There remains no extant copy of today’s Dawn and the excerpt below is taken from the previous day’s paper.

(EDITORIAL) The ways and means being adopted by the Government of Maharaja Hari Singh to prevent the bastille of Dogra autocracy from falling to the resurgent masses of the oppressed Kashmiri Muslims will only hasten its doom. Each prisoner in this veritable prison house which is the Jammu and Kashmir State today is uneasy and is trying to break his shackles. Bullets and bayonets are being used to suppress the growing popular upsurge … . The weapon of news censorship was employed in such a manner that but for the resourcefulness of the Punjab Muslim press it would have become absolutely impossible for the outside world to know what hell was being let loose on the people.

The Kashmir Government have now vengefully put a ban on the entry into Jammu and Kashmir of the Pakistan Times, Ahsan and Zamindar — three Lahore dailies which were somehow managing to publish some revealing accounts about the situation in that State. This ban … is a wicked move designed to delink Kashmir completely from any association with the Punjab’s political life.

Published in Dawn, October 1st, 2022