Daily Diary (DD) - Day 224 of 2026

0705hrs:

We battle on (peacefully & strategically) on a daily basis and have to undergoe plenty of impediments in order to deliver something in writing to you (our worldwide audience) every day. 

One of the sticking points of our people's strategy to bring the Pakistani State to task, is whether we pursue the United Nations for implementation of their long standing resolutions or whether we pursue the United Kingdom for creating this mess in the first place. 

My response to the following Facebook post is one such case in point:

It should be noted that Britain facilitated the entry of Indian & Pakistani troops into the State of J & K without consulting the people & by breaking it's own rules (legal/constitutional) framework for power transition viz. Indian Independence Act 1947. Shifting this matter to the UN under Chapter 6 (non enforcement capability of resolutions) was a clever ploy to deflect blame from Britain. 

It should also be noted that the dilemma of any of P5 veto-ing any fresh resolution is difficult to overcome. Just take the example of Gaza. Getting the United Kingdom to accept its legal responsibility for creating this mess for its own strategic benefit is more practical in my opinion, than taking the UN route. We have UK MPs of AJK origin at our disposal as well as other constituencies where our people's votes matter, as well as over a century of our people living in that country to obtain empathy & solidarity from the UK public at large.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 223 of 2026

0613hrs:

On Day 68 of this pathetic onslaught by the State of Pakistan on AJK, we are much stronger than we thought we would be - under an almost complete communications & commercial lockdown - since the 5th of June 2026.

No doubt this onslaught has brought our people together like never before. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 222 of 2026

1001hrs:

We are intensifying our legal & diplomatic efforts to resolve this pathetic aggression on our soil by the Pakistani State. 

I wonder if the United Kingdom wouldn't mind being divided into 2 or 3 parts with each part being 'administered' by 3 different European countries in their neighbourhood....

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The above is less than half of what I wrote yesterday morning (on the time shown on Day 221 of 2026).

Let me now try and rewrite what I wrote then, before net ailments (purposefully imposed by 'you know who') undid what I wrote. 

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I also wonder if the United Kingdom would prefer a Pakistani style ignorant militarily monopolised economy & society, that thrives on loans from the rest of the world and contracts to kill others, while being unnacountable to nobody except those who provide these opportunities, even that momentarily while the 'loan' is being processed or the 'contract' is being negotiated. 

I think not! 

Then what were the forefathers of the United Kingdom thinking when they deliberately brought this (Pakistani) State into being in 1947? 

These and much more probing questions will have to be answered by the UK government in due course, in light of the killing spree of the Pakistani State in AJK for the past 67 days and what they've imposed on us since colonial Britain orchestrated the invasion of Jammu & Kashmir - by utilising the predecessors of this Pakistani military - almost 79 years ago. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 220 of 2026

2037hrs:

I'm working hard using whatever means possible, to maintain daily contact with the world, despite enduring 65 days of an almost complete communications & commercial lockdown throughout the territory of AJK, thanks to Pakistan's desperate attempt to hang on to this territory despite the amount of water that has flown under this bridge.

Some of the antics that the Pakistani State is conducting to give a sense of normalcy is bewildering to say the least! 

Just yesterday, in Rawalakot city Pakistani Rangers (a paramilitary force that Pakistan have engaged in thousands to suppress the people of AJK) were engaged in enticing people to come and register for flour and other essentials, while taking details of their 'National' ID cards and taking their thumbprint impressions, both of which are supposedly essential for casting a vote! Elections are supposedly due in Poonch division on the 10th of August 2026 (3 days away!) and this can be explained as one form of pre poll rigging. 

Furthermore, today we learn that 4 politicians (2 from each of PPP & PMLN) travelled to AJK via helicopter and both will alternate in campaigning in the 2 districts of Bagh & Haveli! It is bemusing as to whether both parties are collaborating or competing for seats!

It is a fact that on average less than 5% of total voters in Mirpur & Muzaffarabad divisions actually visited polling stations on their respective election dates of 27 July and 2nd August.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 219 of 2026

0608hrs:

I continue to stretch my energy levels at the age of 54, in order to bring you on-the-ground details and/or analysis of this pathetic war imposed by Pakistan on AJK, now into its 64th day of 'execution'. 

