HARIPUR, Oct 19: A protest procession against the US-led airstrikes on Afghanistan was taken out by the lawyers community here on Tuesday.

Led by Saleh Mehmood Awan advocate, president District Bar, the participants of the rally marched through various city roads, chanting anti-US and pro-Osama and Taliban slogans.

Later, the speakers while condemning the attacks on Afghanistan and bombing on innocent citizens by the US-led coalition forces, expressed solidarity with the Taliban government. They termed the airstrikes on innocent people by the US as worst kind of terrorism on earth. The rally was addressed among others by Javed Qureshi advocate, Qazi Ejaz advocate, Syed Lal Shah, Khurshed Azhar advocate and Saleh Mehmood Awan advocate.

SUICIDE: A young man strangulated himself in village Sangian the other day. According to family sources, Maqsood, 19, was in love with a girl, while his family wanted him to marry a close relative.

The young man took his life by hanging himself with ceiling fan in his room. When his mother went to awake him for breakfast she found Maqsood dead.