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Legal community boycotts courts in protest and condemns violence .
By Our Correspondent
Published: May 24, 2012
The legal fraternity also boycotted court proceedings and staged demonstrations against the violence which claimed 13 lives during the rally. PHOTO: PPI
KARACHI / SUKKUR / HYDERABAD : A complete shutter-down and wheel-jam strike was observed in the districts of Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas divisions and upper Sindh on Wednesday on the call of Sindhi nationalist parties against the attack on the Mohabat-e-Sindh rally in Karachi.
The Awami Tehreek (AT) president Ayaz Latif Palijo, who was leading the rally on Tuesday, said that the Mohabat-e-Sindh rally will be organised in Larkana on May 25, adding that AT will set up two-day camps in Sindh to receive condolences. He demanded that the government provide compensation of Rs5 million for the people who were killed in Karachi and Rs3 million for the injured.
The strike in Hyderabad was in part also a reaction to the killing of Muzaffar Bhutto, the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) general secretary, whose body was found in Hyderabad after a 15-month long disappearance.
All the educational institutions, including three universities in Jamshoro and one in rural Hyderabad, were closed. The ongoing exams being conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas were also disrupted......
full article : Legal community boycotts courts in protest and condemns violence – The Express Tribune
By Our Correspondent
Published: May 24, 2012
The legal fraternity also boycotted court proceedings and staged demonstrations against the violence which claimed 13 lives during the rally. PHOTO: PPI
KARACHI / SUKKUR / HYDERABAD : A complete shutter-down and wheel-jam strike was observed in the districts of Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas divisions and upper Sindh on Wednesday on the call of Sindhi nationalist parties against the attack on the Mohabat-e-Sindh rally in Karachi.
The Awami Tehreek (AT) president Ayaz Latif Palijo, who was leading the rally on Tuesday, said that the Mohabat-e-Sindh rally will be organised in Larkana on May 25, adding that AT will set up two-day camps in Sindh to receive condolences. He demanded that the government provide compensation of Rs5 million for the people who were killed in Karachi and Rs3 million for the injured.
The strike in Hyderabad was in part also a reaction to the killing of Muzaffar Bhutto, the Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) general secretary, whose body was found in Hyderabad after a 15-month long disappearance.
All the educational institutions, including three universities in Jamshoro and one in rural Hyderabad, were closed. The ongoing exams being conducted by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas were also disrupted......
full article : Legal community boycotts courts in protest and condemns violence – The Express Tribune