KARACHI: The Sindh Bar Council on Saturday urged the Supreme Court to issue a directive to the federal government asking it to implement recommendations of the Quetta carnage commission report.

The council also asked the government to expedite investigation into the terror incident and identify and punish all those responsible for planning and executing the crime.

At a gathering organised here to commemorate the tragic incident, SBC vice chairman Haider Imam Rizvi, executive committee chairman Shafqat Rahim Rajput and members expressed disappointment over authorities’ inaction over Justice Qazi Faez Isa commission report despite passage of four years.

A resolution passed by the gathering said the commission report was a “charge sheet” against delinquent officials and law enforcement agencies for their alleged failure and negligence to act efficiently to prevent the tragedy in Quetta on Aug 8, 2016, that had left 75 people, including 67 lawyers, dead and over 100 injured.

The resolution said that since the apex court had constituted the commission, the SBC implored the Supreme Court to direct the federal government to implement its report and the SC should seek its compliance report.

Meanwhile, legal proceedings remained partly suspended at all subordinate courts of the city since the SBC had also given a province-wide call for boycott of courts to mark the fourth anniversary of the Quetta tragedy.

In Jacobabad, lawyers responded to the SBC call by wearing black armbands and boycotting courts’ proceedings, adds Our Sukkur Correspondent.

The lawyers’ leaders reiterated the demand at a gathering that authorities should immediately arrest all suspects involved in the carnage.

Jacobabad district bar president Zafar Khalil Jakhrani, general secretary Sharif Dayo and others said that government failure to arrest terrorists was causing unrest and disappointment among lawyers’ community.

Published in Dawn, August 9th, 2020