Security Measures: Police post to be set up at Sessions Court

The post will have met “60 per cent” of their demands for tighter security arrangements at the sessions Court.

LAHORE:

Lawyers are expected to end their boycott of the Sessions Court today (Thursday), as the government has agreed to set up a police post near the court gate adjacent to the Baba Ground to improve security.

The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) has been on strike since Saturday, when two brothers were gunned down inside a courtroom during a murder trial. LBA president Shehzad Hussain Sheikh said that the association’s general house would meet on Thursday to decide whether to continue the boycott or not. LBA secretary Rana Intezar said that the general house would likely decide to end the boycott. Sheikh said that after setting up the police post, the government will have met “60 per cent” of their demands for tighter security arrangements at the Sessions Court.



Published in The Express Tribune, June 2^nd, 2011.