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Appendix 1: Programme: Gorakh Dhanda with Abrar Qureshi

Duration: 22 minutes and 2 seconds

[00:00-00:29] Abrar Qureshi: Assalam-o-Alaikum. You are watching Gorakh Dhanda, and I will do today’s Gorakh Dhanda with a young man from Azad Kashmir, District Kotli, Tehsil Charhoi, village Parai. What happened with this young man? Why was he imprisoned? Who sexually assaulted him? Let’s hear these things from him. Hearing these things, you will also be dumbfounded like me. That’s why; I am sitting before him. Today I will talk to him.

[00:30-00:31] Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, Assalam-o-Alaikum.

[00:32-00:34] Sabeel: Wa-alaikum salam. Mr Abrar Abrar Qureshi: Who are you Sabeel? What is your introduction?

[00:35-00:37] Sabeel: Yes Mr. Abrar. I belong to a village Parai, Tehsil Daryan Juttan, and full name is Chaudhry Muhammad Sabeel.

[00:46-00:50] Abrar Qureshi: What do you do professionally? What is your profession?

[00:51-01:05] Sabeel: Well, first I used to do a private job. I worked as a private secretary to Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin who is the ex-leader of the opposition and senior minister. But now for the last five or six months I have started my business in Mirpur.

[01:06-01:07] Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, are you educated?

[01:08-01:10] Sabeel: Yes. I have done FA.

[01:11-01:15] Abrar Qureshi: On which position did you work with Chaudhry Yasin and for how many years?

[01:16-01:23] Sabeel: Yes. I have worked with Chaudhry Yasin for about six to seven years as a private secretary.

[01:24-01:26] Abrar Qureshi: What kind of man is he with whom you worked for six years?

[01:27-02:09] Sabeel: Yes. Well. As I have said in my previous press conferences that he is from our constituency. He, on one hand, enjoys big name, and people call on him for their work, be it the provision of jobs or something else. They request him to get them adjusted or to their daughters or help them in any way he can on some or other issue. It is a fact. The first and foremost thing about him is, as you hear, that he imparts so much value to his tribe. There is too much tribal prejudice in him.

[02:10-02:29] Abrar Qureshi: OK. We, we, we we will discuss these subjects. Whom and how does he blackmail? But first tell me as you mentioned the press conference. I have seen its highlights. Why did you conduct this (Sablee…yes) press conference in Muzaffarabad? Why it couldn’t be arranged in Kotli.

[02:29-03:10] Sabeel: Yes. It is your important question. In fact, when I was judicial, I was maltreated in the jail. In that entire act of persecution, the district administration of Kotli was in collusion with them or, fearing them, was unwilling to take action against them. We approached to the Division but we couldn’t have any output or positive response. Therefore, if I had held my press conference in Kotli or Mirpur, I perhaps wouldn’t have found such response. That’s why; I went to Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Kashmir.

[03:11-03:13] Abrar Qureshi: So, Sabeel, what is the relation between journalists and administration?

[03:14-03:38] Sabeel: Sir, there is no obvious relation. I mean they have different systems of their own but big name commands awe, or some people have personal links. So I saw that if among those twenty persons (Abrar Qureshi….you, you are saying this) five would voice for me (Abrar Qureshi….you, you are saying this) the twelve would not.

[03:39-03:46] Abrar Qureshi: The journalists of Kotli are afraid of Chaudhry Yasin? Or have they personal links as you suspect?

[03:47-04:06] Sabeel: It is obvious, as I held the press conference in Muzaffarabad. They made its news reports for the newspapers. You can see that it was not published in the ‘Sada e Chanar’. The ‘Kashmir Times’ has not published it, as it is his own newspaper. Nor in the ‘Jammu & Kashmir’, nor in other newspapers. What message are they giving with it?

[04:07-04:13] Abrar Qureshi: OK. I got it. Tell me Sabeel, as I have to ask short questions for short answers, why you were jailed.

[04:14-04:51] Sabeel: Well, Chaudhry Yasin trapped me in a fake case with his pre-planned intent. The office of assistant commissioner, Dilan Juttan, the government office of Madam Benish Jaraal was burnt two three months ago. Not only was her office burnt but also slogan bearing her name ‘Go Benish Jaraal Go’ were written in the entire Tehsil, from Kaldub to Narr and from Charhoi to Issar (Abrar Qureshi…right). Then the library established by her was also demolished. In that case, I was….

