FAISALABAD, March 7: The local District Bar Association will launch a protest campaign from March 11 to pressurize the government for setting up a high court bench in Faisalabad.

The decision was taken at a meeting held here on Wednesday under the chairmanship of bar president Muhammad Rafiq Batalvi. The meeting was attended by office-bearers of Tehsil Bar Associations of Samundari, Jaranwala and Tandlianwala and District Bar Associations of Toba Tek Singh and Jhang.

According to the protest schedule, a procession will be taken out from district courts on every Monday. Participants of the processions will wear black armbands and march on various city roads. Protest meetings will also be held in the DBA Hall by lawyers to press for their demand.

The meeting demanded the government should give special attention for resolving the longstanding demand of setting up a high court bench in Faisalabad. It also decided to approach local trade organizations and NGOs for launching an intensive campaign in favour of their demand.

DONKEY-CARTS: The local Donkey-Cart Owners Association has rejected the resolution of the Tehsil Municipal Administration (city) to ban entry of donkey-carts and tongas into the city and announced that it will hold demonstrations besides observing hunger strike.

Association president Rana Ijaz Husain and other office-bearers told newsmen here on Wednesday that due to the ban on donkey-carts, over 150,000 people would become jobless.

They warned that if the TMA administration resorted to muscle power and other steps to ban the entry of donkey-carts and tongas into the city, they would resist it and the entire responsibility would rest with the government.