PESHAWAR, April 9: The election for the 33 seats of the NWFP Bar Council will be held throughout the province on Saturday. Ninety candidates are contesting for the seats. Thirty candidates belonging to three panels are trying their luck for the nine seats in Peshawar.

One of the panels belongs to Malgaray Wakeelan, lawyers body affiliated with the ANP. The other panel is backed by the PPP, Jamaat-e-Islami, PML-Q and PML-N. Another panel belongs to independent candidates, including some senior members of the Bar council, who have served as its members for different terms.

Candidates of the Malgaray Wakeelan panel include Zulfiqar Chamkani, Qaiser Rasheed, Ishtiaq Ibraheem, Ms S. Naz Mohammadzai, Khalilullah Khalil, Subhanullah Khan, Razaullah Khan and Sohail Akhter.

Prominent candidates in the panel backed by four political parties include Mussaratullah Khan, Abdullah Sani, Bashir Khan Tanghi, Khursheed Khan and Parveen Akhter.

The independent lawyers' panel include Said Rehman Khan, Sattar Khan, Sher Afgan Khattak, Syed Attique Shah, Roohul Amin Khan and Ismael Khalil. Said Rehman Khan and Sher Afgan Khattak are also the incumbent members of the council.

Out of the total of 33 seats, Peshawar Division will have 11 seats (nine for the Peshawar district and one each for the Nowshera and Charssada districts), Mardan, Kohat and Dera Ismail Khan divisions three seats each, Bannu two, Hazara five and Malakand Division six seats. The total number of voters in the whole of the province is 7,884.