Demonetisation: Kashmiri Muslim's letter to PM Narendra Modi will silence detractors

[RISING SUN]

Demonetization: Kashmiri Muslim's letter to PM Narendra Modi will silence detractors
Kashmir: The demonetization drive announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 to counter black money and fake currency has been criticized by the Opposition. However, Modi has vehemently defended the demonetization, saying it was done for the benefit of the people. A Kashmiri Muslim has written a letter to the PM, expressing his support to the move.
Afzal Rehman’s letter has gone viral and a must read for those who are bad-mouthing Modi's decision.
Read the letter, which was initially published in theindianvoice.com, here:

Dear PM Narendra Modi
The life of a Kashmiri is unimaginable for the rest part of India. How a Normal Kashmiri, who works hard everyday to feed his family, lives his life amidst the constant tussle between separatists and Security forces, though it is really a sorry state but we have to live with it.

I am a Normal Kashmiri– Afzal Rahman- and I am not from the 2% separatists in Kashmir. I am a husband, a father of 4 and a son of aged parents- And yes I am a proud Indian and a Kashmiri who runs a “Garments Shop” in Srinagar.

Only thing that I think over and over again is to give a good future to my children. Thus, even after so many threats, I asked my elder son to go for the “Police admission Exams” this year. One of my daughter is studying in class 12th, and I am aware how big this year means in her life, Career and Growth.

But last 4 months have been very unsettling. With almost No Business for 4 months and Curfew almost every day. How can a lower middle class man survive without work? Somehow, I managed to feed my family with past savings- but that was not the only problem.

My daughter lost so many days of her schooling, in such an important time of her life. My son was very demoralized with the situation he saw. The youngsters of his age, who were unemployed, were throwing stones on the security forces. They were given money by separatists. But then what an unemployed man can do?- He will do anything to get some money which could feed the aged parents and crying children.

My own so, who was an aspiring police man, joined the gang of stone pelters, without my knowledge. I got to know about it when he was shot on his arm, by pallet gun.

When the tussle slowed down a bit, they started burning the schools in the valley. My daughter’s school was also there in the list of those 29 torched schools.

Our life was totally down and out, neither we could sleep, nor we could eat, and we were not even allowed to die.

But then on 8th November we heard a news on Radio-Kashmir. You took a decision on banning currency notes of 500/1000. The decision scared us further. We had a little money left with us and that too was in the currency notes of 500. And the option of exchange was never with the Kashmiris, due to unrest.

The whole India thinks about Black Money but Kashmiris think about survival. We never thought this decision of yours would give us our lives back, but it certainly did.

There wasn’t any stone pelting on streets, though the forces were there but pelters were not. With in one or two days traffic started moving in the valley. We opened our shops, there were people in the market. We could certainly see some happy faces.

At other part of India, they must be feeling pain standing in lines, but we Kashmiris are enjoying standing in the bank queues, and socialize.

We were worried about my daughter’s exam, but now she went there to take her board exams. And it was not my daughter who took the exam. There were so many other happy faces came to take the exams. It was the highest attendance of students in examination hall this year- almost 95%.

With all this positive happened- We all sat together and started talking about what went well? We came to the conclusion that -These separatists have had only 500/1000 rupee notes which no one is taking now.

I don’t know what rest of India thinks but we in the valley are very happy with the decision.

Yours

Afzal Rahman
http://zeenews.india.com/news/india...etractors-read-viral-post_1952235.html?src=fb
@Levina I think you had mentioned these points few months back during initial stone pelting.

I have some amazing moments store from recent past and would like to share the same. My class mate Kashmiri friends are following in same footsteps. One only uses abusive language on FB while another though not abusive but posts the news which are full of hate against Indian state. Another two are much more decent and they put their points very well but not against Indian state. There was a funny moment when the first mentioned guy threatened me to harm if I enter Kashmir and started abusing me. And when I pointed out that bad and abusive language is not allowed in Islam as its against the common values of human interaction as a normal funny comment, then a girl friend of him asked him not to use abusive posts as people can see the posts, while claiming that it was us who were abusive from nature. I was like what the hell moment. I have never abused anyone except two times in past(including one time in fun). Just wanted to share something from my recent past.

Tagging all of my good friends here. @Joe Shearer @hellfire @Abingdonboy @acetophenol @Ajaxpaul @al-Hasani @Ammyy @Armstrong @Ayush @Battle of Bach Dang River @Black Widow @Chinese-Dragon @COLDHEARTED AVIATOR @GR!FF!N @Hyperion @GURU DUTT @Imran Khan @Irfan Baloch @Jade @jbgt90 @JD_In @lilaspr @manofwar @nick_indian @Rajaraja Chola @RoYaL~GuJJaR @scorpionx @Screambowl @Sergi @SOHEIL @SpArK @surya kiran @zootinali

 

[BlackIndian]

Subsidies,scholarships, reservations and free hand outs are not enough?

 

[RISING SUN]

Subsidies,scholarships, reservations and free hand outs are not enough?

Neither your is clear nor it is decent for Indian or Kashmir people. Please elaborate and avoid posting comments against anybody's religion, faith or belief.

 

[Dash]

Nobody wants violence but some will always be there who creat violence for some reasons. But hey haven't they met their maker?

 

[BlackIndian]

Neither your is clear nor it is decent for Indian or Kashmir people. Please elaborate and avoid posting comments against anybody's religion, faith or belief.

What have I posted against his religion? Kashmiris are laziest people in India who live off Central Government's money.

 

[RISING SUN]

What have I posted against his religion? Kashmiris are laziest people in India who live off Central Government's money.

