0449hrs:
Today could prove to be the beginning of yet another era in the history of mankind.
It is possible that by as early as next week, we could obtain confirmation as to whether this new era has indeed begun. Or whether it was another false alarm.
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Judging by what emerged over the course of today, my thoughts earlier this morning have a true ring to them.
We learned of the arrest and subsequent detention of Ayaz Siddique Butt at c. 1300hrs today (1pm). Thus was born the hashtag #Release_Ayaz_Butt .
Here's the short interview we took of Ayaz Butt while meeting him in a room used as accommodation quarters by police employees:
He had not been given any written evidence of the charges against him, even though he had been informed by police sources of his impending arrest more than a week ago and even when he insisted to see such while waiting at the police station.
Thus, there was no written evidence of his arrest and in public interest it was crucial that we obtain Ayaz Butt's statement on video, before any opportunity to divert attention away from the actual (yet always deliberately concealed) complainant viz. the Pakistani Army, could be taken.
As such cases have proliferated in AJK over the past few years in particular, especially in the wake of #RightsMovementAJK there is a very familiar pattern to such arrests and subsequent torture, including detention. A list of such co-citizens targeted by the Pakistani Army - through their clandestine agencies - is almost becoming voluminous:
The following list is not exhaustive but certainly a rising trend whereby the AJK police force is 'forced' to arrest their co-citizens on behalf of protecting 'public opinion as unreservedly in favour of the Pakistani State', to give the impression that when the Pakistani State rhetorically and intermittently reminds the world that it supports the right to self determination of the people of the State of Jammu & Kashmir, it isn't at all hypocritical.
You cannot force a people in any given territory to like you, especially when you exploit their religious emotions in order to ruthlessly exploit their resources and give heavenly meaning to your corrupt existence.
1) Lala Sarfaraz in 2023 (deceased in 2024)
n.b. This writer walked barefoot from Dadyaal to Rajhdhani in the scorching summer heat of 2023, in order to secure Lala Sarfaraz's release after he had strongly urged the Pakistani Army to militarily withdraw from Jammu & Kashmir as per UNCIP resolutions via Facebook posts.
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