1996 Azad Kashmiri general election

none 1991 Azad Kashmiri general election 1991 30 June 1996 2001 Azad Kashmiri general election 2001 1996 Azad Kashmir general election Parliamentary No Pakistan Peoples Party 37 All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference 9 Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry Bagh-I Mirpur-III All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference Pakistan Peoples Party Prime Minister All 48 seats in the Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly 105x105px 105x105px Azad KashmirGeneral elections were held in Azad Kashmir on 30 June 1996 to elect the members of sixth assembly of Azad Kashmir.http://ajkassembly.gok.pk/parliamentary_history.htm Azad Jammu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly 2017-12-23 2017-12-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20171230151831/http://www.ajkassembly.gok.pk/parliamentary_history.htm dead The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) won the election, defeating the incumbent All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (AJKMC) government of Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan, who was succeeded as Prime Minister by Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry.Sharma Surinder Kumar Pakistan occupied Kashmir: politics, parties and personalities Hassan Yaqoob ul Behuria Ashok K. 2019 Pentagon Press LLP Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses 978-93-86618-67-2 New DelhiSulehria Farooq 2016-09-07 Provincialising AJK https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/148366-Provincialising-AJK 2025-08-31 The News International en Results After the election to reserved seats, the PPP had won 37 of the 48 available seats, while the AJKMC won only nine. The Pakistan Muslim League (J) (PML-J), a PPP ally, and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) both also won a seat each. Aftermath The PPP easily formed government, electing Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry as the Prime Minister, and Muhammad Ibrahim Khan as the President. On 30 July, the PPP also elected Raja Mumtaz Hussain Rathore and Raja Israr Ahmed Abbasi as the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, respectively. On 5 November 1996, Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan was appointed as the Leader of the Opposition."Former Speakers Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir" https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050849/http://www.ajkassembly.gok.pk/former_speaker.htm 4 March 2016. Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu & Kashmir website. Retrieved 21 July 2018Former Deputy Speakers Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir https://ajkassembly.gok.pk/former-deputy-speakers-legislative-assembly-of-azad-jammu-and-kashmir/ 2025-08-29 AJK Legislative Assembly en-USFormer Leaders of Opposition Legislative Assembly ofAzad Jammu and Kashmir https://ajkassembly.gok.pk/former-leaders-of-opposition-legislative-assembly-ofazad-jammu-and-kashmir/ 2025-08-31 AJK Legislative Assembly en-US References Category:Elections in Azad Kashmir Category:1996 elections in Pakistan