KARACHI, May 06 (NNI): President Karachi Bar Association, Amir Nawaz
Warraich on Tuesday asked Sindh government to order its police not to
book sit-in participants in cases.
Amir Nawaz Warraich addressing a press conference today said that the
government had assured the protest leaders that the people will not be
booked in cases.
Karachi Bar President said that the cases being registered against
various people. He asked the people being booked in cases to contact
with officials of local bar association. “The Bar will provide free of
cost of cost legal assistance to these people”.
He also asked the high-ups of the Sindh government to order police not
to book participants of protest sit-ins in cases under various charges.
The lawyers led by President Karachi Bar Amir Nawaz Warraich, had staged
sit-in at Babarloi Bypass in Khairpur district against contentious
canals project on Indus River.
Protest sit-ins spread across Sindh with support from vast segments of
the society that turned the lawyers’ sit-in into a widespread popular
protest campaign.
The Sindh Lawyers’ Action Committee after talks with government and its
assurances announced the end of sit-ins in the backdrop of the CCI
decision to set aside the project regarding canals on the Indus River.