Daily Diary (DD) - Day 24 of 2022

0928hrs:

Day 05 at Martyr's Square - Kotli - AJK

The sun is returning today after an absence of 3 days. Now, I hope to finally resume my 'Public Policy Workshop' at Shaheed Chowk (Martyr's Square) Kotli shortly.

Malik Waseem is still stuck at Saddar police station in Muzaffarabad. The Commissioner of Muzaffarabad Masood ur Rehman appears to be engineering the transfer of Malik Waseem to jail amongst other contrivances. It is also alleged by Waseem that Masood ur Rehman is personally set to benefit with 2 kanaals (10,890 square feet) of land in the vicinity of where Waseem was evicted from. A similar allegation is also being made - 1 kanaal (5,445 square feet) in this instance - about Khwaja Imtiaz (brother of Khwaja Farooq current MLA of PTI and holding the Muzaffarabad city seat). Waseem alleges there to be a third beneficiary too who he is still trying to clarify.

It should also be noted that Masood ur Rehman obtained his MSc in public policy from Kings college London UK through a Chevening scholarship. So, effectively British tax payer money has been used to fund the education of an AJK citizen who later becomes a bureaucrat and repeatedly murders public interest here. This point has also been made in my letter to the British government, which will be made public in due course.

It should also be clear that a vendetta like situation is emerging as the 'powers-that-be' try to consolidate their coup, having evicted Malik Waseem. They are countering the allegations made by Waseem through highlighting the supreme court decision against him. They even got someone in the UK to send me some harsh messages via WhatsApp, which I will elaborate on in due course, if necessary. They also sent me a voice clip of Malik Waseem's adversary outlining his stance that I wasn't aware of the other side of the story. They haven't enabled direct communication of me with him and I am keen to learn his side of the story.

Irrespective of what has occurred and will occur in due course, I wish to use the case of Malik Waseem as a case study (reference) to explain how the rich exploit the poor using the system as a tool. How both the 'land' and the 'people' of this territory are manipulated to cement external occupation of this territory and promote internal strife. By reopening or publicising Malik Waseem's case we can explore - exactly what happens - to execute such operations. How land documents are tampered with, how money is circulated within the system to contrive results in favour of the powerful, against the powerless. Even if it surfaces that Malik Waseem is at fault somewhere down the line I am willing to accept that. It will still be a victory for public interest becomes it will lead towards transparency of the system.

For those that insist that nothing can be done in Waseem Malik's case because the supreme court has given its verdict, need to understand the following provision:

Curative powers of the supreme court - court can reopen a case to cure or correct an error.

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A sunny day after what seemed many a day:

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

'Public Policy Workshop'' at Shaheed Chowk Kotli has resumed after 2 days of inclement weather and concerned feedback from the public that I should wait for the weather to improve and to take precautions for my health. The workshop began on the 20th of January 2022 and I have remained at this venue but stayed indoors for the past 2 days. Our targets are clear:

We need:

1) Original and comprehensive 'Land Record' of AJK as it was in 1947.

2) Complete 'Population Census Data' of JKA in 1941.

End of FB post....

Correspondingly, the first video after a couple of days break:

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Day's Finance:

Opening Balance = 1,100

Y: (Incoming)

5,000

X:

80 - cigarettes for co-citizen

100 - chicken shwarma

150 - kahwa x 5

50 - dates

5,000 - Malik Waseem

(5,000 - borrowed for Malik Waseem)

*Sent 10,000 to Malik Waseem

Total sent to Malik Waseem to date: 30,000

Closing Bal. 720 

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