Lawyers’ strike in Mansehra enters sixth day

MANSEHRA: The litigants have been suffering the brunt of lawyers’ ongoing strike, which has entered the six day on Monday. “The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government should roll back the amendments to the Civil Procedure Code and Control of Narcotics Substance Act,” a litigant Shehryar Khan told reporters on court premises here. He said a large number of litigants had to go back without any court proceedings in their cases. “If the government withdraws the amendments or settles this issue amicably with lawyers they would end their boycott,” he added.

Meanwhile, the office-bearers of the district bar association Mansehra reiterated their stance not to end the strike until the amendments were withdrawn. “Only the KP government has amended the Civil Procedure Code and the Control of Narcotics Substance Act in the country butting an extra financial burden on the litigants,” Amir Khan Swati, the president of district bar association, said.

Fahad Habib Tanoli, the general secretary of the association, said that before those amendments one could challenge verdicts/ ruling of subordinate judiciary with district and sessions judge, but now they could move only the high court putting an extra financial burden on litigants.