KARACHI: The annual elections of the Karachi and Malir bar associations for the year 2018 will be held on Saturday.

Over 6,500 eligible voters of the Karachi Bar Asso­ciation (KBA) would elect their 17-member body, comprising six office-bearers and 11 managing committee members.

The district and sessions judge (South), Imdad Hussain Khoso, will be the chief election commissioner while the legal proceedings would remain suspended at the City Courts as well as at the district courts Malir on Saturday.

Undertrial prisoners will not be brought to courts because of the elections.

Former KBA chief Mahmood-ul-Hasan, Haider Imam Rizvi and Sheikh Jawaid Mir are contesting for the top slot while Nasir Mehmood and Ashfaq Gilal are in the run for the post of general secretary.

Eight candidates are contesting for the office of vice president, four for joint secretary, three for treasurer and five for the post of librarian while there are 31 candidates for 11 seats of the managing committee.

The Malir Bar Association has over 600 eligible voters and they would elect six office-bearers and seven members for the managing committee.

Lawyers’ boycott

The legal proceedings remained suspended on Friday at the subordinate judiciary as lawyers observed a boycott.

The province-wide strike call was given by the Sindh Bar Council in protest against a case registered against around 40 lawyers in Multan after the courts in the new judicial complex were ransacked by them.

Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2017