KARACHI: Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi on Saturday has postponed the hearing of customs and income tax related cases due to Massacre in Mardan District and Sessions Court as blast leaves 13 dead.
36 cases were fixed before the court, however, court was informed by the representative of the bar associations that due to Mardan’s Massacre, Sindh Bar Council has announced full day strike and black day, lawyers requested the court for general adjournment, therefore, court postponed the hearing of 36 cases without any proceedings.
On Friday, a attacker contained 8 kilograms of explosive matireal detonated a hand grenade before exploding his suicide vest outside the district courts, however a policeman fired at the attacker and then attacker exploded himself, due to which at least 13 people including 4 lawyers and three policeman were killed and 41 others injured.
It is pertinent to mention here that, last month, 73 people, most of them lawyers, were killed after a suicide bomber struck the emergency ward of Quetta’s Civil Hospital. The Lawyers had gathered to mourn the death of Baluchistan Bar Association’s president in a gun attack earlier in the day.
Sindh Bar Council’s Vice Chairman Barrister Salahuddin Ahmed had announced full day strike and requested the Lawyers community not to appear before the courts in all over the Sindh.
