Judicial activities largely suspended on Tuesday in Sindh High Court and City Courts after lawyers went on strike on the call of Pakistan Bar Council (PBC). PBC gave the call for strike against the filing of references of Supreme Court judge Justice Faez Isa and Sindh High Court (SHC) judge K.K. Agha in Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). Hearings of cases were put off after lawyers didn't appear in the courts.
Litigants suffered badly due to strike of lawyers. Under trial prisoners were also taken back from the court premises to jails after lawyers didn't appear in their cases. Although a faction of lawyers under the umbrella of Lawyers Action Committee distanced from the strike of PBC. The lawyers' community largely remained away from the courts. Large number of personnel of Police and Rangers were deployed outside the court premises to ward off any untoward incident. Leaders of bar council and bar association assembled in front of the high court and city court and displayed banners against the filing of references.
President Karachi Bar Association (KBA) addressing the lawyers said that the references against the judges are ill-motivated and said that we want the upright judges in the judiciary. He described the strike successful and said that those who are opposing it are government attorneys. He said that lawyer community is united for the cause of justice in the country.