Well, we didn't know that the gap in daily blogging would ever stretch out to 25 days apart, since being released from Mirpur prison in 2021.
Anyway, let's get cracking.....on the 30th day of a needless and senseless war imposed on AJK and its people.
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I'll try and update you with everything that I have written during this 25 day gap, in chronological format:
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Stop the Killing - Stop the Operation in #AJK
Is that too much for UK taxpayers of AJK origin to demand of their government, via their MPs?
Timeline: 11:11am 10 June 2026 - Banjosa (on the outskirts of Rawalakot)
Writer: Tanveer Ahmed - action-oriented independent public policy researcher, working un-interrupted in the territory of AJK since April 2005
#SecurityJKA
#PopularSovereignty
The people of AJK have their own 'security narrative'. They have learned the hard way that the only way to protect the life, wealth & honour of each other is to work out a fool proof strategy, that retrieves that responsibility for itself, as it has most at stake. They cannot rely on external security dependence, as partiality to any one country, power or bloc will immediately divide their population's loyalties, most significantly on a religious identity basis. That is a recipe for perpetual conflict.
I repeat, our people have learned it the hard way.
This ongoing 'Pakistani Military Operation' since the 5th of June 2026 to silence an actively peaceful grassroots mobilisation from within AJK for its 'Right to Rule' (Haq e Hukmrani) and 'Right of Ownership' (Haq e Malkiyat) over its own resources, is only delaying the inevitable, by compounding unnecessary misery & escalating loss of life.
We've been under siege for 6 days (since 5 June 2026) and are gradually converging on the outskirts of Rawalakot city, since yesterday evening.
Over 100,000 aspiring citizens of the public were marching in a convoy from Bhimber and Mirpur districts towards Kotli city yesterday afternoon, when the 2nd massacre in 6 days was instigated in this territory, with the targetting of innocents at Roli Gali Chowk in Kotli.
By 10:11am (10 June 2026) at least 12 people have been killed in Kotli with the local DHQ (District Headquarter Hospital) being the centre of this 2nd massacre after Rawalakot CMH (Civil & Military Hospital), barely 48hrs earlier.
A diversion or disruption to the massive convoy converging on Kotli yesterday was triggered and to avoid direct confrontation between the public and the legally identifiable occupier, #JAAC diverted their convoy via Gulpur towards Sehnsa & Sarsaawa to concentrate on their immediate destination Rawalakot.
JKA PUBLIC AGENCY has arrived in Rawalakot to investigate what happened in the city on Day 3 & 4 of this 'Operation'. We'll try to resolve this before turning our attention to finding out what exactly happened in Kotli yesterday (9 June 2026). We hope diplomatic channels & peace builders everywhere will be able to avert a 3rd massacre.
The compensation claim is also rising exponentially at £100 billion (UK pounds sterling) per each death of a local citizen.
An end to pointlessly killing our people has got to be every sane person's priority. I appreciate our UK diaspora's efforts and in turn the representation of our concerns in the UK Parliament. We also acknowledge the role of all peace builders and activists for a transparent rules-based order.
There is a British High Commission barely 100 kilometres from Rawalakot. We - the public of AJK - cannot comprehend the UK being unsuccessful in explaining to Pakistan, the consequences of this aggression on AJK's UK diaspora and the region's peace.
You cannot defeat the will of a people where every household in the territory is involved and hundreds of thousands are connected to a peacefully mobilised convoy, intent on stopping a clear attack on their civil liberties, as they are very clear that if they don't take a stand now, they will be relegated further down the chain of 'ownership' over their territory and resources. Inevitably too precious to surrender.
We are receiving regular statements from bereaved families that Pakistani security operatives in the territory are trying to control custody over our dead, as they want to use them as a blackmailing tool to force family members of those martyred to sign a written confession, that their loved ones were terrorists before the family can reclaim their bodies. In addition, many bodies are missing too.
#JK #JAAC has led a very peaceful, fair, level-playing field set of aspirations and public demands. It most significantly won at the table, within the constitutional constraints influenced by British colonial legacy.
JAAC and the public at large cannot surrender their just & naturally evolving indigenous struggle, as the sacrifices given so far have been so pure & innocent.
Let's all assist in rolling back this unnecessary 'Operation' that will ultimately lead us all back to the same table, where everything needs to clarified.
JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #E105410062026
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The largest convoy of many convoys from every direction converging on Rawalakot has reached the outskirts of Khaigalla.
The Pakistani army has been dropping commando units at various helipads in the area since this morning.
Aerial attacks on the hundreds of thousands of people converging on Rawalakot are also an imminent threat.
1) You lost the battles of narratives.
2) You lost at the negotiation table.
3) You've lost global public opinion
4) You will also lose the war imposed on our territory. Masses of the public maintaining a peaceful stand will defeat every armed military tactic you try.
You cannot defeat every household here.
Update: 1:08pm 10 June 2026
By Tanveer Ahmed, on the outskirts of Rawalakot.
