Daily Diary (DD) - Day 45 of 2022

0901hrs:

Day 26 at Martyr's Square Kotli

We thought we'd launch the UK banner from here, while we wait for matters in Luton to pick up....

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Attention from other parts of AJK:

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Update 1600hrs: 

The 5 prospective members of the District Constitutional Conciliation Committee - Kotli...from a JKA nationalist perspective. 

Remember that the committee comprises of 10 members and the other 5 will be from the Pakistani nationalist perspective, comprising of 5 current or former MLAs of district Kotli. 

The following submitted to: SHO City Kotli via DFC Ijaz as follows, from Shaheed Chowk:

For those of you who can't read Urdu:

1) Toqeer Gilani - Kotli

2) Sher Nawaz Ali Advocate - Nikyaal

3) Quayyum Raja - Khuiratta

4) Secretary Iqbal - Charoi

5) Raja Haq Nawaz - Sehnsa

It should also be noted that all the above were nominated by the public, not me. If anybody disagrees with any of the above they can object and suggest an alternative. If so, I will put the relevant nominations to the public once more.

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Other activists and journalists - both at home and abroad - are zeroing in on Malik 

Waseem's issue:

 

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

This is Malik Waseem behind bars: For the crime of protecting his home and family and refusing to forgo a claim to stay on land that he has been living on since 1949 in AJK. He had been evicted and was legally fighting to get the land back. He has a stay of order from the court to not disturb him but the police still evicted him.

It is another side of the Kashmir dispute where many Kashmiris are working in the AJK territory to see a change to various legislations and public policy that will give Kashmiris in AJK more license to be their own voice. They would have more say over the entire region and dialogue as to how they can move forward.

Malik Waseem is a third generation refugee from Kupwara in IOK. Ratan Singh was the original owner but was either killed or displaced in 1949 after forced migrations and killings by religious communities at the time. The land is described as"Evacuee Property." 

A search is underway by Malik's family, legal team and supporters for the descendants of the original owner but it is India in this case who have all the land records and upon being asked will not release them.

It seems to be a very sad state of affairs and an example of removing someone unfairly from land they have been living on since 1949 and now the local officials want to reclaim it and sell it for money. It is senseless to jail for someone for standing up for their rights in a just and fair way.

Malik Waseem and his family should surely be allowed to stay on that land. It does not seem right or fair to make them homeless. 

#LetKashmirDecide

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Closer to home:

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