Show-cause notices suspended

LAHORE

A division bench of the Lahore High Court Wednesday suspended operation of show cause notices issued to district coordination officer, DIG (Operations) and chief traffic officer by a single bench for not implementing a judicial order against holding protests/rallies on Mall Road. 

The officers had challenged the notices through an appeal. A government law officer stated that the single bench had issued show cause notices after taking a suo motu against the violation of the high court order pertaining to protest demonstration on Mall Road. The counsel argued that the suo motu notice taken by the judge was not in public interest. He asked the division bench to set aside the notices issued to the three officers. The bench headed by the chief justice suspended the show cause notices and adjourned hearing for a week. Justice Ibadur Rehman Lodhi had taken the suo motu after he and some other judges of the high court failed to reach the court in time on last week morning due to a protest on Mall Road.

Lawyers: On the call of Pakistan Bar Association, lawyers of Lahore Bar Association Wednesday observed strike to condemn Quetta carnage and to show solidarity with the families of the victims. 

The lawyers did not join courts due to which cases were put on next hearings without any development.

The lawyers while talking to The News said that they stand with families of victims and condemn the brutal attack. They demanded the government take action against the facilitators of terrorists. Moreover, it was demanded that government should provide jobs to the heir of martyrs.

Quetta attack: National Commission for Justice and Peace, rights based organisation of Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ conference has strongly condemned the tragic attack on the police training centre that has killed over 61 people and more than 165 are injured. His Excellency Bishop Dr Joseph Arshad, Chairperson of NCJP (Bishop of Faisalabad) and Rev Fr Emmanuel Yousaf Mani, National Director of NCJP and Cecil Shane Chaudhry, Executive Director of NCJP in a joint statement said that killing young generation training to serve the people of Pakistan is an inhuman act. They emphasised that such tragic attack on the innocent young trainee recruits was totally unacceptable and that the government needed to improve their security plans in Balochistan Province.