KARACHI: Legal proceedings in all subordinate courts of the city came to a halt on Thursday when lawyers boycotted work against the killing of their colleague a day earlier.

Representatives of the legal fraternity gave a call for the boycott shortly after the murder of Advocate Syed Mubarak Kazmi, who was gunned down in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Wednesday.

Litigants and undertrial prisoners suffered as hundreds of cases fixed at the city courts could not be taken up for hearing. The undertrial prisoners were not brought to courts because of the boycott.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2014

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