AJK Govt Implementing Multi-prong Strategies For Socio Economic Development Of AJK:Farooq Haider

MIRPUR (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th Feb, 2017 ) ,: Unveiling the top three priorities of the popularly-elected PML (N) government of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan said on Tuesday that his government has taken a number of initiatives for promotion of good governance and achieve socio economic prosperity in the liberated terrtory.

He stated this while was addressing the students and faculty members of the state-run Mirpur University of Science & Technology (MUST) at the old campus here. Highlighting priorities of his government he said that these included strengthening the base camp of the Kashmir freedom struggle, emergence of the rule of good governance and the speedy socio-economic progress and prosperity of the liberated territory.

Applauding MUST for the providing quality education in over 22 disciplines of science, engineering and information technology, the Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan called upon the students to equippthemselves with all kind of skills and talent to be emerged as the quality future architects of the nation, since they will have to take the command of the nation in the future.

Underlining their due responsibilities to raise the Kashmir issue both at national and international level, Haider advised the students to ensure maximum use of the social media for highlighting the importance of early peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue, which, he added, involved the legitimate right of self determination of over 20 million people of the Jammu & Kashmir state.

"Our young generation", the prime minister added, will have to move for positive use of this fast rising regime of information technology to apprise the external world of the ugly situation of Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir which was reeling the history worst era of state terrorism and human rights abuses by the Indian occupational forces for raising the voice of freedom of the motherland from the Indian subjugation.

Referring to the huge national resources of Azad Jammu Kashmir, Haider said that his government was going to restore the transparency of the equal use of the natural resources since these were meant for the entire state and not for any vested-interest individual or group.

Underlining the priorities of his government for ensuring the delivery of quality education right from Primary to the varsity level, the Prime Minister said that his government has introduced the transparent selection system through the NTS (National Testing Service) for filling the vacant positions in the State Education Department � primarily under the spirit to secure the social fabric of the AJK territory.

"We have decided to get the state-run institutions rid of all sorts of the menaces of political influence and pressure and illicit recommendations (Safarish) from any quarter replacing it through the strict implementation of the principal of merit during the course of recruitment against vacant positions in the public-sector institutions across AJK", he declared.

"Time has come to establish the rule of law and justice in AJK where our jobless educated youth was suffering from frustration dissention and unrest because of the outgoing long regime of injustice which badly abused the principal during their rule in the state", he added.

The AJK Prime Minister said that economically strong, prosperous and democratic Pakistan enriched with strong credibility the world over was the guarantee to the freedom of Jammu & Kashmir from Indian yoke.

He called upon India to come to negociating table for result-oriented talks with Pakistan and the people of Jammu & Kashmir for the peaceful settlement of Kashmir issue. Farooq Haider strongly condemned the continued reign of state terrorism in Indian occupied Jammu & Kashmri where India was massively using the worst weapon of pallet guns to blind the young boys and girls to suppress their voice of freedom.

He said it was so sad to note that our brethren and sisters in the Indian atrocities-riddled and curfew-clamped occupied Kashmir valley were taking only one time food instead of three times in 24 hours because of the era of starvation since over past six months.

The AJK Prime Minister vehemently condemned the recent wave of unprovoked Indian firing on the line of control in Azad Jammu Kashmir. He warned India that she could not harass or keep people of Jammu & Kashmir away of their just principled struggle for freedom of the occupied state through such cowardly and coercive tactics.

Raja Farooq Haider Khan also strongly condemned the suicide blast in Lahore on Monday which claimed precious human lives including two senior police officials. In his address of welcome Vice Chancellor of the MUST Prof.

Dr.Habib u Rehman highlighted the laurels clinched by the MUST varsity in a short span of last three years for the delivery of the quality higher education in line with the criteria set by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

He disclosed that Rs. 350 million budget of the MUST three years ago was raised to Rs. One billion because of fiancial discipline and checking corruption. APP/ahr/shb/kmd � 18:29/19:02/19:02