LAHORE — Former Azad Kashmir prime minister Barrister Sultan Mehmud Chaudhry demanded yesterday fresh elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir as the present government was the product of what he called rigged polls.
At a news conference at the Lahore Press Club, he said the government in the Indian-administered Kashmir was also the product of rigged elections and thus the situation on the both sides of the Line of Control was similar.
Barrister Sultan advised Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani not to visit and address the AJK Legislative Assembly today.
He said since the assembly had not come into being as a result of free and fair elections, there was no justification for Gilani to address it.
He said free and fair elections should be held to bring to power a government that was genuinely representative of the people. For free and fail polls, he said, September was the ideal time. He said observers from European countries should also be invited to monitor the polls. About the solution of the Kashmir dispute, he said tripartite talks should be held to find a solution.
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