PPP ticket picks trigger legal challenge, fresh controversy

MUZAFFARABAD: The PPP’s selection of candidates for the forthcoming Azad Jam­mu and Kashmir (AJK) elections ran into controversy on Friday as the opposition announced plans to seek contempt proceedings over one nominee’s disputed State Subject status, while the ruling party also reversed its decisions on candidates in two other constituencies. The legal challenge was announced by Syed Shoukat Ali Shah, the PML-N candidate for LA-42 (Kashmir Valley-III), who said he would move the AJK Supreme...

By [email protected] (Tariq Naqash)