Following the submission of no-confidence motions by the Centre, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), a no-confidence motion has now been submitted against Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi.
The motion, submitted on Tuesday by the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Tanveer Ilyas group, has the signatures of 25 members of the AJK Legislative Assembly.
Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, a senior minister, has been nominated as a candidate for the position of prime minister.
In response, the PPP AJK stated that it, along with the PML-N, will file its own no-confidence motion against Abdul Qayyum Niazi.
PPP AJI Central Deputy Information Secretary Shaukat Javed Mir stated that the PTI has expressed dissatisfaction with its own government. “We will get rid of this rigged government that was imposed on us,” he added.
Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi was sworn in as Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s 13th prime minister in August 2021.
Mr. Niazi was born in Darra Sher Khan, a village in the Battal sector, to food inspector Fazal Dad and his three wives. At the age of 23, he ran for his first election and became the Poonch district’s youngest district councilor.
His family had ties to the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (MC), the state’s long-ruling party. Niazi ran as an independent candidate in the first assembly election in 2001 after the MC gave its ticket to someone else. He was unable to succeed at the time, but five years later he was elected on an MC ticket from the same constituency and held ministerial berths in the Sardar Attique-led government.
