SCBA to raise Yasin Malik's plight at world forums.

ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) constituted a committee of lawyers and human rights activists on Thursday to raise the conviction of Kashmiri leader Yasin Malik at national and international forums.

The committee was set up after Mishal Malik, the wife of Yasin Malik, paid a visit to the SCBA's office, inside the Supreme Court building, to meet its president, Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon.

The purpose of the meeting was to seek support of the legal fraternity to highlight the injustice done to Yasin Malik by the Indian authorities, the SCBA said in a statement.

On May 26, an Indian court sentenced Yasin Malik to life imprisonment in a trumped-up terror funding case.

Waseem Mumtaz Malik, the SCBA secretary, finance secretary Shehnaz Akhter and senior counsel Kamran Murtaza were present at the meeting.

The participants called upon the government to take up the Kashmir issue with top...