ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Bar Council (PBC)’s newly elected executive body will hold its first meeting on January 24 to elect its vice-chairman, most probably from a small province.
According to a senior lawyer affiliated with Pakistan People’s Party, the new vice chairman will be elected from a small province, adding that the names of Muhammad Yaseen Khan Azad from Sindh, Amanullah Khan Kunrani from Balochistan and Saeed Akhtar Awan from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were under consideration.
He claimed that majority of the PBC executive body members had sympathies and affiliations with PPP, thus the new vice-chairman would be elected with the consent of Federal Law Minister Dr Babar Awan.
The election for executive body members of PBC was held on December 22, 2010 and its result was announced on December 31. Attorney General for Pakistan Maulvi Anwarul Haq, who is ex-officio chairman of the PBC, was the returning officer for the election, while advocates-general of all the four provinces acted as presiding officers for conducting polls at different stations established at High Court buildings in Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta.
The total 22 seats of the PBC are divided among the provinces. Punjab has 11 seats, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa four, Sindh six and Balochistan one.
Per official results, 22 members of the PBC elected for the next five years were: Amanullah Kunrani from Balochistan, Qaiser Rashid Khan, Abdul Lateef Afridi, Muhammad Saeed Akhtar and Roohul Amin Chamkani from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Salahuddin Panhwar, Akhtar Hussain, Zia Ahmed Awan, Rasheed A Rizvi, Muhammad Yaseen Khan Azad and Faisal Kamal Alam from Sindh and Hamid Khan, Syed Qalbe Hassan, Burhan Moazzam Malik, Azam Nazeer Tarar, Muhammad Maqsood Buttar, Mohammad Ahsan Bhoon, Syed Muhammad Kaleem Ahmad Khurshid, Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry, Asrarul Haq Mian, Mian Abbas Ahmad and Abdul Qaddous Mian from Punjab.
