Renowned Pakistani lawyer, human rights activist shot dead

A distinguished Pakistani attorney and human rights activist called a vocal critic of each the navy and Islamist militants became shot lifeless on Monday at a courtroom docket withinside the northwestern town of Peshawar, police said.

Abdul Latif Afridi, a former president of Pakistan`s Supreme Court bar association, became shot a couple of times, seemingly via way of means of one gunman, at the Peshawar High Court premises, police reliable Kashif Abbasi advised Reuters.

We have arrested the perpetrator from the crime scene,” he said, including that the suspected shooter had dressed as a attorney to advantage access to the courtroom docket premises.

The accused did now no longer try and flee after the shooting, attorneys at the premises said.Though a heavy police contingent is deployed on the Peshawar courtroom docket, attorneys aren’t frame searched on access.

Security association on the courtroom docket have formerly been questioned, specifically after a teenage boy shot and killed a U.S. country wide of Pakistani starting place who became on trial on blasphemy expenses in the court docket in 2020.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the killing and expressed his grief and sorrowAfridi, a famend human rights and political activist, has been a vocal critic of the effective navy`s alleged interference in Pakistani politics and of Islamist militancy.