ISLAMABAD, Oct 17: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president, Hafiz Abdur Rehman Ansari, on Monday resigned in protest from the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) membership after an altercation with a senior member of the council over delay in the association’s elections.

In his letter to the PBC vice-chairman, Hafiz Abdur Rehman Ansari said that the chairman executive committee of the PBC in a telephonic conversation with him took a very harsh and uncharitable view of the decision of the SCBA’s executive committee to delay the association’s election in view of the quake in the NWFP.

“As I represent the unfortunate province in the PBC, I deem it proper to resign from the membership of the council. In any case I do not harbour any desire to go beyond the period of my term of office,” he stated in his resignation.