PML-N Wins In Azad Jamu Kashmir
PML-N Wins In Azad Jamu Kashmir: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Sardar Amir Altaf won the Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s LA-18 with 20, 874 votes.
PPP’s Sardar Ghulam Sadiq came second with 14,731 votes. The results are unverified and unofficial. The polling for the legislative assembly seat started at 8am and closed at 5pm. The seat fell vacant after senior parliamentarian Khan Bahadur Khan passed away.
Nine candidates contested the election. The police and Rangers provided security at the 131 polling stations in the area. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Amir Altaf on Sunday won the by-election from Azad Kashmir LA 18 Poonch 2 constituency.
According to unofficial results, Altaf bagged 20,874 votes against his People’s Party (PPP) candidate Ghulam Sadiq, who secured 14,376 votes in the by-election.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate Sardar Sawar Khan got 3,180 votes, whereas Muslim Conference’s Sardar Kashan Masood and JKPP candidate Sardar Nizam Khan managed to get 3,178 and 1,339 votes respectively.
Earlier in 2016 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz announced its manifesto for the general election of Azad Jammu and Kashmir scheduled held on July 21 of that year.
PML-N said the manifesto had been compiled by a team of experts keeping in view all requirements of AJK and assured that the PML-N would fulfill each and every word mentioned in the development agenda. They said the manifesto committee was formed by then Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif as president of the PML-N who appointed former Chief Justice Manzoor Hussain Gilani as head of the manifesto body.
After winning the election, he said, the PML-N would turn AJK into an ideal state by introducing reforms in different sectors including education, health, infrastructure, human rights, administrative and judicial institutions.
Under the manifesto, the party has committed to spend an additional amount of Rs 50 billion on AJK roads and other infrastructure’s rehabilitation in five years, besides the annual development budgetary allocations.
The PML-N would construct Mirpur-Muzaffarabad Expressway and Leepa valley Tunnel, upgrade existing hospitals by setting up new trauma centers and build modern DHQ hospitals at the district level.
Five air ambulances, Sui gas to Mirpur and its adjoining areas and opening of Sui gas office have also been promised. A parliamentary committee will be constituted to resolve problems of the affected people of Mangla Dam followed by the announcement of a package by the Prime Minister of Pakistan on its recommendations.
A university in district Sadhnoti, agriculture university in district Bhimber, upgradation of Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences and beautification of Muzaffarabad also feature the manifesto. Pervaiz Rashid said it was the hallmark of the PML-N and Nawaz Sharif that whenever his party came into power, it launched mega development projects across the country.
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