PESHAWAR, Sept 17: City’s lawyers community has demanded of the government to order the arrest of SHO and ASP, as according to them, they are the killers of the Nazim of Union Council Pishtakhara, Fayyaz Khan Khalil, on Monday.

Speaking at a gathering of the lawyers at the Pashawar Press Club on Tuesday, President of District Bar Association Sher Afgan Khan held the police responsible for killing of Mr Khalil, who was leading a procession against what he termed the Pesco’s unscheduled loadsheding in the area.

He gave 15 days to the administration to arrest the killers otherwise they would launch a protest drive against the government. “We will not allow the government to turn the country into a police state,” he added.

Mr Khan also demanded of the government to immediately remove DIG Khursheed Alam, chief capital city police, for portraying a wrong picture of the killing of Mr Khalil. He rejected the claim by the DIG that some smugglers were involved in the murder of the Nazim.

He said Fayyaz Khalil had been a political activist and a member of the Bar. The police had killed Mr Khalil and injured a large number of peaceful protesters without any provocation, he added.

He said the police officials, who put blame on smugglers, were the protectors of the criminal gangs in the city. The lawyers, who were chanting slogans against the government, the IGP and DIG of police and District Nazim Azam Afrid, returned to the district courts peacefully.

Earlier, the lawyers took out a procession from the Bar room and marched down to the Peshawar Press Club, where they held a protest meeting.

The slogan-chanting lawyers, led by Sher Afgan Khan, paraded on Sher Shah Soori Road adjacent to the Governor’s House, and came straight to the press club.

Mr Fayyaz Khalil had been an activist of the People’s Students Federation during his college days. Later, he joined the PPP and contested for the post of Nazim of union council from his native area.