GUJRANWALA – Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmad has expressed concerns over Indian intentions to construct some 250 dams in occupied Kashmir and urged the government of Pakistan and the international bodies to take measures to stop India from doing so.
“There is no room of any non-state political party in Azad Kashmir and if democracy failed yet again in Pakistan then nobody would be blamed but the politicians,” he said this while talking to journalists during his short visit of the suburban area of the city after condoling the sad demise of a Muslim Conference worker.
The state prime minister said that the Muslim Conference had been representing the people of Kashmir for the last 78 years and no government could work over the Kashmir issue stronger than the Muslim Conference. Diversion of the River Chenab’s water and violation of Sindh Water Treaty were the serious issues which could lead the two nuclear states to a war, he said and added that India had been planning to construct 250 dams on Chenab from Hamachul to Tawi.
EX-DPO EXEMPTED FROM APPEARING IN COURT: Gujranwala Anti-Terrorism Court has exempted former Sialkot DPO Waqar Chohan from appearing personally before the court in the lynching case after recording the statements of six witnesses in the courtroom of the central jail.
The court of Mushtaq Gondal recorded six witnesses of the case in which two real brothers were lynched to death by a mob in district Sialkot. After the statement of Surgeon Mian Azher about the spinal problem of the former DPO, the court asked complainant Zarrar Butt for his opinion who was convinced for exemption on humanitarian ground.
Waqar Chohan assured the court that he would be available to the court when needed and the hearing was adjourned till Saturday for the second consecutive day.
