Daily Diary (DD) - Day 127 of 2020

2054hrs:

Let's talk sovereignty today as it fits like hand in glove with The People's Assembly, an internal democratic process pursued by the people in the territory officially described as AJK.

There are 5 types according to Political Science Notes.

I'll just list them here before developing the argument:

1) Nominal Arid Real Sovereignty

2) Legal Sovereignty

3) Political Sovereignty

4) Popular Sovereignty


5) De Facto and De Jure Sovereignty

So in Jammu Kashmir & Allied we're stuck in the transition impasse (from 1) Nominal Sovereignty (Dogra Rule) to 4) Popular Sovereignty (The People's Assembly) and as time passes - 73 years and counting - we're in danger of being swamped into circumstances where 5) De Facto Sovereignty (in the shape of India and Pakistan) is now trying to secure that settlement to De Jure Sovereignty, by using machinations and obfuscation to blur the concepts of 2) Legal Sovereignty and 3) Political Sovereignty, not least by imposing their nationalist narratives on us, exploiting divisions within us and physically keeping us apart with a military line jointly manned by them. 

August the 5th 2019 in Indian-controlled J & K was a big leap in this respect.

Our argument is that we've been subtly bypassed or skillfully manipulated throughout this whole process since 1947. The primary responsibility for this lack of 'due process' in power transition - from rulers to ruled in Jammu Kashmir & Allied - is the United Kingdom as successor to the British Empire.

This was - in a manner - explained in our audio message to the prime minister of AJK yesterday.

Here's some further traction on this point:



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