Lawyers observe black day agaisnt NATO air strike

Nato airstrikes on two posts in Mohmand Agency mowed down 26 Pakistan Army personnel including a major and a captain on Saturday.Likewise; lower courts also did not conducted hearing of any case. So far as important cases are concerned, those are being heard in chambers.Lawyers are also passing resolutions against US barbarism in northern areas of Pakistan. They appealed the government to take stern action against such shameful incidents.on the other hand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council Chairman Muhammad Iqbal Hoti said that bar council are observing complete strike on Monday to register protest in the strongest way against the NATO airstrikes and killing of the Pakistani troops. On the call of the bar council, he said, all district and tehsil bar associations would observe a complete strike and hold protest meetings and rallies against the NATO attack.Iqbal Hoti reminded that had the government shown seriousness towards its protest against the US raid in Abbottabad, drone attacks and other cross-border raids, the NATO would have not violated sovereignty of Pakistan today.He doubted the government’s role with the people, saying that on the one hand the government was passing resolutions from the provincial and national assemblies and Senate against the US drone attacks, air raids and NATO strikes while on the other it was showing disinterest in implementation of the resolutions.The KP Bar Council chairman warned of a mass protest to bring people on roads against the federal government if it failed to stop suchlike NATO attacks on the countrymen and violation of the country’s sovereignty. He said the government should take the matter to the UN and other international forums against Nato and US for violating Pakistan’s sovereignty.On the call of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, both the Peshawar High Court Bar Association and Peshawar District Bar Association announced boycott of courts and would hold protest meetings against the Nato attack.