The legal fraternity is likely to take key decisions at its meeting on Saturday (today) including launching of a long-march from Lahore to Islamabad, besieging of the President House, some other government premises in the capital and running of a "Judicial Bus" of deposed judges to start judiciary's reinstatement campaign.
Sources told Business Recorder on Friday that lawyers' associations across the country are also likely to boycott the court proceedings, observe strikes, hold rallies and mobilise the civil society particularly students for their movement.
The campaign for reinstatement of all deposed judges including the chief Justice Supreme Court Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry would be started in line with the decisions of lawyers to be taken today, they pointed out.
The campaign may last yearlong or till the judges are reinstated, they added. When contacted the President Sindh Bar Council (SBC), Rasheed A Rizvi said that decisions could not be made public before they are taken at May 17 meeting. However, members of Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) including him were deliberating to draw a line of action to undertake the drive at a meeting being held in Lahore on Friday.
President Karachi Bar Council (KBC), Mehmood-ul-Hassan said that several proposals were under consideration. He confirmed that long-march and surrounding the President House were the key steps likely to be unanimously approved by the lawyers at meeting.
To a question, he said that if any political party wanted to join the lawyers drive for judges' reinstatement was welcomed. However, he criticised the co-chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for his dubious role in resolving the judicial crisis. Unlike political leadership of the PPP, all its lawyers were supporting the judges' reinstatement drive and would participate in it, he added.
About Pakistan Muslim League (N), he said that its central leadership had taken bold decisions in this connection. However, he made it clear that its political role in future would be decisive and hoped that it would also forsake the Punjab government for the greater cause of judges' restoration.
He said that All Pakistan Democratic Movement (APDM) and PML-N were already supporting the legal battle. "All deposed judges firmly stand with justice Chaudhry and all will be reinstated," President KBC asserted. It may be mentioned that all deposed judges have refused to take fresh oath for their reinstatement. They linked their rejoining the courts with reinstatement of deposed judge Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
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