Prime Minister Imran Khan has thanked the Kashmiris as the official results of the Azad Kashmir elections have been announced and PTI has emerged as the victorious party by winning 25 seats.
The results were announced by Azad Kashmir Chief Election Commissioner Abdul Rashid Sulehria at a press conference in Muzaffarabad on Monday.
He said that the elections were held in a transparent manner and the turnout was 62 percent. No written complaint has so far been lodged regarding rigging, he added.
CEC Sulehria said that re-elections will be held on July 29 at four polling stations in the LA-16 Bagh constituency after which the schedule of reserved seats will be released.
He said that PTI has won 25 seats in Azad Kashmir elections while the PPP grabbed 11, the PML-N 6, and the Muslim Conference and the Jammu and Kashmir People’s Party won one seat each.
Replying to a question regarding Federal Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s entry into Azad Kashmir despite a ban, the CEC said that the prime minister should have realised that Gandapur was banned from entering AJK, therefore, he shouldn’t have brought him along.
IMRAN THANKS: Meanwhile,Prime Minister Imran Khan thanked the people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir for placing their trust in the PTI during the elections in which his party emerged victor.
“We will focus on bringing the people out of poverty through our Ehsaas and Kamyab Pakistan programmes; establish accountability and transparency in government,” the prime minister said in a tweet.
The premier also congratulated all the successful candidates of the PTI.
“As an ambassador for Kashmir, I will continue to raise my voice on all international forums including UN to ensure the international community fulfills its commitment of self-determination to the Kashmiri people through an UN-sponsored plebiscite,” the premier tweeted.
