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Islamabad Bar Council Election Underway for 2025–2030 Term

Judges preside over 20 booths with results to be posted at each.

Overview

  • Polling continues until 4:00pm as lawyers cast ballots to fill five seats on the council.
  • More than 6,000 eligible voters may select up to five candidates on their ballots.
  • Twenty-one candidates are in the race, including Abdul Rehman Bajwa, Asif Irfan, Chaudhry Hafizullah Yaqub and former IHCBA president Raiyat Ali Azad.
  • Twenty judges, including District and Sessions Judges from East and West, are serving as presiding and polling officers across 20 booths citywide.
  • Courts are closed for the day under strict security at the District Judicial Complex, and counting will begin immediately after polls close with booth-level result announcements.