The election commission of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has issued a bailable arrest warrant for PTI’s Ali Amin Gandapur for violating the electoral watchdog’s code of conduct during the region’s 2021 polls.

The development comes two days after he was nominated for the role of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s chief minister by his party.

The letter for the arrest warrant was issued to the Dera Ismail Khan deputy commissioner, with directives to present Gandapur before the AJK election commission by February 28.

During the 2021 elections, Gandapur was the federal minister for Kash­mir affairs and had also faced a ban on his participation and speeches in election-related events there while he campaigned for the PTI.

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