Polling for AJK Legislative Assembly elections concluded

APP June 26, 2011

MIRPUR: Kashmiris living in AJK as well as different parts of Pakistan on Sunday casted their votes to elect a new AJK Legislative Assembly. Voting took place in 37 out of 41 electoral constituencies including 29 of AJK and 8 out of all 12 meant for Pakistan-based Jammu & Kashmir refugees in a partially peaceful and smooth manner, officials said. Elections were postponed in three constituencies including LA -30 (Jammu-I) and LA-36 (Kashmir valley-I) due to worsening law and order situation in Karachi and in LA-41 (Kashmir valley-6) following challenging of voters list related to Khyber PakhtunKhawa province in the court of law. Similarly, polling in electoral constituency of LA-37 (Kashmir valley) in Lahore was postponed following violent clashes between the workers of PPP and PML-N at the beginning of polling on Sunday morning, AJK Elections Commission sources told APP when contacted. The polling started at 08:00 a.m and continued till 05:00 p.m without any pause in line with the schedule set by AJK Election Commission. There was complete peace and we performed our duties independently without any unrest from any quarter including candidates or their supporters during the polling, Presiding Officer of the Polling Station set up at Industrial Rest House in the Mirpur city constituency said. He said, during polling, computerized National Identity Card in original were required to be produced by the voters as the proof of their identification in line with the directives of AJK Election Commission. The voters were seen moving to the polling stations on their own, however, female voters, in some constituencies, were seen moving through the vehicles belonging to various candidates. Para-military troops were posted at the sensitive polling stations in all the electoral constituencies to assist the civil administration and police to maintain law and order situation. A thumping majority of a total of 30,39,926 eligible registered voters (both male and female) moved to 4351 polling stations to exercise their right of vote to elect their representatives for AJK Legislative Assembly, the AJK Election Commission sources said. Strict security measures were adopted by local administrations in all the electoral constituencies to deal with any untoward incident effectively.

Over 700 polling stations were declared sensitive where extra para-military troops were deployed to assist the local police for dealing with any eventuality. The polling agents of various candidates and polling staff deployed at various polling stations while talking to APP expressed their complete satisfaction over the voting process.

Liberate Muzaffarabad first and not Srinagar By Dr.Shabir Ch (PHD)

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Liberate Muzaffarabad first and not Srinagar

Dr Shabir Choudhry 16 April 2011

It is an offence to support Indian cricket team in Pakistani Occupied Kashmir; and those who supported the Indian team in the recent World Cricket Cup, especially when they played Pakistani team in the semi finals were arr ested for this crime. Two stalwarts of National Awami Party from Dadyal, district Mirpur, namely Imran Shahzad and Naheem Iqbal Khawaja were arrested for supporting the Indian team.

Kashmiri nationalists are very angry over this, and people are expressing their anger against Pakistan and their oppressive policies. Secretary General of Kashmir National Party, Yasin Anjumm while commenting on this intolerable situation said: Liberate Muzaffarabad first and not Srinagar.

In the past some Kashmiri parties groomed and supported by Pakistani secret agencies gave this slogan and policy to the people of Pakistani side of Jammu and Kashmir that they should first liberate Srinagar. By implication it meant that only Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir is occupied (Pakistani side of Kashmir is free) and only that should be liberated.

This policy was not only illogical, but it was also given by those who occupy two regions of Jammu and Kashmir; and their aim was to divert attention away from their own crimes and use sentiments of people of Jammu and Kashmir to promote a proxy war. Net result of this erroneous and out of place policy was enormous damage to the Kashmiri struggle, and despite death of more than fifty thousands men, women and children, rapes, imprisonments, custodial deaths, misery and suffering of people we have not moved one inch forward.

Despite the above, Pakistani secret agencies and their agents in Pakistan and Kashmir still want to pursue the same redundant policy. They want to promote Kashmir as a religious dispute, and to them it could only be resolved by use of gun, even though its use has brought havoc to the people of Jammu and Kashmir; and nearly brought India and Pakistan to a full scale war.

