Pakistan's Deputy Attorney General Abdul Hai Gilani resigned on Sunday to protest the "torturing of lawyers, locking up of High Court and tear-gas shelling in Lahore".
"I have resigned from the post of Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan in protest against all these acts," Geo TV quoted Gilani as saying.
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Gilani said the protesting Lawyers were tortured and tear-gas shells fired on them in the vicinity of Lahore high court.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is leading a long march to demand the reinstatement of judges sacked two years back.
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