Lawyers boycott courts

Published May 16, 2008

ATTOCK, May 15: Lawyers on Thursday observed complete boycott of courts besides staging hunger strike camp to protest delay in implementation of Murree Accord and restoration of all deposed judges.

Lawyers kept themselves at district bar and their respective chambers throughout the day besides observing hunger strike camp at the district bar in connection of new round of their movement. Talking to local newsmen, the lawyers including President District Bar Association Rana Afsar Ali Khan and member Supreme Court Bar Association, Sheikh Ahsanuddin said that a new phase of lawyers’ movement would start for reinstatement of the deposed judges.

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