I disagree, what you state is in general terms but due to corruption what money goes in J&K never reaches the masses. All politician, local powerful people, hurriyat all they divide the money and live off a lavish life behind big walls not known to common Kashmiris.

 

[RAAJ大和]

Thank God at least he has mentioned curfew...

 

[Joe Shearer]

Demonetization: Kashmiri Muslim's letter to PM Narendra Modi will silence detractors
Kashmir: The demonetization drive announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 8 to counter black money and fake currency has been criticized by the Opposition. However, Modi has vehemently defended the demonetization, saying it was done for the benefit of the people. A Kashmiri Muslim has written a letter to the PM, expressing his support to the move.
Afzal Rehman’s letter has gone viral and a must read for those who are bad-mouthing Modi's decision.
Read the letter, which was initially published in theindianvoice.com, here:

Dear PM Narendra Modi
The life of a Kashmiri is unimaginable for the rest part of India. How a Normal Kashmiri, who works hard everyday to feed his family, lives his life amidst the constant tussle between separatists and Security forces, though it is really a sorry state but we have to live with it.

I am a Normal Kashmiri– Afzal Rahman- and I am not from the 2% separatists in Kashmir. I am a husband, a father of 4 and a son of aged parents- And yes I am a proud Indian and a Kashmiri who runs a “Garments Shop” in Srinagar.

Only thing that I think over and over again is to give a good future to my children. Thus, even after so many threats, I asked my elder son to go for the “Police admission Exams” this year. One of my daughter is studying in class 12th, and I am aware how big this year means in her life, Career and Growth.

But last 4 months have been very unsettling. With almost No Business for 4 months and Curfew almost every day. How can a lower middle class man survive without work? Somehow, I managed to feed my family with past savings- but that was not the only problem.

My daughter lost so many days of her schooling, in such an important time of her life. My son was very demoralized with the situation he saw. The youngsters of his age, who were unemployed, were throwing stones on the security forces. They were given money by separatists. But then what an unemployed man can do?- He will do anything to get some money which could feed the aged parents and crying children.

My own so, who was an aspiring police man, joined the gang of stone pelters, without my knowledge. I got to know about it when he was shot on his arm, by pallet gun.

When the tussle slowed down a bit, they started burning the schools in the valley. My daughter’s school was also there in the list of those 29 torched schools.

Our life was totally down and out, neither we could sleep, nor we could eat, and we were not even allowed to die.

But then on 8th November we heard a news on Radio-Kashmir. You took a decision on banning currency notes of 500/1000. The decision scared us further. We had a little money left with us and that too was in the currency notes of 500. And the option of exchange was never with the Kashmiris, due to unrest.

The whole India thinks about Black Money but Kashmiris think about survival. We never thought this decision of yours would give us our lives back, but it certainly did.

There wasn’t any stone pelting on streets, though the forces were there but pelters were not. With in one or two days traffic started moving in the valley. We opened our shops, there were people in the market. We could certainly see some happy faces.

At other part of India, they must be feeling pain standing in lines, but we Kashmiris are enjoying standing in the bank queues, and socialize.

We were worried about my daughter’s exam, but now she went there to take her board exams. And it was not my daughter who took the exam. There were so many other happy faces came to take the exams. It was the highest attendance of students in examination hall this year- almost 95%.

With all this positive happened- We all sat together and started talking about what went well? We came to the conclusion that -These separatists have had only 500/1000 rupee notes which no one is taking now.

I don’t know what rest of India thinks but we in the valley are very happy with the decision.

Yours

Afzal Rahman
http://zeenews.india.com/news/india...etractors-read-viral-post_1952235.html?src=fb
@Levina I think you had mentioned these points few months back during initial stone pelting.

I have some amazing moments store from recent past and would like to share the same. My class mate Kashmiri friends are following in same footsteps. One only uses abusive language on FB while another though not abusive but posts the news which are full of hate against Indian state. Another two are much more decent and they put their points very well but not against Indian state. There was a funny moment when the first mentioned guy threatened me to harm if I enter Kashmir and started abusing me. And when I pointed out that bad and abusive language is not allowed in Islam as its against the common values of human interaction as a normal funny comment, then a girl friend of him asked him not to use abusive posts as people can see the posts, while claiming that it was us who were abusive from nature. I was like what the hell moment. I have never abused anyone except two times in past(including one time in fun). Just wanted to share something from my recent past.

Tagging all of my good friends here. @Joe Shearer @hellfire @Abingdonboy @acetophenol @Ajaxpaul @al-Hasani @Ammyy @Armstrong @Ayush @Battle of Bach Dang River @Black Widow @Chinese-Dragon @COLDHEARTED AVIATOR @GR!FF!N @Hyperion @GURU DUTT @Imran Khan @Irfan Baloch @Jade @jbgt90 @JD_In @lilaspr @manofwar @nick_indian @Rajaraja Chola @RoYaL~GuJJaR @scorpionx @Screambowl @Sergi @SOHEIL @SpArK @surya kiran @zootinali

For what it's worth, I think it was a reasonable decision - not a good one - but terribly badly implemented. It was sickening the way they hedged and shifted every single day, under one set of pressures or the other, pressures of the sort that were born of rank bad planning.

 

[RISING SUN]

For what it's worth, I think it was a reasonable decision - not a good one - but terribly badly implemented. It was sickening the way they hedged and shifted every single day, under one set of pressures or the other, pressures of the sort that were born of rank bad planning.

I agree sir, as I feel though government is trying to be proactive but enough has not been done. Hardship is clearly visible. Though not sure if others have any better options. But that doesn't mean it could have been way better.