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Altaf Hamid Rao
MIRPUR ( AJK): Oct 29: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Iftikhar Gilani has categiricall dismissed reports of a proposed change in the status of Azad Jammu Kashmir as fabricated and contrary to facts, warning against statements that could create further uncertainty in the region, it was officially said.
“The Prime Minister said Azad Kashmir was already passing through a difficult situation and questioned the motives behind statements that could lead the state in an undesirable direction”, Director General Public Relations (DGPR) AJK said in a social media post appeared on Wednesday.
“He termed the claims regarding a change in the state’s status baseless and said false propaganda was being spread in this regard”, the DGPR Digital said in the post.
The Prime Minister clarified that any proposed constitutional amendment would be brought before the Legislative Assembly, where the matter would be considered through the appropriate constitutional forum, it said.
Referring to previous constitutional amendments, he said the 14th and 15th amendments had followed the 13th Amendment, describing the process as part of constitutional evolution.
He reaffirmed that the government was in place to safeguard the interests of the state and would continue to protect them, the DGPR Digital concluded.
