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The LBA executive passed a resolution, moved by Senior Vice President Jahangir Bhatti, cancelling the membership of 10 Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) members for calling on Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and “selling the blood of the martyred lawyers for Rs20 million”.
The resolution was moved at a sit-in staged by LBA members at PMG Chowk against the Monday killing of Daska Bar Association president Rana Khalid Abbas and Advocate Irfan Chauhan in a clash between lawyers and police officials.
Bhatti did not mention the names of the disqualified members saying that he would issue the list.
On Thursday, the protesting lawyers raised slogans against the government and the PbBC members. They blocked the road by placing hurdles around PMG Chowk.
Former LBA general secretary Saleem Ladhi condemned the Daska Bar Association for receiving a compensation payment from the government.
PbBC member Farhad Ali Shah also criticised the members for calling on the chief minister. He said representatives of the Pakistan Bar Council, the PbBC, the Supreme Court Bar Association, the Lahore High Court Bar Association and the LBA had agreed at a convention earlier that no member from any of the lawyers’ associations would meet the chief minister on the matter.
He said Jameel Bhatti, Munir Bhatti, Abdus Samad Bisriya, Rana Intizar, Malik Sarood, Bushra Qamar, Mian Faiz and Agha Faisal were among those disqualified by the LBA.
Rana Intizar told The Express Tribune the matter was being politicised. He said the Daka Bar Association had put forward three demands – compensation be given to the families of the deceased; the DPO and the DSP Daska be dismissed and that the challan of the SHO accused of killing the lawyers be submitted in court within 14 days.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2015.
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