Thursday 19 / September / 2024
Muzaffarabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ruling party swept local elections in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, according to unofficial results on Friday, giving the premier a boost after months of pressure from his opponents.
Sharif has faced criticism since documents released as past of the Panama Papers data leak showed his children owned several off-shore companies and used them to buy properties in London.
He denies wrongdoing, as do his children.
Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party won 31 seats in the region's 41-seat assembly in Thursday's vote, said Tariq Mahmood Butt, spokesman for Pakistani Kashmir's election commission.
"This win is proof that our voters have completely rejected our opponents' incessant diatribe against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif," said the party's regional chief, Raja Farooq Haider.
"It is not merely a win. It is a landslide," Sharif's daughter, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, an increasingly influential member of her father's party, said on her Twitter page.
