Daily Diary (DD) - Day 207 of 2022

1447hrs:

Day 51 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0736hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 556 minutes.

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A terrible head, face, neck and tongue ache on the left side of my organs have created acute pain since yesterday evening. The pain only recedes if I stand up, sit down, face the sun or walk. If I lie down the pain will kick in almost immediately. Thus, I couldn't sleep a wink last night!

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Whatever happens leading up to Pakistan's final dirty deed must be available for the record. This is a letter written today by eminent jurist and renowned expert on the UN template on JKA Dr. Nazir Gilani to the current prime minister of Pakistan. There will be consequences if Pakistan disregards its own (already flawed and assumed) reasoning for its presence in this territory, if it tries to emulate India's 5th August 2019 operation in the coming days and weeks of 2022:

Here's a Twitter note in this regard:

JKCHR has sent a communication to PM of Pakistan through the HC of Pakistan. It has highlighted the role of world famous military experts in UN template on Kashmir and has cautioned GOP not to disturb UN template in AJ&K. @farooq_pm @sgqadir @tariqfarooq60 @OfficialDGISPR

— Syed Nazir Gilani (@JKCHR) July 26, 2022

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The following address by the president of Mirpur District Lawyer's Bar Association Imtiaz Raja in Mirpur's main public square today clarifies the nationwide sentiment throughout AJK:

The points which are converging as the central tenets of the AJK-wide furore against Pakistan are as follows - as enunciated in the video above:

1) No to fuel price adjustment and other unwarranted taxes added to electricity bills.

2) No to proposed 15th amendment.

3) No to amended tourism act.

4) No to unwarranted arrests of citizens for raising their voices for their justified rights.

 

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The following news doing the rounds in AJK today did startle me before prompting me to clarify whether such an announcement has actually been made officially, by the Conservative Party in the UK. 

Rehman Chisti MP

The Urdu news above (not established to be correct, at least not yet) is translated as:

(It is) a big honour for the inhabitants of Kashmir that a Kashmiri has become the foreign minister of the UK

Hailing from the suburban village of Battangi in (tehsil/subdivision) Pateeka, district Muzaffarabad and the son of Maulana Abdur Rehman Chisti is barrister Ata-ur Rehman (Chisti). From the depths of our heart we congratulate him for being selected as the foreign minister of the United Kingdom. This is (truly) a big honour for the land of Kashmir. We hope that he will play a positive role for the freedom movement of his motherland Jammu Kashmir. 

End of translation....

Now, we understand that Rehman Chisti became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for North America, Sanctions and Consular Policy) on 8th July and that he was even in the running for PM but this news that he's become foreign minister does not have a news source. I presume that won't be decided until the new Conservative leader emerges? But I also presume he may still be a candidate for the foreign minister's role.

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