SUKKUR, Dec 8: The Sindh High Court Bar Association has appealed to the president, prime minister, interior minister, Sindh governor and the chief minister to order an inquiry into the kidnapping of two judges and delay in their recovery.
The demand was made at a meeting of the Bar association's Sukkur chapter held here on Wednesday. The meeting criticized law-enforcement agencies for their failure to recover the kidnapped additional sessions judges of Shikarpur, Farooq Ahmad Channa and Abdul Wahab Abbasi.
Condemning the incident in a unanimously-adopted resolution, the Bar association observed that this had created unrest among the people in general and families of the kidnapped judges in particular. In another resolution, the association demanded that judges should be provided with protection. Imdad Ali Awan presided over the meeting.
SHIKARPUR: The District Bar Association, Shikarpur, at a meeting held here on Wednesday condemned the kidnapping of two judges and nine other people in the district.
Naseer Ahmad Lodhi presided over the meeting. The meeting decided that lawyers would take out a procession for early recovery of the kidnap victims. Meanwhile, On the call of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz-Z, a shutter-down strike was observed here on Wednesday against the failure of police to ensure peace and security in the district.
Activists of the party, led by its vice-chairman Agha Qamar Mushwani, also took out a protest procession against the deteriorating law and order situation. The protesters condemned the kidnapping of two judges and nine others in the district.
They warned that the party would launch a protest campaign throughout the province if early recovery of the kidnapped people was not ensured. The protesters demanded that the Sindh chief minister, IGP and the RPO, Sukkur region, should take measures to control crimes in the province.
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: The lawyers took out a procession here on Wednesday to protest against the kidnapping of the judges in Shikarpur. Lawyers, who came from Naushahro Feroze, Kandiaro, Moro and Bhirya, held a meeting at the District Bar Association office.
Ghulam Muhammad Abbasi, president, District Bar Association, senior advocate Akbar Ujjan, and DBA general secretary Abdul Ghafoor Kalhoro, while speaking on the occasion condemned the kidnapping of the judges.
The procession was led by Ghulam Mohammad Abbasi, president of DBA. Later speaking at a press conference, the office-bearers of DBA said that it was duty of the government to protect judicial officers but the government has failed to protect and also recover them after kidnapping. They demanded early recovery of two kidnapped judges.
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