Daily Diary (DD) - Day 219 of 2026

0608hrs:

I continue to stretch my energy levels at the age of 54, in order to bring you on-the-ground details and/or analysis of this pathetic war imposed by Pakistan on AJK, now into its 64th day of 'execution'. 

We are straining to collect precise and up-to-date data on the human cost of this war, though an almost complete communications black-out is hampering this objective:

Since 5 June 2026, at least:

200 killed (or missing presumed dead) 

1,000 injured 

2,000 arrested

Many thousands more harassed, properties damaged, businesses sealed, FIRs lodged etc.

Thankfully, there is also a dedicated web portal that is logging human rights violations in our territory and this should gradually prove to be an invaluable reference viz. Jammu Kashmir Human Rights Observatory

We are of course using every peaceful means possible to avert this mayhem and our diaspora is as practically involved as we are in pursuing a permanent end to this war. 

Examples of angles pursued:

1) First and foremost, an on-the-ground peaceful rights movement in AJK, which has gradually obtained the support and potential mobilisation of 90% of our population. 

2) Creating awareness and mobilisation (wherever practical) of our diaspora throughout the world and especially in the United Kingdom, using peaceful protests & marches to highlight the plight of our people. 

3) Alerting & informing all relevant human rights organisations (both at home & abroad) of factual details on the ground. 

4) Engaging UK MPs (especially those of AJK origin followed by those parliamentary constituencies where our diaspora's vote is critical). The aim is to utilise them as the most appropriate form of mediation between an un-armed & practically disenfranchised population, up against a neighbouring country armed to the teeth and carrying a perception that they are the sole arbiters of this territory, while enjoying immunity from any form of prosecution for their aggressive intent. 

It is encouraging to learn that Imran Hussain MP (Bradford East) and chair of APPGK (All Parties Parliamentary Group on Kashmir) has not only regularly raised his voice inside & outside parliament but has in fact also written to the Pakistani 'State' announcing his intent to mediate on this crisis. He hasn't received a response yet! 

Meanwhile, this writer is intent on focussing on the United Kingdom's legal responsibility to tackle the unnecessary dilemma that it created (Jammu Kashmir as a territorial issue between neighbouring countries while practically subtracting the people), against the very rules that it created viz. Indian Independence Act 1947.

Given that UK MPs in general as well as the UK government in particular, are not going beyond making generic appeasing statements to both sides while professing to closely monitor the situation, it has become necessary to explore legal avenues to compel them to fulfill their legal responsibility. 

We will begin by framing a petition in an appropriate UK court and if that is not accepted or if that doesn't provide legal remedy, we will explore the possibility of filing an application against the UK government in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at The Hague, in the Netherlands. 

Simultaneously, we are trying to engage the UK public at large on the prospect of them empathising with our plight (born out of British colonial decision-making) and co-operating with a day's lockdown of the UK, given that we have entered our 64th day of an imposed lockdown. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 215 of 2026

0436hrs:

For the past week or so - with a rising level of intensity - I have sensed that I need to now communicate with the world (and especially the UK, both government and people) on a daily basis, as opposed to the week long (and even longer) gaps exercised to date, since this idiotic conflict was imposed on us on the 5th of June 2026.

More so than writing, I sense the need to communicate via video podcast in English on a daily basis. 

If we continue to fail in bringing this conflict to its natural end, I will contemplate engaging with the world (especially the UK) on an hourly basis in due course. Just in this past week (we have entered Day 60 today) we have witnessed over 50 deaths imposed on our people. 

This killing spree is eerily almost representative of all 10 districts of AJK. We've suffered direct & targeted shooting of peaceful protestors by Pakistani Rangers in Rawalakot (Poonch), Mirpur, Kotli, Muzaffarabad & Neelam Valley; while those killed in Rawalakot on the 27th of July include victims from almost every district. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 154 of 2026

0253hrs:

Yes, another false start but true in every other sense!

We have reached boiling point in our differences with the powers-that-be, hitherto ruling this territory of AJK practically un-opposed.

