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KPBC issues Rs11m to needy lawyers

Humayun Khan

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council (KPBC) issued cheques of Rs11 million for disable, aged and patient practitioners facing different illnesses including Rs7.5 million for families of deceased lawyers, on Saturday.

The cheques issued during general body meeting co-chaired by vice chairman KPBC Zar Badshah and chairman Executive Committee Syed Mubashir Shah while requested Chief Justice Peshawar High Court Justice Muhammad Ibrahim Khan to appoint judges for two years on each station while demanded to transfer judges after completion of two years at one station.

The immediate appointment of Additional Session Judges on merit as well as argued Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to curtain judicial power of administrative officers in the province, KPBC demanded.

KPBC also demanded withdrawal of subsidies from elite class as well as sacking of luxury vehicles and to end non-developmental expenditures. The spike in inflation, electricity bills and terrorism had compelled civil society as well as legal fraternity for protests in favor of their demands, lawyers argued.

KPBC will call a session to addressed the issues of inflations and terrorism in which presidents of all bar associations would be invited.

KPBC argued provincial government and Secretary Pakhtunkhwa to take disciplinary as well as to hold against DC Shangla for corruption charges while demanded his transfer from the district.

The Frontier Post

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