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Non-establishment of LHC benches

Faisalabad, Sargodha lawyers warn of long march

From Our Correspondent

FAISALABAD: Thousands of district and tehsil bar associations members of Faisalabad and Sargodha divisions on Friday warned of a long march towards Lahore if notification for establishment of the LHC benches in Faisalabad and Sargodha was not issued.

The decision was taken in a joint meeting of the bars of both divisions chaired by Faisalabad DBA president Ch Qaisar Nazir Sahi here on Friday. The lawyers also warned of staging a demonstration outside the Chief Minister’s House.

Speaking on the occasion, Qaisar Nazir Sahi said that the bar associations of Faisalabad and Sargodha divisions had been striving hard for establishment of the LHC benches in Faisalabad and Sargodha for the last three decades but those on the helm of affairs were not paying any heed towards their just demand. He said that a delegation of the Faisalabad and Sargodha lawyers would soon meet the Lahore High Court chief justice in this regard.

Meanwhile, it was unanimously decided in the meeting that all district and tehsil bar associations of Faisalabad and Sargodha divisions would observe complete strike on every Friday and Saturday and partial strike every Monday to Thursday.

The Punjab Bar Council members - Ahmad Khan Kakar, Ch Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Javed Awan, Makhdoom Majeed Hussain Shah, Malik Saleem Akhtar Kachela, Malik Muhammad Afzal Farooqa and Malik Habib Nawaz Tawana - fully supported the demand to provide cheap and speedy justice to the people of the two divisions at their doorsteps.

Toba Tek Singh Bar Association president Mian Farrukh Iqbal and secretary Salman Ghani, Jhang Bar Association president Sufi Sanaullah Ranjha and secretary Ch Muhammad Hashim, Jaranwala Bar Association president Azhar Khan Baloch and secretary Rana Muhammad Mohsin Manj, Sargodha Bar Association president Mian Khuda Dad Kalyar and secretary Shahzad Ahmad Warraich, Bhakkar Bar Association president Mujtaba Khichi and secretary Syed Akhtar Sherazi, Khushab Bar Association president Azeem Ali Janjua and secretary Muzamil Raza Zaidi, Tandlianwala Bar Association president Muhammad Yasin Rashid and secretary Hafiz Muhammad Zahid Sohail, Samundri Bar Association president Muhammad Tahir Piswal and secretary Waqas Gill, Mianwali Bar Association president Malik Zubair Saeed Awan and secretary Sher Ahmad Khan and others attended the meeting.