MUZAFFARABAD (Kashmir English): The All Parties Alliance Azad Kashmir has strongly protested against the obstacles in implementing health cards and welfare funds for two years, despite allocating billions of rupees to the state government.
Addressing the press conference at Muzaffarabad Central Press Club, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and Chairman All Parties Alliance Shaukat Javed Mir demanded immediate implementation from PM Chaudhry Anwarul Haq and called for accountability of those responsible for the delay.
He demanded the provision of free education from nursery to graduation and a uniform education system and urged the emergency measures to improve healthcare facilities, especially in rural areas.
“Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq should make an example of those who have created unnecessary obstacles and made a profit of ten billion rupees from welfare funds,” Mir said.
Talking to the media about the unnecessary delay in the issuance of health cards, the assembly candidate said that neither the medicines are available in the hospitals, nor are syringes and cannulas.
Shaukat Javed drew the government’s attention to the incomplete buildings of educational institutions and the lack of staff and facilities, and stressed the need for emergency measures.
In response to a question, Mir called on both the governments of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir to approve mega projects like bunkers in areas along the Line of Control (LoC), construction of Leepa Bypass roads, and the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital and tunnel.
“In view of the specific border geographical and climatic conditions of the Leepa Valley, a separate constituency should be given by enacting legislation in the assembly,” he added.
He expressed gratitude to the Pakistan Armed Forces for providing basic infrastructure facilities and defending the people of Leepa Valley. Pakistan’s Defense Day will be celebrated on September 6 with a renewed pledge to support the Kashmir freedom movement.
