Provisional results show that ANP-backed lawyers won the majority of seats in the KP bar council elections.

ANP – (Special Correspondent / Web Desk) – Lawyers supported by the Awami National Party (ANP) won at least 12 of the 28 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council seats, outperforming other organizations in voting held across the province on Saturday, according to preliminary data.

Unofficial results announced on Sunday revealed that three candidates from Malgari Wakilan (MW), which is linked with the ANP, two from the PTI’s lawyer’s wing, and an independent candidate were elected to six of Peshawar’s seven seats.

Meanwhile, there were conflicting reports on the results for the seventh seat until the most recent revisions.

Those who were declared successful in Peshawar included Khizar Hayat Khazana, Fazal-i-Wahid and Babar Khan Yousafzai of MW, Ali Zaman and Sophia Noreen of the Insaf Lawyers Forum (ILF) and an independent candidate, Muhammad Saeed.

As for the winner for the seventh seat, initially Rafiq Mohmand of MW was reported as successful, but later reports also emerged about the victory of a female candidate, Khushnood Zakirullah.

The official result of the elections will be announced on November 4.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Advocate General Shah Faisal Uthmankhel, who is also chairman of the KP Bar Council, was the returning officer for the polls.

According to unofficial results for other cities, independent candidate Fida Afridi bagged the bar council seat in Nowshera, Zarbadshah of MW and Asfandyar of Islamic Lawyers Forum won in Mardan and Syed Mubashir Shah of MW emerged victorious in Swabi.

Meanwhile, Said Hakeem of the Peoples Lawyers Forum (PLF) won the joint seat for Buner and Malakand, Inayat Khan of MW won in Swat and Fawad Khan of the Jamiat Lawyers Forum (JLF) won in Shangla.

Mohammad Ali Khan, who is endorsed by the PML-N, and Shah Faisal, an independent candidate, were elected to the Abbottabad bar council.

Waqas Raza of the ILF and Waqarul Mulk of the JLF, both of whom were supported by the ILF, won Mansehra.  Shahid Mahmood, with the help of the ANP, won the Haripur seat.

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Hashmat Khan of the PLF and Ahmad Ali, who were both supported by the ANP, won in Dera Ismail Khan, while Farooq Sabir of the ILF triumphed in Lakki Marwat.

Ahmad Farooq Khattak of MW won the Karak seat, while Imaad Azam, supported by the ANP, won in Kohat. Shah Hussain of the MW bagged the Bannu seat, Ikram Hussain of the Islamic Lawyers Forum won in Chitral Upper and Lower, while Shah Faisal Yousafzai of the MW won the joint Dir and Bajaur seat.