Lawyers protest murder of colleagues.

PESHAWAR -- The lawyers' community on Tuesday observed a province-wide strike on the call of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council against murder of two colleagues in Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu on Sunday.

In Peshawar, lawyers mostly stayed away from the proceedings in different courts, including the Peshawar High Court.

The KP Bar Council has called upon the government to arrest the culprits at the earliest, failing which it would evolve a future course of action.

Lawyer Mohammad Imran Khan affiliated with Insaf Lawyers Forum was shot dead at Chambeli Chowk in Bannu. The police had registered an FIR on the complaint of the deceased's brother, Taj Mohammad Khan against unidentified assailants.

Similarly, another lawyer, Malik Iqbal...