The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Sunday announced its candidates for the 2026 Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly elections, naming nominees for all 35 constituencies.
The party selected candidates for seats in Mirpur, Bhimber, Kotli, Bagh, Sudhnoti, Poonch, Neelum Valley, Muzaffarabad, Jammu refugee constituencies and Valley refugee constituencies.
In the Mirpur Division, the PPP gave tickets to Afsar Shahid (LA-1 Mirpur-I), Qasim Majeed (LA-2 Mirpur-II/Chakswari), Yasser Sultan (LA-3 Mirpur City), Chaudhry Sohaib Arshad (LA-4 Khari Sharif) and Chaudhry Pervez Ashraf (LA-5 Bhimber-I/Barnala).
In the Kotli Division, Malik Zafar will contest from LA-8, Javed Iqbal Bhadhanvi from LA-9, Chaudhry Yasin from LA-10 and LA-12, and Chaudhry Akhlaq from LA-11.
The party also nominated Sardar Qamar Zaman, Faisal Mumtaz Rathore, Sardar Amjad Yousaf, Sardar Saud Sadiq, Sardar Yaqoob, Sardar Muhammad Abid Khan and Sardar Faheem Akhtar Rabbani for constituencies in Bagh, Sudhnoti and Poonch.
For Neelum Valley and Muzaffarabad, the PPP awarded tickets to Mian Abdul Waheed, Sardar Javed Ayub, Syed Bazil Naqvi, Sardar Mukhtar Ahmed Khan, Mubashir Munir Awan, Ashfaq Zafar and Dewan Ali Chughtai.
The party nominated retired Colonel Qadeer Chauhan, Chaudhry Asif Gujar, Chaudhry Ahsan Ismail Gujar, Shaheen Kausar Dar, Raja Shahid Iqbal Advocate and Chaudhry Fakhar Zaman for the Jammu refugee constituencies.
For the Valley refugee seats, the PPP selected Amir Abdul Ghaffar Lone, Ghulam Abbas Mir, Javed Butt, Muhammad Rashid Islam Butt and Abdul Majeed Khan as its candidates.
The party leadership asked all candidates to begin an active election campaign and expressed confidence that the PPP would win the AJK elections with the support of the people.
