AJK President hopes arrival of digital revolution after COVID-19.

MIRPUR (AJK) -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan on Sunday said that a digital revolution in the healthcare system, economic planning, education, business and governance would be expected in Pakistan and Azad Jammu Kashmir after the coronavirus as the pandemic has highlighted the importance of data-based government steps.

He expressed these views while addressing a videoconference on "on Digital AJK under Sustainable Developing Goals during and after the Coronavirus pandemic." here on Sunday. The videoconference was organized by "Digital Pakistan.", AJK Presidential secretariat said in a news release.

The AJK president said that the Sustainable Development Goals have assumed primacy in the aftermath of COVID-19, especially those related to health, poverty, hunger, livelihoods, water and sanitation and energy.

"Digital technology played a key role in tracing coronavirus patients and their testing, and we also had been able to establish three digitized testing centres in Azad Kashmir," he added.

'Our first priority in AJK was to diagnose and trace potential coronavirus patients. For testing and contact tracing, digital technology was crucial. Three testing centres that we established in AJK, were enabled digitally', Masood Khan said.

He said that the latest digital data about coronavirus update is shared via the Internet and on WhatsApp. The Government in Muzaffarabad, he said, is digitally connected with the divisions and district offices and with the Rapid Response Teams in the field.

The Government and the philanthropists together made sure that nobody goes hungry during Covid 19. Again digital database helped us identify the needy and the indigent, he said. The AJK president said...