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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Pakistan Bar Council to meet on 24th
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The first meeting of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) will be held on January 24 in Islamabad.
PBC executive body in its first meeting will elect its vice chairman. Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) senior lawyer’ revealed to Daily Times that the new PBC vice chairman would be elected from a small province.
He said that three names were under discussion, Yaseen Azad from Sindh, Amanullah Kunrani from Balochistan and Saeed Akhtar from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regarding this post. He claimed that a majority of the PBC executive body members were associated with the PPP, therefore, new a vice chairman would be elected with the consent of Law Minister Dr Babar Awan.
The polling for PBC was held on December 22, 2010. Attorney General of Pakistan, Maulvi Anwarul Haq, was the returning officer for the election, while the advocate generals of all the four provinces acted as presiding officers for conducting polls at different polling stations that were established in high court buildings at Quetta, Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi. The voters, who are members of provincial bar councils, polled votes for 22 members of the PBC for the next five years term, against the seats reserved for their respective provinces.
The total 22 seats of the PBC are divided among the provinces with Punjab having 11, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, four, Sindh, six, and Balochistan, one seat.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk