Rs116m funds provided to all bar associations: Wahab.

KARACHI -- Administrator Karachi, Sindh Government Spokesman and CM Advisor on Law Barrister Murtaza Wahab on Friday said that the struggle of the lawyers community for an independent judiciary is unprecedented.

"Legislation will be enacted to allocate court fees to the Bar Association," the Administrator said this while speaking at a cheque distribution function at the Bar Association here. Law Secretary Ali Ahmed Baloch, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court Abid Zubairi, Additional Advocate General Sindh Allah Bachayo Soomro, President of People's Lawyers Forum Karachi Division Qazi Bashir Ahmed and others were also present on the occasion. At the beginning of the ceremony, Fateha was offered for the mother of former President Asif Ali Zardari.

The Administrator Karachi said that funds of Rs116 million have been provided to all bar associations of Sindh without any discrimination.

"Health insurance has been introduced for lawyers and new land will be allotted for the provision of residential plots to the legal community," he added.

He said that focal persons would be appointed in three major hospitals of Sindh, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, NICVD and NICH who would assist the lawyers in providing medical facilities to them. A stipend will be fixed for the heirs of the deceased lawyers to protect them from financial difficulties, he said. Barrister Murtaza Wahab said that funds have been allocated in the budget of next...