KHAIRPUR, Dec 22: President of People’s Lawyers Forum (PLF), Sukkur region, Liaquat Ali Shar, on Friday accused the district administration of interfering in the elections for District Bar Association Khairpur

Speaking at a gathering of advocates in Thari Mirwah he said that it was for the first time that the lawyers’ relatives working in different government departments were threatened and asked to persuade their relatives not to cast votes for PLF. The district administration, too, interfered for the first time in DBA elections and used official vehicles in electioneering for government-backed candidates, he charged.

BOOKED: Police booked 25 people on Thursday for staging a procession and blocking a road. They were protesting against police for their refusal to file an FIR after some people allegedly killed their relative Feroze Pathan.

ASI Faiz Mohammad stated in the FIR filed under section 341, 147, 149 PPC at A-section police that the accused blocked National Highway near Panj Hatti and raised slogans against police and government.

Police had later given in to their protest and registered an FIR on the complaint of Ms Yasmin, wife of late Feroze Pathan, under section 302, 34, 114 PPC on Thursday. She had identified Tariq, Haji Koro and Khalid Morejo as her husband’s murderers.

She said in the FIR that her husband was doing some household work when the accused hit him with bricks to death. Police had so far made no arrest.

PROCESSION: Activists of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz staged a procession in Saghiyoon town on Friday and also observed a token hunger strike on the town’s main roundabout to protest against the disappearance of Dr Safdar Sarki, Asif Baladi, Akash Mallah and other nationalist leaders.

They were led by Faqir Imdad Mangi and Shamshad Shah.

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