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We are at a standstill in Rawalakot while shelling has raged for most of the day in Kotli. Further casualties are very likely there but like the 2 massacres already committed it will take independent & thorough research to get close to the actual figure of casualties since the 5th of June to date.
As of the last few hours, the largest convoy remains static just short of Khaigalla while Rawalakot remains under curfew. A senior political representative hosting the public in Rawalakot is confident that the curfew will be lifted imminently without further loss of life.
"The public need to be gathered in one place in Rawalakot in order to conduct a peaceful assembly and open inter public dialogue (androoni mukaalima) to chart out a way forward for the public," he said on condition of anonymity.
Lifting the curfew peacefully is step one.
Update: 4:35pm 10 June 2026
By Tanveer Ahmed, on the outskirts of Rawalakot.
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Peace in childhood - Eidgaah - Dreak - Rawalakot - Poonch - AJK at 0930hrs on Monday 15 June 2026 - 11 days into an unnecessarily imposed war by Pakistan, after losing at the negotiating table 7 days earlier.
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Update: 1230hrs on 21 June 2026 (Eidgaah, Dreak, Rawalakot, Poonch)
Genocide Alert in AJK!!!!
We - JKA PUBLIC AGENCY - have strong grounds to believe that the State of Pakistan, given its failed attempt over 17 days to emulate India's action of '5 Aug 2019' - beginning on '5 June 2026' - is now sending signals through delegations of Kashmiri journalists working in Pakistan & other sources, that it will commit large scale atrocities to wipe out an exemplary peaceful movement worthy of global scrutiny viz.
#RightsMovementAJK #JAAC.
It is under these conditions that JAAC has asked us to communicate the following? publi stance to UK MPs of AJK origin at the earliest:
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Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JK JAAC) stands on one condition and one condition alone: that the resolution to the invasion of AJK by Pakistan on the 5th of June 2026, necessitates UK MPs of AJK origin to mediate between the people of AJK and the state of Pakistan, for a practical contemporary solution born out of British colonial legacy.
If they do not do so, the public of AJK & its diaspora will hold UK MPs of AJK origin responsible for the death and destruction that is happening here on a daily basis, which is likely to intensify imminently.
We are merely asking you to take your fair share of responsibility for a matter that directly affects over 1.5 million people in the UK, to say the least.
JKA PUBLIC? AGENCY Note: #E123021062026
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Update: The following note was written at 2124hrs on 23 June 2026 (AJK time)....
The People's Authority in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK)
The People's Authority in Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK)
In a land hell bent on establishing peace through peaceful means and reviving a globally pre-eminent knowledge-based civilisation
Precursor to a genuine people's government.
Public Policy Subjects:
1) Security
2) Governance
3) Economy
4) Culture
The Pakistani State has lost every ounce of reasoning to remain in AJK.
All its presumptions to administrate this territory since 1947 have lost their practical value.
It violated its first agreement with any country in the world (standstill agreement with J & K) soon after its birth as a British dominion in 1947.
It violated its latest agreement with Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JK JAAC) signed on the 4th of October 2025, by ordering another invasion on the 5th of June 2026.
Historically, it also failed to conform to the 'United Nations Conflict Resolution Framework' by side-stepping repeated suggestions to demilitarise from AJK & Gilgit Baltistan (GB).
Overall, the failure of both India & Pakistan to demilitarise broke the sequence of steps required for conflict resolution by the UN framework viz.
Ceasefire > Demilitarisation > Plebiscite
Instead, both countries (India & Pakistan) have gradually rendered the people of the territory as inconsequential; using a myriad of legal, constitutional, political, economic, social & military measures.
On the 5th of June 2026, after years of anticipation from all quarters - including the people of AJK - Pakistan finally took the plunge of emulating India's '5 August 2019' brutal set of actions to integrate their respectively administrated territories into their countries. Thereby, in both their estimations they would be paving the way for an international border replacing the 'Line of Control' (LOC) or what was originally described as a 'Ceasefire Line' (CFL).
Both have broken all pledges, promises and indeed international law by taking these steps.
Our People's Authority in AJK is a working indigenous framework to transition from a colonially structured system of governance - that eventually proved a failure in complying with the very laws it ostensibly created - to control the very unarmed people it is now at war with.
#RightsMovementAJK
#JAAC
Independent research over 21 years in general and a recent survey (last month) of 8 (out of a total of 10) districts in particular, has confirmed that there is practically no such government service that the public of AJK relies on for its day to day needs. Every need is addressed either through our diaspora or through self initiation (viz, health, education, law & order, employment etc.).
Under the command of JK JAAC, we have completed almost 19 days of a complete internet shutdown & an extremely weak cellular phone network, followed by a commercial lockdown where even basic foodstuffs & medicine are not being allowed into the territory by the State of Pakistan.
In such circumstances, we cannot even accurately count our dead, missing, injured, arrested, forced confessions, the number of raids on homes & harassment of family members, let alone damage to property perpetrated by forces ushered into our territory from Pakistan and by Pakistan on the 5th of June 2026. Evidence will also soon emerge, that many of these 'Pakistani Rangers' do not even seem to be part of a disciplined force, rather they are acting more as 'pay as you go' mercenaries motivated by war booty. This independent researcher has logged over 200 incidents of human rights violations so far and the list will definitely cross the 2,000 barrier once research is complete. It is of course increasing on a daily basis.
