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Sardar Ziaul Qamar
Sardar Ziaul Qamar is a politician from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). He has been a member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly since June 2023. He was elected in a by-election on 8 June 2023 from LA-15 Bagh-II, securing 25,755 votes. He succeeded the former Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, who was disqualified by the High Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir for contempt of court. Political career He contested the 2011 Azad Kashmiri general election from LA-15 Bagh-III as a candidate of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), but was unsuccessful. He received 18,271 votes and was defeated by Sardar Mir Akbar Khan, a candidate of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (AJKMC). He contested the 2016 Azad Kashmiri general election from LA-15 Bagh-III as a candidate of the PPP, but was unsuccessful. He received 16,439 votes and was defeated by Sardar Mir Akbar Khan, a candidate of the Pakistan Musli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Court Of Azad Jammu And Kashmir
The High Court of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (commonly know as Azad Kashmir High Court) is an appellate court in Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir. It hears appeals from the District Courts of Azad Kashmir. The court has three circuit benches based in Kotli, Mirpur, and Rawalakot.On the bench: Raja Sadaqat appointed to AJK high court The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 24 March 2016, Retrieved 24 January 2021 In 2016, Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan, president of appointed Raja S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan People's Party Politicians
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-largest Muslim population just behind Indonesia. Pakistan is the 33rd-largest country in the world by area and 2nd largest in South Asia, spanning . It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast. It is separated narrowly from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre. Pakistan is the site of several ancient cultures, including the 8,500-year-old Neolithic site of Mehrgarh in Balochistan, the Indus Valley civilisation of the Bronze Age, the most extens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the three major Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz (PML–N) and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), and it is the largest party in terms of representation in the National Assembly of Pakistan since the 2018 general election. With over 10 million members in Pakistan and abroad, it claims to be the country's largest political party by primary membership as well as one of the largest political parties in the world. Despite Khan's popular persona in Pakistan, the PTI had limited initial success: it failed to win, as a collective, a single seat in the 1997 general election and the 2002 general election; only Khan himself was able to win a seat. Throughout the 2000s, the PTI remained in opposition to the presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Azad Kashmiri General Election
General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 25 July 2021 after the expiry of the 5-year term of the previous Legislative Assembly. The 2021 General Elections of Azad Jammu and Kashmir held on 25 July, the region's election commission announced on Thursday. The elections were held in 33 constituencies of Azad Kashmir and 12 constituencies of the refugees of Jammu and Kashmir. By an early estimate, over 2.82 million people of Azad Kashmir were registered to vote; of which 1.59 million were male voters, while 1.297 million were female voters. By the time of the election, the number of registered voters had increased to . A total of 724 people stood for 45 general seats this year. 579 candidates are competing for 33 constituencies within Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The remaining 145 competed for 12 refugee constituencies comprising four provinces of Pakistan. Background In current elections The PTI won 26, the PPP 11 and PML N 6. In addition, AJ&K MC won 1 seats, JK PPP 1 seat. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistan Muslim League (N)
The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) ( ur, , translit=Pākistān Muslim Līg (Nūn) PML(N) or PML-N) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal conservative political party in Pakistan. Alongside the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), it is one of the three major political parties of the country. The party was founded by former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after the dissolution of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad, Islamic Democratic Alliance in 1993. The Party platform, party's platform is generally Conservatism in Pakistan, conservative, which involves supporting free market capitalism, free markets, deregulation, Tax cut, lower taxes and privatisation, private ownership. Although the party historically supported social conservatism, in recent years, the party’s political ideology and platform has become more Liberal conservatism, liberal on social and cultural issues. One of Muslim League schisms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Azad Kashmiri General Election
