The KBA has announced to stage a protest against the killing of its member. PHOTO: FILE
The legal fraternity boycotted legal proceedings in the city's subordinate courts on Saturday to protest the killing of their colleague, Chaudhry Idrees, the same day.
Legal work remained suspended in the city courts and the Malir district courts. Court officials said that the cases fixed for the day remained unheard because the lawyers did not appear before the judges.
40-year-old Idrees, who had joined the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) in 2010 according to KBA office bearers, was shot dead along with his driver, 35-year-old Noman Shah, in Orangi.
The KBA has announced to stage a protest against the killing of its member. The association members will also not appear in the courts on Monday.
The lawyers' protest caused inconvenience to the litigants as well as to under trial prisoners, who had to be shifted back to the prison barracks without being produced in the courts.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 4th, 2014.
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