KARACHI: Lawyers boycott courts

Published December 16, 2005

KARACHI, Dec 15: Lawyers on Thursday boycotted court proceedings in all district courts in Karachi in protest against the manhandling of a lawyer allegedly by personnel of National Logistics Cell. Hundreds of lawyers, led by the leaders of Karachi Bar Association, took out a procession from city courts and staged sit in on MA Jinnah Road. They chanted slogan against the provincial administration for not arresting the culprits involved in manhandling incident.—PPI

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