ATTOCK, Jan 29: Lawyers here on Tuesday observed strike against registration of a police case against about 100 members of the district bar association for holding a rally against the government in the city on Saturday.

The lawyers also held a protest rally from district bar to the police headquarters. The rally participants were chanting slogans against the government and the police. However, the protesting lawyers later dispersed peacefully.

The police had taken strict security measures and were deployed at the main gate of the district bar and other gates of the katchery to confine the protesters inside the building.

Senior lawyers including Rana Afsar Ali khan, Sheikh Ahsanuddin, Syed Tahir Bukhari, Sadaqat Ali Khan and Waqar Azeem Saddique said lawyers were being harassed through the police to stop them from their ongoing struggle for restoration of deposed judges and supremacy of the constitution. Arrests and registration of cases would not restrict our countrywide movement, they added. They asked the rulers to avoid creating confrontation in the country which was already facing serious political and judicial crises.

They said lawyers of the district would fully participate in the Youm-i-Iftikhar on January 31 in the federal capital to express solidarity with the deposed chief justice of Pakistan.