Daily Diary (DD) - Day 70 of 2025

1808hrs:

Inputting today's entry almost on the stroke of iftaar. 

A lot of thoughts mixed with a proportionate amount of action. 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 161 of 2022

0736hrs:

Day 5 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0759hrs

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A few steps forward can be followed by a few steps back but we have to keep on driving ourselves forward. Its the overall journey that matters. 

Despite everything, today is Day 5 of our 2 hour 'Public Policy Workshop' - between 0800hrs and 1000hrs - at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square in Dadyaal. No interruptions or complications so far.

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Further disturbing news of intensifying occupation of AJK:

زراٸع کے مطابق سدھن گلی باغ، صوبہ جموں، ریاست جموں کشمیر میں پاکستان نیوی اور اٸیر فورس کو چھ کنال اراضی ریسٹ ھاوس کے لیے الاٹ کی گٸ ھے۔#Azad #Kashmir @MughalAmiruddin @sahaafi@UsmanTariqUSK@HamidMirPAK@GulBukharihttps://t.co/JCaRgmibwB

— Zaara (@zaara_kashmiri) June 10, 2022

Translation of above tweet:

According to sources, the Pakistani navy and airforce have been alloted 6 kanaals (0.75 or 75% of an acre) of land for a resthouse in Sudhan Gali - Bagh, the province of Jammu in the State of Jammu Kashmir.

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Raging forest fires in AJK. The following example is of Pateeka:

 

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 52 of 2022

0956hrs:

Day 33 at Martyr's Square Kotli

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Update from Shaheed Chowk at 1020hrs:

The Assistant Commissioner of Kotli just visited me at the Chowk and threatened to get me removed from the Chowk, if I don't leave voluntarily.

We understand from sources within the AJK government that the Defence Minister of Pakistan is applying pressure on the Kotli district administration to remove me as soon as possible.

My stance is that the District Constitutional Conciliation Committee comprising of 5 MLAs and 5 prominent nationalists of the district sit and listen to my stance.

Whatever they vote in the majority I will abide by. Otherwise, I am staying put in Shaheed Chowk.

If I am forcibly removed I will conduct a hunger strike till death.

I know that India and Pakistan want to permanently divide JKA between themselves as soon as possible.

Over my dead body I say.

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An Urdu translation of the above note:

شہید چوک کوٹلی 10:20

اسسٹنٹ کمشنر کوٹلی ابھی ابھی شہید چوک میں میرے پاس آیا اور مجھے دھمکی دی کہ اگر میں خود یہاں سے نہیں اٹھا تو طاقت کا استعمال کر کہ مجھے یہاں سے اٹھا دیا جائے گا ۔

آذاد جموں کشمیر کی حکومت کے اندرونی ذرائع سے ہمیں پتہ چلا ہے کہ پاکستان کا وزیر دفاع ضلع کوٹلی کی انتظامیہ پر مجھے جلد از جلد شہید چوک کوٹلی سے اٹھانے کے لئے پریشر ڈال رہا ہے۔

میرا نقظہ نظر یہ ہے کہ "ضلعی آئینی مصالحتی کمیٹی" جو کہ  پانچ ایم ایل ایز اور  ضلع کے پانچ نمایاں آذادی پسند پر مشتمل ہے، میرے ساتھ بیٹھیں اور میرا نقظہ نظر سنیں۔

جو بھی وہ اکثریتی فیصلہ کریں گئے میں اس پہ عمل کروں گا۔ اس کے علاوہ، میں شہید چوک سے نہیں اٹھوں گا۔

اگر مجھے طاقت کے زور پر اٹھایا گیا تو میں تادم مرگ بھوک ہڑتال کروں گا۔

میں جانتا ہوں کہ انڈیا اور پاکستان جموں کشمیر اور متحدہ علاقہ جات کو جلد از جلد مستقل طور پہ  تقسیم کرنا چاہتے ہیں جو کہ میری صرف موت پر ہی ممکن ہے

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Many of my co-citizens immediately got to work to spread their concerns about the behaviour of the AJK government. Here is a notable example:  

On Twitter:

  

ہم سمجھتے ہیں کہ وزیر دفاع پاکستان کوٹلی کی ضلعی انتظامیہ پر دباؤ ڈال رہے ہیں کہ تنویر صاحب کو جلد از جلد کوٹلی چوک سے ہٹا دیا جائے۔ اسی وجہ سے اسسٹنٹ کمشنر نے دھمکی دیا کہ اگر @sahaafi رضاکارانہ طور پر نہ گئے تو انہیں زبردستی ہٹایا جائے گا۔#StandWithSahaafi #StandWithTanveer pic.twitter.com/I1D0igbdTd

— AKLM_0FFICIAL_URDU (@AKLM_0FFICIAL) February 21, 2022

A good point emerged from the above:

  

اسسٹنٹ کمشنر اور انکے ساتھیوں کے ساتھ کیخلاف مکمل احتجاج کرنا چاہیے ورنہ آزاد ریاست کا کیا مطلب

— BABAR NAZIR🍁🍁 (@Baba_r2) February 21, 2022

Translation of above tweet:

We should conduct an all out strike (peaceful demonstration) against the Assistant Commissioner (Kotli), otherwise what is the meaning of a 'free' State? (AJK is described as the 'free' part of the State of Jammu & Kashmir).

  

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Thank you Facebook for bringing up apt memories:

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Here's the all important discussion on what happened this morning and its after effects. A summary in English is also included at the end:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 210 of 2020

1043hrs:

I'm still in Mirpur and I know many of my co-citizens are waiting for me to arrive at their respective stations on my journey from Chamb to Sharda. However, I must obtain parity in the groundwork that I have done so far and its visibility on various social media platforms. Given that I've covered about 20% of my AJK wide journey thus far, it will become increasingly difficult to develop that parity mentioned above if I don't address it now.

