SCBA elections tomorrow as Aman Khan, Amjad Shah vie for presidency

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will hold its annual elections for 2026–27 on Thursday, with Sardar Aman Khan and Syed Amjad Shah set to contest the presidency in the closely watched lawyers’ poll.

A total of 4,630 lawyers are eligible to vote in the elections, according to the figures provided for the poll. Mian Irfan Akram and Muhammad Arif Awan will contest the secretary’s post.

The election will also determine the association’s vice presidents, additional secretary, finance secretary and executive committee members.

According to the final list of candidates, Abdul Malik Baloch and Muhammad Ibrahim Lehri Baloch are contesting for vice president from Balochistan, while Hazrat Saeed and Moeenuddin Humayun are in the running for the corresponding post from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Chaudhry Arshad Hussain and Muhammad Yasin Bhatti are contesting for vice president from Punjab, while Abdul Wahab Baloch and Jam Asif Mahmood Lar are vying for the Sindh seat.

For additional secretary, Qazi Shehryar Iqbal will face Saira Khalid Rajput, while Muhammad Tanveer Chaudhry and Rai Azhar Iqbal Kharl are contesting for finance secretary.

Executive committee contests

Four candidates — Asmatullah Mandokhail, Muhammad Hassan Mengal, Muhammad Ali and Shamsur Rehman Rind — are in the race for the four executive committee seats allocated to Balochistan.

For the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa executive committee seat, the candidates are Ijaz Ahmed Malik, Kashif Jan and Syed Azizuddin Kakakhel.

The contest for the executive committee seat covering the Multan-Bahawalpur region is between Pirzada Niaz Mustafa Qureshi and Sardar Ashiq Hussain Baloch.

Chaudhry A. Masood Gujjar, Rana Javed Iqbal and Safia Noorain are contesting for the Punjab executive committee seat.

Four candidates are in the running for the Sindh executive committee seats: Aamir Jameel Virk, Arshad Mubeen Ahmed, Ijaz Ahmed Awan and Ghulam Mujtaba Phul.

Regional voter breakdown

The voter figures provided for the elections list 1,498 lawyers in Lahore, 854 in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, 788 in Sindh, 646 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 361 in Balochistan, 323 in Multan and 150 in Bahawalpur.

Lahore has the largest number of voters among the listed regions.

The final list of candidates was issued on October 15, according to the Associated Press of Pakistan. The elections will determine the association’s leadership and executive committee for the 2026–27 term.