We are straining to collect precise and up-to-date data on the human cost of this war, though an almost complete communications black-out is hampering this objective:

Since 5 June 2026, at least:

200 killed (or missing presumed dead) 

1,000 injured 

2,000 arrested

Many thousands more harassed, properties damaged, businesses sealed, FIRs lodged etc.

Thankfully, there is also a dedicated web portal that is logging human rights violations in our territory and this should gradually prove to be an invaluable reference viz. Jammu Kashmir Human Rights Observatory

We are of course using every peaceful means possible to avert this mayhem and our diaspora is as practically involved as we are in pursuing a permanent end to this war. 

Examples of angles pursued:

1) First and foremost, an on-the-ground peaceful rights movement in AJK, which has gradually obtained the support and potential mobilisation of 90% of our population. 

2) Creating awareness and mobilisation (wherever practical) of our diaspora throughout the world and especially in the United Kingdom, using peaceful protests & marches to highlight the plight of our people. 

3) Alerting & informing all relevant human rights organisations (both at home & abroad) of factual details on the ground. 

4) Engaging UK MPs (especially those of AJK origin followed by those parliamentary constituencies where our diaspora's vote is critical). The aim is to utilise them as the most appropriate form of mediation between an un-armed & practically disenfranchised population, up against a neighbouring country armed to the teeth and carrying a perception that they are the sole arbiters of this territory, while enjoying immunity from any form of prosecution for their aggressive intent. 

It is encouraging to learn that Imran Hussain MP (Bradford East) and chair of APPGK (All Parties Parliamentary Group on Kashmir) has not only regularly raised his voice inside & outside parliament but has in fact also written to the Pakistani 'State' announcing his intent to mediate on this crisis. He hasn't received a response yet! 

Meanwhile, this writer is intent on focussing on the United Kingdom's legal responsibility to tackle the unnecessary dilemma that it created (Jammu Kashmir as a territorial issue between neighbouring countries while practically subtracting the people), against the very rules that it created viz. Indian Independence Act 1947.

Given that UK MPs in general as well as the UK government in particular, are not going beyond making generic appeasing statements to both sides while professing to closely monitor the situation, it has become necessary to explore legal avenues to compel them to fulfill their legal responsibility. 

We will begin by framing a petition in an appropriate UK court and if that is not accepted or if that doesn't provide legal remedy, we will explore the possibility of filing an application against the UK government in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, in the Netherlands. 

Simultaneously, we are trying to engage the UK public at large on the prospect of them empathising with our plight (born out of British colonial decision-making) and co-operating with a day's lockdown of the UK, given that we have entered our 64th day of an imposed lockdown. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 218 of 2026

0653hrs:

On the 63rd day of this pointless conflict imposed by Pakistan on AJK, many a positive point has emerged for public & national interest in this territory. It has galvanised 90% of our population to an extent unprecedented. 

We've done the hard work but the easy part of this struggle to restore the 'Right to Rule' is not easy, given centuries of subjugation of our people. 

We all understand the concept of 'ownership' but struggle to implement its criteria. This is now the major battle on our hands. 

Perseverance breeds success if backed by independent research. We will get there. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 216 of 2026

0042hrs:

We have entered Day 61 of this senseless war imposed on us by Pakistan. There is now enough evidence surfacing that the Pakistanis have dug such a hole for themselves that there is no possibility of them getting out of it. 

They will have to withdraw all their 'security personnel' from AJK. No amount of aggression & deception will ever work from now on. 

After killing at least 200 of our people, injuring many hundreds more, targeting through arrests & harassment of more than a thousand of our co-citizens and imposing collective punishment on us all, they appear to be attempting a charm offensive by now adopting flowery language in official press conferences and even using their killer forces in Rawalakot city to offer food & medicine to those they have kept under siege for over 2 months! 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 215 of 2026

0436hrs:

For the past week or so - with a rising level of intensity - I have sensed that I need to now communicate with the world (and especially the UK, both government and people) on a daily basis, as opposed to the week long (and even longer) gaps exercised to date, since this idiotic conflict was imposed on us on the 5th of June 2026.

