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MIRPUR (AJK), July 25 (APP): The Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK)
government on Tuesday decided to withdraw Special Power Act replacing
it with the application of Efficiency & Discipline (E&D) rules.
Decision to this effect was taken at a meeting held in the
state capital on Tuesday with Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider in
the chair. The meeting also discussed the matters of posting and
transfers of employees of the education and health departments,
a press release said.
The meeting decided that all transfers and postings would be made
on merit.
Addressing the meeting, the AJK prime minister said the
government was taking steps for raising education standards and qualification for the appointment of primary teachers had been set as
equal to senior teacher.
He appreciated the public servants for their valuable contributions
towards the provision of health services in the government hospitals. He declared the civil servants an asset of the state.
Minister for Law Raja Nisar Ahmed Khan, Minister for Education Barrister Iftikhar Gillani, Minister for Health Dr Najeeb Naqi, Advocate General, Secretary Health, Secretary Education (Schools) and Secretary Education (Colleges) attended the meeting.
Meanwhile, talking to a delegation of refugees from Indian
occupied Kashmir, the prime minister assured that their demands would be honoured accordingly.
He said a stable, strong and democratic Pakistan was the guarantee for the success of Kashmir Freedom Movement.
Farooq Haider said the Kashmiri people were chanting ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans all over Kashmir under the Indian servitude while waving Pakistani flags and receiving bullets on their chests.
He said India’s so-called democratic and secular face would be unveiled before the civilized world. Terming India the mass murderer
of Kashmiri people he appealed to the world community to take notice of recent Indian tyranny in the occupied Kashmir and prevent India from
its brutal acts.
The prime minister said the Kashmiri people were demanding their fundamental right – the right of freedom which India was denying for
the last seven decades.