Lawyers’ Aerial Firing

Some of the lawyers of the Faisalabad Bar Association were shown on a tv channel indulging in aerial firing to celebrate the winning of their candidates in the Bar Elections.

It was not only surprising but shocking to see the very custodians of the law indulging so blatantly and brazenly in violating the law and that too not in some remote corner of the city but right in the vicinity of the courts and offices of the civil administration!  Of all the people it is least expected of the lawyers to defy the law that openly and unashamedly.  The lawyers are bound to know of this legal restriction and anyone committing such an offence does it knowingly and wilfully caring too hoots for the law enforcing agencies.  As such their crime is not an ordinary crime but a premeditated and wilful act of violating the law and must, therefore, be dealt with keeping this perspective in view.

The perpetrators must be tried by a court of law and if found guilty given an exemplary punishment to act as a deterrent to others.

Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)