KARACHI, Feb 9: Chairmen of three Sindh Bar Council committees have criticised Chief Minister Arbab Ghulam Rahim’s remarks that “the government arrests criminals and lawyers get them freed.”

Chairman of the SBC’s Human Rights Committee Aqil Lodhi, Chairman of the Executive Committee Fazl Qadir Memon and Chairman of the Inter-provincial Coordination Committee Haji Shafi Mohammad Chandio, and a former president of the Karachi Bar Association Mohammad Ali Abbasi, in a joint statement, termed the remarks ‘insulting’ to the lawyer fraternity.

The chief minister had reportedly stated this during his address at the oath-taking ceremony of Karachi Bar Association.

The lawyers also regretted that the chief minister had called them ‘parasites’.—PPI