Azad Kashmir Local Government elections

 The final round of Azad Kashmir Local Government elections has begun.

Three districts in the Mirpur division are holding the third and final round of local body elections today, according to Azad and Jammu Kashmir (AJK) (Thursday). The union and district council elections are currently being held in Mirpur, Kotli, and Bhimbher, and they will last till 5:00 p.m. More than 1.23 million people would exercise their right to vote, according to a statement from the AJK Election Commission, which also noted that 2,188 polling places had been set up in the Mirpur division.

 According to officials, 10,985 members of the AJK Police, Rangers, and Punjab police have been stationed throughout the division to maintain the status quo of law and order. Armed forces from Pakistan will be on hand to assist the local authorities. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) gained the most seats in the union and district councils in the Poonch Division of the region in the second round of voting. 30 district council seats and 229 seats in the union council were won by the PTI. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) won 104 seats in the Poonch division of AJK, while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) managed to take third place with 129 seats.

 In the local government elections, the Jammu Kashmir Peoples' Party (JKPP) won 28 seats, the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (MC) 22, the Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) 7, and the Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam (JUI) and Jamat-e-Islami (JI), which each won four seats. In the Poonch district's 29 district council seats, PML-N won 10, PTI won seven, PPP won six, and JKPP won six. In the district council Haveli, PML-N and PPP each got five seats, while PTI won just two.

The PTI gained an advantage over its rivals, the PML-N and PPP, in the first round by winning 33 of the district council seats.

According to Asad Umar, there is no longer a location in Pakistan where the captain has not conducted the political funeral of this foreign administration. He declared the imported government to be intolerable.

Fawad Chaudhary, senior vice president of the PTI, said that the PTI government held local body elections in AJK after a 31-year hiatus. He claimed that the federal government exerted pressure, appointed people, invested money, and did everything it could to ensure success.

 

The PML-N and PPP, he claimed, were weighed down by the weight of Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari, thus even then the election results made it abundantly obvious that the contest was between PTI and independent candidates. Dr. Shireen Mazari, senior vice president of PTI, praised PTI AJK for demolishing its political rivals in the LG polls. She claimed that Imran Khan and the PTI have once more received backing from the public. According to Dr. Mazari, the public has once more made it plain that they support PTI.