LAHORE: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has announced the boycott of all courts across the country to mourn the death of 61 police cadets in terrorist attack on Quetta Sariab Police Training College.
The customs court lawyers said that all community will boycott the court proceedings and prayers will be offered for the departed souls. The lawyers’ community is protesting against the killings of recruits and have decided to boycott the courts proceedings.
The Lahore High Court Bar has also announced boycott of courts proceedings. The Punjab Bar Council (PBC) said that lawyers’ will observe protest against the Quetta tragedy.
Earlier, heavily-armed militants wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy in Quetta, killing at least 60 people and wounding dozens more, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said Tuesday, in one of the deadliest militant attacks this year.
Three gunmen burst into the sprawling academy, targeting sleeping quarters home to some 700 recruits, and sent terrified young men aged between 15 and 25 fleeing.
