Lawyers in major Pakistani cities Monday staged protest demonstrations against the imposition of emergency in the country and some of them were arrested.
According to local press reports, the biggest protest was in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, where a number of lawyers were injured and arrested after police launched teargas shells at around 1,000 protesters outside the high court.
In the southern port city of Karachi, some lawyers protesting outside the Sindh High Court (SHC) were arrested while gathering in front of the SHC and voiced slogans against the emergency.
The police has arrested Justice Sabihuddin Ahmad's son Barrister Salahuddin Ahmad and some other lawyers from the SHC cafeteria, who were later shifted to unknown place in police van, according to the reports.
Since the declaration of the state of emergency Saturday, the judges, who didn't take oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order, have been kept confined to their houses and despite all restrictions the lawyer community boycotted the courts Monday.
Lawyers in the northwestern city of Peshawar and the Pakistani capital of Islamabad also observed strike against the impositions of emergency in the country, while heavy contingents of police were posted near the compounds of the courts.
In Islamabad, roads leading to the Supreme Court, the Prime Minister Secretariat, the President House, the Parliament, the Pak Secretariat and the diplomatic enclaves have kept closed. Barbed wires have been laid on the roads and by lanes.
Citizens in Islamabad and its twin-city Rawalpindi since the imposition of emergency remained in a state of uncertainty, while the attendance in the educational institutions was seen thin at the beginning of the new week.
However, shops in the capital opened as usual.
Source: Xinhua
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