[04:52-04:57] Abrar Qureshi: OK Sabeel, (Sabeel….in this case, they…) if you have not set Benish Jaraal’s office on fire, then who did so?

[04:58-05:35] Sabeel: Sir, everyone knows that Benish Jaraal was doing her duty honestly. Her sense of duty was a problem to him. Everyone knows it. It was burnt by Chaudhry Yasin. He did so. It was all pre-planned because his basic target was Benish Jaraal. He wanted to defame her, as Chaudhry Yasin was unable to get her transferred. As I have been with him, I know that he requested Mr. Farooq Haider, Finance Minister and the senior member of revenue, but he failed in transferring her. Then he played this conspiracy to transfer her.

[05:36-05:46] Abrar Qureshi: So Benish Jaraal was saying that Chaudhry Yasin has grabbed government lands and forests. That was the cause of their differences which were aggravated?

[05:47-06:14] Sabeel: Of course. It is so. And not only that; this Chaudhry Yasin, the head of the grabbing mafia, encourages his cahoots and supporters and voters to grab expensive government lands. He assures them that no magistrate would dare stop them. But there Madam Benish Jaraal has challenged them, asserting that no one is beyond the law. All are equal before the law. She gave this message loud and clear. That’s why; they were irked, and then they hatched up this conspiracy.

[06:15-06:17] Abrar Qureshi: Got it. How long have you been in the jail?

[06:18-06:19] Sabeel: Well. I was in the jail for two months.

[06:20-06:22] Abrar Qureshi: Were you sexually assaulted there?

[06:23-06:41] Sabeel: Of course, I was sexually assaulted. I was tortured afterwards; the worst kind of torture and I was sexually assaulted. Amir Yasin himself made video of the sexual assault to blackmail me. There I was torched, battered, dragged and wounded.

[06:42-06:51] Abrar Qureshi: Then Sabeel, who sexually assaulted you? Did it happen in the presence of Amir Yasin, the existing member of Assembly and he himself made its video?

[06:52-07:12] Sabeel: Yes. I was sexually assaulted by two of his gunmen present there, and he was making video of the crime. The purpose of the sexual assault and the video was that I should give statement against the Assistant Commissioner, Benish Jaraal in the court. They wanted to use me against her. They wanted to blackmail me but I was not blackmailed.

[07:13-07:16] Abrar Qureshi: You still were not. Who burnt you with cigarette?

[07:17-07:50] Sabeel: Amir Yasin himself burnt me as I was flattened to the ground prostrate. I was taken to the B Class. There a prisoner, Raja Iftikhar aka Khari who is associated to Sensa and is serving the death sentence for murder, but there he bullies everyone with impunity, dragged me to him. Shahnawaz Yasin Chaudhry and his men impeached in murder case, pulled me down. Five men seized me while Amir Yasin himself torched me with two cigarettes.

[07:51-07:56] Abrar Qureshi: Shahnwaz Yasin and Amir Yasin are sons of Chaudhry Yasin. Both of them tortured you in the jail?

[07:57-08:35] Sabeel: Yes. In the jail, and openly, in public. It was not only in B-Class of Jail but they also tortured me openly and every prisoner knows it. All employees know. Then I have been in the court in a wounded condition. My parents gave written statement to the Commissioner, to the DIG, to the all concerned. Deputy Commissioner Amjad Ali Mughal came to me in the jail to take my statements. I especially told him about the viral video. I told him, ‘Sir, they have my video.’ I told him two months ago. He said, ‘What does it matter? You refuse. What is the issue?’ I have also told the court two months ago.

[08:36-08:47] Abrar Qureshi: OK. Tell me, as I know that thugs, gangsters, thieves and robbers frequent the jails but wasn’t there any man of principles to see it all happening but he kept quiet.

[08:48-09:37] Sabeel: They all saw it passively. Jail superintendent had great reputation for following the merit. He also belongs to a Sadaat tribe. He is Syed Yasir Kazmi from Bagh. He knows it. I went to him. Then I was severely tortured. I went to him and said, ‘Sir, Allah has bestowed you authority. See what is happening with me. Take action against them. Stop them.’ Once or twice he asked them to stop but they said to him they will get him transferred through the Minister of Jails. They said this to the superintendent in front of me. The superintendent was helpless. Then after two or three days, he acted as if having COVID symptoms and took a leave to stay away. My parents or I couldn’t get anything except pseudo sympathies from the people in touch. They said that we couldn’t defy Chaudhry Yasin, nor could they.

