Azad Kashmir

This is edition NWS 919 for release on Sunday, October 4th, 2026.

On the program today, Pakistan, part one, Azad Kashmir Radio, a DRM update from the HFCC meeting in Armenia, and our Japan DX report from Yukiko Tsuji.

WaveScan's editor-in-chief, as I've just mentioned, is Dr. Adrian Peterson, N9GW, who served with Adventist World Radio for decades, mostly in Asia.

He was primarily stationed in Pune, India, but during his time there, he visited many other countries in the region.

He went station hunting, literally, and here to read Adrian's report is Ray Robinson.

Thanks, Jeff.

Adrian wrote, "During the 1960s and '70s, there was a great deal of confusion and speculation among international radio monitors regarding the authenticity of a station identifying itself on air as Azad Kashmir Radio.

This station had been logged in the tropical shortwave bands in several countries of Asia, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and even occasionally in Europe and the United States.

We as people of colour are also capable of bigotry and prejudice.

In my village in Azad Kashmir, we don't have a proper education system.

We're rural farming communities.

In one village, they'll say, don't trust people in the other village.

Can I be a little ambitious and ask you, Can he also lose his limbs in this elsewhere? And I'm sure you war-gamed it.

Can he lose POK?

That's a subject for another debate.

It's a big debate.

This took place a month ago or two months ago.

And I said this to you then, Gaurav.

If the disenchantment in POK with Pakistan government does not necessarily translate into love for India,

we

Thanks, Ray.

Next week, Ray will bring the story of when our editor-in-chief, Dr Adrian Peterson, ventured into the Pakistani side of the disputed territory of Kashmir in search of a couple of elusive radio stations.

The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives on September 15th.

To become law, the bill would have to pass the Senate and be signed by President Trump.

And we end today with more music from Armenia.

Thanks for listening to Wavescan, the international DX program researched and written in Indianapolis by Dr. Adrian Peterson and in Los Angeles by Ray Robinson.

Next week, Azad Kashmir Radio.

We'll have more from Armenia and our Japan DX report from Yuki Kotsuji.

We saw the cockroach movement in India, which we didn't get to cover on Against the Stream.

Saw the movement in Azad Kashmir as well.

So much to mention.

Over the summer, the world got its first trillionaire in Elon Musk.

And that's why the relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan goes bad.

But at the same time, remember, the Pakistani general, what they did in KPK, what they did in Balochistan, what they did in Muridke, and what they did in Azad Kashmir.

Like, if they have no mercy on their own people, how come they, you know, someone should expect others to be immune from them, other than the Western

countries? So, Mustafa, I want to speak about a couple of countries.

The Navy sort of indirectly, first of all, projecting power to Pakistan and also, also holding back a punch, but letting, letting them know, Pakistanis know that it, it had that punch ready.

And also some of the Navy personnel also participated in the initial strikes on terrorist bases in the PoK area.

So all three were involved.

This was a situation, the Op Sindoor situation.

It will be visible with evidence, I'm adding.

It will be a proportionate military response.

That's what India had said after the first strikes on Lashkar and Jaish headquarters, also on those sev-seven bases in PoK and parts of Pakistani Punjab, that this was a proportionate military response.

There are aspects of this doctrine that may look contradictory on first reading, so I'll read them for you briefly, and you will see the contradiction, but then I will explain to you why these are not contradictory.