Executive Approval: Research, policy forum formed in AJK

The forum will have multidimensional responsibilities to promote the Kashmir issue

MUZAFFARABAD: AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has approved the creation of a research and policy forum to promote the Kashmir issue. The seven-member committee would be led by the former chairman of the International Relations Department at National Defense University Brigadier (retired) Dr Muhammad Khan. AJK Liberation Cell secretary would be the vice chairman of the committee, officials said. Other members of the committee would include AJK government secretary Muhammad Idrees Abbassi, AJK University assistant professors Dr Sumaira Shafique, Syed Mazhar Ghardezi, former director of Allama Iqbal Open University Qasim Haider and the AJK Liberation Cell Director Raja Sajjad Khan. The forum would have multidimensional responsibilities to promote the Kashmir issue in its true perspective at various levels including research on the dispute, upgrading the Kashmir Today magazine, highlighting the Kashmir issue on national and international forums.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 8^th, 2017.