Primary Subjects

The four primary subjects of Security, Governance, Economy, and Culture are essential components of the path forward for JKA. Addressing security threats through legal and constitutional engagement is crucial. Collecting public opinions and data for a referendum is a necessary step to strengthen governance. The economy’s strength lies in public finance and policy, where contributions from those with assets over a certain threshold can play a significant role.

A) Security (Threat)

Written legal and constitutional engagement with the AJK Government by aspiring citizen legal experts backed by the public to simultaneously pursue constitutional, legal, political and administrative clarity for the people belonging to the territory of AJK.

B) Governance (Weakness)

#AJKReferendum2023: Collecting public opinion & relevant individual data to form – the much awaited but to date elusive – public census and mandate, by engaging all adults ‘Riyasatis’ over the age of 16 living in AJK or elsewhere in the world, including the descendants of all enforced Hindu & Sikh migrants post 1947.

C) Economy (Strength)

Daily Online Budget Statement commencing on today’s date viz. 29 July 2023 and working our way back to September 2009 when we began seeking public funding direct from the aspiring citizens of this territory (confined to AJK to date), both at home and abroad. From April 2005 to September 2009 we relied on the individual and family resources of the independent action-oriented public policy researcher who founded JKA PUBLIC AGENCY. The founder’s family have continued to contribute but the proportion of public funding has increased year on year.

By taking the initiative to pay for genuine research based public policy we strengthen our credentials to make decisions for our territory but if someone else pays (or channels our resources in their favour at our expense, as is age old colonial strategy) they inevitably decide.

Generally speaking, to date we have blocked our own energies by not identifying our strengths. In short, we have paid heavily by not being organised and JKA PUBLIC AGENCY has devoted all its energies to address this organisational deficiency.

All ‘Riyasatis’ of AJK that have assets worth over 1 crore PK Rupees (c. 35,000 US dollars or 27,000 UK pounds) should contribute the equivalent of 60,000 PK Rupees per year (c. 210 US dollars or 165 UK pounds) which should amount to an annual budget of 60 billion PK Rupees (c. 210 million dollars or 165 million UK pounds), as the amount of our people capable of paying such an annual cost is over 1 million. This is barely 25% of AJK’s current budget and ironically a financial demand put to potentially 25% of its population.

Bad governance or good governance, governance is paid for by the people enduring or enjoying it.

Our poor and less well-off have made most major contributions to date in the emergence and public penetration of JKA PUBLIC AGENCY. They have suffered the most too. Addressing this imbalance in responsibility between the rich and poor requires that the more well off now take their share of responsibility to reach maturity in arriving at our common national destination.

In due course, when the territory currently described as AJK begins functioning according to public mandate and engages directly with the global economy, this figure of 60,000 PK rupees per year (a limit for each individual to protect public interest) may be converted into government bonds, as common throughout the world. Thus, it may be measured as an investment in world class governance, by the public at large here. At that juncture, the less well-off may also equally participate to ensure inclusivity in the progress of this territory.

D) Culture (Opportunity)

University of Sharda: We are fortunate to have hosted one of the most – if not most – globally pre-eminent university in the world over the past few thousand years. The past few centuries though, have witnessed the University of Sharda’s decline, yet its rich and diverse history beckons us to explore the many treasures of knowledge and wisdom that will assist us in refining our ‘soft power’ objectives, in a world far more dominated by the objectives of ‘hard power’. Hence, our people being stunted by the urges of a ‘conflict economy’.

Our people need to be equipped to learn the most sought after skills and education in the world – more immediately though it is important to learn – the process of achieving such a milestone. The comprehensive agenda of JKA PUBLIC AGENCY – learned over 18 years of ground research – needs to be taught to, organised, refined and implemented by a whole cadre of students in a specific physical setting. These graduates would ultimately take administrative responsibility for each sub-village (or urban equivalent) throughout the territory of AJK, in relation to all the aspects described in abbreviated form in this agenda document.

We can delay no longer. Hence, laying the re-foundation stone for the University of Sharda on 12 July 2023, by nailing it to a centuries old chinar tree across the stream from Sharda Peeth and adjacent to the Government School & College there.

We must proceed with re-creating this learning environment in Sharda forthwith. Education is what we most evidently lack, without which we cannot understand the importance of religious harmony and ideological co-existence, in turn without which we cannot connect economically with the world. Every single aspect of this agenda document is interconnected and requires simultaneous attention, which requires most of all, what we have not achieved so far: organisation.