The Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir, also known as AJK Legislative Assembly, is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the autonomous state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, which is located in Muzaffarabad. It was established under the Interim Constitution of AJK having a total of 53 seats, with 45 general seats (of which 33 are elected from constituencies within the Azad Kashmir territory and 12 from seats reserved for refugees from Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir who live across Pakistan), while 8 are reserved of which 5 are for women, 1 for ulama, 1 for a technocrat and 1 for J&K nationals residing abroad.
Members of Legislative Assembly
The members of legislative Assembly are elected for a five-year term on the basis of adult franchise and one person, one vote.
List of Assemblies of Azad Kashmir No.NameTerm startTerm end11st Assembly of the Azad Kashmir1971197522nd Assembly of the Azad Kashmir1975197733rd Assembly of the Azad Kashmir1985199044th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir1990199155th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir1991199666th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir1996200177th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir2001200688th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir2006201199th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir201120161010th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir201620211111th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir202120261212th Assembly of the Azad Kashmir2026
Speakers of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly No.NamesStart of termEnd of term1Sheikh Manzar Masood7 January 197130 June 19752Mohammad Mansha Khan30 June 197511 August 19773Mohammad Ayub Khan15 June 198529 June 19904Sahibzada Muhammad Ishaq Zaffar29 June 199029 July 19915Abdul Rashid Abbasi29 July 199130 July 19966Raja Mumtaz Hussain Rathore30 July 199622 June 19987Chaudhry Abdul Majid22 June 199824 July 20018Muhammad Sayab Khalid Khan24 July 200124 July 20069Shah Ghulam Qadir24 July 200612 August 201010Chaudhry Anwarul Haq16 August 201025 July 201111Sardar Ghulam Sadiq25 July 201130 July 201612Shah Ghulam Qadir30 July 20163 August 202113Chaudhry Anwarul Haq3 August 202120 April 202314Chaudhry Latif Akbar3 June 202325 August 202615Chaudhry Tariq Farooq25 August 2026
See also 2016 Azad Kashmiri general election Constituency LA-37 Jammu - 4 (Narowal) Government of Azad Kashmir List of Azad Kashmir Legislative Assembly constituencies President of Azad Kashmir Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir
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