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Amjad Hussain Takes Oath as Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister

Amjad Hussain will take office after a delay tied to Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s Iran trip, while PPP leaders discuss cabinet posts and coalition shares.

  • On Monday, Advocate Amjad Hussain took the oath as Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister at Chinar Bagh, with PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari attending after returning from Iran where he attended Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral.
  • The Pakistan Peoples Party secured victory in the 2026 elections and formed a coalition government with the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz to ensure a smooth democratic transition.
  • Hussain praised youth and women for their role in the election, while highlighting the region's vast natural resources, including around 7,000 glaciers feeding the Indus River and significant untapped hydropower potential.
  • Under a power-sharing agreement, the new administration is finalizing cabinet appointments, allocating three ministries to the IPP while the PML-N secures the deputy speaker role, governor's post, and opposition leadership slot.
  • Hussain pledged to end load-shedding within his five-year term and advocated for provisional provincial status to resolve long-standing constitutional uncertainty affecting G-B's economic and governance future.
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Amjad Hussain to take oath as GB chief minister

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Amjad Hussain takes oath as Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister

Says energy shortages, and economic development, will be among his government's top priorities

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Amjad Hussain sworn in as Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister

Amjad Hussain takes oath as new Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister following PPP's victory in the 2026 elections.

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Amjad Hussain sworn in as chief minister of Pakistan's

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party's Amjad Hussain was sworn in today, Monday, as the chief minister of Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan region. The Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) regional assembly on June 21 elected Hussain unopposed as no other candidate had submitted their nomination papers for the post of the GB chief minister. Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal

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CM-elect to take oath today as PPP chief Bilawal arrives in Gilgit-Baltistan

Bilawal reaches Gilgit from Skardu after Iran visit to attend CM’s swearing-in ceremony, originally scheduled for July 1; plans to decide composition of cabinet.

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Bilawal arrives in Skardu for GB CM’s oath-taking ceremony

SKARDU - Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived in Skardu on Sunday ahead of the oath-taking ceremony of Chief Minister-elect Amjad Hussain Advocate.

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The Nation broke the news in Lahore, Pakistan on Sunday, July 5, 2026.
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