SBC boycotts courts today to observe May 12 mayhem anniversary.

KARACHI -- The Sindh Bar Council announced that a province-wide boycott of legal proceedings will be observed on Tuesday, the 13th anniversary of the May 12, 2007 mayhem and demanded that the tragic incident be investigated by a full bench of the higher judiciary.

The SBC in a statement said that its vice chairman, Haider Imam Rizvi, demanded that the incident must be inquired into by a full bench of the high court comprising not fewer than seven judges as ordered by then SHC chief justice Sabihuddin Ahmed or a full bench of the Supreme Court.

It deplored that the government had so far failed to fairly and independently invesAtAigate the tragic incident.

Mr Rizvi further said that those at the helm of affairs who had command and control...