F.P. Report
MARDAN: District Bar Association Mardan’s hunger strike camp and boycott from district courts on here Friday entered in the fourth consecutive day against the provincial government for not fulfilling its promises regarding construction of a judicial complex in the old jail area, announcement of Shuhada Package for the families of the lawyers and other people killed in a suicide bomb on the district courts’ premises and release of the promised Rs.5 million fund for the lawyers.
Awami National Party provincial president of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti visited the hunger strike camp of lawyers on its fourth day so that to express his solidarity with them in their demands. Addressing to participants of the hunger-strike camp, he supported the legal fraternity and termed their demands as genuine and correct.
He criticized the provincial education minister Muhammad Atif Khan for taking unnecessary confrontation with lawyer’s community of district Mardan by stepping back from his promises regarding construction of a judicial complex in the old jail area, announcement of Shuhada Package for the families of the lawyers and other people killed in a suicide bomb on the district courts’ premises and release of the promised Rs.5 million fund for the lawyers.
He claimed that the previous provincial government of Awami National Party had allocated 300-kanals of land for Family Park in Mardan district when he was chief minister of the province. He also claimed that PC-1 and construction work on some of its part had been carried out by the then regime.
He alleged that provincial minister for education Mohammad Atif Khan had become a hurdle to construct judicial complex in the old jail area, release of the announced Rs5 million for DBA and Shuhada Package. Hoti lamented that the provincial education minister had made it as a matter of his ego and took confrontation with lawyers of the district which exposed his political immaturity.
He asked chief minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khan Khattak to take up the issue seriously and take steps for its early resolution in the best interest of lawyer’s community as well as general public.