[09:38-09:51] Abrar Qureshi: May these people be destroyed! The jail superintendent, making excuse of COVID, said that he was going on leave. Who threatened him to refrain from intervention, otherwise he would be transferred?

[09:52-10:12] Sabeel: Amir. Sir, in front of me and Amir Yasin who became member of Assembly later, as they went there before the elections and he, in front of me, said, ‘Go and tell the jailer, the superintendent or tell anyone else.’ He challenged me, claiming that he would get him transferred by asking the Jail Minister.

[10:13-10:16] Abrar Qureshi: OK. Were they there in a normal condition or intoxicated?

[10:17-10:56] Sabeel: Exactly. During the day and even when they were outside it was their routine. Under the influence of alcohol, they would misbehave with people, abuse government official on the phone and then in the jail too. It is sad to say, the jail administration would provide them cartons and cartons of alcohol. They publicly tortured me whilst intoxicated with alcohol. Not only alcohol upon alcohol but also having illicit sexual relations at night in the back the official room built for jail officers of administration or District Kotli. They went there for illicit sexual relations at night. If they had visitor even at midnight, they were allowed to meet in the office. Their lock up was opened and they would go to the office to meet.

[10:57-10:59] Abrar Qureshi: Well! Such kind of prison is there?

[11:00-11:19] Sabeel: Yes. For common people, timing is from 11 to 1 during which a visitor, family member or friend, can meet the jailed person. But for them, meeting time is available round the clock. For them, office is opened. They go there as unhindered as one uses one’s washroom.

[11:20-11:32] Abrar Qureshi: Well, Sabeel, you are saying that in the jails of my Azad Kashmir, police officers or public servants treat these people like this, and common people are mistreated like this in the jails of our Azad Kashmir.

[11:33-12:04] Sabeel: Yes Mr. Abrar. I have not been in all the jails of Azad Kashmir as we are honorable people. We have nothing to do with courts. From our father, forefathers to now no one has filed any application against us, and nor have we against anyone. It was a trap which they laid for me. I have been in the Kotli district jail, and I am telling what I have seen there, as I went through it, I am in pain and I talk about it. If someone has a problem then so be it. I am not scared of it.

[12:05-12:14] Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, tell me that you are accused of stealing Amir Yasin’s phone. Are you a thief? Did you do this and why did you do this?

[12:15-12:38] Sabeel: Yes, yes, yes. I see, this is a 2015 matter. I did not want to mention it. This Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin was senior minister and acting prime minster of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Amir Yasin Chaudhry is his son. I did not want to mention it but now you have asked a question, a very important question.

[12:39-12:42] Abrar Qureshi: Did you steal the phone or not?

[12:43-15:27] Sabeel: I, I, I am coming to that point. This is what they have accused me of. I have seen it. I have. The issue was that there was a lady from Education Department. She is 17 grade officer and she sits in the district. I do not want to name her. If her family is hearing me, they will agree with me. As it happened, it was 2015, I had all the phones of Chaudhry Yasin. I was taking care of his entire affairs. Everyone knew it. The lady called me, saying that I was like her sons. She briefed me the whole affair. She asked me about the phone sets of Chaudhry Yasin’s sons. When she asked, I told her about them. Then I asked her what the matter was. She should tell me clearly. She cried and said, ‘You are like my sons. And this Amir Yasin blackmails my daughter. He has her photos. Her daughter is in Spain. Maybe that sister of mine might be listening. He has got some vulgar footage from somewhere, and he blackmails us daily. If you delete them, please.’ She herself was an officer. She would see that I had phones of Chaudhry Yasin, everything. I managed his calls then. Let me tell you that Amir Yasin is a married person. He had two phone sets; I knew because I also lived in the same house. One set he had when he was with his family while the other one he would hide in the TV trolley that was in the room they had given me. I was already suspicious why he hid the phone before going to his family. It must have some secret. When she told me, I was in the rest house, above in Kotli. I was standing there. At once I used my mind, determining that she must be talking about that phone. After two or three days when we went to Islamabad, I saw it. And what the phone was. Just iPhone 5s. Its price was no more than eight to ten thousand rupees. I didn’t need to steal a thing worth this amount. I saw that it had a pin code. Then I took the phone to the washroom in that room and flushed it. And I told them. I think I have done no wrong, as she is someone’s daughter sister, as I have sisters and mothers too. Now she has been saved from blackmailing. But who knows how many other mothers and sisters the shameless blackmail like this, as it is their practice. I do not know who else they were blackmailing besides. Now if they term it theft, let them do it. I don’t care It does not affect me. This is what I did, as I was to do it. When I see such wanton affair anywhere, my response would be the same.

