Muzaffarabad, (Parliament Times) : Prime Minister Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi has said that his government was keen and committed to provide all basic health facilities to the people of Azad Kashmir.“The Government of Azad Kashmir will take every possible measure to improve the lives of people by providing them the provision of best health facilities to the masses in line with the vision of prime minister Imran Khan”, the PM said this while addressing the third convocation of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Medical College, Muzaffarabad on Thursday. Chancellor University of Health Sciences Lahore Dr. Javed Akram and other speakers also addressed the convocation.Besides others cabinet Ministers including Khawaja Farooq Ahmed,Chaudhry Muhammad Rashid, Azhar Sadiq, Sardar Muhammad Hussain, Zafar Iqbal Malik, Chief Secretary Azad Kashmir Shakeel Qadir Khan, Chairman Inspection Commission Raja Mansoor Khan, Inspector General of Police
Sohail Habib Tajik, Secretary Information and Broadcasting and others were present on the occasion.The PM said that every single citizen in AJK today owns an insurance of 1 million rupees. The PM on the occasion praised Imran Khan for introducing the best health care system in Pakistan. He said that the AJK was in dire need of a medical university. “PC-1 will be prepared soon to set up a medical university in the region”, he said.“We owe a debt of gratitude to the Government of Pakistan for its generous support in establishing medical colleges in Azad Kashmir”, he said, adding that the health sector in AJK still needed a lot of improvement but the government lacked the required budget to overcome the existing problems in the health sector.Hailing PM Khan for championing Kashmir cause vociferously at global level, the PM said, “The way with which the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan raised the Kashmir issue at the international level has sent a positive message to Kashmiris around the world”.He expressed the hope that the people of the occupied Kashmir would soon be free from the clutches of Indian bondage.The PM Niazi urged the outgoing graduates of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Medical College to make public service their motto.Welcoming the President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi, the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir said that Dr. Alvi’s participation in the ceremony was a manifestation of his knowledgeable attitude and his selfless commitment to the region.
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