Karachi:Sixty-four candidates have submitted their nomination papers to contest the upcoming 2019-20 election of Arts Council of Pakistan to be held on 23 December 2018. Four candidates each will vie for president and join secretary; six each for vice president, secretary and treasurer slots; and 30 for the governing body.
For the transparency, Assistant Commissioner, Chief Election Commissioner and Commissioner Karachi were present at the election camp office at the Arts Council Karachi. For the presidentship, Muhammad Ahmed Shah, Muhammad Aslam, Najim Ud Din Shaikh and Qari Muhammad Sadaqat Ali submitted their nomination forms. Najim Ud Din Shaikh, Mubashir Mir, Athar Waqar Azam, Muma Mir, Muhammad Iqbal Latif and Munawar Saeed submitted their forms for the vice president slot, whereas Najim Ud Din Shaikh, Muhammad Aslam, Mubashir Mir, Ejaz Ahmed Farooqi and Qudsia Akbar submitted their nomination forms for the secretary slot.
Joint Secretary slot candidates are Syed Muhammad Faisal Nadeem, Faheen Ahmed Siddiqui, Asjid Hussain Bukhari and Khalid Ariyan are the candidates, whereas for the treasurer Syed Muhammad Faisal Nadeem, Faheen Ahmed Siddiqui, Huma Mir, Qudsia Akbar, Haseena Moeen, and Jaafar Aziz will contest the polls.
The governing body candidates included Syed Nasim Ahmed Shah, Syed Muhammad Aslam Shah, Anwar Raza, Seema Hafeez, Shaikh Javed Mahboob, Sabhat Bukhari, Muhammad Ali Shayeki, Wasal Haider, Zulfiqar Haider Khuram, Umair Ali Anjim, Muhammad Nayeen Tahir, Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Ghaza Arif , Mumtaz Raza Siyal, Mansoor Zubari, Syed Abdul Basit, Qandeel Jahfari, Talat Hussain, Asjid Hussain Bukhari, Uzma Al Karim, S.M. Qaisar Sajjad, Shaikh Rashid Alam, Shakeel Khan, Muhammad Iqbal Latif, Syed Saadat Ali Jahfari, Huma Mir, Khalid Ariyan, Athar Waqar Azeem, Kashif Garami, Muhammad Ayub Shaikh, Anbreen Haseeb, Qudsia Akbar, Muhammad Basheer Khan Sadozai, Farukh T Shohaib, Noor Ul Huda Shah, Munawar Saeed, Syed Muhammad Imran Momina and Hassena Moin.