MUZAFFARABAD:Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan Saturday cast his vote at his native polling station in Banguin village of Poonch district, some 60 kilometers southeast of here in the second phase of the region’s local government’s elections.
After casting the vote, the AJK PM witnessed the polling process and inquired about the well-being of the polling staff.
“The political leadership of the opposition will have to accept the bitter reality that they did not favor to the people by creating hurdles in the way of local government elections,” the AJK PM said, adding that for three decades people were “denied and deprived of the basic democratic right to elect the representatives of their choice”.
The AJK PM also expressed satisfaction over the peaceful conduct of polling and expressed optimism that the third phase of LG elections would also be held peacefully in the Mirpur division.