MIRPUR (AJK), July 28 (APP): All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference chief Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan will sworn in as the new Prime Minister (PM) of AJK, in a oath taking ceremony to be administered by the State President Raja Zulqarnain Khan, at Muzaffarabad secretariate on July 29 (Thursday), official sources told APP on Wednesday.However, before that, Sardar Attique would be required to take vote of confidence from the AJK Legislative Assembly which would meet on the same day.
It is pertinent to mention that Attique is the only candidate emerged for the top slot of leader of the house, as no one has filed the nomination papers for the highest office by the stipulated time (6:00pm Tuesday). Attique will take the oath of his office as the fourth Prime Minister of the incumbent Muslim-Conference led-AJK government soon after taking the vote of confidence in the house.
It will be the second term of Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan as the Prime Minister of AJK in the five-year constitutional term of the incumbent regime.
Earlier he held the office (Prime Minister) till January 6 last year when he was removed from the office as a result of a no-confidence motion moved by the forward bloc comprising some rebels emerged from within the ranks of his party and was replaced by Sardar Yaqoob Ahmed Khan.
Sardar Yaqoob later also suffered the same fate after few months and lost the office as a result of the no-confidence motion landed against his government by certain dissident MLAs from the same party.
At last Raja Farooq Haider also had to face the same threat of vote of no confidence on the part of his own Muslim Conference with the support of the like-minded law makers from amongst the opposition PPP AJK, PML and MQM.
