Lawyers for judges’ committee to probe Quetta attack

LAHORE

Bar associations of the province have called for constitution of a committee comprising Apex Court judges to probe  the suicide blast at Civil Hospital Quetta, killing over 70 people including lawyers.

 Speaking at a general house meeting of the Lahore High Court Bar Association on Friday, lawyers’ representatives said the Quetta attack was an attack on the whole country in fact. They said the terrorists by targeting soft targets wanted to spread fear in the country.

The speakers said enemies of Pakistan were afraid of the China-Pak Economic Corridor project and trying to create chaos in Baluchistan.

Cyber Crime: Pakistan Awami Tehreek on Friday filed a writ petition in the Lahore High Court challenging the Cyber Crime Act, 2016.  

 Deputy Secretary General of the party, Advocate Ishtiaq A Khan filed the petition and submitted that PAT had challenged some provisions in the Act for being contrary to the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973. The petitioner stated that the provisions PAT had challenged were against the freedom of expression—one of the fundamental rights of the citizens. 

Petition: Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on Friday filed a writ petition in the Lahore High Court seeking directions for the federal government to take up the issue of occupied Kashmir at the Security Council of the United Nations. Hafiz Saeed filed petition through his counsel A K Dogar and submitted that India had been committing atrocities on Kashmiries and violating the resolutions passed by the UN.