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Saturday, 26 February 2022

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 57 of 2022

1642hrs:

Day 38 at Martyr's Square Kotli

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This is wisdom too!
ہمیں خبر ہے دشمن کے سب ٹھکانوں کی

 شریک جرم نہ ہوتے تو مخبری کرتے

Translation:

We know all the dens and hideouts of the enemy
We would 'blow the whistle' if we were not complicit 

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Sada e Chanar continues its regular coverage of our 'Public Policy Workshop' at Shaheed Chowk. Today it has covered our direct letter to the UK prime minister Boris Johnson:


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From Khwaja Nadeem Aslam of Mirpur AJK, currently settled in the UK:

According to Indian independence act, the sovereignty upon J&K that vested in His Excellency lapsed and with the treaty of Amritsar also lapsed. Unfortunately the CABINET MISSION has either missed to distinguish between those princely states which were sovereign, had surrendered to the crown and were reverted back to the sovereign by section 7 of the Indian Independence Act or the British deliberately kept the loophole to keep newly created two neighbouring countries involved in permanent acrimony. 

SOVEREIGNTY WOULD NOT REMAIN IN VACUUM,IT TRANSFORMED O ZERO HOUR OF 15th AUGUST 1947 TO THE PEOPLE OF JAMMU KASHMIR who lived in this political geography that was created in consequences of the treaty of Amritsar immediately after March 1846 by the donee of the treaty, Ghulab Singh and which extended upon the present three parts Viz Indian Kashmir, Azad Kashmir and northern districts Gilgit Baltistan etc.

The net result is that Hari Singh was not at per with other Rajas, Maharajas and Nawab's. They had sovereignty upon their respective States which the Ruler of Jammu Kashmir (Gulab Singh to Hari Singh) never had. Thus Maharaja Hari Singh had no Locus Standi to accede Jammu Kashmir with any Dominion.

In Urdu:

میرپور آزاد جموں و کشمیر کے خواجہ ندیم اسلم سے جو اس وقت برطانیہ میں مقیم ہیں:
  
آذادی ہند کے قانون کے مطابق مطابق، جموں و کشمیر کی خودمختاری، جو کہ مہاراجہ ریاست کی وجہ سے قائم تھی، ختم ہو گئی اور اسی طرح معاہدہ امرتسر بھی ختم ہو گیا۔ بدقسمتی سے کیبنٹ مشن بھی ان برطانوی شاہی ریاستوں میں فرق قائم کرنے میں ناکام ہو گیا جو کہ خودمختار تھیں، جنھوں نے ریاستی مہاراجے کا قبضہ چھوڑ دیا تھا اور  آزادی ہند کے قانون کی سیکشن 7 کے ذریعہ خودمختار کی طرف واپس جانا یا انگریزوں نے جان بوجھ کر نئے پیدا ہونے والے دو پڑوسی ممالک کو مستقل کشمکش میں ملوث رکھنے کے لئے خامی کو برقرار رکھا۔  خودمختاری خلا میں نہیں رہے گی، یہ 15 اگست 1947 کو جموں کشمیر کے لوگوں کے لیے صفر میں تبدیل ہو گئی جو اس سیاسی جغرافیہ میں رہتے تھے جو 18 مارچ 1846 کے معاہدے امرتسر کے معاہدے کے نتیجے میں پیدا ہوا تھا۔  سنگھ اور جو موجودہ تین حصوں یعنی ہندوستانی کشمیر، آزاد کشمیر، اور شمالی اضلاع گلگت بلتستان وغیرہ پر پھیلا ہوا ہے۔

 اس کا نتیجہ یہ ہے کہ ہری سنگھ دوسرے راجوں، مہاراجہوں اور نوابوں کے برابر نہیں تھے۔ ان کی اپنی اپنی ریاستوں پر وہ حاکمیت تھی جو جموں کشمیر کے حکمران (گلاب سنگھ سے ہری سنگھ) کے پاس کبھی نہیں تھی۔  جموں کشمیر کو کسی بھی تسلط کے ساتھ الحاق کرنا۔

end of Urdu translation of Nadeem Aslam's note....

My response (MR): 

It's a good summary. There is a monarchic argument and a republican argument. Both can proceed. They would need evidence of representative public opinion and a group of politicians who claim to reflect and advocate that public opinion. In short, you need to identify what has been missing for 75 years.

Urdu translation:

میرا جواب (ایم آر):
 
یہ ایک اچھا خلاصہ ہے۔  یہاں ایک بادشاہی دلیل ہے اور ایک جمہوری دلیل ہے۔  دونوں دلائل آگئے بڑھ سکتے ہیں۔  انہیں نمائندہ عوامی رائے کے ثبوت اور سیاست دانوں کے ایک گروپ کی ضرورت ہوگی جو اس رائے عامہ کی عکاسی اور وکالت کرنے کا دعویٰ کرتے ہیں۔  مختصر میں، آپ کو اس بات کی نشاندہی کرنے کی ضرورت ہے جو 75 سالوں سے کیا غائب ہے۔

End of Urdu translation of my response....

