KOHAT, Feb 22: A day after declaring advocate Malik Iqbal elected unopposed as president of the Kohat District Bar Association, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council (KPBC) on Tuesday revoked the election as invalid and called for fresh polls on March 5.

Malik Iqbal was declared the winner on Monday after the nomination papers of his lone rival advocate Abdur Rauf, who is also president of Kohat PPP, were rejected on the charges of corruption leveled against him by the former.

Senior lawyers, including Anwar Afandi, Kohat PML-N president, and Mr Rauf told Dawn that the KPBC member, advocate Swab Khan, who supervised the election, called for fresh polls after discovering that the objections to the nomination of Mr Rauf were baseless.

A fresh notification issued here set Feb 26 as the date for submission of nomination papers for contesting various offices of the Kohat District Bar Association.

TRAFFIC POLICE: District police officer Mubarik Zeb Khan on Tuesday transferred all ticketing staff of traffic police to various police stations.

According to a notification, head constable Akbar Khan had been transferred to the investigation branch and other staff relocated to Lachi, Ustarzai and Gumbat police stations and Shadikhel checkpost.

Meanwhile, Arab Jan, Zahidullah, Muhammad Sharif, Muhammad Qadeem and Aziz Ahmed have been given shoulder promotions as sub-inspectors and relocated to the ticketing branch.

DEMONSTRATION: The people of Naryab and Tora Warai areas of Hangu district on Tuesday staged a demonstration, demanding early repair of the telephone exchange.

Speaking to the protesters in Doaba, local elders Akbar Hussain and Abdur Rehman complained that in the absence of electricity 900 telephone lines were lying dead for the last six days. — Correspondent