India, Aug. 11 -- The Karachi Bar Association (KBA) would stage a protest outside the Chief Minister's House on Monday over the 'failure' to protect the legal fraternity after a young lawyer was shot dead in the Pakistani city last week.

Soldier Bazar police station SHO Waqar Azeem told Dawn that lawyer Nasir Malik, 38, had gone to meet his sister at Al-Fareed Apartment in Garden East on Business Recorder Road.

He was reportedly in the parking area of the building when armed men opened fire on him.

The attackers fled the spot in private cars.

The lawyer was rushed to the Civil Hospital Karachi where the doctors pronounced him brought dead.

Speaking to Dawn, president of KBA Aamir Nawaz Warraich said the KBA would stage a protest outs...