0346hrs:
We are into our 48th day of an unwarranted territory wide communications & commercial lockdown in AJK, imposed by an occupier - as rogue as it is fascist and as ambiguous as it is deceptive - obnoxiously named Pakistan, whereby the "land of the pure" appears to be a clear inference that the rest of the world is impure.
Yet many of us seem to forget that this hate machine of a country, driven by the lure of perpetual conflict and externally extracted loans as an economic model, was deviously created by Great Britain using Muslim majoritarian emotion for its own convenience of future geographic utility, at the cost of millions of local lives in 1947.
The cost of this colonial creation continues to mount in 2026 and we - the people of AJK - are paying for the induced excitement of our forefathers in 1947, many of whom innocently felt that we were coming under the umbrella of our co-religionists; who would ensure our lives, health & wealth would - if nothing else - witness a qualitative improvement.
If only they could see what is happening to us since the 5th of June 2026!
We don't blame them but we apportion a fraction of blame to the United Kingdom for successfully evading their historic, moral & legal responsibility - to borrow 3 adjectives from Imran Hussain MP for Bradford East & chair of All Parties Parliamentary Group on Kashmir (APPGK) - for 78 years.
While camped in our public assembly at Eidgaah, Dreak, Rawalakot, Poonch for 43 days (since 10 June 2026); having previously described this gathering as a sit-in protest - except that we are not protesting anymore - rather that we are now finally planning an alternative future without Pakistan's conflict model of governance to disturb our peace. In this pursuit, we have conjured a new slogan which should encapsulate our aspirations as much as our direction of resolution:
Jabri Naatey Thor Do
Jammu Kashmir Hamaara Chor Do
Eh Britaniya Waalo!
Ab To Apni Qanooni Zimmidaari Puri Karo
..
(English Translation):
Break these forced bonds
Leave our Jammu Kashmir
Oh UK Government
Finally fulfill your legal responsibility
..end of translation....
Having already written & spoken to the UK government on numerous occasions - including even before this latest Pakistani invasion on 5 June 2026 - it is clear that the UK's policy is to continue to evade legal responsibility, which emerged in October 1947 viz. Operation Gulmarg, when it became clear that they broke the very rules they themselves had created for power transfer that year viz. Indian Independence Act (announced on 3 June & passed by the British parliament on 18 July 1947).
What followed was Pakistani troops invading Jammu & Kashmir on the 22nd of October 1947, using the cover of tribal Pathans but importantly being commanded by General Frank Walter Messervy, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistani army.
Britain did not possess the right to forcibly evict the Maharajah (autocratic ruler) from Srinagar by invading our State via Muzaffarabad, before conveniently flying in Indian troops to the former (using coercion of circumstances which they - the British themselves designed - to make the ruler sign a conditional instrument of accession), thereby ensuring both India and Pakistan laid a claim to the State of Jammu & Kashmir bolstered by their respective military presence, even before the people could be appropriately consulted, who of course inherit the State as state subjects, with or without an autocratic ruler.
Thus, applies the local people's reference in all scenarios, without which neither India or Pakistan (or China or for that matter any other country) lay justifiable claim to any part of the State of Jammu Kashmir & Allied (areas), according to international law.
The United Nations complaint mechanism under Chapter 6 (non enforce-able) was also a very clever way of Britain evading responsibility while also gradually cementing India & Pakistan's presence in our State.
One would logically ask the following question:
Was it not more legally (humanely) appropriate to refer to the people before ushering in neighbouring armies into the State of J & K, rather than promising (without any visible evidence of fulfilling) that the people of the State would decide which - if any - country they would want to accede to?
How many references of UK MPs stating in your parliament, that Britain created the 'Kashmir Issue' by depriving the local people of their right to Independence do you want us to cite?
Historic references especially in context of where we are today in AJK, show continuation of coercion under the cover of generic well meaning calls for adherence to human rights conventions and a reassurance that you - the UK - are monitoring developments.
There is a lot that the UK has done to improve the well being of our diaspora there and this writer has most certainly benefited from an upbringing & environment of merit that you provided him. However, this cannot compensate for making our people in AJK (or the rest of JKA) live under the constant coercion of a conflict economy. Especially when sustainable peace in our region can provide far more substantial dividends for humanity at large. What made sense to your forefathers does not make any more sense. If they had the benefit of hindsight, it wouldn't make any sense to our forefathers either.
