Raid spurs lawyers’ call for boycott
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From Times Wire Reports
Pakistani lawyers said they would boycott courts in a southwestern province today after an alleged raid by armed intelligence agents at the home of a nephew of the country’s suspended chief justice.
Amir Rana, a lawyer and nephew of ousted Supreme Court chief Judge Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, said he fired a pistol to scare off more than a dozen armed intelligence agents at his home in Baluchistan.
The judge’s suspension has incited protests against President Pervez Musharraf.
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