ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) announced on Thursday to provide free legal assistance to the legal heirs of Faizan Haidar, Faheem and Ibad-ur-Rehman, who were murdered by Remand Davis, an official of United States (US) Embassy in Lahore.
It was decided in a meeting of Central Free Legal Aid Committee of the PBC held with Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry in the chair. The meeting was attended by the committee’s members Rooh-ul-Amin Chamkani and Muhammad Yaseen Azad. The committee resolved to constitute committees at provincial and district level with a view to provide free legal aid to the needy and deserving litigants as per provisions of the PBC Free Legal Aid Rules, 1999.
The committee nominated members of the PBC for its free legal aid committees at provincial level that were Muhammad Yaseen Azad, Rooh-ul-Amin Chamkani and Amanullah Kanrani as chairmen of these committees for Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
However, for Punjab, Syed Qalb-i-Hassan from Rawalpindi and Mian Abbas Ahmed from Multan were nominated as chairmen of the committee for providing free legal aid to the deserving litigants at the level of LHC (Rawalpindi Bench), IHC and at the level of LHC (Multan and Bahawalpur benches).
The matter of nomination of chairman of the committee for the cases of free legal aid pertaining to principal seat of the Lahore High Court would be decided in the next meeting. It was also decided that the matter of nomination of members and composition of committees at district level throughout the country would be taken up in the next meeting of the committee.
The committee decided to offer all possible legal assistance and help to the legal heirs of the deceased boys in respect of the double murder case against Raymond Davis in the court of law in Lahore. The committee strongly condemned the assassination of Minorities Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti by terrorists and demanded the government bring the culprits to book and award them exemplary punishment.
