By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Coordination Committee for Indian Muslims (CCIM) has condemned arrest of eminent Urdu Journalist Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi by the Special Cell of Delhi Police in the Israeli Embassy car attack case. Kazmi has been writing on Middle East particularly Iran-Israel relations in Urdu media. He was regularly appearing in TV debates as expert on Middleast affairs. Kazmi was picked by the police on Wednesday here in Delhi.
CCIM called an emergency meeting and condemned the arrest. CCIM chairman Mujtaba Farooq, All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat President Dr Zafarul-Islam Khan, Welfare Party of India General Secretary Dr SQR Ilyas, All India Shia Ulama Council leader Maulana Jalal Haidar Naqvi, Muslim Political Council of India President Dr Tasleem Rahmani, Political Secretary Jamaat-e Islami Hind Muhammad Ahmad, Shia Point President Zaheer Zaidi, Senior Urdu journalist Syed Mansoor Agha, National Council of Shia Ulama President Maulana Muhsin Taqwi, Shia community leader Zafar Abbas, Students Organisation of India Secretary Shuaib Shaikh, Association for Protection of Civil Rights Secretary AK Kidwai, Maulana Ataur Rahman Qasmi, head of the Shah Waliullah Institute, Urdu Journalist Muhammad Ahmad Khan and others attended the meeting.
After the meeting, CCIM in a press statement said: “The continuing at random arrests of Muslim youth are not only a matter of grave concern for the community, they are also injurious to the democratic setup of the country. It is a matter of alarm that now a senior member of the Urdu journalist community has been arrested without any apparent evidence or proof. Muhammad Ahmad Kazmi is a senior Urdu journalist of long standing who works and writes in the higher interests of the country.”
CCIM is writing to the Union Home Minister, Delhi Police Commissioner, Lt Governor of Delhi and Delhi Chief Minister seeking their immediate intervention in the case and to stop the serial arrests and torture of Muslim youth.
On 13th February, a car of Israeli Embassy in New Delhi was attacked with a stick bomb, injuring wife of an Israeli diplomat.