Injured human rights lawyer dies in hospital

Hyderabad (PPI): A lawyer, Sherbaz Khoso, who had been injured few days back, succumbed to his injuries in local civil hospital on Tuesday morning. He was a human rightist and had fought many cases of poor without fee. He was pleading case of Faqir Mukhtiar Khoso of Syed Gaji Shah shrine, which was pending in a court in Tando Allahyar town. He was facing some threats regarding the case. Five days back he had gone to Tando Allahyar along with his client Faqir Mukhtiar Khoso. They were attacked at Kirya branch and injured. Advocate Khoso was critically injured and rushed to Civil Hospital Hyderabad. Tando Allahyar police did not take action and failed to arrest nominated accused. Two days back Hyderabad Action Committee Chairman Ashraf Noonari had held a press conference in Hyderabad in which he had made appeal to chief justice and others to grant treatment of advocate Sherbaz Khoso on state expenses and to arrest the nominated accused, but no response was given by authorities. Noonari has announced three days of mourning to pay respect to slain lawyer Sherbaz Khoso and has said that he would launch movement for arrest of his killers. The body was taken to his ancestral village Gulab Leghari near Tando Allahyar where he was buried.