KARACHI, May 31: At least 120 lawyers, nine of them women, handed over their eyewitness account and sufferings they endured during violence on May 12 in the city to the leaders of their respective bar associations. The evidences, written on stamp papers, are intended to be submitted to the Sindh High Court on Friday.

The Sindh High Court Bar Association had received evidences from 50 lawyers by 3pm on Thursday. General Secretary of the SHCBA Munir-ur-Rehman stated that he expected many more to be received before Friday morning.

The Karachi Bar Association and the Malir Bar Association have also received an unspecified number of such evidences. KBA President Iftikhar Javaid Qazi stated that more than 100 lawyers had revealed their sufferings to him personally and many of them had handed over the same written on stamp papers. However, he said some of those having their residences in the areas dominated by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists preferred not to be named at this stage as this could bring more miseries to their life and family.

Prominent among the KBA members who submitted their evidences are K. K. Javaid Khan, Aamir Niaz Khan, Abdul Latif Baloch, Imran Khan, Imran Iqbal, Ghulam Rasool, Shah Faisal, Saeed Qureshi, Iqbal Aqeel, Ms Sakina, Ms Shazia Mughal, Ms Zubaida, Ms Uzma, Ms Rani, Ms Nasim and Ms Farah.

President of the Malir Bar Association Zahoor Hussein Mehar told this reporter that most of the members of his association had suffered physical harm and fatigue during the violence. He said Abdul Naeem Memon, Mohammad Ashraf Sammu, Amanulah Yousufzai, Asad Memon, Kabir Memon, Fida Mohammad Khan, Sharfuddin Jamali, Rabnawaz Niazi, Liaquat Lashari, Malik Zahid and Ms Ulfat Shah were among scores of MBA members who submitted their evidences on Thursday.

The Malir Bar Association, at its general body meeting, unanimously approved a resolution that called for observing May 12 as ‘black day’. A detailed resolution was dispatched to the chief justices of the Supreme Court and Sindh High Court, as well as the heads of all bar associations and law-enforcement agencies.