Muzaffarabad: (Parliament Times) Prime Minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir Raja Muhammad Farooq Haider Khan has categorically stated that the elements responsible of corruption, malpractices and irregularities in the public sector institutions in AJK including Mirpur Development Authority (MDA) would have to face ruthless accountability.
The Prime Minister expressed these views while talking to AJK minister for Sports, Youth and MDA Affairs Chaudhry Muhammad Saeed, who called on him at the Prime Minister house in Muzaffarabad on Friday. Ch. Saeed briefed the Prime Minister of the MDA affairs besides the measures initiated by the government so far for the reformation of the institutions on war-footings.
Raja Farooq Haider Khan said that he wanted to see the MDA absolutely transparent and corruption-free institution serving the people with fair and sincere approach. He said that a large number of overseas Kashmiris have started launching investments at other places after having been utterly sick and perplexed of the corruption and malpractices prevailing in the MDA. He said that the government would move to restore the lost confidence of the investors through giving them a conducive atmosphere to attract maximum of the investments in Mirpur by the expatriates.
The AJK Prime Minister underlined that the outgoing – immediate past government of AJK put the state resources on loot sale. Farooq Haider said that his government stopped this unlawful exercise through executing stringent steps for the betterment and uplift of the common man in AJK, he added.
Raja Farooq Haider Khan said that he wanted to see the officials of all the nation-building institutions including the MDA serving the masses in a neat and clean environment. The Prime Minister directed the minister for MDA to also take the citizens of Mirpur in to confidence before taking measures in connection with the elimination of corruption, malpractices and irregularities and the ‘Qabza Mafia’ / land grabbers involved in the unlawful practices at the MDA-controlled residential and commercial sectors in Mirpur and the adjoining hamlets.
The Prime Minister said that he was confidence that on ground these were not the changes of minor nature. He expressed the hope that the fruits of the reforms would reach to the masses directly. He assured to the population of this city of expatriates that no body would be let to do corruption in MDA and the government would perform its due responsibilities to introduce neat and clean working regime in the institution.
Chairman Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Council Dr. Syed Nazir Gillani also called on Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan in Muzaffarabad on Friday and apprised him of the global developments and the due role of civil society in the United Nations in connection with the Kashmir issue. Dr. Gillani felicitated the Prime Minister for his recent successful tour of European countries including Britain. The Prime Minister appreciated the services of Syed Nazir Gillani in respect of highlighting the Kashmir freedom movement and the importance of early peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue which involved the Kashmiris birth right to self determination.
Earlier talking visiting British Parliamentary delegation Raja Farooq Haider Khan has called upon the international community, United Nations, global human rights organizations and the civilized world to perform their due role for ensuring the early peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue. The British parliamentary delegation comprised Mr. Nee Gill Headliston, Mr. Mark Paosay, Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. Metheu Offerd, Mr. Rolsten and Pakistan-origin Mr. Abdul Rehman Chishti. AJK minister for Health D. Najeeb Naqi, Minister for Information and Tourism Mushtaq Minhas and senior officials of the AJK government were also present on this occasion.
Highlighting the plight of the freedom-monger population of the Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmir, the Prime Minister of AJK underlined that the Indian occupational forces are targeting the innocent Kashmiris, engaged in the peaceful struggle for freedom from Indian yoke, of the State terrorism. India, he further said, have thrust draconian black laws to suppress Kashmiris indigenous struggle for freedom in the occupied state.
Raja Farooq Haider Khan stated that New Delhi was blatantly committing the war crimes through inflicting the reign of state terrorism in the occupied valley with motives to suppress Kashmiris voice for freedom. The Prime minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir emphasized for the early settlement of Kashmir issue to wipe out poverty, ignorance and starvation besides for emergence of everlasting and durable peace in Soth Asia.
He said that the regional peace in South Asia has been put on stake only because of the stubborn approach and constant skip from the settlement of Kashmir issue by India. Raja Farooq Haider Khan pointed out that dangers of war between two nuclear arch rivals were hovering because of the inordinate delay in settlement of the much-delayed Kashmir problem.
Lashing out at the Indian Prime Minister for his hard-lined policies in the region, Raja Farooq Haider Khan said that fanatic Modi is the man of extremism enriched with the approach of subversion and terrorism. “Modi’s past is extremely stained as he dipped his hands with the blood of the innocent minorities including the Muslims the main minority community in India. Haider described the Indian Prime Minister Modi as the Hitller of 21st century.
The AJK Prime Minister said that the people of occupied Jammu & Kashmir were engaged in their peaceful struggle for the accomplishment of their birth right of self determination. He said that the martyrdom of young Kashmiri freedom fighter Burhan Muzaffar Wani in July last year infused a new spirit in the ongoing struggle for freedom of the motherland from Indian yoke. He said that valiant Kashmiris were responding the Indian bullets with the stone pelting with their open chest. The Prime Minister Farooq Haider since India was constantly scared of the Kashmiris struggle for freedom; she had turned 14 hundred km long line of control into an iron wall with the ulterior motives to turn LoC into a permanent border. The AJK PM categorically declared that internationally acknowledged Line of Control could never be turned into a permanent border nor India could succeed in her said nefarious designs.