A shameful act (1).

Byline: Hasan Afzaal - Karachi

The lawyers' hooliganism in Lahore was a shameful act and a violation of ethics and morality. Whatever happened there with doctors, patients and their attendants at the hands of rowdy lawyers is a stigma on the face of the legal community.

The Lahore administration, despite having knowledge of the ill-intentions of the lawyers, did nothing to stop them. Violent gangs kept on creating chaos in and outside Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) for hours, thrashing doctors, paramedic staff and others to show their street power. This act was extremism, or should I say terrorism, which claimed the...

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