| GEO Pakistan | | Sardar Attique takes oath as new AJK PM | Updated at: 1826 PST, Thursday, July 29, 2010
 MUZAFFARABAD: All Jammu Kashmir Muslim conference's head Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan has swear Thursday as fourth Prime Minister (PM) of AJK during the current tenure of the Legislative Assembly (LA).
AJK-President Raja Zulqarnain Khan administered the oath to him in a ceremony held at President House Muzaffarabad, which was attended by politicians, high officials and a number of party workers.
Earlier, AJK LA had elected Sardar Attique as ninth PM of AJK after the resignation of Raja Farooq Haider Khan.
Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan secured 39 votes out of 49 members house including Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Peoples Muslim League of former PM Sultan Mehmmood Chudhary and a group of independently elected legislators known as Friends Group.
Outgoing PM Raja Farooq Haider and nine other legislators of his group including speaker did not participate in the voting process.
After election, Sardar Attique said rehabilitation and reconstruction of the earthquake area would be his first priority besides establishing good governance in the territory and highlighting the Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir on diplomatic front.
Talking to journalists on the occasion, he said he would continue the job from where he left it a year ago when he was ousted from the premiership through a no-trust motion. |  | | | |
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