LARKANA, Nov 29: The Pakistan People’s Party-backed People’s Lawyers Forum (PLF) swept the Sindh High Court Bar Association, Larkana, election for the year 2012-2013 defeating the Sindh Bachayo Panel (SBP).

Additional Sessions Judge-II Sim Khan Mughal supervised the entire process of the election held on Thursday. According to unofficial results announced in the evening, not a single SBP candidate won a seat.

For the slot of president, Asif Ali Soomro, son of (former ambassador to the UAE) Abdul Razzak Soomro, bagged 194 votes to defeat his rival, PML-N-backed Babu Sarfraz Jatoi, who polled 95 votes.

Aijaz Ali Shah of PLF obtained 176 votes to defeat SBP’s Nisar Ahmed Abro, who got 127 votes in the election for vice-president.

Khalid Iqbal Memon, a former PPP MNA, was elected general secretary with 164 votes as against 142 votes polled by his opponent, Shamsuddin Abbasi, son of the late Maulana Jan Muhammed Abbasi.

Asif Hussain Chandio of PLF secured 172 votes defeating his opponent, Abdul Sattar Janweri, who secured 78 votes for the post of joint secretary. Naushad Ali Tagar, also a PLF candidate, got 181 votes against his opponent Muhammed Aslam Jatoi’s 120 votes for the seat of treasurer while Ghulam Rasool Soomro of the same panel polled 178 votes to defeat Irshad Ali Chandio of SBP who obtained 121 votes for the seat of library secretary.

All seven managing committee seats were won by PLF candidates, who are Ali Azhar Tunio (163 votes), Muhammed Azam Shaikh (172 votes), Safdar Ali Ghouri (211 votes), Ali Raza Pathan (183 votes), Akeel Ahmed Bhutto (199 votes), Syed Ghous Ali Shah (190 votes) and Muhammed Yakoob Dahani (162 votes). Out of 425 registered voters, 338 cast their votes in the election, said Additional Advocate General Abdul Hamid Bhurgari. Of the 338 votes polled, 26 were rejected and 21 challenged by the SBP.