Access to justice: Free legal aid desks opened

Desks set up in Multan, Shujabad and Jalalpur Peerwala under the Access to Justice and Supremacy of Law project

MULTAN:

The Citizens Commission for Human Development (CCHD) on Sunday set up three free legal aid desks to provide legal assistance to the underprivileged.

The desks were set up in Multan, Shujabad and Jalalpur Peerwala under the Access to Justice and Supremacy of Law project.

The desks were set up at chambers of Advocates Athar Aziz and Maimoona Husnain in Multan, Kamran Gul in Shujabad and Muhammad in Jalalpur Peerwala.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony of the legal aid desks, Multan Bar Association President Sher Zaman Qureshi said these desks would help provide justice to the poor.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20^th, 2014.