Muzaffarabad (Web Desk): Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative AJK) will elect the new prime minister of the state on Monday (today).
The House will elect the leader of the House as the state’s high court disqualified former Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas in a court contempt.
As per the reports, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has not revealed the name of the new candidate, as some members of the party have joined the forward bloc created by the AJK president who picked Chaudhry Rasheed as the candidate for the office.
Meanwhile, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) may bring their separate candidates.
On April 11, the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court disqualified Tanveer Ilyas Khan from holding any public office after he was found guilty of contempt of court.
Sardar Tanveer Iliyas had criticized the stay orders issue by the courts and said the practice was affecting the performance of government.
"The stay orders were temporary order that must be decided within days but they lingered for years," he had stated.
Affiliated with PTI, Sardar Tanveer Ilyas served as AJK's premier for less than a year. He was elected unopposed as the 14th prime minister of the region on April 18, 2022.
After the resignation of Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi as AJK premier, Ilyas had submitted nomination papers on behalf of PTI which were declared valid by the secretary assembly.
