Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar took the oath, the 24NewsHD TV channel reported on Saturday.

AJK LA Deputy Speaker Chaudhry Riaz Gujjar administered the oath from him. Chaudhry Latif Akbar of PPP grabbed 19 votes. A total of 41 members cast their votes.

The PPP and PML-N participated in the voting while others did not exercise their right to vote.

Chaudhry Latif Akbar was born in a Muzaffarabad village on February 4, 1948. He passed the LLB exams at Peshawar University.

He remained a teacher for quite some time and later opted to practise as a lawyer in Muzaffarabad and was elected president of the Central Bar Association

In 1976, he became Pakistan People's Party Muzaffarabad district vice president. He faced jail sever times during the dictatorship of Gen Ziaul Haq.

He got into the AJK LA after the 1985 elections. He also remained the Leader of the Opposition in the AJK  Assembly.