Islamabad(PID AJK) 27 March 2023
Prime Minister Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan has said that a number of initiatives have been taken by the government to empower women. Talking to the PTI leader, Ms. Noreen Farooq Ibrahim, who called on him here today, the PM, said that along with other programs, the government has started an interest-free loan scheme in which special priority was given to women for shared prosperity.Empowering youth and women, he said, was the incumbent government’s top priority.The PM said that many new projects were being introduced to reduce the growing unemployment in the region.He said that steps were being taken to make Azad Kashmir a welfare state. He said that the government has introduced reforms in the health sector so as to provide better health care facilities to the people.”Effective management of the state machinery and sanitation is our priority”, he said.Referring to the PTI candidates’ victory in the recently held municipal polls, he said that the PTI’s landmark victory was an open expression of the masses’ confidence in the vision and leadership of the chairman of Tehreek-e-Insaf.Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan said that, being a majority party, the PTI government would complete a five-year term.Citing the poor economic conditions of the country, he said that there was a dire need that all the political parties and stakeholders should come together to tackle this issue head on. He said that at this point of time, economic stability in Pakistan was imperative as national security was linked to the country’s economy. Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan, while terming Kashmir as the basic unit of Pakistan, said that the people of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir were fighting a war for the completion of Pakistan.” I salute the Kashmiri Hurriyat leadership and people for their resilience and courageous struggle in the face of Indian fascism and state terrorism”, he said, adding that the day was not far when the people of occupied Kashmir would achieve their cherished goal of freedom.He said that India should shun its traditional intransigence and come to the negotiation table to resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute peacefully in line with the UNSC resolutions.”Negotiations with India cannot proceed without giving the right to self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir”, he added.On this occasion, Ms. Noreen Farooq Ibrahim congratulated the prime minister on the PTI’s landmark victory in the local elections.