General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 21 July 2016 to elect 41 members of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Polling started at 8:00am and continued until 5:00pm. Campaign At least 423 candidates ran for the 41 seats, the main competition being between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (MC) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). 5,427 polling stations were set up for the election Results 2,674,586 people were registered to vote in the elections, of whom 1,190,839 were female and 1,483,747 male. The PML-N won 31, the PPP three and PTI two. In addition, AJ&K MC won three seats, JK PPP one seat and one seat was won by an independent. Following these results, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) was able to form a comfortable majority government, with Raja Farooq Haider as prime minister of Azad Kashmir, controlling 31 general seats and six reserved/technocrat seats, giving them 37 out of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Jammu And Kashmir Muslim Conference
The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference ( ur, آل جموں و کشمیر مسلم کانفرنس) also shortly referred as Muslim Conference (MC) is a major political party in Pakistan administrated territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The party was founded by Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas in the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir as a splinter group of the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference. After the Partition of India, the party supported the accession of the princely state to Pakistan, and instigated the Poonch Rebellion against the Maharaja's government under the leadership of its legislator Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan. Pakistan, after turning the rebellion into an outright invasion, installed Ibrahim Khan as the President of the rebel-conrolled region, called Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The Muslim Conference has ever since held the reins of power in Azad Kashmir, supported by the Government of Pakistan. See also * Political movements during the Dogra rule * 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA-16 Bagh-III
LA-16 Bagh-III is a constituency of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly which is currently represented by Sardar Mir Akbar Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). It covers the area of Bagh Tehsil in Bagh District Bagh District ( ur, ) is one of the ten districts of Pakistan's territory of Azad Kashmir. Previously part of Poonch District, it was established as a separate district in 1988. The Bagh District is bounded on the north by the Muzaffarabad Di .... Election 2016 General elections were held on 21 July 2016. Election 2021 General elections were held on 25 July 2021. References {{Pakistan-gov-stub Bagh District Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Azad Kashmiri General Election
General elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 26 June 2011 to elect the members of ninth assembly of Azad Kashmir. Results The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won 21 seats, Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)) 10, the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (AJKMC) 4, and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) 2. Independent candidates won three seats. All of the three independents later joined the PPP. Elections were postponed in LA-37 Kashmir Valley-II. After the election, the PPP won three reserved seats for women and one reserved seat each for ulema, technocrats, and overseas. On the other hand, the PML(N) and AJKMC each won a reserved seat for women. Aftermath The PPP was able to comfortably elect Chaudhry Abdul Majid as the next Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir. He received 35 votes in the prime ministerial election while his opponent, the PML(N)'s Farooq Haider Khan Raja Farooq Haider Khan is a Kashmiri politician and former Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Azad Kashmir ...
Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir is the chief executive of Azad Kashmir region of Pakistan. The title of Prime Minister symbolizes the nominal independence of Azad Kashmir. The prime minister heads the Council of Ministers, who are members of the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly, the PM too is elected by the AJK Legislative Assembly which is directly elected by the people. List of prime ministers Timeline See also * Government of Azad Kashmir * President of Azad Kashmir References {{Azad Kashmir topics Provincial Governments of Pakistan Government of Azad Kashmir Azad Kashmir-related lists Azad Kashmir Azad Jammu and Kashmir (; ), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee: * * * and constituting the western portion of the larger Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashmiris
Kashmiris are an Indo-Aryan peoples, Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group speaking the Kashmiri language, living mostly, but not exclusively, in the Kashmir Valley of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir, India.(a) (subscription required) Quote: "Kashmir, region of the northwestern Indian subcontinent ... has been the subject of dispute between India and Pakistan since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. The northern and western portions are administered by Pakistan and comprise three areas: Azad Kashmir, Gilgit, and Baltistan, the last two being part of a territory called the Northern Areas. Administered by India are the southern and southeastern portions, which constitute the state of Jammu and Kashmir but are slated to be split into two union territories. China became active in the eastern area of Kashmir in the 1950s and has controlled the northeastern part of Ladakh (the easternmost portion of the region) since 1962."; (b) C. E Bosworth, Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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