PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council has announced to boycott the court proceedings throughout the province today (Thursday).
The lawyers will stay away from courts on the call of the Pakistan Bar Council.According to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Vice-Chairman Sadiq Khan and chairman of the executive committee Syed Taimur Ali Shah, the court boycott would be observed to register protest at the police action against lawyers in Lahore.
They said the lawyers were protesting peacefully and that was every citizen’s legal and constitutional right.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council office-bearers demanded the federal and Punjab governments to take to task those cops who had used violence against the lawyer community.