[15:28-15:38] Abrar Qureshi: Then Sabeel, you are saying that the wrong you committed, the stealing of the phone was actually an act of perpetual charity. And you have no remorse or regret on it.

[15:39-16:12] Sabeel: No, no. Not at all. And if they wanted to get the price of that iPhone 5s I was ready to give it. I even said to him to take the money. I used to get wages from them. He didn’t tell anyone in his home about the phone for two or three months that his phone was missing. He knew that it had a problem. He was a thief himself. He knew that they would say that Amir had only one phone. From where had the second phone come? Then he revealed after two or three months that his phone was missing. He said that it was in Sabeel’s room, etc. His real issue was that who knows how many homes he was meant to destroy and he was intoxicated about why did this happen why did he waste it.

[16:13-16:28] Abrar Qureshi: Well. So she was an officer of Education Department, and he had her daughter’s photos…. Objectionable photos the reason for which the existing member of Assembly, Amir Yasin would blackmail her. And at the outcry of her mother, you threw that phone in the toilet.

[16:29-16:30] Sabeel: Certainly, certainly. That is what I did.

[16:31-16:44] Abrar Qureshi: Coming back to the word of blackmailing, Sabeel when you were with Chaudhry Yasin for six years, what did you see, find or lose. Whom did they blackmail and how? Have you any evidence?

[16:45-17:58] Sabeel: Sir, evidence of blackmail? All the audiences listening are my evidence. As you also have connections to the area of Paanch Charhoi, and you know that people here are upstanding. Most of them are not highly educated. Some of the aged people whose children, sons or daughters, are getting education, visit Chaudhry Yasin in the village with CVs of their children, saying, ‘Mr. Chaudhry, we voted and supported you. See this is my daughter or son….’ They don’t pay attention towards the sons but their interest is verily in the daughters, planning how to blackmail them. There is no intention to give jobs. They told me loudly for everyone to hear, to give them visiting cards. But Mr. Abrar, if you have a CV, what else detail do you need besides it. Then they say that if they have number, it is ok. If no number, then they should be given visiting cards. I gave them visiting cards. Then they started receiving messages on WhatsApp. Those our daughters, sisters and mothers would call them merely for their jobs, but they had ulterior intentions.

[17:59-18:00] Abrar Qureshi: So it happened

[18:01] Sabeel: Some of them could be interested in marrying.

[18:02-18:06] Abrar Qureshi: What is at F-10, Islamabad? Why it is a prohibited area?

[18:07-18:29] Sabeel: They have taken a house at F-10 on rent. It is an exclusive cell to appease their lewdness at the cost of Kashmir wealth looted by them. They lavish away hundreds and thousands of rupees in one night. Many people go there. What should I say. Who doesn’t go there?

[18:30-18:34] Abrar Qureshi: What is source of income of Chaudhry Yasin? What have you realised in these six years?

[18:35-19:12] Sabeel: Sir, they have no business. They claim to have some business; some big business. But they have no business. There is a plant of LPG in Mirpur. His elder son, Shahnawaz Yasin he too drinks and stays sleeping so how does he look at it and what income is generated from it? But their source of income is to sell out government land. And when they see a weak person, they grab this plot. On the other hand, they extract money from schemes. It is tax payers’ money but they rip it off and live on it and have reached here.

[19:13-19:19] Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, you are talking about a person with whom you have been living. You have eaten his food and that person who is called ‘the Lion of Kashmir’. You are talking about that person. Do you realize?

[19:20-19:22] Sabeel: Yes, I am sure.

[19:23-19:25] Abrar Qureshi: So, do you admit that he is the Lion of Kashmir and Charhoi and Kotli?

