QUETTA: The Chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights, retired Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan, has advised the Balochistan government to send junior lawyers to foreign educational institutions for higher education, including LL.M., in order to fill the vacuum that emerged after the Aug 8 Quetta carnage.

In a meeting with Balochistan Chief Secretary Saifullah Chattah on Wednesday, he offered his condolences over the death of lawyers and journalists in the suicide bombing at the Civil Hospital, Quetta.

Scores of senior and junior lawyers, including office-bearers of the Balochistan Bar Association and Bar Council, lost their lives in the tragic incident.

Justice Chohan said that Balochistan had suffered a big loss that created a big vacuum in the lawyer community, adding that the government should take steps to fill this vacuum.

“The provincial government has established an endowment fund for the victims of Aug 8 incident,” the chief secretary said, affirming that junior lawyers would be sent abroad for higher education.

Published in Dawn, September 8th, 2016