Advisers’ appointment: AJK Legislative Assembly passes bill

Allows PM, president to keep four, two advisers respectively supports Waziristan operation.

MUZAFFARABAD:

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed the AJK Advisers Act 2014 allowing the Prime Minister to appoint four advisers and the President to keep two advisers.

The house through unanimous resolutions supported military operations in tribal area, condemned Lahore and Karachi airport incidents.

The resolution was presented by Finance Minister Chaudhry Latif Akbar. Both the treasury and opposition benches supported the military operation against terrorists in North Waziristan.

Another resolution was presented by the parliamentary leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Transport Minister Tahir Khokhar condemning the police brutality against Pakistan Awami Tehrik activists in Lahore. It demanded the Punjab government to bring the culprits to justice.

The third resolution that was presented by the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference member Sardar Sayab Khalid condemning  the Karachi airport attack in which two Azad Kashmir residents were also killed.

In the resolution Khalid demanded the AJK government to name the Rawalakot and Arja roads after the two persons who lost their lives in the Karachi airport attack.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 19^th, 2014.