[19:26-20:00] Sabeel: See please, the Lion of Kashmir or the Lion of Charhoi or the Lion of Kotli. See, the lion as a word, lion… lion… lion, as it is. You will see if a lion in the line of jackals? Or when he moves, forty jackals and foxes or his male lions and female lions are with him. He goes alone wherever he goes for the hunt. I don’t think a lion hunts in the company of thousands while hundreds of vehicles are with him. It is clear….

[20:01-20:10] Abrar Qureshi: Let me ask you the last question. Earlier you were connected to Chaudhry Yasin of PPP but now you are in Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf. Is it so?

[20:11-20:21] Sabeel: Yes, it is so. I have an uncle, Colonel Retired Chaudhry Muhammad Fayom. I joined Tehreek-e-Insaaf at his suggestion. Yes certainly I am with Tehreek-e-Insaaf

[20:22-20:24] Abrar Qureshi: Well, Colonel Fayom is your real uncle?

[20:25-20:28] Sabeel: Not real but he is a cousin of my father. In this way….

[20:29-20:32] Abrar Qureshi: It means you belong to an educated and intellectual family.

[20:33-20:34] Sabeel: Yes, certainly.

[20:35-20:39] Abrar Qureshi: OK. Tell me about the people who died… who killed the two people who were killed during the elections.

[20:40-21:24] Sabeel: These two? Everyone knows that these two unarmed persons went to discharge their national duty of casting votes. They went to their polling station in the morning. It was his home station of Chauk Saiban. There our ex-Member of Assembly, Chaudhry Iqbal went to cast his vote. Then the Chaudhry was also there, having even on that day left his home presumably drunk with his thuggish sons. They first went and assaulted Chaudhry Mohammed Iqbal for casting his vote. They went straight in the morning at 9 o clock. The polling starts at 8. By 8.15 8.30 they violently attack Chaudhry Iqbal. At 9 o clock they were telling people what to say

[21:25-21:57] Abrar Qureshi: OK. Sabeel, I am aware of this event. Thanks very much for your time, Sabeel. You were wronged. That’s why; I talked to you, and I will talk to you again. I wanted to hear you to know what was going on in our region and that in 21st Century. If this cruelty is the order of the day, then I will have to ponder who is responsible for it. Take care. Thanks for your time.

[21:58-22:02] You are watching Gorakh Dhanda with Abrar Qureshi

Appendix 2 : Programme: Gorakh Dhanda

Duration: 7 minutes and 31 seconds

[00:00-00:16] Abrar Qureshi: Well. So she was an officer of Education Department, and he had her daughter’s photos…. Objectionable photos the reason for which the existing member of Assembly, Amir Yasin would blackmail her. And at the outcry of her mother, you threw that phone in the toilet

[00:17-00:18] Sabeel: Exactly. I exactly did so.

[00:19-00:22] Abrar Qureshi: Who are you Sabeel? What is your introduction? What is your job, your profession?

[00:23-00:27] Sabeel: Well, first I used to do a private job. Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin who is ex….

[00:28-00:30] Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, are you educated?

[00:31-00:32] Sabeel: Yes. I have done FA.

[00:33-00:38] Abrar Qureshi: On which position did you work with Chaudhry Yasin and for how many years?

[00:39-00:41] Sabeel: Yes. I have worked with Chaudhry Yasin for…

[00:42-00:45] Abrar Qureshi: What kind of man is he with whom you worked for six years?

[00:46-00:50] Sabeel: Yes. Well. As I have said in my previous press conferences.

[00:51-00:54] Abrar Qureshi: Why did you conduct this press conferences in Muzaffarabad? Why couldn’t it be arranged in Kotli?

[00:55- 00:59] Sabeel: Yes. It is your very important question.

[01:00-01:04] Abrar Qureshi: So, Sabeel, what is relation between journalists and administration?

[01:05-01:09] Sabeel: Sir, there is no obvious relation. I mean they have different systems…….

[01:10-01:16] Abrar Qureshi: The journalists of Kotli are afraid of Chaudhry Yasin? Or have they personal links, as you suspect?

[01:17-01:20] Sabeel: It is obvious, as I held the press conference in Muzaffarabad.

[01:21-01:22] Abrar Qureshi: Why were you jailed?

[01:23-01:27] Sabeel: Well, Chaudhry Yasin….

[01:28-01:30] Abrar Qureshi: If not set on fire, then who did so?

