Punjab

Shahbaz Sharif told police to manhandle lawyers: Kurd

Ali Ahmed Kurd's report claims the police were ordered by the Punjab chief minister to teach the black coats a...

Express October 15, 2010

Senior lawyer Ali Ahmed Kurd's report on lawyers manhandling in Lahore, claims the police were ordered by the Punjab chief minister to teach the black coats a lesson.

The Supreme Court was hearing a suo motu case of the police torture on lawyers in Lahore last month.

Kurd who is a member of the investigation committee probing the issue presented his report in the court.

The report alleged that the Punjab Chief Minister, the Lahore High Court Chief Justice and the Punjab Chief Secretary issued orders for police to torture lawyers.

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry observed that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif should not have issued such an order.

The court asked IG Punjab Tariq Saleem Dogar to take action against the police officials involved in the case. It also adjourned the hearing till October 19.

IG Punjab Tariq Saleem Dogar said that a verbal order had been given by the chief minister.

Earlier this month, police reportedly entered the Lahore district courts, known as Aiwan-e-Adl – including bar rooms and library – and mercilessly thrashed the lawyers. Several lawyers, among them women, were wounded in the mayhem.

COMMENTS (8)

Akhtar Ali Kureshi Advocate | 14 years ago | Reply Its beyond my understanding that why the Intelegencia/Lawyers are being tortured and Govt. is not taking any action to save the legal fraternity.

Sultan Ahmed. | 14 years ago | Reply Say more for satisfaction of the people, think,what is that going to say,would be acceptable it is very hard to say.

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Sultan Ahmed. | 14 years ago | Reply According to the observation as chief justice said chief minister should not have issued such order but issued. Thank tanks already guessing, lawyers were mercilessly trashed by police under a planned conspiracy. It is fruit of the support has been provided by the lawyer to Mian Sahib, when he announced long march against the central government on the matter of restoration of judiciary.

an | 14 years ago | Reply Chief justice of LHC and Shabaz are friends. If people like these are doing such injustices than there is no future for pakistan.

Aftab Kenneth Wilson | 14 years ago | Reply They enjoy beating each other so let them fight out the way they find themselves at ease.

Ali Haider | 14 years ago | Reply The picture above shows a lawyer manhandling the police. I could be wrong.

S ALI | 14 years ago | Reply Punjab has truely become a police state / province. Every day there are police brutality stories. Lawyers are thrushed in the courts, pweople are killed in the police stations in the name of law, women are gang raped, people are kileed by the mobs and in the police stations and the police is a silent spectator. People like Shahbaz sharif and the rest of his ministers must be brought to justice by the people of Punjab

Azeem | 14 years ago | Reply The things is while im not a PML supporter and am basically from Karachi it apperas that the only province to have anything that remotely resembles a functioning provincial government is Punjab. I have to give credit where credit is due.

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