Faisalabad lawyers to gear up movement for LHC bench

FAISALABAD: Lawyers of the division have decided to gear up their movement for the establishment of a Lahore High Court Bench in Faisalabad to ensure speedy and cheaper justice to 15 million people of the industrial-cum-business hub of the country.

This was stated by Faisalabad District Bar Association president Amjad Hussain Malik while talking to newsmen here on Thursday.

He said that during a recent convention of the presidents and secretaries of district bar associations of the division, it was unanimously decided that a delegation of the district bar associations would soon meet Prime Minister Imran Khan, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar and the Lahore High Court chief justice in this regard.

He said that the delegation would also remind Prime Minister Imran Khan about his staunch support for the establishment of a Lahore High Court Bench in Faisalabad, which he had announced during his visit to the DBA.

The DBA president

said that the government had already established high court benches in Rawalpindi, Multan, Abbottabad, Dera Ismail Khan, Mingora, Hyderabad, Larkana and Sukkur, but Faisalabad - the third biggest city of the country - was still deprived of it.

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