The lawyer community has protested against the targeted murder of their three colleagues which police and government authorities said was a sectarian attack, on Thursday.
Funeral prayers were held and the funeral prayers were attended by
thousands including members of the legal fraternity. Lawyers across the
country also boycotted court proceedings in protest to the killings
while the Shia Ulema Council announced three days of mourning.
He said that judiciary becomes functional when other institutions
leave to work. The security of masses is duty of executive, court can
not play the role of watchman but we can bound to the watchman, CJ
added.
The lawyers boycott the court proceedings and hold the mourns meetings and demanded the immediate arrest of the culprits.
The meeting of Karachi Bar Association was held under the
chairmanship of Chief Justice of Sindh High Court Justice Mushir Alam
Khan. Justice Mushir Alam addressing to the lawyers said that lawyers
including me and my family are facing worsend situation of law and
order, adding that when this is the condition for judges and lawyers
than what would be for the common people.
Meanwhile the Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudhry remarked during the course of hearing said that the court
would not issue any strict order if any lawyer not appears before the
court.
Three lawyers, among them a father and his son, were shot dead and a
fourth wounded on Wednesday after armed motorcyclists sprayed bullets at
their car in Arambagh area. The slain lawyers were identified as
Shakeel Jafferi, Kafeel Jafferi and Badar Munir.
Police officials and Sindh home minister Manzoor Wasan said the
attack was sectarian. “We have noticed a few sectarian killings lately,
which are aimed at creating chaos in Karachi,” he told reporters.
Also, the Sindh High Court (SHC) has took a suo moto notice of the
assassinations, summoning Inspector General (IG) Sindh Police and
Director General Rangers, seeking a report from the officials on
Wednesday’s murders and law and order situation in the city.
Meanwhile, the Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry also vehemently condemned the murders.
The incident prompted Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and other
national bodies of the legal fraternity to announce nation-wide strike
and court boycott in protest against the incident.
Responding the call, law practitioners in Karachi boycotted
proceedings of City Court and Malir Court on Thursday, and took to
roads, staging sit-in on M.A Jinnah Road.
They chanted slogans against the government for what they called its
failure in providing security to the lawyers and curbing target killing
incidents in the metropolis.
The lawyer leaders on the occasion announced a three-day court boycott in Sindh, and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits.
In Islamabad and Rawalpindi, the lawyers boycotted courts, expressing
solidarity with their colleagues in Karachi. They also condemned
sectarian and politically-motivated attacks against Karachi’s lawyers.
Moreover, a similar strike was also observed in high courts and civil
courts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces where the
lawyers demanded of the government to give compensation to the victim
families.
According to the Karachi Bar Council, 20 lawyers were killed in Sindh last year, 15 of them in Karachi.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. SANA
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. SANA
