Pakistan

Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister elected

Sardar Ateeq Ahmed was unanimously elected as the new prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.

Express July 27, 2010

MUZAFFARABAD: Sardar Ateeq Ahmed was unanimously elected as the new prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.

Turmoil in the AJK legislative assembly began when a no-confidence motion was moved in the house against former PM Raja Farooq Haider.

Haider resigned from his post on Monday ahead of the voting on the no-confidence motion.

Nomination papers for the Premiership were to be submitted today. Sardar Ateeq was the only candidate to file the nomination and was elected unanimously. It was the first time that Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister has been elected unanimously.

Sardar Ateeq is the fourth person to assume charge of Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir in four years.

COMMENTS (3)

s.m bukhari | 14 years ago | Reply These so called politicion are playing with the life,destiney,and future of innocent people,If you go to Azad kashmir and have a look there its all devastated,all institute from top to bottom are corrupet,roads are shattered,there is no development programme in Azad Kashmir whatsoever,and these politicions are playing musical chair of power.These politicions are greedy and plundring the national wealth and using the Kashmir issue for there on purpose.

Syed A. Mateen | 14 years ago | Reply Every year there is a new Prime Minister in Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Yes every one has the right to become the Prime Minister. Who is next for 2011?

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