Hamid Khan group regains LHCBA top slot.

LAHORE -- The Hamid Khan-led Professional group returned to the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) after a gap of three years with Maqsood Buttar notching the top slot of president with a significant margin in an annual election held on Saturday for 2021-22.

The Independent group, better known as late Asma Jahangir's group, retained the top slot for three consecutive years since 2018.

Buttar bagged 5,639 votes and his rival Sardar Akbar Ali Dogar of the Independent group obtained 3,888 in a one-on-one contest.

A total of 9,583 out of 21,667 cleared voters cast their votes in the polling held on the biometric system.

Buttar enjoyed support of the lawyers` wings of PPP, PTl, Jamaat-i-Islami and a faction of PML-N headed by bar's former secretary Rana Asadullah Khan, also the brother of MPA Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan.

Former governor of Punjab Sardar Latif Khosa's faction of Peoples Lawyers Forum (PLF) also supported Buttar.

Main chapter of PML-N Lawyers` Forum led by its president Naseer Ahmad Bhutta and a bloc of PLF headed by Abid Saqi usually backed the late Asma's group. All factions of Insaf Lawyers Forum, including the major one of Barrister Ali...