A Journey in Jammu Kashmir & Allied areas (JKA)............................ from Subject to Citizen .........autocracy to democracy .........Dogra Raaj to Awaami Raaj .........1947 CE to........................... #WhiteFlags #Neutrality #WaterManagement #MirpurtoLondonviaCentralAsia
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Sunday, 23 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 235 of 2026
Friday, 21 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 233 of 2026
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 231 of 2026
Monday, 17 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 229 of 2026
Sunday, 16 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 228 of 2026
Friday, 14 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 226 of 2026
Thursday, 13 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 225 of 2026
0720hrs:
Our daily routine to access the internet at speeds capable of uploading videos, involves a lot of travelling at pre dawn. It sounds difficult but as its a matter of 'do or die' for our people, it feels so normal.
Likewise, despite entering the 70th day of a siege with all its pitfalls, it feels normal as we know we are finally navigating our nation out of a colonially imposed perpetual conflict model, that has lasted almost 79 years.
Meanwhile, the information we are getting from various polling stations is expectedly farcical and a mockery of democracy. For example, a polling station near my home village in Sehnsa had a total of about 100 voters come to poll their vote throughout the day. However, records from that polling station show a total of about 1,200 votes.
I still maintain that I don't think polling throughout the territory of AJK (26 of 33 constituencies) motivated much more than 5% of the voting population to turn out, while results are indicating that the turn-out is similar to that of elections in 2021! This is ridiculous if we take into consideration the evolution of #RightsMovementAJK over the past 5 years, adding to the bullet overshadowing this ballot.
Returning to the issue of UK MPs making presentations in Parliament and in light of their correspondence with their foreign Office, we are still some distance from the UK government fulfilling its legal responsibility to resolve this needless conflict. It is clear that the Pakistani State is using as much force and deception as it thinks it can get away with, while the UK government continues to 'diplomatically' urge it to cease its collective punishment of our people. It is obvious that the UK needs to take restraining measures to oblige the Pakistani State to stop. Ultimately, it will have to reverse its decision in 1947 to facilitate Pakistan's military presence in this territory.
On our part, we are leaving no stone unturned and continue engaging openly with the UK public, to act in solidarity with us with reference to a lockdown there. Exploring legal options against the UK government is also in process.
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JK JAAC (Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee) have finally mutated away from the 38 point charter of demands (realising that the Pakistani State has absolutely no intention or even ability to fulfill them and that is precisely why our people are being killed):
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 224 of 2026
Tuesday, 11 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 223 of 2026
0613hrs:
On Day 68 of this pathetic onslaught by the State of Pakistan on AJK, we are much stronger than we thought we would be - under an almost complete communications & commercial lockdown - since the 5th of June 2026.
No doubt this onslaught has brought our people together like never before.
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Monday, 10 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 222 of 2026
Saturday, 8 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 220 of 2026
2037hrs:
I'm working hard using whatever means possible, to maintain daily contact with the world, despite enduring 65 days of an almost complete communications & commercial lockdown throughout the territory of AJK, thanks to Pakistan's desperate attempt to hang on to this territory despite the amount of water that has flown under this bridge.
Some of the antics that the Pakistani State is conducting to give a sense of normalcy is bewildering to say the least!
Just yesterday, in Rawalakot city Pakistani Rangers (a paramilitary force that Pakistan have engaged in thousands to suppress the people of AJK) were engaged in enticing people to come and register for flour and other essentials, while taking details of their 'National' ID cards and taking their thumbprint impressions, both of which are supposedly essential for casting a vote! Elections are supposedly due in Poonch division on the 10th of August 2026 (3 days away!) and this can be explained as one form of pre poll rigging.
Furthermore, today we learn that 4 politicians (2 from each of PPP & PMLN) travelled to AJK via helicopter and both will alternate in campaigning in the 2 districts of Bagh & Haveli! It is bemusing as to whether both parties are collaborating or competing for seats!
It is a fact that on average less than 5% of total voters in Mirpur & Muzaffarabad divisions actually visited polling stations on their respective election dates of 27 July and 2nd August.
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Friday, 7 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 219 of 2026
Thursday, 6 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 218 of 2026
Tuesday, 4 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 216 of 2026
Monday, 3 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 215 of 2026
Sunday, 2 August 2026
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 214 of 2026
On the 52nd day of this imposed war by the Pakistani State (without genuine constitutional or legal basis) on the land & population of the territory of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, I (Tanveer Ahmed - an independent researcher supporting all public interest endeavours in this territory for the past 21 years) wish to put my concerns and reservations to you in an open, transparent & public manner; as it is most certainly a matter of life & death for #RightsMovementAJK in general, as well as Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee #JK #JAAC in particular.
In my opinion, it needs to be understood that whatever the Pakistani State says or does is a matter of ambiguity and deception. This is true to form of its record as a country since its birth in August 1947.
2 aims of the Pakistani State in this current war on the whole population of AJK are:
1) To totally crush any form of public rights movement in the territory - either through brute force where possible or by deception while using the sacred faith of Islam as a propaganda tool - with particular targeting of JAAC and its sympathisers, who in many estimations has reached 90% of the population.
2) To forcibly integrate AJK & Gilgit Baltistan into the Pakistani federation, in a similar manner to what India did on the other side of the LOC on 5 August 2019.
