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This combo photo shows Sardar Tanveer Ilyas (left) and Barrister Sultan Mahmood. Photos Twitter/APP
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Tanveer Ilyas and Barrister Sultan Mahmood of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) are in the run for the office of prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
According to unofficial results, PTI won in 25 constituencies, followed by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in 10 constituencies and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz in six constituencies.
Mr Tanveer, who is a newcomer to the AJK politics, is said to be the “strongest” candidate for the top slot.
Sources in the PTI said that former prime minister of AJK Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry has expressed displeasure on the possibility of not being given the position.
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Monday asserted that Nawaz Sharif would fight and win the case of Kashmir. DawnNewsTV
MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Monday asserted that Nawaz Sharif would fight and win the case of Kashmir.
Addressing a public meeting in Forward Kahuta, district headquarters of Haveli, and standing at a place surrounded by the Line of Control on three sides, Ms Nawaz said she wanted to get her message across the divide to the martyred sons and their parents that their sacrifices would not go in vain.
“Maryam Nawaz promises that Nawaz Sharif and the people of Azad Kashmir will fight the case of the 100,000 Kashmiri martyrs,” she said.
PPP, PMLN, JI oppose delaying AJK polls
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June 1, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Major political parties have rejected postponement of lections for the Legislative Assembly of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir for two months as proposed the
National Command Operation Center (NCOC). They demanded timely elections in the AJ&K. “The PTI federal government wants to postpone AJK elections as it has failed to get candidates for elections,” said PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in a meeting with President PPP Azad Jammu and Kashmir Chaudhry Latif Akbar and opposition leader of AJK Assembly Chaudhry Yasin who called on him at Zardari House Islamabad on Monday.