AJK legislative meeting elections to be held on July 25

Elections shall be held in 33 constituencies of Azad Kashmir and 12 constituencies of Muhajireen Jammu and Kashmir.

In the meantime, 4 constituencies have been added to this election as in comparison with the earlier polls.

In response to the Election Fee, 2.82 million voters will train their proper to vote in Azad Kashmir, of which 1.59 million are male voters, whereas 1.297 million are feminine voters.

The Election Fee has stated that nomination papers will be submitted until June 21 and scrutiny of papers shall be carried out until June 22 whereas the checklist shall be launched on the identical day.

In response to the Election Fee, objections will be lodged until June 28 and 29 and appeals will be lodged until June 30, whereas nomination papers shall be returned by July 2.

It needs to be famous that the AJK Meeting’s phrases will finish on July 29, however thus far, the schedule for the brand new election has not been issued.

Earlier, the NCOC had prompt suspending the upcoming Azad Jammu And Kashmir election by two months.

On this connection, the NCOC wrote a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner of AJK, stating that because of the rise within the variety of coronavirus instances within the nation, the polls needs to be delayed.

The letter stated that enormous political gatherings because of elections will result in the additional unfold of the possibly lethal virus within the state, including that the variety of coronavirus constructive instances are already excessive therein.

The NCOC stated a million residents of AJK may very well be vaccinated by September 2021.

Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider on Could 25 stated that similar to by-polls took in Pakistan regardless of the pandemic, elections in Azad Kashmir must also be performed and can’t be postponed.

Addressing a press convention in Muzaffarabad, the AJK prime minister had stated that Pakistan and India should not violate the 1957 decision on the Kashmir difficulty.

Talking about Shah Mehmood Qureshi, he stated that the answer of Kashmir is “not within the fingers of the overseas minister, subsequently, he ought to keep away from issuing statements.”

He stated that the prime minister of Pakistan “didn’t even know that Azad Kashmir has its personal election fee,” including that “PM Imran Khan doesn’t have the authority to introduce digital voting machines (EVMs) in Azad Kashmir.”