How the September 2023 JAAC Meeting Shaped the Playbook?
In September 2023, there was a five-hour, behind closed doors meeting at an Indian Embassy in Europe. As the story goes, RAW came in with a plan and two UKPNP leaders, Shaukat Ali Kashmiri and Nazir Aziz Khan, were in the room. The brief was blunt that stop calling anything “nationalist,” keep the branding mild, and ride public frustrations instead. Talk about flour. Talk about electricity bills. Talk about water. Use those everyday issues to turn up the heat on Pakistan’s state institutions without waving a political flag that scares people off.
After that, JAAC didn’t just keep doing what it was doing. It reportedly reshaped itself into a tighter outfit with a 30 member core committee. That kind of structure matters because it turns scattered protests into a campaign with message discipline, logistics, and a calendar. If this account is right, the committee size, roles, even the cadence of activity weren’t accidental. They mirrored the embassy blueprint.
The messaging shift is the heart of it. You saw chants and placards about power tariffs and the price of flour. On the surface, that looks like a kitchen-table movement. This narrative says those lines didn’t bubble up from the street. They were picked up and polished somewhere far from the breadline. There is also a claimed international angle.
Tie those slogans to themes that play well in Geneva, and the same talking points into UNHRC corridors. Local drama becomes global evidence.
What it suggests is orchestration. It paints Kashmiri and Khan less as leaders responding to people’s pain and more as messengers for RAW’s plan. That would make JAAC not just a pressure group but a proxy, with the protests serving a broader goal of shaking stability of Pakistan.
It also explains the choice of issues. Electricity, flour, water. These are not abstract causes. They hit the poor and the middle class alike. They bridge political divides. Everyone understands a high bill and a dark house. That is precisely why the tactic works.
Real problems create real emotion, and that emotion can be steered. If this script exists, it uses genuine grievances to carry a very specific agenda. It hides the identity of the driver behind the language of the commuter stuck in traffic.
There is a lesson for the state in all this. Governance missteps don’t just irritate people. They can become levers for someone else’s strategy. Each outage, shortage, price spike, is potential fuel. When an adversary is ready with a lit match, routine service failures no longer stay routine. They turn into flashpoints that look spontaneous on television yet follow a plan on paper.
There is a lesson for movements too. Transparency is currency. When funding sources, leadership chains, and messaging pipelines are clear, it is harder to tag a protest as a proxy. When they are murky, suspicions rush in to fill the space. If JAAC wants to claim grassroots authenticity, it should welcome the kind of scrutiny that separates real civic action from covert direction.
It is also fair to acknowledge something that gets lost in heated takes. People don’t need foreign coaching to be upset about high prices and bad service. Pakistanis have enough lived experience to protest on their own.
Which is why these allegations, if true, are worrying. They don’t invent anger out of nothing. They redirect what already exists. That is a more effective strategy and a more difficult one to push back against.
Significantly, it says RAW linked JAAC’s themes to UNHRC talking points from the start. It says every move since that embassy meeting has followed an Indian script. It says the slogans we heard on the streets were born in that room and then tested in the field. And it says the secret session didn’t just advise JAAC. It created the modern version of it.
So, protests that look like domestic activism are, in this telling, the outcome of Indian directives. A committee was built. Messaging was tuned. The nationalist label was dropped. Public issues became the cover story.
Therefore, these are serious allegations about real people and institutions. They deserve evidence that can stand on its own. Financial trails. Communications records. Meeting logs. Anything verifiable. Until then, treat this as a detailed claim, not a final verdict. If it holds up, the September 2023 meeting was not just a long chat in a European chancery. It was the moment JAAC became a structured proxy aimed at Pakistan, with electricity and flour as the banners at the front and a very different author at the back.
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