AJK government is contemplating to air-link Azad Jammu Kashmir's fast expanding model city of Mirpur with rest of the world through the establishment of an international airport in order to provide direct air travelling facilities to the people of Mirpur, official sources said.
Prime Minister Sardar Attique-led AJK government has already decided to establish an airline of Azad Jammu and Kashmir with the name of Kashmir Airline besides the emergence of a full-fledge international airport in Mirpur with the major involvement of the private investment, the sources told APP here Tuesday.
The proposed Mirpur International airport would provide direct air travelling facilities to the overseas Kashmiris, including UK-based settlers hailing from the area, to their ancestral town of Mirpur. A bright potential is already available in the area to materialise the plan, which would indeed, prove to be the strong source of the local economy of AJK, the sources added.
Highlighting various other development projects proposed to be launched in Mirpur under a phased programme during the current fiscal year 2008-09, the sources said that a mega Industrial zone was also being established over an area of 15,000 kanals of land in Mirpur for the speedy industrialisation of AJK. It would also help to encourage the economy of self-reliance in the area.