Former PML-Q Women Wing Punjab President Dr Naseem Shakeel has joined the PTI as PTI-Women Wing Human Rights organizer. Sialkot-based PML-Q-backed former national assembly speaker Chaudhary Ameer Hussain is likely to join PTI in a bid to ensure his political survival in Sialkot’s politics. District bar elections: Electioneering is gaining momentum for the DBA annual elections. The polls will be held on January 14. Rival groups are staking claims. In Daska, Munawar Hussain Chheena, Muhammad Akmal Basra and Zahid Mehmood Goraya have been elected as vice president, joint secretary and library secretary respectively unopposed.
Candidates against them withdrew their nomination papers in their favour. In Sialkot, as many as four candidates Muhammad Asif Bhalli, Shahid Mir, Nasir Waheed and Saleem Khan Cheechi are contesting for the slot of President of DBA Sialkot. Two candidates Nadeem Akhtar Butt and Sheikh Suhail Nazeer in the race for the seat of vice president and three candidates Ch. Muhammad Raza, Bilal Ghuman and Muhammad Bashir Sulehria are contesting for the slot of general secretary.
Transfer: Separately, the Punjab government has appointed Muhammad Sajjad Saleem as EDO (Education) Sialkot with immediate effect. Former EDO (Education) Sialkot Dr Javaid Iqbal Muzaffar Chishti has been transferred and asked to report to the Secretary Education Punjab in Lahore.
