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Lawyers observe strike, express solidarity with journalists

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FAISALABAD: The District Bar Association on Monday observed complete strike to express solidarity with journalists and cameramen of different TV channels, who were attacked and injured by policemen in Islamabad.

The lawyers boycotted the court proceedings to register their protest. They also condemned the ransacking of Geo News office in Islamabad. Meanwhile, DBA president Chaudhry Tanvirur Rehman Randhawa and additional secretary Ch Ijaz Ahmad Wahla condemned the police excesses on journalists and demanded an immediate inquiry into the incident. They demanded the government and the PAT and PTI should resolve their differences through dialogue instead of violence to save the country and its institutions.

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