Daily Diary (DD) - Day 310 of 2026

1746hrs:

Day 155 and we are beginning to notice that the Pakistani State is finally beginning to regret what they have got themselves into. Their 'Big Operation' to try and retrieve public space in Rawalakot has opened up a whole new set (can) of worms, that they foolishly (true to form) ignored hitherto.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 309 of 2026

1354hrs:

Day 154 and today was perhaps the Pakistani State's biggest attack yet, on the peaceful protesters at Rawalakot. Their 'Big Operation' (so many months in the waiting) was a damp squib as we suspected all along. Yet damp squibs also have a cost. We have lost at least 7 of our co-citizens (most of them children hit in a drone attack at home) and have at least 17 injured at the time of writing (timeline indicated above).

This 'Big Operation' began at about 0530hrs this morning and continued till about 1130hrs (6 hours). They began by taking over the supplementary sit-in protest at Bus Terminal/Matiyaal Mehra when the public there was in short stock but they had to escape when throngs of the public converged on the sit-in protest less than a couple of hours later, from as far away as a radius of 40 kilometres. The Pakistani security forces had seemingly adopted a fresh resolve on Tuesday (2 days ago), derived from a pep talk by the visiting (and now) infamous Inspector General of police (IGP) - a 'borrowed' civil servant in AJK from Pakistan - namely Liaqat Malik (a former army captain), where he was accompanied by the practically insignificant prime minister of AJK Barrister Iftikhar Gilani.

It hasn't worked. We have repeated these warnings from the outset (from the 2nd of June 2026 to be precise). You cannot defeat a population that knows its territory and history. You're just simply increasing the bill of compensation due for killing, injuring and violating our people; just so that you may continue using a 'free hand' to extract resources & revenue from this territory, without any form of accountability!

Here's a noticeboard at Eidgaah Dreak, which was put up a few hours ago (thus it isn't updated) for the benefit of the thousands of men & women that have converged on the sit-in protest to protect & act in solidarity with their co-citizens.

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Update including correction at 1731hrs on Day 310 (06/11/2026):

The list of injured has risen to 35 and the number of martyred is 3 (and not 7 as originally mentioned yesterday). The 'bus terminal' sit-in protest in the village of Matiyaal Mehra (on the Western outskirts of Rawalakot city) was not in fact retaken by the public. It was strategically deemed to be more beneficial to encircle the Pakistani Rangers and cut off their supply line. The likelihood of civilian casualties in reclaiming the 'bus terminal' was also deemed to be very high at this stage.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 308 of 2026

1126hrs:

Day 153 and we get stronger and more efficient with each passing day.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 307 of 2026

1256hrs:

Day 152 and despite overcoming the barriers of Muzaffarabad & Islamabad (Pakistan) well before the 5th of June 2026 Pakistani invasion, we are still some distance from overcoming the global barriers to our genuine freedom & self responsibility for governance and public policy in our territory. 

The 3rd barrier was our egos (co-citizens struggling to define an all-encompassing internal contract between each other) and we have made inroads into this deficiency over the past 152 days, though there is still much work to be done. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 306 of 2026

1119hrs:

Day 151 and despite this being a full blown conflict for all intents & purposes, it has effectively been normalised by our people, if not quite neutralised just yet. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 305 of 2026

1200hrs:

Day 150 it is and it should have been inevitable that this was going to be a long & decisive conflict (of intentions more than anything else). 

Intentions of the Pakistani State:

To continue its conflict economy, that works well for its elites and their foreign assets portfolio but heaps misery on its population in general. 

Intentions of the AJK public:

To participate in building a world class peace economy, that not only delivers to all segments of society but has a consequent dividend for our wider region too. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 304 of 2026

1158hrs:

Day 149 and this latest invasion (after the main one in 1947 and to tackle the Poonch rebellion of the 1950s) is delivering various twists which are still to be fathomed. 

Apart from the continuation of arrests, listing further citizens under schedule 4 and of course killing minors & elders in indiscriminate firing/shelling (as has happened on over 2 occasions in Bagh district of late), the Pakistanis have themselves closed off 2 major entry points from their country into AJK (namely Azad Pattan & Tain Dhalkot in Poonch division) since the day before yesterday (Thursday 29 October 2026), creating fortifications & barriers including on hilltops on their side of the border. They have also erected such fortifications on the either side of Kohalla (the area of Murree in Pakistan) although these particular fortifications are a lot more discreet, as they haven't closed Kohalla bridge. Here, they are manning the hilltops on either side viz. those in AJK along with those opposite them in Pakistan. 

What is clear is that this conflict/war is becoming more intense as well as complex. It will get a lot worse before it eventually gets better. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 302 of 2026

1206hrs:

Day 147 and the battle continues, although not quite in the direction that the Pakistani State wants to take it towards. Much more than a one-sided propaganda war where the world's most greedy terrorists (operators of the Pakistani State) are trying to portray an exemplary peaceful rights movement as terrorists, it is essentially a constitutional issue whereby the Pakistani State is operating in AJK without any genuine people referenced constitutional writ. What it does describe as a constitution is in fact an absolutist document. 

There was a time when this writer was perhaps the only person logging and documenting human rights violations in AJK. It is a proud sense of being that multiple citizens & organisations in or of the territory have been doing so increasingly over the past few years, most notably since the onset of this Pakistani invasion on the 5th of June 2026.

In the interim, this writer has listed the types of human rights violations happening on a daily basis and is also compiling a comprehensive human rights violations database, that will be published once we are satisfied that it is accurate & complete. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 301 of 2026

1237hrs:

On Day 146 we notice the increasing desperation on the part of our occupiers to crush the ongoing movement and are likewise prepared for all eventualities. They have a timetable to abide by ultimately. We have the luxury of not being time-bound in any way. 

This is the strength we have drawn on for almost 5 months of an enforced conflict and this 'timeless' strength is what is increasing our options with each passing day. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 298 of 2026

1217hrs:

Day 143 and we have proved that consistency creates levels of strength and endurance not conceived of before. 

Our energies are slowly converging simultaneously between Rawalakot & London, as it is 2026 that marks the final stand between the people of Jammu Kashmir & Allied (areas) and the British designed colonial division of this State (between India & Pakistan) in 1947, strains to achieve its fait accompli of permanent division & practical disintegration of the erstwhile princely State. 

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