May 12 riots: Lawyers observe black day in Balochistan

QUETTA: Lawyers boycotted court proceedings on Tuesday to mark ‘black day’ against tragic incidents of May 12, 2007 when riots in Karachi left over 50 people dead and hundreds of others injured. Echoing the call by Pakistan Bar Council, Balochistan Bar Association (BBA) and High Court Bar Association (BHCBA) had given the strike call to protest the massacre eight years ago in which many lawyers and civilians were killed in Karachi. Lawyers did not appear before the lower and upper courts in Balochistan while black flags were raised outside the provincial and districts bar rooms. Lamenting the failure to arrest the perpetrators of May 12 riots, BBA President Bilal Anwer Kasi and BHCBA Advocate President Sajid Tareen said it has been eight years but the law enforcing agencies have failed to book the perpetrators of that fateful day.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 13^th, 2015.