Prominent leader of lawyers' movement and former Justice Wajihuddin Ahmed has said that the process to restore judges fired under the cover of the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) was not so complicated as being projected.
"They were removed through an executive order and could be restored by another executive order," Wajih asserted while addressing lawyers in connection with the "Black Flag Week" being observed for restoration of the deposed judges.
He cautioned the major political parties that lawyers would not let them to retreat from their commitment they had made for restoration of judiciary. He vowed that lawyers' movement would continue till the achievement of its objectives.
"Independence of judiciary and reinstatement of all the illegally removed judges is their (parties) commitment with the nation and now they should stand by their commitment. We will not let them run away," he pledged.
Ahmed clarified that the judges removed under 2000's PCO were not wishing to be reinstated and they too were demanding the reinstatement of the judged packed home under 2007's PCO.
He opined that the media was helpless and had its limitations. It would not be of much help in the lawyers' struggle, he added. He made oblique references toward the weakness of media and tried to explain that media was yet to grow and mature itself to be able to deal with serious issues such as judiciary and civil rights.
Meanwhile, lawyers boycotted courts' proceedings and took out rallies in connection with the "Black Flag Week". Owing to the lawyers' boycott of courts' proceedings, the under trial prisoners could not be produced in the courts. The prisons' vans remained parked in the city court and inmates remained inside these vehicles. However, some of them came out of their vans to meet with their friends and relatives.
Lawyers were seen soothing the litigants and promising to pursue their cases as soon as courts' resume normal functioning. Traffic on M.A. Jinnah Road remained suspended for hours as lawyers in small groups marched toward Sindh High Court.