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Friday, March 11, 2011
PBC announces free legal help to Davis’ victims* Committee nominates members of PBC for its FLAC at provincial level
* Committee demands punishment for Bhatti’s killers
By Hasnaat Malik
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) announced on Thursday to provide free legal assistance to the legal heirs of Faizan Haidar, Faheem and Ibadur Rehman, who were murdered by Raymond Davis and a US consulate vehicle.
It was decided in a meeting of the Central Free Legal Aid Committee (FLAC) of the PBC held with Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry in chair. The meeting was attended by the committee’s members Roohul Amin Chamkani and Muhammad Yaseen Azad.
The committee resolved to constitute FLAC at provincial and district level with a view to provide free legal aid to the needy and deserving litigants as per provisions of the PBC Free Legal Aid Rules, 1999.
As a first step, the committee nominated members of the PBC for its FLAC at provincial level. These members include Muhammad Yaseen Azad, Roohul Amin Chamkani and Amanullah Kanrani as chairmen of FLAC for Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, respectively.
However, for Punjab, Syed Qalb-i-Hassan from Rawalpindi and Mian Abbas Ahmed from Multan were nominated as chairmen of the committee for providing free legal aid to deserving and needy litigants at the level of Lahore High Court (Rawalpindi Bench) and Islamabad High Court and at the level of Lahore High Court (Multan and Bahawalpur Benches), respectively.
The matter of nomination of chairman of FLAC for the cases of free legal aid pertaining to principal seat of the Lahore High Court, Lahore would be decided in the next meeting.
It was also decided that the matter of nomination of members of the provincial FLAC and composition of FLAC at district level throughout the country would be taken up in the next meeting of the committee when the chairmen of provincial FLAC would also be in attendance.
The committee while strongly condemning the brutal murder of young boys – Faizan Haidar, Faheem and Ibadur Rehman of Lahore, at the hands of Davis, demanded the government to take the accused to task and award him exemplary punishment according to the due process of law.
The committee also decided to offer all possible legal assistance and help to the legal heirs of the deceased boys in respect of the double murder case against Raymond Davis in the court of law in Lahore.
The committee strongly condemned the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti by terrorists and demanded the government to bring the culprits to book and award them exemplary punishment at the earliest.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk