Daily Diary (DD) - Day 216 of 2019

2354hrs:

After a rigorous 18 hours journey I reached Dadyaal this morning at 1000hrs... 

A much needed break after many days on the road, consumed in pursuing public interest.

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He may well be somewhere near the twilight of his long and eventful career but Dr. Karan Singh is still the most important citizen of Jammu & Kashmir. What he says will always matter:

'Man who knows too much' - Karan Singh says tread cautiously on Article 35A, 370

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This is the sort of sentiment emerging out of AJK about Pakistan's role in this integration fiasco:

کچھ الحاقی اور پاکستان کے لوگ کہتے ہیں آزاد کشمیر میں پاکستانی فوج نہ ہو تو انڈیا دوسرے دن قبضہ کر لے. جب انڈیا لائن آف کنٹرول پر گولی چلا دے تو پاکستانی وزیراعظم جرنل اور عوام کہتے ہیں عالمی برادری نوٹس لے .
کیا فوج نالے صاف کرنے کے لیے ہے ؟

— Momin Nazir Khan (@MominNazirKhan1) August 4, 2019

I did promise the gentleman who tweeted this, that I would translate it into English:

"Some accessionists (those preferring accession of #JandK to Pakistan) and some Pakistanis say that if the Pakistani army vacates #AJK then India would occupy AJK the very next day. When India begins shelling on the #LOC then the Pakistani PM, his generals and public beckon the international community to take notice. Is the army (just) kept for sweeping the drains?"

End of translation....

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