Action must be taken against rioters: Barrister Aitezaz Ahsan.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Aitezaz Ahsan has on Wednesday said such attack by lawyers was not expected and action must be taken against the rioters. The senior PPP leader and lawyer talked to private TV and termed the event as regrettable. 'No damage was caused during the lawyers' movement. The incident would not have happened had action been taken in past. 'The lawyers should have provided protection to Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan. The matter should have been solved through dialogue.

I am feeling ashamed today.' It is pertinent here to mention that a violent clash that erupted between hundreds of lawyers and doctors today left at least four people injured when the charged lawyers stormed into the PIC and broke windows of the emergency ward and several vehicles parked nearby. Provincial Information and Culture...

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