MUZAFFARABAD: Sardar Tanveer Ilyas, regional president of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) chapter of PTI, has convened a meeting of the party’s governing body on Friday in connection with March 27 power show on the call of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

According to a press release issued on Thursday, invitation for the meeting, being held at Mr Ilyas’ residence in the federal capital, was also extended to the parliamentary party members, including AJK prime minister and ministers, party ticket holders as well as office bearers of PTI’s affiliates.

The meeting would discuss arrangements and other allied issues with regard to participation from AJK, the press release said.

Only two days ago, AJK premier Sardar Abdul Qayyum Niazi had constituted three divisional committees “in consultation with the cabinet, Legislative Assembly and AJK Council members as well as party ticket holders to ensure maximum participation of Kashmiris in the March 27 gathering.”

Additionally, Mr Niazi had also established a ‘coordination and mobilisation cell’ to establish liaison with the committees regarding arrangements for mobilisation of the masses from AJK territory as well as the Pakistan based Kashmiri refugees for the March 27 public meeting at Parade Ground, Islamabad.

According to a press release issued on Tuesday, the committees in Muzaffarabad, Poonch and Mirpur division was respectively headed by minister for local government and rural development Khawaja Farooq Ahmed, minister for population welfare Sardar Muhammad Hussain and party’s regional senior vice president Chaudhry Zafar Anwar.

Published in Dawn, March 25th, 2022