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In Pakistan Bar Council elections, five out of six members have been elected from Sindh. the elected members include Akhtar Hussain, Salahuddin, Rasheed A. Rizvi. Zia Awan and Yaseen Azad. Polling completed for the 22 seats of Pakistan Bar Council in all the four provincial bar councils. Seventy-five members of the Punjab Bar Council, the supreme statutory body of the country, will decide the fate of 30 candidates for 11 seats from Punjab. Of the 30 candidates vying for the election in Punjab, Ramazan Chaudhry, Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon, Hamid Khan, Asrarul Haq Mian, Mian Abbas Ahmed and Azam Nazeer Tarar are mostly likely to win the seats. The 22 seats on the council are divided among the provinces, with Punjab getting 11 seats, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa four, Sindh six and Balochistan one seat. The candidates must be members of the Supreme Court Bar Association to qualify for the polls. The elections in Punjab held in the office of Punjab Advocate General, who is also the presiding officer for the election here in Lahore. The voting remained continued till 3pm. Elected members of provincial bar councils cast votes in election of the PBC. The Attorney General of Pakistan is the Election Commission while all four advocate generals perform as presiding officers. Employees of the Senate of Pakistan would conduct the election and hold counting by applying a formula, according to which every voter could cast 11 votes for 11 seats in Punjab but he had to prioritize the candidates. The top priority vote would give 100 points to the candidate. With the decrease in the priority, points also decrease. It is reported that some of the candidates have purchased their voters by through cash and kind.
