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| August 3, 2003 | Sunday | Jumadi-us-Sani 4, 1424 |
Lawyers protest colleague’s killing
PESHAWAR, Aug 2: Lawyers staged a demonstration on Saturday to protest against the killing of one of their colleagues by the Nowshera police, Zahid Jamal, calling on the government to conduct a judicial inquiry in this regard.
A protest meeting, chaired by president of the Peshawar District Bar Association Wake
el Zaman Khattak, was held at the sessions courts that was followed by a protest procession.
The meeting denounced the ongoing police inquiry, being conducted by an assistant superintendent of police, and called for instituting a judicial inquiry, preferably by a judge of the Peshawar district and sessions courts.
Protesters called for immediate arrest of the sub-inspector concerned, who had fired at the lawyer’s vehicle four days ago.
They said that the police were not authorized to check smuggling on the Grand Trunk
Road, adding that it was the responsibility of the customs department.
The police had claimed being injured in an encounter with ‘smugglers.’
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