Daily Diary (DD) - Day 245 of 2019

0521hrs:

Working for your nation upon whom your neighbours and some of those further afield have spent vast resources to keep ignorant is clearly an uphill endeavour. 

Its just as well that we live in the foothills of the Himalayas, where each peak reminds us that the sky isn't beyond reach.

The discussion continued in Dadyaal yesterday and many thanks to the Azad Kashmir Adabi (Literary) Society and Younus Taryabi Sahib in particular for summarising the meeting in the following post:

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Another meeting of national interest took place in Dadyaal yesterday, at a different venue and at a different time:

In discussion with Sardar Sagheer Khan of Rawalakot

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Conditions in Gilgit Baltistan will continue to be an almost constant feature here. Our politicians of the Kashmir Valley neglected Ladakh and look at what we are facing today in terms of State dismemberment. We in AJK cannot afford to commit the same crime with GB:

#Hasnain_Ramal, #socialmedia activist & leader of Awami action Tehreek was #arrested & #tortured on 22nd July 2019 & stopped him carrying out protest in front of #UN sub office in Jutial, #Gilgit. 1/3#FreeHasnainRamal pic.twitter.com/RnyRlbuHVz

— Sayeed Ali Baig (@SayeedAliBaig2) September 2, 2019

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This sounds like its travelling in the right direction, indeed it even validates my focal point about this being the end of Indo-Pak bilateralism in Jammu & Kashmir. A process I've been arguing against since my Rising Kashmir days in 2011:



If you can't read the text in the post above, here it is:

Speaking with the PM of “Azad” Kashmir this afternoon. He says the dispute is between India and the people of Kashmir and that Pakistan has no claim on the territory. Hence it cannot be resolved as a bilateral issue.

So said Phillip Bennion, a British liberal democrat MEP (Member of European Parliament) for the West Midlands. Though I would maintain that this is a pertinent matter for the UK parliament.

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