Member regional Assembly Raja ZekeriyaMaqpoon while talking to this “media group” has said that holding of next general elections of the region under the arrangement and supervision of incumbent government of the area would not be accepted. He further said that after the completion of five years tenure of the incumbent government, interim government set-up would be established in the region as the federal government led by PDM could not be believed, he added that we did not need to establish from 47 of the Election Act-2017 government in the region. Member of the Assembly has demanded for the restoration of state subject rule in the region and alleged that PPP regional chapter PresidentAmjadHussainAdvocate was playing the role of facilitator in the name of right of ownership of the lands. Raja ZekeriyaMaqpoon has said that Karachi pact of 1949 was a big hurdle about the area and proposed land reforms Act would become another hurdle for the region.
Incumbent government of the area would complete its five year tenure in the month of November 2025 and PML-N regional chapter President HafeezurRehman while addressing a press conference in Gilgit had proposed that next general elections of the region may be held under the supervision and arrangement of incumbent government of the area led by HajiGulbar Khan instead of installing the interim government in the region.It may be pertinent to mention here that concept of interim government was not provided in the Order-2009 when it was promulgated by the PPP led federal government during the year 2009 and by amending the provisions of Order-2009, interim government set-up was introduced in the region in the month of December 2014 and first ever interim government was installed in the region for holding the second general elections of the region under the new governance system. When the PML-N led federal government had substituted the Order-2009 with the Order-2018, the provision of interim government was also not provided in the Order-2018 and Order-2018 was ordered to be replaced with Order-2019 by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 17th January 2019 and Supreme Court of Pakistan had imposed the condition that governance order-2019 once enforced, its provisions could not be amended with-out the permission of Supreme Court of Pakistan and a seven member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan had allowed on 30th April 2020 that the federal government may issue presidential order for establishment of interim government in the region and polls of 2020 were held under the arrangement of interim government. Now the member regional Assembly Raja ZekeriyaMaqpoon, who was elected on the ticket of PTI has said that next general elections of the region would not be accepted under the supervision of incumbent government of the area and up-coming general elections of the region would be held under the control and supervision of interim government. It may be pertinent to mention here that if the law of the land i.e Order-2018 provides for a method to establish interim government for holding of free, fair and transparent polls in the region, such scheme of law could not be defeated or ignored in order to fulfill the wishes of some particular individuals or political parties. If the political parties of the region intended to hold the next general election till the completion of tenure of the present government, the Assembly of the area may be dissolved with the mutual understanding of all political parties of the region and polls could be held with-in the specified time under the arrangement of interim government and size of the interim government may be limited to few persons instead of induction of huge cabinet members to accommodate the blue-eyed persons.We may expect that interim government would be established in the region either on completion of Assembly tenure or earlier dissolution of the Assembly as the case may be, so that free, fair and transparent polls could be held in the region and people of the area would exercise their right of vote with-out any fear or influence…….