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We feature on JKTV on average every other day or three. Today's guests were Sardar Shameem Khan and Advocate Raja Mazhar Iqbal of Kotla Barmoch in tehsil Khuiratta:


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Good to see Baba Jaan in action once again, speaking boldly and humorously about the imminent 'provisional' provincial status for Gilgit Baltistan:


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I was invited to take part in this discussion with primary focus on Gilgit Baltistan. It was a reasonably good discussion but I would advise my pro Pakistani co-citizens to learn to give equal space to other participants.

They are losing the argument with their emotional approach as well as their weak evidence.

Note: The audio of this programme isn't clear until 0:51 seconds


For the ease of the reader and/or watcher of the programme above, I spoke during the following segments of this almost 2 hour programme:

17:30 - 20:52

53:04 - 1:03:35 
(55:18 - Sardar Muhammad Haleem Khan interjects 
57:32 interjects again - 
1:00:26 interjects once again)

1:11:35 - 1:13:00

1:26:50 - 1:29:05

1:53:09 - interjected by Nadeem Naik 

1:53:23 - 1:54:55
  
You can also watch this programme on YouTube:


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Friday, 18 February 2022

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 49 of 2022

0919hrs:

Day 30 at Martyr's Square Kotli

Sada e Chanar takes the initiative once again:


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Our lawyers in Kotli are also beginning to take the initiative too. Many thanks to Raja Mazhar Iqbal Advocate of Kotla in tehsil Khuiratta:


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Art and politics. Economic extraction and propaganda. AJK and Gilgit Baltistan:


Translation of the text:

Resources

The United State of Jammu Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, Ladakh and Tibet Ha.

Afzaaliyat (The sayigs of Afzaal Hamdani of Hattian)

The 4 direct pipes represent:

1) Pakistan
2) China 
3) India
4) The elites of Kashmir

The calf is the average Kashmiri

End...

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Thursday, 20 January 2022

Daily Diary (DD) - Day 20 of 2022

0328hrs:

Day 01 at Martyr's Square - Kotli - AJK

The land of Ratan Singh's descendants, adjacent to the 'Chatti Badshahat' of the Sikhs of Muzaffarabad and occupied by fellow affectees of the 1947 religious-based conflict in Jammu Kashmir & Allied took another horrible turn just after midnight.

Malik Waseem, his brother Naeem Malik, Naeem's son Asad and their maternal nephew Saad, 4 womenfolk and 3 children of their household were brutally manhandled by the police and taken away. For a while it wasn't clear where they had been taken.

An hour or so later it emerged that the women had been taken to a shelter while Malik Waseem's whereabouts have not been established yet (0405hrs). He had initially also been taken to the police station but then taken elsewhere (so we thought) but it became clear later in the evening that he had evaded arrest and remained 'underground' till he could obtain bail, unknown to the rest of us.  



KFD TV in the UK is also alert on this matter and communication is being established with the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland:



Today's newspapers are also following the story:



I finally got to sleep at around 0700hrs....only to be woken up by a phone call at 1030hrs.....I am getting late for my midday appointment at Shaheed Chowk Kotli. Malik Waseem is still missing soon after being arrested just beyond midnight. The womenfolk of his family have been forced by the police into a refugee shelter (reliving 1947 yet again, despite 3 generations on). Meanwhile, a tussle between the Indian and Pakistani influences on JKA are zeroing in on this issue.

I reached Kotli at about 1500hrs, 3 hours later than I wanted to. Almost immediately a steady trickle of activists began visiting me but we first needed to clean our working space. The litter here is testament to the title of the following video. People who feel a sense of ownership over any land or property do not ignore garbage in their midst:


Once that operation was out of the way, we could sit down and begin interacting....


1851hrs (Update):

Indeed, it has transpired that Malik Waseem evaded arrest last night and is still at large but concealed on his own volition. The police have charged him, his elder brother Naeem Malik and Naeem's son Asad with Section 341 (obstructing a path apparently). The latter 2 are in police custody while the womenfolk of his family have been put in a refugee shelter in Jalalabad, Muzaffarabad. Waseem's parents are at a friend's house. Apologies for any misunderstanding.

I described the following picture as, 'Preparing for the twilight zone in Shaheed Chowk -  Kotli'


2100hrs (Update):

Message from Malik Waseem: "I have been arrested despite bail order and am at Thana (police station) Saddar (Muzaffarabad). I have begun a hunger strike till release."

Upon request by some students who came to visit me in the evening, I gave my first 'Public Policy Workshop' lecture at the stroke of midnight:

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