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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