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Posts published in “Day: May 19, 2014

Lawyers boycott courts in Gilgit over security concerns

By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, May 19th, 2014 GILGIT:  Lawyers have boycotted legal proceedings in Gilgit to protest the killing of a man at the premises of the city’s court. The strike was called by the Gilgit High Court Bar Association after one Tahir Ahmed was shot dead by gunmen near the entrance of the Chief Court on Wednesday. Ahmed was about to enter the court to attend a hearing the time. He…