Pakistan tortures Pok for pie, huge budget reduction, Kashmiri activist expressed concern
poor condition of pok
Highlighting the plight of the people of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK), human rights activist and United Kashmir People’s National Party (UKPNP) President Shaukat Ali Kashmiri said that the Pakistani government has cut the development budget of PoK by Rs 2.5 billion. and has reduced 7 billion rupees in the general budget. He termed the situation in PoK as “dangerous”. The leader exiled from PoK wrote on Twitter that, ‘Pakistan government has cut the development budget of PoK by 2.5 billion rupees and the general budget by 7 billion rupees. A total budget of Rs 49.9 billion was agreed for 2021-22. But, now a huge amount has been cut in the budget.
PoK government also expressed disappointment
After reducing the budget, the PoK government has lamented that, the government has also frozen the ‘Line of Control (LoC) Package Fund’. The Kashmiri leader, however, cautioned that the situation was becoming dangerous and should be addressed on a “war footing”. He said that unfortunately, political leaders keep claiming that the literacy rate in PoK is higher than any other province of Pakistan but the truth is, ‘we still have the failed system’. He said the pathetic condition of primary schools at the Sangh Parishad level in PoK is where students are “forced to sit on the ground under the open sky without washrooms, clean drinking water facilities”.
poor condition of pok
The president of the UKPNP said that, in addition to this sorry state, “there is also a severe shortage of teachers”. This tweet of the Kashmiri leader comes after the budget released by the Pakistan government of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), in which he has warned that if the budget is not reviewed, it could lead to a serious financial system imbalance. . While speaking at a press conference, PoK’s Finance and Revenue Minister Abdul Majeed Khan alleged that the development budget of PoK, which is provided by the federal government as a whole, was Rs 28 billion in the current financial year, but According to the report of federal finance ‘Dawn’, Pakistan’s newspaper division has unilaterally cut it by Rs 5.2 billion.
Massive development in Indian Kashmir
On one hand, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir is craving for pie, while new histories of development are being written in Indian Kashmir. In October last year, Dubai has approved investment in major infrastructure projects in Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian government has said that MoUs have been signed between the two countries for infrastructure projects in Kashmir. Modi Modi government has claimed that the project is final. MoU has been finalized between the two countries on Kashmir. Dubai, one of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates, has made an agreement with India on Kashmir at a time when Pakistan is continuously seeking help and intervention from different Muslim countries to abolish Article 370.
“Kashmir on the path of development”
Indian Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said in a statement that, “The world has started to recognize the pace at which Jammu and Kashmir is progressing at the pace of development.” Various entities from Dubai have shown keen interest in investing in Kashmir, the statement said. However, in the midst of all this, once again violent incidents have increased in Kashmir and many efforts are being made by the Government of India to restore peace in Kashmir again. This week also there have been reports of hundreds of migrant laborers migrating from Kashmir.
