City lawyers on Friday took out a rally, boycotted court proceedings and resolved to continue their protest against the suspension of Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. The lawyers marched from Sindh Bar Council office to Quaid-e-Azam's Mausoleum.
The march was peaceful except one incident when there was a short scuffle between the lawyers and media persons. In the process lawyers, snatched cameras from the private TV channel photographers, beat them, and pushed them out of their procession. Lawyers claimed that whosoever had misbehaved with the journalists were outsiders, and had nothing to do with the lawyers' community. "Planted people from agencies were there to sabotage our movement and to malign us," said Sindh Bar Council human rights committee chairman, Advocate Aqil Lodhi.
The Sindh Bar Council has called for lawyers' convention on April 22. As lawyers kept themselves off the courts, and the Judges remained in their chambers and adjourned hearings. The under-trial prisoners were the worst hit people who were taken to courts in the morning and shifted back to prison without hearing.
Political parties' workers, who are lawyers as well, also represented their respective parties. MMA, to express it solidarity with lawyers, took out a separate rally from Bannori mosques after Friday prayers. Law enforcement personnel and vehicles escorted lawyers' rally to ward off any untoward incident.
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