Last week my first cousin Mohammed Iqbal Choudhry died in London. He was a successful businessman and a decent human being. His death is a big loss to us all. My other cousin who is a Public Prosecutor in London came to my house with her husband for condolences. Her husband, Choudhry Arshad Mehmood, is highly educated man with no interest in politics or

the Kashmiri struggle. But before he left he gave me a big surprise by asking me: brother when are we going to get independence from Pakistan?

I said to him before we reach that stage where a na tion can get independence we need to understand true nature of the Kashmir dispute, and develop our consciousness of being enslaved and occupied on both sides of the Line of Control. However, it is encouraging to note that more and more educated people are now realising that the Kashmir dispute was created by Pakistan; and it is the Pakistani establishment which is the biggest obstacle in the resolution of the Kashmir dispute.

I further said people of Jammu and Kashmir need to understand the game plan of the Pakistani ruling elite; and they need to know that this selfish and egocentric people have no love for people of Jammu and Kashmir. They want to use the Kashmir dispute to advance their own agenda; and divide people in name of religion, ethnicity and region.

Both my cousin and her husband said they have developed consciousness of being Kashmiris because of the attitude and discrimination of some Pakistani people. Now we realise that we are Kashmiris and in the recent census (in Britain), for the first time, we crossed Pakistan in the ethnicity column and put our ethnicity as Kashmiri.

To me this was a step forward. If this trend continues and people of Jammu and Kashmir understand the real situation and real culprits who have back stabbed our movement then they will start their struggle against injustice, oppression and occupation.

In this context I remember Baba Jaan a leader from Gilgit Baltistan who said to KNP delegation to that region: We are part of the Kashmir dispute, but all regions are occupied and we all have to struggle against those who occupy us. India is an occupier on that side and people are struggling against them. We have no problem from India on this side, so our struggle cannot be and should not be against India. Our struggle should be against the country which has its big boot on our neck. We dont want any lessons from anyone that we support this or that struggle, or adopt this ideology or that ideology; our first priority is to remove that big boot from neck that we can breathe.

What Baba Jaan said makes a lot of sense. What India is doing on that side is wrong, of course, there is a large army and human rights abuses taking place, but people are resisting the Indian rule and they get support from people of Jammu and Kashmir on this side, from Pakistan, from OIC and many other sources. Above all we DO NOT stop them to fight the Indian rule there. We dont urge them to stop fighting those who inflict pain and suffering

there; but unfortunately we people on the Pakistani side of Kashmir DO NOT get the same right to resist those who occupy us and plunder our resources and do injustice to us.

When oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir living on the Pakistani side of the divide raise their voices against the Pakistani occupation and injustice, even people of the Indian side of Kashmir criticise us, as they think the resistance should be against India only; and they want everyone to concentrate on the problems which they face.

That strategy is wrong and out of step with reality. This policy or strategy was designed by secret agencies of Pakistan and passed on to some Kashmiri organisations; and it is sad that these Kashmiri organisations might forget to follow Quran and Hadees but they very faithfully follow policies of the secret agencies of Pakistan, hence complicating the Kashmir dispute even further.

Pakistani Occupied Kashmir, known as Azad Kashmir or free Kashmir is a slave of ruling elite of Pakistan which has mortgaged national pride and sovereignty of their country to the Americans and some other countries for the sake of some material and political gains. Pakistani ruling elite has worked very hard to bring Pakistan to its present situation where the country is in chaos and no one seems to be safe and future of Pakistan as a nation state is very bleak

Despite very serious economic and political problems, raging civil war in various parts and uncertain future, Pakistani establishment ensured that their grip on Gilgit Baltistan and POK remains firm. They have Kashmiri collaborators and opportunists to help and further fortify the Pakistani rule in these regions.

They should know whether people of Jammu and Kashmir get two options or three options to determine their future, under the UN Resolutions, which Pakistan likes to talk about give people the right to join India and propagate in favour of that as well. Some people of the Indian side of Jammu and Kashmir openly speak in support of Pakistan, hoist Pakistani flag and burn the Indian flag and they are not arrested for that, however, they are severely punished for using violence to advance their agenda.