The Pakistani State is repeatedly sending messages through various intermediaries to the 6 peaceful sit-in protests surrounding Rawalakot city since 10 June 2026, that we - the Pakistani military for all intents & purposes - always get our way and that there is no scope for any kind of negotiations or entertainment of public demands. "Just retreat back to your homes, beg us for forgiveness (for demanding your basic rights & daring to defeat us at the negotiating table) and hope for the best in terms of restoration of peace & normalcy", has become a familiar phrase being aggressively rammed into the public of AJK at large.
Even basic foodstuffs from Mirpur division are being prevented from reaching the central hub of sit-in protests at Eidgaah in Dreak, Rawalakot, Poonch.
In such a crisis and while JAAC awaits the arrival of UK MPs of AJK origin to come & sit with all core members of the committee in Rawalakot, terms & conditions for mediation to resolve this freshly imposed conflict cannot be set and neither will 90% of the public of AJK (including it's diaspora) ever allow the Pakistani military to play 'God' with the territory of AJK or its people.
JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #E212423062026
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Update: Written at 0144hrs on 4 July 2026 (AJK time)....
Summary (Day 30)
Summary thus far (Day 30) of this needless invasion of AJK by the State of Pakistan on the 5th of June 2026.
It became clear by the 14th of June (10th day of the invasion) that imposing a military solution to silence 90% of AJK's population was impractical. The 2 massacres at Rawalakot (7 June) and Kotli (9 June) emboldened the local population to dig deep into their own resources and take advantage of superior knowledge of their own terrain, to bore Pakistani forces into eventual submission, whenever they wish to admit to this reality.
By arresting people and forcing them to make confessions against JAAC and in favour of the Pakistani army is vile enough. Arresting fathers, brothers and sons of public activists is an alternative low level form of trying to grab victory from the jaws of defeat. The Pakistani invading forces are even threatening to abduct the mothers, sisters and daughters of these public activists.
Trying to force shops in major cities to open while maintaining a communications blockade (frozen ATM machines) and getting politicians to campaign for general elections only adds to the farce.
Diaspora Reflection of Local Aspirations
Our UK diaspora in particular (and elsewhere throughout the world) in general have complimented & synchronised well with mass public mobilisation inside AJK, despite a total communications & commercial blockade imposed by Pakistan, contrary to their avowed commitments to international law.
Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee (JK JAAC) has ridden through every storm and evolved to understand that it must now take a stance in line with the legal & constitutional entitlements of the people of the territory, rather than continuing to insist on operating within a colonial constitutional structure that the colonials themselves (Pakistan and by logical extension the United Kingdom & India) do not abide by. Repeatedly making reasonable demands to the colonial structure only invites naked aggression rather than sincere intent to accommodate those demands, generated en masse by the public of AJK.
Insisting on UK MPs of AJK origin to travel to the sit-in protest in Rawalakot to mediate between JAAC and the State of Pakistan, is a step in that direction.
Reference: 'Genocide Alert in AJK'
Written at 1230hrs on 21 June 2026
Link: https://tanveerandkashmir.blogspot.com/2026/07/daily-diary-dd-day-185-of-2026.html
It is also important that the AJK diaspora in the UK concentrate on conducting a sit-in protest in Parliament Square London SW1, to remind the United Kingdom of its share of responsibility: taking account of its historical, legal & ethical implications, as cited by UK MPs on a regular basis.
Those who can't make it to the 'mother of parliaments' in London, should consider conducting sit-in protests outside all relevant City and Town Halls in the country.
If this deadlock continues for a further 2 weeks our diaspora in the UK should consider canvassing for a lockdown of the United Kingdom for a day, given that we would have endured 44 days of a total lock down in AJK by then.
Our diaspora would also be well advised to avoid the Pakistani High Commission as it doesn't have any executive significance to play any role in resolving this deadlock. Pakistani may be argued to be an independent country despite its financial reliance on many a global player but it is most certain that the Pakistani army doesn't face any risk of accountability for its actions inside its own country. As it was the UK that facilitated the entry of Pakistan into Jammu & Kashmir in 1947 and subsequently shielded it from the United Nations framework that suggested it withdraw its forces from the territory of AJK (and GB), it is more practical and most certainly less bloody to engage UK MPs of AJK origin, who have stakes in this territory.
Contemplating the end of Pakistan's false assumption to take & maintain control of Defence, Communications, Currency & Foreign Affairs in AJK since 1947 is a public policy imperative here. What we have witnessed since the 5th of June 2026 has given us ample evidence to present to UK MPs of AJK origin in particular and the world in general.
Delaying the inevitable restoration of the 'Right to Rule' (Haq e Hukmrani) of the people of AJK, especially when their 'Authority' has emerged repeatedly since May 2023, would be senseless for all parties concerned.
JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #E014404072026
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