Murder: Lawyer killed by unknown gun men

GUJRANWALA: Unidentified men opened fire on a lawyer and killed him on Friday. The District Bar announced a complete boycott of court proceedings on Saturday. District bar member Malik Khalid Mehmood was killed in Satellite town police precincts near the Government Girls College on Friday evening. The victim’s body has been shifted to the Civil Hospital for an autopsy. Bar secretary Shaheed Aslam Joda said that the deceased had been receiving threatening phone calls for over a week and feared for his life. “Police officials had been informed of the situation but they did nothing to stop it,” Joda said. Lawyers protested on the streets on Saturday and boycotted all court proceedings. The lawyers said they would continue their protests until the police officials involved were punished. “It is the police’s duty to protect us and they didn’t,” they said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 5^th, 2011.