evidence: In his recent column, "Azad Kashmir Is A Foreign Territory?" in the mass-circulation Urdu newspaper Roznama Jang, Pakistan's celebrated journalist Hamid Mir took up the case of Ahmad Farhad, a Pakistani-Kashmiri journalist and poet who was picked up by the Pakistani military. However, when the matter came up before the Islamabad High Court, the Additional Attorney General of Pakistan told the court that Ahmad Farhad is in Azad Kashmir which, he said, is a foreign territory, and therefore not under the jurisdiction of the court. [...] "Ironically, [demanding the] accession of Azad Kashmir [into Pakistan] is the official policy of the state of Pakistan. Opponents of Pakistan's accession or supporters of independent Kashmir are not allowed to participate in state elections [in Azad Kashmir], but the government of Pakistan declares Azad Kashmir a foreign territory in the Islamabad High Court. [...] "He wrote that Azad Kashmir is not a constitutional province of Pakistan but holds a provincial status within Pakistan. Nationalist circles [those who reject the federal idea of Pakistan] criticized this decision heavily. However, in 2006, Justice Gilani authored another decision, stating that Azad Kashmir cannot be considered a province under Article 1 of Pakistan's Constitution but falls under the definition of a territory included in Pakistan as per sub-clause (d) of clause 2 of the same article.