Kanrani elected SCBA president

Asma Jahangir Group candidate Ali Ahmad Kurd gets 950 votes

ISLAMABAD: Amanullah Kanrani of the Hamid Khan Group has won the Supreme Court Bar Association election 2018-19 for the post of president.

According to unofficial results on Wednesday, Kanrani secured 1,092 votes as compared to 950 votes bagged by the Asma Jahangir Group candidate Ali Ahmad Kurd.

Kanrani was supported by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led government functionaries like the attorney general for Pakistan and the law minister.

Polling stations were set up in Quetta, Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur, Abbottabad, Islamabad and other cities.



According to the association’s policy, the president is elected from a different province each year. The president’s seat had been reserved for Balochistan this year with Kurd and Kanrani competing for the slot.

The SCBA body consists of the president, four vice-presidents from each province, secretary, additional secretary, finance secretary and 14 members elected from across the country (at least two from each province).

The opponents of Kurd alleged that he was a candidate of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.