NAWABSHAH: Lawyers in Nawabshah and Naushahro Feroze have strongly condemned their fellow lawyers` killing in Punjab by police and demanded exemplary punishment for the culprits.

Talking to Dawn on Monday, the vice chairman of the Sindh Bar Council and the president of Shaheed Benazirabad District Bar Association, Ziaul Hassan Lanjar, said that the legal fraternity had always been a victim of atrocities.

The brutal murder of two office-bearers of the Daska Bar Association had deeply saddened lawyers across the country and they would boycott court proceedings on Tuesday in protest, he said.

In Naushahro Feroze, a hurriedly convened meeting of the district bar council passed a resolution, condemning the murder of lawyers and injuries to three others by Punjab police.

The bar president Abdul Salam Luhrani and general secretary Abdul Rahim Abbasi demanded immediate arrest of the police officers involved in the killings and registration of an FIR against them.