Bilawal announces PPP candidates for AJK elections
Candidate list was issued a day after last week's PPP Parliamentary Board of AJK completed consultations
May 24, 2021
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Monday unveiled his party candidates for the upcoming Azad Jammu & Kashmir General Elections 2021.
The candidates that will contest the AJK elections on a PPP ticket are as follows:
| Constituency | Candidate |
| LA-1 (Mirpur-I) | Muhammad Afsar Shahid |
| LA-2 (Mirpur-II) | Chaudhry Abdul Majeed |
| LA-3 (Mirpur-III) | Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf |
| LA-5 (Bhimbher-I) | Chaudhry Pervaiz Ashraf |
| LA-7 (Bhimbher-III) | Anees Ahmed Kashmiri |
| LA-8 (Kotli-I) | Muhammad Aftab Anjum |
| LA-9 (Kotli-II) | Javed Iqbal Budhanvi |
| LA-11 (Kotli-IV) | Sardar Muhammad Bashir Pehalwan |
| LA-13 (Kotli-VI) | Muhammad Waleed Inqalabi |
| LA-14 (Bagh-I) | Raja Khawar Qayyum Advocate |
| LA-15 (Bagh-II) | Sardar Zia Ul Qamar |
| LA-16 (Bagh-III) | Sardar Qamar Zaman |
| LA-17 (Bagh-IV) | Faisal Mumtaz Rathore |
| LA-18 (Sudhnoti & Poonch-I) | Sardar Amjad Yousif Khan |
| LA-19 (Sudhnoti & Poonch-II) | Sardar Saud Bin Sadiq |
| LA-23 (Sudhnoti & Poonch-VI) | Sardar Muhammad Raees Khan |
| LA-24 (Sudhnoti & Poonch-VII) | Sardar Inayat Ullah Arif |
| LA-27 (Muzaffarabad-I) | Sardar Muhammad Javed Ayub |
| LA-28 (Muzaffarabad-II) | Syed Bazil Ali Naqvi |
| LA-29 (Muzaffarabad-III) | Sardar Mubarak Haider |
| LA-30 (Muzaffarabad-IV) | Mubashir Munir Awan |
| LA-31 (Muzaffarabad-V) | Chaudhry Latif Akbar |
| LA-32 (Muzaffarabad-VI) | Sahibzada Muhammad Ishfaq Zaffar |
| LA-33 (Muzaffarabad-VII) | Sahibzada Muhammad Imtiaz Zaffar |
| LA-35 (Jammu-II) | Muhammad Iqbal Mujaddadi |
| LA-36 (Jammu-III) | Chaudhry Shoukat Wazir Ali |
| LA-39 (Jammu-VI) | Chaudhry Fakhar Zaman Gulpera |
| LA-40 (Kashmir Valley-I) | Amir Abdul Ghaffar Lone |
| LA-42 (Kashmir Valley-III) | Hafeez Ahmed Butt |
| LA-43 (Kashmir Valley-IV) | Azhar Gillani |
| LA-44 (Kashmir Valley-V) | Rashid Salam Butt |
The candidate list was issued after last week's PPP Parliamentary Board of AJK completed consultations regarding the elections and submitted a report to the PPP chairman.
The meeting of the board was held at the Zardari House, Islamabad, and was chaired by Faryal Talpur, central president of the PPP Women's Wing, and other senior leaders.
The general elections in AJK are due to take place in June or July this year. However, the exact date for the polls is yet to be announced by the region's election commission.
