State development: Investment in AJK tourism urged

MUZAFFARABAD: Additional Chief Secretary of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) Government Dr Tashfeen Khan has said that AJK has a huge potential in tourism, hydropower generation and minerals sector investment which could be exploited by investment through private-public partnership. While speaking to a visiting delegation of National Defence College Islamabad on Tuesday, Additional Chief Secretary Dr Tashfeen Khan said that AJK was ideal region for investment as security situation was ideal as compared to other provinces and tribal area, said a press release issued on Tuesday. He added that “dual weather and scenic beauty of Kashmir has a special attraction for tourists— last summer we attracted millions of tourists only in Neelum Valley and Rawlakot.”

Published in The Express Tribune, March 9^th, 2016.