KARACHI, Aug 23: Several Bar representatives called on Tuesday for an immediate halt to construction of new shops in the Sindh High Court premises. Sindh Bar Council member and a former Karachi Bar Association Mohammad Amin Lakhani and SBC anti-corruption committee chairman Mohammad Aqil Lodhi said in a press statement that new shops were being built on land adjoining the clients’ cafeteria, which has been earmarked for a new bar complex in the SHC premises.

The complex would include a huge new library, bar room, lawyers’ and clients’ cafeteria and other facilities. The new shops would have to be demolished along with the structure to facilitate the construction of the complex.

The lawyers said they were at loss to understand why new shops were being allowed in an area to be cleared of the existing structures for building the new complex.