October 27, 2002	Sunday	Sha’aban 20,1423

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MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 26: Former Azad Jammu and Kashmir minister and Azad Jammu and Kashmir People’s Party’s secretary information Khwaja Farooq Ahmed has called upon President Gen Pervez Musharraf to undo the “injustices” meted out to the largest AJK district in the recently passed budget of the AJK Council.

In a statement issued here on Saturday, he regretted that despite being the largest district, both area-and population-wise, Muzaffarabad had been completely ignored in the council’s budget for the ongoing year, which was passed on Friday at a meeting presided over by President Musharraf in his capacity as chairman of the council.

The AJKC, he pointed out, had allocated Rs620 million for the development schemes, and 81 per cent of this amount, Rs500 million, had been allocated for the two districts from where AJK president Sardar Anwar Khan and prime minister Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan came from. Ironically, he lamented, none of the two top office-holders got approved any new scheme for Muzaffarabad nor they got allocated any sizable amount for its ongoing projects like Hafeez Shaheed Naval Cadet College, improvement of walkway along river Neelum.

Apart from approval of projects in the ongoing year, Farooq said Mr Anwar had also sent the PC-I of the chair lift project, costing Rs200 million, to be built at Banjosa in his own district, whereas he had ignored a similar project for Pir Chinasi in Muzaffarabad, which had been worked out more than 10 years ago.