When lawyers attack (Pakistan edition)

I guess if you're an attorney with an anger management problem, you could go to Pakistan to blow off some steam:

"Lawyers used to be a very gentle people," says superintendent Sohail Sukhera of Lahore police force. "They were polite and educated. But the last couple of years have converted them into an absolutely different commodity."

He says that, in the last month, there have been 18 cases of assaults carried out by lawyers in Lahore alone.

"In one case, lawyers broke the leg of a police inspector. Others have had their skulls exposed when lawyers have hit them on the head with stones or chair legs. It's really uncalled for."

It would appear that some lawyers, whose civil disobedience made world-wide headlines after the chief justice of the Pakistan supreme court was fired for political reasons, have become drunk on their own power. They "fought for the rule of law over 2 years," but a small yet very visible and noisy group of them haven't quit fighting.