MINGORA: Swat Bar body holds election

Published January 12, 2004

MINGORA, Jan 11: The annual election of the Swat Bar Association was held here on Saturday. Miangul Saeed advocate was elected as president of the Bar by grabbing 115 votes as compared to 95 by his opponent Aftab Alam advocate.

The other office-bearers are Sher Ali Shah (vice-president), Asghar Ali (general-secretary), Haq Nawaz (joint-secretary), Shaukat Saleem (finance secretary) and Mohammad Nisar (librarian).

Miangul Saeed advocate was the only candidate, who succeeded from the panel announced by the Malgaree Wakilan sponsored by Awami National Party (ANP). Aftab Alam advocate belongs to the Pakistan Tehrik Insaf (PTI). The rest of office-bearers are belonging to Pakistan People's Party (PPP Sherpao), Pakistan Pople's Party.

GAS SUPPLY: Residents of Odigram have demanded of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines' to ensure a continuous and steady supply of Sui gas to the locality, and remove the prevailing anxiety among the people.

In a joint statement here on Sunday, the residents said that the chairman of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines had promised that Odigram would be included in the first phase when Sui gas would be supplied to Swat, as Odigram was located on the main Malakand- Mingora road.

They said that so far the authorities had failed to honour the promise, which has created a lot of concern among the people about the supply of Sui gas to the locality.

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