PPP's Amjad Hussain elected as GB chief minister after members take oath
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GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elected PPP’s Advocate Amjad Hussain as chief minister on Monday, just hours after the newly elected assembly members took oath. This came after the PPP’s Imran Nadeem Shigri and the PML-N’s Malik Kefayat were elected as the assembly’s speaker and deputy speaker respectively. Earlier, during the first GB assembly session, 30 members took oath, which was administered by outgoing GB Assembly Speaker Nazir Ahmed at 10am. The speaker then adjourned the assembly proceedings till 3pm. The session resumed at 4pm, during which the speaker announced the election schedule for the positions of speaker and deputy speaker, and gave until 5:15pm for the filing and withdrawal of nomination papers. Ahmed also suspended the rules after getting approval from members to conduct elections for speaker, deputy speaker and leader of the House on the same day. PPP candidate Imran Nadeem from Shigar and PML-N candidate Malik Kefayat from Diamer had filed their nomination papers; however, no other candidates filed nomination papers for the positions and the two were elected unopposed. The newly-elected GB speaker took oath from the outgoing Ahmed and took charge of the position. Assuming the charge of speaker, Nadeem thanked the party leadership and Assembly members in his remarks for electing him unopposed. He declared Malik Kifayatur Rehman as deputy speaker unopposed, as no other candidate had filed nomination papers. Keyafat then took oath from the newly sworn-in Nadeem. Imran Nadeem was elected to the Assembly from GBA-12 Shigar, having previously been elected as a member of the Assembly in 2004 from the PML-Q, and remaining actively involved in regional politics and public affairs. Malik Kifayat-ur-Rehman was elected to the Assembly from GBA-15 Diamer-I (Tangir), where he secured victory against former chief minister Haji Gulbar Khan in the 2026 GB elections. Nadeem later announced the election schedule for the leader of the House, gave until 7:40p