LARKANA, Oct 14 The high court and district bar associations of Larkana have extended full support, through a resolution, to Justice (retd) Syed Deedar Shah's appointment as chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Speaking at a meeting held here on Thursday, Inayatullah Morio, president of High Court Bar Association Safdar Bhutto, Qadir Bakhsh Bhatti, acting president of DBA and other office-bearers said that Deedar Shah who was a member of the DBA had a clean slate.

The people who were criticising his appointment as NAB chairman should better adopt legal course instead of indulging in mud-slinging.

The meeting passed another resolution, expressing concern over the kidnapping of Ali Azhar Tunio, legal adviser of the Larkana Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Altaf Abro, deputy controller of examina- tions in Sukkur BISE and brother in-law of Sindh Law Minister Ayaz Soomro and Abdul Sattar Khokhar on Sept 27.

The meeting decided that lawyers would begin a hunger strike from Oct 17 and no advocate would appear in higher and lower courts on Friday and Saturday in protest against police failure top recover the hostages.

The one-hour token boycott of courts would continue throughout the week, said Qadir Bakhsh Bhatti.

Mr Bhatti has filed a petition against the kidnapping in the Sindh High Court's Larkana circuit bench and Larkana's Deputy Inspector General Police Din Mohammad Baloch has formed committee headed by DPO Irfan Baloch to gear up efforts for safe and early recovery of hostages.