Lawyers vow to accelerate Dr Aafia's campaign

LAHORE The local lawyers community has vowed to intensify the protest rallies in connection with the immediate release of Dr Aafia Siddiqui terming her the 'daughter of Pakistan, as on Wednesday they took out a rally from civil courts to GPO Chowk in this regard. As per detail, a female lawyer Faiza Batool presented the requisition in the House for taking out rally regarding the release of Dr Aafia. The lawyers, LBA Secretary, Qasim Hassan Bhuttar, Faiza Paracha, Isma Mehmood, Imran Pasha, LBA Senior Vice President Syeda Lubna and many other lawyers took part in the rally to show their wrath against the American courts sentence for Dr Aafias imprisonment. Talking on the occasion, LBA sectary demanded of the CJP to direct the government for making speedy efforts for the Dr Aafias release forthwith, because she could not be sentenced in the US court.

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