The UK will have to fulfill its legal responsibilities and there is a lot happening in the UK itself that will ensure you do. We did warn of an impending lockdown in the UK at some stage beyond Day 44 of our lockdown (18 July 2026). This should not be considered a threat or even anything outside the domain of a strictly peaceful movement to ensure you fulfill those legal responsibilities. We will continue to openly engage the UK public at large on our plight and ask them to consider what it may look like to witness such a lockdown in that country.
We are aware that a day's lockdown in the UK - in economic terms - would be more damaging to you than perhaps even 10 years of a lockdown here. We sincerely do not wish for matters to reach such a stage and are doing everything we can to avoid moving in such a direction.
Starting wars are always easier than ending them and coercion always has its limits. The spectrum of what we can do peacefully to restore our 'Right to Rule' is way more extensive than what the Pakistanis can do through coercion here, despite their best efforts.
They haven't left any stone unturned and we will finish today's note by listing the sort of tactics they are using to try and not only crush an exemplary peaceful #RightsMovementAJK , valiantly led by Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JK JAAC) but also integrate us into a debt infested federation. They may have surrendered their assets & resources to the outside world to feed their debt addiction but we - the people of both AJK & Gilgit Baltistan (GB) - will never allow Pakistan to use our respective territories and the resources within them in this manner. This is a form of collective punishment that has already crossed our limits of tolerance.
Here is a list of the types of crimes the Pakistani State is committing to coerce us into their version of hell:
1) A communications & commercial lockdown into its 48th day as a form of collective punishment on the people of this territory.
2) Targeting & maligning the leaders of JAAC including exercising the option to kill them if they resist arrest. Umar Nazir (Founder Member) of Rawalakot was targeted in such a manner and very narrowly escaped death while his close associate Shazeb Habib was killed trying to save him. This operation took place barely an hour after declaring JAAC as a banned outfit.
3) Arresting close relatives of public rights activists and trying to use them as hostages to lure those activists into their custody.
4) Arresting people randomly just to extract bribes out of them, using the lockdown & subsequent coercive environment of fear as a convenient 'stick' to beat people into submission.
5) Shooting straight at peaceful protestors and creating mayhem in society.
6) Shooting injured protestors in hospital and even forcibly taking away the injured as well as those killed to unknown locations whereby they become part of the list of 'missing persons'.
7) Trying to force the relatives of those injured or killed to sign written confessions that they (peaceful protestors) were terrorists and that they were injured or killed in an anti-terrorist operation.
8) Breaking into people's houses and shops at will. Damaging people's property, harassing family members, in certain cases even physically beating womenfolk and emptying shops of all items while also initating criminal proceedings against most - if not all - their victims.
9) Arresting minors and trying to scare them into luring their parents or relatives to surrender. Then also seeking hefty bribes as a condition to release them when public pressure mounts. Such an example happened with this writer's own 17 year son, namely Qutb-Udeen Tanveer.
10) Sealing the business premises of public activists, blocking their ID cards, passports, bank accounts, mobile phones etc. In some cases, doing so even with the children of activists, as young as 5.
11) Preventing essential foodstuffs & medicines from entering the territory of AJK or even from moving intra AJK. Taking hefty bribes to allow such items to be delivered after making such vehicles wait endlessly to proceed, thereby psychologically torturing drivers. Many such drivers have been arrested and tortured in the process, as well as having criminal cases registered against them. There have also been cases of where people carrying foodstuff or medicine for their own use in their own private cars have been asked to pay bribes. Where people refused, those items were confiscated from them and in some cases destroyed or thrown away.
12) Forcing businesses to open in certain areas to provide a perception of a return to 'normalcy'. Same with transporters. In certain cases, they have forced transporters to take these 'security forces' incognito (or.in plain clothes to avoid detection by activists) as a means of using the element of surprise to attack protestors. Such a scenario happened in Baloch on the 14th & 15th of July when they killed at least 7 of our protestors and injured many more.
The list of victims of the above crimes against humanity are in their thousands and there seems no end in sight at this stage.
JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #EUKGVT072622072026
