By Abdul Qadir Qureshi
(Pakistan News and Features Services)
(Pakistan News and Features Services)
Amir Latif of Online News Network was elected as Secretary and Imtiaz Khan Faran of Daily Awam was re-elected as President of the Karachi Press Club as their Democrats Panel registered a landslide victory in the KPC Elections 2013 held on December 29.
All the elected 12 office-bearers belonged to the Democrats, who overcame the joint candidates of the Green Panel and the Panel. Amir Latif also earned the distinction of securing the highest number of votes (582) with his rival Faisal Aziz Khan of Geo News getting 318 votes.
According to the results announced by the Election Commission, Imtiaz Faran was elected President with 521 votes while his rival, G M Jamali of Daily Express claimed 387 votes.
Saeed Sarbazi of Business Recorder was elected Vice President with 502 votes with his rival Khurshid Abbassi of Daily Awam bagging 402 votes. Arman Sabir of BBC Radio was elected Treasurer with 559 votes as his rival Ataullah Abro of Nawa-i-Waqt got 327 votes.
Shams Kerio of Daily Aaino was elected Joint Secretary with 580 votes as his rival Kashif Hussain of ARY News got 319 votes.
Hina Mahgul Rind (616 votes), Asif Jiaja (577), Javed Asghar Chaudhry (547), Mohammad Ramzan Chandio (522), Jamshed Gul Bukhari (520), Imdad Soomro (507) and Kashif Rais Farooqi (497), all of them belonging to the Democrats panel, were elected members of the Governing Body.
The polling started at 9 am and continued until 5 pm without any break. There was a steady turnout with 915 of the 1,111 eligible members casting their votes in the booths set up in the club’s spacious parking lot.
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