Daily Diary (DD) - Day 149 of 2023

1243hrs:

Rolling on on Day 7 of #AJKReferendum2023 

All activists working on governance in AJK are having to pay for 76 years of negligence. We have to put in extra efforts to do all those tasks that over 110,000 governments servants in AJK have failed to do in all these years.

They've all been rewarded with wages, paid expenses and many have also benefitted from the many avenues of corruption. Meanwhile, activists have had to rely on their own sources or menial handouts from well wishers in the community. Government servants have accumulated assets over all these years, secured their children's future and enjoy pensions in retirement. Activists have to deal with extra oppression for struggling for people's rights, face immediate risks of poverty and also have to face criticism from their own families for putting the public's needs ahead of their own families.

Indeed, political activism in AJK has been guilty of bifurcating the freedom struggle from governance, hence this dichotomy mentioned above.

We are now deeply engaged in addressing this error of judgement.

#AJKReferendum2023 should prove to be the basis of modern day 21st century governance in AJK. Whereby the freedom struggle integrates itself with the day to day needs of governance.

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So, it took less than 3 days for the Pakistani army to back down from its abduction policy in AJK. 

Israr Ahmed was released late in the afternoon today after activists had threatened to block the main highway between Mirpur & Kotli at Plaak, near Dadyaal. It is vivid that AJK is not Pakistan. It is also clear that if the people of AJK put their heads together, driving the Pakistani army out of this territory is not as difficult as many of us envisage:

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We considered it apt on this day to give a video briefing on #AJKReferendum2023 as conducted thus far:

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Meanwhile, our evenings are becoming heavy engagements with the public. This evening was at Pir Jamaal:

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Here's our fourth TikTok offering:

@ajkpublicagency #AJKReferendum2023 - Day 7 - #29052023 ♬ original sound - Tanveer Ahmed

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On popular demand, we will be replicating the videos uploaded on TikTok to JKA PUBLIC AGENCY's YouTube channel too. Not everybody likes to use or even has access to TikTok:

Here's our 1st offering on our YouTube channel ref. #AJKReferendum2023https://t.co/jp7Ps5NMPH

— JKA PUBLIC AGENCY (@jkapublicagency) June 10, 2023

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