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The writer is a freelance contributor.It was a mere coincidence that I met 24-year-old Mr Shehzad Latif at a youth training workshop in Mirpur a few years ago. Like his other fellows, he was also.
All set for AJK elections Tough contest expected among PTI, PML-N and PPP PHOTO: FILE MUZAFFARABAD: The heated canvassing in the closely watched Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) election campaign wrapped up on Friday with the penultimate round of the election process – voting – just hours away. Deemed as the consequential moment for the state, the polling would take place amid ramped-up security. More than 700 candidates from 32 political and religious parties are contesting for the 45 general seats. Out of the rest eight reserved seats, five are for women and three seats, one each for religious scholars, technocrats, and overseas Kashmiris. The members for these seats are nominated after the elections.
Chaudhry Tariq says PM Raja Haider, others refused to evolve joint strategy to express solidarity with Kashmiris PML-N senior minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Chaudhry Tariq Farooq. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) senior minister Chaudhry Tariq Farooq has admitted that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government in the region could not properly exploit the situation in favour of the oppressed Kashmiris in the wake of August 5, 2019 developments in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK). Answering questions on Thursday at “Dialogue with Capital Journalists Forum”, an organisation of AJK based senior journalists, Farooq said he personally talked to former premier Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan, Jammat-e-Islami leader Abdur Rashid Turabi and Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider to evolve a joint strategy including organising sit-ins at divisional headquarters across AJK to express solidarity with IIOJK people but both the leaders as well as PM Haider did not consider his suggestion.