In a horrific incident, one day after the manhandling of Arbab Ghulam Rahim, another right
In a horrific incident, one day after the manhandling of Arbab Ghulam Rahim, another right-hand man of President Pervez Musharraf was beaten up outside the Lahore High Court by a charged crowd of lawyers on Tuesday evening.
Dr Sher Afgan Niazi had come to see his lawyer Malik Noor Muhammad Awan in his office at Farah Centre 2-Mozang Road, when lawyers spotted him and began raising slogans against him. Afgan locked himself and others accompanying him inside the chamber of his lawyer to avoid the wrath of the angry lawyers.
His confinement continued for over four hours and ended late in the night when he was finally made to come out in the presence of the Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan and other bar leaders. But the angry lawyers pounded on him and slapped his head for quite some time before he was made to sit inside an Edhi ambulance.
Earlier, the lawyers gathered outside the office of the advocate and refused to allow him to leave. They cordoned off the office of Awan for at least four hours but even then, Afgan, who has undergone bypass surgery, could not escape from there safely.
Lawyers kicked and punched him and tore his clothes in the presence of representatives of the bars and the police, who were trying to give him a safe passage from the office of his lawyer. Malik Awan contacted the Lahore High Court President Anwar Kamal and Lahore Bar Association President Manzoor Qadir and requested them to control the situation. The bar's leaders reached the spot and tried their best to calm the lawyers down but they refused to accept any request.
The leaders continued delivering speeches to calm the lawyers but the lawyers ignoring their requests continued shouting slogans against Sher Afgan and Musharraf. Some lawyers also exchanged hot words with SP Civil Lines Ahsan Younas when he tried to negotiate with them.
One of the lawyers said, "You have come to rescue Afgan but where were you when the police tortured lawyers inside the Lahore High Court on November 5 last year." "Afgan deserved this treatment because he had humiliated our Chief Justice time and again," the angry lawyers said.
When the situation became worse, the bar's leaders decided to call the Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan. He reached there and asked the lawyers not to damage the lawyers and judges' cause and allow the former minister to go safely.
The lawyers at that time by raising hands promised Aitzaz that they would not misbehave with Afgan and let him go for their noble cause of the judges' restoration. Aitzaz also requested the media, particularly the electronic media, to stop the coverage. He asked the police officers to cordon Sher Afgan and take him in their custody safely. Police brought an ambulance and tried to take him away in the ambulance but the lawyers attacked Afgan when he appeared and started beating him. They paid no heed to Aitzaz, who was requesting them not to misbehave with him, and kept on beating Afgan.
Police pushed Afgan in the ambulance and tried to take him away but the people refused to give way to the van. The ill-fated Afgan literally lied on the floor of the van to save himself from the lawyers who had stormed the van from all sides. The charged lawyers also damaged the ambulance.
Aitzaz climbed the roof of the ambulance and requested the people to give him the way. But the lawyers started chasing and attacking the ambulance till the police shifted Afgan to the Rescue 1122 van from the Edhi ambulance, which was also damaged. The police failed to create a safe passage for Afgan, which suggested that the police played the role of a silent spectator. A number of locals also gathered at the spot to see what happened to the former minister.
The Mozang police have registered a case against dozens of lawyers for manhandling Sher Afgan Niazi on Turner Road, Mozang. According to a source, the police registered a case under sections 342/7ATA, 148/149, 353 and 324 PPC against the lawyers for besieging and manhandling the former federal minister for parliamentary affairs.
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