Corrupt and oppressive system which does not allow people to even support a cricket team could not be expected to let people to have equality and right of expression in their colony. They have not learnt from their past mistakes. It was the wrong and oppressive policy of Pakistani ruling elite which resulted in fall of Dhaka, independence of Bangladesh and

surrender of more than 90 thousand soldiers. It is wrong policy of the ruling elite which has forced people to pick up gun against them in Balochistan and other parts of Pakistan.

Surely it is their wrong policy which has turned people of Jammu and Kashmir against Pakistan and their oppressive and unjust rule; and if there is a plebiscite in near future vast majority will vote in favour of United and independent Jammu and Kashmir. It is because of this reason the Pakistani ruling elite want to ensure that the Kashmir dispute is not resolved, as it has become a bread and butter for some.

Writer is Head Diplomatic Committee of Kashmir National Party, political analyst and author of many books and booklets. Also he is Director Institute of Kashmir Affairs.Email: drshabirchoudhry@gmail.com

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS DISTRICT MIRPUR

DISTRICT MIRPUR AJK CONSIST OF 4 CONSTITUENCIES RANGING FROM LA-1 TO LA-4 CONSTITUENCY LA-1 (Dadyal) WINNER Afsar Shahid Ch Abdul Majeed Barrister Sultan Mahmood Ch Ch Arshad Hussain PARTY PPP VOTES OBTAINED 13,974 TOTAL VOTES 44,414

Comment [N1]: Total votes polled 28,76,871

LA-2 (Chakswari)

PPP

17,400

55,388

LA-3 (Mirpur City)

PPP

17,390

63,301

LA-4 (Khari Sharif)

PPP

18,528

65,240

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS DISTRICT BHIMBER

DISTRICT BHIMBER AJK CONSIST OF 3 CONSTITUENCIES RANGING FROM LA-5 TO LA-7 TOTAL VOTES 75,236 80,240 96,459 CONSTITUENCY LA-5 (Barnala) LA-6 (Samahani) LA-7 (Bhimber) WINNER Perviz Ashraf Ali Shaan Sooni CH Tariq Farooq PARTY PPP Independent PML (N) VOTES OBTAINED 18,801 -31,839

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS DISTRICT KOTLI

DISTRICT KOTLI AJK CONSIST OF 5 CONSTITUENCIES RANGING FROM LA-8 TO LA-12 TOTAL VOTES 94,031 CONSTITUENCY LA-8 (Kotli) WINNER Malik Muhammad Nawaz Javad Iqbal Badhwani Raja Naseer Ahmad Khan Ch Muhammad Yasin Muhammad Matloot Inqalabi PARTY MC VOTES OBTAINED 24,405

LA-9 (Nakyaal)

PPP

29,249

84,058

LA-10 (Sansaa)

PML (N)

25,321

97,993

LA-11 (Choorahi)

PPP

37,611

1,05,155

LA-12 (Khoiratta)

PPP

36,221

89,012

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS DISTRICT BAGH

DISTRICT BAGH AJK CONSIST OF 4 CONSTITUENCIES RANGING FROM LA-13 TO LA-16 TOTAL VOTES 90,177

CONSTITUENCY LA-13 (Dhee Kot)

WINNER Sardar Ateeq Ahmad Khan Sardar Qamar Ul Zaman Sardaar Meer Akbar Faisal Mumtaz Rathore

PARTY MC

VOTES OBTAINED 20,440

LA-14 (Wasti Bagh)

PPP

24,755

61,077

LA-15 (East Bagh) LA-16 (Haweeli Farward Kahoota)

MC Muhammad Deen Sheedaie

17,795

85,684

Ch Muhammad Aziz

87,737

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS DISTRICTS SUDHNOTI POONCH

DISTRICTS SUDHNOTI POONCH AJK CONSIST OF 6 CONSTITUENCIES RANGING FROM LA17 TO LA-22 TOTAL VOTES 65,443 48,684

CONSTITUENCY LA-17 (Abbasspur) LA-18 (Hijeera)

WINNER Amjid Yousaf Sardar Ghulam Sadiq Haji Muhammad Yaqoob

PARTY Yasin Gulssion PPP

VOTES OBTAINED Abdul Qayoom Niazi 18,652

LA-19 (Rawalakot)

