The newly elected 22-member executive body of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), the highest legal fraternity forum, on Monday (today) will elect its vice chairman. It is expected that the body will elect a member from the smaller province as its vice chairman and three probable names under consideration would be those of Saeed Akhtar from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Yaseen Azad from Sindh and Amanullah Kanrani from Balochistan province.
Attorney General for Pakistan Moulvi Anwarul Haq would preside over the meeting.
The polling for election of newly members was held on December 22, 2010 and the members of provincial bar councils, elected their 22 members of the PBC for a term of five years against the seats reserved for their respective provinces. Among these Punjab has a total of 11 seats, Sindh 6, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 4 and Balochistan 1 seat respectively. The 22-member of the PBC who have been elected for next five years are:
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.