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Union Minister for Law Azam Nazeer Tarar. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Following the passage of the 26th and 27th constitutional amendments, the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) elections scheduled for December 13 are considered crucial as both professional and independent groups have made demands for a majority in the highest legal body of lawyers for the next five years.
The members of the Provincial and Islamabad Bar Councils who are voters in this election will elect 23 members of the Pakistan Bar Council from their respective provinces and ICT.
The significance of the election can be gauged from the fact that Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Salman Akram Raja are participating in the election.
The majority of the PBC members nominate their representative to the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) – a constitutional body for the appointment of judges.
The Independent Group, which is known as the pro-government group, has been in the majority in the PBC since 2010. The group members still claim that they will get a majority in the upcoming elections.
On the other hand, Professional group, which is pro PTI and strong critic of two constitutional amendments, is confident that they will secure majority of total 23 PBC members.
A total of 59 candidates have submitted their nomination papers for the Pakistan Bar Council Members Election from across the country.
Five candidates have filed their nomination papers for the single seat for membership of the Bar Council of Pakistan from the province of Balochistan,
Eleven candidates have filed papers for four seats reserved for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 27 candidates for eleven seats allotted to Punjab and 14 candidates for six seats reserved for Sindh, while two candidates for one seat reserved for ICT.
The members of the Independent Group claim that they will secure eight seats in Punjab, three in KP, three in Sindh and one in ICT.
On the other hand, the members of Professional group are quite confident that they will be able to win five seats in Punjab, two in KP, three in Sindh and one in Balochistan.
A member belonging to Professional Group even revealed that the group is working to get five seats in Punjab, four seats in Sindh and stated that they are making extra effort to secure seat from ICT.
It is learned that members of the Independent group are getting majority support from PBC members who belonged to South Punjab, Sargodha and Faisalabad, while Professional Group is claiming support from majority members who belonged to Lahore and Guranwala and Rawalpindi divisions.
In Balochistan, the contesting candidates are Munir Ahmad Khan Kakar, Rehmatullah Barech, Jameel Ahmed Khan, Amanullah Kanrani and Muhammad Rauf Atta.
Munir Kakar is favorite candidate among them.
In KP, the contesting candidates are Syed Amjad Shah, Noor Alam Khan, Qazi Muhammad Arshad, Khush Dil Khan, Rehmanullah, Atlas Khan, Malik Akhtar Hussain Awan, Abdul Sattar Khan, Qazi Muhammad Anwar, Naveed Akhtar and Kausar Ali Shah.
It is learned that ANP’s legal wing will be able to easily get two seats in the province. It will be interesting as how the PTI-backed Faggruppe gets three seats in KP.
A member says the group has an advantage as the PTI rules the province. He admitted that the group could not get majority mandates in the KP Bar Council elections.
In Punjab, Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon, Azam Nazeer Tarar, Syed Qalb-i-Hassan, Ch. Tahir Nasrullah Warraich, Saqib Akram Gondal, Hafeez-ur-Rehman Chaudhry, Pir Muhammad Masood Chishti, Muhammad Maqsood Buttar, Amir Saeed Rawn, Pervaiz Inayat Malik, Asif Mehmood Cheema , Zulfiqar Ali , Mahmood Mu Ashraf I Khanas, She Mu Ashraf I Khan. Ahsan ud Din, Mian Abdul Qaddous, Muhammad Asad Manzoor Butt, Salman Akram Raja, Mushtaq Ahmad Mohal, Ch. Zulfiqar Ali, Ch. Ishtiaq Ahmad Khan, Ahmad Awais, Shafqat Mehmood Chohan, Rana Zia Abdul Rehman, Khadim Hussain Qaiser, Malik Ghulam Mustafa Kandwal, Zafar Mahmood Mughal.
In Sindh, Salahuddin Ahmed, Muhammad Lutfullah Arain, Munir Ahmed Malik, Shahab Sarki, Muhammad Nadeem Qureshi, Abid Shahid Zuberi, Rana Muhammad Shamim, Ubedullah Malano, Fazal Qadir Memon, Farooq Hamid Naek, Hameedullah Abdah Dahri, Ali Lagshi, Hameedullah Dahri, Quur Lagshi, and Muhammad Saleem Mangrio.
In ICT, Raja Rizwan Abbasi and Syed Qamar Hussain Shah Sabzwari are on the run.
The review of proposal letters (nomination papers) will be held in the Returning Officer, Islamabad on Tuesday 2nd December 2025 at 10:00. Voting will take place on Saturday, December 13, 2025 in all four provincial capitals and ICT in Attorney General offices.
