ISLAMABAD: President of the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) and Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has said that ending the deprivation of the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, ensuring quality education, providing basic civic facilities, and promoting transparent governance are among the party’s top priorities.
He stated this at a gathering here on Friday, which was attended by leading politicians from Azad Kashmir. Among the political figures who attended the function was former AJK PM Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, leading a delegation of politicians who formally joined the IPP ahead of later this month’s elections in the AJK.
The delegation included Col Mehboob, Ali Khan Soni, Malik Zulfiqar, Sahiba Siddiq, Riaz Gujjar, Tahir Khokhar, Raja Talib, Murtaza Ali Ahmad, Jabbar Mughal, and Taqdees Gilani.
Among those who also joined the IPP were Dr Sardar Zafar Iqbal (LA-25 Upper Neelum), Sardar Murtaza Ali Ahmad (Poonch), Sardar Abdul Jabbar Mughal (Constituency 4, Jhelum Valley), District Council Member Aamir Naeem, Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah (Kotli-Muzaffarabad), Councillor Shujaa Mangol Advocate, Chaudhry Abdul Qadeer Gujjar (LA-35), Sardar Sajjad Gul (Neelum), Chairman Haji Iftikhar Mughal, Chairman Faheem Mushtaq, Media Coordinator Raja Qamar Zaman, Party Spokesperson Sardar Mashal Younis, Syed Inam Gilani (Jhelum Valley), Councillor Khalid Mehmood, Councillor Nauman Usman, Hafiz Ahmad Butt (LA-42), Sardar Nazakat Minshad (Valley-3), Nauman Ali Chughtai, Asim Hameed, Farhan Anwar, and Naveed Chaudhry.
Also present on the occasion were G G Jamal, Gul Asghar Khan, Shahzad Aziz, Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan, Chaudhry Zaheer-ud-Din Khan, Makhdoom Tariq Mehmood-ul-Hassan, Raja Yawar Kamal, Sardar Ameer Haroon, Hamza Majeed Bazmi, Zulfiqar Ali, Malik Muhammad Yousaf, Ijaz Ahmad Khattana, Chaudhry Muhammad Maqbool, Muhammad Nadeem Khokhar, Chaudhry Waqar Nazir Advocate, Chaudhry Zulfiqar Noor, Ahsan Ahmad, Muhammad Irfan Chaudhry, Aoun Chaudhry, Rana Nazeer Ahmad Khan, Shoaib Siddiqui, Chaudhry Raoof Ahmad, Haroon Gul, and Mian Khalid Mehmood.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2026
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