Day 188 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0758hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 65%
123 days on time or early of 188
Punctuality surplus = 33 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 4 days
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Saturday, 10 December 2022
Friday, 9 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 343 of 2022
1036hrs:
Day 187 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0800hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 65%
122 days on time or early of 187
Punctuality surplus = 31 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 3 days
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Learning from another Quora note:
US-Pakistan relationship is highly one-sided.
Pissing off Pakistani leadership is not such as big deal for the US. Pakistan is not a major trade partner nor has a big geopolitical lever (allies of Pakistan are also allies of US for the most part). US-India relationship is a little more important for the US in terms of trade, technology and diplomacy.
There will be political trouble in the UN if US enters Indian space. In the Osama case, not many have sympathies for Pakistan. No other country protested. Everyone kind of believed that Pakistan was actively aiding Al-Qaeda.
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Thursday, 8 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 342 of 2022
1121hrs:
Day 186 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0753hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 65%
121 days on time or early of 186
Punctuality surplus = 31 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 2 days
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Coming across a tweet from yesteryear:
Air Marshal Asghar Khan Kashmiri from Bagh-e-Mehtab, Srinagar of which his father Brigadier Rehmatullah Khan was owner - first native Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Air Force, who established Pakistan Tehrik Istiqlal later joined Tehrkh Insaf First officer of Kashmiri pic.twitter.com/c2AP2gIMJ5
— American Kashmiri (@crypkashmir) October 9, 2020
I would like to add a note about his son Omar Asghar Khan who was a multi talented politician and development expert, who gave much to Pakistan and its citizens but as per norm in that ill fated country, he was allegedly killed for his efforts, aged 48.
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Wednesday, 7 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 341 of 2022
1552hrs:
Day 185 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0800hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 65%
120 days on time or early of 185
Punctuality surplus = 24 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 1 day
Note: Back to normal almost. The walk nearly delayed me, hence the photo a few metres before the Square.
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Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 340 of 2022
1119hrs:
Day 184 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0811hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 65%
119 days on time or early of 184
Punctuality surplus = 24 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 0 days
Note: Despite beating the punctuality trap for 15 days in a row, it broke once again today. Back to square 1.
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Monday, 5 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 339 of 2022
0945hrs:
Day 183 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0755hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 65%
119 days on time or early of 183
Punctuality surplus = 35 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 15 days
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Sunday, 4 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 338 of 2022
1127hrs:
Day 182 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0758hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 65%
118 days on time or early of 182
Punctuality surplus = 30 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 14 days
Note: We've hopefully overcome the risk of losing punctuality by walking from home to the Square, as opposed to hitching a pillion ride. The previous 2 days were touch and go with this new experiment but today we managed to reach the Square with 2 minutes to spare. These minute qualitative improvements are what give us strength for the more difficult tasks ahead.
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Here's a deeply insightful interview of Munir Ali, father of the now almost infamous cricketer Moeen Ali of England & Dadyaal:
One amongst many telling points in the interview was that Munir Ali had originally wanted his sons and nephews to represent Pakistan in cricket but the Pakistanis wanted bribes in order to facilitate them. This is what I describe as the death of human capital, which the Pakistanis have mastered the art of. To their own detriment of course but not that they understand that.
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Regularity is strength:
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Saturday, 3 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 337 of 2022
1038hrs:
Day 181 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0800hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 65%
117 days on time or early of 181
Punctuality surplus = 28 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 13 days
Note: As yesterday, the photo was taken on approach to the Square, primarily in order to maintain the habit of walking from home rather than hitching a pillion ride, as I have done on many occasions before. In a sense, I'm now also trying to improve the qualitative aspects of being punctual and not just the quantitative aspect which hopefully has been tamed now. For example, the punctuality metrics for the month of November was 90% compared to the overall metric of 65% over 181 days. It should also be noted that the picture above was taken 12 seconds late but that was on account of the sun dominating the photo for about 30 seconds before it was taken.
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The following video affects our dilemma almost as much as the video posted yesterday, in reference to British colonialism. Except that this may be described as the inner layer of the much broader phenomenon of British colonialism:
As customary, I left a comment here too:
This video gives great insight into why Pakistan is designed to be a mess. It also gives clues to why there is a 'Kashmir' problem. Geographic revision is indispensable. What the British did wrong must be put right.
Taking cue from the video above, the following note subscribes to the famous English line: "Not a lot of people know that!"
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| 83 kms from Sehr Kakuta to Islamabad |
Indian soldiers are only 83 kms away from Pakistan's capital (Kakuta to Islamabad)..and have been for 76 years..Pakistan has a weak defence all the way from the Arabian Sea to Siachen, certainly in conventional military terms.
Thus, JKA of massive strategic value to Pakistan....not least because it provides a vast human and natural shield from India, practically all the way north of Sialkot to Siachen.
Siachen Glacier is 6,000 metres or 19,685.04 feet high from sea level.
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Friday, 2 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 336 of 2022
1040hrs:
Day 180 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0800hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 64%
116 days on time or early of 180
Punctuality surplus = 28 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 12 days
Note: Today's photo was taken a few metres before reaching the Square, solely to ensure that I didn't break my punctuality performance by a few seconds, as has happened on some previous occasions. I did have the option of hitching a pillion ride to arrive at the Square a few minutes before 0800hrs but I wanted to maintain the habit of walking the distance from home.
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A snapshot history lesson that still directly affects us today in Jammu Kashmir & Allied areas (JKA):
The comment that I left there:
A very sharp and concise analysis. Should be part of the history curriculum in the United Kingdom and throughout all those territories that it ever controlled, including those where it still holds influence.
I also felt the following part of the commentary in the video was important too:
(Paraphrased)
"Britain went and ruled territories through proclamation rather than treaties...with the usual narrative that they came to civilise the locals..."
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The following is an acute example of the legacy of British colonialism:
The article above can be accessed here.
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Thursday, 1 December 2022
Daily Diary (DD) - Day 335 of 2022
0901hrs:
Day 179 at Maqbool Bhat Shaheed Square - Dadyaal.
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| 0759hrs |
Attendance = 100%
Punctuality = 64%
115 days on time or early of 179
Punctuality surplus = 28 minutes
Punctuality Consistency Status = 11 days
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We continue our focus on Qatar. I would assess it to be difficult to find a better analysis of Qatar's rise as an OP country:
OP = overpowered
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