Lawyers of Rawalpindi observed a strike on Monday against the Karachi bomb blast which took place on Sunday evening and against the kidnapping of the prosecutor general of Balochistan.
Meanwhile, the Shia action committee also held protests and blocked the Murree Road, demanding arrest of the terrorists involved in the blast.
On the call of Pakistan Bar Council and Punjab Bar Council, lawyers of Rawalpindi High Court Bar Association and District Bar Association boycotted court proceedings in order to express solidarity with the families of the victims of the Karachi bomb blast.
Rawalpindi High Court Bar Association Secretary General Faisal Khan Niazi told journalists that the lawyers of this division had observed a complete strike.
“We requested the judges of Lahore High Court Pindi Bench not to hear any cases and the Honourable judges accepted our request and no cases had been taken up in order to express sympathies with the families of the victims”, Niazi said.
Lawyers also demanded the recovery of the abducted Balochistan Prosecutor General Wasay Tareen. They said if the senior law officer who represented the province in superior courts had been kidnapped in broad daylight then what would be the security of an ordinary man.
The hearing of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination case was also adjourned until Tuesday due to the lawyers’ strike.
Meanwhile, members of the Shia Action Committee also gathered on the Murree Road and burned tyres in protest. Protestors raised slogans against terrorist organisations and demanded a massive crackdown against them.
Speaking to protestors, a Shia Action Committee leader, Allama Ashfaq Waheedi said, “If action had been taken up against militants involved in the Quetta blast, the incident of Abbas Town would never have had happened”.
