Ms Zohra Yusuf was re-elected Chairperson and Kamran Arif Advocate was re-elected Co-chairperson of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) at the election of its office-bearers for the 2014-2016 term, held at the commission's annual general meeting here on Sunday.
Those who were elected for the post of the Vice-chairpersons are Balochistan - Tahir Husain Khan, Advocate; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa - Sher Mohammad Khan, Advocate; Punjab - Ms Nazish Ataullah; Sindh - Asad Iqbal Butt. Ms Salima Hashmi was named as the commission Treasurer.
The members of the HRCP council (Governing body) were also elected on the occasion. Their names are Ms Asma Jahangir; Ms Hina Jillani; Dr Mehdi Hassan; Air Marshal Zafar A. Chaudhry; Zahoor Ahmad Shahwani, Advocate; Ms Parveen Soomro; Ms Nasreen Azhar; Ms Uzma Noorani; Habib Tahir Khan, Advocate; Ms Tahira Kamal; Ghazi Salahuddin; Nadeem Anthony; Ms Sadia Bukhari; Kanjee Rano Bheel; Joseph Francis; Inder Ahuja; Akhtar Husain Baloch; Roland de Souza; Badaruddin Soomro; Saleh Zada; Abdul Ghani Mengal; Ms Tahira Abdullah; Babar Ayaz; Raja M. Ashraf and Amarnath Motumal.