Altaf Hamid Rao
MIRPUR (AJK):(Parliament Times) “People of Jammu & Kashmir including those settled in Britain and other European Countries would stage a mammoth protest demonstration against India in London on April 18 on the eve of the arrival of the Indian Prime Minister Narrindra Modi at the British Capital”, AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan announced here on Wednesday.
Addressing a public gathering in Dadayal town of Mirpur district the AJK PM said that he himself, along with parliamentarians and members of Kashmiri Diaspora will participate in the protest demonstration to express indignation against the stepped-up Indian state terrorism and human rights abuses in the occupied Jammu & Kashmir –besides sensitizing world community about the early settlement of Kashmir issue.
Raja Farooq Haider said that every Kashmiri was upset and perplexed over the recent repeated tragic incidents of state terrorism in IoK – in which dozens of the Kashmiri youths were martyred by the brutal Indian forces. India, he lamented, was letting the reign of state terrorism and inhumanity loose against innocent Kashmiris to perpetuate her forced and unlawful rule in the occupied state. The people of Jammu & Kashmir, he declared, would not allow India to succeed in her nefarious designs.
Earlier, AJK Prime Minister inaugurated millions of rupees worth various development projects of mass public welfare in Dadayal sub division of Mirpur District including improvement and reconditioning of Palaak-Dadayal-DhanGalli Highway. These projects were launched under the spirit to ameliorate the life style of the common man in this comparatively fast-developing district of Azad Jammu Kashmir. The Prime Minister on this occasion told the gathering that under the liberal financial assistance by the government of Pakistan, AJK enjoyed the highest volume of the development funds in the third quarter of the annual budget of the state – than all provinces of the country. “The AJK government has moved to the central government for more due increase of development funds in the next fiscal year budget”, the Prime Minister said.
Referring to his government’s high spirit of ensuring transparency and the popular slogan of good governance in the nation-building institutions, Farooq Haider asserted that the introduction of National Testing Service (NTS), Public Service Commissioner, Emergency Service and financial discipline in the government departments were the ample proof of the fair and transparent approach of the incumbent regime. He added that nobody could raise finger on his government after these land mark achievements. The Prime Minister announced, on this occasion, the construction of Dadayal-Sehensa Highway besides the up-gradation of various state-run educational institutions in the sub division.
