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Courts must act to stop extra-judicial killings: PBC

By Our Staff Reporter

LAHORE, April 12: Time has come for the superior judiciary to take notice of extra-judicial killings in the Punjab and Sindh as their incidence has crossed all limits and is still on the rise, Pakistan Bar Council vice-chairman Rana Ijaz Ahmad Khan said in Lahore on Monday.

Briefing newsmen on the resolutions adopted by the PBC at its meeting in the Punjab capital on Sunday, he said the so-called law enforcement agencies have now started killing people for mere resemblance with proclaimed offenders. The PBC endorsed the Lahore High Court Bar Association resolution calling on the LHC chief justice to take suo motu notice of custodial and 'encounter' deaths.