Information minister: PML-N to win AJK polls: Pervaiz

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Monday said that Pakistan Muslim League-N would win the upcoming elections of Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly. He said that so far no party except for PML-N had sought applications from candidates. The minister said that the PML-N has formed the government three times, fulfilled its promises and completed the projects announced by it. The minister said that a group of politicians frequently made fun of projects meant for the poor, adding that they joked about metro bus projects in Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi. He said that political parties should act as partners and not adversaries, to resolve issues of poverty, ignorance, unemployment and disease. He said that if chief election commissioner wanted to hold elections in AJK in the supervision of army, then PML-N had no objection to it. July 21 would be a day of victory for PML-N, which would hold the outgoing AJK government accountable, he added.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 14^th, 2016.