It is in such circumstances that I have regularly engaged with JAAC since the 10th of June 2026 (47 days ago when we all camped out at Eidgaah, Dreak, Rawalakot, Poonch and where we all remain).
I did intimate, advise & stress to all present core members from the 14th of June 2026 onwards - in written form - that JAAC should under no circumstances engage in direct talks with any form of representation from the State of Pakistan - without credible external mediation - which in my opinion could only be UK MPs of AJK origin, given Britain's colonial legacy and stakes of these MPs in our territory.
I also advised that JAAC should ask our diaspora to explore international legal options to make the State of Pakistan accountable for their unwarranted aggression.
On the 28th of June, in light of local public opinion analysing the prevailing scenario of the Pakistani State's continuous onslaught of killings, arrests and targeted torture of our activists; coupled with the non-commitment of the United Kingdom to fulfill its legal responsibilities: I advised JAAC to abandon their 38 point charter and concentrate on exercising the people's authority (ref. JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #E212423062026 ).
Given that hitherto JAAC had strictly abided by the prevailing (clearly imposed) constitutional framework in AJK, despite it contradicting the 24th October 1947 provisional government declaration (born out of a rebellion against the autocratic ruler), the UN conflict resolution framework, the Pakistani constitution and all generally accepted universal human rights norms. I understood that to be a prudent strategy to focus on delivering basic needs to the AJK population, while avoiding the aggression of the Pakistani State wherever possible.
Now that aggression has come to the forefront of global attention, whereby the Pakistani State proved once again that it is not capable of abiding by its own (colonially crafted) laws, nor is it capable of fulfilling any verbal or written agreements. Rather it is only capable of wanton aggression or deceptive dialogue to try and get it's way.
I thus urged you - JAAC - to adopt a legal & constitutional stance that reflects our status as subjects cum citizens locally and what is confirmed by international law viz. that the inhabitants of this territory are the genuinely entitled, whereas India & Pakistan are claimants to our State, whose legality can only be derived from the local people's reference, without compulsion or enticement.
In this regard, I remind you that we - as a people under siege - can no longer afford that the Pakistani State dictate our defence, communications, currency & foreign policy. Not just because they never abided by any genuine legal procedure to obtain these public policy subjects but that they have abused whatever little trust our people had in them, irrespective of the Pakistani State's self-serving assumptions.
I for one - and I am sure that I speak for many others - cannot return to our homes in Mirpur division or Muzaffarabad division where our lives, wealth & honour continue to remain at the mercy of the Pakistani State.
We must exercise our right to self determination using our own initiative and our entitlement as State subjects cum aspiring citizens of an increasingly globalised world, just as most of the rest of the world has done, rather than naively await for some sort of green signal or non existent certification from elsewhere to protect our lives, wealth & honour.
Only the people of this territory can guarantee peace in this territory and only the people of Jammu Kashmir & Allied (areas) can guarantee peace in their State. 78 years of regional conflict have proved that neither India nor Pakistan, or even the rest of the world can guarantee peace here.
Thus, I urge JAAC to shift their strategy to an internally designed governance delivery model, that will revive a thousands of years old peace economy, rather than persist with an externally reliant demands based governance delivery model, that will do its utmost to try and kill us to prevent delivery, whilst inevitably keeping our future generations stuck in a conflict economy.
If you all recall my public briefing to JAAC on the 30th of March 2026 in Dadyaal, I did state that we have overcome the prevention of rights barrier constructed by Muzaffarabad in May 2024 and are on the verge of overcoming the prevention of rights barrier constructed by Islamabad (Pakistan), as they have no intention of fulfilling these 38 demands you have enlisted and will turn on you to try and cover their incompetence. The next (3rd) barrier is our own egos which we have to manage in order to drive forward this internally designed governance delivery model, that has taken 21 years of independent research to complete and which requires an internal public contract between each other to succeed. This will prepare us for an external public contract with the rest of the world, the last and final (4th) barrier.
Finally, I urge you to concentrate on restoring our 'Right to Rule' (Haq e Hukmrani) in Poonch division first, where the people's authority is operating effectively in response to the massacre of our people by Pakistani security forces on the 7th & 8th of June 2026 in Rawalakot. Those who can secure their territory can also rule over it.
Poonch division's success will be emulated by Mirpur division and then Muzaffarabad division, just like the beginning of #RightsMovementAJK in 2023 began here in Poonch, before being adopted by Mirpur and then Muzaffarabad. In this respect, I maintain my stance as from the outset (5 June 2026) that we need not converge on Muzaffarabad. It was a capital decided externally to focus our attention on Srinagar. That all changed on the 5th of August 2019 when the joint understanding of India & Pakistan to usurp our State became clear to the world. We also need to change in light of what the Pakistani State is trying to do since the 5th of June 2026.
If we remain stuck on the 2nd barrier (Islamabad), we are in danger of being usurped by Pakistan and they will tell the world that JAAC had no internal plan for governance delivery and that is why they kept on making demands to us, which created chaos in the AJK territory. This is why we had to crush them before integrating this territory into Pakistan.
That is not a reflection of reality in AJK or its people's aspirations & reservations. Let us not play into the hands of the aggressively deceitful Pakistani State.
JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #EJAAC081426072026
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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 235 of 2026
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