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Two major parties in national politics, PPP and PML-N, have formed an unholy alliance against Pakistan Tehrikh-e-Insafs presidential candidate in the Supreme Court Bar Association for 2012-2013.
Hamid Khan-led Professional Group has fielded Ahmad Awais against Mian Israul Haq of Independent Group, mainly led by Asma Jhangir and PCO judges.Hamid Khan is a central leader of PTI and Ahmad Awais is also an active member of the party.
PML-N claim to be a staunch supporter of judiciary and has always backed a candidate considered to be pro-judiciary and anti-government in Bars election but, this time, they have decided to favor Mian Israr only to throw out Hamid Khans group due to his affiliation with the PTI.
The PPP and its lawyers wing is already backing Haq. PML-N Lawyers Forum Pakistans chief MNA Advocate Naseer Ahmad Bhutta had announced backing Mian Israr. Likewise, PML-N Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan, his brother Rana Asadullah Khan and former president Anwar Kamal are also backing the Independent Group candidate.
Rana Mashood and Rana Asadullah both had won Lahore High Court Bar Association secretary seat. Interestingly all three of them had won Bars election with the backing of professional Group. PML-N leadership is also not happy with the decision of PML-N lawyers wing and has conveyed its concern to the quarters concerned. But all efforts to convince them to change their decision have failed.
Independent observers have disliked PML-N decision and termed it disastrous for Bars welfare. They are of the view that the partys line should not be followed to this extent that the Bar turns into political battle field. Lawyers are followers of rule of law and they should stick to their goal instead of indulging in dirty politics.
Ahmad Awais lost election to Asma Jhangir in 2010 but the situation was not so bad for him this year as big wigs of the Bar like Munir Malik and Akram Sheikh are backing him. In 2010 Munir Malik had openly supported Asma.
Similarly, Ali Ahmad Kurd, a popular leader of lawyers movement, had parted ways with Hamid Khan but he is not opposing Professionals candidate this year. However a prominent leader from Quetta Shakeel Hadi is backing Awais. Hadi is said to be close aide of Kurd. Judicial Activism Panels chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique is also campaigning for Professional Group. Members of PBC who are campaigning for Ahmad Awais include
Rasheed A Rizvi from Karachi, Maqsood Buttar, Saeed Akhtar, Ayaz Zahoor, and Pir Kaleem Khurshid. Hamid Khan is also a sitting member of the PBC.
Some former judges, including Wajihuddin Ahmad, Khalilur Rehman Ramday and others are also supporting the Professional Group candidate.
Awais is also a former president of the LHCBA. He actively participated in lawyers movement for independent judiciary and the ouster of Pervez Musharraf. He is trying his fortune for second time as he had lost his first SCBA election against Asma Jahangir.
Mian Israrul Haq is enjoying the support of Peoples Lawyers Forum and the group led by Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa. Justice (Retd) Tariq Mahmood is also supporting Haq. He had also backed Asma Jahangir two years back against Ahmad Awais.
Haq also enjoys backing of the Bars president Yasin Azad and PPP Senator and former federal law minister Babar Awan.
The Independent Group is mostly comprised of judges who were removed from office for taking oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order(PCO) and appointed on the recommendation of the then PCO Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar.
However, this year Ahmad Awais has changed his strategy and tried to create a soft corner in the hearts of the ousted judges. He is of the view that judges of the superior courts who had taken oath after the restoration of the Constitution had been ousted illegally. He said their case should be reconsidered in the light of Al Jehad Trust case and he would make efforts to this effect.
Other leaders of the lawyers community who are backing Haq include Azam Nazir Tarar, Ahsan Bhoon, Ramzan Chaudhry, Burhan Moazam Malik, Akhtar Hussain and Mian Abbas. They all are members of the Pakistan Bar Council. Latif Khan Afridi and Attique Shah from Peshawar and Ibrar Hasan from Karachi are also backing Haq.
Former Chief Justice Lahore High Court Khwaja Muhammad Sharif, however, is supporting Haq.
Haq is contesting his first SCBA election. He was twice elected as LHCBA president by defeating Hafiz Abdul Rehman Ansari in 2001 and Sabir Kaifi in 2006.
He lost his first election for LHCBA top slot to Pir Kaleem Khurshid of Professional Group in 2000. Haq is a senior bar member and is known for the welfare work he did for the legal community during his tenures as LHCBA head rather for his contribution to national-level bar politics. He is also a member of the PBC. He vowed to secure 3000 residential plots for the Bar members.
Barrister Zafarullah Khan is an independent candidate for the presidential slot.
Lahore will play key role in the outcome of the election result as 70 per cent of total eligible voters are registered in Punjab and most of them in Lahore.
Nine candidates are running for four slots of SCBA vice president from all provinces. They are: Muhammad Riaz Khan Swati and Abdullah Kakar from Balochistan, Jamal Khattak and Muhammad Arif Khan from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Muhammad Tahir Chaudhry and Rana Naeem Sarwar from Punjab while Abbas Ali, Ain-ud-Din Khan and Syed Jamil Ahmed from Sindh.
Javed Iqbal Raja and Muhammad Sohail Dar are vying for one seat of secretary.
Abdul Majeed Khan, Fayaz Ahmed Rana and Muhammad Saleheen Mughal are in the field for one seat of additional secretary. Abdul Rashid Qari and Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Ghumman are contesting for one seat of finance secretary.
A total of 2,592 eligible voters will vote at nine polling stations in different cities of the country. Polling will be held on October 31st (tomorrow) in Karachi, Hyderabad, Quetta, Peshawar, Abbotabad, Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur and Islamabad.
