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" ADDRESS ADDRESS By Dr. Muhammad Farogh Naseem, Vice-Chairman, Pakistan Bar Council The Hon'ble Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr. Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, the Hon'ble Senior Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court, Mr. Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, the Hon'ble Judges of the Supreme Court, Mr. Ashtar Ausaf Ali, Attorney General for Pakistan, Mr. Syed Ali Zalar, President Supreme Court Bar Association, learned Advocates General, distinguished Members of the Bar Councils and Bar Associations, fellow lawyers, ladies and gentlemen, Assalam-o-Alaikum. 2. Quintessentially, today is the day of stock-taking of the past and a day of resolution for the future. 3. However, that shall not detain me any further, since the most vital event in the immediate past has been the most tragic happening on the 8th of August 2016 in which lawyers at Quetta were brutally massacred and which has virtually bled the nation, in particular the legal community. After the fall of Dahaka in 1972, the Quetta tragedy is by far the most lamentable in the annals of Pakistan's history. It takes more than 3 decades for any person to be educated and then trained as an advocate. The cowardly act of terrorism in Quetta took away the lives of nearly 70 lawyers and left many critically wounded. A whole community of court-going regular lawyers was virtually effaced. Indeed, the Pakistan Bar Council protested and very reluctantly requested the . Hon'ble Supreme Court to observe a strike, which was affirmatively responded by the Hon'ble Chief Justice and his worthy companion Judges, confirming that in the sad moment, the. Bar and the entire judiciary of Pakistan including the learned Judges of the Supreme Court stood alongside. The bench and the bar, in Pakistan, the two wheels of the same chariot abundantly exhibited…