A lot has changed in these past 3 years and our neighbouring countries are finding it difficult to come to terms with. All will be ok if the route of violence and provocation towards such is avoided by all parties concerned. Hence, the following circular drafted after a lag of 2 years:

This is a brief civil society safety alert (alarm) from the public of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) to the UK Government

Openly published by Tanveer Ahmed Rafique by all means available to ensure transparency and inclusivity of all stakeholders concerned, on Wednesday the 3rd of June 2026 at 0205hrs.

An independent action-oriented grassroots-funded public policy researcher, working un-interrupted on-the-ground in the aforementioned territory since April 2005, with hitherto journalistic experience of other international conflict zones & British parliamentary affairs. 

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The situation in AJK, in the backdrop of a continuous 3 year long peaceful #RightsMovementAJK and its unfulfilled public demands - agreed in writing by both the government in Muzaffarabad and representatives of the State of Pakistan - has reached such a level of uncertainty that the local inhabitants are in clear danger of losing their life, wealth & honour. This creates direct concern for our diaspora throughout the world (especially & primarily in the United Kingdom).

Sources on the ground fear a '5 August 2019 Indian-controlled Jammu Kashmir Ladakh' type of operation being launched here imminently. 

Talks have hit the end of the road and final deadline on 31 May 2026, vis a vis Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee JK #JAAC and the powers-that-be in Pakistan. 

This is after months and years of a repeated cycle of dialogue, death, time-bound written promises and deadlines.

The public of AJK - ably and peacefully mass mobilised by JK JAAC - would consider further repetition of the above sequence to constitute a waste of time, energy and resources of all parties concerned. 

To maintain the peace, the local police supported by the public are most vested in peace in AJK. It is to be remembered that this is an organic rights movement indigenously created and a vast improvement on all previous rights movements in the territory - including pre 1947 - both in terms of maintaining the peace while delivering incrementally to the people. 

Critically, this movement can not afford any more deaths or even arrests, in fact any kind of harassment is no longer tolerable. At least 13 deaths can be directly attributed to reactionary external security force interventions to prevent mass public mobilisation, the latter always proceeding in an exemplary peaceful manner worthy of being described as world class. 

The movement will remain peaceful in all circumstances - all stakeholders in the territory including the Government of AJK have publicly and repeatedly pledged to ensure no member of the public or police is killed in any future mass public mobilisation, including that envisaged for the 9th of June 2026, from (Chamb) Bhimber in the South to the capital Muzaffarabad in the North.

As with all previous movements, documented evidence of multiple deaths - if not all - can be attributed to paramilitary forces entering AJK from the territory of Pakistan, in a hurried last-minute manner. 

Pakistan does have a constituency in AJK, though not much more than 10% by this stage of the movement, although at least another 20% hold it in high regard, despite respectfully disagreeing with its claim on the territory, at the cost of the legally entitled locals. 

Most importantly, the people here have come to realise that neither Muzaffarabad nor Islamabad are providing timely relief, without prejudice to our respective claims & entitlements. 

In recent years, the slogans 'Haq e Malkiyat' (Right of Ownership) & 'Haq e Hukmrani' (Right to Rule) have been echoing throughout the 1,771 villages scattered in the Western Himalayas enveloping AJK. 

(Internal) Remedy

This now requires internal dialogue or 'Androona Mukaalima', which will be a monthly all-stakeholder-inclusive internal political process, which will peacefully work out the resource delivery dilemma afflicting this territory since 1947.

While the set-up in Muzaffarabad - as an internal stakeholder - will always remain engaged in this process, the Pakistani State are at liberty to continue conferring with the Muzaffarabad government at any stage. 

In short, the internal rights movement searching for solutions internally will be a more secure way of maintaining the peace in the coming days, weeks, months and years ahead. 

We - the people of the territory at large - are not seeking external intervention from any angle of the geopolitical spectrum. We are merely sharing our concerns to the widest audience we have outside AJK viz. our UK diaspora, which will no doubt have implications for the anxiety of loved ones, deeply reliant on what has been a many-decades-old deeply integrated socio-economic relationship between this territory and the hundreds of thousands of UK citizens maintaining connectivity with their roots here.

This scenario directly impacts UK government policy and playing a part in peace would be inevitable for all affected parties; given that the people of AJK are mature enough to ensure their own security, without external input. 

