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July 1, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Nearly 900 candidates have filed nomination papers to compete for 45 seats of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly (AJKLA) in the general elections to be held on July 25.
“The precise number of aspirants will be available on July 2 after the withdrawal of candidatures by the contestants. The final list of candidates will be published on July 3,” AJK Election Commission (AJKEC) Secretary Sardar Ghazanfar told The News from Muzaffarabad when contacted.
He said the AJKEC was fully geared up to hold the polls in a fair, free and transparent manner. He said suitable security arrangements were being taken to conduct the exercise in a peaceful fashion. The paramilitary Rangers will be deployed to assist the police to provide a safe and secure environment to voters. The secretary said the AJKEC has been disbursed the required funds by the authorities and it faces no financial problem.
PPP, PTI trade barbs as AJK poll campaigns heat up
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RAWALAKOT: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday unleashed a torrent of criticism on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) policies towards Kashmir, vowing his party would win the Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections, while government ministers hit back, criticising the PPP chief’s “obliviousness” of his party’s position in the territory.
The remarks come as election campaigns heat up for the 11th General Elections of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, which will be held on July 25.
In a speech in Rawalakot, Bilawal followed up with his criticism from a day before in Kotli, in which he called Prime Minister Imran Khan a “security risk” for his remarks on the country’s nuclear programme. Khan had said in his Axios interview that once the Kashmir issue was resolved, there would be no need for a nuclear program.
PTI terms PPP Banarsi thugs
June 28, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) while terming the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) as ‘Banarsi Thugs’ has said the PPP Chairman Bilawal Zardari was even oblivious to his party position in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK).
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry Sunday reminded Bilawal that only eight candidates were contesting the upcoming elections of AJK Legislative Assembly on the PPP ticket. In a tweet, he said the speech of Bilawal Zardari has clearly revealed the reality that he (Bilawal) does not know about his party’s position in AJK. He recalled that Bilawal and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) Vice President Maryam Nawaz had run their respective parties’ election campaigns crazily in the last elections of Gilgit-Baltistan. However, it was revealed subsequently that not even one third among the total aspirants were contesting the elections on the tickets of both the PPP and PMLN at that time.
In this file photo, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry addresses a press conference in Islamabad. DawnNewsTV/File
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has asserted that Prime Minister Imran Khan referring to slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as ‘martyred’ last year was a ‘slip of the tongue’ while Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi refrained from calling him terrorist in an attempt to ‘move forward instead of looking at the past’.
However, the information minister said, Pakistan’s position regarding the terrorist outfit was clear from day one as the country as a member of the United Nations had voted for the UN resolution declaring Al Qaeda and its leadership (Osama bin Laden) terrorist.