Islamabad:Â (Parliament Times) AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has said PML-N government will restore broken trust of the people on state and its institutions.
Talking to AJK based editors of newspapers and senior journalists at Kashmir House on Monday, he said that trust of the masses on state institution could only be restored by providing indiscriminate justice to all, upholding principles of merit and ensuring the good governance in the state.
He said that  trust of the people on police cannot be restored without changing the police governance structure, Police Station Culture and unhindered access of people to police station. Highlighting the major initiatives of his government, Prime Minister said it has been decided to introduce judicial reforms in AJK to ensure quick dispensation of justice to all, new transport policy to stop unnecessary use of official vehicles, reconstitution of Public Service Commission in the light of Supreme Court recommendations and reorganization of state accountability bureau with the aim to strengthen the institution and provision of justice to every citizen of Azad Kashmir.
Criticizing the previous government of Pakistan People’s Party, Raja Farooq Haider said PPP destroyed the state institutions by violating merit and rules and inducting hundreds of jiyyalas in government departments without qualification and observing merit.
The PPP government had not only gulped down  compensation money of Mangla Dam affectees but also GPF funds of the poor government employees and development funds of one year The people of Azad Kashmir rejected the PPP because of its government’s bad governance and we cannot repeat the same mistakes in our tenure in power, he asserted.
The Prime Minister great luck Prime Minister Nawaz is ruling in Pakistan who is more determined than us for development, prosperity of Azad Kashmir and empowering the people of the state. The Prime Minister of Pakistan will be visiting Azad Kashmir soon to announce development package.
Farooq Haider said, health, education and infrastructure sectors would be paid special attention and hospitals equipped with latest facilities would be set up at every tehsil for the benefit of people. “Entire structure of health department would be updated.â€Â To ensure transparency and to promote merit in Education sector, we are introducing National Testing Service (NTS) for hiring teaching staff, he added.
The Prime Minister said, road infrastructure is also one of his government’s priorities as the present road network is totally worn out and takes hours to travel even a shorter distance. He said AJK has great potential in tourism and hydel power sector which needed to be promoted. “To attract local and foreign tourists, special measures would be taken for revenue generation and to promote tourism potential of AJK within Pakistan and abroad .Farooq Haider said his government would initiate small scale projects to generate cheaper hydel power.