{"id":116101,"date":"2026-06-22T20:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=116101"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T15:39:35","slug":"ppps-amjad-hussain-advocate-elected-fifth-chief-minister-of-gilgit-baltistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ppps-amjad-hussain-advocate-elected-fifth-chief-minister-of-gilgit-baltistan\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP\u2019s Amjad Hussain Advocate elected fifth Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GILGIT: Pakistan Peoples Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/ppp-founding-activist-lal-bakhsh-mangi-passes-away\/\">PPP<\/a>) leader Amjad Hussain Advocate was elected unopposed as the fifth Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to assembly proceedings, no other candidate submitted nomination papers for the post, paving the way for his unopposed election.<\/p>\n<p>All members present in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly extended their support to Amjad Hussain Advocate, who secured the office without facing any opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Imran Nadeem formally announced the result and declared Amjad Hussain Advocate elected as the new Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p>\n<p>The election comes after the formation of a coalition involving PPP, PML-N, and the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP), which had agreed to support a consensus candidate for the chief minister&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the schedule for the oath-taking ceremony will be announced later.<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ca5c6a elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-title elementor-page-title elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3ca5c6a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-title.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">PPP\u2019s Imran Nadeem elected unopposed Speaker of GB Assembly, Kifayat-ur-Rehman becomes Deputy Speaker<\/h3>\n<p>Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Imran Nadeem was elected unopposed as the new Speaker of the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly, while Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pml-n-releases-final-list-of-candidates-for-37-ajk-assembly-constituencies\/\">PML-N)<\/a>\u00a0leader Kifayat-ur-Rehman Advocate was elected unopposed as Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>According to outgoing Speaker Nazir Ahmed, no member opposed the election of either candidate, including the PTI-backed independent member in the assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the election for the office of Chief Minister is also likely to be held unopposed following the formation of a broad-based alliance in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes after PPP, PML-N, and the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) joined hands to form a coalition government in the region. The alliance supported the unanimous election of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GILGIT: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Amjad Hussain Advocate was elected unopposed as the fifth Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday. According to assembly proceedings, no other candidate submitted nomination papers for the post, paving the way for his unopposed election. All members present in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly extended their support to Amjad Hussain Advocate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":116104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[43229,43228],"class_list":["post-116101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-fifth-chief-minister-of-gilgit-baltistan","tag-ppps-amjad-hussain-advocate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116105,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116101\/revisions\/116105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}