TIMERGARA, April 15: The legal fraternity of Lower Dir has stopped supporting Malakand Lawyers Action Committee in its struggle for nomination of judges for Darul Qaza and come up with a demand that the Qazi court should be established in Chakdara instead of Mingora, Swat.

Talking to local correspondents here, Timergara district bar president Mohammad Saleem also called off their strike on every Wednesday and said they could no longer support the Swat lawyers’ demand for nomination of judges for the Darul Qaza. Advocate Saleem said that Chakdara was the gateway of Malakand division and suggested that the Darul Qaza should be set up there.

“I know it will need a constitutional amendment, but our demand is that the Darul Qaza should be set up at Chakdara,” he said and added that in this regard they would also take lawyers of Malakand, Buner and Chitral into confidence.

The bar president accompanied by other lawyers’ leaders demanded of the Peshawar High Court chief justice to keep pending nomination of Darul Qaza judges until its establishment at Chakdara.

“We are calling off our Wednesday’s boycott against delay in judges’ nomination because we can no more be a part of a conspiracy against the judiciary,” Mr Saleem said.

Earlier, when the legal fraternity in Malakand division launched a protest campaign against delay in nomination of Darul Qaza judges the lawyers of Lower Dir had also supported that. However, lawyers from Lower and Upper Dir and Malakand Agency had been expressing their concerns over setting up of Darul Qaza at Mingora.

Talking to this correspondent, advocates Mohammad Zeb and Syed Bahadar said that many lawyers were opposed to the proposed site of the Darul Qaza from the day one, but their leaders urged them to keep silent.

They said that the building of Darul Qaza was located far away from Mingora and access to it was difficult from common man. They said the court building should be constructed on state land in Chakdara.

MALIK ZARIN BURIED: The Mashwani tribe chief Malik Haji Muhammad Zarin, his son Zahir Shah and grandson Shehryar, who were killed along with seven other people in a suicide attack in Kunar province of Afghanistan on Wednesday, were laid to rest in their ancestral graveyard at Maskini Darra here on Thursday.

Strict security arrangements were made at the site of funeral prayers.

Local religious and political leaders, and some pro-jihad people, including those from Afghanistan, attended the funeral. Jamaat-i-Islami leader Sirajul Haq was also present on the occasion.

Meanwhile, elders of the Mishwani tribe announced that one of Malik Zarin’s sons would soon be nominated as chief of the tribe.