MUZAFFARABAD (Kashmir English): The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday formally submitted a request to the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly Speaker’s Chamber for the appointment of MLA Shah Ghulam Qadir as the Leader of the Opposition.
Former Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir and PML-N Azad Kashmir Parliamentary Party Leader, Raja Farooq Haider Khan, submitted the signatures of nine party members of the assembly to appoint Shah Ghulam Qadir as opposition leader in the Legislative Assembly.
The members who signed the letter include Raja Farooq Haider Khan, Col Waqar Noor, Raja Muhammad Siddique Khan, Ahmed Raza Qadri, Chaudhry Muhammad Ismail, Sardar Amir Altaf, Muhammad Akmal Sargala, Nisaran Abbasi, and Shah Ghulam Qadir.
President of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, Sardar Attique Ahmed, also announced to support PML-N’s candidate for the opposition leader and wrote a letter to the Speaker AJK Legislative Assembly for Shah Ghulam Qadir’s nomination.
Earlier on Sunday, PML-N’s central leadership announced the nomination of Shah Ghulam Qadir as Leader of the Opposition.
The development comes weeks after the AJK Assembly elected PPP leader Faisal Mumtaz Rathore as the new Prime Minister after ousting former premier Anwarul-Haq through a no-confidence motion.
On November 18, newly elected Prime Minister Rathore took the oath of office during a ceremony held at the President’s House in Muzaffarabad.
The oath was administered by Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar and attended by the Governors of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, PPP leader Faryal Talpur, lawmakers, and senior civil and military officials.
