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Thursday, Jan 05, 2006

Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh - Hyderabad

`Why do you wreck our lives by orchestrating violence?'

Staff Reporter

Yazdani's father pours out his anguish at interface between kin of suspected ISI-backed terrorists, police You don't know the difficulties I have gone through to bring you up. Am I living to face this humiliation now? cries out mother of an alleged terrorist

FATHER'S AGONY: Ghulam Mustafa, father of Ghulam Yazdani, a suspected ISI agent one, breaks down at an interactive meeting with Additional Commissioner, Crimes, Rajiv Trivedi in Hyderabad on Wednesday. - Photo: Mohd. Yousuf

HYDERABAD: Scripting terror from abroad may be child's play for Gulam Yazdani, one of the accused persons in recent suicide bombing case at the Task Force office.

But back home here, it's broken hearts and tears for his father Mustafa, a Government school teacher, suffering from cancer. "Anyway I am going to die in a year or two. Come son, join us as a reformed man to make our lives peaceful at least in the fag end of my life," Mustafa appealed to Yazdani.

`Surrender immediately'

At a first-of-its-kind interface between family members of suspected ISI-backed terrorists and the police, Mustafa called upon his son to surrender himself. Yazdani is believed to be operating from Gulf countries.

"I am sick. Your mother is also not well. Why do you wreck your and our lives by orchestrating violence? Please stop this crime against our country," he requested through the media.

Recalling how strict he had been in bringing up Yazdani, the teacher said he used to scold him for not getting cent per cent marks even when he scored 97 out of 100 in maths. He wanted his son to be an engineer and got him admitted to Little Flower Junior College.

According to Mustafa, one of his son's friends who was not doing well in studies subsequently became an engineer and was working for Wipro now.

Moving appeal

Compared to all of them Yazdani had much bright future and could have even got a job in the best companies in America, his father felt.

The plea of Hafeeza Begum, 55, mother of Shaheed, an alleged terrorist operating from Bangladesh, was even more moving. "My son... you don't know the difficulties I have gone through to bring you up. Am I living to face this humiliation now?" she cried.

Shahed's father Wahed, apparently dejected, said what his son was doing from abroad was not good for the family and country. But Shahed's younger brother Majid had something different to say.

He charged the police with harassing his aged parents for "something allegedly done by their son living abroad."

He complained to city Additional Commissioner Rajiv Trivedi, who organised the meeting, that the police seized two computers belonging to his employer and never returned them.

"They accused me of making `hundi' transactions which I never did," he said.

Assuring to examine into his allegations, Mr. Trivedi made it clear that he would extend cooperation to the alleged terrorists if they surrendered. But the consequences could be different if the police caught them first, he said.

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