PHC restores chief of Kohat Bar Association

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday suspended the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council (KPBC) decision about re-polling on the slot of Kohat District Bar Association’s president.
A two-member bench comprising Justice Irshad Qaiser and Justice Qalandar Ali Khan also restored Malik Emad Azam as the elected president of Kohat Bar Association till the next order of the court.
The court also issued notice to KP Bar Council, Pakistan Bar Council and federal government in the writ petition filed against the decision of the KP Bar Council to declare an elected president of the Kohat Bar Association due to his less experience than 10 years as high court lawyer.
The petitioner lawyer, Aminur Rehman Yousafzai, submitted before the bench that his client had contested the Kohat Bar Association election for the year 2015-16 and got elected as president for the post.