PPP

27,655

1,00,951

LA-20 (PaChayoot/Thoraar)

Sayaab Khalid

MC

15,210

73,250

LA-21 (Palandari)

Muhammad Najeeb Naqi Sardar Akhtar Hussain Rabani

PML (N)

16,924

90,697

LA-22 (Balooch)

PPP

1340

84,695

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS DISTRICT NEELUM VALLEY

DISTRICT NEELUM VALLEY AJK CONSIST OF 1 CONSTITUENCY LA-23 TOTAL VOTES 87,404 CONSTITUENCY LA-23 (Neelam) WINNER Mian Abdul Waheed PARTY PPP VOTES OBTAINED 23,168

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS DISTRICT MUZAFFARABAD

DISTRICT MUZAFFARABAD AJK CONSIST OF 6 CONSTITUENCIES RANGING FROM LA-24 TO LA-29 TOTAL VOTES 68,215 59,047 56,626 88,637 86,482

CONSTITUENCY LA-24 (Kotla) LA-25 (Laachraat) LA-26 (Muzafarabad) LA-27 (Khaawara) LA-28 (Chakaar) LA-29 (Hattian Bala / Leepa)

WINNER Sardar Javaid Ayoub Syed Bazil Naqvi Raja M Farooq Haider CH Latif Akbar Raja M Farooq Haider

PARTY PPP PPP PML (N) PPP PML(N)

VOTES OBTAINED 14,698 -13,362 22,936 24,909

Ch Rasheed

PPP

25,201

80,231

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS JAMMU OTHERS

JAMMU VALLEY OTHERS AJK CONSIST OF 6 CONSTITUENCIES RANGING FROM LA-30 TO LA-35 TOTAL VOTES 67,157

CONSTITUENCY LA-30 (Jammu 1 Karachi) LA-31 (Jammu 2 Gujranwala) LA-32 (Jammu 3 Sialkot) LA-33 (Jammu 4 Narowaal) LA-34 (Jammu 5 Gujrat) LA-35 (Jammu 6 Rawalpindi)

WINNER Election Postponed

PARTY --

VOTES OBTAINED --

Ch Ismaeel

PML (N)

31,480

1,41,291

Ch Muhammad Ishaaq PMN (N)

24,590

1,28,225

Chaudhary Muhammad Hussain Muhammad Akber Chaudhary Raja Muhammad Siddique

Independent

15,115

1,07,610

Independent

17,705

69,190

PML (N)

1,475

57,007

AJK ELECTION 2011 RESULTS KASHMIR VALLEY

KASHMIR VALLEY AJK CONSIST OF 6 CONSTITUENCIES RANGING FROM LA-36 TO LA-41 TOTAL VOTES 6,247 CONSTITUENCY LA-36 (Valley 1 Karachi) LA-37 (Valley 2 Lahore) LA-38 (Valley 3 Jhelum) LA-39 (Valley 4 WINNER Election Postponed PARTY -VOTES OBTAINED --

Election Postponed

--

--

7,221

Sayed Shokat Ali Shah

PML(N)

1,228

4,838

Azhar Hussain Gillani

PPP

1,397

6,855

Rawalpindi) LA-40 (Valley 5 Islamabad / Muree) LA-41 (Valley 6 Pishwar/Mansera)

Abdul Salam Butt

PPP

1,800

8,942

Election Postponed

--

--

6,724

Party Wise Position Election 2011

Parties Wise Result
S# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Party Name Muslim Conference Pakistan Peoples Party Pakistan Muslim League (N) Muttahida Quami Movement Party Symbol Horse Arrow Tiger Kite Lantern Rose Boat 2 Seats Obtained 5 20 10 -

Jammu Kashmir Liberation League

Islamic Democratic Party National Democratic Alliance Independent

Final Result of General Election 2011

| Print | Successful Runner Up Votes 14112 Name Party Votes

Constituency
LA-1 (MIRPUR-1)

Name

Party

Muhammad PPP Afsar Shahid Ch. Abdul Majeed Sultan Mehmood Chaudhary Ch. Arshid Hussain Ch. Pervaz Ashraf PPP

