LARKANA: Lawyers announced on Monday calling off 13-day protest against DIG after intervention of sessions judge, who summoned the police officers concerned and representatives of legal fraternity to his office and persuaded them to resolve the standoff.

The ongoing dispute between DIG Larkana range, Nasir Aftab, and the lawyers, which had arisen due to a ‘misunderstanding’, was resolved by the Sessions Judge Simkan Mughal, said PRO to DIG in a press release issued here.

It said that later at the request of the lawyers, the DIG and SSP Ahmed Faisal Chaudhry visited bar room at the Larkana sessions court. “We always prioritise resolution of lawyers’ issues,” said the DIG while addressing lawyers.

As the lawyers’ protest entered the 13th day, the judge called the DIG, SSP, and the lawyers to his office and persuaded the two sides to resolve the dispute, which as it turned out during talks was based on a misunderstanding between police and lawyers.

The DIG said that the protest against him was a misunderstanding. When the lawyers’ delegation came to meet him at his office, they had to be kept waiting for some time as he was in an online meeting being chaired by the home minister and the IGP at that time, he said.

The lawyers had come to lodge a complaint about police failure to arrest the culprits responsible for the murder of a lawyer’s brother in Dokri during a robbery.

The DIG clarified that not only had the killer been arrested since then, but the looted items had also been recovered by police. “I hold the legal community in high esteem.

The doors of my office are always open to everyone. Our mission is to ensure better law and order for general public, and we are working day and night to achieve that goal,” said the press release.

Ismail Abro, Javed Buledi, Ghulam Mustafa Magsi, president of District Bar Association, vice president and general secretary, respectively, said that lawyers felt difficulties in travelling due to fragile law and order conditions in Kashmore-Kandhkot district.

They hoped the DIG would take effective measures to address the issue.

Published in Dawn, June 24th, 2025