MUZAFFARABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the main opposition party, has challenged the Kashmir Council elections in the AJK High Court.
According to details, PML-N members of the AJK Assembly Barrister Iftikhar Gillani and Farooq Tahir, former president of Central Bar Association Akhlaq Kiyani and Raja Ayaz Fareed Advocate have filed a petition in the AJK High Court against the election to four vacant seats of the Kashmir Council that was scheduled to take place on May 15.
Senior law expert Raja Hanif Khan has filed the petition on behalf of the PML-N.
Chief Justice of AJK High Court Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal has admitted the petition for hearing and formed a two-member bench consisting of Justice Aftab Tabassum Alvi and Justice Sadaqat Raja. The PML-N took the stance that the members of the AJK Legislative Assembly had elected the members of the Kashmir Council once and now they could not elect the members of the Kashmir Council again. He said that elections of the AJK Legislative Assembly were just two and a half months away. The PML-N representatives said in their petition that only the new members of the AJK Legislative Assembly who would be elected after a couple of months should have the right to elect the members of the Kashmir Council in 2016. They requested the court to restrain the election commission from holding the elections of the Kashmir Council.
