The PPP on Friday put forward the name of Faisal Rathore as their nominee for the position of the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), its AJK party president said.
PPP AJK President Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin, while speaking to the media today, along with PPP leader Raja Pervez Ashraf, said, “Our chairman has decided… that Faisal Rathore, who is the General Secretary of our party in AJK, will be nominated for the position of PM.”
He detailed that “we are going to table the vote of no confidence today, so god willing, in the next few days, PPP will have its government in AJK.”
“Faisal Rathore is an educated young man; he has a lot of experience and has been part of the assembly before,” Raja Pervez said.
On October 28, sources had told Dawn that the names of Chaudhry Latif Akbar, Chaudhry Yasin, Rathore and Sardar Yaqub were under consideration for the top slot.
Under the AJK Constitution, the movers of a no-confidence resolution are required to name a successor to the sitting prime minister. The no-trust motion will be submitted soon after the PPP finalises its candidate.
More to follow.
