Daily Diary (DD) - Day 184 of 2022

1830hrs:

Day 28 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

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Subject of the day: Trolling on social media by fake IDs 

Today, we'll get some misleading and masquerading clutter out of the way once and for all. 

The following bogus ID is currently masquerading as: 

Christroller Henry Gayle @Chris_Gayle_ 

on Twitter 

He (or perhaps she?) has previously masqueraded as Brian Lara too! I've taken a screenshot as these types of accounts tend to ebb away after a while, for quite obvious reasons.

Despite this person's apparent partiality towards West Indian cricketers, his or her profile photo seems to be constant. It's a picture of the deceased Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, which at the very least gives away this particular Chris Gayle's nationality.

He or she presumably thinks that they are performing a successful 5th generation warfare operation of the highest order, that will help his or her country - viz. Pakistan - defeat all those 'envious enemies', that are supposedly hell bent on destroying the most successful country that ever existed in the world. 

Allah forbid, if not for these sincere and diligent keyboard warriors in cyberspace - with their skilful concealment of their identity - what would be the fate of Pakistan?  

Apart from West Indian cricketers and Pakistani nuclear scientists, this fake account also seems to invest a lot of time on the people of AJK; either trying to mock their narrative(s) or question their financial interpretation of the balance sheet between AJK and Pakistan. A particular phobia towards those who advocate an independent Jammu & Kashmir and those who provide examples of Pakistan's economic exploitation of AJK & GB, seem to motivate him or her to respond with facetious wisecracks.

Here's the latest example of what I'm enticed or provoked to respond to. Do note his (or her) 'genteel' approach on this occasion:

  

I most certainly will once it is ready 2 B published. I found it difficult publishing from jail n 2020! Meanwhile, I have a suggestion 4 u: Stop hiding behind bogus ID's. It's devious & n insult 2 humanity. It doesn't help ur country either. Indeed, if that is what ur aiming 4.

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) July 3, 2022

I should consider it apt to provide a screenshot of this Twitter exchange too, less it dissolves into thin air, as is the norm when fake accounts come under scrutiny:

Now, this gentleman or lady misses one obvious point: He or she seems so anxious to learn about how much Pakistan economically exploits AJK because they imagine that a delay in publishing such a comprehensive report - or rather providing the perception of such from a fake account - is because no such data exists! He or she is so certain that the Pakistani State has cleverly ensured that no such economic data is publicly available and thus he or she feels that they have hoodwinked the world by repeatedly questioning the delay on my part i.e. they've put a seed of doubt in people's minds! 

Like most fake propagandists, he or she usually misses out on the irony that the Pakistani State has always only published what it gives to AJK as an annual budget and never ever in 75 years has ever even contemplated providing economic data for what it extracts out of AJK!

Predictably, he or she has reiterated their impatience (inputting seeds of doubt as propagandists are prone to do), as the following response on Twitter from the mighty Pakistani 'Gayle force' has been received, as I was writing this particular weblog entry:

Investing time 4 time wasters, if only 2 drill a few nails n their coffin & thus save others from wasting time n the future. Here's an anxious Pakistani worried about his country's BOP with #AJK masquerading as #Gayle or #Lara but not #Chanderpaul 4 more: https://t.co/7x5XWCgJBo https://t.co/UUDffuuIGr

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) July 3, 2022

Here's a screenshot of the above tweet, for reasons aforementioned:

Given the nature of my work there are often delays in producing detailed reports but produced they are, as anybody familiar with my work or those that peruse my weblog can testify. This comprehensive economic survey (examining the financial relationship between AJK and Pakistan) will be the rudest shock to Pakistani propagandists yet.

Brace yourself Mr. Gayle or Mr. Lara or whatever name you decide to masquerade yourself as when it is published. You'll wish you were never so impatient!   

Finally, as explained at the outset, I felt it necessary to confront these imposters once and for all. A little time invested now will ensure I don't have to spare them any time in the future! Indeed, it is wasting other people's time coupled with diversion and obfuscation of knowledge that they rely on most. 

No more!

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While the above is clearly external mischief, hell bent on derailing anything positive we do to drive away our occupiers, something more significant that maintains our status as slaves is our approach to our predicament. Thus....

I would strongly recommend all AJK citizens to watch this video, not least because most of our people - at home as well as the diaspora - suffer from this cynicism syndrome:

The public of #AJK can learn a lot from this Ted Talk:
How to escape the cynicism trap (Jamil Zaki | TEDMonterey) https://t.co/PVfIPUSLkd via @TEDTalks

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) July 3, 2022

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