KARACHI: PHWU election

Published May 26, 2007

KARACHI, May 25: An election for the office-bearers and executive committee of the Pakistan Herald Workers Union for the year 2007-09 was held here on Thursday.

Afzal Baloch was elected as president, Zaheer Mangalwala as junior vice-president and Shafiuddin Ashraf as general secretary. Other office-bearers were elected unopposed.

Abdus Samad, Mehboob A. Ansari, M. Anis Hamdani, Zahidul Islam, Abdul Rahim Sipahi, Azizur Rehman, Mohammad Javed Khan, Ghulam Fariduddin and Khalid Hasan Khan were elected members of the executive committee in a close contest, said a press release.

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