HYDERABAD: The lawyer fraternity in Hyderabad held a demonstration outside the local press club and boycotted court proceedings in Sanghar on Friday in protest against a series of attacks on the house and family of an additional district and sessions judge Khairpur Mirs allegedly by his rivals, in a murder controversy, belonging to the Pitafi clan.
Media reports suggested that the house of Judge Ghulam Ali Kanasro of Mehar was attacked by a group of armed men, who also fired a rocket to blow it up, in the latest of the series of attacks on Thursday. The judge and other inmates were not present at the house.
His rival Pitafis blame the murder of an 11-year-old boy of their community in 2015 on the judge’s family. In what appeared to be a retaliatory attack, the judge’s father, Ali Kanasro, was killed on July 7, 2015 in Madd village of Sobho Dero tehsil in Khairpur Mirs.
In another attack carried out on Jan 1, 2017, Judge Kanasro’s brother-in-law Mohammad Ashraf was killed in the same village. A similar attack on Jan 24 this year saw the judge’s cousin, Nazeer Ahmed, murdered.
On Friday, Hyderabad District Bar Association (HDBA) general secretary Khuda Bukhsh Leghari, Sajjad Chandio and other leaders led a protest demonstration outside the Hyderabad Press Club against the unbridled attacks and failure of the police to arrest the culprits. Speaking to the participants, they recalled that the judge had been seeking justice by airing appeals to the judiciary on the social media since the previous attacks.
The lawyers’ leaders urged the judiciary and provincial government to take immediate notice of the whole episode.
SANGHAR: Leaders and members of the Sanghar District Bar Association also held a protest outside the bar room on Friday after observing a boycott of court proceedings.
The bar’s president, Tariq Mehboob, general secretary, M. Yaseen Khaskheli and other leaders told the participants that the target of the fresh attack was Judge Kanasro, who was fortunately not present at his house.
Published in Dawn, February 10th, 2018
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