Ch. Masood Independent12875 Adovcate Sarfraz Khan PML(N) 11014

LA-2 (MIRPUR-2)

18627

LA-3 (MIRPUR-3)

PPP

18098 Ch. Ashraf MC

16260

LA-4 (MIRPUR-4)

PPP

18802

Mrs. Avina Independent17751 Rukhsar M. Shafique MC Jarral 15556

LA-5 (BHIMBER-1) LA-6 (BHIMBER-2) LA-7 (BHIMBER-3)

PPP

19142

Ch. Tariq Farooq

PML(N)

32520

Ch. AnwarPPP ul-Haq

26509

LA-8 (KOTLI-1)

Malik Muhammad MC Nawaz Khan Javid Iqbal Budhanvi

Malik 24405 MuhammadPPP yousaf Sardar M, 29554 Farooq Khan

19966

LA-9 (KOTLI-2)

PPP

PML(N)

20198

LA-10 (KOTLI-3)

Raja Naseer PML(N) Ahmed Khan Ch. Muhammad PPP Yaseen Muhammad PPP Matloob Inqlabi

Sardar M. 25541 Bashir PPP Pehlwan Raja M. Iqbal

24431

LA-11 (KOTLI-4)

45782

PML(N)

15196

LA-12 (KOTLI-5)

Raja Nisar 38316 Ahmed PML(N) Khan 21026 MuhammadJamat-elatif

21033

LA-13 (BAGH-1)

Sardar Attique

MC

16644

Ahmed Khan
Sardar Qamar-uzPPP Zaman Khan

Khaleeq Col (r) M. 25132 Naseem Khan

Islami

LA-14 (BAGH-2)

Independent13156

LA-15 (BAGH-3) LA-16 (BAGH-4) LA-17 (SUNDHNOTI & POONCH-1) Sardar LA-18 (SUNDHNOTI & POONCH-2)Ghulam Sadiq PPP Khan Sardar LA-19 (SUNDHNOTI & POONCH-3) Muhammad PPP Yaqoob Khan LA-20 (SUNDHNOTI & POONCH-4) Siab Khalid MC Sardar Khan 18945 Bhahadur Pml(N) Khan Sardar 27906 Khalid Ibrahim 14450

16882

JKPP

17600

Muhammad JKPP Iqbal

13431

Muhammad LA-21 (SUNDHNOTI & POONCH-5) PML(N) Najeeb Naqi

Sardar Muhammad 17278 PPP Hussain Khan Sardar Farooq 21851 Ahmed Tahir Shah 23581 Ghulam Qadir 14891

17065

AkhtarHussain LA-22 (SUNDHNOTI & POONCH-6) PPP Rabani

MC

21467

LA-23 (NEELUM-1)

Abdul Waheed Sardar M. Javid

PPP

PMl(N)

20640

LA-24 (MUZAFFARABAD-1)

PPP

Mrs. PML(N) Noreen Arif

11880

LA-25 (MUZAFFARABAD-2)

Syed Bazil Ali PPP Naqvi Raja Muhammad PML(N) Farooq Haider Khan Chaudhary PPP

13701

Ch. Shehzad Independent9814 Mehmood

LA-26 (MUZAFFARABAD-3)

13590

Khawaja Farooq

PPP

12067

LA-27 (MUZAFFARABAD-4)

23675 Raja Abdul PML(N) Qayyum

16132

Latif Akber Raja Muhammad PML(N) Farooq Haider Khan Chaudhary Muhammad PPP Rashid

Khan Muhammad 25293 Ashfaq PPP Zafar

LA-28 (MUZAFFARABAD-5)

24562

LA-29 (MUZAFFARABAD-6)

25463

Dewan Ali MC Chughtai

16560

LA-30 (JAMMU & OTHERS-1) Ch. Muhammad PML(N) Ismaeel Muhammad PML(N) Ishaq Maqbool Ahmed

LA-31 (JAMMU & OTHERS-2)

26882

PPP

13241

LA-32 (JAMMU & OTHERS-3)