PML-N, PPP join hands against PTI - thenews.com.pk
Hamid Khan-led Professional Group has fielded Ahmad Awais against Mian Israul Haq of Independent Group, mainly led by Asma Jhangir and PCO judges.Hamid Khan is a central leader of PTI and Ahmad Awais is also an active member of the party.
PML-N claim to be a staunch supporter of judiciary and has always backed a candidate considered to be pro-judiciary and anti-government in Bars election but, this time, they have decided to favor Mian Israr only to throw out Hamid Khans group due to his affiliation with the PTI.
The PPP and its lawyers wing is already backing Haq. PML-N Lawyers Forum Pakistans chief MNA Advocate Naseer Ahmad Bhutta had announced backing Mian Israr. Likewise, PML-N Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Rana Mashood Ahmad Khan, his brother Rana Asadullah Khan and former president Anwar Kamal are also backing the Independent Group candidate.
Rana Mashood and Rana Asadullah both had won Lahore High Court Bar Association secretary seat. Interestingly all three of them had won Bars election with the backing of professional Group. PML-N leadership is also not happy with the decision of PML-N lawyers wing and has conveyed its concern to the quarters concerned. But all efforts to convince them to change their decision have failed.
Independent observers have disliked PML-N decision and termed it disastrous for Bars welfare. They are of the view that the partys line should not be followed to this extent that the Bar turns into political battle field. Lawyers are followers of rule of law and they should stick to their goal instead of indulging in dirty politics.
Ahmad Awais lost election to Asma Jhangir in 2010 but the situation was not so bad for him this year as big wigs of the Bar like Munir Malik and Akram Sheikh are backing him. In 2010 Munir Malik had openly supported Asma.
Similarly, Ali Ahmad Kurd, a popular leader of lawyers movement, had parted ways with Hamid Khan but he is not opposing Professionals candidate this year. However a prominent leader from Quetta Shakeel Hadi is backing Awais. Hadi is said to be close aide of Kurd. Judicial Activism Panels chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique is also campaigning for Professional Group. Members of PBC who are campaigning for Ahmad Awais include
Rasheed A Rizvi from Karachi, Maqsood Buttar, Saeed Akhtar, Ayaz Zahoor, and Pir Kaleem Khurshid. Hamid Khan is also a sitting member of the PBC.
Some former judges, including Wajihuddin Ahmad, Khalilur Rehman Ramday and others are also supporting the Professional Group candidate.
Awais is also a former president of the LHCBA. He actively participated in lawyers movement for independent judiciary and the ouster of Pervez Musharraf. He is trying his fortune for second time as he had lost his first SCBA election against Asma Jahangir.
Mian Israrul Haq is enjoying the support of Peoples Lawyers Forum and the group led by Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa. Justice (Retd) Tariq Mahmood is also supporting Haq. He had also backed Asma Jahangir two years back against Ahmad Awais.
Haq also enjoys backing of the Bars president Yasin Azad and PPP Senator and former federal law minister Babar Awan.
The Independent Group is mostly comprised of judges who were removed from office for taking oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order(PCO) and appointed on the recommendation of the then PCO Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar.
However, this year Ahmad Awais has changed his strategy and tried to create a soft corner in the hearts of the ousted judges. He is of the view that judges of the superior courts who had taken oath after the restoration of the Constitution had been ousted illegally. He said their case should be reconsidered in the light of Al Jehad Trust case and he would make efforts to this effect.
Other leaders of the lawyers community who are backing Haq include Azam Nazir Tarar, Ahsan Bhoon, Ramzan Chaudhry, Burhan Moazam Malik, Akhtar Hussain and Mian Abbas. They all are members of the Pakistan Bar Council. Latif Khan Afridi and Attique Shah from Peshawar and Ibrar Hasan from Karachi are also backing Haq.
Former Chief Justice Lahore High Court Khwaja Muhammad Sharif, however, is supporting Haq.
Haq is contesting his first SCBA election. He was twice elected as LHCBA president by defeating Hafiz Abdul Rehman Ansari in 2001 and Sabir Kaifi in 2006.
He lost his first election for LHCBA top slot to Pir Kaleem Khurshid of Professional Group in 2000. Haq is a senior bar member and is known for the welfare work he did for the legal community during his tenures as LHCBA head rather for his contribution to national-level bar politics. He is also a member of the PBC. He vowed to secure 3000 residential plots for the Bar members.
Barrister Zafarullah Khan is an independent candidate for the presidential slot.
Lahore will play key role in the outcome of the election result as 70 per cent of total eligible voters are registered in Punjab and most of them in Lahore.
Nine candidates are running for four slots of SCBA vice president from all provinces. They are: Muhammad Riaz Khan Swati and Abdullah Kakar from Balochistan, Jamal Khattak and Muhammad Arif Khan from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Muhammad Tahir Chaudhry and Rana Naeem Sarwar from Punjab while Abbas Ali, Ain-ud-Din Khan and Syed Jamil Ahmed from Sindh.
Javed Iqbal Raja and Muhammad Sohail Dar are vying for one seat of secretary.
Abdul Majeed Khan, Fayaz Ahmed Rana and Muhammad Saleheen Mughal are in the field for one seat of additional secretary. Abdul Rashid Qari and Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Ghumman are contesting for one seat of finance secretary.
A total of 2,592 eligible voters will vote at nine polling stations in different cities of the country. Polling will be held on October 31st (tomorrow) in Karachi, Hyderabad, Quetta, Peshawar, Abbotabad, Lahore, Multan, Bahawalpur and Islamabad.
PML-N, PPP join hands against PTI - thenews.com.pk
