By: Kashmir Investigation Team MIRPUR: The Rathoa-Haryam Bridge in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, has a lengthy and complex history. Initially approved in 2006 with a budget of Rs 1.394 billion, the project’s cost ballooned to Rs 9.58 billion due to various delays and design changes. The Azad Kashmir government says that in the last financial year,
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MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Political analyst Ghulamullah Awan has raised serious concerns about the direction of the Joint Public Action Committee, claiming it is now under the control of a specific group that is pushing its own agenda rather than focusing on public demands. In a recent statement, Ghulamullah Awan said that certain individuals within the
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MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Students of colleges affiliated with Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST) staged a protest in Mirpur, blocking Allama Iqbal Road to press their demands. The students alleged continuous discrimination against college students and demanded equal facilities as university students. They demanded that students of the affiliated colleges be given the opportunity of
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MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Under the spirit to make Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) state greener and effectively combat environmental pollution, a mass monsoon tree plantation campaign was launched at Divisional Headquarters Teaching Hospital Mirpur here on Sunday. Tree plantation and environmental protection Speakers including environmentalists, on this occasion, strongly suggested to the state government
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MIRPUR (Kashmir English): The Inland Revenue Department (South Zone), in Azad Kashmir on special instructions from the Chairman Azad Jammu and Kashmir Central Board of Revenue, has taken an important step to facilitate taxpayers by establishing tax facilitation centers in various offices. According to the spokesperson for the Inland Revenue Department, after the launch
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MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Mirpur Police have apprehended a gang allegedly involved in stealing a rental Toyota Prado valued at Rs 20 million and recovered a vehicle from Rawalpindi. SHO Police Station New City Mirpur Muhammad Arshad and his team traced and arrested the suspects from Barnala and Sialkot. The mastermind, Faisal alias Faisi Zafarwal, was
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MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Commissioner Mirpur Division Chaudhry Mukhtar Hussain, has said that planting trees is an ongoing charity, and the main reason for environmental changes is the indiscriminate cutting of trees and the tendency not to plant trees individually or collectively. He said this while inaugurating the monsoon tree planting campaign at the Assistant Commissioner’s
MIRPUR (Kashmir English): The District Health Officer (DHO) Mirpur on Tuesday formed an inquiry committee to investigate the death of a woman due to alleged negligence by staff at a private hospital in Mirpur. The committee, comprising the chairperson, Dr. Maida Kausar, Additional District Health Officer Mirpur, and member Zaheer Iqbal, Deputy Drug Controller Mirpur,
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MIRPUR (Kashmir English): International Emergency Team UK, a British NGO, on Tuesday donated fully-equipped four first responder motorbikes to Rescue 1122 Mirpur Division, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), for timely and effective emergency response in the state. The ceremony was held at the Commissioner’s Office, Mirpur, where Chaudhry Mehrban Sadiq, the Patron-in-Chief of the International Emergency
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ISLAMABAD/BIRMINGHAM (Kashmir English): Khalid Mahmood, of Kashmiri origin, who served as a Member of the British Parliament for 23 consecutive years, has joined Birmingham City University as a visiting professor. Khalid Mahmood was elected as a Member of Parliament from Birmingham Perry Barr in 2001 and continued to be elected until 2024. In the
