Daily Diary (DD) - Day 244 of 2019

1305hrs:

Although the following event appears to have taken place on Friday, it has inflamed the passion of many people in AJK who hold this flag as their identity, even though its origins are murky to say the least. Many of these co-citizens of mine have asked me to cover this video for its public interest value:

For those of you who can't read the text in the FB post above:

Pakistani PM Imran Khan Refused to hold Flag of so called Azad Kashmir.
Another lesson for those Kashmiris who have expectations that Pakistan will help them to get their freedom.

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We heard something similar from Jeremy Corbyn a few weeks ago:

The people of #Kashmir deserve something more substantial than d UN resolutions, which neither give them a stake r a choice. Pls refer 2 the ruling Labour Party's decision n d British parliament n d 5th of July 1947. What Britain oversaw cannot b undone by d #UN as it stands.

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) September 1, 2019

I am trying to understand the Labour Party UK's apparent infatuation with UN resolutions. 

Was it not the British government ruled by the Labour Party that enacted the Indian Independence Act in their parliament? Did this Act not formalise transfer of power from British India to either India or Pakistan, broadly based on religious identity? Did not the princely States have an extra option to remain independent and where religious identity of the majority was not necessarily a determining factor? Is there not a universal tradition that the entity that enacts a law is also responsible for fully implementing that law?

Our enduring dilemma is captured in the following short interview I took of the late but great son of this soil, Professor Nazir Anjum of Akaalgarh (Mirpur) in 2011:

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