Ms. Asma Jahangir has the support of senior lawyers including Ali Ahmad Kurdish and retired Justice Tariq Mahmood.
Manila:Polls for the presidential elections of the Association du Barreau Supreme Court (SCBA) have ended and the counting of votes is underway.
Prominent lawyers Asma Jahangir and Owais Ahmad are the main contenders for the position.Ms. Asma Jahangir has the support of senior lawyers including Ali Ahmad Kurdish and retired Justice Tariq Mahmood.
Meanwhile, Owais Ahmad enjoys the support of the former President of SCBA Hamid Khan, alongside other one third candidate Ikram Chaudhry also contests the presidential election.
Voting has started at 9 am this morning (Tuesday) and should be completed by 5 a.m., special security measures are in place in all cities where polling occurs such as Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta and Multan.
Update (see below) print edition
The Court Bar Association Supreme elections today
Campaign for the elections of the Court Supreme Bar Association (SCBA) concluded Tuesday, a day before the vote, with usual lavish dinners for voters of the candidate to the Presidency.
Asma Jahangir organized a dinner Monday at the Avari hotel and its main rival, Ahmed Awais organized a dinner Tuesday at the Holiday Inn.The third presidential candidate Muhammad Chaudhry Ikram also hosted an event in Lahore Tuesday in his campaign.
The events were bright by lawyers, even if most of them were young lawyers who are not members of the Court suprême.Bon number lawyers who Monday dinner Jahangir also attended the Awais dinner the next day.
There are a total of 2,130 voters in SCBA, including the effect of Punjab, Sindh 326, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa 179 and 107 of the Baloutchistan.Ils will decide the fate of 55 candidates vying for 21 seats.Election of the most important is the niche of the presidential election.It is non-panel elections, which means that candidates seeking a position on an individual basis rather than in a group or party.
Senior members of the law society said that it would be a tight contest between Jahangir and Awais.Ils predicts that the margin of victory is not more than 50 votes.
All three candidates avoided showing public supports for older SCO judges for their campaign.
Jahangir was supposed to have the support of justice (ret'd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim, Khawaja Sultan Ahmed, former Presidents SCBA Abid Hasan Minto, justice (r) Tariq Mahmood, Qazi Muhammad Jamil, Munir A. Malik Ali Ahmed Kurdish, Act Federal former Minister Ms Masood, Malik Saeed Hasan, Mian Israrul Haq, Maqbool Elahi Malik Abdul Latif Afridi, justice (r) Majida Rizvi, Kazem Khan, Senator (r) justice Aqil Mirza, Mr. Khalid Ranjha, Muhammad Ashraf Wahla, Rana Ijaz Ahmed Khan, Khawaja Tariq Rahim, Ahsan Wyne and Ms Baqir.
Ahmed Awais is supported by Hamid Khan, President of the High Court of Lahore lawyers Abdul Quddus Mian, President of the Association of the bar of Karachi Mahmood - ul - Hassan, President of the Bar Association Rasheed A. Rizvi, Secretary SCBA Raja Zulqarnain, former Presidents of the Lahore High Court Bar Association M Kaleem Khurshid, Muhammad Saeed Ansari, Syed Ahmad Saeed Kirmani, Aamir Raza Khan and justice (r) lesser Javed Iqbal sind High Court.
Voting will take place from 8 h 30 to 17: 30 with a break for lunch hour and prières.à Lahore, voting will be held at the registry of the Court Supreme Lahore.
Mumtaz Mustafa, the vote of Lahore and vice director President of the Council of the order of the Punjab, said Tribune Express that no campaign would be permitted in the Office of said vote.Il SCBA Member would produce their members to obtain bulletins vote.Il cards said ABCC any part of the country could vote in Lahore, provided that they are firstly an affidavit did not vote in other parts of the country.
Published in the Gallery of the express, October 27 th, 2010.
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