PESHAWAR: Members and office-bearers of Peshawar High Court Bar Association and Supreme Court Bar Association have received threatening letters from unknown miscreants, The Statesman came to know here on Monday.
The female member of SCBA executive committee and other office-bearers have received similar letters from the people who identified themselves Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives, demanding of them to bid good-bye to their profession.
"If they didn't quit their vocation they would face suicide bombings," the letters carried the warning.
It merits a mention here that that a similar letter was posted in which threat of bombing had been given to the lawyers before a meeting of Pakistan Bar Council and National Lawyers Action Committee held here on Sunday.
Resultantly, a heavy contingent of police personnel was deployed in order to provide foolproof security to the lawyer fraternity and policemen were on qui vive amid fear all the day in anticipation of any untoward incident on the court premises.
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