PbBC suspends licence of Hassan Niazi

(PbBC) Vice Chairman suspended licence of Advocate Hassan Niazi over a complaint

LAHORE:

Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) Vice Chairman Amjad Iqbal Khan on Tuesday suspended the licence of Advocate Hassan Niazi over a complaint against him.

The vice-chairman referred the matter to PbBC executive committee for further proceedings while issuing notice to Advocate Hassan Niazi for July 17.

The vice-chairman passed the orders on a complaint moved by Advocate Muhammad Ayaz Butt. The applicant had alleged that Hassan Niazi attacked and tried to strangle his client, Shahzadi Nargis, widow of former governor of Balochistan Nawab Akbar Bugti, on the premises of the sessions court.

The Islampura police had registered a case against Advocate Hassan Niazi on the complaint of Shahzadi Nargis. However, Hassan had secured pre-arrest interim bail from a sessions court in the case.

Reacting to the suspension, Niazi claimed the Punjab Bar Council suspended his licence “without listening to me in an ex-parte hearing”.

Last week, a case had been registered against Niazi and four unidentified persons under various charges, including attempted murder, on Nargis’ complaint.

In the FIR, she alleged that Niazi and his accomplices first abused her in the presence of her lawyer in the court of additional district and sessions judge Syed Ali Abbas, and then tried to strangulate her with an intention to take her life.

Nargis alleged that she had appeared in the court to seek bail in a ‘fake case’ lodged against her with the crime circle of Federal Investigation Agency, Lahore.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 14^th, 2021.