Ahmed Shah group sweeps Arts Council polls 2021-22.

KARACHI -- The Ahmed Shah-Ejaz Faruqi Panel has swept the election of the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi 2021-2022, as none of the single candidate of the rival groups, Democrate Arts Forum and Arts Forum Panel could managed to return successful on the slot of member governing body.

Around 2135 members had cast their votes during the poll, of them 61 were rejected. Muhammad Ahmed Shah secured 1830 votes and was re-elected as president of the ACP for the next two years.

Haseena Moin secured 1825 and elected as vice president, Prof Aijaz Faruqi bagged 1851 votes and elected as Secretary while Asjad Bukhari got 1733 votes to win the post of Joint Secretary.

All 12 candidates of the governing body also returned victorious including Talat Hussain (1903) votes, Dr Qaiser Sajad (1857), Kashif Girami (1844), Qudsia Akbar (1838), Munawar Saeed (1808), Iqbal Lateef (1797), Noorul Huda Shah (1790), Amber Haseeb (1778), Saadat Jaffery (1756), Bashir Sadozai (1718), Nusrat Harris (1665) and Dr Ayub Shaikh (1657).

The Elections were held on Sunday under the supervision of Chief Election Commissioner, Commissioner Karachi in which a contest was held between Ahmad Shah Ijaz Farooqi, Democratic Arts Forum and Arts Forum panel.

The polling started at 10:15 a.m. when the first vote was cast by renowned surgeon Dr. Sher Shah Syed. The polling continued...