MUZAFFARABAD: The no-trust motion brought against Azad Jammu & Kashmir Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed failed when not one member present in the Legislative Assembly on Saturday voted in its favour.
The motion had been submitted by two ruling Peoples Party (PPAJK) dissidents — Abdul Majid Khan and Muhammad Hussain Sargala — on July 22. However, assembly secretariat sources told Dawn on Friday that they had also received, by fax, an application from the two MLAs for withdrawal of the no-confidence resolution.
The resolution was tabled during Saturday's session of the Legislative Assembly which had been summoned by the president for 10am.
Thirty MLAs were present during the session, none of whom voted in favour of the motion. The resolution stood rejected as a result.
Chaudhry Abdul Majeed of PPP’s AJK chapter was sworn in as the 11th prime minister of Azad Kashmir in 2011.
He was born in 1948 in the Tangdev village of AJK’s Mirpur district and is a 1969 law graduate from Karachi’s S. M. Law College.
In case the resolution had been passed by a majority of the total membership of the assembly (currently 48), the person named in the motion as the successor — in this case Barrister Sultan Mahmood — would have assumed the office of prime minister, replacing Majeed.