More so than writing, I sense the need to communicate via video podcast in English on a daily basis. 

If we continue to fail in bringing this conflict to its natural end, I will contemplate engaging with the world (especially the UK) on an hourly basis in due course. Just in this past week (we have entered Day 60 today) we have witnessed over 50 deaths imposed on our people. 

This killing spree is eerily almost representative of all 10 districts of AJK. We've suffered direct & targeted shooting of peaceful protestors by Pakistani Rangers in Rawalakot (Poonch), Mirpur, Kotli, Muzaffarabad & Neelam Valley; while those killed in Rawalakot on the 27th of July include victims from almost every district. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 214 of 2026

0336hrs:

It can be understood on this 59th day of an imposed war by Pakistan to cover up its incompetence to deliver 'governance' to AJK, that an 11 day lapse in daily weblogging is to be considered 'normal'. 

Not only is our net connectivity extremely limited and confined to diminishing pockets of land where we are able to catch signals from the 'enemy country', our normal phone service is also extremely limited, especially in the epicentre of this do or die war in Poonch division. 

Today's weblog will feature an open letter that I wrote to JK JAAC (Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee) given that there is still a gap between their understanding of the critical scenario we all collectively face in AJK and that of this writer. 

Such gaps are inevitable and should be acknowledged as healthy differences between a diverse set of people; with varying levels of expertise, experience, exposure and skill sets. 

This writer understands the immense responsibility on the shoulders of the core committee of JK JAAC and their need to play 'safe' in terms of public narrative. Rather than insisting that they change their narrative from a 'demands based' strategy to an 'ownership-building' strategy - it is more appropriate to regularly convey one's concerns and maintain engagement during these critical times - that are undoubtedly unprecedented in the 78 year history of AJK. 

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The following letter was written on the 26th of July 2026:

Open Letter to JK JAAC from JKA PUBLIC AGENCY

On the 52nd day of this imposed war by the Pakistani State (without genuine constitutional or legal basis) on the land & population of the territory of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, I (Tanveer Ahmed - an independent researcher supporting all public interest endeavours in this territory for the past 21 years) wish to put my concerns and reservations to you in an open, transparent & public manner; as it is most certainly a matter of life & death for #RightsMovementAJK in general, as well as Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee #JK #JAAC in particular.

In my opinion, it needs to be understood that whatever the Pakistani State says or does is a matter of ambiguity and deception. This is true to form of its record as a country since its birth in August 1947.

2 aims of the Pakistani State in this current war on the whole population of AJK are:

1) To totally crush any form of public rights movement in the territory - either through brute force where possible or by deception while using the sacred faith of Islam as a propaganda tool - with particular targeting of JAAC and its sympathisers, who in many estimations has reached 90% of the population.

2) To forcibly integrate AJK & Gilgit Baltistan into the Pakistani federation, in a similar manner to what India did on the other side of the LOC on 5 August 2019.

It is in such circumstances that I have regularly engaged with JAAC since the 10th of June 2026 (47 days ago when we all camped out at Eidgaah, Dreak, Rawalakot, Poonch and where we all remain).

I did intimate, advise & stress to all present core members from the 14th of June 2026 onwards - in written form - that JAAC should under no circumstances engage in direct talks with any form of representation from the State of Pakistan - without credible external mediation - which in my opinion could only be UK MPs of AJK origin, given Britain's colonial legacy and stakes of these MPs in our territory.

I also advised that JAAC should ask our diaspora to explore international legal options to make the State of Pakistan accountable for their unwarranted aggression.

On the 28th of June, in light of local public opinion analysing the prevailing scenario of the Pakistani State's continuous onslaught of killings, arrests and targeted torture of our activists; coupled with the non-commitment of the United Kingdom to fulfill its legal responsibilities: I advised JAAC to abandon their 38 point charter and concentrate on exercising the people's authority (ref. JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #E212423062026 ).

Given that hitherto JAAC had strictly abided by the prevailing (clearly imposed) constitutional framework in AJK, despite it contradicting the 24th October 1947 provisional government declaration (born out of a rebellion against the autocratic ruler), the UN conflict resolution framework, the Pakistani constitution and all generally accepted universal human rights norms. I understood that to be a prudent strategy to focus on delivering basic needs to the AJK population, while avoiding the aggression of the Pakistani State wherever possible.

