Prime Minister announces Airport for Mirpur Azad Jammu & Kashmir

[Omar1984]

Gilani announces airport for Mirpur city

MIRPUR (AJK) Mar 12 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Monday announced an airport for the Mirpur city, saying that it would prove a milestone for the development of area and people. Addressing a public gathering here, Prime Minister Gilani asked the government to allocate funds for the mega project. Gilani vowed to follow the vision given by two Shaheeds of Pakistan Peoples Party Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and said it would work to protect all wings of the party that were striving to preserve the party ideology.


Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency )

 

[Doctor09]

Gilani announces airport for Mirpur city

MIRPUR (AJK) Mar 12 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Monday announced an airport for the Mirpur city, saying that it would prove a milestone for the development of area and people. Addressing a public gathering here, Prime Minister Gilani asked the government to allocate funds for the mega project. Gilani vowed to follow the vision given by two Shaheeds of Pakistan Peoples Party Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and said it would work to protect all wings of the party that were striving to preserve the party ideology.


Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency )

it will bring more development in my Kashmir .
Airport was our one of the major demands i hope this project start and completed soon .

 

[Omar1984]

Another good news for Mirpur, Azad Jammu & Kashmir

Gilani lays foundation stone of MUST

MIRPUR (AJK), Mar 12 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Monday laid the foundation stone of Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST) with the allocation of Rs. two billion and urged the students to work hard to overcome the challenges confronting the country. Addressing the gathering the Prime Minister urged the aspiring scientists of the challenges that lie ahead and asked them to be aware of local, regional and global contexts within which they would be required to make informed and intelligent decisions.

Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency )

 

[Dance]

I'm surprised they are just now building an airport there...

 

[Omar1984]

Another good news for Azad Jammu and Kashmir:

Gilani lays foundation stone of 3-km long bridge

MIRPUR (AJK) Mar 12 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Monday laid the foundation stone for the Meran Shah Bridge that would lessen the distance by 21 km between Mirpur and Islamgarh. The 3 km long bridge across the Mangla reservoir would cost Rs 4.2 billion and would have two km long approach roads on either sides. The project scheduled to be completed in May 2013, would reduce the 28-kilometer distance between Mirpur and Islamgarh to 7 kilometers. Prime Minister Gilani was accompanied by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan, Minister for Kashmir Affairs Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo, President AJK Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan and Prime Minister AJK Ch Abdul Majeed.


Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency ) - Gilani lays foundation stone of 3-km long bridge

 

[DRaisinHerald]

Given the fact that most Pakistanis in the UK hail from the Mirpur/Kotli regions of AJK, an airport should have been build there a long time ago to facilitate travel between UK-AJK for them. Why is this government 40 years late at everything...

 

[Omar1984]

Airport is better than this bus project.

Bridging gaps: AJK to launch Mirpur-Birmingham bus service in 2012

Khokher says the proposed Mirpur-Birmingham bus service would be plied from Mirpur via Quetta and Tehran to the UK. PHOTO: FILE/IN

MIRPUR: Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) announced that its Mirpur city will directly be linked by road with the United Kingdom through a direct bus service between the city and Birmingham, by the beginning of 2012.

The new road route was disclosed by AJK Transport Minister Tahir Khokher while addressing a news conference at the Kashmir Press Club here on Sunday.

Khokher said that the proposed Mirpur-Birmingham bus service would be plied from Mirpur – which has a significant population of UK-based Kashmiri expatriates – via Quetta and Tehran (Iran) to the UK.

AJK’s transport authorities are hoping that the project will facilitate over 0.70 million Britain-based Kashmiri expatriates hailing from this district. Khokher said that at the first leg of the proposed plan is to be executed by March next year. To this end, four buses of international standard will be plied on the Mirpur-Birmingham route.

The minister revealed that the fare of the proposed Mirpur-Birmingham international bus service will be around Rs20,000 per passenger.

Road safety

He announced that up-to-date mechanism was being devised, coupled with the required legislation by the AJK Legislative Assembly, in order to discourage the violation of traffic rules and regulations.

He said that new transport policy will be announced during the next session of the AJK Legislative Assembly.

He added that the new transport policy will envisage zero tolerance for over-loading and overcharging of fares in the public transport.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 19th, 2011


Bridging gaps: AJK to launch Mirpur-Birmingham bus service in 2012 – The Express Tribune

 

[Luffy 500]

^^^^^ How long would such a massive road link like Mirpur-Birmingham take to travel. It seems really unrealistic now. The
journey includes whole of ME and the whole of Europe before crossing the English channel.

 

[Omar1984]

^^^^^ How long would such a massive road link like Mirpur-Birmingham take to travel. It seems really unrealistic now. The
journey includes whole of ME and the whole of Europe before crossing the English channel.

Yes the road link is unrealistic.

Mirpur really needs an airport. Most of the Pakistani population in UK are from Mirpur, Azad Kashmir.

 

[Sugarcane]

Will it be International Airport or People have to go via Islamabad???

 

[SHAMK9]

Will it be International Airport or People have to go via Islamabad???

international

 

[Omar1984]

Will it be International Airport or People have to go via Islamabad???

International. So people can fly straight from UK to Mirpur and vice versa

 

[DDLJ]

Airport is better than this bus project.

Bridging gaps: AJK to launch Mirpur-Birmingham bus service in 2012
Bridging gaps: AJK to launch Mirpur-Birmingham bus service in 2012 – The Express Tribune

What type of news is that. So how will people travel in a Bus for a 7-10 days journey without Bed to sleep in the night(semi-sleeper is uncomfortable) or Bathrooms. Trains may seen feasible(like Trans-Siberian Railways) but how can anyone think of Bus journey.

 

[Omar1984]

What type of news is that. So how will people travel in a Bus for a 7-10 days journey without Bed to sleep in the night(semi-sleeper is uncomfortable) or Bathrooms. Trains may seen feasible(like Trans-Siberian Railways) but how can anyone think of Bus journey.

HAHA. Yes the bus journey would be too inconvenient. The most convenient travel is by air and then by train.

 

[Luftwaffe]

There is no need for the Airport at any part of Pakistan. We are short on Money! That money needs to be switched channeled towards Electricity-Dams; Needs of the Hour..

A large number of population is out there that travels all across Pakistan. If our Railway Assets-Department was state of the Art. Pakistan would have been earning an astounding % of Revenue. Brains are no where to be found! Atleast 5 Crore people are potential Travelers on daily-monthly basis..