MUZAFFARABAD : (Parliament Times) The AJK minister for Information Raja Mushtaq Ahmed Minhas said that Sardar Sikandar Hayat was respectable to him but he should not have called three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as traitor.
Talking to journalists here on Monday he expressed sorrow over irresponsible statement of former AJK Prime Minister and said he (Sikandar) should have chosen cautious and responsible words about national leadership of the country. He added that if Sardar Sikandar did not show responsibility we would be compelled to give him a befitting response on Nawaz Sharif. He said the leader who was given thumping majority by Pakistani people does not deserve to be called traitor. He said workers of Nawaz Sharif could also use strict words for him for such irresponsible statements. Sikandar should realize about his age and status before issuing such toxic statements about former Prime Minister of Pakistan, he remarked.
Minhas claimed that the votes given to PML-N in Azad Kashmir were all due to Nawaz Sharif. He strongly denounced the statements of Information Minister Punjab Fayyazul Hassan Chuhan about Kashmiri nation. Chuhan he said has already hurt the sentiments of Kashmiri nation a few months back. When there was same narrative of the nation on the issue of Indian pilot why Chuhan gave such an intolerable and irresponsible statement on him, he added. It is humiliation to call Kashmiris as straight illiterate. He pointed out that literacy rate in AJK was highest than all the other provinces of the country. Minhas said ministers like Chuhan need political training so that they do not give such reckless statements.
To a question on tourism corridor in AJK Minhas said federal government had slashed a number of development projects including our tourism corridor. He said feasibility report of this project had been prepared and we are trying to include it in Pakistan budget 2019-20 through the good offices of federal minister of GB and Kashmir Affairs. We need six billion from federal government 3 billion from state government and one billion from private sector for this 10 billion project, he explained.