MUZAFFARABAD:
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Tuesday announced that they would not contest the election for reserved women’s seats in the legislative assembly.
AJK PML-N President Raja Farooq Haider said that the present assembly was imposed by the then-federal government of PPP, while stealing the mandate of the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
“Election on women reserved seat is not a yardstick to judge our popularity in the public. We prefer to contest direct elections rather than on reserved seats,” said Haider.
He said that during the last three years in the opposition, their party had won both by-elections held. Haider said that it was ample proof of the party’s popularity among the masses.
An AJK assembly member belonging to the PML-N, Dr Fouzia Ashraf, quit her seat on June 6 due to personal reasons. She was elected to the assembly on a Kashmiri refugee reserved seat from Lahore in 2011.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 25th, 2014.
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