PRESS RELEASE

A Joint meeting of Judicial and Electoral Reforms Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council with Vice-Chairmen of Provincial/Islamabad Bar Councils and Presidents of High Court Bar Associations, was held today at 11:00 a.m. in Council’s Office, Supreme Court Building, Islamabad with Mr. Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon, in the Chair. The attendance was as under:-

1. Mr. Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon,
Chairman.
Judicial and Electoral Reforms Committee, PBC.

2. Mr. Azam Nazeer Tarar,
Member,
Judicial and Electoral Reforms Committee, PBC

3. Mr. Tahir Nasrullah Warraich,
Member,
Judicial and Electoral Reforms Committee, PBC &
President, Lahore High Court Bar Association, Lahore.

4. Mr. Abid Saqi,
Vice-Chairman,
Pakistan Bar Council.

5. Mr. Sher Muhammad Khan,
Chairman, Executive Committee,
Pakistan Bar Council.

6. Mr. Kamran Murtaza,
Member,
Pakistan Bar Council.

7. Mr. Haider Imam Rizvi,
Vice-Chairman,
Sindh Bar Council.

8. Mr. Shahid Qayum Khattak,
Member,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council.

9. Qazi Rafi-ud-Din Babar,
Vice-Chairman,
Islamabad Bar Council.

10. Mr. Abdul Latif Afridi,
President,
Peshawar High Court Bar Association, Peshawar.

11. Ch. Haseeb Muhammad,
President,
Islamabad High Court Bar Association, Islamabad.

12. Malik Waheed Anjum,
President,
High Court Bar Association, Rawalpindi.

13. Ch. Tahir Mehmood,
President,
High Court Bar Association, Multan.

14. Mr. Zain-ul-Abideen,
President,
High Court Bar Association, D. I. Khan.

15. Mr. Sajjad Haider Sipra,
General Secretary,
High Court Bar Association, Multan.

16. Syed Zulfiqar Naqvi,
Member,
Punjab Bar Council.

2. The Joint meeting while considering the matter of formulating proposals of amendments in Rules of the Pakistan Bar Council, for reformation of election process of Bar Councils and Bar Associations, has decided that no prospective/contesting candidate or his supporter, in the ensuing elections of Provincial/Islamabad Bar Councils and the Bar Associations, shall canvass for votes through advertisements, banners, play cards and posters. He may, however, solicit support through personal contact and by issuing letters and visiting cards of “3 x “5 size, on which he may also display his photograph. Any violation thereof shall be treated as “misconduct”, dis-qualifying/dis-entitling the prospective/contesting candidate to contest election of the Bar Council and/or the Bar Association, as the case may be.

3. It has also been decided that in the election of Bar Associations in case of transfer of name of a voter member from one Bar Association to another, the transferee member/voter will be eligible to cast his vote in the election of the Bar Association to which he gets his name transferred, only after expiry of two years of such transfer.

SECRETARY