July 26, 2006	Wednesday	Jumadi-ul-Sani 29, 1427

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MUZAFFARABAD, July 25: AJK Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan on Tuesday said his government would provide facilities to Kashmiri refugees who had offered sacrifices for the national cause.

“We will not leave our Kashmiri brethren alone, nor we can afford to forget their sacrifices for the sake of politics,” he said while talking to Kashmiri refugees in the Ambore camp, some five kilometres on the outskirts of the AJK capital.

“You are part of our body and soul. We will not ask you to join any particular party or group here, but only to stay committed to the ideology of our homeland’s accession to Pakistan,” he said.

He said the Muslim Conference had never discriminated between local Kashmiris and refugees.

“By visiting your camp, I’m reaffirming my commitment to the Kashmir freedom movement on the one hand and expressing solidarity with my struggling brethren on the other,” he told the Kashmiri refugees.

Sardar Attique said he would like Tanvirul Islam, former secretary-general and chairman of the United Jihad Council, to be the host of his first banquet as the prime minister. It was the instruction of Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan because of Tanvirul Islam’s commitment to the Kashmir cause and his personal sacrifices for the purpose, added.

Tanvirul Islam, who also headed an alliance of Mujahidin groups from 1990 to 1994, was present on the occasion. He currently runs an educational project for Kashmiri orphans here.

The prime minister directed authorities concerned to create employment opportunities for the refugees to make them financially independent.

After being sworn in as the AJK prime minister on Monday, Sardar Attique had visited the mausoleum of Mirwaiz Maulana Yousaf Shah and offered Fateha.