MIRPUR: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Friday appointed Chaudhry Latif Akber, a senior leader of the party in AJK,  to head his party’s  Azad Jammu & Kashmir branch, the party sources disclosed.
BBZ Friday accorded formal approval for the induction of following new office bearers of Pakistan People’s Party,   Azad Jammu & Kashmir Chapter with immediate effect,. the sources told this Correspondent  hereFriday evening.
President Ch. Lateef Akbar (President), Ch. Pervez Ashraf  (Senior Vice President),  Raja Faisal Mumtaz Rathore (General Secretary), Javed Ayub (Information Secretary), Ms. Shaheen Kausar Dar,  Deputy Information Secretary and Zia Qamar (Youth President).
Notification to this effect was formally issued by his Political Secretary Jameel Soomro from the PPP Chairman’s Central Secretariat late Friday, the sources added. It may be added that the new head of PPP in AJK Ch. Latif Akber has a distinguished career in the party following his life-long affiliation with party and Bhutto’s since ZABs’ era,
He has replaced Ch. Abdul Majeed, the ex Prime Minister of AJK in the outgoing PPP-led coalition government in the State. Ch. Majeed was removed from the office of the PPP AJK President by the party’s top leadership after the convincing defeat of the party in June 21 general elections in AJK held last year.
Ch. Latif Akber,  hailing from Muzaffarabad district, has been holding the office of the Secretary General of the party till the recent past. Besides he also performed as minister in various PPP-led governments in the past including in ex PM Ch. Majeed-led AJK cabinet as the Finance minister besides holding other portfolios in the previous PPP-led regimes  in AJK in ex PM late Raja Mumtaz Hussain Rathore and former PM Barister Sultan Mahmood’s regimes.
The newly-inducted Secretary General of the party Faisal Mumtaz Rathore is the son of  a late AJK PM  and the party’s loyal Raja Mumtaz Hussain Rathore. He is also considered to be a seasoned and sincere  worker of the party. Rathore, hailing from Haveili district of Poonch division, also performed as minister in the outgoing PM Ch. Majeed’s cabinet
