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PPP wants to manipulate AJK politics, says Mushahid

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed has criticised the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) regime for its ‘political manipulation’ in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and said the government is trying to control AJK politics.

In a statement issued on Sunday, Mushahid alleged that the PPP regime had been instrumental in removing two prime ministers in Azad Kashmir, belying its tall claims of being a proponent of democratic values. In its quest for total power, the PPP regime in Islamabad was seeking to control AJK, he said.

He alleged that the government was also involved in the “horse trading” of elected members of the AJK Assembly to build an “artificial majority”.

He said that such manipulation and underhanded tactics would weaken and undermine Pakistan’s case on Kashmir and the world would then perceive AJK as a pawn of the government in Islamabad rather than what Indian-held Kashmir should be like. Mushahid urged the PPP regime not to have double standards over the issue. If the PPP expected others to respect its mandate, it too should respect the government’s mandate in AJK, he added.

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