[01:31-01:35] Sabeel: Sir, everyone knows that Benish Jalal was doing her duty honestly. Her sense..

[01:36-01:37] Abrar Qureshi: How long have you been in the jail?

[01:38-01:40] Sabeel: Well. I was in the jail for two months.

[01:41-01:44] Abrar Qureshi: Were you sexually assaulted there?

[01:45-01:56] Sabeel: Of course, I was sexually assaulted. I was tortured afterwards; the worst kind of torture and I was sexually assaulted. Amir Yasin Himself made video.

[01:57-02:05] Abrar Qureshi: Then Sabeel, who sexually assaulted you? Did it happen in the presence of Amir Yasin, the existing member of Assembly and he himself made its video?

[02:06-02:20] Sabeel: Yes. I was sexually assaulted by two of his gunmen present there, and he was making video of the crime. The purpose of the sexual assault and the video was that I should give statement against Assistant Commissioner, Benish Jaraal in the Court.

[02:21- 02:23] Abrar Qureshi: Who burnt you with cigarette?

[02:24-02:26] Sabeel: Amir Yasin himself burnt me as I was flattened to the ground prostrate.

[02:27-02:34] Abrar Qureshi: Shahnwaz Yasin and Amir Yasin are sons of Chaudhry Yasin. Both of them tortured you in the jail?

[02:35-02:42] Sabeel: Yes. In the jail, and openly, in public. It was not only in B-Class of Jail but they also tortured me openly and….

[02:43-02:54] Abrar Qureshi: Ok. Tell me, as I know that thugs, gangsters, thieves and robbers frequent the jails but wasn’t there any man of principles to see it all happening but he kept quiet?

[02:55-02:59] Sabeel: They all saw passively. Jail superintendent had great reputation for following the merit….

[03:00-03:13] Abrar Qureshi: May these people be destroyed! The jail superintendent, making excuse of COVID, said that he was going on leave. Who threatened him to refrain him from intervention, otherwise he would be transferred?

[03:14-03:21] Sabeel: Amir. Sir, in front of me and Amir Yasin who became member of Assembly later, as they went there before the elections and …

[03:22-03:25] Abrar Qureshi: Ok. Were they there in a normal condition or intoxicated?

[03:26-03:36] Sabeel: Exactly. During the day and even when they were outside it was their routine. Under the influence of alcohol, they would misbehave with people, abuse government official on the phone and then in the jail too.

[03:37-03:38] Abrar Qureshi: Well! Such kind of prison is there?

[03:39-03:41] Sabeel: Yes. For common people, timing is from 11 to 1.

[03:42-03:56] Abrar Qureshi: Well, Sabeel, you are saying that in the jails of my Azad Kashmir, police officers or public servants treat these people like this, and common people are mistreated like this in the jails of our Azad Kashmir.

[03:57-03:59] Sabeel: Yes Mr. Abrar. I have not been in all the jails of Azad Kashmir, as…..

[04:00-04:10] Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, tell me that you are accused of stealing Amir Yasin’s phone. Are you a thief? Did you do this and why did you do this?

[04:11-04:50] Sabeel: I didn’t want to mention I, but as you have raised the question. She said, ‘You are like my sons. And this Amir Yasin blackmails my daughter. He has her photos. Her daughter is in Spain. He has got some vulgar footage from somewhere and he blackmails us daily. If you delete them, please.’ Then I took the phone to the washroom in that room and flashed it. And I told them. I think I have done no wrong, as she is someone’s daughter sister, as I have sisters and mothers too.

[04:51-05:01] Abrar Qureshi: Then Sabeel, you are saying that the wrong you committed, the stealing of the phone was actually an act of perpetual charity. And you have no remorse or regret on it.

[05:01-05:06] Sabeel: No, no. Not at all. And if they wanted to get the price of that iphone 5s I was ready to give it.

[05:07-05:19] Abrar Qureshi: Coming back to the word of blackmailing, when you were with Chaudhry Yasin for six years, what did you see, find or lose. Whom did they blackmail and how? Have you any evidence?

[05:20-05:23] Sabeel: Sir, evidence of blackmail? All the audiences are my evidence.

[05:24-05:40] Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, you are saying that they used to blackmail girls, but they with some girls….as we talk about Ifra Shahzadi who is giving statements against you. These girls favour them. Then whom have they blackmailed and how are they victims?

