NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Sept 5: Lawyers in Naushahro Feroze, Kandiaro, Bhirya and Moro towns boycotted court proceedings on Wednesday and staged a rally in protest against attack on their colleague, which left him injured.

They charged that six people belonging to Hisbani tribe attacked Zulfiqar Jatoi advocate with firearms on Tuesday when he was returning home in his car from Kandiaro. The attack left the lawyer and his bodyguard, Qaim Din Gopang, seriously injured.

Mr Zulfiqar Jatoi said that he went to Kandiaro police after the attack and asked them to register FIR against nazim of union council Mohbat Dero, Abdul Ghaffar Dahraj, Mohram Hisbani, Bali Hisbani, Deedar, Mureed, Haji and Ghous Bux.

Police told him that they had filed the FIR but in fact they had not lodged it and were waiting for the SHO, he said. Later in the night police advised him that the FIR could be lodged if he withdrew the name of UC nazim.

He told journalists that he believed the attack was made on the instigation of UC nazim so he did not took back his name. He then submitted an application to the sessions judge of Naushahro Feroze requesting him to direct the police to lodge the FIR. The judge transferred the application to additional sessions judge of Kandiaro on Wednesday.

The dispute between Hisbanis and Jatois has been running for past several months over Ms Sanam Jatoi’s marriage with Riaz Hisbani. Two people have so far lost their lives.

The UC nazim Abdul Ghaffar Dahraj rejected the lawyer’s allegation and said that he had nothing to do with the Jatoi-Hisbani dispute nor had he any connection with the people, who attacked Zulfiqar Jatoi.

RALLY: More than 100 students of the Government Degree College of Naushahro Feroze staged a rally seeking removal of encroachment from the government Madressa and high school on Wednesday.