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Pak lawyers ask govt to restore sacked judges by Aug 14
Lahore, July 21 (PTI) Pakistan's influential lawyers' movement has set the August 14 deadline for the P.P.P.-led government to restore the judges deposed by President Pervez Musharraf during last year's emergency rule, else it willintensify its protests across the country paralysing courts.
If the government fails to meet the deadline, the legal fraternity will step up its protests, block courtrooms more vigorously, organise countrywide marches to Islamabad, court arrest and resort to civil disobedience, said a resolutionadopted at a conference of various lawyers' organisations.
The Pakistan Bar Council will also decide on two more suggestions for protests - locking courtrooms and disruptingtraffic across the country.
The conference, held here yesterday, was attended by representatives of different organisations, including Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan, Pakistan BarCouncil (P.B.C.) Vice Chairman Saidur Rehman and P.B.C.
Executive Committee Chairman Rasheed A Rizvi.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which pulled its ministers out of the P.P.P.-led government over the failure to reinstate the deposed judges, Sunday said it would back the lawyers' demand for the judges to be restored to their formerpositions.
The lawyers' movement had last month organised a "long march" to Islamabad to press for the reinstatement of the deposed judges. Though thousands of people joined a rally held near the Parliament at the end of the long march, thegovernment did not respond to the demands of the lawyers.
Reading out other resolutions adopted by Saturday's conference, Lahore High Court Bar Association President Anwar Kamal said the legal fraternity was also concerned at thegrowing trend of Talibanisation.
One resolution asked the government to check the role ofits agencies and save Pakistan from plunging into a civil war.
Another resolution called for an immediate end to the military operation against nationalists in Balochistan and the release of all "missing persons" or those detained without charges byintelligence agencies.
The conference unanimously rejected the Pakistan Peoples Party's constitutional reforms package which envisages changes in the appointment, tenure and suo motu powers of the superiorjudiciary.
However, several Pakistan Bar Council members, who did not attend the conference, insisted that the constitutionalpackage was essential for restoring the deposed judges.
Differences among the legal community were also evident in a resolution moved by P.P.P.-backed Pakistan Bar Councilmembers against Ahsan for criticising the Council's actions.
The conference also praised the deposed judges who, despite offers from the government for their re-appointment,stood by their oath to protect the Constitution.
At the end of the conference, which lasted over eight hours, a large group of lawyers shouted slogans againstMusharraf and his supporters.
They waved pictures of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and vowed to keep their movement alive till the sacked judges area restored. PTI RHL
If the government fails to meet the deadline, the legal fraternity will step up its protests, block courtrooms more vigorously, organise countrywide marches to Islamabad, court arrest and resort to civil disobedience, said a resolutionadopted at a conference of various lawyers' organisations.
The Pakistan Bar Council will also decide on two more suggestions for protests - locking courtrooms and disruptingtraffic across the country.
The conference, held here yesterday, was attended by representatives of different organisations, including Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan, Pakistan BarCouncil (P.B.C.) Vice Chairman Saidur Rehman and P.B.C.
Executive Committee Chairman Rasheed A Rizvi.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, which pulled its ministers out of the P.P.P.-led government over the failure to reinstate the deposed judges, Sunday said it would back the lawyers' demand for the judges to be restored to their formerpositions.
The lawyers' movement had last month organised a "long march" to Islamabad to press for the reinstatement of the deposed judges. Though thousands of people joined a rally held near the Parliament at the end of the long march, thegovernment did not respond to the demands of the lawyers.
Reading out other resolutions adopted by Saturday's conference, Lahore High Court Bar Association President Anwar Kamal said the legal fraternity was also concerned at thegrowing trend of Talibanisation.
One resolution asked the government to check the role ofits agencies and save Pakistan from plunging into a civil war.
Another resolution called for an immediate end to the military operation against nationalists in Balochistan and the release of all "missing persons" or those detained without charges byintelligence agencies.
The conference unanimously rejected the Pakistan Peoples Party's constitutional reforms package which envisages changes in the appointment, tenure and suo motu powers of the superiorjudiciary.
However, several Pakistan Bar Council members, who did not attend the conference, insisted that the constitutionalpackage was essential for restoring the deposed judges.
Differences among the legal community were also evident in a resolution moved by P.P.P.-backed Pakistan Bar Councilmembers against Ahsan for criticising the Council's actions.
The conference also praised the deposed judges who, despite offers from the government for their re-appointment,stood by their oath to protect the Constitution.
At the end of the conference, which lasted over eight hours, a large group of lawyers shouted slogans againstMusharraf and his supporters.
They waved pictures of deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and vowed to keep their movement alive till the sacked judges area restored. PTI RHL