24590

Ch. Shoukat PPP Ali

18213

LA-33 (JAMMU & OTHERS-4)

Chaudhary Miam Muhammad Independent15182 MuhammadPML(N) Hussain Rashid Muhammad Javed Independent15904 Akber Akhtar Chaudhary Raja Muhammad PML(N) Saddique

14571

LA-34 (JAMMU & OTHERS-5)

PML(N)

14998

LA-35 (JAMMU & OTHERS-6)

17478

M. Ameen PPP Chughtai

8315

LA-36 (KASHMIR VALLEY-1) LA-37 (KASHMIR VALLEY-2) Syed Shoukat PML(N) Ali Shah Azhar Hussain PPP Gillani Abdul Salam PPP Butt S. 1228 MuhammadPPP Shah 1397 Alhaj Zaffar PML(N) Ali Magri Bashir Ahmed PML(N)

LA-38 (KASHMIR VALLEY-3)

722

LA-39 (KASHMIR VALLEY-4)

406

LA-40 (KASHMIR VALLEY-5) LA-41 (KASHMIR VALLEY-6)

1800

1274

AJK elections: What does it signify? By Malik Muhammad Ashraf | Published: June 30, 2011 In the just concluded elections for the ninth legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has achieved a simple majority by winning 21 seats out of 41 directly electable slots. It might add to its tally of seats when elections are held in the three constituencies where they have been proposed due to security reasons as well as for five special seats reserved for women and one each for ulemas, technocrats and overseas Pakistanis. Ostensibly, the party is in a commanding position to form the next government on its own, but there are indications that it might prefer to opt for a coalition government with the Muslim Conference that has won four seats in conformity with its policy of reconciliation. However, the losing political parties have kept up the tradition of not accepting the elections results openheartedly and have accused the winning party of rigging the polls. Unfortunately, violence and rigging have invariably remained the hallmark of elections in Pakistan. Thus, we saw the same happen during the AJK elections. But to generalise the phenomenon on the basis of individual and sporadic incidents is certainly not fair. The June 26 elections are significant because for the first time the PML-N, which has usually supported the Muslim Conference fell out with it because of its alliance with Musharraf, directly participated in the elections and won eight seats. The presence of PPP and PML-N - the two main political parties of Pakistan - in AJK, indeed, is a healthy development; it will definitely help strengthen democracy in the territory. Also, the AJK elections were a litmus test for the popularity of the two major political parties and meant a lot to them. Several analysts believe that these elections will determine the pattern of general elections in Pakistan, which are due within two years.

SHC issues notice to AG in AJK election case KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday issued notice for July 4, 2011 to Advocate General (AG) Sindh on petition of Muttahida Qaumi Movement against postponement of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK) elections for two seats in Karachi. A division bench, comprising Justice Muhammad Athar Saeed and Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, also directed Assistant Advocate General (AAG) Sindh to seek i nstructions from Sindh government till next date of hearing. Former legislator Saleem Butt and Tahir Khokhar approached the SHC against postponement of AJK elections scheduled on June 26, 2011 for LA-30 and LA-36 constituencies in Karachi. They impleaded AJK Chief Election Commissioner, federal and provincial governments and IG Police Sindh as respondents. Petitioners counsel Dr Farogh Naseem prayed to declare report of DIG headquarters annulled on the basis of which election was postponed, alleging it was prepared behind back of candidates and with a mala fide intention to seek postponement of elections. He stated there was no threat to peace, law and order as Sindh chief minister, only two days prior to this alleged concocted report while making speech at floor of Sindh Assembly quoting figures, categorically stated law and order in Sindh had improved. On Friday, AG Sindh Abdul Fattah Malik appeared and waived notice of petition. AAG submitted report of Additional IG (AIG) Special Branch dated June 23, 2011, who wrote to AJK Election Commission that conspiracy was hatched to assassinate two Returning Officers Tanveer Zakir and Najeeb Baloch who were appointed to conduct election of AJK Legislative Assembly for LA-30 and LA-36 constituencies in Karachi. AIG recommended that election scheduled for June 26, 2011 in Karachi be postponed to avert law, order situation. ppi