Lawyers on two day strike in KP

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PESHAWAR: The legal fraternity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday announced a two-day strike and one week mourning over the target killing of Balochistan Bar Association president Bilal Anwar Kasi and the subsequent terrorist attack at the Civil Hospital Quetta where more than 70 people, mostly lawyers, were killed.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council and Peshawar High Court Bar Association issued the call for the strike on August 9 and 10.In a statement, KP Bar Council secretary Shah Faisal Utmankhel demanded the federal and provincial governments to provide foolproof security at the court premises across the province.
Bilal Khan Khalil, press secretary, Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA), said the lawyers also boycotted the Peshawar High Court on Monday after learning about the Quetta carnage.
An emergency general body meeting of PHCBA was also held at PHC bar room with Muzzamil Khan in the chair.PHC Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan and Justice Musarrat Hilali attended the meeting to express solidarity with the lawyers over the Quetta incident.
A large number of lawyers attended the meeting.PHCBA president Muzzamil Khan, general secretary Yousaf Ali, vice-president Yousaf Riaz Khalil, and senior lawyers Abdul Latif Afridi, Ghulam Nabi and Ijaz Sabi addressed the meeting.
They condemned the target killing and acts of terrorism in Quetta that claimed the lives of more than 70 people.Fateha was also offered for the departed souls of the lawyers, media persons and others.
TAKHT BHAI: The legal fraternity on Monday condemned the suicide attack at a hospital in Quetta in which over 70 people were killed and other score injured and announced three-day mourning and boycott of the courts proceeding.