The Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah met with Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed on Thursday and assured the latter of his party’s backing in face of the no-trust motion submitted against him in the AJK Legislative Assembly secretariat.
The meeting took place in Islamabad and primarily discussed the no-confidence motion against Majeed by two ruling PP AJK dissidents.
The resolution was submitted on July 22 by the Minister for Rehabilitation Abdul Majid Khan and MLA Mohammad Hussain Sargala and enjoys the support of 17-18 members of the ruling coalition in addition to the entire opposition. Moreover, they have proposed the name of Barrister Sultan Mahmood as successor to the ‘incumbent’ Majeed.
10 cabinet members faxed their resignations to the AJK premier on Monday, the day the resolution was submitted in the assembly’s secretariat.
PP AJK’s Majeed was sworn in as the 11th premier of AJK in 2011.
He was born in 1948 in the Mirpur district’s Tangdev village and is a 1969 law graduate from Karachi’s S M Law College.
