Daily Diary (DD) - Day 232 of 2022

1134hrs:

Day 76 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0749hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 269 minutes.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 231 of 2022

1041hrs:

Day 75 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0738hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 280 minutes.

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Make no mistake, despite everything the path ahead is clear:

The world now understands that there is a measured internal political narrative n #AJK that is no longer willing 2 trust #Pakistan 2 even talk n its behalf.
The #FreedomOfAssembly route n #Gilgit #Jammu #Leh & #Srinagar begins n #Muzaffarabad #AJKPublicAssembly#JKASovereignty https://t.co/AEsBgDS0Wq

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) August 19, 2022

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 230 of 2022

1335hrs:

Day 74 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0756hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 302 minutes.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 229 of 2022

1125hrs:

Day 73 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0744hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 306 minutes.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 228 of 2022

1924hrs:

Day 72 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0800hrs

My punctuality deficit has neither decreased or increased today. It remains stable at 322 minutes. It almost seems as if time has stood still, after 72 days of punctuality practice.

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Update 2057hrs:

Something very gory and irresponsible happened in Haveli, Poonch AJK about 5 hours ago. Here's the Facebook post released a few minutes earlier:

For the sake of those who do not delve into the FB post here's what I wrote:

The #PakistanArmy is in serious trouble in AJK. 

About 5 hours ago it is reported that a Pakistani Army truck travelling through #Haveli #Poonch #AJK crushed a local - Zahid Badar Qureshi - to death before fleeing from the scene.

The public is in uproar and the local administration has yet to engage.

Urdu report on matter:

پاکستان آرمی کا ٹرک ذاہد بدر قریشی کو روند کر چلا گیا۔

ذاہد بدر قریشی کا تعلق ٹھولا نگر حویلی سے تھا۔

آرمی کے نوجوان گاڑی لیکر موقع سے بھاگ گئے۔ حویلی میں احتجاج جاری ہے لیکن کسی ذمہ دار کی طرف سے لواحقین کو کسی قسم کے انصاف کی یقین دہانی کیلیے ابھی تک کوئی نئ آیا۔

کچہری چوک میں پچھلے 5 گھنٹوں سے احتجاج جاری ہے

 

We have some bloody pictures of the scene too. We strongly feel the evidence must be in public for the sake of accountable governance - which we have yet to witness - since 1947:

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Update at 2317hrs:

No criminal proceedings have been conducted yet and the local administration is still frozen. Unconfirmed reports are surfacing that the Pakistani army driver was inexperienced and incapable of handling the army truck. The public have continued to vent their anger towards the Pakistani army at Kacheri Chowk in Haveli. 

Their chants:

Qaatil Qaatil! (Murderers Murderers!)

Fauj Qaatil! (Army Murderers) with obvious reference to the Pakistani army

..then

Ye jo dehshat gardi hay (This terrorism)

Is ke peechay wardi hay (has a uniform behind it) with obvious reference to the Pakistani army's uniform

..then

Ye jo maara maari hay (These killings and mayhem)

Is ke peechay wardi hay (have a uniform behind it) with obvious reference to the Pakistani army's uniform

..then

Zaalimo jawaab do (Answer us oh oppressors)

Khoon ka hisaab do (give an account of the blood) you have spilled

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Here's a report by JKTV:

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This is an example of how our children on both sides of the divide are indoctrinated as Indians and Pakistanis. It doesn't get much crueller than this:

I would call this the illusion of #IndoPak democracy post #Dogra autocracy n #JKA . Our children r indoctrinated by both countries who r united n keeping us separate & subdued, just like themselves n the global arena. We want 2 help them break their shackles too.#JKASovereignty https://t.co/B7i9C6HmdT

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) August 16, 2022

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Comedy has the potential to be more enlightening than lectures on philosophy:

I do not have any 'White Guilt'!
The philosophy we learn from comedians is usually easier to understand & it indicts clinically too. #BritishColonialism #JKASovereigntyhttps://t.co/zNgeS3EcJ7

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) August 16, 2022

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 227 of 2022

1303hrs:

Day 71 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0741hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 322 minutes.

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In pursuit of a neutral JKA it is important that the world understands that we identify occupation of all kinds as occupation. Hence, our second black day in a row:

#BlackDay15August @ #MaqboolBhat Martyr's Sq. 2 black days n a row n #Dadyaal
We sent a msg 2 #Pakistan y'day & we r sending a msg 2 #India 2day. We recognise ur right 2 celebrate ur independence but we want u 2 realise it has come @ the expense of our freedom.#JKASovereignty pic.twitter.com/rYPPUw2s3c

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) August 15, 2022

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The following quotes will always haunt India until they vacate this territory. It should be remembered that we suggest the same for all foreign forces:

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In the recent wave of protests throughout AJK we have also noticed government servants also protesting for a pay rise in light of the spike in living costs. These particular government servants in Dadyaal gathered en masse to remind the government of their unfulfilled promises. They also threatened to increase the volume and velocity of their protests if their demands were not met:

For those of you who cannot read the description within the video embed, here it is:

We interview Abdul Malik Bhat who is advisor to the president of the teacher's association of AJK. We understand that government employees in the State of AJK have not been given a pay rise in line with the recent hike in inflation, despite being assured and promised that they would be accommodated by the AJK Government. They also point out that government employees throughout the 4 provinces of Pakistan plus Gilgit Baltistan have all been given a pay rise to combat inflation.

