Pakistan Lawyers
Pakistan: Lawyers demonstrate in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa against price hike
Peshawar, Pakistan: The lawyers' community recently demonstrated in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province against the issue of price rise by boycotting their court.
The strike call was given by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council (KPBC), which had stated that the continuous hike in prices had badly affected the general public, whereas the government had turned a blind eye to their problems, reports Dawn News.
KPBC’s Vice-Chairman Naeemuddin Khan and its executive committee’s chairman Haji Zafar Iqbal had directed the presidents and general secretaries of all the bar associations in the province to hold protest meetings to show solidarity with the general public, who had been passing through a miserable time due to soaring prices of commodities of daily use, the Pakistani newspaper reported.
Lawyers remained away from the courts on Monday to participate in the demonstration.
The procession was led by Peshawar High Court (PHC) Bar Association's President Bahlol Khattak, general secretary Qaiser Zaman and others, reports Dawn News.
The demonstrators were seen shouting slogans against the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government.
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