KARACHI, Oct 8: The Sindh Bar Council has suspended membership of lawyers allegedly involved in the attack on a public meeting that killed six political workers and a TV channel reporter in Khairpur on Oct 7.

It also announced that it will observe a province-wide strike on Oct 10 and demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, SBC vice chairman Ghulam Ahmed Abbasi said five lawyers Additional Advocate-General Liaquat Shar, Deputy Attorney-General Shafi Chadio, Nafisa Shah’s Political Secretary Ali Sher Makol, Sindh Chief Minister’s Legal Secretary Nazar Muhammad Raho, Legal Adviser of Sindh Local Government Department Farman Kalasro and Advocate Hafizullah Chandio were involved in the incident.

They had carried out firing and burnt an effigy wearing a black suit worn by lawyers, he said, claiming that evidence including video footage was available. He also said the council had suspended licences of the lawyers who carried out attack to take revenge from the members of the Khairpur district bar association who had banned entry of Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah, his daughter Nafisa Shah and former president of bar MPA Bachal Shah to the bar premises.

Mr Abbasi said that when bar associations office-bearers went to lodge an FIR of the incident against the accused officials at the A-Section police station, police refused to entertain their request and later booked them in an FIR registered by the accused party.

The SBC vice-chairman said that all the district bar associations in the province would observe strike on Oct 10 to condemn this incident.

He urged the SHC chief justice to take suo moto notice of the incident, order registration of an FIR against the accused and a judicial inquiry into the incident. —PPI