AJK PM grants land ownership to 1,000 families displaced by LoC shelling

• Beneficiaries settled on government land near Mirpur in 2006 after fleeing 1998 cross-border shelling MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore announced on Sunday the grant of ownership rights to more than 1,000 families displaced from the Line of Control who had long been residing on state land in Janyal, on the outskirts of Mirpur. The announcement came at a ceremony held to formalise the transfer of land rights to the internally displaced persons (ID...

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