Like GB, PTI to also win AJK polls: Fawad

ABBOTTABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Saturday said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would win the AJK Legislative Assembly elections and people would reject the looters of the national wealth.

“Like Gilgit-Baltistan, we will also win the AJK elections as both the political novices - Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Maryam Safdar- had campaigned for their respective party candidates in the GB,” he told a gathering here.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) could not find candidates in many constituencies in AJK, Fawad Chaudhry went on to claim.

“Both the parties, in fact, have no political culture as they are being run by two royal families,” he said, adding, the Maharani and the Maharaja had no respect for their party leaders and even treated their parties’ former prime ministers like slaves.

He said both Bilawal and Maryam knew nothing about the relationship of Pakistanis and Kashmiris as evident from their speeches.

He recalled that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the special guest at the marriage ceremony of Maryam Safdar.

He said Bilawal did not know that Pakistan had fought three wars with India in the Kashmir dispute.

“Pakistanis and Kashmiris are one nation and no one can separate them,” he added.

There was no graveyard in Jhelum, Abbottabad and Mansehra where the army personnel martyred at the Line of Control were not buried, he maintained.

When the Federal Government came to know that an Indian firm had secured rights of live coverage of Pakistan team cricket matches, he said, it immediately revoked the same representing the sentiments of the nation.

The government decided that no business would be done with any Indian entity, he added.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani, Member National Assembly Ali Khan Jadoon, KP Minister for Revenue Qalandar Lodhi and PTI candidate for LA-45 Abdul Majid Khan also addressed the gathering.