MUZAFFARABAD – Azad Jammu and Kashmir government has directed all thedeputy commissioners and assistant commissioners to issue free arm licencesand renew earlier ones without fee to the members of village defencecommittees in the five kilometre radius of Line of control (LoC).
According to a notification, the directives have been issue in the wake ofprevailing situation at LoC, so that the people could defend themselves inthe war-like circumstances created by cross-LoC firing and shelling byIndian army.
All the district magistrates had been directed to recommend the names ofmembers of village defence committees for issuance of licences ofnon-prohibited arms in their favour for their self-protection, thenotification added.
