From Our Correspondent
MIRPUR [AJK]: Inviting intending entrepreneurs to make investments in Industrial sector, the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi said there were vast opportunities of business in the area where conducive atmosphere was available to the business community.
“The AJK government was determined to address the problems being faced by the business community”, he expressed these views while talking to a delegation of Mirpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Muzaffarbad on Thursday.
He said a meeting of traders will be convened soon to formulate a comprehensive policy which will be attended by representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and concerned and officials from all over Azad Kashmir.
The Prime Minister said that the government will give more incentives to the traders which would not only help provide employment opportunities to the people but would also usher in an era of progress and prosperity in the region.
The delegation was led by President Mirpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry Faisal Manzoor.
The delegation included Senior Vice President Mirpur Chamber of Commerce Zahid Sobhani, Vice President Azhar Minhas, Former President Chaudhry Allah Ditta, Zulfiqar Abbasi, Saleemuddin and Chaudhry Fayyaz.
The delegation apprised the Prime Minister about the delay in the allotment committee meeting, chamber building funds, and other issues. The Prime Minister assured that the issues would be resolved on priority.
Earlier, Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi on Wednesday said his government was committed to implement the PTI manifesto for bringing about socio-economic changes in the state.
According to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) manifesto, the government had abolished the ad hoc act, while local body elections were going to be held after 30 years to resolve the problems of people at local level, he added.
The prime minister was talking to Parliamentary Secretary Javed Butt, PTI Finance Secretary Sardar Zulfiqar Abbasi and various delegations at the federal metropolis on Wednesday Niazi said the AJK government had taken revolutionary steps to accelerate the tempo of developmental activities, and improve the administrative and economic structure in the state.
He said the Jammu & Kashmir refugees had a right to the resources of the government as they had lit the candles of the liberation movement even in difficult circumstances.
The government was working on a comprehensive strategy to rehabilitate the Jammu and Kashmir refugees by providing houses and resolving other issues being faced by them, he added.
The prime minister said the government would start a new chapter of construction and development in Azad Kashmir and implement the PTI’s manifesto in its true spirit.
Parliamentary Secretary Javed Butt appreciated the concrete steps taken by the prime minister to address the problems of refugees being faced by them for the last many decades.
He thanked the prime minister for getting approval from Pakistan to build 1300 houses for the resettlement of refugees.
He lauded the decision of the government for holding local bodies elections and launching mega developmental projects in AJK.
