Pakistan Bar Council holds elections

Five candidates secure five first priority votes, while four candidates secured four first priority votes.


Express December 23, 2010

LAHORE: For eleven seats of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) from Punjab, Hamid Khan was the only clear winner after getting seven votes in the election on Wednesday. Among other candidates, five secured five first priority votes while four candidates secured four first priority votes. The attorney-general of Pakistan will announce the result on December 31 after assessing priority votes.

Among those who secured five votes each were Burhan Muazzam Malik, Azam Nazir Tarar, Ramazan Chaudhry and Maqsood Buttar. Those with four first priority votes included Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon, Mian Abbas, Muhammad Kalim Ahmad Khurshid and Syed Qalb-e-Hassan.

There are strong chances that the candidates who secured five votes can still lose due to not gaining votes of second and third priority subsequently. Same would be the case with those candidates who secured four and three votes.

There is an even competition among the seven candidates who secured two votes each.

Among the notable losers were Khurram Latif Khosa, son of former attorney-general Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, and former Lahore Bar Association president Rana Zia Abdul Rehman.

The total 22 seats of the PBC are divided among the provinces with Punjab having 11 seats, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa four, Sindh six and Balochistan one seat.

Sindh

Five members from Sindh have been elected to the PBC after the election was held at the Sindh High Court building. One hundred per cent polling of votes was observed as all 33 eligible voters used their right of franchise. According to unofficial results, former chairman PBC Yaseen Azad, ex-vice chairman PBC Justice (retd) Rasheed A Rizvi, Akhter Hussain and Zia Ahmed Awan were elected from Karachi while Salahuddin emerged victorious from Mirpurkhas. The result of the one remaining seat, which is being contested between Ibrar Hasan and Faisal Kamal, will be announced after completion of official counting of votes. Amanullah has already been elected as member for the only seat of PBC in Balochistan. (With additional input from APP)

Published in The Express Tribune, December 23rd, 2010.

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