LARKANA: The PPP-ba­ck­­ed panel won most seats in the annual election of the High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Larkana, but lost the key slot of general secretary which was grabbed by Sham­suddin Abbasi, son of Moulana Jan Muhammed Abbasi.

This time reportedly a breakaway group of the Peoples Lawyers Forum (PLF) contested the election by the name of ‘Group of Friends’ supported by senior lawyer Asif Abdul Razzak Soomro, president of the PLF Sindh.

The election was held on the high court premises un­­der the supervision of Add­­itional Session Judge Abdul Rehman Qazi and unofficial results were announced late Saturday night.

According to the results, former SHC judge Ghulam Dastagir Shahani secured 241 votes while defeating his opponent Babu Sarfraz Jatoi who got 148 votes for the seat of president. Altaf Surhiyo obtained 263 votes and became vice president by defeating his opponent Ali Azhar Tunio, who secured 125 votes. Shamsuddin Abbasi defeated Rafi­que Abro for the seat of general secretary by bagging 243 votes to become the general secretary restricting Mr Abro to 146 votes. Noorullah Rind of the pro-PPP panel secured 218 votes and won the seat of joint secretary by defeating his opponent from the PML-N, Irshad Chandio, who got 153 votes. Safdar Ghouri won the seat of library secretary with 221 votes while his opponent Afzal Jagirani got 143 votes.

Published in Dawn, January 26th, 2015

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