Secures a total of 1,032 votes against rival Amanullah Kanrani who got 874 votes, according to unofficial result. PHOTO: FILE
Kamran Murtaza of Asma Jahangir-led Independent Group was elected president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) in the election for year 2013-14 held on Thursday.
Murtaza secured a total of 1,032 votes against his main rival Amanullah Kanrani of the Professional Group who got 874 votes.
According to unofficial result, Murtaza and Kanrani secured, respectively, 436-392 votes from Lahore, 219-118 from Islamabad/Rawalpindi, 115-141 from Karachi, 28-16 from Abbottabad, 37-26 from Bahawalpur, 61-59 from Multan, 64-55 from Peshawar, 55-36 from Quetta, 5-19 from Sukkur and 12-12 from Hyderabad.
The third candidate for president’s slot Rab Nawaz Raja bagged a total of 58 votes from all the polling stations. The slot of secretary was also notched by the Independent Group as its Asif Mahmood Cheema got 913 votes. His rivals Azmatullah Chaudhry and Mian Aslam secured 584 and 292 votes, respectively.
Abdullah Kakar was elected vice president from Balochistan seat. He got 1,048 votes in one-on-one contest with Jahanzeb Khan Jadoon who bagged 767 votes.
Professional Group succeeded to get one seat only in the bar’s new cabinet as its Rana Naeem Sarwar was elected vice president from the Punjab seat. Muhammad Sadiq Hidayatullah and Syed Sardar Hussain had been elected unopposed as vice presidents from Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, respectively.
Raja Muqsit Nawaz Khan and Raja Ghazanfar Ali Khan have also been elected unopposed as additional secretary and secretary finance respectively. Of a total number of 2,720 members, 18,824 had cast the vote.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 1st, 2013.
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