MARDAN: The District Bar Association (DBA), Mardan, on Thursday announced to boycott district courts for three days from May 6 to 8 against the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for not fulfilling its promise to built a judicial complex on the area of old jail.

The lawyers said that the provincial government was using delaying tactics to start work on construction of judicial complex in Mardan.

DBA`s general secretary Zarbadshah Khan told this scribe that the office-bearers of their last cabinet had held meetings one and half years ago with provincial minister Mohammad Atif Khan and other lawmakers of the ruling party on the issue.

He said that the government wanted to build a judicial complex on the land acquired opposite the newcentral jail building in Mohabatabad, but the lawyers were against shifting of the district courts.

He added that the government had planned to shift the courts and build a family park there.

He, however, claimed that the issue was resolved then and the government had agreed with officebearers of the previous DBA cabinet not to shift the courts from the city centre.

Mr Zarbadshah said that they had received a notice from the DC office on May 3, saying that the government had planned to shift the courts and start work on construction of a family park.

He demanded of the Peshawar High Court chief justice and Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to help resolve the issue in the interest of local lawyers and people. Correspondent