Amjad Hussain Azar is a Pakistani politician who has been the Leader of the Opposition of the

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since November 2020.

Political career

Azar contested the

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on 15 November 2020 from GBA-1 (Gilgit-I) and GBA-4 (Nagar-I) on the ticket of the

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. He won GBA-1 (Gilgit-I) by the margin of 3,393 votes over the

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runner up Sultan Raees. He garnered 10,875 votes while Raees received 7,482 votes. He won GBA-4 (Nagar-I) by the margin of 498 votes over the runner up Muhammad Ayub Waziri of

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. He garnered 6,104 votes while Waziri received 5,606 votes. After the election, he chose to vacate GBA-4 (Nagar-I) and took oath as the member from GBA-1 (Gilgit-I). On 30 November 2020, he unsuccessfully ran for the post of

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. He received nine votes and his opponent, Khalid Khurshid received twenty-two votes to be elected the Chief Minister. On the same day, he was elected as the Leader of the Opposition in the

Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly (GBA), formerly known as Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA), is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the Pakistani territory (''de facto'' province) of Gilgit-Baltistan which is located i ...

. On 11 July 2023, he tendered his resignation as a member of the

to the Speaker of the Assembly, Nazir Ahmed. He resigned due to internal differences with the PPP's senior leadership which arose due to the Chief Minister election caused by Khurshid's disqualification. His resignation was later rejected by Ahmed, due to it being tendered in haste.

References

Living people Gilgit-Baltistan MLAs 2020–2025 Politicians from Gilgit-Baltistan Year of birth missing (living people) {{GilgitBaltistan-MLA-stub