Daily Diary (DD) - Day 15 of 2026

1223hrs:

I did get to bed at 2000hrs (as intended) but didn't sleep till somewhere around midnight. I woke at about 0600hrs though, still 3 hours short of my target. This is getting a tad frustrating now and I have only myself to blame. 

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There were further electricity woes today as it remained absent for most of the day today too, from the morning at c. 0800hrs till about 1900hrs in the evening.

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Public Finance Update:

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

16

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

206

Number of co-citizens who have promised to pay:

85

Number of co-citizens I have directly contacted since the 9th of October 2025 (of total 5,000):

536

Cash in Hand: 77,880

Cash Deposits: 2,41,700

Immediate Debts: 0 

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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 210 of 2024

2211hrs:

At Sehrmandi. More exhausted than yesterday. 

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A Youtube, Facebook & X video post will be shared each day, each with different content.

Here's the Youtube video (it joins yesterday's videos with today's:

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A Facebook live video for the day:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 346 of 2023

1836hrs:

Accelerating fast!

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Such activities as the following on the part of Pakistan's army have increased in AJK over the past few years in particular. Wherever they find a scenic abode to their liking in our territory, they begin construction without any due procedure of consulting the local people or the government. This always has a devastating effect on the local environment as well as society living nearby.

It also creates fear and intimidation in the local people whose normal day to day life gets affected and gradually they are deprived of access of local natural amenities for themselves, their families and livestock.

There are no military or security compulsions for the Pakistani army to engage in such intrusive activity. It is either commercially related or a source of entertainment for them.

We have maintained contact with the locals, some of whom have tried to obtain legal reprieve in the shape of a 'stay order'. Even that, they are doing in a discreet manner so as not to invite reprisal from the Pakistani Army.

Others locals have opined that there doesn't appear to be any security compulsion for such encroachment. One even went to the extent of saying that, "We know that the Indian army is not interested in sustaining conflict and is more focused on economy, while the Pakistani army continues to give this false perception that they are under constant threat from the Indians!"

Meanwhile, we did raise this issue with the Assistant Commissioner's (AC) office in Sehnsa. The AC himself avoided meeting us on a couple of occasions as the fear of the Pakistani army runs deep in our administration. However, we understand that he did interact with the Pakistani army on his own initiative and gave them some idea of what to expect in terms of local resistance.

Indeed, we have chalked out a strategy of demilitarisation which we are implementing gradually. They have been ousted from a couple of other places in our subdivision before and likewise will be ousted from here too. 

Thriya (Afzalpur) also happens to be my adjacent village as well as the village of our current member of the AJK Legislative Assembly (MLA) Choudhary Ikhlaq.   

Watch this space....

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Coverage of Sehnsa from nearby Poonch:

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