Overview
- PPP and PML-N jointly filed a no-confidence motion against AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq, with PPP naming Chaudhry Yaseen as its candidate and allies claiming support from at least 37 lawmakers.
- PML-N’s AJK leadership signalled it would not vote for a PPP nominee and would sit in opposition, while party insiders say their cooperation is contingent on holding early elections under a new chief election commissioner.
- President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif held consultations at the Presidency on a potential AJK transition and power-sharing formula, according to people briefed on the meeting.
- Haq has refused to resign and says he will face the assembly vote on the no-confidence motion.
- In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chief Minister Sohail Afridi swore in a compact cabinet—10 ministers plus two advisers and a special assistant—after being denied for a fourth time a court-cleared meeting with Imran Khan, and he has asked the Islamabad High Court for an attested order to pursue contempt proceedings.