Lawyers demand apology from SHCBA over ‘raunchy’ event

Leading lawyers in Karachi have written to the Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA), urging it to take action against members responsible for the event that included a raunchy dance performance. A video snippet of the event has been shared widely on social media since Thursday.

The letter, dated March 19, states that the SHCBA hosted an event with the Legal Eagle Lawyers Movement and Lawyers Entertainment Club at the New Bar Room of the SHC.

"Given that the said event was meant to be professional, a performer dancing on a Bollywood item song was crass," it states. The letter called the performance uncouth, boorish, an embarrassment to the legal fraternity, and illogically termed a "cultural event".

"We, as members of the bar, take strong exception to whatever the ill-intentioned plans were that led to this absolutely abominable decision," it continues.

It then added a statement from women lawyers had been added to the statement which was signed by 71 members of the Bar including women.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 21^st, 2023.