Chaudhry Tariq says PM Raja Haider, others refused to evolve joint strategy to express solidarity with Kashmiris
PML-N senior minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Chaudhry Tariq Farooq. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
MUZAFFARABAD:
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) senior minister Chaudhry Tariq Farooq has admitted that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in the region could not properly exploit the situation in favour of the oppressed Kashmiris in the wake of August 5, 2019 developments in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
Answering questions on Thursday at “Dialogue with Capital Journalists Forum”, an organisation of AJK based senior journalists, Farooq said he personally talked to former premier Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan, Jammat-e-Islami leader Abdur Rashid Turabi and Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider to evolve a joint strategy including organising sit-ins at divisional headquarters across AJK to express solidarity with IIOJK people but both the leaders
Residents in Azad Kashmir on Friday welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Pakistan and India, but were unsure that it would hold long enough.
MUZAFFARABAD: Having borne the brunt of hostilities across the Line of Control (LoC) for years together, residents in Azad Kashmir on Friday welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Pakistan and India, but were unsure that it would hold long enough.
“Thank God, they have realised the harrowing consequences of shelling…and have resolved to maintain truce across this line that has divided Kashmiris from each other,”said Gul Zareen, a 50-year-old resident of Bugna village, in Neelum valley.
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