Meanwhile, let me embed a few tweets of my co-citizens which confirm that many of us are fully tuned to what is happening around us and increasingly so:

I'll begin with some activism on the other side of JKA:

After Dogras, Now Kashmiri Pandits Demand Restoration of Article 370

Via @TheKashmiriyat https://t.co/gnHgmVxyHm

— قاضی شبلی (@QaziShibli) July 27, 2020

The following stunt being envisaged by the Pakistani State should be stopped in its tracks. Otherwise, it will be all downhill from here:

We need to stop them @ Kohalla & declare them as persona non grata. We want 2 avoid confrontation with the Pakistani State but it is forcing our hand with such pathetic stunts! A size-able number of the citizens of #AJK shud peacefully line up as a wall @ our border with Pakistan https://t.co/YdAjm3RcwX

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) July 28, 2020

Now, over to the White House in the USA, albeit a clip from last year which explains in just a few words what the internal narrative of JKA amounts to:

A video clip from last year demonstration of Kashmiris in Front of White House .
Kashmir for Kashmiris- Not for India Not for Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/YQsE1rwsLf

— Raja Muzaffar (@Rajammuzaffar) July 27, 2020

Finally, we return to reality in our home territory, which the Pakistanis used to term as 'base camp' to dupe us into thinking that we were free and that our territory would be used to free the Indian-controlled side:

There is a vicious attempt to control social media in Pakistan Administration Kashmir. Now if you want to run a page, you have to get registered.

National Truth will be the only truth. #Kashmir pic.twitter.com/ih9vSqPBpR

— Qaisar Javed (@iamQaisarJaved) July 27, 2020

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 341 of 2019

1933hrs:

Another day spent engaged with various aspects of the judiciary. 5 hours in total with lunch in between.

Meanwhile, Pakistan's propaganda offensive is working hard on preparing the ground for replicating what the Indians have visibly done since August the 5th. This is the best of what they produce, using the same decades old format:

Balley balley.......Saddar Sb khud mehmaan apney makaan me? Aur #Pakistaniyat #Kashmir ki Azaadi ki tehreek ka androona hissa? Phir, #Indians bhi kehte hain ke Kashmir un ka androona ma-amla hay. Ab dono itney andar ghus gaye hain to #Kashmiri phir kaha hain? https://t.co/xEk2TbUGoO

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) December 7, 2019

A translation of the re-tweeted comment is in order:

Now then! The honourable president is a guest in his own house. While Pakistan-ism is an intrinsic part of Kashmir's freedom movement. Then the Indians also claim Kashmir to be their internal matter. Now that both have entered so deep (into this territory) then where do Kashmiris stand? 

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Keeping up with this daily routine is almost empowering:



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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 237 of 2019

1404hrs:

The following means a lot in the context of relations between Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir:

I had been waiting for such a crucial interjection, for years. Thank you Mirza Sb! https://t.co/MFFrRxGonf

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) August 25, 2019

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The Pakistani State encroaches in AJK as well as GB. Here's an example:



Translated thus:

There is encroachment happening here too! 

It was on the 26th of July when I had decided to spend some time on leisure travelling. It was my heart's desire that I venture out towards the mountain of Makra. 

I proceeded towards Garhi Habeebullah (in Hazara - Pakistan from Muzaffarabad via Brarkot) and a place above there by the name of Galothi. From this point I descended to begin my journey by foot. I noticed gradually that there were lights fixed in cement which signified the border between Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir, thus distinguishing both territories.

From here, I walked to Pir Chilla. Then to Noor Gali above followed by Dath Katha before finally reaching Danna. At this stage, the boundary began appearing strange as from the point where I had begun my jouney on foot and proceeded, I learned that this path was the actual border (between Pakistan and AJK). However, there was no marking of a border whatsoever!

I realised that the markings here were very deep inside (AJK territory) and thus I eventually reached the foot of Makra mountain. Up to here, the markings were similar to that explained before and I thought that these must be permanent markings. Yet upon inquiring from an individual present there the situation became clearer. 

This individual explained that he (and his family/colleagues) vacate this area in the winter and descend from these heights below into agricultural fields/areas. He further explained that when he returned this time (this spring) to these heights, he noticed a KPK (Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa province of Pakistan adjacent to Northern AJK) Dept of Forestry building erected here.

A 'fresh' demarcation had been made. Now, there were guards/constables stationed here too, who supervise the area and don't allow anybody in. 

Also present there was an old man from whom I pursued further information on this route/path. He told me that this path is of the Dogra era (pre 1947). Then people used to take goods on this route/path and apart from that - being a border - the Dogra army was also present and this was indeed the original border.

My dear friends, comrades and co-citizens; we have heard that KPK has been regularly interfering and encroaching in GB (Gilgit Baltistan) but we had never heard that KPK was interfering here in AJK too, albeit all too subtly.

In this modern era, there is much less traffic of people in this area and our public rarely use this path. This is being exploited by our neighbours. There is much for us to ponder over.

Wasalaam

Khan Umair Khan


At Muzaffarabad, J & K, capital of AJK

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Meanwhile, here is my standard response to anybody who wishes or urges Pakistan to do something on J & K:

My response to all Pakistani citizens and their State is to stop talking about Kashmir and silently vacate AJK and GB. 

Both these territories are desperate to represent themselves to the outside world. 

It is in such a scenario that we in AJK will be able to assist the Valley of Kashmir, Jammu and Ladakh; if they so desire. 

This is a legal, moral, peaceful, democratic battle on behalf of the citizens of Jammu & Kashmir against India. 

Pakistan has already wasted 57 years since K. H. Khursheed made a similar suggestion while President of AJK in 1962.

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