Daily Diary (DD) - Day 43 of 2023

0805hrs:

Day 252 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0628hrs

Attendance = 100%

Punctuality = 69%

175 days on time or early of 252

Punctuality surplus = 516 minutes 

Punctuality Consistency Status = 17 days 

Hours completed at Square = 408

Fast = Day 5 (1 day's break yesterday)

Note: Our break in the previous 24 hours was 7 hours (2 hours between 1030hrs and 1230hrs in the morning to shower and have breakfast - as opposed to break fast - and then 5 hours between 1500hrs to 2000hrs to relax on this day while others should have kept watch). 

  

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Yesterday evening, I just finished watching the following video on Tibet. It was watched in batches over a number of days, as part of a concerted bid to improve our time management performance:

I also made a point of leaving a comment, as has become customary and necessary after investing 50 or so minutes on this video. Of course, it relates to water management and geopolitical neutrality as much as our territory does, if not more so:

Comment:

A wonderfully informative insight into the actual rooftop of the world. I was specifically intrigued by the research into cosmic rays and how the Chinese are striving - quite candidly - to gain an edge over other nations/powers, by trying to tap into their energy potential. 

Meanwhile, I thought a little more could have been added about the region's ecological fragility and major fresh water source of the world.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 53 of 2022

0918hrs:

Day 34 at Martyr's Square Kotli

An Urdu translation of the above introspection:

Don't ask about the condition of the Muslim

He is ready to get his head cut for the Masjid

but he is not ready to bow his head in the Masjid

He begins whirling as soon as he hears the name of the beloved prophet (of Islam)

but he disappears as soon as he hears the command of the prophet

He says that in every vein of his is the prophet

but he prays Salaat in the week only occasionally

End of translation....

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Our transmission was early today, in light of Rauf Kashmiri Sahaab of Palandri's visit:

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A song by Labi Siffre with meaning relevant to Shaheed Chowk Kotli AJK - the last bastion of a free, independent and neutral Jammu Kashmir & Allied territory (JKA):

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Update 1620hrs:

The security of any State in the world including JKA relies on its public (on its people). 

First things first.....our people are not understanding the concept of Public Assembly, so how can they represent their opinion to the world?

AJK Public Agency is on a trajectory that covers 99% of the population of AJK and at least 51% of the rest of JKA....

Let us think together.....at Martyr's Square or Shaheed Chowk in Kotli.

Jo dar gaya samjho mar gaya...(trans. Whoever is in fear is as good as dead)

An Urdu translation of the above is as folows:

JKA سمیت دنیا کی کسی بھی ریاست کی سلامتی اس کے عوام (اپنے لوگوں پر) پر انحصار کرتی ہے۔

 سب سے پہلی بات ..... ہمارے لوگ عوامی اسمبلی کے تصور کو نہیں سمجھ رہے تو وہ اپنی رائے کو دنیا کے سامنے کیسے پیش کر سکتے ہیں؟

 اے جے کے پبلک ایجنسی اس راستے پر ہے جو آزاد جموں و کشمیر کی 99 فیصد آبادی اور کم از کم 51 فیصد باقی جے کے اے پر محیط ہے۔

 آؤ مل کر سوچتے ہیں کوٹلی کے چوک شہداء چوک پر۔

 جو در گیا سمجھو مار گیا...

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Update 1630hrs:

Khaliq Shehdai of Panaag Sharif in Kotli and Muhammad Yasin of Dhanwa near Goi in Kotli at Martyr's Square Kotli - AJK in JKA

Update 1700hrs:

20 year old and 50 inches tall is Zoheb of Kala Pang Peeran Bhedi - 'Chota Don' they fondly call him...He also contributed 10 rupees to AJK Public Agency.

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Update 1732hrs:

We need a large digital counter (a screen for counting the balance of AJK Public Treasury) in real time.

Then, we found love on a stone today:

Found near the darbar of Syed Rasool Badshah on the banks of the river #Poonch in #Kotli today....
Mohabbat....#Jammu ....Mohabbat....#Kashmir ....Mohabbat....#GilgitBaltistan ....Mohabbat....#Ladakh ....Mohabbat....#Tibet is our theme at #MartyrsSquareKotli #ShaheedChowkKotli pic.twitter.com/Nuj4VkfRHk

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) February 22, 2022

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Update 1800hrs:

Most of us want the world to move at our pace but the world always has other ideas.

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Update 1844hrs:

What is government? What are Public? What is direct democracy? What is autocratic constitutionalism to democratic constitutionalism?

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Another update on Malik Waseem by journalist Fazal ur Rehman:

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We received solidarity and obtained crucial intervention on the AJK administration issue of yesterday, from Bradford in the UK today. Many thanks to Zahoor Ali:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 334 of 2019

1135hrs:

Another day in court where arguments for the defence and prosecution were to be heard. However, the Qazi (judge in Islamic terminology) despite giving a date yesterday - for today - was absent. We will now return to his court on the 3rd of December (this coming Tuesday).

As reiterated on Facebook:



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We are continuing to receive coverage in the local Urdu press. In more than one publication now:

Daily Kashmir Uzma - Muzaffarabad (Urdu)

Back Page (1 of 2)

Back Page (2 of 2)

Page 3 Section 19

The Daily Siyasat also gave us coverage:

Daily Siyasat - Muzaffarabad (Urdu)

Front Page

These are positive indications from a public interest point of view. One, most local newspapers concentrate on acting as commercial advertising space for the Pakistani narrative, local politicians and for overall bolstering of perceptions for the imposed governance set-up, laced with rhetoric. Secondly, they charge people for publicity as advertising revenue doesn't quite fulfil the needs of the employees or the owners of the newspapers. The structure is such that media is sucked into the black hole of power and corruption. 

Giving coverage to public interest and on their own initiative - without payment or enticement - can be considered to be a positive step for civil society in AJK. Especially, if it remains consistent and sustains itself.

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With the deluge of information and analysis on virtually every topic of consequence available via social media on a daily basis, one has to fend off the temptation to delve into matters that have no direct impact on the State of Jammu & Kashmir's (re)formation project. However, the following is one such video that I felt compelled to watch for its bold initiative in examining China's role in East Turkistan or what China insists on calling 'Xinjiang'. What our people in the various parts of J & K endure is still on a scale a few notches below what China is evidently doing there but the pattern of repression is very similar:



Now, I would like to point out that we (the aspiring citizens of J & K) have bones to pick with each of the 5 following countries that are preventing us from naturally progressing as a nation State viz. China, India, Pakistan, UK and USA. We maintain our aspiration to remain neutral in principle. We are not highlighting China's crimes against humanity because we want to show USA in a good light etc. 

We are concerned that the country with which we share our longest border; remains engaged in forcibly integrating those areas which are geographically on its periphery and are not part of the mainstream Han Chinese population viz. Tibet and Xinjiang. As these areas are conterminous with us and thus have huge stakes for China especially given their keenness to expand their OBOR (One Belt One Road) project through our territory (via GB in particular), compounded by the fact that China has no democratic tradition puts a very serious dilemma in front of us. 

While we are engaged in avenues of activating global civil society in mature democracies such as UK and USA and while India and Pakistan are still struggling with nationhood in their own realms we see no such avenue to address China's stance on Jammu & Kashmir.

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