Our Correspondent Mirpur
A large number of people from various segments of local civil society staged protest demonstration in front of the Divisional Commissioner’s office in Mirpur Azad Jammu Kashmir on Friday to press the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government for early acceptance of their long standing demands including the early payment of compensatory relief to affectees of September 24,2019 earthquake that jolted Mirpur city and its various adjoining areas.
The demonstration was led by Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (AJK Chapter) Central Vice President Zulqarnain Butt, Chaudhry Shakoor, Asif Butt, Ch. Meherban, Khawaja Shehzad Lone, Sheikh Rasheed and other elders of the civil society. Speakers on this occasion bitterly criticized the PML-N led AJK government for, what they called, deliberately ignoring agonies of the earthquake-hit local population who are waiting for the already-committed compensatory relief for the reconstruction, repair and rehabilitation of their affected properties badly damaged in the catastrophe.
