Pakistan Bar Council condemns raids on senator and Quetta bar chief
The council has asked the federal and Balochistan governments and the provincial police chief to identify those responsible and act against them under the law.
The Pakistan Bar Council has condemned raids on the residence and office of Senator Kamran Murtaza, a former vice-chairman of the council and former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan, and on the premises of Aurangzeb Khan Kakar, president of the Quetta Bar Association, as well as on property belonging to other lawyers.
The condemnation was issued in a statement from the council secretary on behalf of Vice-Chairman Pir Muhammad Masood Chishti, Chairman of the Executive Committee Munir Ahmed Malik and other council members.
The council said such actions were highly unacceptable when directed at prominent members of the legal fraternity and bar leaders. It said the tactics were being used for political victimisation and harassment, to deprive people of fundamental and human rights and to implicate political opponents in fabricated cases.
It urged the federal government, the Balochistan government and the Inspector General of Police, Balochistan, to take immediate notice of the incidents, identify those responsible and start action against them in accordance with the law.
The council warned that if the raids are not stopped and those responsible are not held accountable, the legal fraternity will be compelled to decide its future course of action.
A separate joint statement by council members, issued on Sunday, said the raid on Senator Murtaza's home and office took place on November 7 and was carried out by unidentified persons, with harassment of his family and vandalism. Business Recorder reported the statement as signed by Abid Shahid Zuberi, Muhammad Maqsood Buttar, Abdul Sattar Khan, Munir Ahmed and others.
The two accounts differ on who carried out the raids. The statement issued through the council secretary described police raids; the members' joint statement said the November 7 raid was the work of unidentified persons.
Neither statement named a police station, a registered case or the number of premises searched. No comment from the federal government, the Balochistan government or Balochistan police was reported in either account.
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