One-window facilities for expatriates seeking investment in business sector in AJK
By Altaf Hamid Rao 'Pakistan Times' Kashmir Bureau Chief

MIRPUR (AJK): AJK Chief Secretary Javeid Majeed has invited Pakistani and Kashmiri expatriates to make investment in the business-sector in the fast-grooming industrial district of Mirpur – where all required facilities would be available for the entrepreneurs under one-window system.

“An oversees Kashmiris cell will be established soon in Azad Jammu Kashmir for quick redressal of the grievances of the overseas people”, the CS revealed.

He was speaking at a reception held under the auspices of a UK-based welfare organization here late Monday. Besides local dignitaries, several Britain-based overseas Kashmiris hailing from this district also attended the ceremony.

Representative of overseas Kashmiris Nijabat Hussain on this occasion presented welcome addresses and highlighted various problems confronted by the overseas Kashmiris including lakhs of the Britain-based expatriates belonging to Mirpur and other parts of this division.

The Chief Secretary said that the government was bent upon to resolve the problems of the expatriates.

He said that all the genuine grievances of the overseas people vis-à-vis their related matters, shall be addressed on priority grounds. He said that fool proof system shall be introduced to resolve the problems of the overseas people including lakhs of those hailing from this area.

The Chief Secretary said that since over 60 percent of the overseas Kashmiris are affectees of Mangla dam, the government was bent upon to resolve their problems. He said that all the genuine grievances of the expatriates will be addressed.

He said that the government intended to set up latest educational institutions exclusively for the children of overseas people hailing from Azad Kashmir besides extending all possible required facilities and incentives to those seeking to launch investment in the trade and industrial fields in the area – where the required conducive atmosphere with latest infrastructural facilities were already available.●