The Lawyers National Action Committee will observe nation-wide strike on Thursday and black day on Saturday to protest against the election of the President of Pakistan by the assemblies whose term expires in November 2007.
Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) Vice Chairman Mirza Aziz Baig, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Munir A. Malik, and former PBC vice chairman Ali Ahmad Kurd announced unanimous decisions of the national action committee here on Tuesday.
They said the lawyers had put up former Justice Wajihuddin Ahmad as their presidential candidate so that candidature of General Musharraf could be contested at all forums.
They called upon the lawyers to come to Islamabad on September 27, the day nomination papers of Wajihuddin Ahmad would be filed in the Election Commission. The Committee demanded of the MMA to resign from the National Assembly and Balochistan Assembly and dissolve the NWFP Assembly to put pressure on the ruling junta.
They said former Justice Wajihuddin would arrive in Islamabad on Wednesday evening where he would be accorded a warm welcome. They thanked former Justice Wajih to accept the lawyers request to contest the presidential election so that the nation could be freed from the military rule.
Meanwhile, former Justice Wajih, who served as honorary chairman and member of the non-partisan election process monitoring body, Citizens Group on Election Process, has resigned from the group following his nomination as a Presidential candidate by the lawyers movement.