Daily Diary (DD) - Day 148 of 2026

2235hrs:

Reached home barely a couple of hours from nightfall, hopefully ending a tour that shaped out to involve 6 days of visiting 8 districts. 

I have to travel tomorrow morning too. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 335 of 2025

1238hrs:

Countdown to end of 2025: 31 days

Despite sleeping at around midnight, I did get up at 0700hrs. Just that 4 hours gap remains to be bridged.

We will get there, imminently.

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Our guests from Rawalakot Sajjad Afzal & Imran Shan had local socio-political organisational representatives come to Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Chowk, to visit them. Here are some photos for the record:

Here's the video of their thoughts at the end of their 2 day visit:

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Public Finance Update:

Number of co-citizens who have paid their share (over 20 years): 

14

Number of co-citizens who have paid a portion to date, since direct public funding began in 2012:

186

Number of co-citizens who have promised to pay:

80

Number of co-citizens I have directly contacted since arriving in Dadyaal (of total 5,000):

388

Cash in Hand: 420

Cash Deposits: 30,000

Immediate Debts: 56,000

Public funds received so far in Dadyaal (53 days - up to midnight 30/11/2025):

3K (Day 6)

5K (Day 15) 

5K (Day 17) 

0.2K (Day 20) 

1K (Day 21) 

1K (Day 22) 

0.3K (Day 24) 

3K (Day 25)

1K (Day 26) 

4K (Day 33) 

5K (Day 38) 

1K (Day 42)

2K (Day 44)

1K (Day 45)

4K (Day 46)

3.9K (Day 47)

30.2K (Day 49)

15K (Day 51)

20K (Day 53)

Total received so far: 105,600 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 166 of 2023

0952hrs:

Waking up to a sweet cool breeze in Dathote, at over 6,000 feet above sea level.

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We quickly move to our seventeenth TikTok video in 24 days of conducting #AJKReferendum2023 :

@ajkpublicagency #AJKReferendum2023#AJKReferendum2023#AJKReferendum2023 - Day 24 - #Dathote #Paachot #Rawalakot #Poonch #AJK - IS #15062023 ♬ original sound - Tanveer Ahmed

Then to our eighteenth TikTok video:

@ajkpublicagency #AJKReferendum2023#AJKReferendum2023#AJKReferendum2023 - Day 24 - #Dathote #Paachot #Rawalakot #Poonch #AJK - ZK #15062023 ♬ original sound - Tanveer Ahmed

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Our fourteenth and fifteenth replica videos of the above on YouTube shorts are available as below:

Here's our 14th offering on our YouTube channel ref. #AJKReferendum2023https://t.co/MSe3fQRRRI

— JKA PUBLIC AGENCY (@jkapublicagency) June 17, 2023

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Here's our 15th offering on our YouTube channel ref. #AJKReferendum2023https://t.co/PMG52J5dqD

— JKA PUBLIC AGENCY (@jkapublicagency) June 17, 2023

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Arriving in Thorar in Poonch today, we found that the public is already active via a sit-in protest that is into its 27th day:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 59 of 2022

0638hrs:

Day 40 at Martyr's Square Kotli

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Today's wisdom comes from Singapore of yesteryear:

Translation:

When you witness thieves becoming rulers in any city

There can be 2 reasons attributed to (this phenomenon)

Either that country's system is corrupt or the public (of that country)

Are unaware

Lee Kuan Yew (Statesman and founding father of Singapore)

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The Kashmiri Pandits can never be ignored in any present or future discussion on JKA:

Timely. https://t.co/y8XY2sx7fU

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) February 28, 2022

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There had to be an update on JKTV too:

 

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I realise that today - Day 40 at Shaheed Chowk - is auspicious on more than one front. The following message in Urdu reminded me:

اللہ پاک شب معراج کے صدقے ہم سب کو صحت وتندرستی عطا فرمائے زندگی و آخرت میں کامیابی عطا فرمائے آمین

Translation:

May Allah bless us all with health and strength on account of Shab e Miraj (literally translates to the Night of Ascent. It refers to the incident of Isra and Mairaj when the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was taken to the heavens and brought back overnight during his lifetime). May Allah bless us with success in this life and the hereafter. Ameen.

End of translation....

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It was truly heartening to see and hear my comrades Baba Jaan of Hunza in Gilgit Baltistan, Imran Shan and Ilyas Khalid (both) of Dathote in Union Council Paachot in Rawalakot voice their solidarity for my 'Public Policy Workshop' at Shaheed Chowk Kotli:

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Here's a thoughtful write-up by a young public rights activist in Hajeera:

Social contract and Awami Action Committee

Sardar Mohsin Mumtaz

There are countless taxes - including fuel adjustment - which you might see on your utility bills. On the other hand there is a tax on the purchase and sale of mobile phones, property taxes and hundreds of such other taxes which we directly pay to the State. 

The question is, what does the State give in return?

We have to directly purchase everything from education to health facilities, including even a sachet of Disprin, with our own money. Justice is expensive too, which for the most part is out of the reach of the common people of the State. A respectable citizen is frightened even to walk passed the police station. 

Then where are our taxes utilised?

There are 53 MLAs (local members of the legislative assembly, 6 lent officers from Pakistan, 3 DIGs (Deputy Inspector Generals) and 3 Commissioners in 3 divisions of AJK, 10 Deputy Commissioners in 10 districts of AJK, 32 Assistant Commissioners in 32 subdivisions of AJK, up to 150,000 government employees in total. There is more yet. 'We' also have a battalion of ministers. All the aforementioned are enjoying their status on taxes raised from our masses. 

