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| Latif Afridi: A fearless lawyer who stood up to dictators and was expelled from the university for supporting Fatima Jinnah. |
Pakistan's renowned lawyer and previous president of the perfect courtroom Bar affiliation, Latif Afridi, has been shot dead in Peshawar.
According to the police, the attacker targeted them within the Peshawar excessive court docket Bar construction. In keeping with police officials, the attacker has been arrested on the scene.
After the assault, Latif Afridi changed into shifted to a local clinic, but he died on the way.
In line with Mohammad Asim, spokesperson of the lady studying hospital, Latif Afridi changed into introduced to the medical institution in a dead circumstance.
SSP Operation Peshawar Police instructed the media that the accused who fired on Latif Afridi has been detained and the research is ongoing.
"The accused injured him inside the bar room after which he was shifted to the health facility but he could not live on the injuries and died."
It must be stated that within the yr 2020, the excellent court Bar association of Pakistan elected suggest Abdul Latif Afridi as its President. He become the candidate of the Asma Jahangir group, however being a tall figure, he additionally had the guide of the legal professionals of the opposition birthday celebration.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is suffering from lawlessness.
At the same time as the political leaders at the same time expressed remorse over the killing of senior legal professional Latif Afridi in the bar room of the Peshawar high courtroom, the matter is likewise being seen as a security lapse.
The preferred courtroom Bar association has announced a national boycott of judicial proceedings and termed the killing as terrorism.
In an assertion released using the best courtroom Bar, it has been stated that killing the most vital man or woman within the Peshawar excessive courtroom is proof that the safety is not foolproof.
A similar declaration has also been made using Federal indoors Minister Rana Sanaullah who stated that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is suffering from lawlessness, and the scenario of regulation and order is alarming.
He stated that this situation could no longer have come about if the provincial government had targeted peace and order as opposed to political manipulation. Having this incident show up in the Peshawar excessive courtroom Bar is proof of the seriousness of law and order.
Who became Latif Afridi?
Latif Afridi, the former president of the preferred court docket Bar association, become among those people who went to prison each time martial law turned into imposed in us of an after the 70s. Then each time there were opposition moves in the united states.
His voice and domineering style have been from his scholar days. He changed into expelled from the college for assisting Ms. Fatima Jinnah in the elections.
At some stage in the tenure of the primary military president Ayub Khan, he changed into detained as a scholar leader. As a political activist, he has long gone to jail 5 instances all through the reign of former dictator Zia-ul-Haq.
Then in the yr 2007, he strongly antagonistic the emergency imposed by Pervez Musharraf within the country.
He did now not visit jail then, but on October 6, 2007, while he peacefully protested at the gate of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly, he turned into a runover with the aid of an armored vehicle, because of which one in all his legs turned into broken.
Because then he used to seem in court with the help of a cane.
Latif Afridi: A perfectionist lawyer who turned into 'like a shade tree for juniors'
Tariq Afghan has worked with Latif Afridi. Speaking to BBC Urdu Correspondent Azizullah Khan, he said that Latif Afridi's personality was like an old man whose example can be given inside the form of a shady tree.
Be it a junior attorney or a political worker, all and sundry thrived underneath his shadow.
He extensively utilized to get irritated with junior attorneys and exhort them to study books and be aware of their dress. He believed that a legal professional should be nicely dressed.
Tariq Afghan said that Latif Afridi belonged to a commonplace place but he made his location within the attorney community because he become a perfectionist.
Speaking about every other component of Latif Afridi's lifestyle, Tariq Afghan stated that "No lawyer inside the history of Pakistan has accomplished as many unfastened instances as Latif Lala took for the poor and indigent."
He stated that Latif Afridi used to provide scholarships to students. Many college students who did not have costs used to come to Lala and Lala might deposit their expenses.
"In personal existence, there had been very amiable and compassionate people with whom one did no longer sense that this character turned into thirty or forty years older than us and the sort of senior legal professional."
'there has been a fearless persona who may want to say things nobody else may want to.'
The political journey of Latif Afridi
After graduating in 1968, Latif Afridi joined the prison career. After working as a recommendation in the high court for three decades, he became a recommend of the supreme court docket in 2006.
He has been the President of the Peshawar high court Bar association for six instances. He has also been the vice chairman of the Pakistan Bar Council and a member of the Human Rights fee of Pakistan.
Propose Latif Afridi, who hails from Tirah Valley of the erstwhile tribal vicinity of Khyber District, was politically associated with the Awami countrywide birthday celebration (ANP).
In 1979, Ghos Bakhsh joined Bizenjo's Pakistan countrywide birthday celebration, then this celebration merged with Awami country-wide birthday party. Latif Afridi become also elected Member of the national meeting.
For some time he was additionally related to the countrywide Awami birthday party of Ajmal Khattak however later became part of ANP.
Abdul Latif Afridi fought the instances of lots of people, political activists, and residents with no fee.
Pursuing human rights petitions inside the maximum courts of the u. S . A ., Latif Afridi persisted to follow the maximum of the instances registered in opposition to the Pashtun safety movement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Petitions against army-run detention facilities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have also been pursued by using the newly elected president of the perfect court Bar association.