AJK PM Tanveer disqualified for contempt of court

MUZAFFARABAD    –    The complete court docket bench of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Excessive Court docket on Tuesday disqualified Prime Minister Sardar Tan­veer Ilyas from be­ing a member of the legislative as­sembly for contempt of court docket.

On Monday final, the AJK Supreme Court docket and Excessive Court docket had separate­ly summoned Ilyas on Tuesday to clarify his place with regard to his derogatory remarks concerning the superior judiciary in his speech­es at public conferences.

At a perform in Islamabad over the weekend, Ilyas had in­straight blamed the judiciary for affecting the functioning of his authorities and interfering within the area of the chief by way of the grant of keep orders.

The AJK premier had claimed {that a} multi-million Saudi-fund­ed schooling challenge was incom­plete as a consequence of a court docket order. He additionally spoke in opposition to the court docket or­ders to reopen tobacco factories that had been concerned in tax evasion value billions. On Tuesday, Jus­tice Chaudhry Khalid Rasheed learn out the judgement of the AJK Excessive Court docket full bench, sentenc­ing the AJK premier until the ris­ing of the court docket. After the decision was introduced, Ilyas — who was supposed to seem earlier than the AJK apex court docket drove straight to the Prime Minister’s Home together with members of his cupboard.

Producing the clipping of the premier’s speech in its order, the AJK court docket stated that the mat­ter was mentioned in a gathering of the judges’ council in view of its seriousness and it was unan­imously determined it couldn’t be ignored as a result of the dignity and authority of the courts was on stake and no one may very well be allowed to undermine it.

With the PM’s disqualifica­tion, the complete AJK cupboard now stands dissolved. The transfer comes amid heightened polit­ical tensions throughout Pakistan because of the disaster regarding elec­tions in Punjab and Khyber-Pa­khtunkhwa after assemblies in each provinces had been dissolved.

Ilyas, affiliated with Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), served as premier of AJK for lower than a yr. He was elected unopposed because the 14th prime minister of the area on April 18, 2022.

After the resignation of Abdul Qayyum Khan Niazi as AJK pre­mier, Illyas had submitted nom­ination papers on behalf of PTI which had been declared legitimate by the secretary meeting.

PTI Chairman Imran Khan nominated Ilyas because the par­ty’s candidate for prime min­ister’s workplace whereas the PPP and the PML-N had collectively fielded Chaudhry Yasin. The united op­place boycotted the session for the election of the prime minister, leaving no candidate within the race in opposition to Ilyas whereby he secured 33 votes in his favour.

The primary prime minister of AJK, Khan Abdul Hameed Khan, was elected on July 5, 1975. AJK has had a parliamentary sys­tem since 1985. Sardar Sikan­dar Hayat, Sardar Atiq Ahmad Khan and Raja Farooq Haider Khan had twice held the workplace of AJK PM.