QUETTA, April 6: The Balochistan Bar Association decided on Tuesday to defer the token boycott of the courts for two days, following an assurance given by the government that their demands would be fulfilled.
The general council which met here in the bar association room at a meeting chaired by the BBA President Mohsin Javed decided to suspend the boycott after Senator Kamran informed the meeting that the government has communicated it had accepted the lawyer's demands.
Mr Kamran told the participants that the jail staff who had misbehaved with the lawyer in the prison would come to the bar association room on Thursday to apologise, besides on the same day the concerned department would issue a notification regarding acceptance of demands.
Bar general council meeting would again be held on April 8 to review the government's finalisation of the official procedure related to the acceptance of demands and thereafter would decide the issue of the boycott.
ARREST: Police have arrested the Balochistan president of the Government Teachers Association, Haji Abdul Ghaffar Gadazai, and eight other representatives who were to observe a hunger strike unto death from Monday for the acceptance of their demands.
They had announced 10 days ago that if the government did not meet their demands, they would began a hunger strike from April 5. The teacher's leaders, including Haji Gadazai, on Monday were in the union office situated in the directorate of education Balochistan when a police party raided the site and arrested nine teachers. The Gwalmandhi police confirmed the arrest and told this reporter that they had been shifted to the district jail Quetta.
