PESHAWAR: Amid mourning by legal fraternity for the killing of senior lawyer Abdul Latif Afridi in a gun attaclc, the Peshawar High CourtBarAssociationonWednesday constituted a six-member legal team to pursue the murder case.

A notification by the PHCBA said the team comprised senior lawyers Syed Abdul Fayyaz, Hussain Ali, Mohammad Saeed Khan, Shabbir HussainGigyani,BarristerAmirullah Chamkani and Asfandyar Khan and would pursue the case from the sessions court to the Supreme Court.

While the Pakistan Bar Counciland Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council had given the call for strike for Jan 17, the PHCBA had announced that the legal community would mourn the killing for three days and won`t appear before courts of Peshawar and other districts attached to the Principal Seat of the high court until Jan 19.

The lawyers boycotted court proceedings on Wednesday.

Mr Afridi was killed inside the Safeerullah Bar Room on the high court`s premises on Jan 16.

Suspected killer Adnan Samiullah Afridi, who was taken into custody on the spot, will be produced before the relevant judicial magistrate today (Thursday)after the expiry of his two-day physical custody with the police.

The police have claimed that the suspect told them during initial interrogation that he killed Mr Afridi due to a family feud spanning many years.

Meanwhile, the Rusm-i-Qul for Mr Afridi will be held today (Thursday) in his village.

Politicians, judges, lawyers, civil society members and academicians visited the house of the deceased in Mera Mashogagar area on the Kohat Road on the outskirts of the provincial capital to offer condolences.

They sympathised with Mr Afridi`s son advocate Danish Afridi and other family members.