AJK govt. orders payment of all outstanding dues of advertisements to newspapers by May 18 sharp.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Azad Jammu Kashmir government Friday strongly directed all the government departments to ensure payment of all outstanding dues of govt. advertisements to the national and AJK State newspapers by May 18 sharp.

All the secretaries to the govt. for all departments have also particularly been directed to ensure monitoring of payment of the dues on daily basis and keep a liaison with the Press information department (PID) AJK to this direction.

These directives were issued at a high level meeting, chaired by AJK Additional Chief Secretary (General) Farhat Ali Mir held on Friday to review the process of payment of outstanding dues to the newspapers belonging to national and AJK State press against the government advertisements, pending against various departments since long.

The meeting also discussed the PPRA rules.

AJK Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan had, yesterday, strongly directed for the payment of the govt. advertisement bills to the national and AJK state newspapers pending against various government functionaries since long.

Prominent among others who attended the meeting include Secretary Information, Tourism and IT Midhat Shahzad, Secretary Sports Zahoorul Hassan Gillani, Secretary Education Raja Amjad Pervaiz, Secretary Planning and Development Mohammad Ishaque Khan, Secretary Forests Dr. Shehla Waqar, Secretary Electricity Sardar Zafar Mehmood Khan, Secretary Physical Planning and Development Sharif Dar, Secretary SERRA Zahid Abbasi, Secretary Local Government Ijaz Ahmed Khan, Director General...