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Quetta blast: Pakistan's lawyers boycott courts protesting attack

Agence France-Presse • August 9, 2016, 11:18:03 IST
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Pakistan’s top lawyers said they will boycott court proceedings throughout much of the country on Tuesday in protest after a suicide bomb killed 70 people in Balochistan, including many from the legal profession.

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Quetta blast: Pakistan's lawyers boycott courts protesting attack

Quetta: Pakistan’s top lawyers said they will boycott court proceedings throughout much of the country on Tuesday in protest after a suicide bomb killed 70 people in Balochistan, including many from the legal profession. [caption id=“attachment_2944102” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Lawyers protesting against the Quetta blast. AP Lawyers protesting against the Quetta blast. AP[/caption] Monday’s attack on a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta was one of the deadliest in the country’s long battle against militancy. The explosion came as some 200 lawyers along with journalists had gathered at the Civil Hospital to mourn the fatal shooting of a top provincial lawyer, with witnesses describing horrific scenes as medics battled to save scores of wounded. “Lawyers throughout the country will boycott court proceedings on Tuesday in protest against the killing of lawyers in Quetta on Monday,” said a statement from the Pakistan Bar Council, adding that provincial and district bar councils would follow suit. Balochistan government spokesman Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar said schools in the province would also be closed Tuesday “to mourn the loss”. Funerals have already been held for many of the victims, he said. “Those who were living in and close to Quetta city have already buried their loved ones, while those belonging to far flung areas will be buried on Tuesday,” he told AFP. On Monday, officials had put the number of wounded at 112. Twenty-seven of the critically injured were airlifted to Karachi, where a spokesman for the Aga Khan Hospital said they are “out of danger now”. The attack has been claimed by both a faction of the Pakistani Taliban called Jammat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), and the Islamic State group (IS). JuA, which formed in 2014, has also claimed responsibility for Pakistan’s deadliest blast so far this year, a bombing in a crowded Lahore park on Easter that killed 75, among other attacks. The US State Department designated JuA as a terrorist group last week in a statement that described it as “a splinter group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) based in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region”. Hours after the JuA claim the Islamic State group also claimed the attack, saying it had killed 200 people, according to the SITE monitoring group. Middle Eastern jihadist group IS has been scrabbling for purchase in Pakistan, largely due to competition from well established extremist groups such as the Taliban. Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has major oil and gas resources, but is afflicted by Islamist militancy, sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and a separatist insurgency. In a tweet, Pakistan’s army said the attack was “specially targeting CPEC”, referring to China’s ambitious $46 billion project to build an economic corridor through Pakistan. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is set to culminate in the Baloch Arabian Sea port of Gwadar, south of Quetta. Pakistan’s powerful military chief has previously accused arch-enemy India of “openly” challenging CPEC by trying to destabilise Balochistan.

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