AJK to launch entrepreneurship programme: PM Ilyas.

MUZAFFARABAD -- Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas has exhorted the youth to dedicate themselves to a better future of their motherland and its people and assured that his government would shortly launch a comprehensive programme to attract the younger generation towards entrepreneurship.

'We will help the competent and active youths to turn towards entrepreneurship to become financially self-sufficient on the one hand and a source of employment for their contemporaries,' he said at a 'Youth Consultation Conference' here on Monday.

The prime minister declared that his government would do away with the practice of obtaining 'no objection certificates' (NOCs) for investment in any sector and would instead launch 'one window operation' for the purpose.

He recalled that as chairman Punjab Board of Investment and Trade and later as special assistant to Punjab chief minister onbusiness, investment and trade he had got this NOC culture abolished with the help of the then PM Imran Khan and had facilitated launch of different businesses under an easy policy.

'The same will be replicated in Azad Kashmir,' he vowed.

Asking the youth to volunteer themselves to the conservation of forests, Mr Ilyas expressed the hope that 'Clean and Green Kashmir' drive would pay the desired dividends in this regard in near future.

'We cannot allow anyone to tamper with nature and disturb the climate. The ruthless felling of trees has already taken its toll on climate and needs to be stopped...