Mushtaq Pahalgami and his team at the Himalayan Welfare Organization- HWO have filed dozens of Right to Information Act RTI and Public Service Guarantee Act PSGA applications and cases, particularly concerning land grabbing, illegal construction and illegal land-use in and around the region. This has resulted in positive interventions and notices served in various cases, to the Department of Social Welfare, Ministry of Tourism, Department of Education, Department of Consumer Affairs, Department of Public Distribution, rural Development, Ministry of Environment, Forest Department, Integrated Child development project; GOI and other departments. Mushtaq Pahalgami's sustained efforts at inculcating a culture of rational critique and inquiry among the youth, have also strengthened the citizens' movement in the region. His persistent efforts in questioning the state-machinery's inefficacy has given much-needed impetus to the state's anti-corruption movement.

Mushtaq Pahalgami has been pursuing the welfare of his local environment in his capacities and has been vocal about the encroachment of forests by hotels & resorts and the rising pressure on wildlife, sometimes bearing physical assault for his intentions, yet organising clean-up treks against the use of plastic and polythene in the region . He has been pro-active in guiding the public attention towards a sustainable maintenance of the tourist spots in the area and has raised the issues pertaining to the upkeep of tourists sites, like the inconvenience caused by the defunct street lights to tourists in night hours and Unsettling of debris caused by burning of 3 buildings at pahalgam since 13 years, negligence towards significant water leakages in the area, etc.