Daily Diary (DD) - Day 17 of 2022

1334hrs:

An early start and as per tradition it cannot happen on a better day viz. Monday..

Let's begin connecting the dots that link what was enforced (migration) on the inhabitants of Jammu Kashmir & Allied areas (JKA) in 1947 to the endemically corrupt internal land mafia of AJK in 2022.

Justice like life is not a linear curve, it is circular. The 'chickens do come home to roost' eventually.

We'll start with Dadyaal in the morning and then move on to the capital Muzaffarabad in the afternoon, evening and beyond midnight.....

Last week, a local journalist also covered this deeply troubling subject of land corruption with Waheed Raja:

Just to give our readers a comprehensive insight, the following video from another distraught expatriate namely Pervaiz Iqbal was recorded in February 2021. I particularly liked his address to the Pakistani PM viz. "You must decide whether you are in power or in the opposition. If you're in power then do something about the corrupt land mafia!"

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Now, some of you will remember Day 348 of 2021, Malik Waseem and Ratan Singh's land in Naluchi, Muzaffarabad adjacent to the 'Sixth Kingdom' (Chatti Badshahat) of the Sikhs.

 

I'll just reproduce the text of the above Facebook post here below:

The dysfunctional status of the 'AJK' State has reached its lowest depth yet. The people of JKA were forced to migrate in 1947 in all directions, depending on their religious identity. We then had further wars followed by enforced water/electricity projects to uproot our people yet again, some repeatedly. In the meantime, we had many Pakistani nationals settle here - some by stealth and some by connivance - while many of our people were forced to either settle in Pakistan or further afield. The remaining scheme of devious population transfer has been fulfilled by the endemically corrupt land mafia. The following is the freshest example available:

Malik Waseem's family were uprooted from Kupwara in 1947 and despite being allotted land since 1949, they were forcibly evicted from their home in Naluchi, Muzaffarabad this afternoon, without due process and prior notice. True to form, the AJK administration including the Divisional Commissioner of Muzaffarabad appear to be powerless to do anything about it. It is almost 0100hrs (1am) now and Malik Waseem's family is still out in the cold with nowhere to go. His father was rushed to hospital earlier in the evening after a suspected heart attack.

Further details (including a letter to the Commissioner) are available at: https://tanveerandkashmir.blogspot.com/2021/12/daily-diary-dd-day-348-of-2021.html

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