Daily Diary (DD) - Day 159 of 2020

2315hrs:

I think Sunday will always be a busy day, for the rest of my life.

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First of all, let's be aware of censorship in our midst. It does appear that the Indian government has blocked JKTV's Facebook page in most parts of India:

For those of you who cannot read the caption in the FB post above:

JKTV Facebook Page Blocked in India by Facebook.

Worldwide Protest against Facebook's censorship in Kashmir and JKTV page blocking on the request of Indian govt to kill independent Kashmiri Voices.


#JKTV the Voice of The Voiceless

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From Indian repression in Jammu & Kashmir to Pakistani repression in the same:

Iftikhar Hussain leader of KNM #بے_قصور_بابا_جان pic.twitter.com/r2UIfhf2fk

— Ashfaq Kashmiri (@AshfaqKashmiri8) June 7, 2020

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This was also on the JKTV menu today and it couldn't be missed. Two legal stalwarts - both originating from Jammu Kashmir & Allied - one a 74 year old Kashmiri Pandit who retired as Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court while the other was a 87 year old former Chief Justice of the High Court in AJK.

Welcome to the thoughts of Markandey Katju and Abdul Majeed Maiik respectively:




Two observations:

In general, I agreed with most of what Justice Abdul Majeed Malik had to say as opposed to what Justice Markandey Katju had to say, except on 2 points.

1) The British were foremost responsible for the partition of India based on religious identity. Both the Muslim League and Congress were complicit in their own ways.

2) Azaadi or freedom cannot and should not be merely parroted for attention. There must a method, a narrative and a practical plan for governance that will provide our detractors a rationale for accepting our stance. 

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Finally, it may be worthwhile to note that we have already reached our eighth week of a regular weekly programme (Every Sunday at 9pm AJK time) in pursuit of defining our internal narrative in AJK:



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