- Chairman Election Board announced the election results.
- Ishtiaq A Khan has been elected President of LHCBA elections.
- Ishtiaq A Khan was supported by the Professional Group.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) backed Hamid Khan group won the biometric elections of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA).
Polling for Biometric Elections of Lahore High Court Bar was held on Saturday in which 2,643 registered lawyer voters exercised their right to vote.
101 Biometric Machines were installed at seven polling stations for Biometric Elections while polling continued till 5 PM without break.
Chairman Election Board Imran Masood announced the election results while Ishtiaq A Khan of Hamid Khan Group backed by PTI has been elected President in Lahore High Court Bar Association elections.
Rabbiya Bajwa has been elected as the Vice President while Miss Sabahat Ali has been elected as the Secretary and Shah Rukh Shehbaz Waraich has been elected as the Finance Secretary.
It should be noted that fourteen candidates were competing for four seats, for the presidential candidate, Ishtiaq A. Khan and Lehrasib Gondal had a one-to-one contest.
Ishtiaq A Khan was supported by the Professional Group while Lehrasib Gondal was supported by the Independent Group.
The contest for the post of Vice President was between six candidates including Rabbiya Bajwa, Sardar Ali Gehlan, Iftikhar Ahmed Bhatti, Ahmed Khan Gondal, and Rauf Ahmed.
Miss Sabahat Ali Rizvi, Mian Irfan Ali, and Qadir Bakhsh were facing each other on the seat of secretary while Shahrukh Shehbaz Waraich, Ejaz Ahmed Bosal, and Adil Naeem Sheikh were competing on the seat of finance secretary.
The newly elected President of Lahore High Court Bar Association Ishtiaq A. Khan while addressing the lawyers said the top priorities of the group are to serve the lawyer community and end the distance between the bar and the bench.
He said that he will not tolerate the attack on the sanctity of the judiciary, the basis of democracy is a strong justice system.
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On the victory of the officials of the Hamid Khan group, the lawyers raised slogans in favor of Imran Khan and who will save Pakistan, Imran Khan shouted slogans while the lawyers also carried Imran Khan’s nephew Hassan Niazi on their shoulders.
