AJK President calls for provision of equal opportunities to orphans.

MUZAFFARABAD -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President, Sardar Masood Khan has called for the provision of equal opportunities and enabling environment to the orphans and neglected children to mould them into responsible citizens of the country. 'Taking care of those who have lost one or both parents is our collective social and religious obligation as it is not the will of Allah that they (orphans) remain neglected or are pushed aside in society,' the President said while addressingat an Iftar reception hosted by him for orphans in the President House in Muzaffarabad. The event was attended by AJK Minister for Social Welfare, Mutharama Noreen Arif, Secretary General Pakistan Orphan Care Forum, Nisar Ahmed, Director General Anjuman Faiz-ul- Islam, Professor Niaz Irfan, Director General Orphan Care Program, Mohammad Irfan Bashir, Secretary General Al-Khidmat Foundation, Aftab Alam Advocate and a large number of orphans kids being supported and sponsored by Pakistan Orphan Care Forum (POCF), an umbrella of orphans focused non-governmental organizations.

The President in his speech emphasized that orphans must not feel, alone, abandoned or neglected, and encouraged the children to grab whatever opportunities they find to excel in education and to make their way...