Pakistan, Oct. 18 -- Three more ministers from the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet on Friday announced their resignation, with two of them calling upon Prime Minister Chaudhry Anwarul Haq to step down for what they described as his "failure to safeguard the constitutional rights of Kashmiri refugees".

Earlier this week, AJK Information Minister Pir Mazhar Saeed announced that he had resigned from his position, citing "some unavoidable reasons". However, a senior official at the AJK prime minister's office told that the resignation had been "received but not yet accepted".

AJK Finance Minister Abdul Majid Khan and Food Minister Chaudhry Akbar Ibrahim announced they would step down at a joint press conference at the Muzaffarabad Pres...