QUETTA, May 12: Lawyers boycotted the courts here on Monday and at a meeting adopted a resolution which said that after the restoration of the judiciary the perpetrators of the crimes committed on May 12 in Karachi last year would be brought to trial.

They held a condolence meeting in the bar room of the district court for May 12 victims and decided that lawyers would observe their death anniversary every year.

The lawyers took out a procession led by Ali Ahmed Kurd, Baz Mohammad Kakar, president of the Balochistan Bar Association, and Shakeel Ahmed Hadi, president of the Balochistan High Court Bar Association, and gathered outside the local press club.

They raised slogans against President Musharraf and in favour of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

Baz Kakar said that the lawyers would continue their struggle for independence of the judiciary and demanded an open trail of the criminals who killed innocent people in Karachi last year.