Elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on July 25

ISLAMABAD

Election authorities in Pakistan-administered Kashmir announced on Thursday that state assembly elections can be held on July 25.

Chief Election Commissioner Abdul Rashid Sulehria advised newshounds in the capital Muzaffarabad that candidates for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative meeting can post their nomination papers till June 21.

"Over 3.2 million eligible voters will solid their votes to opt for 45 members," he said, adding that 12 seats are for Kashmiri refugees in quite a lot of ingredients of Pakistan. The variety of seats has been accelerated from forty one in 2016 to forty five.

The 2016 polls were won by means of the then ruling birthday party in Pakistan, Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N). It clinched 31 seats and shaped the govt. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the birthday party at present in vigour in Islamabad, received two seats only.

traditionally, the party ruling Islamabad receives a majority of seats in Azad Kashmir.

final November, the PTI received the elections within the northern Gilgit-Baltistan location, which become in the past dominated by using the PML-N and Pakistan people's birthday party during their federal tenures in 2009 and 2015, respectively.

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