Former President of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jahangir said on Friday that she is facing life threats but no body will kill the thinking of people of Pakistan. She was addressing a protest meeting which organised by the Joint Action Committee for People's Rights to condemn the life threats to Asma Jahangir and to show solidarity to her cause to stand along with the deprived and voiceless people.
Asma said that there are lot of people who will bring forward my ideas adding that corruption in Pakistan is a gift of dictatorship.
President SCBA, Yasin Azad said that in Pakistan life and properties of people of Pakistan are not safe. Azad expressed his deep concerns over this conspiracy to kill a brave women, who have been facing such cowardice threats so many times in her life. He said that basic objective of this meeting was to raise voices against these life threats and to speak about the factors behind the conspiracy and the future strategy to stop such threats to the Human Rights Activists are facing.
Secretary General Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, I.A Rehman, while speaking on the plot to eliminate Asma Jahangir, said that such irresponsible sort of practices must be stopped in the contrary and all the institutions must be functioned within their limits or the parameters. The speakers while addressing the meeting highlighted the various aspects of the struggle and activism of Asma Jahangir for the last four decades. She has been struggling for the rights of all citizens, particularly the marginalized and the dispossessed. She was the first of the mount a legal challenge to the martial law in the famous Asma Jillani vs. the State case in 1972, since then she has never looked back.
The speakers demanded a fair and independent inquiry into this matter by the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights .We urge the people of Pakistan to stand up and speak out for their rights and for the right to life and safety of those who dare to challenge the forces of repression.
The public meeting was addressed by the representative of civil society organisations, religious minorities, labour unions, lawyer associations, women and workers, political parties and members of Parliament.
Arshad Insari, President Lahore Press Club, Imtiaz Alam, Secretary General SAFMA, Khalid Ahmad, column writer, Najam Saithy, journalist, Rubeena Sahgal, activist, Farooq Tariq from Labour Party Pakistan, Parwaiz Rashid Senator PML(N), Rubeena Jameel, Peter Jacob (NCJP), I.A. Rehman (HRCP), Hasil Bizenjo (National Party), Yaseen Azad, President Supreme Court Bar Association, Akhtar Hussain, Vice Chairman Pakistan Bar Council, Justice Tariq Mahmood (retd), Khurshid Ahmed, Wapda Labour Union, Mohammad Tahseen, Executive
Director South Asia Partnership-Pakistan, Deputy Director, Irfan Mufti and others expressed their views.
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