They vow to increase the intensity and scope of their protests onto the streets of AJK if their 'just' demands are not met.

Matloob Hussain - district vice president (of the teacher's  association) Mirpur also adds his point of view.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 226 of 2022

1820hrs:

Day 70 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0748hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 341 minutes.

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I honestly didn't know it would be so but it was. Here's my first video upload of the day:

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This was followed by another video update forwarded to JKTV:

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Then a relatively more comprehensive video was uploaded to this writer's YouTube channel, which also incorporates all the footage hitherto reported above:

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The day's proceedings did not finish here. The next appointment on this writer's schedule was participation in a highly distinguished online forum, hosted by Khurshid Uz Zaman Abbasi on his Washington (USA) based channel Zaman TV USA. The panel included a former chief justice of the AJK Supreme Court (Choudhary Ibrahim Zia), the foremost expert on the UN mechanism on JKA (Dr Nazir Gilani), a former additional chief secretary of AJK (Akram Sohail) and myself:

Here are some observations I made during the programme:

Dr Nazir Gilani at 1:09:00

Pakistan has no case if it does not recognise AJK as a local authority.

Dr Nazir Gilani at 1:10:00

Responsibility for surveillance was to be that of the United Nations, not the Pakistani State.

Further points clarified by Dr Nazir Gilani:

There is effectively no political representation currently in AJK..i.e. Pakistani political parties do not represent the public of AJK...thus, there is no people's reference here.

If the Karachi Agreement is valid then what particular UNCIP responsibilities has Pakistan undertaken? 

In reference to the Chief Secretary (posted as de facto Governor of AJK) Dr Gilani considers that we should be the ones appointing him and make him conform to local requirements.

Pakistani political parties have over-ridden Article 257 (of their own constitution), indeed in the words of Dr Nazir Gilani they have "superseded" it.

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It didn't finish there! For a day that started just before 0700hrs has still not finished at 2300hrs! We remain in Washington for the following Twitter Space, hosted by Washington Group and which also includes world renowned activists:

https://t.co/VTs18CRSmC

— Washington Group (@WashingtonGrp) August 14, 2022

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There were plenty of other incidents in various parts of AJK which gave a very clear message to the Pakistani occupiers on their so-called day of independence. Here's an example from the LOC in Keran, Neelam Valley:

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In the following example from Mandhol near the LOC in Hajeera, Poonch the locals prevented the Pakistani army from taking the local schoolchildren out to a parade to celebrate their so-called independence:

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The capital of AJK viz. Muzaffarabad wasn't to be left out either. Echoes of 'Kashmir Banega Khud Mukhtar' (Kashmir will be independent) resounded throughout the city:

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 225 of 2022

2105hrs:

Day 69 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0746hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 353 minutes.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 224 of 2022

0816hrs:

Day 68 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0712hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 367 minutes.

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Daily Diary (DD) - Day 223 of 2022

1055hrs:

Day 67 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.

0713hrs

My punctuality deficit has decreased to 415 minutes.

I have managed to swing the deficit back to where it was a couple of days ago. It just so happens that I was 47 minutes late yesterday and by fantastic coincidence, I was 47 minutes early today. Until I don't bring the deficit back to zero, I will not achieve peace of mind.

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I'm narrating the following because these matters ultimately paved the path for the political structure of India & Pakistan today. It also facilitated the gradual bilateral occupation by both countries of Jammu Kashmir & Allied areas (JKA) under the British designed 80/20 railway track (whereby India & Pakistan symmetrically agree on 80% and disagree on 20% of how to maintain their respective occupations of our territory). In short, we've been stung by the 2 nation theory which continues to paralyse the whole region:

An excerpt from my reading journey:

It is to be noted that after declaring Congress an anti-national and unlawful organization, the British masters allowed only Hindu Mahasabha and the Muslim League to function.

Most of us know that the then Communist Party of India opposed the QIM (Quit India Movement) thus betraying a great phase of mass upsurge in the history of the freedom struggle.

The Hindutva camp not only opposed QIM but also provided multifaceted and multi-dimensional support to the British rulers in suppressing this historic mass upsurge. In this connection, shocking documents are available.

Ref.

Hindutva Gang colluded with British Rulers & Jinnah against Quit India Movement: A peep into Hindutva Archives

By Shamsul Islam

Web reference

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Continuing with the theme of the ill-fated 2 nation theory, the following Urdu letter written by the brilliant Allama Mashriqi cannot be ignored:

Our message to #Pakistanis & #Government of #Pakistan پاکستانیوں اور حکومت ... https://t.co/tZH8i1Ubmv via @YouTube

If people read this Urdu letter in the right spirit, open mind & with the intention of improving the image of Pakistan, they will address its inherent hypocrisy.

— Tanveer Ahmed (@sahaafi) August 11, 2022

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