12 January 2004	Monday	19 Ziqa'ad 1424

LAHORE, Jan 11: The Lahore Bar Association re-poll may take place sometimes next week. The election board is meeting on Monday (today) to take a decision about the re-poll, sources said on Sunday.

The board left the elections on Saturday after unruly lawyers stormed the polling station at district courts. Board chairman Ahmad Hasan Khan, who abandoned the polling, said the exercise stood cancelled and a re-poll would be held.

The other members of the three-member board are Malik Muzaffar Ali and Munir Ahmad. It was constituted by LBA's executive committee in the last week of November.

Library secretary and all the members of the executive committee, including one from Model Town, have been elected unopposed. The election of the remaining seven offices, including the president, is the work left with the board.

The LBA constitution seeks a re-poll because the electoral exercise has partly been held with some offices declared elected without contest. The constitution stipulates a three-month period for the board. But indications are that the process will be completed sometimes next week.

The outgoing Bar executive committee did not meet on Sunday as it was waiting for a decision on the re-poll date from the election board. The executive committee will meet for the purpose of making arrangements for the re-poll as and when the election board informs it of a date.