AZAD Kashmir was created within two months of Pakistan’s independence with high expectations. Nestled in the mountainous western region that abuts the vale of Kashmir, it forms an archer’s bow that is about 100 miles long and about 20-40 miles wide. The Pakistani security elite hoped that an arrow fired from the bow would bring about the instant liberation of the vale of Kashmir from Indian occupation. The first arrow was fired almost within days…
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MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 14: AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider said on Sunday that a comprehensive security plan for the protection of foreigners, particularly the Chinese, executing mega development projects in Kashmir would be devised within three weeks in consultation with the government, Wapda and other construction companies. Mr Haider was talking to journalists on his return from Chattar Klas, located some 20 kilometres south of Muzaffarabad, where Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Wapda Chairman Shakil Durrani…