ISLAMABAD: The Kashmir council has allocated Rs 50 million for the purchase of 6,000 plots for Kashmiri refugees, Javed Noizami, the secretary general of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) unit of Azad Kashmir said at Wah.
He said the plots would be distributed among the very needy and deserving people before the forthcoming elections. The PPP leader accused the government of ignoring the problems of the refugees.
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto earlier announced a Kashmir fund with an initial allocation of Rs 100 million, while Punjab Chief Minister Nawaz Sharif promised an amount of Rs 50 million, ostensibly to provide humanitarian assistance to people in the valley, where Kashmiri militants have been waging a bloody war for secession from India.
Reiterating Pakistan’s stanee, Nizami said, “We will always stand side by side with our Kashmiri brethren on their struggle for liberation of their homeland.”
Article extracted from this publication >> April 27, 1990
