ISLAMABAD   -   Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Thursday condemned brutal murder of Advocate Malik Azmatullah Kasi in Quetta and registration of FIRs against Sindh High Court lawyers Sajjad Ahmad Chandio and Ayaz Latif Palejo and called for strike today (Friday). 

PBC Vice-Chairman Khush Dil Khan and Chairman Executive Committee of the Council Muhammad Faheem Wali, in a statement, strongly condemned the brutal murder of senior advocate Malik Azmatullah Kasi in Quetta and utter failure of the law enforcement agencies in maintaining and improving the law and order situation in Balochistan to provide safety and security to the citizens, especially the lawyers, and to control target killing. 

They urged the federal and provincial governments as well as the IG Police, Balochistan for improving the law and order situation in Balochistan and to arrest the culprits immediately and award them exemplary punishment otherwise the lawyers community would chalk out their future course of action. 

They also condemned registration of false and baseless FIRs against Sajjad Ahmad Chandio, member Sindh Bar Councilm and Ayaz Latif Palejo, senior advocate SHCm by the Sindh police under Anti-Terrorism Act. They demanded from I G Sindh to direct the concerned authorities to delete the names of Sajjad Ahmad and Ayaz Latif from the said false FIRs and take action against the responsible police officials.