Daily Diary (DD) - Day 152 of 2024

2316hrs:

Settling in but still many an hour in the day can be spent better. I couldn't sleep till c. 0500hrs and thus waking before 1100hrs was difficult.

A significant positive today was that we were able to revive our weekly 'Awaami Adaalat' or 'Court of the Public' at Jammu Chowk, Sehnsa after an enforced absence of 3 weeks:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 151 of 2024

1735hrs:

After a false start on the day before yesterday, I'm now firmly back in my groove 21 days after that epoch-changing dawn raid at my home by AJK police in the early hours of the 9th of May (2024).

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I've been waking up at c. 1000hrs almost every morning since that day but this morning, I've managed to bring it down to 0800hrs. Obviously, I need to work harder to bring it down to the optimum of 0500hrs.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 150 of 2024

2333hrs:

Settling down....a lot to do....mapping the tehsil (subdivision) of Sehnsa.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 149 of 2024

2029hrs:

It has been precisely 20 days since I last sat at my desk. 7 of those days were spent in Kotli jail. 

The point is, when a rhythm breaks, it takes time to re-establish it.

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We received our first and only response to date in reference to the alert to the 'international community' sent out on the 5th of May:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 148 of 2024

2316hrs:

Another day of protest. 2 hours at the mercy of the sun but the dedication of the public of Sehnsa is unwavering. 

Here's our Facebook offering for the day:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 147 of 2024

2318hrs:

Back in Sehnsa, preparing to sleep for the first time in my bed since that ridiculously ill-fated morning of the 9th of May, when my bed was surrounding by more than a dozen policemen, without notice or due legal procedure.

Thankfully, it is not only my world that has changed. 

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 146 of 2024

2333hrs:

Encountering very weak connectivity today. Putting up with a lot as it is. Change is driven by such conditions precisely.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 145 of 2024

2054hrs:

Out and about. To and fro from Dadyaal to Mirpur. A lot is brewing and it all needs to be consumed, then digested before one can lay solid public policy prescriptions for such unprecedented conditions in AJK.

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Our online petition has finally reached its first milestone of a thousand signatures. We still have a long way to go:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 144 of 2024

0000hrs:

I missed Day 143 by a matter of seconds...

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 142 of 2024

2313hrs:

We motor on in Mirpur. Public momentum is also intensifying...