30 minutes later than intended but in a new territory, though no excuses have any merit.
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Mahmood Ahmed Musafir has featured prominently on this weblog, especially in 2018. He has embarked on another journey from Bhimber to Muzaffarabad a few days ago (17 January 2025). This time he's driving a vehicle and not 3 donkeys and a camel.
Here's an interview he gave near Chakswari:
Here's the banner of his demands:
It may be translated thus:
(Note: words in brackets are for emphasis and clarity of message)
Protest! Struggle & Struggle (against a) Corrupt System (of Governance)
Struggle & Struggle Against a 98% Unbridled Bureaucracy - Protest!
A Long March from Bhimber to Muzaffarabad
Let's Go Let's Go (from) Bhimber to Muzaffarabad
For Ourselves and for our Future Generations
Our Demands:
- Sacrilege of the graves of our forefathers must be stopped
- An international airport must be constructed in Azad Kashmir (AJK)
- A (Government) notification must be issued in light of the agreement on 17 January 2023
- A judicial commission must be set up to investigate (inquire) as to how all those (people) were killed in protests from 9 May 2024 to date, how hundreds of members of the public and government employees were injured and who is responsible for the billions of rupees of financial losses.
- The looting of consumers who use 3 phase electricity must be ended
- The bridges at Haar Kas, Kaneli, Jarai, Amb in Dadyaal and Gulpur should be doubled (in width).
Let's Change Society Not (merely) Faces
Courtesy:
Mahmood Ahmed Musafir
Mandi Dharra, Jail Road Kotli
(Contact): 03065838206
End of English translation of Urdu banner above....
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