For the record and as future reference for dialogue with the world, human rights documentation is also being prepared to present to the United Kingdom’s APPGK (All Parties Parliamentary Group on Kashmir), detailing all the arrests and deaths of our aspiring citizens in the peaceful rights movement since its mass public emergence in 2003.

Background references:

TA000001/AJKUKUSAGHRGMJKA/05052024/SGEC0001

TA000002/AJKUKJKA/16032022/SGEC0002

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JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #EUKGVT020503062026

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Further Note:

This alert was initially published as an update at the following link at the time & date notified in the alert as written above.

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Before the end of the working day in the UK, Imran Hussain MP put out the following video message to the prime minister of Pakistan in particular, in reference to the deadlock in talks between representatives of the Pakistani State and JAAC, giving mention to the human rights aspect too:

This was the response I sent to him:

A timely response to what has essentially emerged as British colonial legacy. 

it's good to see you standing for #Peace & #Dialogue 'Mukaalima' as is the stated aim of #RightsMovementAJK , a purely peaceful organic grass-roots rights movement operating in #AJK since 2003, as JAAC (Joint  Awami Action Committee). 

background reference:

https://www.change.org/p/global-civil-society-recognition-for-a-public-policy-framework-for-jammu-kashmir-allied/u/34730681

#Conflict2PeaceStrategyJKA

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 143 of 2026

1943hrs:

Running strong in Dadyaal, where a lot of branches have given fruit, since 2020 in particular. 

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جموں کشمیر کی دائمی تقسیم اور انضمام کا پرامن، اخلاقی، قانونی (تحقیقی) اور جمہوری (سیاسی) 

تریاق و تدبیر       

 

ہم 21 سال سے تحقیقی بنیادوں پر تیاری کر رہے ہیں، برطانوی پارلیمنٹ کے فلور پر ایک ڈیبیٹ کے لیے، جو جموں کشمیر اور متحدہ علاقہ جات کی عوام کے حقِ حکمرانی (کو غیر قانونی طور پر محروم کرنے) کے موضوع پر ہو۔

موجودہ برطانوی پارلیمنٹ کے بزرگوں نے 1947 میں اپنے ہی بنائے ہوئے قانون (قانونِ آزادیِ ہند) کی خلاف ورزی کرتے ہوئے, انڈیا اور پاکستان کو ہر قسم کی سہولت فراہم کی: ریاست جموں کشمیر میں مداخلت (کرنے) کے لیے۔ یہ یاد رہے کہ اسی برطانوی پارلیمنٹ کے ذریعے انڈیا اور پاکستان وجود میں آئے تھے۔

اس عمل کا آغاز ایک ایسا (ڈیبیٹ) مکالمہ کی صورت میں ہو، جو اس دھرتی سے جنم لیتا ہو.... اور یہاں کے لوگوں کے ذریعے ناپ تول کر، اس کو تحریری شکل دے کر، ہر اس گاؤں (انتظامی موضع) کے عوام کے ذریعے، ان سب برطانوی پارلیمانی نمائندوں

(UK MPs)

سے رابطہ کیا جائے، جن کے بنیادی گاؤں اور آباؤ اجداد کا تعلق جموں کشمیر اور متحدہ علاقہ جات کی دھرتی سے ہو۔

ایک سٹیج پر جا کر ان تاریکِ وطن برطانوی پارلیمنٹ کے ممبران کو یہاں آزاد جموں و کشمیر میں آنے کی دعوت بھی دینی پڑے گی۔ لندن یہاں پر اثر انداز ہے لگ بھگ 3 صدیوں سے، اس کی ایک حصے کی ذمہ داری ہے یہاں، باقی ذمہ داری ہم پہلے بھی لیتے آئے ہیں (ذاتی طور پر 21 سال سے) اور آگے ہم سب ہم وطن بھی لیں گے۔ ہم مظفرآباد اور اسلام آباد کو عبور کر چکے ہیں، ابھی ہم اپنی انا کو سنبھالنے کی کوش کر رہے ہیں، جو مشق ہمیں تیار کرے گی دنیا کے ساتھ معاہدہ کرنے کے لیے، بشمول اقوامِ متحدہ، اگر ایسا کچھ قابلِ عمل ہوا تو۔

JKA PUBLIC AGENCY Note: #U010723052026

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