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Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 261 of 2019

2221hrs:

The Pakistani State narrative tried to confront the internal narrative in Bhimber city today. The Pakistani State's illegal agency operatives tried their best to prevent activists of the Jammu Kashmir People's National Alliance (JKPNA) from distributing pamphlets to the public of Bhimber. However, they were thwarted by a firm civil society response and outrage from other parts of AJK and its diaspora. As explained hitherto, the AJK police are also a part of this society and thus share similar sentiments with the public. This sentiment can be encapsulated in the following messages:








Obviously this second image will have to be translated. Thus:

We vociferously condemn the illegality of the cowardly administration of Bhimber, which - without reason - kept Kashmiris under duress and stopped the public from propagating the truth.

End of translation.... 

It should be remembered that the word 'administration' is a euphemism for Pakistan's agencies which are now desperately trying to protect their country's narrative in AJK but with decreasing effect.

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Earlier, the following speech of the AJK prime minister made waves for its uncustomary bold advice to the Pakistani State, to effectively take a back seat in matters related to J & K: 




Parts of his speech was censored too, which increased the intrigue surrounding it:



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A British MEP has been busy discussing us in the European Parliament too:




However, as with all previous advocacy by British politicians, we urge them to stop thinking along bilateral terms. Here's my response to Phillip Bennion on his post:


We agree with most of your suggestions and analysis. We also thank you for your pro-active stance on this delicate issue. 


However, we do not think this issue can be resolved by India and Pakistan with an international mediator, even if it included Kashmiri representatives. That is a very unlikely scenario and even if it were to proceed thus, there would be little that the exclusive inheritors of this territory could claim. 


As someone who lives and thrives in a functioning democracy why do you not make suggestions for J & K that you would want for yourself if - God Forbid - the UK were to be occupied by France and Germany? 


Please support an internal political process in J & K without external interference. The world should accept a solution democratically created within J & K rather than open it further to regional and international intrigue.


End of my comment...


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This gentleman should not be forgotten. In fact, it could be said that our previous 200 years of history begins with him:




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Isn't it interesting that barely a day after the Pathan tribesmen are sent on a State sponsored visit to provoke the citizens of AJK into helping them repeat the horrors of 1947, the Pakistani prime minister has this to say:




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Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 253 of 2019

2243hrs:

We have finally arrived at the most serious end of State (re)formation in J & K.

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Good to see politicians in the UK pro-active on Kashmir but there remains a hazard:



I thought it fit to respond to this short, sharp yet highly informative video with the following remark within the post:

Everything you say is timely but your final suggestion in reference to the United Nations is deflective. I mean that it possibly deflects away the responsibility of the UK and is likely to confine the issue to regional bilateralism. There is a danger of us continuing to pass the buck between the regional and international order without any consideration for the local order in J & K, which holds the solution. 

End of my short speech to the Labour Party MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill..... 

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Equally active perhaps is this MEP from the Midlands too:



He responded to my friend's query about the slogan 'Kashmir Banega Pakistan' (Kashmir will become Pakistan) in relation to Pakistan's claim of advocating for self-determination.

Phillip Bennion to Sagir Ahmed:

I opened my statement saying that calling for Kashmir to join Pakistan was one of the road blocks to a solution. At no point did he counter this in his reply. He did refer to the autonomy agreed by India in the original agreement with the Maharajah

End of Phillip Bennion's response in the FB post above......

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Monday, 2 September 2019

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 245 of 2019

0521hrs:

Working for your nation upon whom your neighbours and some of those further afield have spent vast resources to keep ignorant is clearly an uphill endeavour. 

Its just as well that we live in the foothills of the Himalayas, where each peak reminds us that the sky isn't beyond reach.

The discussion continued in Dadyaal yesterday and many thanks to the Azad Kashmir Adabi (Literary) Society and Younus Taryabi Sahib in particular for summarising the meeting in the following post:


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Another meeting of national interest took place in Dadyaal yesterday, at a different venue and at a different time:



In discussion with Sardar Sagheer Khan of Rawalakot
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Conditions in Gilgit Baltistan will continue to be an almost constant feature here. Our politicians of the Kashmir Valley neglected Ladakh and look at what we are facing today in terms of State dismemberment. We in AJK cannot afford to commit the same crime with GB:




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This sounds like its travelling in the right direction, indeed it even validates my focal point about this being the end of Indo-Pak bilateralism in Jammu & Kashmir. A process I've been arguing against since my Rising Kashmir days in 2011:




If you can't read the text in the post above, here it is:


Speaking with the PM of “Azad” Kashmir this afternoon. He says the dispute is between India and the people of Kashmir and that Pakistan has no claim on the territory. Hence it cannot be resolved as a bilateral issue.

So said Phillip Bennion, a British liberal democrat MEP (Member of European Parliament) for the West Midlands. Though I would maintain that this is a pertinent matter for the UK parliament.

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