MUZAFFARABAD: The key session of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly has been convened on Monday (today) where no-confidence motion will be presented against Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq.
According to a circulation issued by AJK Assembly, voting for the election of new prime minister will also be held on the same day.
A resolution for a vote of no-confidence was submitted to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly’s special secretary, Amjed Latif Abbasi on Friday. On October 27, PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira announced that his party and the PML-N had agreed on bringing a no-confidence motion against the government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
PPP, PML-N file no-confidence motion against AJK PM
The AJK Legislative Assembly has 52 members, and to achieve a simple majority, a party requires the support of 27 members. Earlier, the PPP put forward the name of Faisal Rathore as their nominee for the position of the prime minister of the territory, its AJK party president said.
The resolution was handed over to Abbasi by PPP lawmakers Chaudhry Qasim Majeed, Sardar Javed Ayoub, Malik Zafar Iqbal and Chaudhry Ali Shan Soni. Assembly Secretary Chaudhry Basharat Hussain — a relative of AJK PM Chaudhry Anwarul Haq — did not attend office on Friday. The resolution signed by 25 lawmakers, 23 from the PPP and two from the PML-N — its regional president Shah Ghulam Qadir and his predecessor Raja Farooq Haider — accused Haq of having “lost the trust of the Legislative Assembly”.
AJK Law maker Sabiha Siddique has refuted claimed that she has joined PPP. In her video message, Sabiha Siddique made it clear that this news item was contrary to the fact as she has no plan to vote PPP candidate. Sabiha Siddique made it clear that she will stand with Anwarul Haq Ch.