A lot of activity happening in various parts of AJK. A real contest is emerging between Pakistani State interest and Jammu & Kashmir State interest. I've always maintained that Pakistani interference and obstruction in Jammu & Kashmir is the direct opposite of what it claims viz. that it supports the self determination of this territory - unlike India it says who claims ownership - thus, the Pakistanis claim that it is pro-freedom whereas India isn't.
While it is true that India is anti freedom as far as Jammu & Kashmir is concerned, so is Pakistan.
The only difference is that India is blunt on the subject while Pakistan prefers to hide behind soft, subtle and sweet vocabulary to control and occupy the portion it holds. The Pakistanis also get offended when they are compared to India; despite being partners in a British designed parallel occupation structure, which operates just like 2 sides of a railway track.
This chicanery is poison for the pro freedom struggle in this territory. A positive development is that not just secular minded people in AJK understand this strategy but so do an increasing number of ultra religious minded people here too.
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I managed to join Rauf Kashmiri's faction of the JKLF just before it entered Ban Khurma (on the Southern outskirts of Mirpur city and also home to Mirpur Central Jail where I spent almost 10 months in captivity in the past year):
Once we arrived in Mirpur at Chowk Shaheedan, I accompanied one of the colleagues of this march to conduct a 'referendum' amongst the general public:
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