Nisar Ahmed and Shamim Ara elected RIBJA president and secretary unopposed

 JournalismPakistan.com |  Published: 27 December 2018

Nisar Ahmed and Shamim Ara were elected unopposed as RIBJA president and general-secretary. Other key positions were also filled without competition.

Summary

ISLAMABAD – Nisar Ahmed and Shamim Ara were elected unopposed as the president and general-secretary of Rawalpindi-Islamabad Bureaus Journalists Association (RIBJA).

Chairman Election Committee Iqbal Jaffery announced this. There was no competition for other positions as well, he said.

Others elected unopposed are: Azam Khan Hoti, Syed Tahir Shah, Syed Nusrat Abbas, and Hanif Abid (vice presidents), Faheem Zubair Abbasi (finance secretary), Raja Javed Akhtar, Farooq Ahmed, Syed Mujhaid Naqvi, and Malik Naveed Iqbal (joint secretaries).

Members of the governing body, all elected unopposed: Javed Iqbal, Rana Zahid Hussain, Doraiz Kiyani, Syed Asif Hamdani, Muhammad Pervez, Syed Tauqeerul Hassan, Sardar Shahid Hameed, Naveed Ahmed Chaudhry, Gulzar Sherry, Fiaza Bibi, Hassan Abbas, Akhtar Sajjani, Tahir Kiyani, Muhammad Abbas Khan, Adnan Haider, Rizwan Tahir, Rana Adnan, Farooq Khattak, Sardar Fayyaz, Shahzad Hassan, Hafooz Bhatti, Raja Shaukat, Baqir Hussain, Ghulam Mustafa, and Farhan Yousuf.

KEY POINTS:

• Nisar Ahmed elected president of RIBJA.
• Shamim Ara elected general-secretary unopposed.
• Multiple positions filled without competition.
• Iqbal Jaffery announced the election results.
• The governing body includes several other elected officials.