The Baloch Hal NewsQUETTA: President of the Balochistan Bar Association Baz Muhammad Kakar has charged that two missing lawyers, Mir Munir Ahmed Mirwani and Agha Zahir Shah, had been picked up by the personnel of intelligence agencies and were in their custody.
He added that lawyers had been protesting for 40 days and even set up a hunger strike camp but the government did not pay any attention to their demands concerning the release of two abducted lawyers.
He made these statements while talking to the media on Friday at Balochistan High Court’s Bar Room.
He vowed that the lawyers would continue their struggle to defend the rule of law and condemn all forms of extra-judicial killings and kidnappings in the province.
He claimed they received no specific response from the government and its functionaries on the illegal detention of two lawyers.
A senior Balochistan lawyer Hadi Shakil disclosed on Thursday that two kidnapped lawyers had been released after the payment of Rs 1.5 million each as ransom money to their kidnappers and adding no sincere steps were being taken by the government to recover their colleagues.
Meanwhile three lawyers Iqbal Shah, Mehboob Baloch and Riaz Tareen observed a token hunger strike today condemning the continued detention of both the lawyers. Earlier, there was complete boycott of court proceedings.
http://www.thebalochhal.com/2011/04/balochistan-bar-president-says-agencies-kidnapped-two-missing-lawyers/
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