AJK government is seriously contemplating to air-link Azad Jammu and Kashmirs 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 including over 700,000 of Britain based overseas Kashmiris belonging to Mirpur division, official sources said.
AJK government has decided in principal to establish its own airline, the Kashmir Airline, besides the emergence of a full-fledge international airport in Mirpur, the sources told APP here on Friday. The proposed Mirpur International Airport would provide direct and most comfortable air travelling facilities to the overseas Kashmiris 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, the sources said that a mega industrial zone was also being established over an area of 25,000 kanal in Mirpur.