March 23, 2016
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PML-N won’t make electoral alliances in AJK: Sikandar
By Sheraz Rathore
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan, former Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister and senior vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Azad Jammu and Kashmir (PML-N AJK), has said that his party will not make any alliances or seat adjustment with any political party, including Muslim Conference, for the upcoming general election.
Talking to Daily Times, Khan said that an alliance with Muslim Conference would mean mixing water in milk. “If we have to become partners with Muslim Conference, then why we founded the PML-N in Kashmir? We cannot ask our workers to vote for the candidates of any other party,” he said.
He said that he told Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif clearly that the PML-N did not need to make any alliance with any political party in AJK because it had become a strong party and people in large numbers were joining it.
“If Sardar Ateeq is fond of making an alliance with the PML-N, he should quit Muslim Conference and join the PML-N,” he said. He said that Pakistan People’s Party Azad Jammu and Kashmir or Jamaat-e-Islami wanted to help the PML-N and they would be included in the government after elections. “If Sardar Khalid Ibrahim and Rashid Turabi will help us, we will take them to the assembly through special seats,” he said.
Replying to a question, he said the PPP government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir had crossed all limits of corruption.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk