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Azad Jammu Kashmir government to turn Azad Kashmir into model welfare state

The President of Azad Jammu Kashmir Raja Zulqarnain Khan here on Monday said that the government was fully committed to raise the life style of the common man across Azad Jammu Kashmir equally both in urban and country side areas with special focus to turn the liberated territory a true model welfare state.

He declared that the liberated state government has already released development funds of millions of rupees for various mega public welfare projects of Mirpur district including this city under the spirit of the Mangla dam raising project and it was now the responsibility of the nation-building departments to execute and complete new and ongoing development projects respectively in the district.

The President expressed these views while talking to Mirpur city Administrator Alhaj Abdul Qayyum Qamar who called on him at the PWD Rest House on Monday. The Administrator briefed the President of the ongoing mass development plans launched for the speedy progress of the city. He said that in view of Mirpur being the only newly developed and planned city the MC intended to turn it a role model and face of the State of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

The President said that the Muslim Conference government of AJK will bring about all possible resources for the uplift of the all parts of AJK including urban and rural areas without any discrimination. He said that facilities harmonious to the need of the modern age would be provided to the population across AJK including Mirpur, the ancestral city of over seven-lakh UK-based expatriates. He said that the expectations of masses attached with the Muslim Conference regime would be fulfilled in letter and spirit. AJK, he said, would be elevated to a model state.

The President said that the government of Pakistan has accorded approval for the emergence of a grand and world-class University in Mirpur in the near future. The state government, he said, would materialise the implementation of the project of the proposed international university over an area of 4,500 kanal of land in line with the international standard. He said that an international airport will also be constructed in Mirpur in the private sector, which, he added, would extend and direct air travelling facilities to the overseas Kashmiris including the Britain-based settlers to their ancestral homes here.

The AJK President said that the government of Pakistan was extending liberal financial assistance for the rehabilitation and resettlement of the Mangla Dam victims as well as the quake-stricken population in the affected zone. He thanked the government of Pakistan for the keen interest they were taking for the timely rehabilitation of earthquake and Mangla Dam affected people.

Speaking on this occasion the city Administrator expressed the hope that the Muslim Conference regime, under the dynamic leadership of President Raja Zulqarnain Khan and the Prime Minister Sardar Atique Ahmed Khan, would bring about all possible resource to turn Azad Jammu Kashmir into a model state through the speedy development and uplift of all fields of life in AJK besides for strengthening and promoting the Kashmir cause for the early peaceful settlement of the Kashmir issue in line with aspiration of Jammu and Kashmir people.

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