Lawyers on Thursday held their weekly protest rally on the Mall from Aiwan-e-Adal to Chairing Cross for restoration of the sacked judges including with Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, as Chief Justice Pakistan.
The members Lahore High Court Bar Association, Supreme Court Bar Association, Punjab Bar Council and Lahore Bar Association had announced to hold the rally and observe full day boycott of courts proceedings. LHCBA lawyers joined the LBA lawyers at the GPO chowk and hold a joint march towards the Chairing Cross through the Mall. The rally was well participated but lawyers failed to ensure the boycott of courts' proceedings, as attendance in courts remained usual.
Activists of Jamat-e-Islami, Shabab Milli, Tehrik-e-Khaksar, Tehrik-e-Insaf, Labour Party, Pakhtoon Khawa Milli Awami Party, Jamiat Ulema Pakistan, Women Action Forum, Pakistan Medical Association, Teachers Association participated the rally.
Prominent among the protesters were LHCBA president Anwar Kamal, secretary Rana Asadullah Khan, LBA president Manzoor Qadir, secretary Latif Sarra, Supreme Court Bar Association secretary Shaukat Umar Pirzada, Pakistan Bar Council members Hamid Khan and Hafiz Abdul Rehman Insari, Punjab Bar Council vice chairman Aslam Sindhu, Teachers Association Chairman Azam Butt, PKMAP leader Abadullah Jan Babat, JI leader Amirul Azeem, TK leader Hamidudin Ahmed Al Mashraqi and Shahtaj Qizalbas of WAF.
Political activists were holding their party flags and were chanting slogans against the government. However protesting lawyers were chanting slogans in favour of sacked chief justice and were demanding his restoration with other sacked judges.
Reaching at the Chairing Cross, lawyers leaders in their speeches warned the government to restore all the sacked judges as soon as possible otherwise their would initiate a decisive movement after new call of the NCC. Earlier, Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party central leader Abaidullah Jan Babat addressing the general house of the LHCBA asked the PML-N leaders to stop supporting President Asif Ali Zardari, who stood in the way of an independent judiciary in Pakistan. He said inculding his party All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) had boycotted the election arranged by General Musharraf to demonstrate their commitment to democracy and added that their party, under the leadership of Mahmood Khan Achakzai, ignored some seventy seats in the assembly.
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