Lawyers in Pakistan stage nationwide strike following bomb attack
Strikes called in response to bombings targeting lawyers earlier this week
August 10, 2016 at 07:24 AM
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Lawyers across Pakistan are staging nationwide strikes following a bomb attack at a hospital that killed and injured lawyers who were mourning the death of another colleague.
Following calls for a strike by the Pakistan Bar Council and the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan, legal professionals from all over the country are boycotting court proceedings in response to the bombing in the city of Quetta on Monday (8 August), which killed more than 70 people.
According to the Karachi-based English language daily newspaper The Express Tribune, lawyers and judges in the capital Islamabad, and in provinces Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, adjourned court proceedings and demanded justice for the victims and arrests for perpetrators.
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