ISLAMABAD, 26 July 2021, (TON): According to unofficial results Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the single-largest party with at least 25 out of 45 seats in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) elections.

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) with nine seats came second while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) bagged six seats, Express News reported.

More than 700 candidates from 32 political and religious parties contested for the 45 general seats.

Out of the eight reserved seats, five are for women and three seats, one each for religious scholars, technocrats, and overseas Kashmiris. The members for these seats are nominated after the elections.

Of the 45 general seats, 12 seats were reserved for Kashmiri refugees who had migrated from the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) in 1947 and 1965 and settled in various parts of Pakistan.

Therefore, in the 10 districts of AJK, elections took place on 33 seats only.

According to reports, the polling process which began at 8am had to be stopped at several polling stations after activists belonging to rival parties got into violent brawls.