijab of redressing pro- of Mrs Indira Gandhi, caused much the face of the attackers, who only
Ontario, Canada vincial grievances. Th e theory of greater casualties to the Sikhs bar- discriminate. Many were quelled days later aft er special
Ontario@Plpublications.org Balkanization of Punjab to better ricaded inside. October 31, 1984 of the Mumbai forces were dispatched from Delhi.
streamline administrative units has was the day in Delhi when Indira Because of political reasons, a
Letters to the Editor been swallowed by many of Paki- was slain by her Sikh bodyguards. victims were Muslim. holistic scrutiny of terror has not
stan’s gullible and malleable elites It precipitated a killing spree against been undertaken, leading to repeat-
Readers are welcome to express their opinion It recalls the African
in these columns. Please keep your letters without being cognizant of it being Sikhs, initially spearheaded by ed misdiagnoses. Killing of inno-
brief and to the point. Letters without full a precursor to a larger breakup, a là incumbent Congressmen. Sub- saying that “when cents can never be justifi ed or con-
name, complete address, and a daytime
phone number will not be published. Yugoslavia. sequently, many Sikhs shed their doned. Selected presentment and
Also, copies of letters sent to other news- It was no coincidence that distinguishing turbans and shaved elephants fi ght, the omission of material facts puts the
papers are not encouraged. Letters can be
mailed, faxed or e-mailed to the Editor at the main protagonist in the movie their hair. grass gets trampled.” core issue in a vacuum, therefore,
the Pakistan Link Headquarters address was a Sikh, heroically shepherd- Scarce mention is given to the leaving it untreated.
listed below.
Pakistan Link (ISSN 1074-0406) is pub- ing the hostages, especially when killing in Bombay (Mumbai) of at Bullets don’t discriminate.
lished weekly for $85 a year by JAZ LLC, juxtaposed against the Kartarpur least 1,100 people, most of them quiring into the slaughter found Many of the Mumbai victims were
DBA PL Publications, LLC. initiative, which has rattled and un- Muslim, in December 1992 and that “Shiv Sena militants combined Muslim. It recalls the African say-
Periodical postage paid at Anaheim, CA nerved the upper-caste Indian rul- January 1993 by “extremist Hindu with sympathizers within the Bom- ing that “when elephants fi ght, the
and additional mailing offi ces.
POST MASTER: Send address changes to ing elites. group Shiv Sena activists who led bay police orchestrated the attacks, grass gets trampled.”
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to print any advertisement, news, article,
letter or any other material. In case of
any errors in advertisement the manage- n By Dr Aslam Abdullah Since 2010, the world has start-
ment will not be liable for more than the
amount paid for the advertisement to the CA ed taking note of such incidents.
Link. Th us, in the last 19 years, some ma-
Advertisements in Pakistan Link are
placed in good faith. The newspaper is not n one of the most sa- jor acts of violence took place and
responsible nor endorses the contents of cred and signifi cant days they are as follows.
any advertisement. In case of a frivolous
lawsuit, the plaintiff will bear the total cost Oin Christian history, in Oct. 31, 2010: Al-Qaida in
of the suit, including but not limited to the a Buddhist dominated state of Iraq attacked Our Lady of Salvation
Link’s costs and the attorney’s fees.
Sri Lanka, suicide Catholic Church in Baghdad dur-
bombers allegedly ing Sunday night mass, killing 58
Information for belonging to an out- people.
fi t described as Mus-
Dec. 15, 2010: Two suicide
Subscribers lims killed more than bombers from the Sunni extremist
The printing of Pakistan Link is unfail- 250 worshippers and group Jundallah blew themselves up
ingly completed by Wednesday every
week and its copies are handed over to injured hundreds more. Th e US near a mosque in southeastern Iran.
the mailing house for prompt dispatch described them ISIS-inspired and July 16, 2010: Jundallah group
to the subscribers. The Link should the Sri Lankan government called killed 27 and injuries 270 aft er it car-
reach its destination on time if there is
no delay at the post offi ce. If a delay is them local Sri Lankans with ties to ried out a double suicide bombing
occasioned it is in no way attributable National Toweeth Jamath.
to the performance of Link’s manage- TERROR, P9
ment. In case of delayed receipt of Pak- Th e Sri Lankan Muslim com- have to kill them in the name of re- mythological Hindu warrior and
istan Link or missing issues, please con- munity, realizing the seriousness of ligion,” Ahamed said in a phone in- ruler Rama, who has been given the Views and
tact your local Post Offi ce and submit a opinions ex-
“Publication Watch” form. the situation< issued the following terview from Colombo on Monday. status of a god by some of the fol-
statements: “I personally have gone and handed lowers of the Hindu faith. Two years pressed by
“For members of Sri Lanka’s over all the documents three years later, a Jewish doctor gunned down authors and
PAKISTAN LINK Muslim community, it’s no surprise ago, giving the names and details of scores of worshiping people in occu- contributors
articles,
in
pied Palestine. Until 2010, scores of
all these people. Th ey have sat on it.
that local jihadist group National
Headquarters Th owheed Jamath is being blamed Th at’s the tragedy.” places were attacked, vandalized and letters, opin-
P O Box 1238, Anaheim, CA 92815 for deadly bombings that killed Religious places and religious brutalized, sometimes by followers ion pieces,
Tel: 714-400-3400 reports, advertisements, etc
Fax: 714-400-3404 nearly 300 people on Easter Sunday. worshipers are the easiest targets a of rival religions and sometimes by
E-Mail: Editor@PakistanLink.com Hilmy Ahamed, vice president of the terrorist can attack without much the followers of the same religion appearing in Pakistan Link
Muslim Council of Sri Lanka, said resistance. Th is is what the terror- belonging to diff erent sects. and Urdu Link are their own.
he warned military intelligence offi - ists have done for decades. A mob Houses of worship around Th e paper neither shares
Pakistan Offi ce cials about the group and its leaders in 1992 in India demolished a house the world, a place of refl ection and nor endorses them and thus
42 Rehman Court about three years ago. “Targeting the of God under the instigation of po- peace, have been targeted for attack should not be held responsi-
Plaza Square, Off M. A. Jinnah Road non-Muslim community is some- litical leadership that claimed that by extremists. Here are some of the ble for the views/opinions of
Karachi-74400, Pakistan
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