Now that aggression has come to the forefront of global attention, whereby the Pakistani State proved once again that it is not capable of abiding by its own (colonially crafted) laws, nor is it capable of fulfilling any verbal or written agreements. Rather it is only capable of wanton aggression or deceptive dialogue to try and get it's way.

I thus urged you - JAAC - to adopt a legal & constitutional stance that reflects our status as subjects cum citizens locally and what is confirmed by international law viz. that the inhabitants of this territory are the genuinely entitled, whereas India & Pakistan are claimants to our State, whose legality can only be derived from the local people's reference, without compulsion or enticement.

In this regard, I remind you that we - as a people under siege - can no longer afford that the Pakistani State dictate our defence, communications, currency & foreign policy. Not just because they never abided by any genuine legal procedure to obtain these public policy subjects but that they have abused whatever little trust our people had in them, irrespective of the Pakistani State's self-serving assumptions.

I for one - and I am sure that I speak for many others - cannot return to our homes in Mirpur division or Muzaffarabad division where our lives, wealth & honour continue to remain at the mercy of the Pakistani State.

We must exercise our right to self determination using our own initiative and our entitlement as State subjects cum aspiring citizens of an increasingly globalised world, just as most of the rest of the world has done, rather than naively await for some sort of green signal or non existent certification from elsewhere to protect our lives, wealth & honour. 

Only the people of this territory can guarantee peace in this territory and only the people of Jammu Kashmir & Allied (areas) can guarantee peace in their State. 78 years of regional conflict have proved that neither India nor Pakistan, or even the rest of the world can guarantee peace here.

Thus, I urge JAAC to shift their strategy to an internally designed governance delivery model, that will revive a thousands of years old peace economy, rather than persist with an externally reliant demands based governance delivery model, that will do its utmost to try and kill us to prevent delivery, whilst inevitably keeping our future generations stuck in a conflict economy.

If you all recall my public briefing to JAAC on the 30th of March 2026 in Dadyaal, I did state that we have overcome the prevention of rights barrier constructed by Muzaffarabad in May 2024 and are on the verge of overcoming the prevention of rights barrier constructed by Islamabad (Pakistan), as they have no intention of fulfilling these 38 demands you have enlisted and will turn on you to try and cover their incompetence. The next (3rd) barrier is our own egos which we have to manage in order to drive forward this internally designed governance delivery model, that has taken 21 years of independent research to complete and which requires an internal public contract between each other to succeed. This will prepare us for an external public contract with the rest of the world, the last and final (4th) barrier.

Finally, I urge you to concentrate on restoring our 'Right to Rule' (Haq e Hukmrani) in Poonch division first, where the people's authority is operating effectively in response to the massacre of our people by Pakistani security forces on the 7th & 8th of June 2026 in Rawalakot. Those who can secure their territory can also rule over it.

Poonch division's success will be emulated by Mirpur division and then Muzaffarabad division, just like the beginning of #RightsMovementAJK in 2023 began here in Poonch, before being adopted by Mirpur and then Muzaffarabad. In this respect, I maintain my stance as from the outset (5 June 2026) that we need not converge on Muzaffarabad. It was a capital decided externally to focus our attention on Srinagar. That all changed on the 5th of August 2019 when the joint understanding of India & Pakistan to usurp our State became clear to the world. We also need to change in light of what the Pakistani State is trying to do since the 5th of June 2026.

If we remain stuck on the 2nd barrier (Islamabad), we are in danger of being usurped by Pakistan and they will tell the world that JAAC had no internal plan for governance delivery and that is why they kept on making demands to us, which created chaos in the AJK territory. This is why we had to crush them before integrating this territory into Pakistan.

That is not a reflection of reality in AJK or its people's aspirations & reservations. Let us not play into the hands of the aggressively deceitful Pakistani State.

JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #EJAAC081426072026

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 203 of 2026

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

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(English Translation):

Break these forced bonds

Leave our Jammu Kashmir

Oh UK Government

Finally fulfill your legal responsibility 

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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