They have all failed thus far to work for the welfare of c. 5 million people of our State, of which possibly as much as 2 million are in the diaspora world-wide, many of whom regularly send much needed foreign exchange in the shape of remittances, which aid the Pakistani State to keep their country economically afloat. 

There is a burgeoning question mark on the existence of this battalion of 'public' servants.

Do you fear to raise questions about your rights? 

Are you not raising your voices because you think you will be murdered?

Then listen my dear co citizens! 

Graveyards are full of people who were afraid of death.

This paradise on earth has been converted into a hell for our people, by the oppressors and their facilitators. 

Raise your voices against them, write against them, come out onto the roads and play your due role. 

All political parties - in subdivision Hajira of Poonch district - have established by consensus Awami Action Committee against the brutalities, exploitation, looting and plundering of the resources of AJK. 

I urge the people of AJK to establish identical forums in their respective subdivisions too, to counter the lawlessness prevailing in AJK.

End of write-up....

Here's the original Urdu write-up:

عمرانی معاہدہ اور عوامی ایکشن کمیٹی

سردار محسن ممتاز

فیول ایڈجسٹمنٹ سمیت ایسے بے شمار ٹیکسز ہوتے ہیں جو آپ نے اپنے بجلی بل پر دیکھتے ہیں، دوسری طرف اگر موبائل خریدنے اور اس کو چارج کرنے بھاری ٹیکس، زمین خریدنے اور بیچنے پہ بھاری ٹیکس اور بے شمار طرح طرح کے ٹیکسز لیے تو جاتے ہیں لیکن ہمیں ریاست کیا دیتی ہے؟

ہم تعلیم اپنے پیسوں پہ خریدتے ہیں، صحت، علاج معالجہ تو دور ڈسپرین کی بیس روپے کا ساشے بھی ہم بازار سے خریدتے ہیں، مہنگا انصاف، تھانے کچہریوں کے آگئے سے گزرتے ہوئے بھی ایک باعزت شہری خوف کھاتا ہے، پھر ہمارا دیا ہوا ٹیکس کدھر جاتا ہے؟ 

ہمارے ٹیکسز پہ پلنے والے 53 ایم ایل ایز، دو درجن سے زائد سیکرٹریز، 6 لینٹ آفیسرز، ہر ڈویژن میں ڈی آئی جی، تین کمشنرز، دس ڈی سیز، 32 اسسٹنٹ کمشنرز، ڈیڑھ لاکھ سے زائد ریاست کے ملازمین۔۔۔۔۔۔۔ اور ایک وزرا، بیوروکریٹس کی فوج ظفر موج، اگر یہ سب مل کر چالیس لاکھ اکتالیس ہزار نفوس پہ مشتمل اس مختصر آبادی جس میں سے دو ملین تو بیرون ریاست زرمبادلہ کما کر اس فوج ظفر موج کا پیٹ بھرتے ہیں، کہ ویلفئیر نہیں کر سکتے، تعلیم، روزگار، صحت اور دیگر بنیادی انسانی سہولیات نہیں دے سکتے تو پھر ان کے وجود کی وجہ؟ 

کیا آپ یہ سب سوچنے سے خوفزدہ ہیں؟

 اس لیے نہیں بولتے کہ مارے جائو گئے؟

 تو سنو قبرستان ان اربوں لوگوں سے بھرے پڑے ہیں جو اس لیے نہیں بولتے تھے کیونکہ ان کو خوف تھا کہ وہ موت کی گھاٹ اتارے جائیں گئے

اس جنت کو آپ  کے لئے جنھوں نے جہنم بنایا ہوا ہے، ان کے خلاف بولیں، لکھیں، سڑکوں پہ نکلیں، اپنے حصے کا کردار ادا کریں، تحصیل ہجیرہ میں تمام سیاسی جماعتوں کے اتفاق رائے سے بننے والی عوامی ایکشن کمیٹی کی کال پہ لبیک کریں اور اسی طرح کی انجمنیں پوری ریاست کے اندر بنا کر اپنے حقوق کے لئے آواز بلند کریں وگرنہ ہر آنے والا دن بد سے بدتر ہوتا جائے گا، 

سردار محسن ممتاز

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 229 of 2019

0141hrs:

Here's further footage from 7,000 feet in Jandaali, Poonch on the 14th of August, uploaded by one of our star activists in AJK, Imran Shan of Dathote, Poonch.

What was the gist of the clip?

Each divided part of J & K should represent itself. An Inclusive and representative internal discussion should proceed.....

It's always an honour for me to receive so much attention from Imran....

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The following is a dilemma for our citizens, which they have yet to overcome:

If you cannot recognise the efforts and achievement of a citizen working on a collective responsibility, then how can you recognise the importance of the State (of AJK > J & K)?

Please note that the State is defined here as an aggregate of a given number of citizens holding title to ownership of a geographically defined territory.

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The following image is very apt and current:



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This type of disaster is likely to happen with more frequency in AJK as Pakistan has little clue about water management and is hell bent on extracting whatever it can from this territory:



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Although this interview was recorded on the 13th in Muzaffarabad, it was uploaded today. It should give one a sense of how an internal narrative is rapidly crystallising in AJK:



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