TIL Desk/World/Lahore-Pakistan’s ruling party, PML-N has swept the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly elections, bagging 30 of 41 directly elected seats, with a two-third majority to form the new government. Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) emerged victorious in the Assembly elections held yesterday in which a total of 26 political parties and 423 candidates took part.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) which had the last government could only manage to win two seats while cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf (PTI) got as much seats and Muslim Conference bagged three. It was expected that there would be a stiff competition between the three mainstream parties Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), PPP and PTI – but the PML-N routed them, stunning the political pundits.
A total of 2.674 million Kashmiris exercised their right to franchise yesterday to elect members for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly, which will be the ninth since the parliamentary form of government was introduced in Azad Jammu and Kashmir in 1975. While the region is spread over 14,245 square kilometres, the polling process is not restricted to this area. Instead, it stretches to entire Pakistan because members for 12 out of the 41 directly elected seats are elected by 438,884 voters living in various parts of the country. Some 12 are reserved for refugees from Indian-controlled Kashmir in Pakistan.
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