Lawyers of 13 districts of Southern Punjab on Thursday observed one-hour token strike and staged a hunger strike camp in Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur at the call of Pakistan Bar Council and Punjab Bar Council.
District Bar Multan has decided to cancel the membership of those lawyers, who had attended the government-sponsored Lawyers convention in Lahore on March 14. While Sahiwal Bar has cancelled the membership of Arshad Lodhi, Punjab Minister for Agriculture. Multan Bar has restricted the entry of Punjab Ministers Rana Qasim Noon, Moin Riaz Qureshi, and adviser to CM Hafiz Iqbal Khakwani into the bar room.
MCHBA President Mehmood Ashraf Khan announced to observe complete strike on Friday at the call of MMA, PBC and Punjab Bar council in protest against humiliating the Chief Justice of Pakistan and torturing the protesting lawyers in Lahore.