Voting got under way on Thursday in Islamabad for the annual elections of the Supreme Court Bar Association. The groups aligned with Asma Jahangir and Hamid Khan are expected to face a tight race for the leading posts, including president and secretary.
Syed Amjad Shah is standing for president on behalf of the Asma Jahangir group. Sardar Aman Khan is the candidate backed by the Hamid Khan group. For secretary, Arif Awan of the Asma Jahangir camp is up against Mian Irfan Akram of the Hamid Khan camp.
Vice-president hopefuls named for each province
Two candidates are contesting the vice-president post for each province:
- Balochistan: Abdul Malik Baloch and Muhammad Ibrahim Lehri Baloch
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Hazrat Saeed and Moeenuddin Humayun
- Punjab: Chaudhry Arshad Hussain and Muhammad Yasin Bhatti
- Sindh: Abdul Wahab Baloch and Jam Asif Mahmood
Qazi Shehryar Iqbal and Saira Khalid Rajput are competing for additional secretary. Muhammad Tanveer Chaudhry and Rai Azhar Iqbal Kharl are vying for finance secretary.
Executive committee seats contested across regions
In Punjab, Chaudhry A Masood Gujjar, Rana Javed Iqbal and Safia Noreen are standing for seats. Sindh’s candidates are Aamir Jamil Warik, Arshad Mubeen Ahmed, Ijaz Ahmed Awan and Ghulam Mujtaba.
Four candidates, Ismatullah Mandokhail, Muhammad Hassan Mengal, Muhammad Ali and Shamsur Rehman Rind, are contesting four Balochistan seats. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ijaz Ahmed Malik, Kashif Jan and Syed Azizuddin Kakakhel are in the running. For the Multan-Bahawalpur seat, Pirzada Niaz Mustafa Qureshi and Sardar Ashiq Hussain Baloch are the candidates.
