Branding a place as terror hub is unfair: Shabana

Azamgarh: Noted film and theatre personality Shabana Azmi is distressed that her native place is in news for all the wrong reasons. Presently on a visit to her native house `fateh-e-manzil` in Mizwa village here, the birth place of her late father and acclaimed `shayar` Kaifi Azmi, Shabana said branding Azamgarh

as a terror hub was unfair . "Azamgarh is the birth place of people like author Rahul Sanskritayan, scholar Allama Shibli Nomani and poet Kaifi Azmi, who were the living examples of communal amity and brotherhood...maligning their hometown Azamgarh as `atankgarh` (terror hub) is saddening," Azmi told reporters. The population of Azamgarh is 50 lakh of which a few may have adopted the wrong path like in any other place, but branding the whole town or district as "atankgarh" is not fair, the former Rajya Sabha member said. "The people of Azamgarh had played an active role in the freedom struggle and the first war of independence in 1847 and this is one town where both Hindus and Muslims had always been living peacefully," she said. Bureau Report