Recall March 3, 2014 gun and bomb attack by terror­istsISLAMABAD: Security at the district courts in Sector F-8 Kutchery remains less than strict five years after the district courts saw a deadly gun and suicide bomb attack which left 11 people dead and injured 25 others, including a district judge. The biggest example of poor security at the district courts came last week when two opposing groups opened fire on each other in the district courts, the lawyers said. They recalled that district and session judge Sohail Nasir had raised questions about the security arrangements in the district courts while the registrar of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) had directed Islamabad Police Security SSP to make better security arrangements at the courts but in vain. IBA President Chaudhry Khanzada said that the terrible incident of 2014 would not have transpired if security at the courts was satisfactory. Shahid Adnan Randhawa, who has a chamber in the district courts and was a witness to the horrific 2014 attack, recalled the incident.

Source: The Express Tribune March 04, 2019 04:07 UTC