APNEC Elections Held at National Press Club Islamabad, Results Announced

Islamabad (Special Correspondent):
Elections of the All Pakistan Newspapers and Electronic Media Employees Confederation (APNEC) have been completed. Chief Election Commissioner Senator Muhammad Talha Mahmood announced the results at the National Press Club Islamabad.

Siddique Anzar has been elected Chairman unopposed for a two-year term (2025–2027). Zulfiqar Rahat was elected as Senior Vice Chairman, while M.B. Abbasi and Asim Latif were elected as Vice Chairmen. Javeria Siddique was elected Vice Chairperson (Women), and Samad Mengal was elected as the Secretary General.

Similarly, Mehwish Mumtaz Baig was elected Joint Secretary, Syed Safeer Hussain Bukhari as Assistant Secretary General, Naziyah Riaz as Assistant Secretary General (Women), Abdul Wadood Baig as Deputy Secretary, Kaleem Shamim as Finance Secretary, Malik Munir Ahmed as Additional Finance Secretary, Nadir Khawaja as Deputy Finance Secretary, and Mujtaba Rizwan Syed was elected as the Secretary Information.

Additionally, Abdul Malik was elected as National Coordinator, and Sardar Hisham Khan as the Goodwill Ambassador.

For the National Executive Committee, the following members were elected unopposed:
Rana Rizwan Arshad, Abid Chaudhry, Shiraz Khan, Syed Farzand Ali, Malik Suleman, Azhar Sultan, Raja Javed Khan, Imran Ashraf, Rashid Malik, Saadia Irfan, Saleem Shuai, Baqar Bhatti, Waqar Ali Mullan, Adil Chaudhry, Abdul Hameed, Haider Achakzai, Tauqeer Riaz, Chaudhry Muhammad Yousaf, Farhan Hameed, Iffat Rauf, Riaz Shahid, Owais Hamza, Syed Gulzar Hussain Shah, Imran Akbar, Saif ur Rehman, and Athar Nadeem.

Provincial Chairmen were elected as follows:

Abid Siddique Chaudhry for Punjab

Mehwish Mumtaz Baig for Gilgit-Baltistan

Haider Achakzai for Balochistan

Syed Irfan Haider for Sindh

Abdul Wadood Baig for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The Election Commission comprised Senator Muhammad Talha Mahmood, Rana Rizwan Arshad, Raja Javed Khan, and Chaudhry Ilyas.