MUZAFFARABAD: Unofficial results of the elections to the Kashmir Legislative Assembly on Wednesday showed the AJK Muslim Conference (MC) having emerged victorious, although with several cabinet ministers defeated in the polls, AP reported on Wednesday. The MC won 20 of the 41 contested constituencies, said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Riaz Akhtar Chaudhry, citing unofficial results from polling stations. The commission still has to verify the results, which will be officially announced on Thursday.The Pakistan PeopleÂ’s Party (PPP) Azad Kashmir was trailing with seven seats, the PeopleÂ’s Muslim League was set to win four seats, independent candidates won six seats, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement two and the Jammu and Kashmir PeopleÂ’s Party one seat, Sheikh said. The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) fielded 33 candidates in the elections and all of them lost.
Sheikh said that voting in one constituency (LA-33) had been postponed because of allegations of rigging. PPP AJK President Ishaq Zafar said that there had been some rigging at polling stations outside Muzaffarabad. “The results are unclear as there is no clear majority for any party and we could have a hung parliament and a coalition government,” he said. The newly elected lawmakers will vote later to fill eight other seats – five of them reserved for women – in the 49-member Kashmir legislature. The Muslim Conference, which supports Kashmir’s merger with Pakistan, currently has 33 seats in the legislature.
Govt rigged AJK elections: MMA
The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) on Wednesday claimed that the federal government and “agencies” have sabotaged the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections. MMA Deputy Secretary General Liaqat Baloch demanded that the government declare the elections null and void and form a government in AJK, representing all political parties.
| That way the fundos get some seats even though they didn't win any. Cheeze, they're transparent... |
'cause the population is shia muslim.
Retired Pak army officers and fuedal punjabis have been granted land in Pak Kashmir and habe changed the demographic character of the state.
It is now finally safe enough for Pak to run elections here, though not yet in Gilgit region.
Pak runs tours for internal media of 'camps' where displced 'kashmiris' live.
During one tour an Indian journalist was present. A woman tearfully related a story of sons being killed, of being raped by Indian soldiers.
She said all this is perfect chaste Urdu. When the journalist questioned her in Kashmiri, she did not understand.