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KARACHI: Malir Bar and Karachi Bar lawyers surrounded the Sindh Assembly this morning and staged a protest against target killings of lawyers, Express News reported on Monday.
Lawyers marched from the High Court to the Sindh Assembly -- where a session was being held -- and demanded the arrest of target killers.
The peaceful protest turned into a dharna as nobody stepped out from the assembly to hear the lawyers' demands.
The lawyers then climbed over the Sindh Assembly gate and entered the premises to present their demands to the government. Sindh Minister for Education Nisar Khuhro addressed the lawyers outside the assembly.
Four demands were presented to him by the lawyers asking for immediate arrest of killers, compensation for families of lawyers killed, a date for when this compensation will be presented and a request to not impose Section 144 on the lawyers.
An announcement for compensation for the families of the lawyers' killed was made earlier but has not yet been dispersed.
Khuhro assured the lawyers that their demands will be met. "We can sit and find out why it [compensation] has not been dispersed yet," he said.
The lawyers have given a two-week ultimatum to the government to meet their demands or they will stage another protest.
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The lawyers should have been treated and greeted with water cannons, baton charge and teargas, as the teachers were treated for having taken the law into their hands. These black coat people are not above the law, and they own a greater responsibility to follow the law. They can make peaceful protests for acceptance of their genuine demands, if they turn violent and create law and order situations, as they did during their protest, they should be dealt with iron-hands to make them understand that law is more powerful their protests. This is really inapathy or shows dual standards of Sindh Assembly and Cabinet in dealing with different type of protesters with different yardsticks.
So much for the Rule of Law, from these supposed practitioners of law.
next time Lawyers should storm chief minister house
good only lawyers can take care of these wadera thugs