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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council has endorsed the strike call given by the Pakistan Bar Council and announced that the lawyers’ community won’t attend proceedings in any court across the province on Saturday (today) to show solidarity with the general public against the excessive power billing and price hike in the country.
The KPBC’s vice-chairman Zarbadshah Khan and its executive committee chairman Syed Mubashir Shah on Friday demanded that the caretaker government and the Election Commission of Pakistan should announce the date for holding of free and fair general elections within 90 days of the dissolution of the assemblies under Article 224 of the Constitution.
They stated that the lives of general public had become miserable due to continuous price hike, including enormous increase in prices of petroleum products and exorbitant electricity bills.
They said the privileged class, including high-ranking government officials, had been enjoying several incentives, including free electricity, natural gas, petrol, etc to the tune of billions of rupees. They demanded that all the incentives provided to them should be withdrawn forthwith.
The KPBC leaders said that the caretaker government should take practical steps for addressing the ongoing economic crisis in the country.