Malik Haider Usman and Mian Arshad Waqas Chhajra have been elected as President and General Secretary of High Court Bar Association Multan. They were supported by the PPP and PML-N groups to defeat the group of Khans. Malik Haider Usman Awan of PTI bagged 1766 votes while his rival Mehmood Ashraf Khan got 1641 votes and third candidate got 871 votes. Mian Arshad Waqas Chhajra elected as General secretary by securing 2119 votes, his rivals Sajjad Haider Sipra got 1691 and Mehmood Ali 392 votes.Sajid Aizdi Sanpal elected as Vice President by getting 2119 votes. his opponents Rana Mehboob Alam of Khans group got 1263 and Muhammad Ramzan Bhatti 1075 votes.Haq Nawaz Kanhon and Kashmira Niaz Awan have been elected as Finance secretary and Library Secretary respectively. While seven member of Executive committee have already been elected unopposed.
LAHORE)The Independent Group of Ahsan Bhoon won the presidential slot by defeating the Professional Group led by Hamid Khan in the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) elections.
Their candidate Hafeezur Rehman Chaudhary was elected president of the LHCBA for the year 2019-20 with Khadim Hussain Qaisar of the Professional Group returning as runner-up. Rehman bagged 3,871 votes and while Qaisar received 2,391 votes. Sajid Bashir of Latif Khosa Group got 1,225 votes.
Kabir Ahmad Chaudhary was elected vice president of the bar association after securing 2,304 votes. Among his opponents, Barrister Ch Saeed Hussain Nagra secured 1,915 votes, Rana Irshad Manj 722, Sardar Najeeb Akbar Khan 406, Shaista Qaisar 1,381 and Waseem Ahmad Butt grabbed 736 votes.
Ansar Jamil Gujjar was elected finance secretary after obtaining 5,370 votes while his opponent Misbah Sarwar Goriya got only 2,081 votes. Fiaz Ahmad Ranja was elected secretary after clinching 4,659 votes. His opponent Allah Baksh Laghari got 1,241 and Ch Sohail Umer Gujjar secured 1,525 votes.
Soon after the announcement of result, supporters of the winners danced to the beat of drum, while distributing sweets and hugging each other in jubilation. At least 7,522 lawyers out of a total of 16,226 eligible voters used their right to vote for electing leaders of their bar association for the year 2019-20.
Polling started at 8am and the process continued till 5pm with a one-hour lunch break at 1pm. No untoward incident was reported during the proceedings. Several polling booths had been set up for voters to cast their vote through the biometric system.
Stringent security arrangements were in place on the polling day with a contingent of police deployed around the Lahore High Court building.
In Bahawalpur, Nadeem Iqbal Chaudhry and Ayyaz Kalyar have been elected as President and General secretary of LHCBA Bahawalpur
LAHORE)The Independent Group of Ahsan Bhoon won the presidential slot by defeating the Professional Group led by Hamid Khan in the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) elections.
Their candidate Hafeezur Rehman Chaudhary was elected president of the LHCBA for the year 2019-20 with Khadim Hussain Qaisar of the Professional Group returning as runner-up. Rehman bagged 3,871 votes and while Qaisar received 2,391 votes. Sajid Bashir of Latif Khosa Group got 1,225 votes.
Kabir Ahmad Chaudhary was elected vice president of the bar association after securing 2,304 votes. Among his opponents, Barrister Ch Saeed Hussain Nagra secured 1,915 votes, Rana Irshad Manj 722, Sardar Najeeb Akbar Khan 406, Shaista Qaisar 1,381 and Waseem Ahmad Butt grabbed 736 votes.
Ansar Jamil Gujjar was elected finance secretary after obtaining 5,370 votes while his opponent Misbah Sarwar Goriya got only 2,081 votes. Fiaz Ahmad Ranja was elected secretary after clinching 4,659 votes. His opponent Allah Baksh Laghari got 1,241 and Ch Sohail Umer Gujjar secured 1,525 votes.
Soon after the announcement of result, supporters of the winners danced to the beat of drum, while distributing sweets and hugging each other in jubilation. At least 7,522 lawyers out of a total of 16,226 eligible voters used their right to vote for electing leaders of their bar association for the year 2019-20.
Polling started at 8am and the process continued till 5pm with a one-hour lunch break at 1pm. No untoward incident was reported during the proceedings. Several polling booths had been set up for voters to cast their vote through the biometric system.
Stringent security arrangements were in place on the polling day with a contingent of police deployed around the Lahore High Court building.
In Bahawalpur, Nadeem Iqbal Chaudhry and Ayyaz Kalyar have been elected as President and General secretary of LHCBA Bahawalpur
The capital lawyers on Saturday elected Raja Inam Ameen Minhas as President of Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA).
Minhas secured 679 votes against his opponent Barrister Shoaib Razzaq who could bag 475 votes.
Imtiaz Anwar Cheema returned Vice President by polling 680 votes and Umair Baloch won the seat of secretary by securing 588 votes whereas his rival candidate Imran Kayani bagged 577 votes.
Total registered voters of the IHCBA were 1,836 out of which 1,189 used their right to vote. The Election Committee rejected 12 votes.
Minhas has already served IHCBA as its first general secretary as he was elected in Feb 2009.
However, the then Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, after his reinstatement in March 2009, abolished the Islamabad High Court (IHC) as it was established soon after the proclamation of emergency by the then president Gen Pervez Musharraf on Nov 3, 2007.
However, Minhas along with the then President IHCBA Sajjad Afzal Cheema successfully lobbied for the IHC and held several meetings with the then prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani, the opposition leader Ch Nisar Ali Khan, chairman constitutional reforms committee Mian Raza Rabbani and other law makers.
Subsequently, the constitutional reforms committee, which has already planned for a high court in Islamabad, agreed to amend the constitution for re-establishment of the IHC.
Ghulam Mustafa Kandwal was elected as President Lahore High Court Bar Association Rawalpindi division by defeating his opponents Tallat Zaidi and Saeed Yousaf Khan. Kandwal is also holding a seat in the Punjab Bar Council (PBC). He secured 400 votes.
Faisal Malik became secretary of the bar as he got 721 votes against his opponent Tasleem Abbasi who took 400 votes.
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