[05:41-05:47] Sabeel: Let me tell you about Ifra Shahzadi. She has been in my contact since 2016-17, and she did….

[05:48-05:51] Abrar Qureshi: What is at F-10, Islamabad? Why it is a prohibited area?

[05:52-05:57] Sabeel: They have taken a house at F-10 on rent, that is total…

[05:58-06:02] Abrar Qureshi: What is source of income of Chaudhry Yasin? What have you realised in these six years?

[06:03-06:14] Sabeel: Sir, they have no business. They claim to have some business. But their source of income is to sell out government land, people…

[06:15-06:22] Abrar Qureshi: Sabeel, you are talking about a person with whom you have been living. You have eaten his food and that person who is called ‘the Lion of Kashmir’. You are talking about that person. Do you realize that?

[06:23-06:24] Sabeel: Yes, I am sure.

[06:25-06:29] Abrar Qureshi: So, do you admit that he is the Lion of Kashmir and Charhoie and Kotli?

[06:30-06:47] Sabeel: See please, the Lion of Kashmir or the Lion of Charhoie or the Lion of Kotli. See, the lion as a word, lion… lion… lion, as it is. You will see if a lion falls in the line of jackals? Or when he moves, forty jackals and foxes.

[06:48-06:53] Abrar Qureshi: OK. Tell me about the people who died… who killed the two people who were killed during the elections.

[06:54-06:56] Sabeel: These two? Everyone knows that these two…

[06:57-07:27] Abrar Qureshi: Thanks very much for your time, Sabeel. You were wronged. That’s why; I talked to you, and I will talk to you again. I wanted to hear you to know what was going on in our region and that in 21st Century. If this cruelty is the order of the day, then I will have to ponder who is responsible for it. Take care. Thanks for your time.

Captions:

Top: Amir Yasin, the member of Assembly, subjected me to sexual assault, burnt my body with cigarettes. Listen to the painful story of this young man.

Bottom: Spent 6 years with Chaudhry Yasin. Which which girl did he blackmail and sexually assault? How does he blackmail people? I know all

Captions from 7:10 minutes to 7:15 minutes:

Chaudhary Yasin’s son Amir Yasin, the member of Assembly, subjected me to sexual assault, burnt my body with cigarettes

Spent 6 years with Chaudhry Yasin. Which girl did he blackmail and sexually assault? How does he blackmail people? I know all

Appendix 3: Transcript of the Comments

Muzammal Pandey:

Although I don’t know how truth this person is telling but I am aware of the incidents of entering the jail and of violence and beatings taking place. I am also well informed about the facts of sexual attacks on the girls in jail. However, on each occasion, the victims refused to come forward, otherwise you would have seen many excruciating realities by now.

The other thing is that even if a boy was telling lies, he couldn’t possibly go to such lengths. Therefore, there appears to be an element of truth in his statement.

Even so, this incident ought to be investigate thoroughly.

Naib Hussain:

I wish someone would work with honesty so that the oppressed could get relief/justice. The rest, Allah knows and hears the best. One day, the oppressor will be held accountable, god willing no matter who it is.

Arshad Khan:

Chaudhry Yasin lion belongs to Kashmir. Chaudhry Yasin has won from two paces in order to reach the Assembly. If he were such a person, if he were such a person, then why did 24 thousand people vote for him? Only you are telling the truth? Everyone else is lying? Shame on you.

Arshad Khan:

This person worked with Chaudhry Yasin for 6 years and received provision from him. He’s barking against him now. Curses on this person.

Abdul Hadi Khan:

Nothing new in this, same old nonsense. Never mind anything else, all he could find to burn him with was a cigarette!

Ch Asjad Rasheed:

He hasn’t given a solid answer to any of the questions.

Akhtar Chauhan:

Abrar, please don’t give any weight to such people. This person is telling all lies because I know him very closely. He is number 1 thief and a dirty person. Even though I do not belong to AJK, the phone he is referring to, he had stolen it then sold it to a phone shop in Islamabad and brought expensive clothes for himself. Look at the generosity of Amir Yasin that even though the theft was proven, he forgave him. I would request everyone not to believe this man’s lies.

Tahir Azam:

This lad begins with a lie and ends with a lie.

Matloob Nagyal:

This boy is indeed a low-class person and a liar. Abrar, do you not see the way he blatantly lies? Shameless person.

