AJK polls campaign reduced to smearing
July 8, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Politicking ahead of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections has reached its peak with top leaders of different parties issuing fiery statements to garner support of voters.
The PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday slammed PMLN, and said the people who earlier believed in the politics of do or die have now shifted to the politics of begging .
Bilawal, addressing an election rally in Azad Jammu and Kashmir s Poonch area, claimed his political opponents say that if they have to beg to become the prime minister, they will do it. The PPP chairman said if the opposition decides to move a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan or Punjab Chief Minister Usman Bazdar his party would support them.
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YAVAR Abbas and Noor Zaheer
NOOR Zaheer was on the campus of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi in December 2019 when she got a phone call from London-based Yavar Abbas.
“I’m in the middle of a protest, it’s noisy can we talk later?” she asked. “Please, can you step away for a few minutes? I need to speak with you,” said Yavar. “Will you marry me?”
The setting of this long-distance proposal was unsurprising. For a leftist author, feminist and intellectual like Noor, the JNU protest marked yet another struggle in her life as a fearless and outspoken activist. The thing that raised eyebrows, however, was that her suitor was nearly 100 years old.
July 3, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Dual nationals are allowed to contest the July 25 Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections and cast their votes subject to the other constitutional requirements which are applicable to local voters.
“Under Article 24 of the AJK Constitution, a person is qualified to be elected as, and to be, a member of the AJK Legislative Assembly (AJKLA) if he is a state subject; he is not less than 25 years of age; and his name appears on the electoral roll of any constituency in AJK,” AJK Election Commission (AJKEC) Secretary Sardar Ghazanfar told The News, answering a question.
Explaining, the secretary said that if any Kashmiri surrenders his Pakistani citizenship to get the nationality of a foreign country, he becomes ineligible to stand in the elections. “If he acquires the nationality of another country while retaining Pakistani citizenship, he is qualified to vie for an elected office.”