1148hrs:
It was a busy and anxious night in AJK, 'targeted' Indian air strikes have killed a number of our civilians. We are trying to count and confirm the number of casualties.
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Obviously a video in Urdu and accompanying text in English was due by this evening. I don't think we can be any more categoric than as follows:
Message for #Pakistan :
We want the #PakistaniArmy to begin withdrawing its troops from #AJK as soon as possible and repatriate our citizens who work in their army.
We have had enough of this poisonous #2NationTheory farce - conjured up by some clever #British colonial mind to orchestrate perpetual #DivideAndRule - knowing intimately that many emotional #Muslims will be forever fooled by its deceitful allure but which has absolutely no basis in the global ethos of #Islam . Such theories have promoted much ignorance in the Muslim World as well as amongst their diaspora living in the world of the #InternationalCommunity .
Message for #India :
Your presence in #Jammu #Kashmir & #Allied (areas) is conditioned by the local people's reference and no amount of stick (military repression & indefinite incarceration) or carrot (sending plane loads of money to distribute to the #KashmirValley or free government jobs) can ever enable you to bypass that.
You have - in back door engagement with Pakistan and the 'international Community' - conveniently shielded yourself from a legal contest on a neutral forum with the aspiring citizens of this territory. Neither you nor Pakistan or the 'International Community' can deliver peace to this region. The local people can and it is their prerogative, not yours.
Message for the #People of #JKA :
We need to take responsibility to convert our #water resources from banes to blessings. That won't be possible without geopolitical neutrality.
All sensible and intelligent communities in the world choreograph their own #PublicPolicy to maintain the life, wealth and honour of their co-citizens. This is even more existential for us as we inhabit and have inherited the most precious territory in the world. We simply cannot afford to side with any power - big or small - regional or global - Muslim or Non-Muslim - East or West.
India and Pakistan need world class #WaterManagement to ease the legitimate concerns of their people but they have been pre-occupied with foisting their own respective 'nationalist narratives' down our throats - with the barrel of a gun or with sweet rhymes - that have equally proved lethal beyond correction.
They've proved irresponsible and are locked in a #ConflictEconomy with the 'International Community'. We can deliver sustainable peace to this region and unlock its economic potential amongst other tangible benefits, if we can fulfill the technical requirements for ensuring our water reaches every citizen of theirs, in the right quantity and at the right time.
Further reading:
#AJKAgenda2023
https://tanveerandkashmir.blogspot.com/2023/07/daily-diary-dd-day-210-of-2023.html?m=1
JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #E221707052025
The Urdu video explanation of the above English note can be accessed
here .