Ali Khan:

You’re sitting in the UK and you are worried about Pakistan? Get on with your work. Coward.

Faisal Hussain:

All the MPAs and MNAs are the same.

Mudassar Rafique:

Only those people who have been close to Sabeel know him better. For how long would be tell such lies? For a serious journalist like Abrar Qureshi to make a video viral of such a rogue person, who says one thing at one time and another thing another time, is beyond my understanding.

You can only regret it.

Mehtab Ahmed:

Abrar, you asked some brilliant questions.

Raja Ziafat Ali Khan:

[Poetry] Although self-control is important but the fear is of the Day of Judgment, Faraz; if the tyrant does not cry now even, then he will die.

Akhtar Chauhan:

I know the reality of this person. He’s talking all this nonsense only for the money.

Sardar Ehtsham Sajad:

A majority of political leaders in Azad Kashmir are either hooligans themselves or, they hire hooligans to keep people under their influence. Yaseen is a certified criminal. He killed two members of the opposition party on the day of the Elections. Even in jail they get ‘A’ class prison cells and receive all the facilities. They enjoy themselves. However, a poor person will never get justice in this country.

Choudhry Aleem:

God help the person who believes what this scum of the earth says. It’s obvious from what he says that he’s telling blatant lies.

Awais Sadiq Chouhan Gujjar:

You have interviewed him with the best questions. Whether he’s telling the truth or lying, is another matter.

Awais Sadiq Chouhan Gujjar:

They will face punishment according to Islamic religion. All the tyranny may occur within this world to the maximum but there will be accountability before Allah (on the Judgement Day).

Zulifiqar Raja:

He’s lying 100%

Muhammad Ghous:

So what was it that woke up his conscience 6 years later and that, too, after Chaudhry Yasin went to jail? Are they using him, possibly, by including his name in the FIR?

Shahid Mahmood:

Yes

Sajjad Purtuvi:

Hahaha. Wow! What a surprise, ‘Pride’ of Kotli!

Muhammad Sulman:

This boy has got a ‘PHD’ in lying. If he had studied, he would have been clever.

Ahtesham Khan:

All reliance on made-up lies

Abrar Ahmed:

It’s sad.

Mahmood Raja:

This is wholly unfair. Voices should be raised against this.

Raja Bukhtiar Minhas:

Political mafia.

Mohammed Shabir:

Curses on such people.

Sardar Tayyab Zaheer:

He’s a lying bastard. The person he was employed by, and who was feeding him, has suddenly become a bad person now. He’s barking against his employer now. It’s looks like he’s being fed elsewhere now.

Haroon Butt:

He is doing drama

Arslan Shoukat Jutt:

Gosh! So much tyranny against Sabeel but it seems like some others are feeling his pain instead.

Irfan Latif:

Absolute nonsense and lies.

Younes Ali Akram:

It’s possible to distinguish between a good guy and a bad guy in just one day. This bastard, thief, fornicator was employed by Yasin for 6 years. His entire family was dependant on Chaudhry Yasin. He’s disloyal.

Shoab Chohan:

I belong to Battian Bala and I’m a Peoples Party worker. My family has been associated with this party for the past 40 years. However, I have heard from various people that Chaudhry Yasin is a mobster and a bully. He wins his (political) seat based on his bullying. If that is true, then the aware Kashmiris should expose him.

Kashmir is heaven. No one can be permitted to turn it into hell. Our media is made up of groups of flatters who are more loyal to the party rather than being journalists, not all but certainly a few. The Gujjar and Jatt clans living in Kotli are more satisfied with Chaudhry Yasin. The rest of the clans hate Chaudhry Yasin. I don’t know why that is the case. There are more votes of the Gujjar and Jatt clans in this region. Perhaps that is why he manages to secure his seat from here each time.

Haroon Qureshi:

No matter what you do, the person deserving punishment would get away with it. This country belongs to conscience sellers and to justice system that is totally blind.

Amair Ch:

Both have no hope.

Abrar. Muhammad Butt:

Support the victims.

Muhammad Butt:

First you like Nawaz, the crook.

Muhammad Butt:

Stop communicating with Chaudhry Yasin.

Muhammad Butt:

Abrar, fear God.

Muhammad Butt:

It’s his actions.

Javad Hashmi:

Our system is the dirtiest system in the world.

Pareesa Noor:

When will this system change?