Rathore becomes 16th AJK PM and fourth of current assembly
\nMUZAFFARABAD
\nPakistan Peoples Party\u2019s (PPP) Raja Faisal Rathore was sworn in as the new prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, a day after securing the assembly\u2019s vote to replace the ousted Anwarul Haq.
\nRathore was administered the oath by AJK Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Lateef Akbar during a ceremony in Muzaffarabad, which was attended by Gilgit Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governors.
\nMoreover, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, senior party leader Faryal Talpur and other civil-military officials were also present at the oath-taking ceremony,
\nAfter being sworn in, the newly elected AJK PM thanked the PPP\u2019s top leadership, including President Asif Ali Zardari and Talpur, for entrusting him with the premier responsibility.
\n\u201cI pay tribute to the Pakistan Army, who are defending us by sacrificing their lives,\u201d Rathore said in his speech. He further said that the PPP has taken the responsibility of restoring the relationship with the people.
\n\u2018AJK\u2019s unmatched political awareness\u2019
\nSpeaking on the occasion, PPP Chairman Bilawal congratulated the people of AJK, declaring that politics in the region had finally been restored.
\nBilawal praised the \u201cunmatched political awareness\u201d of Kashmiris. He said newly sworn\u2011in AJK PM Rathore had witnessed the people\u2019s protests firsthand and now carried their trust.
\n\u201cThe promises Faisal Rathore made to you are a trust placed with me,\u201d he said, adding that the new prime minister must now resolve the public\u2019s issues. \u201cYou must fulfil the commitments you made to the people,\u201d he urged Rathore. Bilawal said that when representatives fail to represent their people, citizens are forced to struggle themselves. \u201cNow in Muzaffarabad, your representative is Faisal Rathore,\u201d he told the crowd. He vowed that the AJK government would not be run \u201cfrom behind closed doors\u201d.
\nTurning to India, Bilawal said that Pakistan\u2019s \u201cstandard\u201d after the war with India was clear for all to see. He alleged that India was \u201chiding its face from the world\u201d, and that international forums had seen New Delhi withdraw from scrutiny over the Pahalgam incident in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rathore becomes 16th AJK PM and fourth of current assembly MUZAFFARABAD Pakistan Peoples Party\u2019s (PPP) Raja Faisal Rathore was sworn in as the new prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, a day after securing the assembly\u2019s vote to replace the ousted Anwarul Haq. Rathore was administered the oath by AJK Assembly Speaker …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89819,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89797\/revisions\/89819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}