KARACHI: Litigants continued to suffer as the legal fraternity boycotted court proceedings for a fourth day in a row on Thursday in protest against the Quetta blast.

The legal fraternity has been observing boycott since Aug 8 to mourn the killing of Balochistan High Court Bar Association president Bilal Anwar Kasi and the subsequent bombing on the Civil Hospital Quetta targeting the lawyers.

The courts wore a deserted look and hundreds of cases fixed at the City Courts and district courts in Malir could not be taken up for hearing since the jail authorities did not send undertrial prisoners to courts due to the boycott.

The lawyers also stayed away from legal proceedings at the Sindh High Court and the judges only took up urgent matters in their chambers while the legal work at the special courts was also affected since the lawyers did not turn upin courts.

President of the Karachi Bar Association Mahmood-ulHasan said lawyers would attend courts on Friday.