PESHAWAR: Chief Justice Peshawar High Court Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel visited Quetta and offered fateha for the departed souls of lawyers and other people who were killed in a recent suicide attack at the Civil Hospital.

A statement issued here on Monday said the CJ visited the house of Baz Mohammad Kakar, the slain president of Balochistan High Court Bar, and others to condole the deaths and offered fateha for the victims.

It said Justice Miankhel also visited CMH Quetta and inquired after the health of those injured in the blast. It said that on the occasion, the chief justice told families of the slain lawyers that the legal fraternity of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa equally shared their grief along with the whole nation.

He also prayed for the departed souls to rest in eternal peace and early recovery of the injured besides end to the menace of terrorism in the country.

The lawyers thanked the chief justice for visiting and sympathising with them in such a situation by travelling all along from Peshawar to Quetta despite his hectic schedule, the statement said.

Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2016