AJK Legislative Assembly elections: PPP wins six of eight reserved seats

Pakistan Peoples Party Azad Kashmir on Sunday won six out of eight reserved seats in the elections of AJK Legislative Assembly, raising its strength to 29 in the house of 49. Elections for the reserved seats were held here in the Assembly building on Sunday. PPP AJK got six seats (three women seats and one each of Ulema Mashaikh, Technocrat and Overseas Kashmiris) while Pakistan Muslim Legue-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Muslim Conference won one women-seat each.
Those who were elected on five women reserved seats were: PPP's Shazia Akbar, Sadaf Shaikh and Shaheen Dar, Fauzia Ashraf of PML-N and Meherunisah of Muslim Conference, who was elected with the help of two votes of PPP. Sardar Abid Hussain Abid, Pir Attiq-u-Rehman and Raja Wajid of PPP were elected on the seats of Technocrat, Ulema Mashaikh and Overseas Kashmiris respectively with the majority vote of 25.
All the newly elected members of the Legislative Assembly on general and reserved seats will take oath on Monday when the assembly will meet at 10 am. Soon after the oath-taking, the Speaker and Deputy Speaker will be elected. Election for Prime Minister will be held on Tuesday.