PESHAWAR, Jan 29: The NWFP Bar Council Tribunal has suspended the licence of a lawyer of Kohat, Azmat Hayat Khattak, for five years and fined him Rs30,000 on a complaint of his mother.

In a complaint filed with the Bar council, Mrs Raham had said that she had engaged Mr Khattak as counsel in a civil suit which was decreed in her favour.

Later, she said, Mr Khattak filed a suit in the court of senior civil judge of Kohat and challenged the decree and termed it fictitious and forged.

The tribunal, headed by Justice Qaim Jan Khan, observed that Mr Khattak was acting in a very irresponsible and callous manner. It observed that if a person could betray his mother, how can it be expected that he would maintain the trust of other litigants, general public and courts of law?