OKARA, July 5: The Okara District Bar Association (DBA) demanded on Thursday that the Supreme Court and Lahore High Court take suo motu notice of kidnapping of first class civil judge Malik Nisar Ahmad, who is currently posted in Pasrur.

DBA office-bearers Maqbool Husain Shakir and Sagheer Ahmad Harni told a press conference here that the kidnapped judge belonged to Okara city and he was also a former Okara bar member.

The judge was kidnapped from Ferozpur Road in Lahore four days ago.

Shakir and Harni also asked the Punjab government and the police chief to take notice of the kidnapping. They announced that the DBA would observe a complete strike against the kidnapping on Friday (today).

BLACK DAY: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) observed black day across the district on Thursday to condemn the removal of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by General Ziaul Haq in a military coup on July 5, 1977. The PPP set up a protest camp in front of the Okara Press Club, where party workers raised slogans against the late military ruler. Protest camps were also set up in other parts of the district, where party workers hailed the acquittal of PPP Chairperson Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari in a property reference.