MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) candidate Masood Khan got elected as President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday.
He received 42 votes while his opponent from Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chaudhry Latif Akbar received six votes. Seven members of the Kashmir Council and 48 members of the Azad Kashmir legislative assembly voted for the new President.
The Muslim Conference and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had boycotted the elections. The polling started at the Lodging Hall of the AJK legislative assembly on Tuesday and continued till 3 pm. PPP and PML-N had both fielded their candidates for the post of presidency.
Last month, PML-N had won a landslide victory in the general elections in the province. The party’s candidate Raja Farooq Haider Khan was elected as the prime minister.
