Annual elections: CPNE elects office bearers, standing committee

Council elects Zia Shahid as president, Shaheen Qureshi SVP, Ijazul Haq as secretary general.

KARACHI: Zia Shahid and Shaheen Qureshi have been elected respectively as president and senior vice president of Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) during its annual election. Ijazul Haq has been elected secretary general of the council.

The election was held on the occasion of CPNE annual meeting. The process of electing 44-member standing committee had also been completed before the annual election.

The council also elected Rehmat Ali Razi vice president Punjab, Aamir Mahmood vice president Sindh, Anwar Sajjadi vice president Balochistan, Haroon Shah vice president K-P, Mehtab Khan vice president Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Ghulam Nabi secretary finance and Tahir Farooq information secretary.

The 44-member standing committee includes Zia Shahid (Daily Khabrain), Shaheen Qureshi (Daily Jang), Ijazul Haq (Daily Express), Rehmat Ali Razi (Daily Taqat), Aamer Mahmood (Mahnama Kiran), Anwar Sajidi (Daily Intekhab), Haroon Shah (Daily Wahdat), Mehtab Khan (Daily Ausaf), Ghulam Nabi Chandio (Daily Pak) Tahir Farooq (Daily Itehad), Mujeebur Rehman Shami (Daily Pakistan), Arif Nizami (Daily Pakistan Today), Jamil Ather Kazi (Daily Tijarat), Wamiq Zuberi (Daily Business Recorder) Rameeza Majid Nizami (Daily Nawa-e-Waqt), Dr Jabbar Khatak (Daily Awami Awaz), Ilyas Shakir (Daily Qaumi Akhbar), Imtiaz Alam (South Asian Journal), Khusnood Ali Khan (Daily Sahafat), Mushtaq Ahmed Qureshi (Mahnama Nai Ufaq), Sidique Baloch (Daily Balochistan Express), Kazi Asad Abid (Roznama Ibrat), Wasim Ahmed (Daily Awam), Javed Mehar Shamsi (Daily Kaleem), Mumtaz A Tahir (Daily Aftab), Humayon Tariq (Daily Business Report), Syed Muhammad Munir Jilani (Daily Paigham), Dr Waqar Yosuf Azeemi (Rohani Digest), Nasir Hashmi (Weekly Takbeer), Ikram Sehgal (Monthly Defence Journal), Abdul Khaliq Marshal (Online News Agency), Syed Mumtaz Shah (Daily Mashriq Lahore), Hamid Hussain Abidi (Daily Amn Karachi), Maqsood Yousfi (Daily Nai Baat Karachi), Faisal Zahid Malik (Daily Pakistan Observer) Abdul Rehman Mangrio (Daily Indus Post), Ahmed Baloch (Monthly Visionary), Khalilur Rehman (Daily Islam), Naveed Chaudhry (Daily City 42), Mumtaz Sadiq (Daily Azadi Swat), Tanveer Shaukat (Daily Gharib), Kazim Khan (Daily Times), and Bashir Ahmed (Daily Nijat). Zahida Abbasi (Nau Sijj) was elected on reserved seat for women.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 27^th, 2016.