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Saleem sees no Talibanisation threat in AJK

KARACHI - Acting President Azad Kashmir Saleem Butt on Thursday visited the MQM headquarter Nine Zero, where the MQM provincial minister Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari and other members including Anees Ahmed Kaimkhani, Waseem Aftab, Kanwar Khalid Younis, Ashfaq Mangi, Saleem Tajik and office bearers of MQM greeted him warm reception and showered flower petals on him.
To a query about the presence of Taliban in Azad Kashmir, he said that there was no threat of Talibanisation in Kashmir, adding that AJK government has extended its full support to the government of Pakistan against Talibanisation.
Azad Kashmir Minister Saleem Khokar, Sindh Provincial Minister Khalid Bin Wilayat, member Sindh Assembly Muzammil Qureshi and others were also present on the occasion.
Acting President AJK Saleem Butt has arrived in the metropolis on a three-day official visit on Thursday. Earlier, he offered Fateha at the mausoleum of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and also visited the graves of MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s parents and martyrs of MQM at Yaseenabad graveyard.
Butt said that he had come to pay his gratitude to Altaf and party workers over their support to him, saying that his slot was the result of their hard work. He said that due to Altaf Hussain, MQM workers were reaching on the top slots of the country.
He announced that he would visit Swat, Mardan and other affected areas on the directives of Altaf.
He pointed out that the government of Azad Kashmir has taken several steps to enhance the tourism in Kashmir. On the occasion, MQM Rabita Committee member and Provincial Minister Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari said that appointment of Saleem Butt as acting president of Azad Kashmir was a miracle. “I have heard about the miracles, but now I have seen it,” he added.

The nation : May 22, 2009

 

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