{"id":639,"date":"2008-05-16T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/2008\/05\/16\/pbc-decision-on-aitzazs-election-today\/"},"modified":"2008-05-16T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T08:25:00","slug":"pbc-decision-on-aitzazs-election-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/the-bar\/pbc-decision-on-aitzazs-election-today\/","title":{"rendered":"PBC decision on Aitzaz\u2019s election today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Rana Tanveer<\/p>\n<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) will decide if Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aitzaz Ahsan should be allowed to contest the upcoming by-election in a meeting today (Friday).<\/p>\n<p>Talking to Daily Times, PBC member Parvaiz Inayat Malik said that hundreds of lawyers could not contest the general elections after the PBC had boycotted them.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the situation was still the same and the PBC had not withdrawn its decision to boycott the elections. Malik said it was \u2018unbecoming\u2019 of a bar official to accept any political office. However, he said that he was against the boycott of elections from the day one as the move went against the lawyers\u2019 struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Malik added he would support Aitzaz if the PBC allowed him to contest the by-election.<\/p>\n<p>PBC vice chairman Haji Syed Rehman said that it was better for Aitzaz not to participate in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Former LHCBA president Ahmed Awais told reporters that Aitzaz must follow the PBC\u2019s decision on whether he was allowed to stand in the by-elections. The PBC was to decide whether Aitzaz could stand in meeting last week, but the matter was put off till this week.<\/p>\n<p>link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C16%5Cstory_16-5-2008_pg7_46\">http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C16%5Cstory_16-5-2008_pg7_46<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Rana Tanveer LAHORE: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) will decide if Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-the-bar","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiefjusticeblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}