Targeted killings: Lawyers boycott courts to protest

SHC chief justice had suggested finding a positive way to protest as litigants were directly affected by strikes.

KARACHI: Lawyers stayed away from courts on Wednesday to mourn the killing of their colleagues. A bailiff of district West, Alam Zeb, was shot dead by unidentified attackers on Tuesday while a high court lawyer, Mirza Waqar Hussain Naqvi, succumbed to his injuries. Seventy-year-old Naqvi was ambushed at Jahangir Road on Friday. On Tuesday, the Sindh High Court chief justice had suggested finding a positive way to protest as litigants were directly affected by the lawyers’ strikes. But on Wednesday, the lawyers at city courts and Malir courts sent back their clients and boycotted work to register their protest against the targeted killings.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 18^th, 2012.