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Inland Revenue Department

Azad Kashmir IRD collects Rs60 billion in revenue by May this year

MUZAFFARABAD (Kashmir English): The Inland Revenue Department of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) has claimed to collect over Rs60 billion in revenue by May 2025, with a target of around Rs70 billion by the end of the fiscal year 2024-25. In a statement issued on Friday, the tax collecting body confirmed that its South Zone

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KIM

Controversy surrounds appointment of external candidate as KIM director general

MUZAFFARABAD (Kashmir English): The President of Azad Kashmir has approved the appointment of Dr. Muhammad Muqeem ul Islam as Director General of the Kashmir Institute of Management (KIM), Muzaffarabad, on a contract basis. The president approved the appointment under Section 9 of the Kashmir Institute of Management Act, 2014, following the recommendations from KIM’s Board of

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budget

AJK govt presents Rs310bn pro-people, development-oriented budget

MUZAFFARABAD (Kashmir English): Azad Kashmir Finance Minister Abdul Majid Khan presented the budget for fiscal year 2025-26 with an outlay of Rs 310 billion, a 30% increase from the previous year. In his speech, the Finance Minister said that the government has proposed a development programme of Rs49 billion for the next year, keeping in

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development budget

Azad Kashmir govt’s claims of self-sufficiency in development budget exposed as false

By: Zulfiqar Ali (Kashmir Investigation Team) MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government’s claims of providing Rs 17 billion from its own resources in the development budget for the fiscal year 2025-26 turned out to be false, as not a single rupee was allocated for this purpose from internal sources. A similar claim was

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