KBA refuses to suspend protesting lawyers' licences.

KARACHI -- The Karachi Bar Association (KBA) has rejected amendments proposed by the Sindh government to the Legal Practitioner's Act, including the proposal to suspend practicing licence of those lawyers who indulge in protest in future.

Addressing a press conference, KBA general secretary G.M. Korai and other office-bearers said that the amendments to section 41 of the act that provides for suspending protesting lawyers' licences, would be rejected.

He also rejected the proposed amendment through which young lawyers, who hail from other cities, would not be allowed to exercise their right to vote in the bar associations' elections for a period of two years.

Mr Korai said that the provincial ministers could not 'dare' to take any such move and deplored that it was not understandable why the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) was trying to create hurdles for newly enrolled lawyers.

He added that the matter was discussed with the PBC representatives, who had assured them that young lawyers would not be deprived of their right to vote in the polls.

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