Kashmiris vote for 12 seats of AJK Legislative Assembly across Pakistan
KARACHI (92 News) - Polling for 12 refugee seats in Pakistan for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly has started amid strict security measures across the country Sunday.
It is pertinent to mention here that these 12 seats are reserved for Kashmiri refugees who migrated from the Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in 1947 and 1965 and are settled in various parts of Pakistan.
The voting has been underway to elect representatives for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.
In Rawalpindi division and Islamabad voters casting votes for three AJK Assembly seats. LA-93 Jammu-VI constituency comprises of Rawalpindi division and some parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwan region with total 36,455 voters.
Meanwhile, LA-43 Valley-IV comprises of some parts of Rawalpindi division, with eight candidats in contest. The number of votes in the seat are 2457.
In the third seat of the Kashmir legislature LA-44 Valley-V 13 candidates competing for the seat with 6340 total votes.
In Peshawar, votes being cast for LA-45 constituency of the Kashmir assembly. The police has detained six persons over allegations of disrupting the electoral process.
People’s Party’s Senator Taj Haider has lodged a complaint to the election commission over firing near the polling stations 91, 92, 93, 94, 95 and 101 in the electoral constituency LA-10. “The firing damaged the vehicle of the People’s Party candidate,” Taj Haider said in his complaint.
Votes are also being cast at Karachi, Hyderabad, Ghotki, Sanghar and other areas of Sindh.
Some constituencies of the AJK Assembly are largest in terms of area such as Jammu-1 constituency, whose voters are spread over Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan provinces, involving 48 districts.
The voters of another constituency reserved for refugees from Kashmir Valley are scattered around 27 districts of Sindh and Balochistan.
LA 34 – Jammu I [Balochistan, Sindh, Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Faisalabad, Sargodha, and Lahore]
PTI’s Riaz Ahmed
PPP’s Zahid Iqbal
PSP’s Shah Abdul Latif Faisal
PML-N’s Nasir Hussain Dar
LA 35 – Jammu II [Gujranwala, Hafizabad, Sialkot’s Daska, Pasroor and Samrial]
PML-N’s Ch. Muhammad Ismail
PPP’s Khalid Mehmood Chaudhary
PPP’s Muhammad Iqbal
PTI’s Maqbool Ahmad
LA 36 – Jammu III [Sialkot]
PPP’s Choudhry Shaukat Ali
PTI’s Hafiz Hamid Raza
PPP’s Faiz Ullah
PML-N’s Muhammad Ishaq
LA 37 – Jammu IV [Narowal]
PTI’s Muhammad Akmal Sargala
PML-N’s Muhammad Siddique Chaudhry
PPP’s Mazhar Yousaf Choudhary
LA 38 – Jammu V [Gujranwala’s Wazirabad, Gujrat, and Mandi Bahauddin]
PML-N’s Zeeshan Ali
PPP’s Muhammad Ashraf Chughtai
PTI’s Muhammad Akbar Chaudhry
JI’s Muhammad Umer Siddique
LA 39 – Jammu VI [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Rawalpindi, and Islamabad]
PPP’s Chaudhry Fakhar Zaman
PML-N’s Raja Muhamamd Siddique
PTI’s Nazia Niaz
LA 40 – Kashmir Valley I [Balochistan and Sindh]
PSP’s Shabir Ahmed Khan
PML-N’s Tahir Ali Wani
PPP’s Amir Abdul Ghaffar Lone
PTI’s Muhammad Saleem Butt
LA 41 – Kashmir Valley II [Lahore]
PPP’s Shabbir Abbas Mir
PTI’s Ghulam Mohi-ud-Din Dewan
PML-N’s Muhammad Ikram Butt
All J&K MC’s Syed Maqsood Gillani
LA 42 – Kashmir Valley III [Bahawalpur, Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Jhelum, and Chakwal]
PPP’s Hafeez Ahmed Butt
All J&K MC’s Rana Sarfaraz Ahmed
JI’s Saeed Ahmed Khan
PML-N’s Syed Shoukat Ali Shah
PTI’s Muhammad Asif Sharif
LA 43 – Kashmir Valley IV [Ward 15 to 50 in Rawalpindi]
PTI’s Javed Butt
PPP’s Hamza Majid Bazmi
PML-N’s Naseema Khatoon
LA 44 – Kashmir Valley V [Ward 1 to 14 of Rawalpindi, Cantonment ward 1 to 10, Islamabad, and Attock]
PTI’s Bashir Ahmed Khan
PML-N’s Muhammad Ahmed Raza Qadri
PPP’s Muhammad Rashid Aslam
LA 45 – Kashmir Valley VI [Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]
IND Ahmed Mushahid Mushtaq
IND Abdul Nasir Khan
PTI’s Abdul Majid Khan
JI’s Noor-ul-Bari
