July 27, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Close to two million votes were polled in Sunday’s general elections to the Azad Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly (AJKLA) with a meagre proportion cast in the 12 seats for Kashmiri refugees settled in Pakistan.
Calculations done by The News reveal that some 1,994,712 ballots out of a total of 3,220,793 registered votes were polled for the 33 seats of AJK territory and 12 seats for refugees. Of them, as many as 1,746,553 ballots were cast in the AJK region while just 248,159 votes were polled in Pakistan.
The winning political parties – the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and All J&K Muslim Conference (AJ&KMC), excepting the Kashmir People’s Party (KPP) – secured a total of 1,702,922 votes apart from the ballots of the Tehreek Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), which failed to get even a single seat anywhere.
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Voting for AJK polls ends peacefully in Rawalpindi
July 26, 2021
Rawalpindi : The voting for Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections which commenced at 8.00 am ended peacefully here at 5.00 pm and no major untoward incident was reported in the city.
The counting of votes has started and the complete results would be announced at the spot by the Presiding Officers after completion of the counting process.
According to the polling officials, the voters present inside the polling stations would be allowed to cast ballots even after the end of polling time.
As many as 97 polling stations were set up in Rawalpindi for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections while as many as 1,500 police officers and constables were deployed to ensure law and order and enforce the code of conduct issued by the Election Commission.