ISLAMABAD: University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has said a new state of the art “King Abdullah Campus” was under construction at Chhattar Kalas and would help the university expand its academic activities and operate at full capacity.
Azad Jammu and Kashmir is a multicampus and multi-disciplinary public sector university established in 1980. It has three main campuses in Muzaffarabad, Neelam valley and Jhelum.
In a statement detailing new additions to the university, the administration said: “A new state of the art King Abdullah Campus at Chhatar Kalas is under construction which will help us in near future to further expand our academic activities and operate at our full capacity.”
The under-construction King Abdullah Campus can be seen in Chhatar Kalas in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, in this undated photo. (Photo courtesy: University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir)
Saudi Arabia has funded several projects in Azad Kashmir in the past, especially after a devastating earthquake in 2005 wrought widespread death and destruction in Kashmir and parts of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
In April 2019, Pakistan’s Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) and the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) completed a complex to house government offices in Rawalakot city in Azad Kashmir.
