MIRPURKHAS, May 7: The District Bar Association of Mirpurkhas on Monday issued show-cause notices to 11 members, including an MPA of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, for participating in a rally and press conference organised by the MQM’s legal aid committee against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry in Karachi two days ago.

The bar issued notices to Nabi Bux Narejo, Bhagwandas, Dr Gordhan Khatri, Mukesh Kumar, Dilshad Rao, Irshad Ahmed Siddiqui, Waseemuddin Abid, MQM MPA Punjo Mal Bheel, Ashfaque Ahmed, Syed Mubeen Ahmed and Niamat Shaikh.

DBA President Salahuddin Panhwar told journalists that the bar has asked the lawyers who participated in a rally and press conference against chief justice to submit their reply by May 9 and would decide about their fate in its general body meeting on May 10.

HESCO OFFICIAL BOOKED: A Sub-divisional officer of Hesco, Irfan Shaikh, was booked for criminal negligence following the death of a youth due to electrocution at Shafi Mohammad Khaskheli village, Hussain Bux Mari taluka on Monday.

According to Maula Bux, 26, son of Khuda Bux, went to his agriculture field on early Monday morning to release water to the crops where he got in touch with a live y wire lying at the land. As a result, he received an electric shock and died instantly.

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