Azad Kashmir Supreme Court orders summoning of separate assembly session for election of new PM.

MUZAFFARABAD -- Azad Kashmir Supreme Court has ordered summoning of the separate session of the AJK Legislative Assembly in 14 days for the election of the new leader of the house on Saturday. The court delivered judgment on the appeal field by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf against the Azad Kashmir High Court to suspend the proceedings of the AJK legislative assembly conducted by Speaker Chaudhry Anwarul Haq on Friday. The court has directed President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry to summon the legislative assembly session and speaker should issue the schedule and hold voting for new prime minister position. The court said that president could summon the new session after half an hour.

Pakistan People's Party leaders Chaudhry Latif Akbar and Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin had approached the high court to suspend the proceedings of the assembly conducted by speaker after the resignation of prime minister AJK Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi.

The speaker wanted to elect the new leader of the house during the current assembly session; however the PPP objected this move and approached the high court for stopping the process of the election of the new prime minister. The high court on Friday suspended the proceedings conducted by speaker and restrained the...